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EuroWire – July 2007 24
english corporate news
Nexans cable to
connect UK’s largest
dedicated biomass
power plant
Nexans, France, has completed a contract
worth around €5 million for Scottish
Power, to manufacture and supply
the 33kV cable that provides the grid
connection for E.ON UK’s 44MW biomass
power plant, currently under construction
at Stevens Croft, near Lockerbie, Scotland.
Nexans has manufactured and supplied
XLPE insulated cable with a 500mm2
cross-section to create two three-phase
medium voltage circuits – a total of 153km
of cable. The cables provide the link with
the nearest available grid connection for
the new power plant, the Scottish Power
substation around 25km away at the
Chapel Cross nuclear power station.
A consortium of Metso and Siemens is
carrying out the turnkey project for the
construction of the €132 million wood-
fired power station.
It will burn 480,000 tons of wood fuel
annually, making it the UK’s largest
dedicated biomass power plant, saving
up to 140,000 tons of greenhouse gas
emissions per year.
The power station is due to start
commissioning in the summer of 2007
and will enter full operation by the end
of 2007. The cable was manufactured in
Nexans’ plant in Bourg-en-Bresse, France,
and the installation has already been
completed.
Nexans – France
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The new power plant near Lockerbie, Scotland, will save up to 140,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year ▲
RAD-CON restructuring
RAD-CON, Inc, USA, a manufacturer of
industrial heat processing equipment, has
announced amanagement reorganisation
and ownership change.
David Blackman has taken over the
position of president from Brice Blackman,
who has retired after 25 years of service.
Day-to-day operations will be managed
by vice presidents Christopher Messina
and Michael McDonald, who have also
acquired Brice Blackman’s shares, and
Chris Williams and Arno Muennich have
been promoted to engineering directors.
The management changes took effect in
January and the ownership change was
finalised in March.
RAD-CON supplies equipment worldwide
to processors of sheet, strip, and wire in
both ferrous and nonferrous industries.
The company serves both domestic and
international markets with its niche bell-
type furnace that uses a 100% hydrogen
protective atmosphere.
The company reported record revenues
in 2005-2006 mostly due to export sales.
Taking off from this success, RAD-CON
has restructured its management team to
position the company for further growth.
RAD-CON Inc – USA
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Royal DSM NV (DSM) is to build a new engineering plastics plant in India.
Theplant,forproducing
engineering plastics
compounds, will be
in the Ranjangaon
MIDC industrial zone,
60km from Pune, and
will triple the capacity
for the production of
Akulon® PA6, Arnite®
PBT and PET and
Stanyl® PA46 in India.
These materials are
used in manufacturing
moulded components
for the automotive,
electrical and elec-
tronics, consumer and industrial segments. Being one of the world’s fastest
growing economies, India has an important place in DSM’s Vision 2010 strategy,
as one of the three pillars of this strategy is growth in emerging economies.
The new plant will be fully equipped with best-in-class safety, health and
environment compliance systems and will use state-of-the-art compounding
technology.
The new facility will enable DSM to meet the growing demand
from the Indian market during the next few years while its design will also
allow for additional capacity expansions in the future.
DSM Engineering Plastics India Private Ltd – India
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lNew India plant for DSM
India has an important place in DSM’s Vision 2010 strategy ▲