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Industry News
Wire & Cable ASIA – March/April 2007
Power to the windfarm
– courtesy of Nexans
French company Nexans has signed a
contract with Denmark’s utility
Energinet.dk to deliver and install the
power export cable for Dong Energy’s
Horns Rev 2 offshore wind farm on the
west coast of Denmark.
This turnkey contract, worth around
€30 million, includes the supply of
42km of AC XLPE 170 kV 3-core power
cable including a fibre-optic element,
transport, laying and termination.
When the cable is installed, in autumn
2008, it will become the world’s longest
XLPE submarine cable at this voltage.
The Horns Rev 2 project will provide a
total wind farm capacity of over 215MW
and cover an area of some 35km2.
The project is situated around 23km
north west of Horns Rev 1.
In 2002 that was the world’s largest
offshore wind farm, with a capacity of
160MW. Nexans also delivered and
installed the power export cables.
“We are particularly proud and happy
that the Danish utility Energinet.dk has
selected Nexans to be the turnkey
contractor for the Horns Rev 2 project,”
said executive vice president Europe
Area, Yvon Raak.
“Following the success of the Horns
Rev 1 project in 2002, this new contract
proves that a new major utility has
complete confidence in Nexans’
capabilities.”
The 170kV XLPE cable for Horns Rev 2
will be manufactured by Nexans’
specialist submarine power cable
factory in Halden, Norway.
The wind farm will be commissioned in
May 2009.
Nexans – France
Fax: +33 15669 8484
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Dong Energy’s Horns Rev 2 offshore wind farm (picture courtesy of Elsam A/S) ▲
New marketing manager for SPC
Singapore Polymer Corporation (SPC) has
appointed Esther Han as marketing manager
in the Asia-Pacific region for thermoplastic
elastomer (TPE) compounds, including the full
range of TPEs developed locally and in the US
by Teknor Apex.
Esther entered the plastics industry in 1990,
joining Phillips Petroleum (now Chevron Phillips),
before moving in the mid-1990s to Akzo Nobel
prior to its merger with Monsanto to form
Flexsys, a manufacturer of rubber chemicals.
In 1997 she became technical manager of the
Synthetic Rubber Group, of Bayer, South East
Asia. She holds an MSc in polymer technology
from the University of Loughborough in
England.
Singapore Polymer Corporation – Singapore Fax: +65 6265 1821
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Esther Han ▲
Techint to the rescue!
Techint Technologies has begun
repairs on the No. 1 pickling line after
a fire at the Magnitogorsk Iron and
Steel (MMK) plant in Russia. The line
was seriously damaged in the blaze in
November last year, but Techint
stepped in to minimise the plant’s
production losses.
The main features of this Techint
Technologies new high-performance
effluent-free pickling line is a very high
capacity (up to 2,200,000 tons per
annum of steel strip), very high process
speed (300m/min), and challenging
maximum strip width (1,850mm) as
well as a new acid regeneration plant.
Techint Technologies – Italy
Fax: +39 010 605 4926
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