DUAL Électrotech is now part of IPS

IPS acquired DUAL Électrotech in August 2024. DUAL Électrotech, a leader in engineered electrical distribution solutions, joins the IPS international network.

We serve industrial, commercial, and government customers in Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, and Europe. DUAL Électrotech offers all IPS services and resources, with single-source capabilities for electromechanical, power management, and rotating assets.

IPS has an established presence in Canada, with market coverage in Quebec, Ontario, and Saskatchewan. We offer NETA and non-NETA technical field services, surplus and new electrical equipment distribution, and electrical equipment remanufacturing.

We also develop engineered electrical solutions, including motor control centers, starters, drives, and e-houses.

If you’re a DUAL Électrotech customer, you’ll find their values and commitment to your business remain unchanged. Learn more about the full scope of IPS capabilities below.

To tour an IPS service center, meet our people, and see what we can do your operations, contact us here.

Complete power management and power distribution capabilities

IPS formed its Power Management division in 2023, combining platform investments in power management and power distribution services. DUAL Électrotech joins this growing business, which includes Surplec, located in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

IPS Power Management now includes these companies:

  • National Switchgear
  • National Field Services (rebranded as IPS PowerServe)
  • ABB Denver Kingston Street (now IPS Denver King Street)
  • B & Transformer
  • Midwest Switchgear Services
  • Southland Electrical Group.

Together, these companies offer IPS and DUAL Électrotech customers complete power management and power distribution capabilities.

Our operating system standardizes the way we work

CIPS (Continuous Improvement Process Solution) is the IPS operating system. It ensures that every IPS location offers customers the same high standard for safety, quality, value and service.

As our innovations improve system and equipment reliability, we test, document and approve them. Next, we distribution these innovations across our network, standardizing our processes to leverage scale.

CIPS makes every IPS location a portal. As a result, DUAL Électrotech gives you access to all IPS capabilities and resources.

IPS offers more services for DUAL Électrotech customers

DUAL Électrotech continues to offer customers its core services for low-, medium-, and high-voltage equipment:

  • Electrical maintenance and testing
  • Thermographic and ultrasonic inspection
  • Commissioning, voltage power optimization (VPO), and specialty work
  • Modernization, retrofits, and refurbishment
  • On-site health, safety & environmental audits and analyses
  • Specialized engineering services
    • Studies and analysis
    • Installation and commissioning supervision
    • Training

As part of IPS, DUAL Électrotech offers its customers more engineering, in-shop remanufacturing, technical field services, and distribution.

More power management engineering

IPS engineering delivers a broad spectrum of engineering services for electrical equipment. These include:

  • Application consulting
  • Complete testing/advanced diagnostics
  • RCFA investigation and reporting
  • Design & reverse engineering

Our engineers know harsh-duty applications, working closely with our in-shop and field service technicians to customize fleet-level solutions. Together, we serve as trusted advisors for critical infrastructure, delivering industry-specific expertise to resolve problems.

More power management remanufacturing

IPS supports the circular economy with ongoing investments in sustainable, high-value remanufacturing. We remanufacture customer-supplied equipment, with testing to validate our work on the following equipment:

  • Circuit breakers
  • Rental exchange breakers
  • Solid-state retrofits
  • Protective relays
  • Switchgear
  • Buses

The IPS surplus equipment warehouse in Dallas, TX has deep inventories of vintage switchgear, surplus circuit breakers, and related parts.

DUAL Électrotech customers can have power management equipment remanufactured and stored in an IPS asset management warehouse.

More field services for power management and distribution

IPS PowerServe, formerly National Field Services, leads IPS predictive and preventive maintenance for electrical systems. Our technicians and engineers work with DUAL Électrotech on predictive and preventive maintenance for electrical systems, including:

  • Substations
  • Transformers
  • Switchgear
  • Motor control panels
  • Breakers

Our NETA testing and inspections comply with the latest NETA MTS standard. IPS improves reliability, safety, and efficiency with the following services:

  • Power system analysis — Short circuit, protective device coordination, arc flash studies and documentation updates
  • Commissioning — Independent third-party power system start-up and commissioning for new construction
  • Disaster recovery — Includes repair services and temporary critical power solutions
  • Protection and control — We optimize new and legacy equipment
  • NFPA 70E implementation — Our experts participate in revising NFPA standards every three years
  • NERC compliance — Our professional engineers know the requirements and manage testing and documentation
  • Electrical asset management services — We track assets, their health, and status to make required repairs before failure
  • Consulting services — Maintenance and safety planning to support compliance with governmental and professional standards
  • Training — Our training center provides NCCER-accredited training, with NETA-endorsed continuing education courses
  • Electrical equipment — Deep inventories of new, surplus, and remanufactured equipment, from transformers to circuit breakers

Together, IPS and DUAL Électrotech can help identify and correct the problems that lead to equipment deterioration and failure.

IPS total maintenance solutions for transformers

IPS provides total maintenance solutions for industrial power consumers that own transformers. We work closely with our customers’ maintenance and reliability engineers, supporting new and legacy assets.

Our transformer experts repair, refurbish, and rewind OEM transformers:

  • Power & Auxiliary
  • Mobile
  • Arc furnace
  • Voltage regulating
  • Rectifier
  • Dry type (recondition & refurbish only)

In-shop, we service and repair transformers up to 60 MVA auto/230 kV class. In the field, we service and repair generator step-up transformers up to 345 kV and over 1,000 MVA.

Combining your power management and power distribution services with IPS will streamline your vendor management and deliver a more efficient spend.

IPS distribution comes with complete lifecycle support

We do more than sell power distribution equipment. IPS will install, commission, and maintain your equipment for its lifecycle.

Our distribution experts draw on a massive inventory of new, surplus, and reconditioned equipment. They have the industry-specific knowledge to make informed recommendations, with competitive lead times and pricing.

IPS quotes are transparent and detailed, with a scope of work and equipment condition glossary. Our goal is to build a relationship with DUAL Électrotech, customers, to lower the total cost of ownership.

IPS turnkey hydro services

We acquired ABB’s US and Canadian hydro generator business in 2022. This acquisition included the AB Beloeil, Quebec coil manufacturing plant and Denver, Colorado service center.

IPS Hydro Services is a dedicated group of hydro service veterans. They offer engineering, design history and the skills to service and repair hydro generators up to 350 MW.

Our turnkey services cover power distribution, hydro generators, motors, and rotating equipment, including large-scale fans and multistage centrifugal blowers. These capabilities are now available to all DUAL Électrotech hydro power customers.

IPS Nuclear Service for safety and non-safety-related motors and rotating equipment

IPS is certified to provide service and repair for nuclear safety and non-safety-related motors and other rotating equipment. Our work complies with all government regulations and nuclear standards.

The IPS Quality Assurance Manual meets the requirements of 10CFR50 App. B and ASME NQA-1. Our nuclear motor experience covers the industry’s OEM motors, including GE, Westinghouse, Siemens-Allis, and Baldor-Reliance.

We offer low-voltages rewinds with the IPS Reliance NUC-9 insulation system. This system is engineered and qualified to exceed 10CFR50.49 and NRC Reg. Guide 1.89 requirements.

In addition, we service and repair all non-safety related fans, pumps and blowers. Our technical field service specialists, including NETA=certified technicians, work closely with IPS engineers.

IPS single-source wind power capabilities

IPS is the leading North American service provider for fleets operating wind turbines — during and after warranty. We service, repair, remanufacture, and replace generators, motors, rotating equipment, and power distribution systems.

Our goal is to minimize downtime and support your run-time commitments. To do this, we resolve issues inside the nacelle, at the bottom of the tower, and in the substation.

IPS up-tower service and repair cuts your crane costs and downtime. We offer complete predictive and preventive maintenance, change out generators and rotor leads, and repair shafts, slip rings, and bearings.

In-shop, we repair and remanufacture generators, pitch and yaw motors, fans pumps, transformers, main breakers and electronic boards. WindGuard™, our Class H rewind with a 60-year log life aging curve, tests like a high-voltage rewind and has a five-year warranty.

We also offer wind power distribution, manufacturing, and exchange.

IPS emergency and standby power solutions for commercial real estate

IPS Power Systems has decades of experience with commercial real estate developers. We’re the Florida distributor for Rehlko (formerly KOHLER®), and provide consulting, engineering, installation, and commissioning generators.

We bundle our generator services with engineering, remanufacturing, and installation of electric motors and VFDs. We also provide complete service, repair, remanufacturing and replacement for rotating assets and power distribution equipment.

IPS single-source capabilities for agriculture

We provide accountability and efficiency for agricultural producers and farm co-ops, with expertise in moving water and power. IPS engineers and technicians support agricultural irrigation, cold storage, and power management.

We service and repair electric motors, chillers, pumps, compressors, and fans. We also offer complete power management and power distribution services.

IPS provides DUAL Électrotech agricultural customers with complete resources with the advantages of scale. We specialize in pipelines and pumps, plus the pump motors that pressurize systems.

Our services cover your critical assets:

  • Vertical hollow shaft motors
  • Breakers and switchgear
  • Transformers
  • Protection relays
  • Servo motors
  • Deep well pumps

IPS turnkey services for steel and aluminum

Our services for metals producers come with a deep understanding of legacy equipment and continuous process operations. We work hand in hand with reliability engineers and maintenance supervisors, minimizing downtime and working effectively within outage windows.

IPS fleet-level services are available across North America and include:

  • Engineering
  • Mill motor testing and diagnostics
  • Large DC motor and generator repair
  • AC motor & generator rewinds and remanufacturing
  • Technical field services
  • Power system studies & analyses
  • New product sales
  • In-house CNC parts manufacturing

IPS capabilities also cover gearboxes, rotating equipment, and power management, with one standard for safety and quality, and one set of T&C.

Expanded capabilities for pulp & paper and forest productions operations

Pulp & paper have been a key IPS focus since we opened our doors in 2007. Our solutions to improve reliability work for operations that run 365 days a year.

We service, repair, remanufacture, and replace electric motors and generators, rotating equipment, and power distribution equipment.

IPS knows the industry’s AC & DC motors, from old DC motors to new AC motors and drives:

  • Bark hogs, shredders, pulverizers, and wood chippers
  • Bridle roll motors
  • Chipper motors
  • Colander motors
  • Fan/blower motors
  • Pulp grinder motors
  • Pump motors
  • Refiner motors

IPS single-source capabilities include services for steam turbine generators, transformers, and substations.

Engineered solutions for oil, gas & petrochemical refineries

IPS knows the reliability requirements of refineries that run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our engineers develop solutions with plant reliability, mechanical, rotating equipment, and electrical engineers.

Our solutions streamline vendor management, with one purchase order covering electric motors, generators, power distribution, and rotating equipment. We support the following:

  • Cat crackers
  • Cokers
  • Cooling water/water treatment plants
  • Plant utilities

IPS services for refineries include:

  • Technical field services
  • In-shop remanufacturing
  • Premium VPI rewinds with five-year warranties
  • Distribution and distribution services

IPS has close working relationships with OEMs