MEDIA RELEASES August 8th, 2007 - WF Energy Controls Achieves New Accreditation August 8th, 2007 - WF Energy Controls Partners with Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney To Prevent Traumatic Injury August 8th, 2007 - WF Energy to Help Supply Power
August 8th, 2007 - WF Energy Controls Achieves New Accreditation
“The National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia (NATA) has varied WF Energy Controls accreditation Current Transformer Test Laboratory,” said WFEC’s Manager Les Cate. “Our accreditation now includes AS/Instrument Transformers - Part 1: Current Transformers.
“This variation to our Laboratory status will ensure our continuation as a National Measurement Institute’s verifying authority for metering CTs. This will enable us to remain at the forefront of the metering current transformer industry in Australia, when the National Electricity Market (NEM) adopts the new standard.”
Les said this change comes about after many years, as Australian Standard AS1675 for current transformers has been superseded by the new IEC-based standard AS60044.1. “For WF Energy Controls, this has required significant investment in new test equipment including an electronic burden to test at both unity and 0.8 power factor and high voltage impulse testing at 400Hz. In addition, there was software development undertaken for compliance testing, to the high levels of precision demanded by the new standard and the electrical supply industry.
“All general measurement, protection, summation and interposing CT’s are now manufactured to the new standard,” added Les. “WF Energy Controls has new designs for its extended range metering CT’s to meet both the 0.2s and 0.5s classes of new standard AS60044.1, and will commence manufacture when this new standard is adopted by NEMMCO."
August 8th, 2007 - WF Energy Controls Partners with Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney To Prevent Traumatic Injury
Sydney – WF Energy Controls’ has made a major donation to the Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney Research Foundation for a research initiative to help prevent injuries. WF Energy Controls parent company, O’Donnell Griffin, is celebrating 100 years of involvement with some of Australia’s most important major construction projects. Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney (RRCS), too, has also been working more than 100 years of working in partnership with their clients, many of whom have been hurt at work and at play. The initial project team of the WFE Leadership Team and RRCS management and Board Members identified the need to find the cause of the behaviour leading up to a fall resulting in traumatic injury. Falls are the number one risk for our staff in the industry- and falls are the greatest cause of injury to clients at the Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney, often from a height under one metre. With experts across industry and clinical practice, the WFE/RRCS team determined the aim of this initiative is to ultimately influence the behaviour of people at home and in the workplace to prevent a traumatic injuries through falls. The Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney (RRCS) provides highly specialised, individual client-focused rehabilitation services for adults sustaining a wide range of traumatic injury and illness including neurological injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, orthopaedic injury and amputations, and age related illness or disease. The WFE leadership team members, who attended the visit to the Centre’s facility in Ryde NSW, were impressed by the dedication and expertise of the staff and clinical associates, the range of rehabilitation programs available to the community and the types of care the Centre provides. “While financial contributions are very important to organisations like the RRCS, O’Donnell Griffin also sought to become more actively involved in a program we could identify and align ourselves with. Following discussions between the parties, an opportunity arose to fund a research project into the prevention of “traumatic injury from falls” together with the RRCS. The research project relates both to the community and the workplace and we are looking forward to implementing the learnings which may arise from this research. “ said David Lee, Chief Executive of Norfolk Electrical & Communications of which WFE is part of. RRCS CEO Peter Williamson said, "O'Donnell Griffin has demonstrated industry leadership in exploring this issue to promote a safer workforce, and ultimately improve quality of life across its organisation and beyond." “We felt as a company, that we wanted to ‘give-back’ to the community, and participate in a community program that reaffirms our commitment to safety management and accident prevention not only in the workplace but every aspect of life. ” explained David Lee. “ODG is concerned with the safety and care of our people, and supporting the Royal Rehabilitation Centre seems to be a perfect fit for us as a leading Australian industrial contracting organisation.” “In addition, we will work with the Centre in building awareness and seeking support from other companies involved in the construction industry. We are excited about this community-based program.”
August 8th, 2007 - WF Energy to Help Supply Power
WF Energy recently won a job which included the manufacture and certification of metering class current transformers to Energex and Energy Australia. Manufactured to the new ISO AS/NZS standards and tested in our industry leading NATA approved verification laboratory, these CTs will power all new commercial industrial meters in these Electrical Distribution Business (EDB) areas.
As the largest manufacturer of current transformers in Australia, WF Energy Controls can design and manufacture current transformers to client specifications and to meet any Australian or International standard.
These contracts alone, over a period of three years, will require WF Energy Controls to manufacture more than 20,000 units of extended range 200/5, 800/5 and 1500/5 current transformers.