London Power Associates acquired by ERA Technology

London Power Associates acquired by ERA Technology 27th October 2014 London Power Associates Ltd (“LPA”) is pleased to announce it has been acquired byERA Technology Ltd (“ERA”) http://www.era.co.uk, part of the Edif Group.
ERA is a leading engineering consultancy that improves the safety, performance,reliability and availability of critical assets. ERA’s strength in electrical power engineering stems from 100 years of company history, the enormous breadth of expertise available, and the broad range of services it can deliver to its clients. ERA provides engineering consultancy across Industry sectors that include: •
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Power Transmission, Generation & Distribution Renewable Energy Oil & Gas Defence & Security Nuclear Transport Infrastructure & Built Environment ERA is a rapidly expanding business in terms of services, sectors and geographies. Following the acquisition of Earthing Solutions Ltd in 2013 and organic growth of its own Power Systems capability, the addition of LPA will provide an exciting and significant Power Engineering footprint in the UK, Middle East and Africa. The LPA management team of Amarjit Jhutty and Johan Stalmans will remain with the business and lead the ongoing development and growth of the company as part of Edif Group’s growing Engineering Consultancy division. The benefits of the acquisition are many, but significantly the employees of LPA will gain enhanced development and career opportunities, and the combined business can now offer all aspects of Power Engineering consultancy across multiple industries and on an international scale. Amarjit Jhutty, Managing Director, LPA, commented: “The combined resources of ERA and LPA will enable the provision of an even greater breadth and depth of high quality service to our clients. The collective financial strength of the group will also enable us to undertake bigger projects providing more benefit to our existing and future clients”. Steve Lancaster, Managing Director, ERA Technology, commented: “We are extremely excited to be welcoming LPA into the Edif Group family.LPA is both a company and a group of people that we have admired for some time and we are delighted they have chosen to join us. LPA’s core services complement ERA’s existing services; power systems, electro‐magnetic compatibility (EMC) and earthing capabilities very well and will increase our geographic spread both in the UK and overseas”.