EW January 2011

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CCCA fighting to uphold standards

These efforts by UL are, in part, a result of CCCA sharing information and encouraging each of the two independent testing/certification agencies to develop stronger measures to assure compliance to national fire safety codes and telecommunications industry standards for transmission performance. CCCA is a non-profit organisation, founded in 2007. Member companies include AlphaGary, Anixter, Berk-Tek, CommScope, Daikin America, Dupont, OFS (a Furukawa company), PolyOne, Solvay Solexis and Tyco Electronics. CCCA – USA Website : www.cccassoc.org

The Communications Cable and Connectivity Association, Inc (CCCA) applauded action by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to stem the flow of non-compliant communications cable being imported into the North Americanmarket. UL has taken strong action to maintain the integrity of its UL mark and cable performance certifications by publicly identifying manufacturers and their distributors who are supplying substandard and unsafe cable products into the market. In addition, UL has established further initiatives to verify the integrity of UL listed cables through detailed analytical testing of cable component materials and new marketplace surveillance.

AMSC lands world’s largest order El Sewedy Cables, which produces power transmission and telecoms cables, already has plants in many countries from Egypt to Ethiopia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Zambia. The group exports to the Middle East and north Africa, Spain, Portugal, eastern Europe and Brazil, with African countries taking 30 per cent of its exports. El Sewedy Electric – Egypt Fax : +20 2291 7078 Email : info@elsewedy.com Website : www.elsewedyelectric.com Egyptian group El Sewedy Cables is expecting to invest up to $50 million to establish a cable manufacturing plant in Libya before the end of 2011. New cable plant set for Libya

LS Cable in 2012. “Our objective is to be the leading provider of superconductor power cables for electric utilities worldwide,” said LS Cable president, Jong-ho Son. “This Amperium wire contract helps ensure we will have the wire we need to complete the superconductor cable projects we have underway with KEPCO in Korea and also take on commercial project opportunities globally such as Tres Amigas in the US.” American Superconductor

American Superconductor Corporation has received what is expected to be the world’s largest order for high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire. LS Cable Ltd, a long-standing client of AMSC, has placed an order for 3,000,000m (nearly 10 million feet) of Amperium wire, AMSC’s proprietary second generation (2G) HTS wire. LS Cable intends to utilise the wire to complete alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) superconductor cable projects globally. Under the terms of the contract, AMSC is to begin shipping Amperium wire to

Corporation – USA Fax : +1 978 842 3024 Website : www.amsc.com

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