WCA March 2016

Industry news

Talurit’s swager record?

bound for Kakogawa in Japan. The swager is developed for making a mechanical splicing of an eye on a wire rope with a diameter up to 152mm. Wire rope swaged in these sizes is often used in the offshore industry, when securing oil platforms. Talurit AB – Sweden Website : www.talurit.se

TALURIT AB’s latest swager, with a capacity of 4,200 tons, is the largest swager yet manufactured by the company, and thought to be the largest serial-made swager within the wire rope industry. The 4,200-ton swager is the first in a series of three machines commissioned from Talurit AB and is

Aloha to cable Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks has signed a turnkey agreement with Bluesky Pacific subsidiary Amper SA, for a 9,700km submarine cable system across the Pacific Ocean. The Moana Cable will link New Zealand and Hawaii when completed in 2018. The system will have two main segments: the first 8,000km segment, based on two fibre pairs, will connect New Zealand to Hawaii serving Samoa and American Samoa and significantly enhancing route diversity for New Zealand; the second 1,700km segment, based on one fibre pair, will link the Cook Islands to the Samoa hub. The cable will be the first long haul submarine cable in the Pacific Islands region relying on the latest 200Gb/s transmission technology, with ultimate capacity between Hawaii and New Zealand of 20Tb/s. Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks – France Website : www.alcatel-lucent.com Amper SA – Spain Website : www.amper.es ❍ The new swager, thought to be the largest in the wire rope industry

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Wire & Cable ASIA – March/April 2016