WCA September 2013

Year of investment ahead

17m francs will have gone into modernisation and the acquisition of new production facilities, and 13 million into renewing the building infrastructure. Investment produces more efficient, more highly automated systems and optimised procedures and processes, which means that the Altdorf site will remain competitive, even in a challenging international environment. In future Datwyler Cabling Solutions will operate two centres of excellence for the production of fibre optic cables: the technologically sophisticated cables for outdoor use will be fabricated exclusively in Altdorf, while the personnel-intensive cables for indoor applications will be manufactured and assembled in Datwyler’s new plant in Taicang. Datwyler Cabling Solutions can utilise the specific strengths of both sites and increase its global competitiveness. Datwyler Cabling Solutions – Switzerland Website : www.datwyler.com

Datwyler Cabling Solutions continues to invest in production in Switzerland and China. Over the next 12 months Dätwyler Cabling Solutions AG will be investing around 10 million Swiss francs – €8.1m – in fibre optic production facilities, around half of this in the Altdorf (Switzerland) site and half in the new Taicang site in China, which the company will be commissioning in 2014. A massive amount of data is being sent around the world 24 hours a day. In the past ten years the worldwide bandwidth requirement for data communication has increased more than tenfold. Ever-higher bandwidths are needed for watching television and making telephone calls over the Internet as well as for many other modern web applications – and this is a steeply upward trend. Fibre optic cables are the ideal medium for transmitting these huge amounts of data. Datwyler was one of the first Swiss companies to begin producing fibre optic cable, 27 years ago at the Altdorf

site, and it has now been manufacturing in China for 15 years. Datwyler Cabling Solutions intends using these many years of know-how to profit from the rapidly growing demand for fibre optic cable. To this end the company will be investing a further ten million Swiss francs in its fibre optic cable production facilities. In Altdorf the modernisation of fibre optic cable fabrication ties up seamlessly with the on-going investment programme. The company has invested around 30m Swiss francs since 2011 in the Swiss cable plant, and by the end of 2013 ❍ ❍ The company’s site at Altdorf in Switzerland

New book for low voltage wire and cable Marc Stringer, director product management for Tappan Wire & Cable, has published Public Cable 1.0, containing generalised specifications for low voltage wire and cable. The book normalises more than 2,100 manufacturer’s part numbers from four major manufacturers in approximately 80 specifications and associated tables. Each cable has been assigned a brand-neutral designation as well, making it possible for engineers to specify a detailed design without necessarily expressing a brand preference and limiting suppliers’ options. The 80 specifications include non-plenum rated and plenum rated cables for CCTV, CATV, SDI coax, RGBHV constructions, and a wide variety of multi-conductor and paired cables. It is written in MasterFormat fashion and titled Public Cable 1.0; Building Specification Section 13410 Electronic Wire & Cable; the cable specifications appear in Part 2 – Products. The book also contains Part 1: General and Part 3: Execution sections, keeping with the MasterFormat structuring for a non-descript low voltage systems’ Special Applications or Integrated Systems project. Public Cable 1.0 is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and on Google Books as an e-book for PCs.

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Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2013