Chloride's History

Chloride is a brand with over 130 years of history. Founded in 1891, the organization began as Chloride Electrical, a company dedicated to designing and manufacturing batteries. Chloride acquired Coredel in 1978, bringing 30 years of experience in the uninterruptible power supply industry into the organization, and setting the path Chloride has followed since.

Today, Chloride has achieved its goal of becoming a market leader in the Uninterruptible Power Supply marketplace for mission-critical industrial applications. Our story is one of strategic acquisitions combined with product innovations.

2021 - Chloride Management Buy-Out

The management team of Vertiv Industrial Systems believes that the strength of the Chloride name uniquely enables it to best penetrate its core markets and, as such, would achieve better market penetration as a stand-alone company. For this reason, a management buy-out was completed in December 2021 to form Chloride Global with the support of private investment from Innovafonds and BPI France.

The new business is headquartered in Lyon with offices in the UK, Spain, UAE, Turkey, the US, and Asia. Chloride includes three business segments:

Industrial power with pre-engineered and customized industrial AC and DC UPS.
Small DC products and safety lighting systems.
Lifecycle services spanning all product portfolios for the duration of the installation life.

With a history of creation and use of batteries going back to 1891, and the experience of uninterruptible power supply systems that date back to 1948 through company acquisitions, Chloride is uniquely placed as a world leader in critical power solutions

Today, Chloride engineering and consulting teams are developing innovative solutions to accompany our customers in their energy transition journey and build a safer environment for everyone. From access security points to turbine lube pumps to nuclear reactors, Chloride products safeguard people and assets

2016 – Birth of Vertiv

The following year, in 2016, Emerson announced and completed the spin-off of the Emerson Network Power platform, which was acquired by the private equity firm Platinum Equity. The resulting company became Vertiv. The ENPIS entity remained within that scope, becoming Vertiv Industrial Systems.

2010 - Chloride's Acquisition

The international group Emerson acquired Chloride in September 2010 to strengthen its position in Europe and to benefit from Chloride's leading technology.Emerson merged AEES and Chloride Industrial Systems to create Emerson Network Power Industrial System (ENPIS) with a global business reach. ENPIS was headquartered in Lyon, France, with business locations that included Houston in the US, Pune in India, and Shenzhen industrial plants in China.

Five years later, Emerson Network Power decided to rationalize branding by industry and defined their flagship so that Chloride became responsible for all industrial power

applications. At the same time, Liebert was responsible for all data center UPS and thermal applications, while NetSure became responsible for all telecom applications.

2009 – Chloride Acquires French AEES

Completing plans that had begun in 2005, 2009 saw the acquisition of Indian-based DB Power. This purchase gave Chloride access to the growing Indian market. The same year saw substantial growth for the Chloride Group, with the acquisition of US-based Custom Power, based in Houston, the UK-based EPS, and the French AEES.

2007 – Acquisition of Masterpower

Chloride acquired the Scottish firm Masterpower Electronics Limited (Masterpower) to enhance the Oil & Gas service capability for offshore locations in the North Sea. This purchase reinforced the industrial focus of Chloride

At this point, it was undeniable that Chloride had become a significant player in the worldwide UPS market and a European leader.

2001 - Chloride's Industrial UPS Systems Focus

By 2001, Chloride had divested itself of its last remaining battery subsidiary and the non-core Safety Systems operations in the UK and USA to better focus on the fast-growing market of Power Protection.

Alongside this, several more key acquisitions underpinned Chlorides growing industrial uninterruptible power supply strategy. Masterguard had been acquired from Siemens AG in 2000, helping to reinforce Chloride's position in Germany and Turkey and helping Chloride develop a full range of digitally controlled UPS systems

The business strategy became designing, manufacturing, selling, and maintaining critical power solutions for a global industrial customer base through an efficient operating model

1978 - Moving Towards Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems

It was not until 1978, with the acquisition of a French company Coredel (founded in 1948), that the Chloride Group ventured into the realm of chargers, rectifiers, and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). This purchase signaled a change in the organization's direction. By the mid-1980s, Chloride Group was diversifying and directing its focus on power electronics and, more specifically, uninterruptible power supply systems.

This began a series of acquisitions that positioned the Chloride Group as a market leader in UPS solutions. Purchases included:

Silectron - Italian UPS market leader
UP Systems - USA
Clean Line Systems group - Australian distributor of uninterruptible power supplies and line conditioners with an assembly facility in Thailand
Advanced Design Electronics - UK
Ondyne Group - Europe

These acquisitions allowed the creation and reinforcement of Chloride Power Electronics' structure. It also brought Chloride's unique capabilities into the design and manufacturing of low power uninterruptible power supplies in order to protect the fast-growing market of computers, servers, and networks.