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16 Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2013
Datwyler Cabling Solutions continues
to invest in production in Switzerland
and China.
Over the next 12 months Dätwyler
Cabling Solutions AG will be investing
around 10 million Swiss francs – €8.1m –
in fibre optic production facilities, around
half of this in the Altdorf (Switzerland)
site and half in the new Taicang site in
China, which the company will be
commissioning in 2014.
A massive amount of data is being sent
around the world 24 hours a day. In the
past ten years the worldwide bandwidth
requirement for data communication has
increased more than tenfold.
Ever-higher bandwidths are needed for
watching television and making
telephone calls over the Internet as well
as for many other modern web
applications – and this is a steeply
upward trend. Fibre optic cables are the
ideal medium for transmitting these huge
amounts of data.
Datwyler was one of the first Swiss
companies to begin producing fibre
optic cable, 27 years ago at the Altdorf
site, and it has now been manufacturing
in China for 15 years.
Datwyler Cabling Solutions intends
using these many years of know-how to
profit from the rapidly growing demand
for fibre optic cable. To this end the
company will be investing a further ten
million Swiss francs in its fibre optic
cable production facilities.
In Altdorf the modernisation of fibre
optic cable fabrication ties up
seamlessly with the on-going
investment programme.
The company has invested around 30m
Swiss francs since 2011 in the Swiss
cable plant, and by the end of 2013
17m francs will have gone into
modernisation and the acquisition of
new production facilities, and 13 million
into renewing the building infrastructure.
Investment produces more efficient,
more highly automated systems and
optimised procedures and processes,
which means that the Altdorf site will
remain competitive, even in a
challenging international environment.
In future Datwyler Cabling Solutions will
operate two centres of excellence for
the production of fibre optic cables: the
technologically sophisticated cables for
outdoor use will be fabricated
exclusively in Altdorf, while the
personnel-intensive cables for indoor
applications will be manufactured and
assembled in Datwyler’s new plant in
Taicang.
Datwyler Cabling Solutions can utilise
the specific strengths of both sites and
increase its global competitiveness.
Datwyler Cabling Solutions –
Switzerland
Website:
Year of investment ahead
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❍ The company’s site at Altdorf in
Switzerland
New book for low
voltage wire and cable
Marc Stringer, director product management for Tappan
Wire & Cable, has published Public Cable 1.0, containing
generalised specifications for low voltage wire and cable.
The book normalises more than 2,100 manufacturer’s part
numbers from four major manufacturers in approximately 80
specifications and associated tables.
Each cable has been assigned a brand-neutral designation
as well, making it possible for engineers to specify a
detailed design without necessarily expressing a brand
preference and limiting suppliers’ options.
The 80 specifications include non-plenum rated and plenum
rated cables for CCTV, CATV, SDI coax, RGBHV
constructions, and a wide variety of multi-conductor and
paired cables.
It is written in MasterFormat fashion and titled Public Cable
1.0; Building Specification Section 13410 Electronic Wire &
Cable; the cable specifications appear in Part 2 – Products.
The book also contains Part 1: General and Part 3:
Execution sections, keeping with the MasterFormat
structuring for a non-descript low voltage systems’ Special
Applications or Integrated Systems project.
Public Cable 1.0 is available on Amazon and Barnes &
Noble, and on Google Books as an e-book for PCs.