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EuroWire – January 2011 16
corporate news
The Communications Cable and Connectivity
Association, Inc (CCCA) applauded action
by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to stem
the flow of non-compliant communications
cable being imported into the North
Americanmarket.
UL has taken strong action to maintain
the integrity of its UL mark and cable
performance certifications by publicly
identifying manufacturers and their
distributors who are supplying
substandard and unsafe cable products
into the market.
In addition, UL has established further
initiatives to verify the integrity of UL
listed cables through detailed analytical
testing of cable component materials and
new marketplace surveillance.
These efforts by UL are, in part, a result
of CCCA sharing information and
encouraging each of the two independent
testing/certification agencies to develop
stronger measures to assure compliance
to national fire safety codes and
telecommunications industry standards
for transmission performance.
CCCA is a non-profit organisation,
founded in 2007.
Member companies include AlphaGary,
Anixter, Berk-Tek, CommScope, Daikin
America, Dupont, OFS (a Furukawa
company), PolyOne, Solvay Solexis and
Tyco Electronics.
CCCA – USA
Website:
American Superconductor Corporation
has received what is expected to be the
world’s largest order for high temperature
superconductor (HTS) wire.
LS Cable Ltd, a long-standing client of
AMSC, has placed an order for 3,000,000m
(nearly 10 million feet) of Amperium wire,
AMSC’s proprietary second generation
(2G) HTS wire.
LS Cable intends to utilise the wire to
complete alternating current (AC) and
direct current (DC) superconductor cable
projects globally.
Under the terms of the contract, AMSC
is to begin shipping Amperium wire to
LS Cable in 2012. “Our objective is to be
the leading provider of superconductor
power cables for electric utilities
worldwide,” said LS Cable president,
Jong-ho Son.
“This Amperium wire contract helps
ensure we will have the wire we need
to complete the superconductor cable
projects we have underway with KEPCO
in Korea and also take on commercial
project opportunities globally such as
Tres Amigas in the US.”
American Superconductor
Corporation – USA
Fax: +1 978 842 3024
Website:
CCCA fighting to
uphold standards
AMSC lands world’s
largest order
Egyptian group El Sewedy Cables is expecting to invest up to $50 million to
establish a cable manufacturing plant in Libya before the end of 2011.
El Sewedy Cables, which produces power transmission and telecoms cables,
already has plants in many countries from Egypt to Ethiopia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia,
Algeria and Zambia. The group exports to the Middle East and north Africa, Spain,
Portugal, eastern Europe and Brazil, with African countries taking 30 per cent of its
exports.
El Sewedy Electric – Egypt Fax: +20 2291 7078
Email: Website:
New cable plant set for Libya