DEHN – Greater manufacturing capacity for European markets: DEHN breaks ground for production in Romania
Global electrification is the main driver of business for the family-owned company DEHN.
The expansion of renewable energies, the growing share of electric vehicles, the necessary infrastructure, data centres and much more require products and solutions from the specialist for lightning protection, surge protection and safety equipment. The new production site in Piteşti, Romania, expands capacities for customers in Europe. The plant fits seamlessly into the company’s existing global production network.
“Piteşti gives us the flexibility we need to supply our customers in Europe even better,” says Dr Philipp Dehn, CEO DEHN SE. “The plant underscores our internationalisation efforts and creates future-proof jobs in the greater Bucharest area.”
To meet the anticipated global market demand, the company recently opened additional production sites in Mühlhausen (Germany) and Mooresville (North Carolina, USA). As the existing capacities in Germany will soon reach their limits, DEHN is now pushing ahead with the construction of an additional production facility for the European markets. After an intensive search for a location, during which several cities and regions throughout Europe were evaluated, the decision fell in favour of Piteşti, located north-west of the Romanian capital Bucharest. The combination of a well-trained workforce, very good local conditions and sufficient space for the construction project were the key arguments in favour of the new site in the CTPark Piteşti.
DEHN plans to invest around 10 million euros in this Eastern European plant over the coming years. While the production sites in Neumarkt and Mühlhausen will primarily focus on high-volume products and highly automated processes in future, the focus in Romania will be on customised surge protection products in smaller quantities that require a high level of manual production.
The ground-breaking ceremony marks the start of an approximately 10-month construction phase. Start of production with up to 150 employees is scheduled for mid-2026.
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EMR Additional Notes:
- Surge, Transient, Earth and Lightning Protection / Arresters Devices:
- Surge:
- Sudden increase in voltage that lasts for three nanoseconds or more is called a voltage surge.
- Surge protector are also known as Transient Voltage Surge Suppressor (TVSS), Surge Protection Devices (SPD) or Surge Suppression Equipment (SSE). These are equipments designed to protect electrical and electronic equipment from power surges and voltage spikes.
- A surge protector limits the voltage supplied to the electrical devices to a certain threshold, by short-circuiting current to ground or absorbing the spike when a transient occurs, thus avoiding damage to the devices connected to it.
- A surge protector does not interrupt the flow of power. It simply diverts it until the voltage returns to normal. While surge arresters also do this, they often come equipped with a crowbar circuit that acts as a failsafe. If there is a malfunction, the crowbar will interrupt the current.
- Sudden increase in voltage that lasts for three nanoseconds or more is called a voltage surge.
- Transient:
- Temporary unwanted voltage in an electrical circuit that range from a few volts to several thousand volts and last micro seconds up to a few milliseconds.
- => Surge vs. Transient:
- Surges are generally of longer duration but have lower peak voltage and/or current amplitude, while transients are of shorter duration and, usually, higher peak amplitude.
- Earthing and Lighting:
- Earthing ensures that any electrical faults are safely directed to the ground, minimizing the risk of damage or injury usually done by driving ground rods or a horizontal grid of near surface bare conductors under the ground.
- Lightning protection is a system of devices and components designed to protect a building and its occupants from the damaging effects of lightning strikes.
- Surge: