wiredinUSA August 2012

Spring tournament

Drum return program

This year’s UK Spring Manufacturers’ Association Golf Tournament was held at Brookfield Golf Club in Crewe, on Friday, 29 th June 2012. As ever, the event was highly popular, with 47 golfers from 15 different companies taking part. The companies who participated this year were Jowitt Grinding Wheels, Lee Springs, Clifford Springs, Hanson Springs, Allevard Rejna, Springtech, Transworld Engineering, United Springs, Continental Springs, Longcroft Engineering, Rochdale Springs, Helical Technology, Owen Springs, Fox Wire and UKSMA. Team winner was Clifford Springs, with Mike Gilmour, of Clifford Springs, taking the individual first prize.

Nexans has developed a new program to collect and reuse its wooden cable drums. This is the latest phase in Nexans‘ packaging purchasing green initiative, launched in 2010, when it became the world’s first cable manufacturer to upgrade to drums holding the PEFC TM certification (Pro- gramme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes). Nexans’ Green Drums now hold both PEFC (for Europe) and FSC (Worldwide) certifications. Already, over 280,000 of the drums that Nexans uses to dispatch electrical cables to customers have been collected and reused up to five times over the past years. These drums represent more than 35 per cent of yearly total drums used worldwide by Nexans, and a saving of more than 94,000m³ of timber – approximately 100,000 uncut trees (45 hectares of forest) saved every year.

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wiredInUSA - August 2012