T&D Companies

As well as having some large companies with wide portfolios, like GE, Cooper and Eaton, the American market is served a by a large number of medium and small companies, which are particularly active in regional markets of the US. There are about 20 major suppliers of power transformers in the US and over 90 companies manufacturing or importing distribution transformers. The distribution system of the US is highly fragmented, with over 3,000 distribution companies, some of them very small, and local suppliers have a strong presence amongst these.
A second tier of transformer companies consists of large companies prominent in their own countries or regions but less important internationally, such as GE-Prolec in the USA; LS Cable Hyosung of Korea, all of which are international players; BHEL of India; Waukesha and Kuhlman of the US which are leaders in the MV transformer segment in North America. Other companies are nudging this segment of the industry.
The principal Japanese T&D companies are JAEPS (formed in 2001 from the T&D interests of Hitachi, Fuji Electric and Maidansha), Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Nissin, Sumitomo, Furukawa and Fujikawa. The Japanese market power equipment suppliers have experienced severe difficulties in the last ten years, due to a collapse in Japanese utility investment, compounded by difficult trading conditions in export markets, and this has resulted in several mergers as companies attempt to survive. There have been several major mergers; JAEPS, as already mentioned, Mitsubishi and Toshiba merged and demerged their T&D interests in the last three years. Sumitomo Cables, once the largest cable manufacturer in the world, merged with Hitachi Cables to form J-Power in 2003. In the same year, Mitsubishi and Showa merged their cable businesses with expected revenues of 35 billion yen.

The industry never stands still and there have been many developments that aren’t reflected in this article. The NRG Expert Electricity Transmission and Distribution report and database being gives you all the insight into this industry. 

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