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Socomec, Daitron team up to meet Japan's growing power demands
Socomec, a century-old electrical group specialising in mission-critical energy, and Japan's Daitron, an electronics components distributor, have signed a partnership to deliver power conversion solutions and service backup power and electrical-switching systems across Japan.
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