EA Technology has opened its own new sales offices in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai as part of a global growth strategy, which includes increasing the number of its international distribution partners from 16 to 25.

The Capenhurst (England)-based power engineering specialist has also appointed a new head of international business development, to further build the company’s presence worldwide.
The new Abu Dhabi office is being managed by Alan Preece, a senior specialist in the condition of substations, who joined EA Technology in 1991 after a career working in power engineering and the aerospace industries, in South Africa and Europe.
The new Shanghai office is headed by Dr Yuan Tian, a specialist in condition monitoring of HV equipment, who graduated in electrical engineering in China before taking his doctorate at the University of Southampton in the UK. He joined EA Technology in 2006.
Haydn Rees has been appointed to the new role of leader of EA Technology’s International Business. He joined EA Technology in 2008, after 10 years with distributed power generation specialists Clarke Energy, working in Australia, Africa, India and Europe.
EA Technology has also appointed five new distributors – in Portugal, Poland, Italy, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia – and expects to add a further four European distributors in the immediate future.
Rees explained: “There are massive potential markets for EA Technology products and services worldwide, particularly for assessing the condition of MV and HV assets by measuring Partial Discharge (PD) activity, which is one of the most valuable technologies available for live testing.”
“Our strategy is to continue expanding our range of PD instruments and make new inroads into countries where condition-based asset management is relatively unknown.”
The UltraTEV Detector won the Queen’s Award for Innovation in 2007 and has now been joined by the UltraTEV Plus+ (below) - an even more versatile PD detection and measurement instrument, providing detailed readings of PD activity in the form of ultrasonic and Transient Earth Voltage (TEV) emissions.