WCA March 2009

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Nexans has started production of special rolling stock cable at its Waigaoqiao manufacturing plant located in Shanghai, China. This local production will enable Nexans to meet the demands of customers operating in China’s booming rail industry who require the high levels of service and support offered by a local manufacturing presence. The creation of new production capacity has required a plant expansion project including the installation of new equipment and the extension of the workshop and of the specialised fire test, physical and quality control lab. The newly installed production lines will produce the complete range of power cables for rolling stock, using latest technology compounds to meet the high performance standards in the resistance requirement for fire, temperature, abrasion and covering conductor range from 1mm 2 up to 500mm 2 cables in single and multi-conductor cable configurations. “This additional production capacity strengthens Nexans’ leading position in China’s rolling stock cable market,” said Dietmar Steinbach, Nexans’ global segment manager for rolling stock. “It provides the ideal basis to improve our service levels, especially in terms of delivery lead-times and flexibility.” Nexans expected to start producing control cables for rolling stock at its Nexans Communication plant (Kanghua), also based in Shanghai, at the beginning of 2009. This will enable Nexans China to offer a complete range of rolling stock cables to the local market and will ensure that Nexans has enough capacity to serve the growing cable demand in China. Nexans entered the Chinese market in the mid-1980s. It has three wholly owned plants in the country producing telecom, LAN and special industrial cables, a logistics centre and several sales offices located in Beijing and Hong Kong, Dalian, Xi’an, Chengdu and Guangzhou. The management office is based in Shanghai. Nexans employs 700 people in China. Sikora sales office in Turkey Sikora AG opened its new sales office in Istanbul on 1 st January 2009. This will be its ninth sales location, a reaction to the increasing demand for its measuring systems. With the new office in Istanbul, Sikora will be in a position to react faster to customer requests and to further expand its business in Turkey. Sikora has been working with the International Trade Consultancy (ITC) since July 1997 and follows the extremely positive business development in the Turkish market with setting up its own office. “We are proud to announce the opening of an additional office in Turkey,” commented Harry Prunk, chairman of Sikora AG. “What is crucial is the closeness to customers and the further expansion of our sales activities in and around Istanbul. We see strong growth potential, in particular in the East European and Asian regions, which we want to generate for our measuring and control devices solutions,” he explained. Head of the Sikora office in Istanbul is Ajda Sariguelle, after an intensive six months of training in Bremen. Mrs Sariguelle has great experience in the field of administration and sales. Sikora AG – Germany Email : sales@sikora.net Fax : +49 421 48900 90 Website : www.sikora.net Nexans in China Volume production was expected to begin at the end of 2008.

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