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Industry News
14 Wire & Cable ASIA – May/June 2007
Calendar of Events
2007
May
7-10: Interwire 2007 – trade
exhibition – Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Organisers: Wire Association Int Inc
Website:
28-31: wire Russia – trade
exhibition – Moscow, Russia
Organisers: Messe Düsseldorf GmbH
Email:
Website:
June
10-12: World Wire and Cable
Conference (incorporating the
KMI Fibreoptics Conference) –
conference – Paris, France
Organisers: CRU Events
Email:
Website:
21-24: 8th China (Guangzhou)
International Metal and Metallurgy
Exhibition – Guangzhou, PR China
Organisers: Julang Exhibition Co Ltd
Email:
Website:
October
2-4: Metaltech 2007 – trade
exhibition – Sao Paulo, Brazil
Organisers: Grupo Cipa
Website:
16-18: wire Southeast Asia 2007 –
trade exhibition – Bangkok, Thailand
Organisers: Messe Düsseldorf Asia
Fax : +65 6337 4633
Email:
Website:
17: Non-ferrous Bangkok Seminar –
technical seminar – Bangkok, Thailand
Organisers: IWMA, ITA
Fax : +44 1926 314755
Email:
Website:
November
5-7: Wire ’07 Bologna – conference
– Bologna, Italy
Organisers: ACIMAF, CET, IWMA&WAI
Email:
Website:
11-14: IWCS – conference – Florida,
USA
Organisers: IWCS
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Website:
Prysmian’s Venezuela contract for 2,000km of cable
Prysmian Telecom Cables & Systems has secured a contract to supply more than
2,000km of Optical Ground Wire (OPGW) cable to Venezuela.
The contract was signed at the end of last year between Prysmian
Telecomunicacoes Cabos e Sistemas, Brazil, and the leading Chinese company,
Zhongxing Telecom Equipment Company Limited (ZTE), who will install the cables
on the high voltage (up to 400kV) network of CADAFE, the Venezuelan state
electrical utility.
OPGW cable forms an integral part of an overhead electricity network, performing
both the primary function of a conventional earth conductor together with the
provision of a state-of-the-art communications link – thanks to the optical fibres
contained within and the cable supplied in this contract will form the first part of a
major national telecoms network providing a full range of broadband and internet
services to CADAFE customers.
A total of 2,260km of OPGW is to be supplied in this first phase with the cable
containing a combination of 24 and 48 singlemode optical fibres. Production of
cables for the project will be focused on the Prysmian facility at Sorocaba in
Brazil. Prysmian also manufactures OPGW at factories in Spain and China.
Since production of OPGW started in 1984 Prysmian has supplied more than
100,000km of cable, all based upon the highly reliable aluminium tube technology,
in more than 60 countries. The optical fibres used within the cables will be
produced at Prysmian’s facility in Battipaglia, Italy.
First deliveries are due to be made before the end of January and the full quantity
will be supplied by mid-2007 with the overall project continuing into next year.
Prysmian Telecom Cables & Systems – Italy
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Nexans, France, has been awarded a
contract, worth approximately €15
million, to supply medium and low
voltage power cables for Vietnam’s first
crude oil refinery.
The Dung Quat refinery project is being
commissioned by Technip, a major
corporation in the field of oil, gas and
petrochemical engineering, construction
and services, and the leader in a
consortium with Japan Gas Corporation
and Tecnicas Reunidas, on behalf of
Vietnam Oil & Gas Corporation
(Petrovietnam).
The Dung Quat project includes both
the refinery and crude oil import
facilities. The refinery is designed to
have a processing capacity of 145,000
BPSD (barrels per stream day), which
will serve Vietnam’s domestic market
and reduce the country’s oil product
imports.
Nexans will supply approximately
1,400km of medium and low voltage
power cables, which will be installed
underground to supply power for the
contractors involved in the construction
of the refinery, and then for the refinery
itself. The cables will be manufactured
by Nexans plants in Vietnam, Korea
and France, and should be delivered
and installed from January to Septem-
ber 2007. Mechanical completion of
the refinery should be in 2008.
Nexans has had an industrial presence
in Vietnam since 2001, and currently
employs 435 people in the country,
with three industrial plants dedicated
to telecom/energy infrastructures,
industrial, building wire and LAN
markets.
Nexans – France
Fax: +33 15669 8484
Email:
Website :
€15m power cable contract for Vietnam refinery
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