SindoPower is the first
business-to-business (B2B)
eCommerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain managemen ...
business owned by a manufacturer of power
semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass. Its resistivity falls as its temperature rises; metals behave in the opposite way. ...
components. Other manufacturers rely on representatives or independent distributors.
SindoPower's parent company, The German-based holding company
Semikron, employs 3,600 people worldwide. SEMIKRON comprises a global network of 35 companies with 10 production sites. Power electronics are produced in Germany, France, Italy, Slovakia, South Africa, Brazil, USA, China, India and South Korea. The company has a 37% share of the worldwide market for
diode/
thyristor
A thyristor () is a solid-state semiconductor device with four layers of alternating P- and N-type materials used for high-power applications. It acts exclusively as a bistable switch (or a latch), conducting when the gate receives a current ...
modules.
SindoPower was integrated into the Semikron Group in 2015.
Semikron Press Release 2015
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Products
SindoPower’s product range consists of approximately 2,000 of overall 11,600 different power semiconductors from 1 kW to 10 MW, including chips, discrete diodes/thyristors, fuses, sensors, varistors, connectors, and power modules ( IGBT, MOSFET, diode, thyristor) as an official distributor of Epcos, LEM, Mersen, SEMIKRON and Weidmüller.
eCommerce
In a market dominated by traditional sales channels, SindoPower's eCommerce model has features atypical for power semiconductor B2B's:
* public transparency in pricing
* Web 2.0 community approach for power electronics experts
* real-time customer service
* stock visibility and automatic substitute proposal for out of stock components
Customer care
In May 2012 Epcos, , Mersen, Proton-Electrotex, Semikron, SindoPower and Weidmüller started the joined platform PowerGuru to centralize power electronics
Power electronics is the application of electronics to the control and conversion of electric power.
The first high-power electronic devices were made using mercury-arc valves. In modern systems, the conversion is performed with semiconducto ...
know-how at one place.
Location
Customers all over the world except from mainland China are handled by SindoPower GmbH. Customers from mainland China are handled by Zhuhai SindoPower Electronics Company Ltd.
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External links
* {{official website, http://www.sindopower.com
Electronics companies of Germany
Companies based in Nuremberg