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Prysmian Cables and Systems, one of
the largest Italian companies present in
China, completed a high value project
for the Beijing 2008 Olympic games,
developing the high voltage power grid
to supply energy to the Olympic village.
Prysmian commissioned 20 km of high
voltage cables at 220kV to supply
energy to the village that covers over
66 hectares of land.
Prysmian also cabled RAI’s International
Broadcasting Centre, providing con-
nections of a high technical level capable
of ensuring the highest quality of
transmissions. Prysmian supplied all the
passive media and LAN cables under
RAI’s specifications, including UTP CAT
5E & CAT 6 cabling for LAN connectivity
and MMF fibre cabling for broadcast
backbone and broadband transmission.
Prysmian has five manufacturing plants
in China, located in Tianjin (special
cables for industrial applications),
Baoying in Jiangsu Province (high
voltage cables and systems) and Wuxi,
also in Jiangsu, (optic and copper
cables for telecommunications) together
employing over 1,000 staff. Prysmian
Shanghai Trading imports and distributes
Prysmian’s leading range of cable
accessories for MV and HV cables.
Prysmian has recently opened a plant
in Beijing and aims to achieve growth
of about 50% of its Chinese business
by 2010.
The total value of Prysmian’s invest-
ments already made in China and
those predicted is said to be over
€100 million.
Prysmian is involved in other important
Chinese projects, including the
development of a new high voltage
power grid in Shanghai, the cabling of
the Beijing underground and the
development and installation, on behalf
of the China Nuclear Power Engineering
Company, of special, high technology
cables for two nuclear power stations
being built in the provinces of Liaoning
and Fujian.
Prysmian Cables & Systems – Italy
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An Olympic contract for Prysmian
Reelex Packaging Solutions has added a new wing to its facility, devoted to
research and development of the Reelex® packaging system. “Reelex tangle-free
packaging has benefits for thousands of products beyond just LAN and coaxial
cable, and this new wing illustrates our enthusiasm for creating complete
packaging solutions for those products,” said Frank Kotzur, Reelex’s VP of
research and development.
“With this new facility, we will be developing our packaging technology for a
wider range of products including fibre optics, steel cable, building wire
and more.”
The new facility features a full machine shop for creating unique on-demand parts
as well as a state of the art 3D printing machine for fabricating rapid prototypes.
“Because we are the only company developing the Reelex package, we must
have the ability to try new designs and adapt our technology to the unique
characteristics of various products in a rapid manner,” Mr Kotzur said. “We are
positioning ourselves to meet as many packaging demands as possible.”
Reelex Packaging Solutions – USA Fax: +1 845 878 7884
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Reelex adds new R&D wing
to facility
New Sikora service
office in Egypt
Sikora AG, manufacturer and
vendor of measuring and control
technology for the wire, cable and
hose and tube sector, has
announced the opening of a service
office in Cairo, Egypt. The new
office offers a strategic location for
the company’s service and
technical support for the Arabian
countries.
The long-term partnership between
Sikora AG and its Egyptian
representative, Heavy Industries
Services Co (HISCO), formed the
basis for locating a professional
Sikora service team on site. The
new service office, which is based
at the existing HISCO office, will
provide on-call technical service
support.
“Cairo represents an optimum
location for our service office,"
said Harry Prunk, chairman of
Sikora AG.
“The intensive collaboration with
our representative HISCO in Egypt
during the last years has proven
successful. The new service loca-
tion allows us to offer improved
service and responsiveness to the
growing demands of our Arabian
customers.”
Sikora AG – Germany
Fax: +49 421 4890 090
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