Protection with ballast wall
Yaskawa Environmental Energy has invested in a new ballast wall to raise the level of safety of our employees when testing high-speed machines in the Lappeenranta factory.
Driving energy efficiency for newbuild Donsötank tankers
Swedish shipowner Rederi AB Donsötank has chosen the WE Drive™ variable frequency drive and The Switch PM shaft generators for significant efficiency gains, lower emissions and decreased costs for its two advanced ice-class 1A tankers.
The Switch wins Finnish President award
Today, The Switch has been awarded with The Internationalization Award by Tarja Halonen, President of Finland.
The company’s growth has been based on the growing renewable energy markets globally and successful technology. For 2011, the company has received orders worth tens of millions of Euros.
Carlo Cecchi: China’s wind power industry is eyeing West
In 2010, China’s speed in wind power development was probably one of the most discussed topics in the global wind power industry. Based in Beijing and looking at the development from this part of the world, I have made a couple of observations about the Chinese market trends in 2011. One thing is clear. While China continues to focus on building its own renewable energy infrastructure and establishing Beijing’s ambitious wind power capacity goals, the Chinese wind power industry has definitely started to gear up and they are eyeing West.
Zero rotor defects
Over the years, The Switch has passed the thousand mark in the production of the unique solid rotor motors – with zero rotor defects!
PM machines help reboot the ROPAX industry
Today, two market conditions mark the ROPAX industry as ready for environmentally friendly innovations, such as permanent magnet machines. First, fuel prices have gone up.
New marine test station ready
The Switch had the first run of its new Poseidon Drives test station in Stord. This was also a great opportunity to do a 100% production test for two EBLs to be delivered to Teekay.
The Tesla of the Seas
Quiet yet powerful. Practical yet stylish. Fast yet environmentally responsible. The must-get automobile of the jet set, Tesla has taken the world’s highways by storm. But is there a similar craft that can conquer the oceans? What is the “Tesla of the Seas”?
The Switch opens office in Germany: Increases focus on customer orientation
Today, The Switch opened its new office in Hamburg, Germany. This move positions The Switch closer to its growing base of wind turbine manufacturing customers in Germany and other leading wind power generation countries.
Mr. Jürgen Millhoff has been appointed as Sales Representative to head this office, with effect from 2 September.
Breezing through production
In 2018, the offshore wind market grew by 0.5% to 4.49 GW of new installations, and the total installed wind capacity saw an increase of 9.6% compared to the end of 2017. So, what kind of effect this had on our ongoing production efforts?
Electrifying the world with game-changing green technologies The Switch is an agile product supplier that provides custom electric machines and power electronics to system integrators (SIs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). We want to grow together with our marine, renewables and industry customers who find our innovative technologies and optimized products key to their success.…
Signing the first turbo order in China
In October, we successfully signed our first turbo motor order in China with Binzhou Dongrui Machinery and recently received confirmation on the first installment.