EoW November 2007

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Newmachinery & equipment launched in 2007

‘New’ is a remarkably flexible word.

In an emerging economy, equally it might convey bad (a frivolous luxury item) and good (a piece of equipment whose life expectancy justifies its cost). In older societies painfully adapting themselves to industries that came into existence only yesterday, new may induce dread. Or hope. Or something in-between. New may even mean old. Third-world entrepreneurs scour the second-hand markets for antiquated factories to be dismantled and shipped thousands of miles to begin life again in other places.

The word has a special meaning in industries dependent on recycled materials. In a world suddenly and keenly alive to environmental issues, new is a word that loses lustre, and then regains it. Depending on any number of factors, new can mean better – or it can mean worse. To wire and cable makers, new means newer. Somewhere – in a design studio, a drafting shed, a workshop – the next improvement to machinery and equipment is always taking form, if only in the mind’s eye. After extensive research and development and rigorous testing, and not before, it will be featured first in these pages. In every mature and technically sophisticated industry, the advances year-to-year are probably best appreciated by the people actively engaged in running the machinery of production.

Photo: Nexans Deutschland Industries GmbH & Co KG

As it happens, such experts abound in wire and cable plants.

EuroWire – November 2007