Schneider growing steadily in Indonesia

Schneider growing steadily in Indonesia

Schneider Indonesia provides its customers with dependable
services. Its network of after sales service and maintenance
teams, based in Jakarta and Surabaya, is ready to give quick
responses on calls for installation, commissioning, and
troubleshooting.

Schneider organizes its trading activities based on its
customers' specific needs. Its Power Division serves mainly the
state-owned electricity company PLN in supplying medium voltage
distribution, high voltage and extra high voltage substations and
power plants auxiliaries.

The Industry Division serves the needs of electric power
distribution equipment and automation control systems of
industrial plants, commercial buildings, mining oil and gas
sector, private power plants and transportation facilities such
as airports, harbors and railway stations.

The Standard Product Division serves the needs of electrical
components for the open market and for its own internal
consumption.

Contracting is backed up by reliable professionals in the
respective field of project engineering, with Schneider doing the
concept designing, installation, testing and commissioning.

Product specialists assist customers in maintaining the high
performance of their equipment and minimizing downtime. Easy
communication access is provided by special lines.

Its two manufacturing facilities yield products that meet the
international standards of IEC, NEMA, ANSI and the LMK local
standard.

The Cikarang Equipment Factory is located at the East Jakarta
Industrial Park. Producing mainly low and medium voltage
switchgears, with 28 percent local content and reaching
production volume of 13,500 units per year, this factory employs
450 people.

The Circuit Breaker Factory is located in Sidoarjo, East Java,
producing miniature circuit breakers, with 70 percent local
content and a production volume of four million poles annually.
The factory holds certificates of ISO 9002 for management and
SPLN 108:93 for its product. It employs 250 people and, since
December, 1995, exports to other Asian countries.

Besides its headquarters in Jakarta, Schneider also has
several branch offices, located in Medan, Bandung, Semarang and
Surabaya, and resident engineers in Ujungpandang, Balikpapan,
Denpasar and Surakarta.

Some of the major facilities utilizing Schneider products are:

* Cikarang Listrindo, Indonesia's first private power plant,
located in Bekasi, uses 150 kV switch yard and utilities
controller.

* Buaran Water Treatment Plant, Jakarta, the biggest treatment
plant utilizing low voltage and motor control center.

Cement Tonasa, South Sulawesi, utilizes low voltage
switchboards, medium voltage switchgears, and process automation.

* Tanjung Priok Harbor, North Jakarta, consumes Telemecanique
programmable controllers and variable speed values to control the
container cranes.

The Schneider Indonesia organization comprises 1,200 people.
The upper-low, middle and top management sections are
professionals with solid backgrounds of tertiary education in
technical fields and business administration from reputable local
and overseas universities.

All employees are required to have a minimum 40 training hours
each year for their development. Its engineers must take
technical training as required by each position level.

For over 17 years, Schneider Indonesia has been active in
producing electrical equipment and engineering and construction
services, with the well-known main brands of Merlin Gerin, Square
D, and Telemecanique.

Having decades of experience in the world of electrical
distribution and process controls, Groupe Schneider advanced its
Indonesian branch as early as 1978, teaming up with Ometraco
Group.

In 1988, this long and successful partnership resulted in a
joint venture named PT Merlin Gerin Indonesia (MGI), to meet
formidable electrical demands and to keep up with the rapid
transfer of technology.

Since then, MGI has expanded tenfold along with the steadily-
growing electrical market. From this point, PT Merlin Gerin
Omelec (MGO) was appointed the local sole agent for low voltage
components and uninterruptible power supplies.

By the end of 1993, MGI became Schneider Indonesia and MGO
became PT Schneider Ometraco, following the acquisition of
Telemecanique in France back in 1988 and Square D in the U.S. in
1990 by Groupe Schneider.