German mechanical engineer: “Physics does not depend on politics”

ESubmerged in thousands of liters of oil, the so-called tap changer from Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen looks like a mixture of peculiar craftsmanship and a robotic creature. The reason this awkward detail is so strange and unknown is because people don’t usually hang around transformer stations or substations to look at their technical equipment. Only people in this field know what we are talking about. A company (abbreviated as MR) from the Regensburg area has a brief explanation to shed light on the darkness: most of the world’s electricity comes through the output of a mechanical engineering plant. You are a global market leader in your field.

Tap changers ensure uninterrupted flow of current, despite the difference in voltage in the network. Only then does it reach households or companies through large power plants, solar and wind farms, distribution and transmission networks. In short: we are talking about something very unknown, but very important. “According to our self-assessment and the assessment of important clients, we are systemically important,” says Nicholas Mayer-Scheubeck, Managing Director and Management Representative. This is the 1929 design on which everything is based: the first prototype of the on-load tap-changer designed by the Scheubeck brothers. Patent of the century.