Masters of Steel

Moving Into the World Market

A New World

Time of Uncertainty

Strength Through Struggle

Bryson Horton established

McBride Manufacturing
Company (1902)

Introduced I-Line
panelboards and Visi-Trip
circuit breaker (1966-1967)

Company changed
name to Square D (1917)

Square D

Schneider Electric

1837
The first steam
locomotive is
developed

1856

Horton fuse
patent (1906)

1871
The first river
steamboat is
developed

Merlin Gerin is
established

1917 1918

Introduced
Type S motor
starter (1965)

Introduced first microprocessor-based

automotive control
welder system (1977)

Introduced I-Line II busway,

cable tray and the two-high,
metal-clad switchgear (1984)

Introduced PowerLogic
line of power and control
solutions (1990)

Introduced QO
circuit breaker with
Visi-Trip (1967)

War billboard

Divested from steel

and shipbuilding , firmly
moving into electricity

Telemecanique
is established

Modicon is acquired

1930s
1924

Building A New Electric World

We Respond ad
poster campaign (1988)

Introduced Homeline
family of load centers and
circuit breakers (1988)

Introduced first
double-pole
GFCI (1973)

Developed line of
solid state logic
controls (1958)

Production dominated
by supplying war effort;
Square D equipment
used in aircraft (1941)

1919 1920
1899

First plug-in type

circuit breaker
panelboard (1951)

Introduced first circuit

breaker designed and
made by Square D (1935)

Square D safety
switch (1917)

1878---------1891

1870

Introduced QO
circuit breaker (1955)

A New World

Square D is
established

1838 1838

Safety switch
ad (1920)

First Square D
power distribution
panelboard (1926)

Early Square D
cartridge fuse

1836

First public stock

offering (1928)

First residential
circuit breaker
(1936)

Half of all U.S. aircraft

circuit breakers supplied
by Square D (1944)

Rising to New Heights

1940-----1945

1949

1968

1959
Groupe Schneider logo

1960

1969

1975----1978
1980

1999

1988

1981
1984 1986

1991

2000

2002
2001

1997

2005
2003 2004

2009

2007
2006

2008

Modicon is
established

Introduced first UPS

for PC and LAN market,
the 450AT+ (1984)

APC

Introduced
Matrix-UPS for 2 kVA+
UPS market (1993)

American Power
Conversion
incorporated (1981)

Introduced The
Smart-UPS (1997)

Entered precision
cooling market (2000)

Introduced
InfraStruXure
architecture (2003)

Acquired Silcon A/S, a

manufacturer of 3-phase
UPS systems for data
centers and facilities (1998)

Introduced awardwinning PowerChute

software (1989)

NetBotz acquired
by APC (2005)

Revolutionizes Data Center Power

with PowerStruXure (2002)
Entered the greater than 5 kVA
UPS market with Symmetra (1997)

Pelco

Pelco revolutionizes PTZ

camera with modular
Spectra dome positioning
system (1996)

Introduced PT7100
integrated PTZ (1988)

Pelco founded
(1987)

Introduced unique
MTP9500 PTZ
Controller (1994)

Introduced
Camclosure
systems (1999)

Endura IP video
network system
launched (2005)
Enter digital market
with release of digital
video recorders (2001)

Pelco acquired by
Schneider Electric (2007)
DX8000
DVR changes
industry (2003)