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About

DEVELOPED WITH PASSION - Traco Power is a power supply specialist with more than 40 years of experience in developing power solutions. We have always been passionately committed to project planning, development, design and manufacture of high-quality, tailored power supplies and DC/DC converters.

Traco Power as a partner

Technical support and project planning is provided by our German and Swiss project managers and sales engineers. This is done either online, at your site or even at our branches in Switzerland (Zug) or Germany (Munich). Development and quality assurance take place in our state-of-the-art research and development centres with modern test laboratories in Ireland (Cork and Wexford).

Our team

Our human resources strategy is based on combining experience and innovation. Many of our staff have been working for Traco Power for decades and are familiar with practically every power supply challenge. By contrast, young “wild” developers are even better at having their finger on the pulse and deliver innovative approaches. Together with well-coordinated quality and logistics teams, this combination has proven to be extremely successful. Traco Power works closely together with power electronics chairs of renowned universities. Together they test and examine the marketability of new topologies, components and layouts.

Jobs at Traco Power

 

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MARK SCHOPPEL, Dipl.-Ing. / Project Manager, Individualized Power Supplies

“I have been working as a project engineer for individualized power supplies at Traco Power for a few years. When it comes to supporting customers while developing individualized solutions, I can count on the wealth of experience that our team has built up over decades. We have access to a vast amount of proven technical concepts and circuit developments that help us to rise to our customers’ tricky challenges. This, along with my many years of experience in hardware design, enables us to consider each project as a whole – from the overarching requirements to the smallest technical details.

I like how straightforward, uncomplicated and cooperative work is at Traco Power, across all of the sites. I see this as being one of the key factors in our success, because it enables efficient dialogue about design requirements and development status. This all contributes to creating power solutions that satisfy my customers’ requirements from the very beginning.” – M. Schoppel

JEFF COOPER, Dipl.-Ing. / Head of Quality

“I’m passionate about quality. I have worked as a Quality Assurance Manager at Traco Power for over 20 years. My studies culminating in a degree in electronics and electrical engineering have given me the specialist knowledge I need to manage the QA team and its activities. As a primary point of contact for customers regarding all aspects of quality, we take care of quality problems as a team and make use of the findings we have made in Traco Power’s Continuous Improvement Program. I am especially proud of the development of our automated testing solutions – the result of more than two years of work. This is particularly important in the context of individualized power solutions because they require dedicated testing methods to ensure their conformity with the agreed specifications. I am proud of how much the business as a whole focuses on exceeding customers’ expectations and consistently guaranteeing quality from start to finish. Our close cooperation within the business, from the design and development team to our production partners, provides the basis for this.” – Jeff Cooper

Our sites

Wherever your development department is located, your access to development consultancy from Traco Power is always close at hand. Our local technical experts will be happy to analyse your power supply requirements with you and will put you in touch with our development department.

Munich / Ismaning, Germany

Wexford & Cork, Ireland

Baar / Switzerland

Paris, France

San José, USA

Certifications

Our production is RoHS-compliant and in accordance with IPC standard A-610 Class 3. Our products satisfy the required market and country specific standards (UL, CSA, EN).
Conformity & certifications
REACH Declaration

In general, TRACO POWER products are not covered by the REACH Regulation. Individual REACH Declarations are available via a link in the product data sheets or on request.

General REACH Declaration

RoHS compliance

In July 2006, TRACO POWER successfully concluded the process for manufacturing all power supplies and DC converters in full conformity with the European RoHS Directive (2002/95/EC). This excluded products that were removed from the actual sales range (obsolete products).
The EU RoHS Directive and the RoHS Directive for China both describe identical substances and MCVs (Maximum Concentration Values).
The latest TRACO POWER RoHS Declaration therefore fulfils both the EU RoHS Directive and the RoHS Directive for China.

Directive 2011/65/EU

TRACO POWER RoHS Declaration

Electrostatic Discharge Declaration

Traco Power products can be handled as NON-ESDS material.

ESD Declaration

Moisture Sensitivity Level

All TRACO POWER surface mount devices (SMD) are qualified for lead-free reflow solder process under the condition that the product is handled in accordance (J-STD-033B) with its moisture sensitivity level (IPC/JEDEC J-STD-020D.1).

CE Declaration

TRACO Electronic AG provides a CE Declaration for those power supplies that fall under the Low Voltage Directive (2014/35/EU) or the EMC Directive (2014/30/EU) or the ATEX Directive (2014/34/EU) or the RoHS Directive (2011/65/EU) of the European Union.

CE Declarations

Quality assurance

All TRACO POWER manufacturing plants and subcontractors are selected under the premise that they are ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified and fulfil the latest technological standards as well as the applicable European Directives and global standards for quality control and environmental interference.

Environmental Declaration

History

  • The 1940s

    When the success story began

    The success story began in the 1940s. Traco Power Group was founded by Mr Hans Caspar in 1944. The first business was Traco Trading Company Limited. During the 1940s, Traco Trading Co. Ltd. was involved in the import and distribution of cameras, radios and electronic components. They were mainly imported from Japan, America and Italy and placed on the specialist electronics market by the company’s own representatives.

  • The 1950s

    Internationalisation begins with Dynavox / Revox

    In around 1946 Hans Caspar imported some of the world’s first tape recorders. They were specially developed for the American market by Bush Development as the successor to the BK 40 dictaphone. However, these devices were not a success because their susceptibility to interference and the fact that they were designed for 110 volts at 60 Hz made them unsuitable for the Swiss market. The devices were stored in Mr Caspar’s basement until 1949, when Mr Ernst M. Egli got in touch with Willi Studer. He was commissioned with converting the Soundmirror tape recorders for the Swiss market. However, Willi Studer decided to produce his own tape recorder and to give it a better design from scratch.

  • The 1970s

    The birth of complex power supplies and DC-DC converters

    Traco Trading Co. Ltd. exclusively distributed the devices under the name Dynavox, which made the business so successful that the Traco Electronic Company Limited department was founded in the 1970s for its own developments.

    This step is still considered to be a milestone in the current group of companies. Traco Electronic Co. Ltd., also known as TRACO, began to focus on complex power supplies and DC/DC converters and established itself as one of the market leaders in this segment.

  • 1980 – 2000

    International expansion

    This focus was intensified with Convertec Ltd, now Traco Power Solutions Ltd, in Wexford, Ireland. With around 40 employees, Traco Power Solutions Ltd. is managed by Luis de Sousa.

    Comptek Elektronik GmbH has its headquarters in Ismaning, Germany, where it was founded in 1989. The name of the company was changed to Traco Electronic GmbH in 2000, when it employed around 20 staff.

  • 2013

    More space was required

    In 2013, Traco Electronic Co. Ltd. moved its headquarters from Zürich to Baar in the Canton of Zug (Switzerland). In 2016, Rolf Caspar, grandson of the founder, handed over operational management of Traco Power Group to Markus Dalla Monta (CEO) and Adrian Berger (CFO) after 17 years and has focused on the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors since then.

  • 2016 – present

    Further growth with more international expansion

    Traco Power North America, Inc. was also founded in San Jose (USA) in 2016. Two years later (2018) a subsidiary under the name of Traco Power France was opened in Paris, with more local Traco Power subsidiaries to follow.

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