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Nexans has started production of special rolling stock cable at its Waigaoqiao
manufacturing plant located in Shanghai, China. This local production will
enable Nexans to meet the demands of customers operating in China’s booming
rail industry who require the high levels of service and support offered by a local
manufacturing presence.
The creation of new production capacity has required a plant expansion project
including the installation of new equipment and the extension of the workshop
and of the specialised fire test, physical and quality control lab. The newly
installed production lines will produce the complete range of power cables for
rolling stock, using latest technology compounds to meet the high performance
standards in the resistance requirement for fire, temperature, abrasion and
covering conductor range from 1mm2 up to 500mm2 cables in single and
multi-conductor cable configurations.
“This additional production capacity strengthens Nexans’ leading position in
China’s rolling stock cable market,” said Dietmar Steinbach, Nexans’ global
segment manager for rolling stock. “It provides the ideal basis to improve our
service levels, especially in terms of delivery lead-times and flexibility.”
Volume production was expected to begin at the end of 2008.
Nexans expected to start producing control cables for rolling stock at its Nexans
Communication plant (Kanghua), also based in Shanghai, at the beginning of
2009. This will enable Nexans China to offer a complete range of rolling stock
cables to the local market and will ensure that Nexans has enough capacity to
serve the growing cable demand in China.
Nexans entered the Chinese market in the mid-1980s. It has three wholly owned
plants in the country producing telecom, LAN and special industrial cables, a
logistics centre and several sales offices located in Beijing and Hong Kong,
Dalian, Xi’an, Chengdu and Guangzhou. The management office is based in
Shanghai. Nexans employs 700 people in China.
Nexans – France
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Sikora sales office in Turkey
Sikora AG opened its new sales office in Istanbul on 1st January 2009. This will
be its ninth sales location, a reaction to the increasing demand for its measuring
systems.
With the new office in Istanbul, Sikora will be in a position to react faster to
customer requests and to further expand its business in Turkey. Sikora has
been working with the International Trade Consultancy (ITC) since July 1997 and
follows the extremely positive business development in the Turkish market with
setting up its own office.
“We are proud to announce the opening of an additional office in Turkey,”
commented Harry Prunk, chairman of Sikora AG. “What is crucial is the
closeness to customers and the further expansion of our sales activities in and
around Istanbul. We see strong growth potential, in particular in the East
European and Asian regions, which we want to generate for our measuring and
control devices solutions,” he explained.
Head of the Sikora office in Istanbul is Ajda Sariguelle, after an intensive six
months of training in Bremen. Mrs Sariguelle has great experience in the field of
administration and sales.
Sikora AG – Germany Fax: +49 421 48900 90
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Nexans in China