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10 Wire & Cable ASIA – January/February 2013
Beta LaserMike has appointed Randy
Luffman as vice president of global
sales.
Mr Luffman will be responsible for
further expanding worldwide sales for
Beta LaserMike’s line of gauging and
testing systems. The company’s
regional sales directors will directly
report to Mr Luffman.
Mr Luffman joins from RedZone
Associates where he was managing
partner for the company’s business of
designing, recruiting, training, and
leading sales organisations for B2B
clients.
“Randy brings a wealth of experience
and an impressive track record in
channel development and global
sales growth,” said Ken Wright,
president of Beta LaserMike. “He has
extensive knowledge of technical
sales leadership and possesses a
strong background in general
management.
“This is important as we continue to
expand our commercial footprint
across international markets for
measurement and control solutions.”
Mr Luffman holds a bachelor’s
degree in chemistry from East
Carolina University and has obtained
an Executive MBA from Harvard
Business School.
Beta LaserMike – USA
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▲ ▲ Randy Luffman
New vice president of global sales
Chinese company Sichuan Ruiyu
Photovoltaic Materials (ReneSola Group), a
leading producer of solar wafers, is using
two patenting lines from FIB Belgium with
Ecoquench fluidised bed to produce
sawing wires.
The results are expected to lead to an
increase in production for the company in
the near future.
FIB Belgium is a leading supplier of
patenting lines within the framework of
sawing wires.
New induction solutions are also available
for the diffusion process, both in steel cord
and in the scope of sawing wires.
FIB Belgium sa – Belgium
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Sun becomes energy thanks to
Belgian technology
▲ ▲ The two lines from FIB Belgium
The Japan Times reports that
Hokkaido Electric Power Co has
estimated demand for electricity may
exceed supply by up to 10.4 per cent
this winter if the utility experiences
problems at its major thermal power
plant or other generation facilities.
The capacity of the power
transmission line between Honshu and
Hokkaido is limited. As a result, the
government may introduce a power
saving target of around 5 to 10 per
cent for households and businesses in
the prefecture (based on peak winter
demand in fiscal 2010).
Hokkaido Electric presented its
shortfall projections at a government
meeting on electricity supply and
demand for this winter, when most of
the country’s nuclear reactors are
expected to be offline in light of the
Fukushima disaster.
The utility lost an estimated
960,000kW of capacity in fiscal 2011
because of technical problems that
affected power generation equipment.
If winter operations go to plan,
however, supply is projected to exceed
demand by 6.7 per cent in January and
5.8 per cent in February 2013,
exceeding the generally accepted
minimum of 3 per cent.
Hokkaido Electric – Japan
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Japan warned of power shortages