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Active Power Opens New Operations Center in United Kingdom

June 07, 2011 by Jeff Shepard

Active Power, Inc. has moved its UK operations into a new office and industrial facility in Evesham, England, near the city of Birmingham. This new operations center increases the company’s local office, operations and demonstration footprint by 52% over its former facility. The new center is located adjacent to the company’s former offices.

This move was undertaken to support Active Power’s growing critical power solutions business in the UK market and to build upon its success at marketing and delivering power infrastructure solutions to local clients including Capgemini, Tesco, Star Technology Services and other leading innovators in datacenter design.

The new facility allows Active Power to support its expanding solutions business as well as design, build and commission an even greater number of continuous power and infrastructure solutions. The additional office and operations space will be utilized by the company’s growing sales, service and manufacturing teams.

"Our new operations center provides us with a larger venue to demonstrate Active Power’s solution capabilities, from both a product and delivery perspective to our growing client base," said Mark Lee, recently named general manager of the UK, Nordics and CIS region at Active Power. "Current and prospective customers will have the opportunity to experience live demonstrations of our PowerHouse and CleanSource UPS (uninterruptible power supply) systems and observe their PowerHouse systems through the manufacturing, assembly and test process."

"We continue to see strong interest and order activity particularly for our continuous power systems, having just exited the first quarter of 2011 where complete solutions sales increased more than 700% versus the same year ago quarter with several large sales in the UK," continued Lee. "Active Power is well positioned to garner even more market share with new infrastructure in place to support the company’s diversified sales channels, particularly with the UK being one of the largest UPS markets in the world."