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8 unusual facts about Schneider Electric


Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble

With an operating budget of € 610 million in 2011, the Grenoble hospital employs a total of 7,231 employees (including 1,557 medical staff) that makes it the largest employer in the Grenoble area before STMicroelectronics and Schneider Electric.

Isère

Other companies include STMicroelectronics France, Schneider Electric SA, Caterpillar France SAS, Hewlett Packard, Becton Dickinson France SAS, Soitec, Siemens, Teisseire.

Jeumont

They have their origins in the Atelier de Construction Electrique du Nord et de l’Est (ACENE), which became part of the EMPAIN group under the name Forges et Ateliers de Construction Electriques de Jeumont (FACEJ) in 1921, merged with Schneider Westinghouse in 1964 and in 1993 Jeumont Industrie became part of the Framatome group.

Modicon

The brand has gone through several owners and is now owned by Schneider Electric.

RC Písek

The club was founded in 2008 by three employees of Schneider Electric in the town, Emmanuel Boyer, Bastien Loiseaux and Lenka Hauptmanova.

Robert Gerard

Requiring funds to "repay debt, build new businesses and let the Clipsal brand grow globally", in 2004 the Gerard family "opted to sell its stake to the French company Schneider Electric, as a sharemarket float did not look an attractive option".

Russian battleship Georgii Pobedonosets

These changes included smaller mountings for her main guns that eliminated the sponsons needed in her sisters for the forward barbettes, the substitution of 35-calibre guns for the older 30-calibre guns and steel armor imported from Schnider et Cie of France replaced the compound armour used in her half-sisters.

Technical Trainers College

Some pf the companies students have used to perform their Company Field Practices in the past include: ABB, Schneider Electric, ThyssenKrupp, Saudi Bin Ladin Group, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Airlines, Texas Instruments, STC and LG.


Modbus

Modbus is a serial communications protocol originally published by Modicon (now Schneider Electric) in 1979 for use with its programmable logic controllers (PLCs).

Schneider Rundfunkwerke AG

The Gebrüder Steidinger company, (maker of the Dual turntable line) and brand were acquired from Thomson in 1988, in part to obtain a saleable brand name in France where the large and long established company Schneider SA was already present.


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