Powerbox-Craftec, founded in 1974, is one of the largest European companies specialized in power. Headquartered in Sweden, the company operates in 16 Countries in Europe, and with subsidiaries in America, Asia and Australia.
Francesco Andena, sales director italiano di Powerbox-Craftec, explained the mission of this leading company on the market of power electronics, which aims to provide the optimal solution, from design to implementation of customized solutions, the delivery of standard products of the leading manufacturers of power supplies, always working with a customer-focused vision and its exacting specifications. The new corporate structure, started from the beginning of 2014, is the result of the union between the manufacturer and the distributor Powerbox Craftec, already part of a single group Swedish Powerbox International.
Powerbox
Powerbox has always designed and manufactured power supplies Externals, Open & Enclosed, Laboratory and boxes, with a special focus on medical products. A major division of the company is represented by Powerbox Custom Design team, design team can offer custom solutions or semi-custom.
Craftec
Craftec specializes in the distribution of power standards, with a full range of the world's largest producers. Among the major suppliers include: Vicor, Roald, Cosel, SL Power, AMETEK, Emco, Phihong, Shaefer, Delta, and of course the Powerbox product and its brand further Switchbox.
With an extensive network globally and efficient centralized warehouse in Sweden, Craftec offers all the advantages of a qualified distributor and reliable, with rapid turnaround and customized solutions.
Powerbox-Craftec
The union of the two companies has been designed in a strategy aimed at providing 360 ° solutions in key market segments: Medical, Railway, Avionics, Marine, Defencee Demanding Industry. In Italia, The company operates through five employees and a dozen agents to cover the entire national territory.
An added bonus
The characteristics and the strategy behind this choice? "The new company combines the ability to design and manufacture of Powerbox , providing customers with a team of highly qualified designers, to specialize in the distribution of Craftec, ovvero stock,delivery, support and after-sales service "- says Francesco Andena.
The tandem of the two companies thus ensures an improved technical support, in addition to the containment of operating costs, which has allowed us to maintain an excellent quality / price ratio of our products.
“If I had to find a slogan to define the new structure – conclude Andena – dIREI that we are getting closer to our customers in all parts of the world from design to after-sales, ie we are able to find the power supply technically correct, satisfying the needs of the price and after-sales. The whole, always operating with the aim of increasing the business of our customers, we conceive as an integral part of our company.
Download Preview In an interview published in&V Electronics in September and distributed during the Power Fortronic.