#Austria

Austria, Vienna: Dietmar Jost, currently Executive Director, will on 1 April 2023 become a new President and Executive Director of the KANSAI HELIOS Group.

VERBUND to commission the world’s first static frequency converter (SFC) solution using modular multi-level technology in a pumped hydro storage application.

Austria, Münichtal: The Münichtal substation of Energie Steiermark Group in Austria now has a sustainable medium-voltage switchgear from Siemens.

Austria, Linz: Siemens Energy is using Fabasoft Approve as the process-driven quality management solution for its power transformer segment.

Austria, Vienna: Austrian Power Grid AG (APG) was able to start-up the new 380/220 kV transformer at the substation Lienz located in the town of Nußdorf-Debant.

Croatia, Zagreb: Končar – Generators and Motors (GIM) has announced signing an agreement with the Austrian power company.

Mondi confirms that a fire broke out at its mill in Frantschach St. Gertraud (Austria) around midday on 29 April 2021.

Austria, Weiz: Siemens Distribution Transformer Factory has opened the InnoLab in Weiz.

Austria: ABB has signed a five-year framework contract with Austrian Power Grid (APG), Austria’s transmission system operator, potentially worth more than $100 M to supply gas-insulated switchgear (GIS), in the largest electricity grid expansion to date in Austria.

Austrian network operator APG will invest more than $1.13 B (€1 B) in three major transmission projects designed to help integrate wind capacity in the country.

Austria, Weiz: Siemens transformer plant in Weiz, Austria, is ready to ship the fiftieth large power transformer to a long-time customer in Texas.

Austria, Klaus: With FRANEO 800, OMICRON has brought the next generation of SFRA test sets to the market.

New test system TESTRANO 600: Compact, powerful, unique.

Quick and easy three-phase testing of power transformers

Austria, Klaus: With TESTRANO 600, OMICRON has developed the world’s first portable, three-phase test system, which supports all common electrical tests on power transformers.

Austria, East Tyrol: Austrian Power Grid AG has awarded an engineering company Pöyry a contract for the upgrade and extension of existing 220/380 kV switchgears and installation of new equipment at Lienz substation, Austria.

Vienna, Austria: An exquisite visionary conference on transformer technology organized by the TRANSFORM partner companies ended on Thursday, 15 October 2015.

Austria, Vienna: During the TRANSFORM 2015 event in Vienna the partner companies GEA, HSP Hochspannungsgeräte, Krempel Group, Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen (MR), Nynas AB, Omicron electronics, Pfisterer, Röchling Engineering Plastics and Thyssenkrupp Electrical Steel introduced for the first time their vision of a future power transformer. It’s called TRANSFORMER 2020 and was presented in a stunning 3-D-animation at the Austria Center Vienna.

Austria, Reinach/Oed: ASTA-Group, a supplier of copper wires for the high-energy market and a member of Montana Tech Components AG (MTC), has announced the acquisition of PPE, a Brazilian producer of copper and aluminium wires.

Bulgaria, Sofia: Bulgarian power equipment repair and maintenance company Centralna Energoremontna Baza (CERB) has been subcontracted by Austria’s Andritz Hydro for the overhaul project of Albania’s biggest hydropower plant – Koman HPP.

Austria, Vorarlberg: b2 High-Voltage, a business division of b2 electronic GmbH, the Austrian-based manufacturer of high voltage equipment for simple cable testing, cable diagnostics and onsite oil testing, has launched a new voltage withstand testing solution HVA200.

Austria, Styria: Austrian railways has announced that a fire broke out inside a railway tunnel under construction in the province of Styria in southern Austria.