ABB to Acquire Thomas & Betts

 

Swiss engineering group ABB has agreed to buy U.S. electrical components maker Thomas & Betts. Through this acquisition ABBwill add an Elbow Arrester Family to its already large arrester product offering. The Elastimold arrester team will be partnered with the worlds largest arrester design team located in US, Sweden and Switzerland and perhaps create synergies not experienced by them before.   

Joe Koepfinger has been named the recipient of the 2012 IEEE-SA Lifetime Achievement Award for significant technical contributions to a standard committee of their IEEE field of interest.  Joe is so involved in so many IEEE fields that it is not clear to this author to which committee  the Standards Association is referring.  However we do know from our own experience that for the work he has done on the Surge Protective Devices Committee alone he certainly deserves this award.  He joined the SPD in 1949 and has been involved ever since.  He was inducted into the Surge Protection Hall of Fame in 2008.   His extra-ordinary biography can be read here.   

Congratulations Joe....... well deserved.   

 

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