At the Düsseldorf METEC 2011 Trade Fair, Converteam will be presenting a wide range of technical solutions specially designed to optimize metalworking processes (28 June - 2 July 2011, Hall 4, Stand E 30). Converteam offers its customers tailored high-tech complete solutions all under one roof, thereby strengthening its customers' competitive edge. In one of the cold rolling mills recently modernized by Converteam in Germany, at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe a tin plate with a thickness of just 90 µm can now be produced in the tightest of tolerances, in stable automatic mode.
Jun 23, 2011
Less than eighteen months after entering the solar photovoltaic (PV) market, Converteam is pleased to announce it has reached 100MWp cumulated orders of its inverter solutions dedicated to the utility-scale solar PV farm market. These orders were awarded in Germany, France (including French overseas departments and territories), the United Kingdom and Italy with the largest project being a 12MWp farm in Sietzsch (with Green Energy 3000 GmbH), which is one of the major photovoltaic installations in Germany. Within just 90 days, 52,200 PV modules were installed on the 33-hectare site in Germany's federal state of Saxony-Anhalt and electrically connected to the grid using 21 Converteam inverters gathered in eight power stations.
Converteam was awarded a new contract for nine Variable Speed Drives Systems with PetroChina for the emblematic West-East Gas Pipeline Project (WEPP) which is one of the biggest infrastructure projects in China. With this new contract, Converteam reinforces its presence in the Chinese Oil & Gas market.
Converteam lands a major mine hoist project with one of the leading potash producers in the world, Mosaic Potash Esterhazy. The Esterhazy K3 mine expansion project in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, is the largest new potash mining project in decades for Canada. The Esterhazy mine site is the largest potash mine in the world.
May 31, 2011
Converteam has shipped the first of two massive 75 tonne, 36 Megawatt generators designed specifically to match the electrical power requirement of the propulsion motors for the Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carriers.