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Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2013

www.read-wca.com

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

:

www.datwyler.com

Year of investment ahead

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.