WCA November 2008

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An Olympic contract for Prysmian

The total value of Prysmian’s invest- ments already made in China and those predicted is said to be over €100 million. Prysmian is involved in other important Chinese projects, including the development of a new high voltage power grid in Shanghai, the cabling of the Beijing underground and the development and installation, on behalf of the China Nuclear Power Engineering Company, of special, high technology cables for two nuclear power stations being built in the provinces of Liaoning and Fujian. Prysmian Cables & Systems – Italy Website : www.prysmian.com

and MMF fibre cabling for broadcast backbone and broadband transmission. Prysmian has five manufacturing plants in China, located in Tianjin (special cables for industrial applications), Baoying in Jiangsu Province (high voltage cables and systems) and Wuxi, also in Jiangsu, (optic and copper cables for telecommunications) together employing over 1,000 staff. Prysmian Shanghai Trading imports and distributes Prysmian’s leading range of cable accessories for MV and HV cables. Prysmian has recently opened a plant in Beijing and aims to achieve growth of about 50% of its Chinese business by 2010.

Prysmian Cables and Systems, one of the largest Italian companies present in China, completed a high value project for the Beijing 2008 Olympic games, developing the high voltage power grid to supply energy to the Olympic village. Prysmian commissioned 20 km of high voltage cables at 220kV to supply energy to the village that covers over 66 hectares of land. Prysmian also cabled RAI’s International Broadcasting Centre, providing con- nections of a high technical level capable of ensuring the highest quality of transmissions. Prysmian supplied all the passive media and LAN cables under RAI’s specifications, including UTP CAT 5E & CAT 6 cabling for LAN connectivity New Sikora service office in Egypt Sikora AG, manufacturer and vendor of measuring and control technology for the wire, cable and hose and tube sector, has announced the opening of a service office in Cairo, Egypt. The new office offers a strategic location for the company’s service and technical support for the Arabian countries. The long-term partnership between Sikora AG and its Egyptian representative, Heavy Industries Services Co (HISCO), formed the basis for locating a professional Sikora service team on site. The new service office, which is based at the existing HISCO office, will provide on-call technical service support. “Cairo represents an optimum location for our service office," said Harry Prunk, chairman of Sikora AG. “The intensive collaboration with our representative HISCO in Egypt during the last years has proven successful. The new service loca- tion allows us to offer improved service and responsiveness to the growing demands of our Arabian customers.”

Reelex adds new R&D wing to facility

Reelex tangle-free packaging for cable m m

Reelex Packaging Solutions has added a new wing to its facility, devoted to research and development of the Reelex ® packaging system. “Reelex tangle-free packaging has benefits for thousands of products beyond just LAN and coaxial cable, and this new wing illustrates our enthusiasm for creating complete packaging solutions for those products,” said Frank Kotzur, Reelex’s VP of research and development. “With this new facility, we will be developing our packaging technology for a wider range of products including fibre optics, steel cable, building wire and more.” The new facility features a full machine shop for creating unique on-demand parts as well as a state of the art 3D printing machine for fabricating rapid prototypes. “Because we are the only company developing the Reelex package, we must have the ability to try new designs and adapt our technology to the unique characteristics of various products in a rapid manner,” Mr Kotzur said. “We are positioning ourselves to meet as many packaging demands as possible.”

Sikora AG – Germany Fax : +49 421 4890 090 Email : sales@sikora.net Website : www.sikora.net

Reelex Packaging Solutions – USA

Fax : +1 845 878 7884 Website : www.reelex.com

Email : sales@reelex.com

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