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EUROPE NEWS
Europacable members have endorsed the
Europacable industry charter, a document
that expresses a collective commitment
to the shared principles and objectives of
ethical, sustainable and high quality cable
development and manufacturing.
The charter is a formal expression of
Europacablemembers: acknowledgement
of the need to meet the demands of
business stakeholders, while at the same
time defending the interests of employees,
customers, the wider community and the
environment, with a strong commitment
not only to meeting the basic requirements
of the law, but also taking a proactive role
in monitoring and evaluating emerging
issues and finding solutions that exceed the
minimum requirements.
The charter was presented to Europacable
members for signing on the occasion of
the Europacable General Assembly in late
April and now that members have signed
it and committed to fulfill the principles
contained in the charter, Europacable has
launched it publicly.
Europacable gathers approximately 85
percent of the European wire and cable
industry, covering the full range of insulated
wires and cables, and metallic and optical
fiber data and telecommunications wires
and cables.
Industry charter
Hitachi Cable America Inc (HCA),
performance cable systems and materials
division, is to migrate its product data into
the cable design software, CableBuilder.
It is expected that, with CableBuilder, the
product data will be more efficient to
access and maintain.
After a thorough analysis, the HCA team
concluded that CableBuilder covers all its
requirements in engineering, quoting and
product data management processes.
John Gibson, executive vice president
at Hitachi Cable America, said: “With
CableBuilder we invest in a sustainable
solution that helps us to capture and
leverage our experience and expertise
in our engineering team. The project
contributes to our objectives to become
even more agile and innovative. Most
importantly, we are striving to better serve
our customers with our new quotation and
specification capabilities.
“The InnoVites team complements the
CableBuilder solution with their consulting
services. Their vast experience in our
industry makes sure that we implement
the best practices in the shortest possible
time.”
InnoVites is a partner of Cimteq, the owner
of the CableBuilder software.
Software upgrade
John Gibson