POWERBUS is a 100% Brazilian owned company, founded in 2001, and is a current leader within Brazil supplying: isolated, segregated, and non-segregated phase bus systems for the power generation and industrial segments.

Our product range covers bus systems from 600V to 38kV; rated continuous current from 100A to 30,000A with natural cooling and up to 55,000A with forced air cooling system design.

POWERBUS installed a brand new 2000 m2 custom designed manufacturing factory located at SC470 Highway in Itajaí, Santa Catarina (a Southern Brazilian State).
The factory is only 300m away from the vital commerce BR101 Highway - connecting the Mercosul Countries, and 8km away from sea port of Itajaí, one of the most
important export ports of Brazil.

POWERBUS factory is equipped with very specialized personnel and state -of -the -art production equipment:

- Quality Management System to NBR-ISO 9001:2000 Standard.

- ERP System Protheus AP8 by MICROSIGA Intelligence in place.

- Qualified Welders BUREAU VERITAS Certified for Aluminum and Copper per AWS D1.1 Welding Code and other skilled workers with aluminum and stainless steel.

- Welding Procedures  BUREAU VERITAS Certified for Aluminum and it Copper per  AWS D1.1 Welding Code.

- 02 Hydraulic Roll Plate machines- 04 pin and 3000mm useful length accuracy.

- 02 Automatic welding seamers with capability to weld tubes up to 2000mm in diameter and 3000mm in length, single seam.

- 01 CNC Plasma Cutting Table with 2600x6000mm useful work area allowing high precision cuts free of burrs of elbows, taps, window ports, etc.

- Advanced ESAB and SAF (France) MIG-TIG Welding Machines conventional and pulsed wave technologies

- Hydraulic Bar fabrication and bending equipment

- 25ton punch-press, drilling and forming machines

- Channel rolling and special designed enclosure/bellows flaring machines

- Hand Plasma cutting equipment, heating torches, rolling fixtures

- Testing equipment up to 100kV and calibrated/laboratory tracked metrological /measuring equipment

Other specialized propreitary equipment to perform complex and challenging project configurations.

POWERBUS combined production in 2003/04 was a record in South America for IPB and bar bus manufacturing.

The PONTE DE PEDRA underground Power Plant required 2640m of Isolated Phase Bus totalizing 2000m3 of materials transported to remote jobsite located in Central Brazil by using 25 trucks; utilizing a specially designed packaging system to allow transportation of sections up to 12m long.

For the ITAIPÚ Power Plant Expansion Project we shipped 145 metric tons of Isolated Phase Bus and associated equipment reaching a total of 3500m3 of materials transported in 45 trucks to the jobsite located at Paraná River, in the national border of Brazil and Paraguay.