Located in Pickering, Ontario, Trench Limited’s Instrument Transformer Division (ITD) is the leading manufacturer of oil insulated instrument transformers for voltage and current measurement. All products are designed to the highest standards of high accuracy revenue metering and protection applications, and also conforms to all ANSI/IEEE, CSA and IEC requirements. The new instrument transformer factory is sprawled over , sq ft (, sq meter) and includes a manufacturing plant, a -storey office and world-class R&D facilities. With a strong market position in North America and global reputation on many world markets, Trench Canada is one of the leading factories worldwide for instrument transformers.

Trench Germany, the former MWB Messwandler-Bau &#; founded in &#; is located in the world-heritage city Bamberg. Based on the long-time experience with the production of high voltage equipment with epoxy-resin and oil-paper insulation, the company pioneered the design and production of gas insulated instrument transformers and developed in the first GIS SF insulated voltage transformer for encapsulated switchgear (GIS). In Trench Germany completed its kV portfolio in supplying the first kV combined current and voltage instrument transformer for outdoor installation (AIS). Today it is the competence center for gas insulated equipment in the Trench Group and offers plant and office space totaling . m². With the introduction of SF free instrument transformers with Clean Air insulation, Trench Germany once again demonstrates its technological leadership for gas insulated equipment.

The company was founded in in Switzerland by Emil Haefely, an inventor who played a decisive role in the development of the electrotechnical industry at beginning of the th century. With the patent of the OIP Condenser type bushing in by Emil Haefely, the company became a pioneer in Oil type bushings. Trench France is part of the Trench & HSP Bushing group belonging to Siemens with locations in France (Trench France), Germany (HSP) and China (THVS). This close cooperation for innovation and design is supported by Siemens process and manufacturing know how. In , the Trench Group decided for Trench France to focus specifically on bushings by making extensive manufacturing investments and improving all customer relevant processes.

Trench and the companies forming the Trench Group have always been front runners in all three fields of the business. With the patent on Oil impregnated paper condenser type bushings in , Emil Haefele laid the foundation for the Trench Bushing business. In Instrument transformers the Trench Group is a technology leader since years, when in Italy the first paper oil Instrument transformers were produced. And Tony Trench, the founder of the Trench Group was a real pioneer developing Air core reactors in the early s.

HSP Hochspannungsgeräte GmbH – known as HSP – has a long history in manufacturing bushings and high voltage equipment. Over years ago it was founded as a division of Meirowsky & Co., was then taken over by Dielektra AG and later by Felten & Guilleaume Energietechnik AG (F&G). Since HSP is an independent company. We develop and manufacture condenser graded high voltage bushings in RIP technology (resin impregnated paper) and RIS technology (resin impregnated synthetic) up to kV rated voltage for AC applications and HVDC transmissions. Our bushings are suitable for power transformers, switchgears, generators, HVDC and for test equipment – meeting all international standards. By consistently maintaining the highest quality standards, we have become a leader on the world market for high-voltage bushings in recent decades.