‘Committed to the long term‘: Hitachi Energy to build $479M transformer insulation factory in London, Ont. - CTV News

Hitachi Energy and the federal and Ontario governments have announced a $479-million plan to build a new transformer insulation factory to help meet skyrocketing demand from data centres, green energy and industrial development. “All those investments are creating more demand for components, and transformers are a major element in the customer energy chain,” Bruno Melles, chief executive of Hitachi’s transformers business unit, said in an interview ahead of Friday’s announcement in London, Ont. “Because in every place where there is power generation and in every place where there is a connection, there is a transformer.”The 21,000-square-metre facility would be the first in Canada to produce pressboard — a material made from paper pulp that’s key to keeping transformers cool — and the first Hitachi would establish in the Americas. Currently in Canada that material sourced from Europe, Melles said. Story continues below advertisement

Hitachi Energy, along with the federal and Ontario governments, have announced a $479-million plan to build a new transformer insulation factory Hitachi Energy and the federal and Ontario governments have announced a $479-million plan to build a new transformer insulation factory to help meet skyrocketing demand from data centres, green energy and industrial development. “All those investments are creating more demand for components, and transformers are a major element in the customer energy chain,” Bruno Melles, chief executive of Hitachi’s transformers business unit, said in an interview ahead of Friday’s announcement in London, Ont. “Because in every place where there is power generation and in every place where there is a connection, there is a transformer.”The 21,000-square-metre facility would be the first in Canada to produce pressboard — a material made from paper pulp that’s key to keeping transformers cool — and the first Hitachi would establish in the Americas. Currently in Canada that material sourced from Europe, Melles said.

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As Canada continues to slug it out with the U. S. on a trade and tariff dispute and more economic fallout looms, London just took a ringside seat. Hitachi Energy, a subsidiary of the Japanese industrial giant, will build a $479-million manufacturing plant in London to make parts to build transformers and feed the national electrical grid.