# Schneider Electric retools Kommunar plant for smart home equipment, shelves expansion

Schneider Electric has frozen plans to build a second plant in Kommunar, Leningrad Oblast, and instead retooled the existing plant to produce smart home equipment, including new-generation switches controllable via smartphone. Production of relay protection and industrial automation controllers has also started.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2017-12-21
- Where: Kommunar, Leningrad Oblast, Russia
- Starts operating: 2018
- Status: announced
- Products: smart home switches, relay protection, industrial automation controllers
- Sectors: [Electrical Equipment](https://endata.com/sectors/electrical-equipment.md), [Automation and Robotics](https://endata.com/sectors/automation-robotics.md)

## Companies

- [Schneider Electric](https://endata.com/companies/2048.md)

## Sources

- [dp.ru](https://www.dp.ru/a/2017/12/21/Schneider_Electric_budet), 2017-12-20: "В 2018 году начинаем выпускать там выключатели нового поколения, которые по желанию заказчика будут подключаться к Интернету и управляться со смартфона."

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