Electropole, centre inaugurated on October 2006, is dedicated to the design and development of Power products (circuit-breakers, switches, contactors, fuses, etc…) and solutions. This intelligent building is a showcase for Schneider Electric’s global offer for electrical distribution and Building technical Management. Set on an 8-hectare site, with approximately 1,000 highly qualified skills from more than 40 countries, the development workshops and test platforms extend on 10,000 square metres.

Following an overall presentation of the centre and Schneider Electric’s Power Business, individual shareholders could experience through concrete examples the results of the Group’s innovation policy guided by our experts through the different laboratories.

R&D and innovation play a key role to:

• Make electricity, an energy source used more and more in all industrial and domestic applications, safer and more reliable,
• Improve energy efficiency, the energetic challenge of the 21st century,
• Develop new technologies.