MERSEN
Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
About Mersen
Mersen is a global expert in
materials and solutions for extreme
environments as well as in the safety
and reliability of electrical equipment
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Group information
> Revenue: €829.6m
Global expert in materials
and solutions for extreme
environments as well as in the
safety and reliability of electrical
equipment
> Op. margin before
non-recurring items: 12.5%
> EBITDA margin: 17%
> 7000 staff
> Operations in more than
40 countries
* 2011 data
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Focused on growth markets
Process
industries
Energy
30%
23%
14%
Electronics
14%
6%
13%
Transportation
Other
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Chemicals / Pharmaceuticals
Mersen: expertise, our source of energy
Advanced Materials and Technologies
> Graphite components for
high-temperature
applications
> Graphite systems and high-tech
materials for highly demanding
industrial environments (hightemperature, corrosive, erosive)
> Anticorrosion equipment made
from graphite and noble metals(1)
and CL Clad®
> Revenue: €379.6m
> EBITDA margin: 22.4%
* 2011 data
(1) Tantalum,
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zirconium
Mersen: expertise, our source of energy
Electrical Components and Technologies
> Fuses and fuse
equipment
> Electrical
components for
wind turbines
> Brushes and
brushholders
for electrical
motors
> Cooling devices
and power
connection
systems
> Protection of industrial electrical and
electronic equipment and secure
solutions for supplying power to rotating
electrical machinery (motors,
generators, alternators)
> Revenue: €450m
> EBITDA margin: 15.4%
* 2011 data
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Product Offering
Advanced materials and solutions for high temperatures
Anticorrosion and process equipment
Electrical solutions for motors and generators
Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
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Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
Safety & Reliability. Mersen integrates our product expertise
into our customer’s applications to make them safe, reliable and
profitable.
We provide product expertise in:
– Overcurrent protection
– Surge protection
– Cooling for power electronics
– Bus bar for power electronics
– High power switching
– Power transfer for rail vehicles
– Electronic Systems for Energy Management
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Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
Customer Intimacy. A trusted team member, Mersen invests
early in our customer’s projects with research and design
support.
– Our experts offer experienced, attentive and responsive
applications support from the initial design stage, through system
implementation and to well after the sale.
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Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
Global Service. We bring our expertise to our customers with
products designed to meet their standards.
– Thousands of local sales representatives & distributors around the
globe provide experienced and attentive customer service.
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Giving a local presence and rapid response time to our customers
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Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
Product Expertise
We integrate our product expertise into your application to make
it safe, reliable, and profitable. Our product expertise includes:
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Overcurrent protection
Surge protection
Cooling for power electronics
Bus bar for power electronics
Low voltage and high power switches
Power transfer for rail vehicles
Electronic Systems for Energy Management
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Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
Product Expertise
Overcurrent Protection
For motors, mains, feeds & branch circuits,
transformers, cables, semiconductors, and
special applications
– General purpose low voltage fuses
• Fuses for every global standard
– Semiconductor fuses
– Medium voltage fuses
– Fuse blocks & holders
– Fuse / Switch Disconnects
– Power distribution blocks (PDBs)
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Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
Product Expertise
Surge Protection
– For all areas of the facility
• Service entrance
• Mid facility
• Point of use
– PV systems
– Patented TPMOV® technology
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Product Expertise
Cooling for Power Electronics
– Air cooling solutions
• Air cooled heatsinks
• Phase change solutions
• Heat pipes
– Liquid cooling solutions
• Vacuum brazed
• Embedded copper pipes in aluminum plate
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Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
Product Expertise
Bus Bar for Power Electronics
– Bus Bars for power conversion and switching
• DC Links
• Capacitors Banks
• Low Inductance switching platforms
– Bus Bars for high current carrying and distribution
• Low Inductance Filtering
• Low Voltage Drop interconnects
• Integrating mechanical and electrical components
– Bus Bars for Packaging Functionality
• Power, signal, PCB, wires and components integration
• Space and weight optimization
• Thermal management
• Ruggedized solutions
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Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
Product Expertise
High Power Switches
– High current DC
– Low voltage AC & DC
– Medium voltage AC
– Contactors
– Systems
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Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
Product Expertise
Power Transfer for Rail Vehicles
– Radial and axial mount earth current return units
(ERCU)
• An effective shunt around the bearing, mounted on all
electric locomotives
– Top, bottom lateral current collector devices (CCD)
• For your 3rd rail at a typical transit system
• With or without fuse protection
– Roof or bogie frame fuse box
• Catenary or 3rd rail
• Protect main cable from short circuit current
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Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
Product Expertise
Electronic Systems for Energy Management
– Focused on PV market
– Master and slave electronic cards for Smart
Monitoring
– Monitoring String and Array Junction Boxes
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Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
Product Expertise
Products that meet every global standard
ISO 9001 certified
ISO 14001 certified
ISO 16000 certified
– first industrial facility certified
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Safety & Reliability for Electrical Power
Supported by Research & Development
High Power Test Labs
– Europe: Saint Bonnet de Mure, France
• High power and low power
• IEC testing
– North America: Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
• High power and low power
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Surge testing
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UL approved for third party testing
Do More with Mersen
Protect electrical systems and the people
who use them
Improve electrical safety, performance, and
reliability
Reduce system downtime
Develop technical solutions that increase
your competitiveness
Reduce investment costs and lead times
Increase your global capacity
Seize opportunities in emerging markets
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