WCA March 2013

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The future must
be about quality
A recent two-day summit on wire and cable products
came with a stark warning over quality from the
deputy chief of the General Administration of Quality
Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
Wei Chuanzhong was speaking after it was revealed
that the administration found that of 1,762 batches of
electrical wire and cable products randomly selected
from ten provinces, 208 batches were substandard.
“Some of the wire and cable products now still fail to
reach quality standards, which may endanger people’s
health and public safety,” he said.
He highlighted the potential damage: “Electrical fires
account for about 80 per cent of severe fire hazards in
China every year, and over half of such fires were
triggered by the use of substandard electrical wire and
cable products.”
That is a frightening amount when it is considered
that China is believed to be the world’s largest wire and
cable manufacturer, with more than 7,800 wire and cable
companies in the country exporting just three per cent
each year.
You can read the full story on page 11 of this issue of
Wire & Cable ASIA.
Also in the headlines in China was the news that the
country’s wind farms were expected to produce over
100 billion kWh of energy during 2012.
The figure signifies a ‘huge growth potential and room
for market expansion,’ said Liu Qi, vice director of the
national energy administration at
the China Windpower Conf-
erence in Bejing.
You can read the whole story on
page 14.
David Bell
Editor
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