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As MSc Electronics is aiming to grow also by opportunities with new business areas, we have invited Mr. Kari Kulju to strengthen our sales and marketing team. He has a wide experience of international business in different areas and cultures from Latin America to Far East. His latest backround is an Exports manager position of diesel generator based power generation projects.

MSc Electronics is going to launch new products also for those applications and Kari is will have a key role with developing, marketing and sales of those near future products. Kari started in his current position on 1st of June 2021.

MSc financial statement for the year 2020 has been finalized. MSc companies (MSc Electronics Oy and MSc Traction Oy) combined turnover reached 3,0 million Euro with the EBIT of 10%.

We are extremely happy to announce this excellent result despite the challenging global situation. We were also able to close significant deals which further strenghten our business for this year. Our financial status remains very strong. 

MSc started also several major R&D projects during 2020 which will lead to new product launches and tailor made customer solution during the 2nd half of 2021.

”We are extremely happy about our result in 2020. We have made strong investments on the R&D of the future products and still reached EBIT of 10% simultaneously. Our long term hard work is bringing results and the future of MSc looks very bright. We’ll now focus on completing the projects and have already started to strenghten our sales and production organization to make successful market entry with the new products.”, says Pekka Seppälä, CEO of MSc.

Stay tuned for further exciting news from MSc! 

MSc has signed a contract of supplying converters and energy storage for Posiva’s canister transfer and installation vehicle (KSAA), which is a battery powered electric vehicle operating underground.

MSc scope of supply includes the converters to charge the vehicle battery and control the main and auxiliary motor drives. Also the 200 kWh energy storage system is part of the total system delivery.

The canister transfer and installation vehicle (KSAA) is the only safety-classified system (SC3) in the underground deposition process. Its task is to transport and install the copper canisters containing spent fuel into the deposition hole.

MSc motor drives will be used for the traction of the vehicle and lifting and moving of the canisters and MSc chargers and DCDC converters will be used to charge and discharge the battery. All converters will be built in heavy duty, long lifetime and corrosion proof IP65 stainless steel enclosures.

MSc Traction Oy will design and manufacture new battery chargers that fulfil requirements according to SIL2 to Deutsche Bahn for ICE3 high speed trains.

The contract consists of the first set of total 450 battery chargers. The new converter will replace the original battery chargers which have come to end of life.

Resulting from a risk analysis for the battery chargers, carried out by Deutsche Bahn, it was concluded that the battery chargers must fulfil the requirements of SIL2 (SIL=Safety Integrity Level). The fulfilment of SIL2 requirements will be assessed by an Independent Safety Assessment (ISA) body. SIL 2 is generally used in safety critical environments like nuclear power plants.

The ICE3 battery charger is a two way converter system, which in normal operation charges the batteries, but can also feed current from the battery to the critical systems of the train on cases where the current supply from the overhead line is not available.

MSc Traction was selected as the supplier of the battery chargers via a public tendering process.

Deutsche Bahn is the largest railway operator and infrastructure owner in Europe. The ICE3 trains are the most widely used high speed train in Europe. 

MSc specializes in power converters for smart grid and industrial applications, and auxiliary power converters for rail vehicles. MSc has over 35 years of experience and has delivered over 16 000 power converters worldwide. MSc products are known of their quality, reliability and long lifetime in wide range of applications.

MSc Electronics has a long history of tailor-made power converters for OEM`s and system integrators and several new exciting and competitive products for industrial customers in the R&D roadmap.

In order to strengthen our presence on the market and launch the new products successfully we are happy to welcome Mika Sillanpää (M.Sc) as the Sales and Marketing Director in our MSc Electronics team.

Mika has wide experience of international business in several high technology companies including power quality solution and electrical motor drives. He will have an active role in our customer and partner operations and work with our team in maintaining and improving the high quality of MSc offering. He has started in his role on the 15^th of January, 2021.