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EuroWire – November 2008 21
english corporate news
Olympic cables contract
for Prysmian
Prysmian Cables and Systems completed
a high value project for the Beijing 2008
Olympic games, developing the high
voltage power grid to supply energy
to the Olympic village. Prysmian
commissioned 20km of high voltage
cables at 220kV to supply energy to the
village that covers over 66 hectares of
land.
Prysmian’s stamp was also on the
International Broadcasting Centre, from
which RAI Television, Italy’s premier
television company, transmitted
footage from the Olympics. The group
cabled RAI’s entire broadcasting
centre, providing connections of a high
technical level capable of ensuring the
highest quality of transmissions.
Prysmian supplied all the passive
media and LAN cables under RAI’s
specifications, including: broadcasting
cabling and connectors for media
transmission; audio cabling and
connectors; UTP CAT 5E & CAT 6 cabling
for LAN connectivity; MMF fibre cabling
for broadcast backbone and broadband
transmission, and RF radio frequency
cabling and connectors.
Prysmian has five manufacturing plants
in China, located in Tianjin (special
cables for industrial applications),
Baoying in Jiangsu Province (high
voltage cables and systems) and Wuxi,
also in Jiangsu, (optic and copper
cables for telecommunications)
together employing over 1,000 staff.
Prysmian Shanghai Trading imports and
distributes Prysmian’s cable accessories
for MV and HV cables.
Prysmian has recently opened a new
plant in Beijing and aims to achieve
growth of about 50% of its Chinese
business by 2010. The total value of
Prysmian’s investments in China is said
to be over €100 million.
Prysmian Cables & Systems – Italy
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Sikora AG has produced its 500 th
X-Ray 8000 in Bremen. The jubilee
measuring system of the X-Ray
8000 NXT series was delivered to
a customer in Russia at the end of
August.
On the occasion of the jubilee, all
Sikora employees and families met
for an open-air summer party at the
Sikora premises in Bremen on 11 th
July, where activities with musical
and culinary accompaniment and
attractions such as a bouncy castle
and a Rodeo simulator contributed to
the successful event.
“I am proud that our measuring device
has proved reliable in production lines
for high voltage cables for 15 years,”
said Harry Prunk, chairman of Sikora.
Sikora AG – Germany
Fax: +49 421 4890 090
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Sikora’s 500th
celebration