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Wire & Cable ASIA – March/April 2013
Dynamic Reliance
Reliance Communications, India’s fully integrated
telecommunications service provider, and Alcatel-Lucent
have announced a first-of-its-kind, end-to-end network
managed services contract aimed at delivering superior
customer experience in Eastern and Southern India up to
2020.
The contract, which extends RCOM’s existing relationship
with Alcatel-Lucent to over $1bn, will deliver world-class,
seamless voice and data communications services to
RCOM customers.
This is India’s first fully integrated strategic agreement and
one of just a few globally to meet the fast evolving customer
demand for communications applications and services in
one of the world’s most dynamic telecom markets.
Alcatel-Lucent will enhance Reliance Communication’s
operations, and synergise hitherto independent wireless and
wireline teams to form a single network management
organisation.
This optimised integration of resources will help Reliance
Communications to strengthen its focus on growing its
business, with top-of-the-line services to customers.
Alcatel-Lucent will also drive a standardisation of the tools,
processes and best practices that are applied across
RCOM’s businesses.
Reliance Communications – India
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Solar power takes off
Cochin International Airport is set to become the first airport
in India to use solar power for running its utility grid system.
A Kolkata-based solar module manufacturing company,
Vikram Solar, will install a 100kW solar power facility.
Giving details of the system, a senior company official said
Vikram Solar will design, install and commission the solar
photovoltaic power system.
“The panels will generate DC electric power, which unlike
the general practice, [will] not be fed directly into the utility
grid,” Gyanesh Chaudhary, director of the company said.
He explained that inverters will convert the direct current
output from the solar array into a grid-compliant AC voltage
for lighting in the terminal building. Energy production is
estimated to be 148MWh per year, with a capacity of 100
kilowatts-peak (kWp).
Terming the initiative of Cochin Airport Authority as an
“excellent opportunity and a path-breaking vision” to
encourage use of green energy for critical service utilities at
the airport, Shaibal Ghosh, the company’s president, said:
“It would open the doors for all other airports and utility
services for use of sustainable ‘Clean and Green Power’ and
help support to re-energise the environment.”
Vikram Solar – India
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Rope investment
Bharat Wire Ropes (BWR) is to invest in a new plant at
Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, to expand its total manufacturing
capacity to 76,000 tonnes.
The wire rope manufacturer’s capacity currently stands at
10,000 tonnes per year. Work on the project will be
completed in June 2014.
“The Chalisgaon project will be state-of-the-art, with
integrated pickling, patenting galvanising, wire drawing,
stranding and closing – all under one roof,” said promoter
and managing director ML Mittal.
“The machinery will be imported from Germany, Italy and
Spain. Half of the production will be exported across the
globe and the remaining will be sold in Indian markets,” he
added.
Established in 1986 in Mumbai as a specialist wire
manufacturing company, BWR now makes strands, wire
ropes and slings for use in general engineering industries,
fishing, elevators, cranes, material handling, onshore/
offshore oil exploration, ports, shipping and mining, as well
as supplying railways, navy, air force and other government
and semi-government organisations, and exporting. Its
portfolio covers a diameter range from 6mm to 125mm.
Bharat Wire Ropes – India
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Industry bodies call for
equal power
Industry and trade associations from different parts of Tamil
Nadu met during December to discuss the issue of
equitable distribution of power.
According to R Palaniswami, honorary secretary, Indian
chamber of commerce and industry, Coimbatore, while
Chennai division had its power cut for two hours a day, in
the rest of the state power cuts extended to between 14
and 16 hours per day.
Though repeated representations have been made to the
chief minister, the electricity minister, and to the chairman of
Tangedco, (Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution
Corporation) the situation had not improved, but was
“deteriorating day by day”. He said some industries were
facing threat of closure as a result.
Mr Palaniswami said that, with a view to discussing the
issue of equitable distribution of power, a meeting of various
industry and trade associations from all over the state was
to be held in Coimbatore last December.