End-to-end electrical solutions CG

END-TO-END ELECTRICAL SOLUTIONS

CG is a global player in products for the management, application and sustainable production of electrical energy. Industry Europe looks at the latest from the company, including recent major contract wins, investments and capacity expansions.

CG is one of the world’s premier engineering corporations and part of the giant US$ 4.2 billion Avantha Group of India. CG was established in India in 1937 and has since grown to become the leading pioneer in products for the efficient and sustainable production of electricity. CG’s headquarters for its end-toend power solutions is based in Mechelen, Belgium. The company’s diverse portfolio includes transformers, switchgear, circuit breakers and network protection and control gear. CG operates three distinct business units: power systems, industrial systems and consumer products.

Since 2005 CG has embarked upon an ambitious globalisation strategy, growing organically and through strategic acquisitions of such large international companies as Pauwels, Ganz, Microsol, Sonomatra, MSE and PTS. These acquisitions have strengthened the company’s manufacturing capabilities and its product and service offering. CG now has major manufacturing plants in Belgium, Canada, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, France, UK and US, in addition to more than 20 locations in India and employs over 15,000 people worldwide. It also has a worldwide marketing network of more than 150 representatives, offering the entire range of CG products, solutions and services.

Products and services

CG’s range of power systems, industrial systems and consumer products is so vast it would be impossible to list them all here in great detail. In the area of power systems it offers transformers, switchgear, circuit breakers, vacuum interrupters, network protection & control gear, as well as design, servicing and execution of turnkey T&D and substation projects and solutions. The company enjoys a global presence with these products.

Its industrial systems activities are concerned with the business of power conversion equipment; a wide range of high and low tension rotating machines (motors and alternators), stampings, as well as railway transportation & signalling products. This segment is largely focused on the Indian market although CG also caters to other markets through its facilities in Hungary.

Consumer products is one of CG’s fastest gro wing businesses. Its products in this area include fans, lighting, pumps and household electrical appliances such as geysers, mixer grinders, toasters, irons and electric lanterns.

For many years CG has been investing heavily in R&D, as well as in product certification, product quality and operational excellence. The company’s global research and development centre is located in Mumbai, India, and has been recognised many times for its innovation in the electrical engineering sector. In order to unify all CG manufacturing and service facilities across the world, the company has also taken action to ensure that its customers receive a consistent, ‘One-World-Quality’ standard for all CG products and solutions in all parts of the world.

A company spokesperson said, “Since we went global in 2005 we have grown through acquisition and innovation to become one of the leading transmission and distribution engineering companies in the world. We are fully committed to the development of ‘Smart Grids’ using more intelligent systems and developing more efficient integration of renewables as well as focussing on the security of supply.

“We are also committed to sustainable production technologies and offer products and solutions that are optimised at all levels. We are fully certified to ISO 14001 and strictly monitor and measure our consumption of both water and energyto minimise energy waste. This is particularly true when it comes to our growing involvement in the design and manufacture and service of substations. Here we offer total ‘smart’ solutions which are the benchmark of the future, where we can drive the systems harder and become much more efficient in all areas of our power supply system technology.”

Major contract wins

Over the past few months CG has continued to win a steady number of high-profile contracts. In September this year (2014), for example, it announced a new $25 million contract for the design, construction and delivery of 16 mobile substations. The order was placed by the General Directorate for Transmission, Upper Euphrates Region, Ministry of Electricity in Iraq. This includes the engineering and supply of 16 mobile substations containing 31.5 MVA transformers delivered by CG’s Power Transformer factory in Hungary, auxiliary/earthing units manufactured in the Distribution Transformer factory in Belgium and control and protection equipment provided by CG’s automation arm ZIV.

In September, the company was selected by ERDF – Electricité Réseau Distribution France, the public electricity distribution company managing 95 per cent of the electricity distribution network in continental France, as one of the six suppliers to manufacture the first three million of its new generation Linky smart meters. This initial order is the first phase of a 35 million unit rollout by 2021. According to ERDF, the Linky program is a major industrial program that will create 10,000 jobs located in France. By modernising the distribution grid, it will bring important benefits for the consumers, helping them to better understand their electricity bills and reduce consumption.

Expanding design capabilities

In June this year, Avantha Group CG opened its first Global Design Centre, or GDC, in Bhopal, India, thereby boosting its support to customers globally to meet the ever-evolving market needs in oil & gas, cement, mining & metals, water treatment, electric mobility and power, to name just a few. The Design Centre’s key markets will include countries across South East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The Centre is unique in that it is the nerve centre of the design and development of advanced technological solutions for CG’s projects globally. It will synergise teams across regions, cross-pollinate ideas, co-create and deploy best practices. Its product portfolio will cover commercial motors and highly engineered medium voltage motors and generators that will be developed as per customer demand in a single location. Other offerings include LV/MV motors up to 25MW, synchronous machines up to 70 MVA and the LV/MV development of AC drives.

CG’s Global Research Centre in Mumbai is the hub of technology development for all CG’s businesses. By integrating the GDC in Bhopal, it further reinforces CG’s global network of centres located in Canada, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Germany, Sweden and India.

Speaking at the time of the inauguration, CG’s CEO and managing director Laurent Demortier said: “The Global Design Centre reiterates CG’s commitment towards developing energy-efficient and technologically advanced products of a high quality that require a minimum long-term investment and that reduce lead times in the market.” n

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Integrated management system In the interest of our customers we strive constantly to improve and continuously optimise our performance sustainably. The integrated quality management system fulfils all requirements for product quality, production processes and work flow in addition to health and safety at work and environmental protection. Our basis is exact oversight coupled with high quality standards, which are certified by multiple instates. ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2009, BS OHSAS 18001:2007, DIN EN 15085-2 CL1, DIN EN ISO 3834-2

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