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EuroWire – September 2010 15
corporatenews
Nexans has opened a newmanufacturing
plant in Mohammedia (Morocco), entirely
dedicated to aircraft cables. The plant
is the result of an agreement between
Nexans and Airbus for the supply of
advanced cables for the A320, A350 and
A380 aircraft.
This investment of nearly €10 million
strengthens Nexans’ aeronautical
business as well as the core business of
its Moroccan subsidiary, which already
has strong expertise in manufacturing
cables for the automotive, building and
infrastructure industries. This is Nexans’
third plant dedicated to aircraft cables;
similar facilities are based in France and
the United States.
Nexans has redeveloped the
Mohammedia plant to accommodate
a production area of 3,000m² designed
to manufacture 21,000km of cables per
year, of which 70% will be exported.
Aircraft cable
manufacturing
plant in Morocco
Nexans’ dedicated aircraft cable facility in Morocco ▲ ▲
In the UK, Nexans has been awarded a
major contract by Lincs Wind Farm Ltd to
supply the medium voltage submarine
array cables and associated accessories
for the 270MW Lincs offshore wind farm
to be constructed off the east coast of
England.
The contract for the Lincs wind farm
medium voltage array cables covers
the design, manufacture and supply of
64.8km of 3-core cable with a conductor
cross-section of 185mm² and 20.5km
of 3-core cable with a conductor
cross-section of 630mm². The cables will
also incorporate fibre optic cables for the
monitoring and control of the wind farm.
The array cables will be produced at the
Nexans plants in Germany and Norway.
Accessories are scheduled for delivery
at the end of 2010, while delivery of the
cables will start in March 2011.
Nexans – France
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...and a
submarine cable
contract in UK