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Harnessing the power of digitalization in the transformer industry for sustainability

Digitalization - the subtle yet powerful force with a significant impact on the power transformer industry. We explore the practical applications of advanced digital technologies, from design and engineering to manufacturing and…
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Tradition meets innovation - artificial intelligence is revolutionizing power

AI provides companies with the opportunity and the means to optimize processes, reduce costs and increase their competitiveness. Expert opinion by Tilo DORN Traditional mechanical engineering includes, for example, the manufacturing of power…
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Green Steel for Sustainable Transformers

Interview with Ulrich Voss, Vice President, Marketing and Sales for Power Transformers, SGB-SMIT; Marcel Hilgers, Head of Sales, Technical Customer Service, and Communications, thyssenkrupp; and Hossain El Hachhouchi, Manager of Procurement, ENEXIS…
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CO2-reduced electrical steel from thyssenkrupp as a sustainable base material for the energy turnaround: thyssenkrupp Electrical Steel supplies transformer specialist SGB-SMIT with electrical steel for E.ON's new digital stations

bluemint® powercore with 50% less CO2 intensity delivery of 50 tons to transformer specialist SGB-SMIT transformers with CO2-reduced electrical steel for new digital E.ON medium-voltage stations in Germany The energy transition is a task for…
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Royal SMIT Transformers completes the acquisition of DNV’s transformer oil laboratory

The transfer comprises the laboratory, its personnel and the ISO 17025 accreditation. Nijmegen/Arnhem, The Netherlands, 1 October 2021 - Royal SMIT, a company of the SGB-SMIT Group, acquires today the Transformer Oil Laboratory of DNV, the…
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Now new: the SGB GRAVITY App

Dozens of in stock transformers in your pocket A cast-resin transformer of the SGB-SMIT Group is a specialist manufactured individually for the customer - but in an age of standardised processes there are of course also areas of application in the…
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Double header in Australia

"If someone goes on a trip, he can tell a story" - this of course applies in particular to the after ales service fitters of the SGB-SMIT Group. In other words, for those employees who travel all over the world to support our customers during…
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Performance peaks with a difference: SGB Regensburg employees in alpine heights

How do you recognize that a team works particularly well together? Of course, by the fact that the employees get along well even when they leave the factory gate after work. For this reason, we in the SGB-SMIT Group expressly welcome employees…
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Story(s) that success writes Review and foresight of SGB-USA

Production, sales and service: The activities of the SGB-SMIT Group in the USA cover the entire customer service and product life for transformers. And not only that: By concentrating on cast resin transformers, especially for the wind energy sector,…
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Order cast resin transformers online: Test this new customer experience!

The cast resin transformers of the SGB-SMIT group know two basic characteristics: On the one hand, as transformers manufactured individually according to customer specifications, they even meet special requirements in terms of performance,…
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Quality according to standards: SGB-SMIT Group is involved in numerous committees

Smart grids, decentralised solutions, power lines, electric mobility ... the future holds many tasks in store for the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy. The ways to solve them may vary - but they must be found…
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Agreement signature

During the 22nd Arab-German Business Forum held on the 26th of June, in Berlin SGB-SMIT Group and El Nasr Transformers & Electrical Products Company (ELMACO) have signed a Co-operation and License Agreement. Based on the agreement ELMACO will sell…
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Praise for the trainers, perspectives for the trainees

The metal and electrical industry is looking for qualified specialists and interested trainees. The SGB-SMIT group member from Neumark, the Sächsisch-Bayerische Starkstrom-Gerätebau (SBG), demonstrates how these can be achieved: There, special…
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SGB-SMIT At the top in on-site consulting - and now also Down Under

Generation, storage and distribution of energy is a global task - in which all members of the SGB-SMIT Group participate with full commitment and innovative power. Part of this worldwide commitment is that we are on site worldwide to provide our…
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Help that works sustainably

SGB-SMIT POWER MATLA supports construction of high school in Western Cape, South Africa It was an ambitious project: local South African companies in the Western Cape province had an ambitious plan to build a technical high school in the city of…
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