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12 Wire & Cable ASIA – November/December 2012
Borouge and Borealis sponsored the
Wire & Cable Committee’s annual
meeting organised by the China
Electro technical Society (CES) in
Lanzhou, the capital and largest city of
Gansu Province in Northwest China.
More than 200 people from cable
manufacturing, utilities and electric
power design companies attended the
meeting, in addition to representatives
from the Wire Academy, universities
and the Shanghai Electric Cable
Research Institute (SECRI), one of the
committee partners.
The two-day meeting featured a
number of sessions and workshops
where Borouge discussed a topic on
“Solutions for XLPE submarine
cables”. This is the second time that
Borouge and Borealis have sponsored
this event.
Following the Wire & Cable Committee
annual meeting, Borouge and Borealis
hosted a dinner where SK Tham,
marketing manager of wire and cable
at Borouge, conducted a presentation
highlighting Borouge and Borealis’ wire
and cable portfolio, the new
investment in LD5, Borouge 3, and the
new Borouge Innovation Centre in Abu
Dhabi. SK Tham explained how
Borouge’s mission in enhancing ‘Value
Creation through Innovation’ has
helped the company to enhance its
position as a leading provider of
innovative, value creating plastics
solutions. He also talked about the
2015 future plans of growth for both
Borouge and Borealis wire and cable
business.
Borouge and Borealis – Abu Dhabi
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Borouge and Borealis
sponsor annual meeting
▲ ▲ The annual meeting in Lanzhou
The Universal Service Fund (USF) is
implementing a programme to deploy
around 6,000km of long haul
fibre-optic network to facilitate
previously unserved tehsils (districts)
in Pakistan.
Parvez Jabri of Business Recorder
reports that a source at USF revealed
that presently 30 per cent of
approximately 400 tehsils in the
country have no fibre connectivity.
Extending fibre cables to these areas
will facilitate telecom service
providers in supplying a range of
telecom services.
Giving examples, the source said 18
out of 91 teshils in Sindh are without
fibre optic access. Fibre deployment
of nearly 703km will benefit an
unserved population of 3.5 million.
In Balochistan, a population of around
0.34 million people residing in five
tehsils will benefit from 900km of
optical fibre connecting Dasht,
Noshki, Dalbandin, Mashkhel and
Taftan Tehsil headquarters including
Dringar, Ahmadwal, Nokundi and
Chaghi.
A planned 1,166km optical fibre to
Bela, Pasni, Turbat and Hub Tehsil
including Jhal Jao, Awaran, Dureiji,
Peerdrk, Dasht, Mehnaz, Buleda,
Kalag, Jiwani, Kalatuk, Nodaiz,
Hoshab, Nasirabad, Bilecha, Tump,
Gwadar, Uthal, Duddar and Kanraj
cities will serve a population of
approximately one million.
The official said that through 818km
of fibre, 1.45 million unserved people
in Bhag, Dera Bugti, Jand, Jhal Magsi,
Kotli Sattian and Sui tehsils would
benefit.
Once completed, the programme will
help build a network, which was
considered uneconomic and
unaffordable by competing operators.
Universal Service Fund – Pakistan
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New network will aid unserved
Plant investment
Eastern Copper, a copper wire
producer from Shandong Province,
has commissioned its second
Contirod CR 3700 continuous
copper wire rod plant. The plant,
supplied by SMS Meer, is believed
to be the highest capacity plant in
China with an annual capacity of
320,000 tonnes of rolled wire rod.
The new Contirod line comprises a
shaft-type melting furnace, a
20-tonne holding furnace, a
Hazelett twin belt caster and a
continuous SMS rolling mill with 14
mill stands.
The mill stands are equipped with
individual drives and the main
drives of the mill and the fans all
feature variable frequency 3-phase
AC motors for reduced energy
consumption. The plant includes an
automatic compacting, strapping
and film packaging line for the
resulting wire coils.
The new plant is expected to
achieve a casting capacity of 48
tonnes per hour with a casting
cross section of 8,610mm² and a
casting speed of around 10m per
minute. The standard finished size
is 8mm diameter.
Eastern Copper – China
Seychelles get
connected
Cable & Wireless has announced
its connection to the SEAS
undersea fibre optic cable that, as
of 15th August, has become
commercially available to the
people of Seychelles.
Seychelles will now benefit from
consistent broadband speeds
unaffected by the problems
experienced with satellite internet,
such as cloud cover, which made the
connection erratic and unreliable.
Other benefits of the fibre optic cable
include lower latency times.
The connection, originating from
the Tanzanian coast off Dar es
Salaam, landed in the Beau Vallon
Bay area of the main island of
Mahe in early June, and has
undergone extensive testing before
being officially launched.
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