The story that inspires ZPUE

THE STORY THAT INSPIRES

ZPUE SA - Polish company from the energy sector wins global markets

“MiTraL” distribution system made by ZPUE, supplies the new laboratory building in Technical University Delft.

ZPUE S.A. was founded in 1988. During the last twentyeight years it has developed from a small factory located in southern Poland to the company, which successfully competes against power industry global giants. It is Poland’s leading manufacturer of the container transformer stations and medium and low voltage switchgears. The company is a founder of many innovative solutions for the power sector. In Poland, it is well known and appreciated for its dynamism, efficiency and flexible approach to its customers, while in Europe, it is more and more recognized and perceived as a reliable and trustworthy partner. The ZPUE potential is reflected by its key participation in the European projects.

The world’s largest particle accelerator is powered by Polish switchgears

One of the examples showing the ZPUE capabilities applies to the construction and installation of twenty medium-voltage switchgears for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. ZPUE won the international tender for the supply of medium voltage switchgears, announced by CERN and the exchange of currently existing solutions prepared by a well-known, global concern. Today, the ZPUE SA switchgears power the magnets used to disperse particles in the world’s largest particle accelerator called “the Large Hadron Collider”. They are equipped with special safeguards to prevent interruption of the circuit, which is of extreme importance for the scientific experiments run in the centre.

400 switchgears made by ZPUE supply the main trade gate in Europe

Among the examples that define the company’s technological and logistic capabilities there is a project that consists in the ZPUE participation in one of the most ambitious maritime investments in the Netherlands history – development of the APM Terminal’s Maasvlakte port in Rotterdam. ZPUE delivered to and installed on that artificial North Sea peninsula, more than 400 units with a total value of EUR 3.75 million, which supply one of the largest container ports in the world.

Unusual orders develop the company

Working on the order placed by the Dutch company Batenburg, responsible for the development of the TU Delft, one of the world’s largest technical universities, is another interesting project carried out by the ZPUE engineers. Due to the need for installation of the power supply equipment in the vicinity of special SEM - scanning electron microscope, it had to be designed so as to minimize the magnetic field and the emission of vibrations, to which the microscope is very sensitive. The ZPUE designers focused on the development opportunities kept the maximum discipline and met very high requirements of the investor. Their project has won the competitive projects. Two massive sets of equipment, called MITRAL (a single set has a length of 17 meters), and several single medium and low voltage switchgears, made by ZPUE, supply the University’s new building. n