Industry and Energy

Industry and Energy

Schneider Electric appoints new manager for Middle East and Balkan region

05 January 2010 09:07 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov â€“ APA-Economics. The French company Schneider Electric has declared Turkey to be its headquarters in the Middle East and Balkan region, which covers 27 countries, Hurriyet reported.
As a result of this restructuring, the region will be managed by Turhan Turhangil, the firmâ€™s managing director in Turkey.
The success of the Turkey team as well as the countryâ€™s position as a developing market in the global economy played a role in the decision, Turhangil said.
â€œWe have become an important actor in building the automation market since 2005.
We entered the switch business in the 2000s and have made rapid progress. Our size in medium- and low-voltage [products] is already obvious. These have been influential as well,â€ he said.
Noting that Schneider has recently focused on renewable-energy resources, Turhangil added:
â€œWe now have references in infrastructure and energy management in both hydroelectric and wind-power plants and solar energy. At present, five wind-power plants in Turkey are being built through Schneider Electricâ€™s solutions.â€
The firm offers efficiency savings of 30 percent to energy and infrastructure, industry, residential building automation and data-center markets, which constitute 72 percent of global energy consumption.
Schneider Electric operates in more than 100 companies, offering integrated solutions in building applications, energy and infrastructure, industry, building automation and data-center markets. The firm has a total of 114,000 employees and reaped 18.3 billion euros in revenues last year.
The company has more than 1,000 employees, three production centers and some 200 business partners in Turkey.