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NEWS

Bosch Rexroth Egypt open

for Business

o satisfy the demand for high-quality hydraulic, pneumatic and
automation solutions in the country, Bosch Rexroth Egypt has
Topened for business. Established in June 2020, and located in
the country’s capital, Cairo, Bosch Rexroth Egypt will expand to offer
the full availability of Bosch Rexroth products and a wide range of
complementary products, service and solutions to ensure shorter
turnaround from order to delivery.
The local team, in close cooperation with Bosch Rexroth Egypt’s
established professional partner network, serves the automation
products, solutions and services needs of both the end-user market
and local distributors. “We see a lot of potential for our planned
activities in sales, service, repair and customisation across multiple
Egyptian industries,” says Abderrahim Ait-Yacine, General Manager,
Bosch Rexroth Egypt.
“As a strong regional and continental economy, Egypt offers
attractive potential for new markets in close cooperation with our
local professional partner network,” Ait-Yacine asserts. The full Bosch
Rexroth product range, complementary products, services, and Recloser controller upgrade
solutions are available to serve the needs of those markets.
Egyptian industries that can make use of Bosch Rexroth’s offering,
include power generation, oil & gas, metallurgy, cement, heavy made simple
machinery, construction, food & beverage, automotive & transportation,
packaging, plastic, press, ports, aerospace and electronics. OJA Power’s flagship recloser controller, the RC20, is now
“In early 2020 we received the go-ahead for the establishment a globally available control option for the OSM recloser.
of Bosch Rexroth in Egypt,” says Tillmann Olsen, Regional President, NBringing synchrophasors, high resolution data capture
Africa, Bosch Rexroth AG and CEO of the Bosch Rexroth South Africa and power quality recording up the 64th harmonic, the system is
Group of Companies. “Despite COVID-19, we were able to recruit designed as a single control platform for distributed generation
employees and set up the ERP system in this short time. This allowed connections and advanced smart grid implementations. The RC20
us to win the first order in a very short time, which has already been is also compatible with the award-winning NOJA Power Analytics,
successfully delivered. a cloud infrastructure implementation for harvesting and analysing
Egypt ranks alongside South Africa and Nigeria as among Africa’s synchrophasor data.
largest economies, and is home to an approximate 100 million- “Our existing customers and installations can easily upgrade
strong population. Bosch Rexroth in Egypt is located at: Plot No. 112, from RC10 or RC15 controls to RC20 by simply replacing the existing
Industrial Zone, north of Katameya Road, Al Ain Al Sokhna Road, control,” reports NOJA Power Group Managing Director Neil O’Sullivan.
Third Settlement, New Cairo, Egypt. The company can be contacted “With the onboard 4G modem, the RC20 control can interface to the
on tel: +20 128 8192500. customer SCADA using their existing communications medium and
separately and securely interface to the NOJA Power Analytics cloud, to
Abderrahim Ait Yacine, General Manager, DCEG. Abderrahim. stream synchrophasor data directly to the utility’s cloud solution.”
AitYacine@bosch.com Website: www.boschrexroth.africa Existing installations of NOJA Power OSM reclosers with RC10
or RC15 controllers can be easily upgraded to the RC20 control. All
existing protection and automation functionality is available in the
RC20 alongside the new RC20-only features.
The Control Cable Connection is universal across these products.
Upgrading to the RC20 simply involves a low-voltage-only controller
replacement. The existing installation control cable and LV supply
connection can be reused to connect an RC20.
The RC20 will take its place as the flagship recloser controller
product for NOJA Power, supported alongside the RC10 standard
offering and RC15 communications augmented variants.
The upgrade to the RC20 also provides a new warranty for the
control system, along with access to future system upgrades planned
for the NOJA Power Recloser Control platform.

Contact Jeremy Wood, RWW Engineering, Tel 011 433-8003,
Bosch Rexroth Egypt jwood@rww.co.za

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