The facility spans an area of 4,500 square meters and is capable of providing repair, maintenance, refurbishment and redesign for all types of power transformers up to 400MVA, 400kV.

This includes special purpose transformers for heavy industry, shunt reactors, high voltage direct current transformers and traction transformers, and an oil testing laboratory providing a full range of diagnostic tests and condition based maintenance.

Alstom’s Gebze factory not only contributes critical infrastructure and services to the Turkish electrical grid, it also exports nearly 85% of its production to customers around the world, the company said.