WCA January 2012

India

telecommunication cable, 130,000 tons; special cable, 50,000 tons; and enamelled wire, 10,000 tons.

transmission line from Tanzania mainland to Zanzibar.

The US$9m project is a part of a five-year US$698.1m grant extended to Tanzania by the US-based Millennium Challenge Corp (MCC). Under the project, the company will construct the overhead transmission line from Ubungo substation to Tegeta and Ras Kiromoni on the shores of the Indian Ocean off the Tanzania Mainland. The line will be undersea to Ras Fumba in Zanzibar and is transmitted overhead to Mtoni substation in Zanzibar. Japan-based Viscas will be responsible for the construction of a submarine cable to connect the two overhead lines of the project, scheduled to be complete in August 2012, reports theeastafrican.com. It is expected to boost Zanzibar’s power output and help meet growing demand by adding to the country’s dilapidated 40MW power transmission infrastructure. MCA-T chief executive officer Bernard Mchomvu said the 100MW second Zanzibar inter-connector project will support the existing 45MW transmission system to the island. Email : mktg@kalpatarupower.com Website : www.kalpatarupower.com Increase in aluminium cable production Noval Jamalullail, chairman of the Indonesian Cable Kalpataru Power Transmission – India Fax : +91 792 321 4239 He said the first part of the government’s ambitious 10,000 megawatt power plant programme, which was started in 2006, had contributed to the increase. “The programme is a big project and it needs to be completed by the end of this year; then we aim to boost the aluminium cable production,” Mr Noval said, after a mini-seminar on the next wire and Tube Düsseldorf. The second part of the power plant programme will begin in 2012. He added that factory expansion was a part of the plan to increase production. At this moment, there are 38 factories that produce aluminium cable. “However, expansion does not mean that we build new factories. It only means that we add the required equipment that the factories do not yet have,” Mr Noval added. Manufacturers Association (Apkabel), has said that aluminium cable production will increase by 20 per cent from 150,000 metric tonnes to 180,000 tonnes in 2012.

Indonesian Cable Manufacturers Association – Indonesia Fax : +62 216 338 702

Email : apkabel@cbn.net.id Website : www.apkabel.org

Wind out of the SAIL as profits fall 50 per cent India’s largest steel producer, Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), has reported a 54.6% year-on-year decline in net profit at Rs 495 crore for the quarter ended September against Rs 1,090 crore last year, as high input costs and a strong dollar hit profit. A stronger dollar resulted in a notional loss of Rs 509 crore during the quarter. The company, however, remained bullish on increased demand and stable steel prices looking forward, despite a gloomy global scenario. “There is definitely going to be a rise in demand in the second half (of this fiscal year),” said CS Verma, chairman, SAIL. “Steel prices have globally come down. They have been relatively stable in India. I don’t foresee a further dip in steel prices.” Total income also rose 3% year-on-year at Rs 11,470 crore MP power crisis Amid a severe power crisis in Madhya Pradesh the state’s power generating company is working hard to increase capacity, not only to meet the growing demands but to save the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from a possible backlash during the 2013 assembly polls. Against a peak demand of between 7500MW and 8000MW, the state generates 2932.5MW from thermal power plants, 915MW from hydro power sources and purchases power from other states. “We will start generation from two units of 250MW each from the Satpuda thermal power plant, Sarni and also 1200MW from the Singaji thermal power plant (Phase-I) in 2012-13 to enhance power generation in the state,” Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company Limited (MPPGCL) chairman and chief managing director, K M Sajnani said. In addition, a new 660MW unit is to replace an existing five 62.5MW units in Sarni. The proposal and the feasibility report to set up this unit has been sent to the Project Review Committee of the state government, which is expected to give its approval shortly. Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company Limited – India Email : info@mppgenco.nic.in Website : www.mppgenco.nic.in

Apkabel data shows that annual cable production is 500,000 tons, consisting of power cable at 310,000 tons;

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