PRAMAC delivers BTS power supply with less fuel consumption, lower opex and less site visits

PRAMAC is a private manufacturing company that specialises in power generation equipment and materials handling equipment. They offer a wide range of power solutions including portable generators, handling generators, as well as customised and standard stationary generators. They operate worldwide, with a presence in Italy, Spain, France, China, Brazil and many other regions.

CEO of PRAMAC Paolo Campinoti talks to TowerXchange in this article about the energy solutions PRAMAC offer their clients operating in the telecom industry.

TowerXchange:  Please introduce PRAMAC and your role in the telecoms infrastructure ecosystem.

We are a solid and dynamic company dating back to 1966. We now operate worldwide through five manufacturing plants, located in Italy, France, Spain, China and Brazil. We focus ourselves on two main core activities: Material Handling Equipment and the Power Business.

As far as the power business is concerned, we design, manufacture and install a complete range of portable and stationary generators from 1 to 3360 kVA as standard production and provide also tailored solutions that can be adapted to every specific requirement.

Our Material Handling Equipment production is one of the most vibrant realities in the European panorama, with a strong historical presence in the continent and a clear market identity, based on pedestrian warehousing with a complete range of products for the light duty professional use, such as manual and electric pallet trucks, stackers.

Our high technological experience and our vertically integrated manufacturing processes ensure that all our products are designed and delivered with top quality and high performance, especially in the telecommunication sector. We are a key player in this industry thanks to the strong relations we have created with the main business operators and to our worldwide local partners.

TowerXchange: What power range do your telecom clients typically require, and do the towercos typically want a larger generator capably of supporting multiple tenants, even if they start out with a single tenant?

Customers usually require an installation power range between 10 and 22 KVA. Most of the requests we have are about using one tenant for each generator instead of multiple tenants. This is given to the fact that the generator will suit a perfect service.

TowerXchange: Please tell us how many generators you have installed in telecom, and how many are in Africa?

Thanks to the great work of our local partners we have installed more than 10,000 generators in Africa serving telecom needs. We have served several important telecommunications clients such as Tigo, GT, Vodafone and ZTE.

TowerXchange: Reliability, efficiency, capital cost and lifetime define the value of a generator used at an emerging market cell site – how do PRAMAC’s generators score on those four measures?

PRAMAC has more than 20 years of experience in electric generator manufacturing; for this reason we can offer a very high standard of quality and service. We are one of the few generator companies that are capable of creating customised solutions that attend to almost every customer need.

TowerXchange: Tell us about your local market partners and the after sales support you can provide in Africa.

PRAMAC can rely on a well-structured network of local partners in different African countries, selling our products to the final customers and providing service and after sale support, under the supervision of our branches, always ready to assist them, when needed.

TowerXchange: How has PRAMAC responded to increasing demand for hybrid energy?

In order to satisfy the increasing need of telecom operators for BTS power supply with less fuel consumption, lower operating costs, fewer maintenance trips to the field, PRAMAC has developed new solutions which allow coupling a traditional AC diesel genset with an energy storage system.

The heart of the system is the Hybrid Module which integrates latest-generation power electronics and top class battery technologies such as Lithium.

A further step to meet remote BTS power supply needs is our Hybrid Qube which is a complete electrical power supply system that can be easily configured to meet a broad range of power needs for telecom applications. It’s a cubic 10’ container specially designed to easily accommodate 10 -45 kVA gensets interchangeably. Its flexibility and security, along with a plug and play configuration and an easy system to start and stop the genset make this solution the ideal one for remote installed BTS.

TowerXchange: Please sum up how you differentiate PRAMAC’s solutions from other diesel generators

PRAMAC can offer to the telecom industry a wide range of solutions for every kind of power demand, from continuous operations to emergency stand-by in the two main fields such as Data Center power back up and BTS power supply. To get the highest level of reliability PRAMAC assemble top class engines and alternators on its generators and top quality material for the other components.

Our partnership with many companies working in telecom applications and the high attention paid by PRAMAC to new technologies will bring new product developments which will allow satisfy the most demanding customers.