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US-Brazil submarine cable network

branch to Fortaleza, Seabras-1 will also enhance traffic protection in the region. “Seabras-1 will be the first direct route between New York and São Paulo and also the longest 100G transoceanic link to date. Once deployed, it will contribute with other ongoing initiatives to enhance trans-continental connectivity, for the benefit of the global consumer and business community,” said Philippe Dumont, president of Alcatel-Lucent submarine networks. Alcatel-Lucent will deploy an integrated 100G wet plant of cable and high bandwidth repeaters, power feed equipment and its 1620 Light Manager submarine line terminal equipped with advanced coherent technology. Seaborn Networks – USA Website : www.seabornnetworks.com

Seaborn Networks has signed a turnkey contract with Alcatel-Lucent to build Seabras-1, a 10,700km submarine cable system between New York and São Paulo in Brazil, with a branch to Fortaleza, Brazil. Seaborn Networks and Alcatel-Lucent have already commenced the permit acquisition and marine survey work for the project. The 100G Seabras-1 system will deliver new capacity on the primary route for the majority of Internet, data and voice traffic between South America and the rest of the world. In addition, this new system will support a wide variety of consumer and business broadband services between two of the world’s most connected societies. By providing low-latency communication via a 10,400km segment directly connecting São Paulo and New York, and route diversity via a 350km

Now that’s quality! At the 3 rd ETP Conference on “Underground Cables in Transmission Grids”, Dow E&T highlighted the quality control underground cable materials capable of operating at the highest voltages. The conference took place in October at the Hotel Palace Berlin, Germany. Agent joins team Senior personnel of Mount Joy Wire Corporation (MJW) were joined at the Spring World exhibition in Rosemont, Illinois, USA, for the first time by their international agent John Stanaway. MJW manufactures wire for a wide variety of applications. Brightly coloured ASAP Srl offers stainless steel and zinc coated wire in annealed quality in very fine diameters from 0.1/0.2mm to 2/3mm. This also includes a special new finishing of coloured stainless steel Aisi 304-304L or 316L wires in diameters from 0.2mm to 0.6mm. measures it implements to deliver

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Tratos Cavi SpA has supplied 1,830m of TratoSubmarine medium voltage cable to energy company Edison for use in its Alba Marina floating storage and offloading vessel (FSO) and Rospo Mare B Platform, located in the Adriatic Sea. Tratos’s Italian factory to IEC 60228 and IEC 60502-2, IEC 60840 to 26/45 KV, the TratoSubmarine cable is supplied with a copper or aluminium circular stranded conductor, extruded semi-conducting layer, HEPR insulation and a special hygroscopic PE innersheath and oversheath. It features double galvanised steel armouring for durability, making TratoSubmarine suited to the oil and gas and utilities markets. power cable replaces the existing Tratos cable, which was fitted at the Alba Marina and Rospo Mare B Platform in 2004. Tratos, whose primary market is the oil and gas industry, offers an extensive range of hydraulic, electro-hydraulic and electrical umbilical cabling for subsea oil and gas extraction and oil and gas BS6883 cables. Manufactured in The TratoSubmarine

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All Tratos cables are produced using high grade component parts, and include recyclable materials where possible. Tratos Ltd – UK Tratos Cavi SpA – Italy Website : www.tratos.co.uk

fluids to be transmitted, as well as power and data, depending on the cable type. They are suited for installation at depths up to 2,000m, with select umbilicals qualified for depths of 3,000m.

EFD Induction’s worldwide network has been expanded with the launch of a Brazilian subsidiary. The new company, with the formal name of EFD Induction Ltda, is based in the city of Sorocaba, about 60km from São Paulo. The new subsidiary is headed by Evandro Nishimuni, a mechanical engineering graduate who has previously worked in France and in the Brazilian automotive industry. “EFD Induction and Brazil have so much to offer each other,” said Mr Nishimuni. “There is growing awareness throughout Brazil and the continent that sustained economic growth can only be maintained by investing in modern, efficient and proven technologies such as induction heating.” EFD Induction as – Norway Website : www.efd-induction.com EFD Induction opens subsidiary in Brazil

The Tratos subsea cable range allows for hydraulic and injection

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