EoW January 2013

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Cutting the wire on a new era

‘Fibre Optics day’ A ‘Fibre Optics Day’ event took place – for the third time – at the Nextrom plant in Finland. Partners and customers from the optical fibre and fibre optic cable industry, bringing together over 100 guests from various companies from around the world, attended. The event covered a range of topics of interest concerning the latest developments in technology and manufacturing methods. demonstrations at the Nextrom plant. Sales up to €954m Leoni increased its consolidated sales by nearly five per cent year on year in the third quarter of 2012, to €954.7m (previous year: €913.1m). The event ended with machine Consolidated EBIT amounted to €52.7m in the third quarter of 2012 (previous year: €54.6m). Overall in the first nine months EBIT increased to €197.2m (previous year: €183.6m); this includes a positive non-recurring item of €28.3 million from the sale of Leoni Studer Hard AG in March.

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 occasion.

Mr Perroud’s remarks

▲ ▲ Dignitaries mark the opening the new SAMP plant

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. Sampsistemi SpA – Italy Website : www.sampsistemi.com as: faster, more accurate cable testing; increased reliability and lower maintenance; fast, easy connection to UTP cables; testing alien crosstalk in minutes; flexibility to expand system capabilities; and the many benefits of intuitive, simple-to-use software, to name a few. The white paper also summarises the easy upgrade path from a legacy DCM CMS-2XLD system to the latest DCM 3S technology. With the continuing evolution of cable types and cable industry specs, this paper is a must-read for organisations that want to take their testing operations to the next level.

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 readers key decision-making process and highlights the primary reasons why cable producers should upgrade their existing legacy cable testing systems to the new DCM 3S-XLD platform – the latest generation in automated LAN/data cable testing. testing technology has come a long way since the early mechanical/ electronic relay-type systems and upgrading to the latest DCM solid-state switching (3S) technology offers a successful path to increased testing performance, value and profits. To maximise the return on investment, the whitepaper describes the ten key advantages of the DCM 3S-XLD system and touches on key points such through the LAN/data cable The whitepaper walks

Switching and testing whitepaper

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