WCA March 2007

Industry News

Dong Energy’s Horns Rev 2 offshore wind farm (picture courtesy of Elsam A/S) ▲

Power to the windfarm – courtesy of Nexans

The Horns Rev 2 project will provide a total wind farm capacity of over 215MW and cover an area of some 35km 2 . The project is situated around 23km north west of Horns Rev 1. In 2002 that was the world’s largest offshore wind farm, with a capacity of 160MW. Nexans also delivered and installed the power export cables. “We are particularly proud and happy that the Danish utility Energinet.dk has selected Nexans to be the turnkey contractor for the Horns Rev 2 project,” said executive vice president Europe Area, Yvon Raak.

“Following the success of the Horns Rev 1 project in 2002, this new contract proves that a new major utility has complete confidence in Nexans’ capabilities.” The 170kV XLPE cable for Horns Rev 2 will be manufactured by Nexans’ specialist submarine power cable factory in Halden, Norway. The wind farm will be commissioned in May 2009. Techint to the rescue! Techint Technologies has begun repairs on the No. 1 pickling line after a fire at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel (MMK) plant in Russia. The line was seriously damaged in the blaze in November last year, but Techint stepped in to minimise the plant’s production losses. The main features of this Techint Technologies new high-performance effluent-free pickling line is a very high capacity (up to 2,200,000 tons per annum of steel strip), very high process speed (300m/min), and challenging maximum strip width (1,850mm) as well as a new acid regeneration plant. Techint Technologies – Italy Fax : +39 010 605 4926 Email : tech-italimpianti@techint.it Website : www.techint-technologies.com Nexans – France Fax : +33 15669 8484 Email : info@nexans.com Website : www.nexans.com

French company Nexans has signed a contract with Denmark’s utility Energinet.dk to deliver and install the power export cable for Dong Energy’s Horns Rev 2 offshore wind farm on the west coast of Denmark. This turnkey contract, worth around €30 million, includes the supply of 42km of AC XLPE 170 kV 3-core power cable including a fibre-optic element, transport, laying and termination. When the cable is installed, in autumn 2008, it will become the world’s longest XLPE submarine cable at this voltage.

New marketing manager for SPC Singapore Polymer Corporation (SPC) has appointed Esther Han as marketing manager in the Asia-Pacific region for thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) compounds, including the full range of TPEs developed locally and in the US by Teknor Apex. Esther entered the plastics industry in 1990, joining Phillips Petroleum (now Chevron Phillips), before moving in the mid-1990s to Akzo Nobel prior to its merger with Monsanto to form Flexsys, a manufacturer of rubber chemicals. In 1997 she became technical manager of the Synthetic Rubber Group, of Bayer, South East Asia. She holds an MSc in polymer technology from the University of Loughborough in England.

Esther Han

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Singapore Polymer Corporation – Singapore Fax : +65 6265 1821 Email : ginfo@spcpl.com.sg

Website : www.spcpl.com.sg

Wire & Cable ASIA – March/April 2007