From a fuse factory in Quesna to a two-country industrial group.

Protection & Control Group (مجموعة الوقاية والتحكم) is an Egyptian manufacturer of electrical power transmission-and-distribution equipment — the medium- and low-voltage fuses, fuse bases, epoxy cast resin insulators, technical ceramics, panel heaters and hygrostats that protect distribution networks and switchgear — and the parent of an automation company in Finland and a composites plant in the Ismailia Free Zone. Its industrial minerals division in Aswan produces uncoated ground calcium carbonate and talc powder.

Founder

The group was founded in 2009 by Eng. Abdel-Moaty Gaafar, whose career began at the Aswan High Dam power plant and continued at ABB before he set up P&C to manufacture medium-voltage fuses in Egypt. He remains the group’s General Manager and is also Managing Director of FI-P&C Oy in Finland.

What makes P&C different

Vertical integration. Most fuse assemblers buy their ceramics. P&C fires its own — fuse tubes, fuse bodies and fuse bases — in two ceramics operations, casts its own epoxy resin post insulators, forms its own copper parts and runs its own silver, tin and nickel plating line. That control over every dielectric and every contact surface is why the products pass type tests and stay in service.

Proof, not promises. P&C fuses are type-tested for all sizes and ratings at an extra-high-voltage laboratory and carry EEHC approvals; the company’s quality system is certified to ISO 9001:2015. More than two million P&C medium-voltage fuses are installed in the Egyptian network.

A complete package. As authorised agent for ALCE instrument transformers, ICE NP900 relays, Ensto surge arresters and UNITRO FSB monitoring units, P&C lets a switchgear builder specify a full protection package from one supplier — and, through FI-P&C, the telemetry to monitor it.

Two countries, one group. Egypt gives the group its manufacturing base, its home market and its export routes into Africa and the Middle East; Finland gives it a European engineering company with fifty years of automation heritage.