The UK’s EA Technology Group has opened offices in Florida and Oregon, USA, by acquiring No-Outage Electrical Testing Inc - a power engineering services company that has been a successful distributor for two years.
The move is designed to accelerate the ‘roll-out’ of EA Technology’s latest techniques for non-invasive condition assessment of medium voltage (MV) equipment across the USA.
Based in Capenhurst, EA Technology has offices in Australia, United Arab Emirates and China, together with 36 international distributors. Global sales of the group’s UltraTEV products for measuring partial discharge (PD) activity in MV equipment have increased more than 1300% in the last three years, says the company.
Don Genutis, President, No-Outage Electrical Testing, said: “We have no doubt that PD measurement is the most important technique available for identifying faults in MV equipment before they lead to failures, and that EA Technology produces the best PD test equipment in the world.”
The company will continue to trade as No-Outage Electrical Testing in the immediate future, but eventually will change its name to EA Technology USA.
Robert Davis, Chief Executive Officer, EA Technology, added: “Our alliance with No-Outage is perfect. They are service-based people who know exactly what US customers want from non-invasive equipment testing, and we have the technologies that will enable them to deliver it.”
EA Technology has more than 40 years’ experience working with MV assets and in the 1970s its scientists were among the first researchers to recognise the importance of transient earth voltage (TEV) effects.
First appearing in 2003, EA Technology’s UltraTEV instruments represent a step change in PD measurement, because they measure effects deep in the insulation, as well as surface emissions. The range has since grown from hand-held ‘first pass’ PD detectors, to instruments for investigating PD activity in detail, up to fully automatic Web-enabled systems for continuously detecting, locating, measuring, analysing and reporting PD activity in hundreds of pieces of MV plant simultaneously.
Genutis has been a NETA certified technician for 15 years and has 25 years of practical field and laboratory electrical testing experience. He co-founded No-Outage Electrical Testing to focus on new inspection technologies that can be used while equipment remains in service. The company is based in Florida and also has offices in Oregon on the West Coast.
For further information, contact:
EA Technology, Capenhurst Technology Park, Capenhurst, Chester CH1 6ES, UK. Tel: +44-151-339-4181. Fax: +44-151-347-2404, Web: www.eatechnology.com
No-Outage Electrical Testing Inc, 1001 E. Baker Street, Suite 200, Plant City, FL 33563, USA. Tel: +1-813-752-6051, Web: www.nooutageelectricaltesting.com
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