EA October 2025
Our International issue!
​Explore the October 2025 issue of Electrical Apparatus, with an International theme, featuring profiles, safety insights, management strategies, global energy trends, EV charging innovations, pump compliance, finance, and the latest in power transmission, solar, and trade shows.
​Electrical Apparatus is the monthly magazine and virtual community for electromechanical professionals who design, specify, use, sell, operate, maintain and repair electrical equipment.
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ELECTRICAL APPARATUS | OCTOBER 2025
EA Reader Profile
19 Outshining any naysayer
How persistence has paid off for Dan Marks of Bohr Electronics
By Colin Gregory-Moores, EA Contributing Writer
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Safety & Health
24 Kenya believe it?
Safety in the electric utility sector — or lack of safety — often begins at the top
By Charlie Barks, EA Managing Editor
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Electrical Manager
26 Company peacemakers
The best managers know how to defuse the conflicts that too often arise among co-workers
By Bill O’Leary, EA Contributing Writer
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Conventions & Trade Shows
28 Fab four
Metal forming, fabricating, welding, and finishing shared the stage at Fabtech 2025
By Charlie Barks, EA Managing Editor
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Pump It Up
30 A pump compliance primer
Summing up the many standards and code requirements that pump users must learn and follow
By Bill O’Leary, EA Contributing Writer
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Energy
33 Global solar
The numbers don’t lie: Why the world should double down on solar energy
By Fazli Acikgoz, EA Special Correspondent
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50 Wire to wire
Report shows global electricity demand is likely to keep growing through 2026
By Charlie Barks, EA Managing Editor
Business Management
35 International player
How lessons learned from being ‘the biggest and best repair outfit in West Africa’ led to doing business around the world
By Michael Mitten, EA Contributing Writer
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Electric Avenue
38 EV charging stations of the future
How they’re evolving from simple plug-ins to advanced hubs offering speed, convenience, and integration with the grid
By Maura Keller, EA Contributing Writer
Power Transmission & Distribution
41 Starter pack
The basics of specifying and applying medium-voltage motor starters
By David Bredhold, EA Contributing Writer
Finance & The Workplace
46 Accounting outside the boundaries
How International Financial Reporting Standards differ from the U.S.’s Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
By William H. Wiersema, CPA, EA Contributing Editor
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ELECTRICAL APPARATUS | OCTOBER 2025
Departments
04 The editor's comment
What a world, eh?​
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05 Let's solve your problem
Answers to questions about motor rewinds and testing
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06 Associations
An overseas chapter helps raise EASA’s profile
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08 Calendar
Upcoming events on manufacturing, pumps, and standards
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10 Know your industry
ISO: setting the gold standard for nearly eight decades
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12 Plant happenings
Two plant openings, two closures, and a new Ohio labor law
14 Utilities
Europe makes plans for the future of its power grid
18 Speaking of...
Powered by WEG
22 Business
New tools and equipment for use in robotics and automation
32 Deaths
Steven Jezowski, manager and mentor at York Electric Repair
32 Names & faces
New EASA officers, and appointments at Infinitum and Seeq
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48 Product Showcase
What’s new in electronics, electrical products, and forklifts
51 Classified advertising
Your monthly marketplace for equipment, businesses, and more
51 Cy's Super Service
The electrical service industry’s most prominent curmudgeon
53 EA puzzle
A word search puzzle based on this month’s “Electrical manager”
55 Moe, Genny & friends
The surreal world of an anthropomorphized motor and generator
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56 Direct & current
Heinz and Kraft split and Hyundai distances itself from battery plant
56 Advertising index
Who’s who—and who’s where—in this issue of Electrical Apparatus