APC by Schneider Electric has launched the MGE Galaxy 5500 and MGE Galaxy 300 at Elecrama 2012. These products are aligned to Schneider Electric's new global line of business, "Schneider Secure Power Systems for Industry & Infrastructure" launched in November, 2010. As market leaders in deploying secure power services to the IT sector, Schneider Electric's new business line comes as part of its strategy to expand its products and services range for industries and facilities beyond data centres.

Schneider Electric has a long history as the market leader providing secure power services to the IT sector. The global secure power market in these industries stands at $2.5 billion and continues to show healthy growth. Mission critical processes in industrial applications make MGE Galaxy 5500 and MGE Galaxy 300 by APC very important for secure and reliable power supply. Both products are designed for harsh Indian environmental conditions.

Speaking at the launch, Shrinivas Chebbi, Country General Manager and Vice President - India, APC by Schneider Electric said, "The MGE Galaxy 5500 and MGE Galaxy 300 offer reliability, adaptability and customised solutions for critical applications keeping in mind the harsh Indian conditions. For instance, the Galaxy G300 UPS has been specifically designed for Small and Medium Businesses looking for a simple and reliable UPS to protect their critical applications (shop floors, simple infrastructures or processes, small IT servers). The MGE Galaxy G5500 state-of-the-art three-phase power protection UPS is designed to meet a wide range of requirements from medium data centres to industrial and facilities applications. The launch of these two products emphasizes our aim to widen our product spectrum from IT into other industry verticals."

The MGE Galaxy 5500 is a three-phase UPS in the 20-120 kVA segment mainly used in medium data centres and industrial applications in the oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, healthcare, marine and infrastructure sectors .The product is manufactured with 6 pack IGBT technology which improves the performance of the UPS. It has low audible noise and high efficiency, which makes it an ideal product for industrial applications; and can connect up to 6 units in parallel for increase in capacity or redundancy.

The MGE Galaxy 300 is an adaptable three-phase UPS for general purpose applications. This product in the 10-40 kVA segment is mainly used in commercial buildings, small IT environments, telecom sector, and industrial environments.