Tripp Lite is an American manufacturer of power protection and connecting electrical devices. It was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in

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. The company employs more than 450 people and maintains a sales presence in over 80 countries worldwide. Tripp Lite manufactures a variety of product categories, including UPS systems, UPS replacement batteries,

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s and connectors,

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es,

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s, PDUs,

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and rack cooling systems, power management software, laptop accessories, and audio/video solutions. Tripp Lite is ISO 9001 certified.

History

Tripp Lite grew along with the

cloud computing Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mul ...

industry with their products widely used in data centers. In 2020 Tripp Lite filed a lawsuit against the federal government over the

Trump tariffs The Trump tariffs are a series of United States tariffs imposed during the presidency of Donald Trump as part of his " America First" economic policy to reduce the United States trade deficit by shifting American trade policy from multilate ...

on Chinese goods. By April 2020 Tripp Lite executive

Barre Seid Barre Seid (born 1932) is an American businessman and political donor from Chicago. He was the owner of Tripp Lite, an electrical products manufacturer. Seid donated the company to Marble Freedom Trust, which in 2021 sold Tripp Lite to American- ...

had acquired a 100% stake in the company. Seid donated the company to the newly created political advocacy group Marble Freedom Trust. The Marble Freedom Trust is headed by Leonard Leo, a longtime leader of the Federalist Society and the primary architect of the movement to reshape the judiciary with conservative judges who went on to overturn Roe v. Wade. In March 2021 Marble Freedom Trust sold Tripp Lite to the

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for $1.65 billion, a transaction that may have been designed to fund conservative political causes while avoiding taxes.

Awards

*2013 Business Solutions Best Channel Vendor *2013 CEPro BEST Award

References

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