■ Signing of MOU for Distribution Panel/Smart Grid Technology Development and Business Partnership with SAI
■ Sale of solutions developed with Korean circuit breakers and switches of local brand
■ Collaboration in sales and marketing also ??? Sharing of references or other business know-hows
■ Joint response to US power market through exchange of smart grid
LSIS plans to enter the US power solutions market through a partnership with a local producer of power distribution panels.
LSIS disclosed that the company signed an MOU for cooperation in the US power solutions market with Switchboard Apparatus, Inc. (SAI), a US-based power distribution panel manufacturer, at the Korea-US Manufacturing Innovation Forum held by the Korea Institute for the Advancement of Technology on June 16 (Korean time).
Founded in 1907, SAI is an intermediate-size power solutions company with an annual sales turnover of around USD 30 million, divided equally between US consumption and overseas markets. Its main customers include major data centers, hospitals and public institutions, while its major overseas markets include the Middle East and South America.
LSIS has been negotiating for joint business with SAI since last year and is jointly developing a power distribution panel that meets the requirements of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), which is the basic condition for carrying out the business locally.
The MOU stipulates that LSIS will provide key power devices such as the circuit breakers and switches of power distribution panels, while SAI will assemble these parts into final products and sell them, as well as providing additional services.
The partnership is expected to create a genuinely beneficial synergy as SAI will receive highly competitive power distribution devices in terms of price and quality, while LSIS will utilize SAI’s panel solution, which has acquired UL certification, a prerequisite for sales in the local market.
Both companies have agreed to jointly carry out sales and marketing activities to develop the reference sites together and share the information to maximize the outcome of the long-time partnership.
Moreover, both companies will cooperate in Korea’s world-class smart grid technology such as Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to develop a partnership in the US smart grid market also.
“The US power distribution panel market is expected to increase in value from USD 50 billion in 2013 to USD 83 billion in 2020, as the US power distribution market is entering the replacement period for aged equipment. We are certain that both companies can share growth with this advanced form of partnership by cooperating not only on technology development but also on sales activities,” declared LSIS CTO Hak-Seong Lee .
“We are pleased to be a partner with a company equipped with sufficient global level competitiveness to provide the products at any time even when a customer demands specialized specifications according to their own schedule. Cooperation in power distribution panels is only the beginning, as we also plan to increase our market share together in the US power solutions market,” SAI CEO Brad Bell said.
LSIS Intends to Enter the US Power Solutions Market through Innovative Partnership
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