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14 Wire & Cable ASIA – January/February 2014
Industrynews
SPECTRUM Technologies, a UK-based
specialist in the design and
development of laser wire processing
equipment for the aerospace industry,
has had a busy few years in the
Chinese market following a number of
major contract awards from key
aerospace manufacturers in the
country. As a result the company is
changing its company status to
become a FICE and is moving to new
larger offices in Shanghai.
It has had a presence in China since
2006 when the company opened its
first Asia-Pacific office in Hong Kong
with one technical sales engineer.
In 2009, Spectrum replaced the Hong
Kong office with a representative office
in Shanghai. The China office now
employs a total of four people
including a technical sales engineer
and sales and marketing assistant in
Shanghai, and a technical sales
engineer based in Shenzhen, in
addition to the Beijing-based service
engineer.
During this time the company has
established itself as a major supplier of
wire marking equipment to the
aerospace industry in China, as well as
to the rest of the world.
It has won a number of significant
contracts in China, including most
recently the contract to supply
Shanghai SAIFEI Aviation EWIS
Manufacturing Co Ltd (SAIFEI) with a
top-of-the-range NovaT laser wire
marking system.
SAIFEI is a joint venture between
Labinal, the French electrical wiring
and interconnect systems (EWIS) giant
and division of the Safran Group; and
Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Co
Ltd (SAMC), a subsidiary of the
Commercial Aircraft Corporation of
China (COMAC). SAIFEI will be the
primary supplier of electrical wire
harnesses for the COMAC C919 jet.
This system will bring the number of
Spectrum UV laser wire markers
installed in China to 25, in addition to
over 140 laser wire stripping products.
Spectrum counts amongst its
customers in China large Western
aerospace manufacturers who now
have in-country facilities, as well as the
majority of China’s domestic aircraft
manufacturers, such as Shenyang
Aircraft Corporation, Changhe Aircraft
Industries, Harbin Aircraft
Manufacturing Corporation and Xi’an
Aircraft Company.
Last year it moved to new premises in
Pudong, Shanghai, under a new
trading status, and from September it
became a Foreign Invested
Commercial Enterprise (FICE).
Spectrum’s new China operation will
provide a full service one-stop shop for
customers, able to place and receive
orders, import and export goods
including spare parts that will be
stocked locally for fast turnaround to
local customers, and deal in local
currency.
Spectrum Technologies – UK
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Laser systems specialists big in China
Ground-breaking ceremony for
Ekiti state cable deployment
As part of Ekiti’s digital transformation programme, the
Nigerian state’s government has begun laying fibre optic
cables in designated areas.
Governor Fayemi recently performed the
ground-breaking ceremony of the first phase of the
project for Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, noting that the
project is the outcome of the Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) signed between the government
and IPNX Nigeria Ltd in June.
He said the exercise, in line with the administration’s
initiative of transforming Ekiti into a digital state, is
expected to enhance effective Internet connectivity.
Due to its capacity for almost limitless data speed, a
broadband infrastructure in Ekiti state, based on fibre
optics, is expected to transform the way Ekiti residents
live and work.
The first phase will cover about 8km from the
government data centre.
Essential services to be provided through the fibre cable
will include high speed Internet access to home and
offices at an affordable price; wi-fi hotspots; telephone
services; video conferencing; cable TV on demand; city
security cameras; and e-Education and e-Health services.
Ekiti State – Nigeria
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