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12 Wire & Cable ASIA – March/April 2014
Industrynews
POHANG Steelworks has celebrated the start of operations at
its 700,000 ton annual production scale wire rod mill 4.
Chief executive Chung Joonyang, national assembly member
Kim Hyeongtae, Pohang city mayor Park Seungho, Kiswel
chairman Hong Michaeol, SeAH Specialty Steel chief
executive Yoo Eulbong, and others from Korea and abroad
attended the ceremony.
With the expansion of this mill, POSCO is equipped with a 2.8
million ton annual capacity for the production of wire rods for
the manufacture of nails, wires, screws, bolts, nuts, bearings,
springs and wire ropes.
The new mill will also produce extremely high strength spring
steel and high strength wire for deep sea development.
POSCO Pohang Works – Korea
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❍ Wire rod mill 4 from POSCO
Celebration time in Korea
Favourable reputation
Shanghai Wangxun New Material manufactures optic fibre
cable, telecommunication cable, power cable, submarine
cable, OPGW, control cable, signal cable and track cable, etc.
The products are also used for magnetic apparatus, cold/hot
water pipe and flexible packing.
The company retains 100 per cent intellectual property rights,
and has six invention patents. Further, Shanghai Wangxun
was involved in the stipulation of China’s new
telecommunication industry standards, TD/T723-2007
Laminated Metal Plastic Strip for Telecommunication Cable
and Optic Fibre Cable.
The company has a significant market share in China, and
many orders from the country’s telecom operators specify that
its products be used. Shanghai Wangxun enjoys a favourable
reputation from five major telecom operators: China Mobile,
China Telecom, China Netcom, China Unicom and China
Tietong.
The company has clients from more than 30 countries
worldwide, including Europe, America and Asia.
Shanghai Wangxun New Material Co Ltd – China
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