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Head Quarters/ Registered Office:

Viale T.Edison, 50 20099 - Sesto San Giovanni (MI) - Italy Website: saepowerlines.com

1926 – 2011 85 years

in Power Transmission

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GAMMON India (former ATSL) acquires 100% of the SAE Power Lines share capital

Company History

SAE S.p.A is founded to perform the first railway electrification project in Italy (Bolzano-Brennero line)

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1988 SAE enters into the ABB Group and becomes the center of excellence for the Transmission Line business

ABB takes the decision to exit the powerlines business. The Italian ABB Unit sold with the name

of SAE Power Lines

2008

1926

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Organization Chart

Operations (Giovanni Campanile)

CEO Giuseppe Casarico

Admin. & Finance Simona Bernocchi

Deputy CEO Giovanni Campanile

S M & Logistics Paolo Faggiano

Marketing & BD Andrea Catenacci

HR & GS (Paolo Faggiano)

Quality & Safety Rosangela Morandi

Management Team

Sales Alessandro Gasperoni

Engineering Maurizio Leva

P M & Construction Nader Fathi

Personnel (Permanent)

• Management, Adm. & Serv. 14

• Sales 5

• Procurement & Logistic 8

• Engineering 12

• PM & Constructions 22 ----------

Total 61

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• OHTL AC and DC on turnkey basis and

rehabilitation

Contracting Company for Turn Key projects in the Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Power System market:

Company Business

• Substations on turnkey basis

and rehabilitation

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Distinctive figures of SAE:

More than 85 years of presence in the Power Transmission market

Experience in more than 50 countries in 5 continents

More than 135,000 km of OHTL built around the world

AC & DC Overhead Transmission Lines up to 800 kV (1,050 kV AC experimental)

Experience

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Experience

A worldwide experience in developing and executing projects as:

EPC Contractor Consortium Leader or Consortium Partner Nominated sub-contractor

Alliances and partnerships have been developed over the decades in order to guarantee the highest levels of reliability and cost competitiveness while delivering to the highest standards of quality.

A network of selected partners including: • Detailing firms • Soil and land surveyors • Conductor manufacturers • Steel tower manufacturers • Insulator and line hardware manufacturers

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Manufacturing

SAE takes advantage from the synergies with Gammon India Group particularly for the supply of the major TL components (Steel towers, Poles, Conductors).

These components are manufactured in new factories specifically designed and highly automatized, having the following capacities:

• Steel lattice Towers (110,000 t/y)

• Conductors (50,000 t/y)

• Steel Poles (40,000 t/y)

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R&D Centre

Tower Testing Station

A Research Center with a modern Tower Testing Station located in the center of India was set up in 2010, supporting the technical office in the design of steel structures.

The Testing Station is fully automatized, equipped with electronic load cells and a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA).

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Market

Company presence over the years

Turnkey Projects Engineering and/or supply only

83%

2%

3%12%

Africa Far East Europe Mexico

Overhead Transmission Lines during the last 10 years:

more than 3,000 Km

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Personnel

The company has a highly skilled and competent permanent workforce and has access through his historical ties to resources on contract and/or temporary basis for:

• Survey works

• Site Management/Supervision

• Construction

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Competences

The competences present in SAE PL give the company the highest expertise available in the Transmission & Distribution market in the field of:

• Marketing and Sales • Engineering • Project Management • Supply Chain Management • Site and Construction Management • QA/QC and Safety

This asset is well known and valued by our worldwide Customers

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Engineering competences

T&D Engineering – Transmission Lines

• Routing: GPS technology knowledge, satellite maps management, on site application.

• Tower spotting: route profile definition, optimal distribution of the transmission towers on the route profile.

• Geo-technical: soil investigation.

• Civil: foundation design and testing.

• Structural: self supporting and guyed structures design and testing.

• Electrical: grounding, clearances analysis.

• Telecommunication: OPGW and accessories management

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Engineering: Line route design

Data management from :

- Traditional maps

- Aerial photographs

- Satellite images

- DTM DTM (Data Terrain Model)

Satellite / Aerial images

DEM (Digital Elevation Model)

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Line design:

Software: PLS Cadd

- Line route plan & profile

- Tower spotting

- Stacking chart

- Material list table

- Sag an tension chart

- 3D virtual line simulation

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Engineering: Tower design

Structural Software:

TOSCA: In house SW - Optimisation of lattice structures through linear analysis

ELDA: In house SW - Linear and non-linear analysis of lattice structures

TOWER: Power Line Systems Inc. - Linear and non-linear analysis of lattice structures

POLINE: In house SW - Package for Flexible OHTL analysis (Compact lines)

SAP2000: General purpose package for linear/non-linear, static/dynamic elastoplastic FEM analysis of structures

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Engineering: Tower types

400/132 kV DC Compact Lines

(Bi-dimensional)

400 kV Traditional self-supporting tower

400 kV guyed tower

380 kV Compact tower (with insulated cross-arms)

±350 kV Bipolar DC Line

230 kV H frame

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Engineering: Detailing and Electrical clearances

AutoCAD & BOCAD 3D

- Outline drawings - Detailing drawings - Erection drawings (2D – 3D) - BoM - CNC data

In house software

- Wire clearance diagram - 3D electrical clearance check

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Engineering: Foundation Design

Drilled Caisson Foundation

Rock Anchor Foundation

Grillage Foundation

In house software's for:

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Engineering: Substation Design

• Electrical engineering: single line diagram, general

layout & relevant sections, control & protection

(SCADA), cables calculation, equipment analysis

and selection

• Mechanical engineering: gantries and support

structures design

• Civil engineering: equipment foundations, cable

trenches, building

Substations Design

Substation engineering is carried out managing internal and external resources

in the field of: