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to create a real name for the British manufacturer in Australia. Tony Conroy, export sales director of Ellis said: “Our export strategy has always been to identify the very best local distributors and work closely with them in building our name and reputation in their country.” Ellis’s cable cleats are designed and manufactured to secure electrical cables in a manner that can withstand the forces generated by the cables, including those generated during a short circuit fault. Its Vulcan+ cleats and Vari-cleats are tested to the highest safety standards and benefit from 316L stainless steel manufacture and integral low smoke and fume zero-halogen polymeric liner and base pads.

UK manufacturer Ellis has received a substantial order for its oneholealuminum cable clamps, Vari-cleats and Vulcan+ cable cleats for use on the Sydney rail network, currently undergoing a significant upgrade. Ellis’s cleats will secure three 300mm 2 33kV cables installed in a rail tunnel that runs from the Argyle substation, at the southern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, to the new Art Gallery substation on the east side of the city’s Botantic Gardens. The upgrade of this 3km stretch of tunnel is due for completion in late 2013. Ellis secured the specification through its Australian distributor, Sydney-based IPD Industrial Products. The company has been part of Ellis’s worldwide network of distributors since 2001 and has helped

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