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Eaton's electrical business (previously known as Eaton's Cutler-Hammer business) is a worldwide leader in power distribution, power protection, and power equipment maintenance. We are a single-source, full-line manufacturer of leading electrical product brands such as Cutler-Hammer®, Durant®, Heinemann®, Holec™, MEM® and Westinghouse*. Eaton's extensive products, solutions and services meet global electrical standards such as IEC, CSA, and ANSI/NEMA. For over a century, our electrical business has been providing a wide array of electrical solutions from complex custom industrial and commercial assembly applications to simple, yet innovative residential components.

Whenever and wherever electrical services are needed, Eaton customers can rely on the depth of knowledge and dependability of our service professionals within our global distributor network, our expert engineering services and systems group, and our world-class 24x7 customer service centers.

Domestic & International Product Brands:

Cutler-Hammer
Durant
Heinemann
Holec
MEM
Tabula
Elek
Westinghouse*
Powerware

Markets Served:

Eaton serves the needs of many customer segments including:

Commercial Construction
Industrial
Machinery OEMs
Panel Builder & Electrical OEMs
Residential
Utility
Consumer

The Commercial Construction Market serves commercial high-rise buildings, recreational, institutional, and government facilities. Additionally, the Commercial Construction segment of Eaton takes on public works projects, retail/commercial outlets and commercial office facilities. Some of our products include panelboards and switchboards, low voltage assemblies, safety switches, enclosed control, dry-type distribution transformers, and integrated facilities systems.

The Industrial Market serves the durable and non-durable goods customers as well as the mining industry. Industrial products include power management, motor control centers, medium voltage assemblies, safety switches, and low-voltage busway.

The Machinery OEM Market serves discrete manufacturing customers and batch/continuous manufacturing customers. Machinery OEM products include adjustable frequency drives, intelligent technologies, standard control, and sensors.

The Panel Builder & Electrical OEM Market serves telecommunication cellular base stations, low voltage DE assemblers, medium voltage distribution equipment (DE) assemblers, and special application DE assemblers. Electrical OEM products include molded case circuit breakers, vacuum interrupters, low and medium voltage circuit breakers, and hydraulic-magnetic circuit protection equipment.

The Residential Market serves new residential construction for single-family and multi-family homes, as well as upgrades and replacements for existing homes. Residential products include loadcenters and circuit breakers, home control systems, surge protection devices, fire protection devices, and application specific equipment.

The Utility Market serves power generation, transmission, and distribution. Products offered in the Utility segment include network protections, power monitoring systems, engineering support services, and excitation control.

The Consumer Market is new to us with the release of the Home Heartbeat® system. While many of our residential products are currently sold in retail outlets such as Lowes and Home Depot, the Home Heartbeat system is the first product designed to sell directly to consumers.

* The Westinghouse Distribution and Controls Business Unit was acquired by Eaton's electrical business in 1994. The acquisition included all of the Westinghouse electrical distribution and control product business and also included stipulations that the Westinghouse name cannot be used by anyone else on these types of products for years. Today, Eaton manufactures leading electrical distribution and control products branded "Eaton" or "Cutler-Hammer" which can replace Westinghouse products in commercial and industrial applications.

 

   

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