WCA November 2012

Industry news

Borouge and Borealis sponsor annual meeting

Plant investment Eastern Copper, a copper wire producer from Shandong Province, has commissioned its second Contirod CR 3700 continuous copper wire rod plant. The plant, supplied by SMS Meer, is believed to be the highest capacity plant in China with an annual capacity of 320,000 tonnes of rolled wire rod. The new Contirod line comprises a shaft-type melting furnace, a 20-tonne holding furnace, a Hazelett twin belt caster and a continuous SMS rolling mill with 14 mill stands. The mill stands are equipped with individual drives and the main drives of the mill and the fans all feature variable frequency 3-phase AC motors for reduced energy consumption. The plant includes an automatic compacting, strapping and film packaging line for the resulting wire coils. The new plant is expected to achieve a casting capacity of 48 tonnes per hour with a casting cross section of 8,610mm² and a casting speed of around 10m per minute. The standard finished size is 8mm diameter. Cable & Wireless has announced its connection to the SEAS undersea fibre optic cable that, as of 15 th August, has become commercially available to the people of Seychelles. Seychelles will now benefit from consistent broadband speeds unaffected by the problems experienced with satellite internet, such as cloud cover, which made the connection erratic and unreliable. Other benefits of the fibre optic cable include lower latency times. The connection, originating from the Tanzanian coast off Dar es Salaam, landed in the Beau Vallon Bay area of the main island of Mahe in early June, and has undergone extensive testing before being officially launched. Eastern Copper – China Seychelles get connected

Borouge and Borealis sponsored the Wire & Cable Committee’s annual meeting organised by the China Electro technical Society (CES) in Lanzhou, the capital and largest city of Gansu Province in Northwest China. More than 200 people from cable manufacturing, utilities and electric power design companies attended the meeting, in addition to representatives from the Wire Academy, universities and the Shanghai Electric Cable Research Institute (SECRI), one of the committee partners. The two-day meeting featured a number of sessions and workshops where Borouge discussed a topic on “Solutions for XLPE submarine cables”. This is the second time that Borouge and Borealis have sponsored this event. Following the Wire & Cable Committee annual meeting, Borouge and Borealis hosted a dinner where SK Tham, marketing manager of wire and cable at Borouge, conducted a presentation highlighting Borouge and Borealis’ wire The Universal Service Fund (USF) is implementing a programme to deploy around 6,000km of long haul fibre-optic network to facilitate previously unserved tehsils (districts) in Pakistan. Parvez Jabri of Business Recorder reports that a source at USF revealed that presently 30 per cent of approximately 400 tehsils in the country have no fibre connectivity. Extending fibre cables to these areas will facilitate telecom service providers in supplying a range of telecom services. Giving examples, the source said 18 out of 91 teshils in Sindh are without fibre optic access. Fibre deployment of nearly 703km will benefit an unserved population of 3.5 million. In Balochistan, a population of around 0.34 million people residing in five tehsils will benefit from 900km of optical fibre connecting Dasht,

▲ ▲ The annual meeting in Lanzhou

and cable portfolio, the new investment in LD5, Borouge 3, and the new Borouge Innovation Centre in Abu Dhabi. SK Tham explained how Borouge’s mission in enhancing ‘Value Creation through Innovation’ has helped the company to enhance its position as a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions. He also talked about the 2015 future plans of growth for both Borouge and Borealis wire and cable business. Borouge and Borealis – Abu Dhabi Website : www.borouge.com Noshki, Dalbandin, Mashkhel and Taftan Tehsil headquarters including Dringar, Ahmadwal, Nokundi and Chaghi. A planned 1,166km optical fibre to Bela, Pasni, Turbat and Hub Tehsil including Jhal Jao, Awaran, Dureiji, Peerdrk, Dasht, Mehnaz, Buleda, Kalag, Jiwani, Kalatuk, Nodaiz, Hoshab, Nasirabad, Bilecha, Tump, Gwadar, Uthal, Duddar and Kanraj cities will serve a population of approximately one million. The official said that through 818km of fibre, 1.45 million unserved people in Bhag, Dera Bugti, Jand, Jhal Magsi, Kotli Sattian and Sui tehsils would benefit. Once completed, the programme will help build a network, which was considered uneconomic and unaffordable by competing operators. Universal Service Fund – Pakistan Website : www.usf.org.pk

New network will aid unserved

Cable & Wireless – USA Website : www.cw.com

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