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EuroWire – November 2007
feature
‘New’ is a remarkably flexible word.
In an emerging economy, equally it might convey bad
(a frivolous luxury item) and good (a piece of equipment whose life
expectancy justifies its cost).
In older societies painfully adapting themselves
to industries that came into existence only yesterday, new may
induce dread. Or hope. Or something in-between.
New may even mean old. Third-world entrepreneurs scour
the second-hand markets for antiquated factories to be
dismantled and shipped thousands of miles to begin
life again in other places.
The word has a special meaning in industries
dependent on recycled materials. In a world
suddenly and keenly alive to environmental
issues, new is a word that loses lustre,
and then regains it.
Depending on any
number of factors, new
can mean better – or it can mean worse.
To wire and cable makers, new means newer.
Somewhere – in a design studio, a drafting
shed, a workshop – the next improvement to
machinery and equipment is always taking form,
if only in the mind’s eye. After extensive research
and development and rigorous testing, and not
before, it will be featured first in these pages.
In every mature and technically sophisticated industry,
the advances year-to-year are probably best
appreciated by the people actively engaged
in running the machinery
of production.
As it happens, such
experts abound in wire
and cable plants.
Newmachinery
& equipment
launched in 2007
Photo: Nexans Deutschland Industries GmbH & Co KG