WCA January 2013

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Cutting the wire on a new era for SAMP ▲ Dignitaries mark the opening of the new SAMP plant

occasion. Mr Perroud’s remarks highlighted the focus of the SAMP Group on the Chinese and ASEAn market: “in recent years, SAMP has experienced an exceptional period of development in China, thanks to our customers’ continuous trust and the hard work of our employees, their dedication and expertise. “Today, a large and absolutely avant-garde production plant brings in a new phase of growth. We aim at giving our customers what they most need and value, in a cost-effective and sustainable way. This new flexible plant will give us the capacity to realise our aggressive growth plans for the Asian market.” Following the ceremony, all guests took part in a gala dinner at the Marriott Hotel in Jiading, where traditional Chinese music shows and dances livened up the evening.

FORGET cutting the ribbon, cutting copper wire was the order of the day as SAMP Shanghai held a grand opening ceremony for its new plant in Malu Town. The new plant, designed for manufacturing machinery and equipment for the wire and cable industry, covers an area of 4,500m 2 – doubling SAMP’s presence in the region with the new state-of-the-art production unit. The ribbon cutting ceremony was conducted in an unconventional way – with dignitaries declaring the building open by cutting copper wire, the final product of the machines manufactured in the Shanghai plant. Several hundred guests from 20 different countries attended the evening, including Mr Wang Chun, Governor of Malu Town, Mr Vincenzo De Luca, Consul General of italy in Shanghai, Mr Dominique Perroud, managing director of SAMP Shanghai, and Mr Antonio Maccaferri, president of the SAMP Group, who also made speeches to mark the

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