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Figures from ReportLinker feature the development of the automotive wiring harness industry, which has benefitted from the increase in automotive electronics and in the number of hybrid vehicles. Data suggests that Yazaki, Sumitomo, Delphi and Leoni account for over 75 per cent of the global automotive wiring harness market. According to statistics, in 2012 Yazaki accounted for nearly 30 per cent of global market share with an annual revenue of $12.92 billion. In China’s automotive wiring harness market, Japanese enterprises had a market share of about 60 per cent; followed by South Korea’s Yura, Comba and Youjin, accounting for about 15 per cent of the market share. Yazaki, Sumitomo, Leoni, Furukawa, Fujikura, Coroplast and Comba developed from electric wire and cable manufacture. Many of these manufacturers have support from upstream mining resources; Sumitomo and Furukawa have their own copper mine, so cost control is firmer. Traditional automotive parts manufacturers have no adequate advantages in the wiring harness field, evidenced, for example, by Valeo’s sale of its wiring harness business to Leoni. Vehicle wiring harness design involves aspects of electronic, machinery and thermal distribution; the design work must coordinate with entire vehicle manufacturers, and it is difficult for small-scale enterprises to enter this supply chain level. Wiring harness industry data

North Sea cable deal for Prysmian Prysmian Group will design, supply and install a turnkey high voltage alternating current (HVAC) submarine power cable system to connect the North Sea offshore wind park Deutsche Bucht

to the mainland grid. Consisting of two 3-core 155kV extruded cables with integrated fibre optic cable

▲ ▲ Prysmian cable laying vessel Giulio Verne

elements along a 31km submarine route, the system will enable the grid connection of Deutsche Bucht via converter platforms planned within the BorWin cluster. The Deutsche Bucht project execution will be coordinated from new Prysmian Group offices in Hamburg, using production from the group’s facility in Arco Felice (Naples, Italy). Marine cable-laying operations will be performed using the group’s own installation vessels, Giulio Verne and Cable Enterprise , with handover of the supplied systems planned for late 2015. “This new project [is] the 12 th secured by the group that – since the earliest stages – has been investing in this growing sector of renewable wind power in Germany and Northern Europe,” stated Marcello Del Brenna, CEO of Prysmian Powerlink. Prysmian Group – Italy Website : www.prysmian.com

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