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Wire & Cable ASIA – January/February 2014
Industrynews
TRATOS has completed delivery of
£5.5m worth of distribution equipment,
transformers and poles to the
Palestinian Southern Electricity
Company (SELCo).
The contract for the order was signed
in 2008 by the vice president of Tratos
at the time, Ennio Bragagni Capaccini,
and the equipment has been supplied
and installed as required over the past
five years.
This project is part of a more
comprehensive initiative called the
Electric Sector Investment
Management Program (ESIMP), the
primary objective of which is to deliver
numerous benefits to electricity
consumers in Palestine through
sustainable improvements in the
quality of the electricity supply.
The initiative is being jointly financed
by the World Bank and the European
Investment Bank (EIB).
Tratos played its part in meeting this
objective by supplying high quality,
advanced equipment that would
provide optimum functionality for the
purpose of reinforcing and renovating
the power distribution system in the
central and southern regions of the
West Bank.
The installation of the Tratos
equipment will also be complemented
by institutional power sector reforms
that are designed to better serve the
electricity needs of the Palestinian
people.
Mr Luciano Pezzotti, the Italian Consul
General, expressed his appreciation to
SELCo for the significant improve-
ments the project has achieved, which
is due in large part to the quality of
Tratos’s distribution equipment.
Tratos cables offer highly advanced
£5.5m deal for Tratos to power up Palestine
Dolphin to land ACE
in Nigeria
Dolphin Telecom, an operator of the
Africa Coast to Europe (ACE)
submarine cable system in West
Africa, has said that it will land the
$700 million submarine cable in
Nigeria at the end of this year, reports
the Nigerian newspaper, Leadership.
technology and construction,
providing flexibility, lightness and
strength whilst also being low
maintenance.
Tratos HV cables can be used in a wide
variety of applications such as ignition
systems and AC and DC power
transmission. They may be any length,
with relatively short cables used in
apparatus. Longer cables can be run
within buildings or as buried cables in an
industrial plant or for power distribution,
and are often run as submarine cables
under the ocean for power transmission.
Tratos Group – Italy
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