Vallen Canada Relocates West Edmonton Branch

In the midst of the pandemic crisis, safety & MRO specialist Vallen Canada moved its 6,000 square foot West Edmonton, Alberta branch to a new 20,000 square foot location, enabling the branch to triple its inventory. How did the company keep everyone safe during the transition? Vallen Canada simply relied on its own expertise.

“We had to really do a good gut check on whether this was the right decision to move the branch during the pandemic,” says Vallen Canada President Karen Chester. “The reality is the show must go on… our culture is such that we pull together in tough times and we need to get the job done. The final step in the process was to make sure we keep people safe.”

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Eaton and Partners Deliver Essential Power Equipment for Emergency Hospital to Treat Coronavirus Patients in New York

As the battle against COVID-19 continues, medical providers all over the world are expanding their capacity to treat patients through the construction of temporary hospital facilities and tents. Eaton and its partners recently helped realize a project by the United States Army Corps of Engineers at Stony Brook University Hospital in New York, supplying essential power distribution equipment for four temporary medical facilities with the capacity to treat more than 1,000 patients. Construction on the facility is expected to be completed this week, with nearly 100 Eaton heavy-duty safety switches providing reliable power distribution to support life-saving ventilators and other devices.

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8 Tips for Choosing a Step-down Transformer

By Max Ezzati

Step-down transformers allow any electrical product to be installed on 347V circuits, which is why many electrical contractors keep a few in their car stock. Selecting the correct step-down transformer ensures the physical dimensions of the transformer are as small as possible to fit easily in the junction box while keeping costs as low as possible. Here are our tips on selecting the best step-down transformer for your job.

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New Louis Poulsen Lamp Series with BIG Personality

In 2020, Louis Poulsen and BIG Ideas present a comprehensive new lamp series, Keglen, especially characterised by its distinctive design as well as classic superior lighting quality.

The key pieces in the Keglen series are four pendants (Ø175), (Ø250), (Ø400) and (Ø650) that each provide their very own diffusion of light using a curved glass insert, which is built into and adapted to each version of the shade.

The main feature of the lamp is the organic shaped glass that sits perfectly beneath the cone as a small water droplet shaped by physics and cohesive forces in nature, says Jakob Lange, Partner, BIG Ideas.

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