MARKETS & REFERENCES
MARECHAL® and TECHNOR® products are ideal for the most demanding users, installers, integrators (EPC, OEM, etc.). Where safety, reliability and endurance are required. Each year, our teams provide advice, technical follow-up and design of custom solutions as part of projects or sites in more than 100 countries.
The offer is segmented by areas of activity and by types of site/project: NEW or RENOVATION, industrial or ATEX areas. This is in order to meet the requirements of the multiple and varied configurations of electrical installations: more than 40,000 products references are supplied every year.
In all industrial installations there are critical areas or processes where reliability, strength and safety are essential. The main industries using our products are:
- the agri-food industry (safety),
- water treatment (reliability),
- chemicals and refineries (safety and reliability),
- heavy industry (strength),
- construction and building (strength and safety),
- energy (reliability),
- transport and airports (safety and reliability),
- entertainment and medias (safety),
- fire emergency services (safety and reliability),
- mines and quarries (safety and toughness),
- ports, marinas, offshore and shipyards (toughness and safety),
- tunnels (safety),
- towns and infrastructure (safety).
Companies such as Technip, Total, Nestlé, Pepsi, Aramco, Sasol, SNCF, EDF, CEPSA, Actavis, Transnet, Arcelor, Universal Studios, Airbus, Boeing, McDonald’s, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton trust us.
MEANS
Since its inception, MARECHAL ELECTRIC Group's R&D has filed nearly 100 patent in more than 50 countries. It has a laboratory approved by LCIE (Central Laboratory of Electrical Industries in France) Bureau Veritas for pre-testing and qualification of products. 5% of turnover is invested every year in R&D to create, develop and adapt.
With a total surface area of almost 34,000 m², 9 sites are dedicated to production, assembly, inspection and shipment: France (3), Germany, Italy, Singapore, Australia, South Africa and the United States.
Our sites are certified:
- ISO 9001 (France),
- DIN EN ISO 9001 (Germany),
- UL (QLHN.E145931 for power sockets/plugs and QLIW.E85952 for bases/connectors - United States).
INVOLVEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
In its capacity as an expert and recognized participant in the industry at the international level, the MARECHAL ELECTRIC Group actively participates in standardization work by providing the Secretariat for the technical committees SC 23H of the IEC - "Power sockets for industrial uses" and SC 31-2 of the CENELEC - "Explosion-proof "d" casing", as well as chairing the French UF 23H research committee.
MARECHAL® also participates in the work of study committees (IEC and CENELEC) such as TC64, TC18 and TC69.
MARECHAL® power socket international charter: for the development and standardization of ranges internationally, a charter has been created to ensure the quality, compatibility and performance of power sockets with butt contacts.
APPLICABLE STANDARDS AND DIRECTIVES
The European texts aim to align the laws of the Member States to facilitate the movement of products while ensuring the protection of persons and property. All products put on the market must be consistent with the guidelines applicable to them and carry the CE mark. For the power sockets designed to be used in potentially explosive atmospheres, the applicable Directive is the ATEX Directive 2014/34/EU. For power sockets for industrial uses, the Directive applicable is the Low Voltage Directive (LVD) N°2006/95/EC (2014/35/EU of 20 April 2016). The LVD lays down essential safety requirements: " Equipment may only be put on the market if it is built in accordance with the rules of good practice, and if when installed and maintained properly and used for the purpose intended it does not compromise the safety of persons, or domestic animals or property "
The Directive requires manufacturers to:
• design and manufacture a product that complies with the safety requirements of the Directive (when equipment complies with the requirements of a product standard, it receives only a presumption of compliance with the essential safety requirements) ;
• follow the procedure of evaluation and then of attestation of this compliance;
• gather all the elements of the design and evaluation of this compliance in "Technical Documentation";
• manufacture appliances within the framework of a system of internal inspection of the manufacture, in order to ensure their conformity to the Technical Documentation, even when bought-in products and/or external services are used.
All MARECHAL® appliances are consistent with the LVD and are
manufactured within the framework of an ISO 9001 quality control
system.
Marking constitutes a guarantee that MARECHAL® appliances do not compromise
the safety of persons or property. If MARECHAL® appliances are associated
with devices or spare parts that are not of MARECHAL® origin, the marking is
invalidated and the responsibility of MARECHAL® cannot be engaged.
Order relating to removable electrical devices and their conditions of connection and use.
This Order was published in the Official Journal on 27 January 2012. It stipulates: Art. 6. - The joining or separation of the two parts of power sockets, extension cords and current connectors with a rating higher than 32 amps, must only be able to be performed off load. Art. 8. - This order is applicable with effect from the day following the day of its publication.
All MARECHAL® appliances comply with this order.
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
MARECHAL® devices comply with the following standards:
• CEI/NF EN 60309-1 Ed. 4.2 : power outlets for industrial uses - Part 1: General rules
• CEI/NF EN 60309-4 Ed. 1.1 : Power outlets for industrial uses - Part 4: Switched socket-outlets and connectors with or without interlock. The break capacity of the MARECHAL® DECONTACTOR™ is tested according to the following standard:
• CEI/NF EN 60947-3 : low voltage appliances - Part 3: Switches, disconnectors, switch-disconnectors and fuse - combination units. For specific uses, the MARECHAL® appliances comply with the following standard:
• CEI 61984 : connectors.
OTHER STANDARDS
