UK, Sheffield - Powerstar, UK manufacturer of smart energy solutions, has announced a new partnership with Thorne & Derrick International to help bolster its smart transformers offering for energy conscious businesses, allowing them to improve their existing HV infrastructures, maximise efficiencies and reduce electricity consumption and costs with a solution that enables real-time asset monitoring to assess performance and operation.

Thorne & Derrick are a large specialist distributor and worldwide exporter of electrical, process, and instrumentation equipment for industrial and hazardous areas, Powerstar said in the press release.

The partnership will facilitate knowledge sharing between the two companies and enable them to collaboratively promote the range of fit-for-purpose solutions and services available to I&C customers, such as Powerstar SO-LO, a super low loss amorphous core smart transformer with remote monitoring capabilities.

The collaboration will be underpinned by the customer service offered by both companies to support and inform organisations on how they can further improve their HV infrastructure through customised recommendations such as the implementation of smart transformers, and other complementary services, as well as technologies, that are Industry 4.0 ready.

Dr. Alex Mardapittas, CEO at Powerstar, commented: "We are proud to partner with the renowned HV specialist Thorne & Derrick. The partnership will heighten the visibility of smart transformers and enable a wide variety of organisations to learn how they can modernise their HV infrastructure."

Chris Dodds, Sales and Marketing Manager at Thorne & Derrick, added: "Thorne & Derrick look forward to developing existing relationships and presenting the full portfolio of Powerstar transformers up to 11 kV to new clients."

Source: Powerstar