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January 2013 14
Forget cutting the ribbon,
cutting copper wire was the
order of the day as SAMP
Shanghai held a grand opening
ceremony for its new plant in
Malu Town.
The new plant, designed for
manufacturing machinery and
equipment for the wire and
cable industry, covers an area
of 4,500m2 – doubling SAMP’s
presence in the region with the
new state-of-the-art production
unit.
The ribbon cutting ceremony
was conducted in an
unconventional way – with
dignitaries declaring the
building open by cutting copper
wire, the final product of the
machines manufactured in the
Shanghai plant.
Several hundred guests from
20 different countries attended
the evening, including Mr Wang
Chun, Governor of Malu Town,
Mr Vincenzo De Luca, Consul
General of Italy in Shanghai, Mr
Dominique Perroud, managing
director of SAMP Shanghai, and
Mr Antonio Maccaferri, president
of the SAMP Group, who also
made speeches to mark the
occasion. Mr Perroud’s remarks
highlighted the focus of the
SAMP Group on the Chinese
and ASEAN market: “In recent
years, SAMP has experienced
an exceptional period of
development in China, thanks
to our customers’ continuous
trust and the hard work of our
employees, their dedication and
expertise.
“Today, a large and absolutely
avant-garde production plant
brings in a new phase of
growth. We aim at giving our
customers what they most need
and value, in a cost-effective
and sustainable way. This new
flexible plant will give us the
capacity to realise our aggressive
growth plans for the Asian
market.”
Following the ceremony, all
guests took part in a gala dinner
at the Marriott Hotel in Jiading,
where traditional Chinese music
shows and dances livened up the
evening.
Sampsistemi SpA – Italy
Website:
Cutting the wire on a new era
▲ ▲ Dignitaries mark the opening the new SAMP plant
Beta LaserMike has announced
a new whitepaper – “10 Reasons
Why You Should Use DCM
Solid-State Switching for Testing
LAN/Data Cables” – which is now
available for download at www.
betalasermike.com/dcm
The whitepaper walks
readers through the key
decision-making process and
highlights the primary reasons
why cable producers should
upgrade their existing legacy
cable testing systems to the
new DCM 3S-XLD platform – the
latest generation in automated
LAN/data cable testing.
LAN/data cable testing
technology has come a long
way since the early mechanical/
electronic relay-type systems
and upgrading to the latest
DCM solid-state switching (3S)
technology offers a successful
path to increased testing
performance, value and profits.
To maximise the return on
investment, the whitepaper
describes the ten key advantages
of the DCM 3S-XLD system and
touches on key points such
as: faster, more accurate cable
testing; increased reliability
and lower maintenance;
fast, easy connection to UTP
cables; testing alien crosstalk in
minutes; flexibility to expand
system capabilities; and the
many benefits of intuitive,
simple-to-use software, to name
a few.
The white paper also summarises
the easy upgrade path from a
legacy DCM CMS-2XLD system
to the latest DCM 3S technology.
With the continuing evolution of
cable types and cable industry
specs, this paper is a must-read
for organisations that want to
take their testing operations to
the next level.
Beta LaserMike – USA
Website:
Switching and testing whitepaper
▲ ▲ The new whitepaper from Beta
LaserMike can be downloaded now
‘Fibre
Optics day’
A ‘Fibre Optics Day’
event took place –
for the third time
– at the Nextrom
plant in Finland.
Partners and
customers from
the optical fibre
and fibre optic
cable industry,
bringing together
over 100 guests
from various
companies from
around the world,
attended.
The event covered
a range of topics of
interest concerning
the latest
developments in
technology and
manufacturing
methods.
The event ended
with machine
demonstrations at
the Nextrom plant.
Sales up to
€954m
Leoni increased its
consolidated sales
by nearly five per
cent year on year in
the third quarter of
2012, to €954.7m
(previous year:
€913.1m).
Consolidated
EBIT amounted
to €52.7m in the
third quarter of
2012 (previous
year: €54.6m).
Overall in the
first nine months
EBIT increased to
€197.2m (previous
year: €183.6m); this
includes a positive
non-recurring item
of €28.3 million
from the sale of
Leoni Studer Hard
AG in March.