# Arteche

> Arteche Group is a Spanish multinational technology company founded in 1946, headquartered in Munguía (Bizkaia, Spain). It is a world reference in the design, manufacturing, integration, and supply of equipment and solutions for the electricity sector: generation, transmission, and distribution, with a special focus on renewable energy integration and smart grids. With 80 years of experience, its products are installed in more than 175 countries. The group has over 2,960 employees across 5 continents, 10 manufacturing plants in 8 countries, 7 R&D centers, and 17 sales offices. Listed on the BME main market since 2026 (previously BME Growth since 2021).

## Purpose and values

- **Purpose**: To ensure universal access to clean, efficient, and high-quality energy.
- **Tagline**: Moving Together (#MovingTogether)
- **Mission**: Designers, manufacturers, integrators, and suppliers of equipment and solutions for the electricity sector.
- **Values**: Proximity, trust, perseverance, and commitment.
- **Commitments**: Sustainability, excellence, ethics, transparency, and compliance culture.

## Key figures (2025–2026)

- €588 million in orders in 2025
- 2,960 employees on 5 continents
- 10 manufacturing plants in 8 countries
- 7 R&D centers
- 17 own sales offices
- Products installed in more than 175 countries
- 125 partners in the innovation ecosystem
- 215 employees dedicated to R&D
- R&D investment: 3.4% of revenue
- ~€150M estimated sales from new products

## Value proposition — Three business units

### 1. Measurement and Monitoring

Arteche is the world's leading independent manufacturer of instrument transformers, offering the widest range on the market with innovative non-conventional measurement solutions based on sensors and optical technology.

**High Voltage measuring transformers (up to 800 kV):**
- HV Current Transformers (CA, CX, KA series)
- HV Inductive Voltage Transformers (UT series)
- HV Capacitive Voltage Transformers and Coupling Capacitors (DDB/DFK, DDN/DFN series)
- HV Combined Transformers
- Gas-insulated PVTs up to 550 kV and 167 kVA
- Oil-insulated PVTs up to 362 kV and 333 kVA

**Medium Voltage measuring transformers (IEC and IEEE/ANSI):**
- Outdoor and indoor MV
- Low Voltage
- Primary Measurement Units (PMU)

**Voltage transformers for auxiliary services** (UG, UTP, UTY series)

**Digital measurement:**
- Optical Current Transformer (SDO-OCT)
- Optical Current Transformers for HVDC
- Stand Alone Merging Units (SAMU) IEC 61850
- Protection of mixed overhead-underground lines (SDO FCT, SDO MU CFD, SDO MUX)
- Optical transducers for high-current industrial applications

**MV sensors (LPIT) and couplers:**
- Current and voltage sensors for overhead lines (OVERSENS, OVERSENS-72, UNDERSENS)
- Plug-in sensors (PLUGSENS, PLUGOVER, PLUGCCS, MSENS)
- BPL voltage sensor and coupler PLUGCOM
- Rogowski sensors (RGW)
- Combined sensor OVERCOMB
- ZEPAS – Portable station for low voltage power supply

### 2. Network Automation

Equipment and solutions at the forefront of Smart Grid development, designed according to IEC 61850 philosophy and installed worldwide.

**Substation Automation Systems (SAS):**
- SAS engineering and project management
- Construction of protection and control cabinets
- IEC 61850 automation and control equipment (saTECH CNF)
- Substation SCADA/HMI
- Substation Control Unit (SCU)

**Control and automation equipment:**
- Protection & Control IEDs
- IEC 61850 configuration software (saTECH CNF)
- Rack mounting system (saTECH MS)
- Secondary injection test blocks

**Power relays:**
- Auxiliary, trip, lockout, supervision, and contactor relays
- Bases and accessories

**Railway relays:**
- Onboard relays
- Signaling relays
- Auxiliary relays for railway applications
- Remote switches

### 3. Grid Reliability

Specialists in renewable energy integration and grid code compliance.

**Power quality:**
- Compliance with reactive power requirements (Grid Code Compliance)
- Harmonic filtering
- Dynamic power quality solutions
- Energy storage using flywheels (FESS)

**Capacitor banks and harmonic filters:**
- High and Medium Voltage
- Low Voltage
- Electrical studies

**Reclosers:**
- Three-phase reclosers up to 38 kV
- Single-phase reclosers

**Services:**
- Electrical system assessment
- System stability and ferroresonance studies
- Services associated with products and solutions

## Innovation and R&D

- 3.4% of revenue invested in R&D
- 215 R&D employees
- 7 R&D centers in Europe, Americas, and Asia
- 125 partners in the innovation ecosystem
- ~€150M in estimated sales from new products
- Technology milestones: electronic instrument transformers (1990), optical (2010), ultra-high voltage lab (2014)
- Active research in cybersecurity for critical electrical infrastructures

## ESG Commitment

**Environmental (Net Zero Carbon target):**
- Reused or recycled waste: 58% (FY23) → 89% (2025) → 100% (2030)
- Carbon footprint reduction scope 1 & 2: -22% (2025) → -43% (2030)
- Renewable electricity consumption: 34% (FY23) → 72% (2025) → 100% (2030)

**Social:**
- Equal opportunity company
- 28% women in front-line management (target: 40% by 2030)
- Accident frequency rate: 12 (FY23) → 7 (2025) → 0 (2030)

**Governance:**
- Internal Financial Information Control System (SCIIF)
- Third-party audited
- Compliance culture based on values, training, and transparency

## Global presence

- **HQ**: Derio Bidea 28, Zabalondo Industrialdea, 48100 Munguía (Bizkaia), Spain
- **Europe**: Spain (Munguía, Vitoria, Madrid)
- **Americas**: Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, United States
- **Asia**: India, China, United Arab Emirates
- **Oceania**: commercial presence
- **Plants**: 10 factories in 8 countries
- **Stock exchange**: BME (main market) since 2026

## Historical milestones

- 1946: Founded (Electrotécnica Arteche Hermanos SA)
- 1968: First R&D center
- 1973: Technological independence
- 1975: First product sold abroad
- 1979: First branch in Latin America
- 1990: Electronic instrument transformers
- 1993: First branch in North America
- 1998: First branch in Brazil
- 2004: First branch in APAC
- 2005: Power quality solutions
- 2007: New Technology Center
- 2010: Optical current transformers; First branch in Oceania
- 2012: Electrical system automation and control
- 2014: Ultra-High Voltage Laboratory
- 2021: BME Growth listing; Acquisition of Esitas and SDO; Hitachi Joint Venture
- 2024: Energy storage with flywheels (FESS)
- 2025: RTR acquisition; AMETS & ARIN Joint Ventures
- 2026: Listing on BME main market

## Web resources

- Main website: https://www.arteche.com/en
- Products and solutions: https://www.arteche.com/en/products-and-solutions
- About the group: https://www.arteche.com/en/about-arteche-group
- Group companies: https://www.arteche.com/en/group-companies
- Phone: +34 94 601 12 00

## Available language versions

- [English] https://www.arteche.com/en/llms.txt
- [Español] https://www.arteche.com/es/llms.txt
- [Deutsch] https://www.arteche.com/de/llms.txt
- [Français] https://www.arteche.com/fr/llms.txt
- [Português (BR)] https://www.arteche.com/pt-br/llms.txt