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EuroWire – July 2009 16
corporate news
OES expanding its reach
in a key market
OES Inc has expanded its global representation for the sale
of OES products into China with an agreement with Lode
Technology Co Ltd of Beijing.
Lode Technology is an established and growing sales
organisation representing many foreign companies, with
seven offices in key manufacturing regions of China. The
company distributes products into a wide range of industries
including automotive, aerospace, marine, locomotive and
telecommunications.
Lode will represent the OES WireWorx™ product line for
quality assurance in wire processing, including crimp force
monitors, PBT Sensor™ technology, the WireScan™ laser
profile analyser for strip and seal inspection, and the new
press calibration system.
“Lode Technology will be very supportive of our sales
development in China, supported by our local OES
engineering office already established in Shanghai,”
said Michael Reeve, VP of strategic sales and business
development for OES Inc. “We are looking forward to
excellent results from this new relationship.”
OES Inc develops and deploys in-process test and
monitoring solutions for a range of applications, including
wire crimping, pressing, forming, cutting, stamping, riveting,
and welding applications.
OES Inc – Canada
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Sustainable power
cable partnership
Dow Wire & Cable has announced a multidisciplinary project in
the United Kingdom focused on the development of sustainable
power cable material technologies. Through this project,
Dow Wire & Cable aims to identify the next generation of plastic
cable materials for the power generation industry, capable of
delivering improved whole-life performance with a reduced
environmental impact.
The sustainable power cable materials project is sponsored by
the Technology Strategy Board, an executive non-departmental
public body established by the British government in 2007 to
stimulate technology-enabled innovation. It will bring Dow’s
power cable material experts together with a multi-disciplinary
team drawn from three other project partners: National Grid
plc, the owner and operator of the high-voltage electricity
transmission network across England and Wales; the University
of Southampton; and GnoSys UK, a science and technology
company established from the Polymer Research Centre at the
University of Surrey.
The project is initiated at a time when there is a move in the
UK and across Europe to place more of the electric power
network underground, particularly in areas of outstanding
beauty and in major cities. It will seek to provide an answer to
the question of whether such cables can ever be considered
to be environmentally friendly, with a low carbon footprint. In
addition, with the growing emphasis on ensuring the long-term
security and reliability of power supply, and the need to improve
the amount of power that can be transported around the
country, the project will consider whether it is compatible to
meet such needs while using a cable that may be recycled at the
end of its life.
During the course of the project the participants aim to
develop new power cable materials and the tools to evaluate
all the complex and often competing factors that go into a full
life-cycle assessment.
DowWire & Cable – Switzerland
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Universal Cables, an MP Birla group company, has entered
into a strategic technical and financial alliance with Japanese
company, Furukawa Electric Co, to manufacture and market
optical fibre in India.
Universal Cables and its affiliates will hold around 55% of
the total paid up capital of the newly floated joint venture.
Furukawa and its affiliates will hold the balance. The company
will be managed by the MP Birla group. Universal Cables will
appoint three directors, and Furukawa will appoint two.
As yet un-named, the venture may be called Birla Furukawa
Technology Ltd.
Universal Cables Ltd – India
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Universal Cables join up
with Furukawa
InnoVites BV has been selected by Red Sea Cables (ResCab)
to supply its ERP solution. After a thorough evaluation, the
ResCab management selected InnoVites for Cable, based
on the specific functionalities for the industry and the
industry-specific best practices that are part of the solution.
InnoVites will work with a local partner, INC Technologies, to
implement InnoVites for Cable and to provide integration to
CableBuilder, the cable design software from Cimteq Ltd.
ResCab will commence its operations in Saudi Arabia in Q3
2009.
The ResCab management decided to support its starting
operations with a modern and complete business solution,
wanting to benefit from the industry best practices that
are fully supported by the software. Hamad Alsourayia,
managing director of ResCab, comments: “ResCab is an
innovative company that invests in high-end technology.
We look for partners that can help us to use this technology
in our specific business. InnoVites demonstrated a deep
understanding of the industry, and this has materialised in
ERP software with an excellent fit for our business processes.
I am confident that InnoVites and INC Technologies will help
us benefit from this investment in innovative IT.”
InnoVites – Netherlands
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Red Sea Cables selects InnoVites