Ensto Novexia

Electrical equipment for low and medium voltage networks

 Ensto Novexia
Advanced expertise for more than 90 years

For more than 90 years Ensto Novexia has developed,

produced and commercialized products that are involved in
remote control and automation of low and medium voltage
networks destined to distribute electricity and other divers
secured electric applications.
The company is an expert in remote controlled load break
switches for medium voltage networks, pole mounted
circuit breaker to secure low voltage networks, distribution
panelboards and default detectors for underground networks.

Ensto Novexia, who belongs to the Finnish

Ensto group since October 2010, offers a
complete product range and services for the
automation and improvement of the quality
of electrical networks.

Solutions offered by Ensto Novexia are widely

recognized in France and in the whole world.
The products are manufactured where the
head office is, in Villefranche-sur-Saône (69)
and in the South west of France in Bagnères-
de Bigorre (65) as well.

In France, Ensto Novexia is one of the main

suppliers of ERDF and of many private elect-
ricity distributors, being thus a well-known
company on the French market.
Furthermore, Ensto Novexia has developed a
policy of exportation that allows the compa-
ny to be present also elsewhere in Europe, in
Africa, in Asia and Latin America (Scotland,
Ireland, Hungary, Algeria, Morocco, Sri Lanka,
Uruguay…).

Chronicle :

Ensto Novexia was resulting from

the merger of two companies called
Simplex from Villefranche-sur-Saône
(69) and IATS Soulé from Bagnères-
de-Bigorre (65), what explains the
presence of two production sites on the
French territory. In October 2010, the
Ensto Group bought Novexia with the
objective of completing its offer in
the automation field of networks and
developing its implementation in
France.

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Ensto Group
Building Sustainable Energy Infrastructure

Ensto develops and produces innovative solutions for over-

head and underground electric networks.
The global offer also includes devices that improve the
quality of electricity and enable a rapid restoration of energy
when defaults occur.
Ensto is researching efficiency in the exploitations of distribu-
tion networks and offers:
• Local support based on customers’ needs
• Innovative easy to install solutions
• Integration of worldwide customers’ needs
• Sustainable , certified and eco-friendly offers
Products are designed and planned for a
long life expectancy, eco-friendliness, energy
efficiency and with a minimal carbon foot-
print.

Local presence in 20 countries

Ensto is based in 20 countries and has produc-
tion sites in seven different countries (Estonia,
Finland, France, Italy, Russia and Spain).

Ensto has 3 main Business Units: Ensto

Utility Networks, Ensto Industrial
Solutions, Ensto Building Technology. Ensto’s
headquarters are located in Porvoo, Finland.

Ensto
– A family commitment –
Ensto is a family owned company that
was founded in 1958 by Ensio Miet-
tinen. The company is specialized in the
development, production and com-
mercialization of solutions and devices
destined for electricity distribution.

“We are committed to durability with

sustainable development. Our objective
is to be a worldwide leader in the distri-
bution of energy.

Our products are eco-friendly, respect

the environment and leave a minimal
carbon footprint. “

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 A committed R&D Department
Innovation servicing energy efficiency

Ensto Novexia’s R&D team is actively working in the fields

of energetic performance, sustainable development and
technologies associated to Smart Grids. Succeeding in
product innovation is based entirely on rigorous testing inter-
nally and externally in high-tech laboratories.
Ensto Novexia’s research department focuses
its innovations on current themes such as
energy efficiency, in order to better respond
to customers’ needs.

Project objectives and

involvements
- Optimization and reliability in delivery time
- Design based on ”Costs/objectives”
- Research of innovative techniques
- Design quality guarantee
- Optimization of interchangeability/life cycle

For Ensto Novexia, the customer is the most

important thing when a new product is de-
veloping. The innovative solutions proposed
by the company result from close partner-
ships with customer, because customer needs
are the reason why products are developed.
This close relation between producer and
customer is a crucial factor in the succeeding
of a project.

To answer customer needs in the best way

possible, Ensto Novexia thoroughly tests
all products internally and in laboratory, to
ensure irreproachable quality and reliability of
solutions offered by the company.

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An Industrial Department focussed
on customer satisfaction
Aspiration to be efficient and rigorous

Ensto Novexia manufactures its products in two production

sites in France (Villefranche-sur-Saône and Bagnères-de-
Bigorre) and each production site specializes in production
technology.
The company is looking for continuous improvement of its
work processes and this by using audits, adaptation of new
models in order to render manual operations more efficient.
Effective and well organized operations are
essential to meet the expectations of our
customers. So, Ensto Novexia works constantly
to improve the industrial flexibility and the lo-
gistic precision.

Ensto’s Excellence Operational Program (EOX)

includes many methods and tools that enable
the company to shorten its production times
and improve the efficiency of production and
supplying logistics

Ensto Novexia ways of production are environ-

mentally friendly, the company has an ISO 9001
certification for system quality management
and an ISO 14 001 certification for environmen-
tal management.

Ensto Novexia has set up a rationalized

production with the help of the 5 S’s
method (sort, straighten, shine
systematic cleaning, standardize,
service sustain). This method enables to
reduce waste and losses and increases
everyone’s rigor in the fields of respect
and improvement of production pro-
cedures.

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Reliable products and solutions
Low and medium voltage distribution

Overhead medium voltage switchgear

Smartcloser
Ensto Smartcloser is an automated pole mounted vacuum technology autorecloser.
Outage duration reduction and automatic isolation of faulty sections of a distribution network.
Characteristics :
• Rated voltage: 38 kV
• Rated current: 630 A
• Breaking capacity: 12.5 kA

Auguste LBS
24/36 kV Load Break Switch from 400 A up to 630 A.
IP68 sealed tank, filled with low pressure SF6 gas and with external or embedded MV/LV transformer.
Remote control through Radio transmission, STN (Switched Telephone Network) , GSM and LL
(Leased Line).

Air break switches

Air break switches manually or electrically operated, local and remote control, for three-phases 24 kV
and 36 kV networks.
• Breaking capacity up to 100 A.
• Ceramic, synthetic or glass insulators.

Low Voltage Overhead Lines Protection

LV pole mounted circuit breaker
Circuit breaker for protection of 50 kVA to 160 kVA pole transformers against unbalanced phases and
overloads.
Integrates an overload release block which models the transformer’s thermal image.

LV Protection by fuses
The PAS cabinet is a fuse cut protection for pole mounted transformers 50 kVA, 100 kVA and
160 kVA.
Environment resistant with IP 34D grade protection.
It is used also for MV/LV indoor substation with IP2X protection grade.

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Low voltage distribution panel boards

TIPI
Low voltage tetrapolar distribution panelboards for MV/LV substations.
Protection index IP2X.
Types:
• 4 outgoing feeders
• 8 outgoing feeders

TUR
Low voltage tetrapolar distribution panelboards for MV/LV substations.
Types:
• 4 outgoing feeders/800A
• 5 outgoing feeders/1200A
• 8 outgoing feeders/1200 A
• 8 outgoing feeders/1800A

Remote-Control
ITI
Control box for MV/LV substation from 1 to 8 switches, for underground networks.
Communication by radio transmission, STN, GSM and LL.

LYNX
Fault Passage Indicator for underground MV networks.
Types: amperometric, directional.
LV supply or autonomous.

DEIE
The operating data exchange system (D.E.I.E.) is a control/monitoring unit that manages the
remote control and monitoring of decentralized generating installations.
Control cabinet for local spot generation, with measurements capacity for Wind mills, Photovol-
taic generation, Micro generation, Gas turbine, Hydraulic generation.

PPACS
The Removable Potential plug for separable connector is a voltage measurement device. It is
plugged to the capacity divider of a separable 250 A or 400 A connector plug.

Accessories for low voltage networks

Insulation piercing connector SLIW
CBS & CES insulation piercing connectors with simultaneous tightening.
Types:
• CES/CT 70
• CBS/CT 25
• CBS/CT 70
• CBS/CT 150

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Ensto Novexia SAS - Headquarters
210, rue Léon Jouhaux - BP 10446
FR - 69656 Villefranche-sur-Saône cedex
Tél. : +33 (0)4 74 65 61 61
Fax : +33 (0)4 74 62 96 57
E mail : infos.novexia@ensto.com
www.ensto.fr
Service offer
Document non contractuel - notice n° 2003239F
As part of the reduction in maintenance costs and to ensure
reliability of equipment, Ensto Novexia offers a range of services
from training to maintenance contracts.
• Advice and Technical Expertise
• Supervision of Installations
• Specific Studies
• Repair
• Commissioning operations
• Spare Parts and Software
• Preventive Maintenance and technical updates
• Recycling and dismantling of products
• Training
Workshop Export Sales Office
33, avenue du Général Leclerc 46 Bis, rue de la République
FR - 65200 Bagnères-de-Bigorre FR - 92170 Vanves
Tél. : +33 (0)5 62 91 45 00 Tél. : +33 (0)1 47 61 87 92
Fax : +33 (0)5 62 91 45 30 Fax : +33 (0)1 47 61 90 15