EoW September 2012

It seems even the more remote parts of the UK are not exempt from wire and cable theft. Thieves caused damage to a bre optic cable in Loch Carron, Scotland, and left 7,000 people in Skye, Lochalsh and the Western Isles without telephone and Internet services. British Telecom managed to repair the cable during low tide on the loch and restore services. The full story is on page 12. Staying north of the border, on page 21 is the story of super-fast broadband being rolled out in Scotland to the tune of a further £32m. This is on top of the £68m that had already been made available in 2011 from the Rural Broadband Fund. In addition to these stories in the busy corporate news section, there is also an excellent feature on spring forming and bending (page 44), ranging from company news to latest developments in that sector of the industry. Our popular ‘Focus On’ feature this month turns towards Germany – home of the most important wire exhibition every two years in Düsseldorf. Aside from the successes at wire 2012, there’s a whole range of new machinery and news from one of the largest wire and cable producing areas of the world. See page 50. We then turn our attention to places a little further from home – China and India to be precise. At the forthcoming wire China 2012 in September, more than 750 companies will be exhibiting in Shanghai. Details are on page 60. Thieves head out to the Western Isles

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And then a month later it is the turn of Wire and Cable India as companies head for Mumbai. The preview can be found on page 64.

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