wiredinUSA January 2013

wiredInUSA - January 2013

General Cable Corporation has completed the acquisition of Alcan

Cable China. Alcan Cable China represents a little over 10 percent of

Alcan Cable revenues.

“Alcan Cable China has a vertically integrated manufacturing plant

in Tianjin, China and ten regional sales offices. Since its start-up in 2007,

the business has matured in a relatively short amount of time building

a sales infrastructure and a premium brand with a strong reputation in

the Chinese market, which represents nearly one-third of global wire

and cable demand.

“We believe the synergies of this acquisition coupled with an

established platform from which to introduce and grow other General

Cable product lines, further enhances the value proposition to our

customers. We are honored and proud to become part of General

Cable,” said Alex Tham, MD of Alcan Cable China.

Gregory B Kenny, president and CEO of General Cable, said:

“We are pleased to have completed the second and final step of the

acquisition of Alcan Cable. We have brought together two companies

with more than 200 years of combined experience in the wire and

cable industry serving important markets in North America and now

China.”

General Cable estimates that the overall Alcan Cable business will

contribute between $650 million and $700 million in annual revenues

at current aluminum prices.

General Cable

acquisition

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The new lights use as little electricity

as LED bulbs — half as much

as fluorescent lamps — while

emitting a comfortable white

light. "People often complain

that fluorescent lights bother

their eyes and the hum from the

fluorescent tubes irritates anyone

sitting at a desk underneath

them," said David Carroll, the

light's lead researcher. “The new

lights we have created can cure

both of those problems and

more,” he added.

The bulbs are made with a plastic

material that gives off light when

an electric current runs through

it. Carroll and his team added

carbon nanotubes to the plastic,

which enabled it to give off

five times more light. Their ideas

build on a technology called

field-induced polymer electro-

luminescence that researchers

have been working on for over a

decade.

TechNewsDaily

reports

that

researchers have created a

glowing plastic material that

can be formed into bright white,

energy-efficient light bulbs in

various shapes – from domestic

bulbs to glowing 24 inch x 48 inch

flat sheets.

Wake Forest University in North

Carolina, where many of the

light's creators are based, is

working with a company to

develop commercial versions of

the bulbs that could be on sale in

2013.

Glowing plastic

light bulbs

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