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Power Quality 
The power quality market
Every second 100 lightning bolts hit the earth.
In a context of:
• deregulation of power distribution;
• economic development in countries with unstable networks;
• new applications for storage of sensitive data coming out;
the market for “power quality” (reduction of harmonics, signal regeneration, surge protection) is enjoying a global boom.
Fuses and fuse holders, surge arresters, disconnectors and filter products to be built into solutions developed by the main players in power quality.
Now that sensitive locations have been secured (airports, hospitals, industry, telecom centrals, the banking sector’s data centers, Internet providers), today’s needs are for the service industry, small companies, and the general public.
Ferraz Shawmut is fuse, surge arrester, disconnector and filter supplier to the main designers of power quality solutions.
Ferraz Shawmut provides them with effective support thanks to:
• a combined global/local organization that is always close to the customer;
• expertise based on long experience;
• a product offering developed around the fuse.
Ferraz Shawmut also has the standing of a “global supplier” of subassemblies ensuring surge protection functions.