T&B Homac Provides the Right Connection for Japan
Any time there is a natural disaster, restoring electrical power is a key concern. The devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck off the eastern coast of Japan was no exception. More than 4.4 million people were without power.
T&B's customer, APR Energy, a leading provider of major turnkey temporary power generation services, was awarded a 203MW (megawatt) contract by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the world's largest private electricity company, to provide the utility with mobile substations (self-contained, trailer mounted units that can function as substations) for two power plants to partially offset power shortages caused by the loss of generating capacity at the disasters trick en power plants.
Found half way across the world in Ormond Beach, Fla., the Homac facility was called into action to manufacture the custom-made connections.
"In an effort to adapt the equipment to the existing infrastructure, special connections had to be manufactured," said Marc Salerno, group director of Connectivity & Grounding for the U.S. Electrical business. "Everyone at the plant worked together as a team to make this project possible from the design, to raw material to final production and then logistically getting the products out the door just in time to make the charter flight to Japan. The whole process took less than five days."
"The employees of the Homac facility went into hyper-mode action to process what would normally have taken months," said Alan Amidon, specification specialist for the Southern Region. "It was a real team effort including coordination from Memphis with Ormond Beach across multiple groups to pull this off."
T&B's Homac facility manufactures components used in utility distribution and substation markets, as well as industrial and telecommunications markets.
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