wiredinUSA August 2012

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wiredInUSA - August 2012
This year’s UK Spring Manufacturers’
Association Golf Tournament was held at
Brookfield Golf Club in Crewe, on Friday,
29th June 2012.
As ever, the event was highly popular,
with 47 golfers from 15 different
companies taking part. The companies
who participated this year were
Jowitt Grinding Wheels, Lee Springs,
Clifford Springs, Hanson Springs,
Allevard Rejna, Springtech, Transworld
Engineering, United Springs, Continental
Springs, Longcroft Engineering, Rochdale
Springs, Helical Technology, Owen Springs,
Fox Wire and UKSMA.
Team winner was Clifford Springs, with
Mike Gilmour, of Clifford Springs, taking
the individual first prize.
Spring
tournament
Nexans has developed a new program to
collect and reuse its wooden cable drums.
This is the latest phase in Nexans‘ packaging
purchasing green initiative, launched
in 2010, when it became the world’s
first cable manufacturer to upgrade to
drums holding the PEFCTM certification (Pro-
gramme for the Endorsement of Forest
Certification schemes). Nexans’ Green
Drums now hold both PEFC (for Europe)
and FSC (Worldwide) certifications.
Already, over 280,000 of the drums that
Nexans uses to dispatch electrical cables
to customers have been collected and
reused up to five times over the past years.
These drums represent more than 35 per
cent of yearly total drums used worldwide
by Nexans, and a saving of more than
94,000m³ of timber – approximately 100,000
uncut trees (45 hectares of forest) saved
every year.
Drum
return program
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