Virginia Transformers has announced the official launch of its fifth manufacturing facility. This new plant, which started its operations in October 2022, is located at Chihuahua in Mexico.
The new plant was officially opened during a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Virginia Transformer CEO/CTO Prabhat Jain, company customers, sales representatives, vendors, employees, and state and elected officials including Chihuahua mayor, Marco Bonilla and ministers, a release from Virginia Transformers (VT) said.
The new plant (P2) is situated on 300,000 sqft and with room for expansion, joins Virginia Transformer’s original Chihuahua plant (P1), which opened in 1995.
VT, with an aggregate manufacturing capacity of 67,000 MVA is the largest US manufacturer of power transformers in North America with five facilities – three are located in USA (Pocatello, Idaho; Rincon, Georgia; and Roanoke, Virginia) and two plants in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Technologically advanced
The new plant is the most technologically advanced transformer facility for reliability in North America and will further extend the company’s leadership in having the shortest lead times in the industry. Virginia Transformer can deliver a made-to-specification, state-of-the-art transformer in less than half the time of its competitors.
New generation facility
“Virginia Transformer is thankful that our customers, representatives, vendors, and the governor and mayor were able to join us in this celebration,” said Prabhat Jain. “We have a new generation facility led by dedicated employees, building upon the more than 50-year legacy of excellence, all with a focus on serving our customers.
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Unique features
The plant has enormous capabilities and was designed for flexibility. It includes an in-house advanced design center, vapor-phase drying ovens, and an automated test lab. The new facility is fully temperature- and humidity-controlled and features:
- Four production lines for E2X oil-filled transformers up to 7 MVA
- Dry-type transformers up to 7 MVA, 35 kV, 150 BIL (basic impulse level)
- Integrated Power Module (IPM) production
- Heavy-duty robotic carts for material delivery to shop floor, coil and core landing, and transformer transport through to final assembly (no forklifts)
- A class-7 clean room for the winding and assembly process
The new Chihuahua P2 capability is up to 100 MVA, 950 BIL for utility, industrial and renewable markets.
