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Southwire Joins Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA)

Southwire Joins Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA)

Southwire is pleased to announce its membership in the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA), a non-profit dedicated to advancing smart, clean energy solutions. As an established provider in the electrical industry, this collaboration reaffirms Southwire’s commitment to sustainability and innovation. SEPA’s vision is to develop a carbon-free energy system by 2050 in partnership with its industry-leading members. With more than 1,100 members, SEPA’s network includes solution providers, government agencies, utilities, academics and more. SEPA’s members hold a diverse wealth of knowledge in areas like electrification, grid modernization and clean energy.

Legrand Acquires ZPE Systems Inc., a Data Center, Branch, and Edge Management Infrastructure Company

Legrand Acquires ZPE Systems Inc., a Data Center, Branch, and Edge Management Infrastructure Company

Legrand has recently announced its acquisition is complete of ZPE Systems, Inc., a Fremont, California-based company that offers critical solutions and services to deliver resilience and security for customers’ business critical infrastructure. This includes serial console servers, sensors, and services routers that enable remote access and management of network IT equipment from data centers to the edge. The acquisition brings together ZPE’s secure and open management infrastructure and services delivery platform for data center, branch, and edge environments to Legrand’s comprehensive data center solutions of overhead busway, custom cabinets, intelligent PDUs, KVM switches, and advanced fiber solutions.

nVent Earns EcoVadis Gold Sustainability Rating

nVent Earns EcoVadis Gold Sustainability Rating

nVent Electric plc has recently announced that it was awarded a gold sustainability rating from EcoVadis—a third-party assessor of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. This is nVent’s first gold rating and a key milestone in its ESG journey. nVent focuses its ESG efforts on People, Products, Planet and Governance and continuously innovates and enhances its ESG initiatives with support from global teams across the company. These efforts helped nVent improve from a silver rating in 2021 and 2022 to a gold EcoVadis rating in its 2023 assessment.

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SCHURTER to Exhibit at MD&M West 2024

SCHURTER Inc announces its attendance at the annual Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) West expo at the Anaheim Convention Center on February 06-08, 2024. SCHURTER will display its latest Circuit Protection, Connection, Switching and EMC Technologies for medical equipment design. New products meet emerging industry needs for Wi-Fi enabled power connectors that allow for device-to-host usage and performance measurements.

RS Added Dozens of New Industry 4.0 and Electrical Solutions Suppliers in 2023

RS Added Dozens of New Industry 4.0 and Electrical Solutions Suppliers in 2023

RS has added dozens of new Industry 4.0 and electrical solutions suppliers to its line card over the course of the last year, making it even more of a one‑stop shop for industrial customers across a range of industries and application areas. The 39 new suppliers RS added in 2023 include some of the fastest‑growing and most innovative companies in the industrial marketplace. Thanks to this growing list of suppliers and an expansive warehouse, RS currently stocks more than 250,000 industrial, electrical, and electronic products from more than 700 trusted suppliers and has access to even more, including more than 73,000 industrial control products and more than 464,000 electrical products.

nVent Welcomes Martha Claire Bennett as Chief Marketing Officer

nVent Welcomes Martha Claire Bennett as Chief Marketing Officer

Recently, nVent Electric plc had announced that Martha Claire Bennett has joined the organization as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Bennett will lead the company’s global marketing organization, strengthening the focus on vertical marketing, expanding digital marketing capabilities and enhancing nVent’s customer and partner experience. She also will lead branding and communications, accelerating nVent’s role in the sustainability and the electrification of everything. Bennett will report directly to nVent Chair and CEO Beth Wozniak.

Weidmuller USA Announces New Automation Solutions Network (ASN)

Weidmuller USA Announces New Automation Solutions Network (ASN)

Weidmuller USA has recently introduced an advanced automation and IIoT consulting, integration and programming team, known as the Weidmuller Automation Solutions Network (ASN). Led by Applied Solutions Engineers, Weidmuller’s ASN team works to align product and services to solve problems and optimize solutions to meet advanced automation software and hardware challenges. “Our Applied Solutions Engineers are a valuable resource for anyone who wants to tie software and hardware together into a working and validated/tested system for automation,” said Ken Crawford, Senior Director of Automation at Weidmuller USA.

Gary Yu Promotion to President of Diodes Incorporated Announced

Gary Yu Promotion to President of Diodes Incorporated Announced

On Boxing Day of 2023, Diodes Incorporated announced that as part of a multi-year CEO succession plan its board of directors has approved the promotion of Gary Yu to President effective January 2, 2024. Dr. Keh-Shew Lu will continue to serve as Chairman and CEO until at least May 31, 2027, which is consistent with his current employment agreement. Mr. Yu joined Diodes in 2008 and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer, a position he was appointed to in February 2023.

Resilinc Recognizes Eaton for Supply Chain Excellence

Resilinc Recognizes Eaton for Supply Chain Excellence

For the second year in a row, Eaton was recently ranked in the top 10 of Resilinc’s Top 30 Most Resilient Suppliers to the high-tech industry. This award recognizes companies who have outstanding supply chain risk and resiliency programs. “From ongoing shortages to increasing regulation, the high-tech industry continues to be highly disrupted,” said Rick Freeman, Resilinc’s director of advisory services. “And despite the many challenges, the companies making up the Top 30 have prioritized building supply chain resiliency.”

EPLAN Data Portal Update 02 December 2023

EPLAN Data Portal Update 02 December 2023

In this update of the EPLAN Data Portal, there are now a total of 475 manufacturers and more than 1,585,000 data sets are available with the update December 14, 2023. New manufacturer catalogs are available from Shanghai Flexem Technology Co., Ltd. with 26 new data sets for signal devices, Shenzhen Samkoon Technology Co. Ltd. with 88 new data sets for amplifiers, controllers, PLC and signal devices, and Shihlin Electric & Engineering Corporation with 2,628 new data sets for contactors.

nVent-Hyperview Collaboration Expands Power Distribution Unit Monitoring and Control

nVent-Hyperview Collaboration Expands Power Distribution Unit Monitoring and Control

nVent Electric plc has recently announced a collaboration with Hyperview, a cloud-based data center infrastructure management (DCIM) platform. The collaboration will offer data center customers expanded control and monitoring capabilities for their power distribution units (PDUs). nVent PDUs steadily deliver power to data centers, helping their systems run smoothly. Because operators aren’t always on-site, they need to remotely monitor data center system functions, which support their customers’ mission critical operations.

Three Southwire Sites Receive The Copper Mark

Three Southwire Sites Receive The Copper Mark

The Copper Mark, a major assurance framework for promoting the responsible production, sourcing and recycling of metals, has recently announced the certification of three Southwire facilities: those in Denton, Texas; Bremen, Ind.; and Lafayette, Ind. Southwire signed letters of commitment with the Copper Mark in February, beginning the assurance process for these sites and signaling the company’s intent to meet all applicable standards within 24 months.

nVent Expanding Operations to Support Data Centers Growth in Liquid Cooling

nVent Expanding Operations to Support Data Centers Growth in Liquid Cooling

nVent Electric plc has recently announced it will open a new distribution center in Dayton, Minnesota. The current distribution center in Anoka will be used to expand the manufacturing of liquid cooling products for data centers. nVent plans to move into the new distribution center by the end of 2023. The acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI), greater data consumption, rising heat densities, and growth in edge computing are driving demand for nVent’s data center solutions offerings, including liquid cooling.

NSI’s Building Technologies Business Unit Grows with Acquisition of ENET Solutions, Inc.
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NSI’s Building Technologies Business Unit Grows with Acquisition of ENET Solutions, Inc.

NSI Industries, LLC has announced that it has acquired ENET Solutions, Inc., an Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based based manufacturer and solution provider of compatible network peripherals and connectivity products, represented by Global Capital Markets, Inc. As part of its commitment to connecting distributors to the products, services, and technologies they require to move forward and satisfy their customers’ needs, the acquisition also allows NSI to further key inroads into the Building Technologies market.

Phoenix Contact Recognized Among “Best Places to Work in PA”

Phoenix Contact Recognized Among “Best Places to Work in PA”

Central Penn Business Journal and Lehigh Valley Business have named Phoenix Contact USA as one of the Best Places to Work in PA. Phoenix Contact ranked #14 among large businesses. The awards are held in partnership with Best Companies Group. “Our employees have spoken, and once again, they have said Phoenix Contact is a Best Place to Work in Pennsylvania,” said Jack Nehlig, president of Phoenix Contact USA.

Eaton Appoints New Leaders in Electrical Sector, Americas Region

Eaton Appoints New Leaders in Electrical Sector, Americas Region

Eaton has recently announced two new appointments in its Electrical Sector, Americas Region. Angie McMillin joins as president of Energy Solutions and Services and John Rhodes joins as president of Assemblies and Residential Solutions. Both McMillin and Rhodes report to Mike Yelton, president of Eaton’s Electrical Sector in the Americas, effective November 27, 2023.