WCA November 2012

Industry news

Indian wire probe The European Commission has confirmed that it received an anti-dumping complaint from the European steel producers’ group, Eurofer, regarding imports of stainless steel wire from India. The complaint alleges that producers of some types of steel wire have benefited from subsidies granted by India, and are selling their wire in the EU at below market prices, to the detriment of European competitors. The Commission is to open an investigation into whether steel wire is being unfairly subsidised and has invited the Indian government for consultations on the matter.

Eurofer – Belgium

Website : www.eurofer.org

Diver-less repair for London Array

and repair a cable of this size and weight.” In addition to the complexities of cable retrieval, the Pharos team converted a conventional telecoms cable ship to accommodate the loading, storage, lay, splicing and safe handling of the cable. The equipment and procedures developed for this repair will work for other repair situations, especially those where increasingly congested cable corridors preclude anchoring and grapnel runs and/or are beyond diver limits. Pharos Offshore Group Ltd – UK Website : www.pharosoffshoregroup.com

Pharos has completed cable repair and burial on a section of damaged subsea export cable for the London Array Offshore Wind Farm. Pharos teams located, recovered, re-laid and re-buried the power cable off the Kent coast. The 800mm² HVDC export cable has a 218mm diameter and weighs over 50kg/m in water and 86kg/m in air. Pharos CEO Phil Walker said: “With the use of a DP-2 vessel we were able to reroute the cable away from the original route to an area within the planned cable corridors. “To our knowledge, this is the first diver-less operation to de-bury, retrieve Ajex acts for ZT Offshore Group

ZT-Italy is pleased to introduce its India distributor Ajex & Turner.

ZT and manufactures machines and special equipment for drawing wire, stainless steel, aluminium and bronze, copper wire (welding wires, wires for points), galvanised wire (for points, for decoration, for network), aluminium wire (wire for welding), stainless steel wire (welding wires, spring wires, super alloys), high carbon wire for springs and cored wires. designs

▲ ▲ Ajex and Turner – agents for ZT

Ajex & Turner Wire Dies Co – India

Website : www.ajexturner.com

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