For the first time a Brazilian company supplies power transformers to Itaipu Binacional Hidrelétrica.These were the first machines in the world to undergo real VFT - Very Fast Transient applications in the final tests. TR 256 MVA/550kV 60 Hz and TR 275 MVA/550kV 50 Hz: the largest elevating transformers ever made by WEG.
The Fortescue Metals Group’s Cloudbreak mine site and Herb Elliot Port in Port Hedland, Western Australia is almost completed. 24 WEG motors are installed at the mine and the port facilities.
India is getting ready to receive another 64 large sized motors from WEG. Supplying is part of the second stage of the HNSS irrigation project that will bring benefits to more than 80 million people.
The construction of WEG substations in eight new Group Votorantim factories estimated at $21 million continues a successful partnership that started in 2001.
In addition to supplying generators, pump motors and compression modules - aside from 400 tons of paint for oil platforms P-51, 52, 53 and 54 - WEG equipment will now equip platform P-56.