What's New?

We are so very proud to announce that Matt and Julie were married on November 5th. They had a wonderful ceremony at St. Dominic Church followed by a "get your dancing shoes on" reception at Pat O's on the River. Rockin’ Dopsie and his band brought the house down and a good time was had by all.  The happy couple was in St. Lucia doing the sun and sand thing. There was an overwhelming reaction to Matt's notice that the couple was registered at Toshiba. As a result, we saw a nice bump in business. 

As many of you know, Mike Sutley has joined our company. He is a great addition to our staff and his 20+ years of experience with Lectrus is proving to be very helpful. We currently have a full court press on to get him trained on all of our products and introduced to our customers. Mike, Tammie and his two boys, Carson and Jackson, are looking forward to their move back to Texas.  As Mike says, Tennessee was not hot enough for them.  To support our efforts in Houston, we are on the hunt for a new office.  Mike and Gretchen have found a few options on the north side of town and we hope to have something in place soon.

The team recently travelled to Waynesboro, GA for training on ALSTOM Grid power circuit breakers, disconnect switches and instrument transformers. The training included a tour of the plant where we make CCVTs, CTs, PTs, PVTs and combo units. It was very helpful for us to see this factory, which ships hundreds of units a month.

We are also pleased to announce that we once again represent Niagara Transformers and TechniBus for Bus Duct. Niagara builds transformers up to 30MVA and 69kV and they specialize in custom designs for high performance applications. We can do retrofits, VFD units, captive applications, rectifier designs and units for hazardous locations. Let us know if we can build one for you.

TechniBus builds bus duct for any application. From LV and MV solutions to high amperage designs, they also respond quickly to adaptations that you may need to do in the field for failures or improper fits.

In the project department we continue to enjoy a wide variety of activity. We are providing Toshiba MV VFDs to our pipeline customers and integrating them with a building, switchgear and motor control. We are underway on two solar ranch projects with 500kV, 230kV and 34.5kV ALSTOM Grid power circuit breakers. We also have HV substation activity with several substation packagers for projects at a local utility, including a nice Dis-Tran package for a substation near Alexandria, LA.

Our first Lectrus building for the Queensland LNG project is in final inspection. We built this beast to IEC and Australian Standards, which was no small task. The building includes a full complement of IEC gear and should be on its way to the site soon.

We have several new customers that were impressed with our expertise to do things better, faster and cheaper. We provided their power system with a haircut and optimized their building layout. We welcome them aboard and look forward to a bright future.

We had Kurt Ledoux in town for a series of seminars on Toshiba MV VFDs, sync transfer solutions and inverter duty motor solutions for 3600HP applications. If we missed you or you missed us, give us a call and we will stop by for a visit.

Marianna, Gretchen and Amy are tearing up our office football pool. It has been interesting to watch the girls get excited about football. Below is our gang showing off their Saints jerseys.

With Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s right around the corner, I hope you have wonderful plans for a joyous holiday season. We wish you and your family Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas.