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The IWCS announced at the end of October that
Mr Kiddoo would be taking over the role. No stranger
to the industry, with more than 30 years' experience in
the industry, he has also served on the IWCS symposium
committee and board of directors for over 20 years,
and works with a number of other industry associations.
This will be Mr Barteld's tenth IWCS and that is a fitting
milestone for him to bow out and enjoy his retirement.
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The format remains the same with a range of papers
being presented over the two days, along with the
table-top exhibition running alongside on 10th and 11th
November, but there is also the addition of a chance to
meet Dave Kiddoo, the new incoming chief executive,
and bid farewell to John Barteld, the incumbent.
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Products, Machines and
Technology
The latest news from machine
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Measurement Instruments
Measure & Control
Instruments
In line data collection,
display, record and report
CIM PC software:
2014
NOVEMBER
9-12 November: IWCS
Rhode Island, USA
Conference and table top exhibition
www.iwcs.org
2015
JANUARY
10-13 January: Wire and Cable Arabia
Dubai, UAE
Exhibition
www.wirecablearabia.com
MARCH
23-27 March: NPE2015
Orlando, Florida, USA
Exhibition
www.npe.org
April
28-30 April: Interwire 2015
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Exhibition
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MAY
12-15 May: wire Russia
Moscow, Russia
Exhibition
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SEPTEMBER
15-17 September: wire Southeast Asia
Bangkok, Thailand
Exhibition
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MAKING
THE NEWS
The $1 billion cable
A NextEra Energy proposal to bring
energy into the Boston area would
involve the seabed burial of the 68-mile
520MW transmission line, at a cost of
around one billion dollars.
The proposal is competing with a
cheaper alternative to run just 25 miles
of transmission line, while making other
upgrades to help supply power to the
area, and for $350 million less than than
the seabed option.
Burying transmission lines is an expensive
operation, and NextEra subsidiary New
Hampshire Transmission must convince
regulators and lawmakers that the
added reliability is worth the extra cost.
National Grid and Northeast Utilities are
partnering on an alternative proposal
that would cost substantially less, and
both companies have a targeted
completion date of 2018.
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The Boston Globe spoke with Boston's
chief of environment, Brian Swett,
who said reliability was a factor in the
decision. “My concern as the energy
official in Boston is not only how much my
ratepayers are paying, but how reliable is
that grid – what’s the percentage that it’s
on during storms?” Swett told the Globe.
“Down time costs my constituents, and
my taxpayers, money.”
NextEra is arguing that the competing
proposal would need to take some
active power lines offline during
construction and system upgrades,
meaning more expensive power will
need to be purchased. NextEra believes
that the final price tag on the National
Grid-Northeast Utilities proposal could
be substantially higher than advertised.
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Fiber expansion
Unite Private Networks (UPN) has announced a major fiber optic
network expansion in Iowa. The nearly 700-mile route will create a
diverse ring around the state, connecting all major metro areas in
central and eastern Iowa including Des Moines, Ames, Cedar Rapids,
Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Iowa City and Davenport. Initial construction of
the fiber optic began in September and is expected to be complete
in late 2015.
The new heavy-count fiber network will support several anchor
customers including fiber-to-the-tower and small cell deployment
projects for a major wireless carrier.
“No other carrier has added this much fiber in Iowa in years,” said
Steve Bergeron, UPN director of sales.
“This is exactly the kind of broadband infrastructure investment Iowa
needs to be attracting,” said John Stineman, executive director of
the Heartland Technology Alliance, a regional coalition of business
and consumer technology users that advocates for technology and
broadband-friendly policies. “UPN’s investment will connect Iowans
at faster speeds in more places – helping to drive commerce and
innovation. Iowa needs to encourage more investments like this in our
broadband infrastructure.”
“We expect customers to benefit from the lower latency and route
diversity provided by the new fiber network. We look forward to
providing broader access to the suite of UPN products, including
ethernet services from 10Mbps to 100Gbps, wavelength services,
Internet access, and dark fiber,” said Jason W Adkins, UPN senior vice
president of sales and marketing.
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Strata Solar has passed one billion dollars
in project investment in North Carolina,
with over 65 solar facilities in 40 counties
across the state. Since 2009, Strata Solar
has brought 350MW of solar energy
online and has helped North Carolina
become the third largest state for solar
installations.
On 9th October Strata staff, elected
officials, solar industry advocates and
land owners gathered at the Anderson
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Solar Facility in Roseboro, NC to tour the
installation and celebrate the investment.
Markus Wilhelm, co-founder and CEO of
Strata Solar, said: ”This is a really big day
for Strata Solar, a company that started
as a family business serving its local
community. We had big dreams and
wanted to make a difference in our local
environment and here we are today,
celebrating one billion dollars' worth
of investment with utility scale projects
across our entire state.”
“North Carolina is a national leader in
solar energy, and companies like Strata
Solar have played a big role in our past
and will continue to do so in the future,”
said Governor Pat McCrory, speaking
at the event.
Strata Solar currently has 12 projects
under construction, and is forecasting
to achieve its second billion dollars
invested in solar projects before the
end of 2016.
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The world’s leading conference for peer reviewed technical papers and presentations on
technologies and trends in wire, cable, connectivity and assemblies for the communications,
data, electronics, power, industrial, automotive and aerospace industries.
Southwire is renovating an
existing 650,000ft2 facility in
Carrollton, Georgia, USA, to
expand its building wire and
feeder
metal
clad
cable
manufacturing capacity.
This additional capacity will
enable Southwire to increase
production while streamlining
operations.
Production
has
already begun at the new plant
with additional equipment to be
added over the coming months.
Once complete, Southwire will
be using updated equipment
and manufacturing techniques
to produce several of its key
product lines.
participate in the world’s leading conference
Renewing
and improving
benefits and the property allows
for further expansion as needed,”
said Phil Tuggle, SVP building
wire, Southwire. “Copper wire
will continue to be our largest
building wire category, but the
market is continually demanding
value engineered alternatives to
copper. So not only will we get
increased capacity, but we'll
do it with an extremely efficient
footprint with room for future
growth.”
Tuggle continued: “We are
returning a shuttered facility to
productive use and improving
our manufacturing capability in
the process.”
“This new facility delivers a
number
of
manufacturing
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Interwire time
The Wire Association International (WAI) Inc will host its
second global continuous casting forum (GCCF) from 27th
to 30th April 2015, at the Georgia World Congress Center,
Atlanta, USA, concurrently with Interwire 2015 and the 85th
annual convention.
The major continuous casting rod processes will be represented
in a program that will trace the continuous casting process
from raw material through finished product, product
testing, and quality measures. The format will include panel
discussions, and operational and technical presentations,
with time allowed in the schedule to explore the Interwire
exhibit floor. (Stand sales for Interwire are reported to have
reached 90 percent of available space, with 232 stands sold
to date, representing 280 exhibiting companies.)
The GCCF will include dedicated educational sessions
addressing topics of specific interest to copper and aluminum
processors, with shared copper and aluminum sessions to
address global markets, cost-saving opportunities, and
process fundamentals.
Change at the top
for IWCS
David Kiddoo has been appointed CEO and director of
the IWCS, effective 1st January 2015. He will take up his
responsibilities after the retirement of the current CEO, John
Barteld.
Mr Kiddoo has served on the IWCS symposium committee
and board of directors for over 20 years, and has over
30 years of experience with the wire and cable industry,
primarily at DuPont and AlphaGary. He is also an active
participant with many industry organizations, including the
CCCA and NEMA.
A graduate of Bucknell University, with a degree in chemical
engineering, Dave Kiddoo and his wife, Lisa, live in Maryland.
After ten years in the position, John Bartleld is retiring as CEO/
director of the IWCS, but plans to continue his teaching
activities at York College of Pennsylvania.
Casting practitioners, raw material suppliers, and equipment
manufacturers are invited to attend. Casting practitioners
will have the opportunity to tour Southwire’s copper rod mill
in Carrollton, Georgia, on Monday, 27th April 2015.
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WIRE & CABLE MAKING MACHINERY
PLANT OPERATIONS SESSIONS
$250m
aluminum
recycling
plant
US-based Novelis, a manufacturer
of rolled aluminum products, has
opened a $258 million recycling
plant in Germany to process
aluminum scrap obtained
throughout Europe.
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES
Novelis president and chief
executive Phil Martens told
Reuters that the plant, in
Nachterstedt
in
eastern
Germany, will produce 400,000
tonnes of aluminum annually
using scrap from drinks cans,
cables, wires and industrial
waste. The ready availability
of scrap in Europe is a major
reason for locating the plant in
Germany, Martens explained. Full
production should be reached in
January 2015.
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“We will be sourcing scrap from
just about everywhere in Europe,”
he said, including Germany,
Scandinavia, Spain, France, Italy
and Eastern Europe.
About 300,000 tonnes of the metal
produced will go to the giant
Alunorf rolling mill in Germany,
which produces about 1.5
million tonnes of rolled aluminum
annually and is jointly owned by
Novelis and Norwegian group
Norsk Hydro. A further 100,000
tonnes will go to a Novelis plant
in Switzerland.
The output will replace imports of
aluminum metal and purchases
from traders and other third
parties after closures of European
aluminum smelters have made
the metal increasingly difficult to
source, Martens explained.
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Gateway
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SAR, Philippines, Guam, Hawaii and
the US west coast.
The Asia America Gateway (AAG)
consortium has selected Ciena’s
GeoMesh
submarine
solution,
including the 6500 packet-optical
platform, powered by WaveLogic
coherent optics with Flexible Grid
technology, for a 100G expansion to
its AAG trans-Pacific cable network.
The system was designed to serve as
an alternative connectivity and as
a complementary solution for links
between southeast Asia and the USA.
The AAG cable system is designed to
offer a more secure and diversified
route that avoids the hazardous
Pacific Ring, so mitigating the effects
from natural disasters including
earthquakes and tsunamis.
AAG is a 20,000km submarine
communications
cable
system,
connecting Southeast Asia with
the US mainland, across the Pacific
Ocean via Guam and Hawaii. It
provides
connectivity
between
Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei
Darussalam, Vietnam, Hong Kong
Ciena’s converged packet optical
solutions will add multi-terabit data
capacity, and enable AAG’s network
to meet the demands of on-demand
data networking services and traffic
growth driven by mobile applications,
high definition video and cloud
computing.
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Medical
acquisition
Carlisle Companies Incorporated
has acquired the Shenzhen cable
assembly producer LHi Technology.
With annual sales of over $100 million,
LHi sells its customized, high-reliability
wire,
cable
and
components
to
leading
medical
device
manufacturers around the world.
The business will operate as part of
Carlisle Interconnect Technologies,
a global provider of wire, cable
and
interconnect
components
for
commercial
and
military
aircraft, medical applications, and
communications systems.
The acquisition will strengthen Carlisle’s
successful launch of its medical cable
and cable assembly product line by
adding new products, new customers,
and complementary technologies to
better serve the global healthcare
market.
David A Roberts, Carlisle’s chairman
and CEO, said: “We are excited about
the acquisition of LHi, which helps
us further penetrate the targeted
healthcare market by adding scale
and
technological
capabilities
while broadening service ranges to
our customers in this very attractive
market sector.”
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ACSR contract
Basin Electric Power Cooperative, one
of the largest electric generation and
transmission (G&T) cooperatives in the
US, has awarded a contract to General
Cable for the supply of overhead
conductor for a new 345kV transmission
line.
The
TransPowr
ACSR
overhead
conductors offer long-term perforformance and reliability, even in the
complex operating conditions existing
in the north central US.
General Cables electric utility products
sales vice president, Joshua Katzman,
said: "Our associates are proud to
provide performance-proven, reliable
product for this high profile project,
backed by dependable service and
engineering expertise.
Under the $10 million contract, General
Cable will deliver 2,312kcmil thrasher
aluminum conductor steel reinforced
(ACSR) overhead conductor for
the transmission line, which will run
between the Antelope Valley station
and substations near Grassy Butte and "With a strong reputation in safety,
Williston, ending at the Neset substation quality and integrity, General Cable is
pleased to partner with Basin Electric
near Tioga.
and support their initiative to add electric
The Antelope Valley station project transmission capacity and enhanced
features approximately 200 miles of reliability to an aging national grid."
single circuit 345kV and double circuit
345/115kV transmission lines to enhance
capacity and reliability as well as system
stability for the region.
Scholarship
award
Allied Wire and Cable has awarded a
$10,000 scholarship to local student Peyton
Lamkins. Peyton, the daughter of Paula
Lamkins, a member of the marketing
department since 2009, will be attending
the Tyler School of Art at Temple University,
to study Fine Arts.
Korean
contract
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP),
a subsidiary of the Korea Electric Power
Corporation (KEPCO), has selected
General Cable’s Ultrol® 60+ class 1E
nuclear qualified cables for a multi-year
contract.
Ultrol cables have been designed and
tested to meet the stringent requirements
of GEN III+ reactor technology, including
those outlined for APR 1400 and PWR
units being deployed at the KHNP
facilities. The cables have predicted
aging properties of over 60 years, and
radiation resistance with a margin that
exceeds industry requirements.
“General Cable’s strong, long-term
commitment and proven capability
to provide qualified cables for safe,
ongoing nuclear power facility operation
to the nuclear industry is evidenced with
this award,” said Robert W Schuermann,
vice president and general manager,
specialty cables, General Cable North
America.
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The annual AWC Scholarship began in
2011, and is given to one very deserving
student each fall. The winner of the
scholarship receives $2,500 per year for a
four-year program, or $2,000 per year for
a five-year program, totaling $10,000 over
the course of the student’s college career.
To be eligible for the scholarship, the
student must be a child of an employee
who has been with Allied for at least three
years, and be a high school senior with a
minimum 3.0 GPA. The student must also
write a compelling essay explaining their
application.
Peyton is the third student to receive the
scholarship.
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Safety in cables
RSCC Nuclear Cable (RSCC)
has completed delivery of
safety-related
replacement
cables (class 1E) for the Shin Kori
Unit 3 nuclear power plant, part
of a nearly $13 million award
by Korea Hydro Nuclear Power
(KHNP). RSCC was selected to
replace cables at two APR-1400
reactors, and has achieved the
cable industry’s first installation of
60-year qualified nuclear cables.
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1,000 reels of low and medium
voltage power, instrumentation
and control cables have been
freighted to Korea over the past six
months. Each reel was inspected
several times during and after
manufacturing in the US, and
again several times before and
after installation at Shin Kori.
“RSCC is proud to have achieved
this milestone in the qualification
and manufacturing of the world’s
highest quality cables, under the
most challenging circumstances
of scrutiny and delivery for KHNP,”
said Steven Bonnell, president of
RSCC Wire & Cable.
“Shin Kori’s cables have undergone
more quality inspections than
any other cable in the nuclear
industry,” said Corey McDaniel,
RSCC's vice president Asia. The
cables installed at Shin Kori are the
first ever to meet such stringent
requirements, withstanding harsh
conditions that include extreme
temperatures, pressures, steam,
and radiation.
RSCC has delivered over one
million feet of cable to meet the
urgent demand for qualified
replacement cables. More than
Elsewhere, RSCC cables have
been installed in over half of
Korea’s reactors and in every
reactor in the US.
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Company’s
drive for
children
S&E Specialty Polymers LLC recently
sponsored its second annual charity
golf tournament at the Sterling National
Country Club in Sterling, MA, in support
of Life is good Playmakers, the non-profit
action arm of The Life is good Company.
The Play Fore Playmakers tournament
was a great success, with all profits from
registrations, donations and sponsorships
donated directly to the Playmakers
organization.
On 25th August Duane Shooltz, president
and COO, and Jay Munsey, national
sales director of S&E, presented Life
is good Playmakers with a check for
Learning
cable
Allied Wire & Cable has added two
instalments to its Cable Basics video
series: ‘Shielding and armor’ and
‘Insulation and jacketing’ have joined
‘Cable basics 101: conductors’.
The first video explained how a
conductor functions, and why the
material and type of conductor are
important. ‘Insulation and jacketing’
focuses entirely on the functions and
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$20,000 at the Life is good headquarters
in Boston.
Life is good Playmakers helps young
children hurt by trauma, such as
violence, abuse, poverty and illness. The
organization provides comprehensive
support to early childhood professionals
– such as teachers, social workers and
medical specialists – dedicated to
caring for these at-risk children. To date,
Life is good Playmakers has supported
over 4,000 care providers nationwide.
“We could not have been happier with
the golf tournament and humbled by
components to a wire’s insulation
and jacket; how insulation works to
protect the conductor while guarding
against interference, and to keep the
conductor’s signal strong, and how the
jacket works to protect the cable from
environmental hazards.
‘Shielding and armor’ details common
shielding and armor construction types,
and explains the terminology and
the partnership with S&E,” said Rich
Cremin, partner at Life is good. “We
are all extremely grateful to have
friends like Duane, Jay, and the good
folks at Sterling National on our team.
The money raised fuels the work of the
Playmakers who help kids overcome
poverty, violence, and illness. We are
already looking forward to next year’s
tournament!”
S&E has announced its continuing
commitment
to
support
the
organization, with the third Play Fore
Playmakers tournament scheduled for
20th July 2015.
materials in common use. While shielding
protects the inside of the cable, and
armor prevents physical damage from
the outside, there are many different
materials and types of shielding and
armor, and this video explains the
functionality and respective merits of
each type.
The videos can be viewed on Allied’s
YouTube channel.
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EUROPE
NEWS
UK’s longest
onshore HV
connection
A joint venture between Statoil, Statkraft
and Masdar, Dudgeon Offshore Windfarm
Ltd, will invest approximately £1.5 billion in
an offshore wind farm generating enough
energy to power 410,000 homes every
year.
As part of the project, Carillion will undertake
all civil engineering and cable installation
activities, including crossing a number of
watercourses and strategic roads using
trenchless techniques. The project is the
longest onshore HV connection delivered
in the UK.
A new cable system will connect the
subsea cable, taking the power from the
offshore wind turbines, to a new National
Grid substation. The contract will involve
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the design, supply and installation of
288km of 132kV cable and associated
jointing accessories.
The onshore cabling will begin later this
year, and is scheduled to be commissioned
in 2016.
Graham Carr, MD of Carillion Network
Services, said: “We are delighted to have
been selected for this complex contract
to deliver the onshore cabling project
for the Dudgeon Offshore Windfarm. This
project builds on the excellent relationship
that Carillion has developed with Statoil
and Statkraft.”
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Power for Scotland
Power at the Heart
HVDC upgrade
Rig contract
Global wind and solar company
Mainstream
Renewable
Power
has
received consent from Scottish ministers
to build and operate its 450MW Neart
na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm in
the Outer Forth estuary in the North Sea.
Pre-construction activities are expected to
begin next year and the wind farm should
be generating electricity by 2018.
Developers have announced that the
world’s first heart-shaped solar power plant
is to be built on a Pacific island. German
solar company Conergy is to build the
2MW photovoltaic plant on the largest
island of the French overseas territory of
New Caledonia, located in the southwest
Pacific Ocean around 1,200km east of
Australia.
Energinet.dk, the transmission system
operator in Denmark, and 50 Hertz, the
transmission system operator responsible for
the eastern part of Germany, have given
ABB an order worth around $16 million to
upgrade the 600MW Kontek high voltage
direct current (HVDC) transmission link.
Prysmian Group has been awarded a new
order by Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding
Co Ltd (SWS) – a wholly owned subsidiary of
China CSSC Holding Ltd – to supply 320km of
NEK 606 offshore cables for the company’s
new 2+2 CJ46-X100-D jack-up (self-elevating)
drilling rigs.
The wind farm will consist of up to 75
wind turbines, and occupy an area of
approximately 80 square kilometers. At its
closest point to land it lies over 15km off the
Fife coast, in water depths of 45m to 55m.
Construction is scheduled to begin later
this year and the plant, named the Heart of
New Caledonia, is planned to come online
in the first quarter of 2015. The plant’s 7,888
solar panels are expected to generate
enough electricity to power 750 homes,
saving two million tonnes of CO2 over its
25-year lifetime.
The project scope includes installation of
ABB’s MACH control and protection system,
remote operator work stations, training and
spare parts. The link was originally delivered
by ABB in 1995 and the modernization will
enhance the operational reliability of the
link and reduce maintenance needs. The
upgraded link is scheduled to be in full
operation in 2016.
The CJ46-X100-D jack-up drilling rig is mainly
used for exploration, drilling, and operation
of oil and gas with an estimated drilling
efficiency of up to 50 percent more than
other similar platforms.
The subsea cable transmitting the
wind farm’s power will come ashore at
Thorntonloch Beach in East Lothian from
where its underground cable will travel
along a 12.5km route to a substation
located within the Crystal Rig onshore wind
farm in the Lammermuir Hills.
Mainstream Renewable Power’s founder
and chief executive, Eddie O’Connor,
said: “[The] announcement is of particular
importance for Scotland because it is the
first time a wind farm will be built in Scottish
waters with the purpose of supplying Scottish
homes and businesses with renewable
energy. In fact, it will generate enough
green power to supply more than all the
homes in Edinburgh.”
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Located in the Voh region, the plant’s
design was inspired by the island’s Coeur
de Voh, a natural wild mangrove formation.
The design will be visible only from the air.
David McCallum, Conergy’s managing
director, said: “The Heart of New Caledonia
will be a giant heart-shaped message to
the world – it’s time to start loving solar
energy. It will also, probably, be the world’s
first beautiful PV plant, and perhaps the first
beautiful power station of any description,
anywhere on the planet,” he added.
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“This upgrade reinforces ABB’s focus and
commitment to supporting customers
throughout the lifecycle of the products and
systems it delivers,” said Hanspeter Faessler,
head of ABB’s grid systems business.
ABB has significant experience in upgrading
HVDC links around the world and is
working on many similar projects. The
Kontek contract is the 23rd major HVDC
modernization project for ABB since 1990,
including 17 control system upgrades.
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The latest contract reconfirms the validity
of Prysmian’s technologies for applications
in the oil and gas industry, and the group’s
role in the strategic Chinese market.
It follows a recent award by Nantong
COSCO – a subsidiary of China Ocean
Shipping Company (COSCO) – to supply
600km of offshore power cables (MV and
LV) for 2+2 Ocean 500 semi-submersible
accommodation vessels.
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Cables
all at sea
Nuclear plan gets EU
approval
Bulgarian
cable
World Bank offers
support
Four new Viking Ocean Cruises ships,
under construction by Fincantieri, will use
Nexans’ safe return to port (SRtP) cable
technology.
The European Commission has approved
the deal between the UK government and
state-owned French nuclear company EDF
for the construction of the Hinckley C 3.2GW
nuclear power plant in Somerset, England.
However, the move faces opposition.
InvestBulgaria, the state-run foreign
investment agency, has announced
that the Bulgarian cable maker Zavod
Location Mezdra is to increase output
at its production facility in Mezdra, in
the north-eastern region of the country.
As part of the planned expansion, the
cable producer will employ a further 800
employees at the factory. The amount of
the planned investment was not disclosed.
The World Bank is to lend $150 million to
Albania to help the country overhaul
its state-run power sector and pay for
necessary electricity imports from other
Balkan states.
Nexans has worked in close cooperation
with Fincantieri to develop a new
generation of high-tech, fire resistant,
SRtP cables based on its nanotechnology.
Some 4,000km of the power and data
cables will be installed in the cruise ships.
Each 473 cabin-ship has a gross tonnage
of 48,000 tons.
In 2010, the International Maritime
Organization (IMO) introduced the
concept of safe return to port (SRtP) for
passenger ships in a directive known as the
MSC 1 Circ 1368. The directive encourages
safe engineering design and advises that
critical systems and services must remain
operational on passenger ships for at least
three hours – long enough to make a safe
return to port and evacuate the ship in the
event of a serious incident.
Cables not only need to be fire resistant,
they must also withstand both physical
shock loads and the thermal shocks
caused by water jets spraying onto hot
cables.
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While Prospect, the largest trade union for
nuclear industry employees, welcomed
‘a positive decision’ by the European
Commission, Greenpeace condemned the
deal as the first ever Commission approval
of a plan “for taxpayers to heavily subsidise
the construction of a nuclear power plant in
the EU.”
Approval of the State Aid case included the
proposed contract for difference, which
provides the developer with an increased
price for the electricity generated by the
plant. An estimated £17 billion of state
subsidy will be available in the form of a
guaranteed ‘strike price’ of £92.5/MHh
(nearly twice the wholesale price in the UK)
and $10 billion in loan guarantees.
Zavod Location Mezdra supplies cable to
a number of automotive manufacturers,
including some German and Japanese
car producers. Production at the facility in
Mezdra was launched in early 2008.
The new jobs are to be created by the
end of 2015. Under the plan, Mezdra will
take on new installers, specialists and
supervisors at the plant, which already has
a workforce of over 1,100.
In a statement, Albania’s energy ministry
explained the loan will also be used to
boost the efficiency of payment collection
from consumers; over the past year 400,000
consumers have had their supply cut off
because of outstanding debts.
The two state companies responsible for
electricity distribution and generation,
mostly through hydroelectric plants, have
already lost $550 million this year, largely
due to unpaid bills.
Only around 58 percent of all power entering
Albania's network reaches its destination,
due to poor infrastructure maintenance
in the country and widespread electricity
theft.
The UK’s department of energy and climate
change welcomed the decision, and
reiterated that last October’s agreement in
principle with EDF remains in place.
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INTERNATIONAL
WIRE & MACHINERY
ASSOCIATION
www.iwma.org
IWMA at record-breaking wire China
The IWMA moves to a new home
The International Wire & Machinery Association
(IWMA) – the world’s largest corporate trade
association for the wire and cable industry – is
moving to new offices.
The IWMA will be taking up residence at an
office complex ideally situated near Birmingham
International Airport, in the UK.
The move comes as part of the association’s
long-term expansion plans to develop its membership
and grow internationally, and was passed at an
executive board meeting in September.
The IWMA is currently based in the same building as
Intras Ltd, publishers of EuroWire, Wire & Cable ASIA
and wiredInUSA, in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire,
UK, and will make the move over the next two
months.
More than 13,500 industry professionals flooded the
exhibition halls on the first day alone at the New
International Exhibition Center, Shanghai, for the
10th anniversary wire China in September.
Mr Steven Rika, IWMA chairman, said: “The
International Wire Machinery Association was
honored to be an international supporter of the
wire China 2014 exhibition.
The International Wire & Machinery Association
played its part in being an industry partner at the
show, which hit a new record on the first day with a
30 percent increase in visitors from the 2012 edition.
“The event, enjoying its 10th anniversary, was again
expertly organized by Messe Düsseldorf, Messe
Düsseldorf China and local partners MC-CCPIT
(Metallurgical Council of China Council for the
Promotion of International Trade) and SECRI
(Shanghai Electric Cable Research Institute).
The exhibition, which ran from 24th to 27th
September, featured 1,400 international exhibitors
and various national pavilions including Austria,
France, Germany, Italy, North America, and South
Korea.
“The IWMA stand again proved to be a hit with both
our existing members that were visiting the show,
as well as those exhibiting and those interested in
membership.”
CabWire 2015 world
technical conference –
a date for your diary!
The IWMA is delighted to announce that the 7
biennial CabWire world cable and wire technical
conference will take place on Tuesday, 3rd
November 2015 in Düsseldorf, Germany, home of
the wire industry.
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The conference will be held at the Congress Center,
and is already attracting interest following the
successful CabWire conference which was held at
the Palazzo Turati, Milan, in November last year, and
attracted 200 wire and cable professionals from all
over the world.
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Steven Rika, chairman of the association, said: “This is
both an exciting and challenging time for the IWMA,
but one which we are very much looking forward to.
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It is an ideal opportunity for us to grow and we are
relishing the challenge.
“I would like to take this opportunity of thanking Intras
for the help and assistance we have had over four
decades in building the IWMA into what it is today.
“We have, and continue to maintain, an excellent
relationship with everyone at Intras and I expect to
see us working closely together for the foreseeable
future.”
Caroline Sullens, managing director of Intras, added:
“Over the last two years the IWMA has developed
exponentially under the direction of the current
executive committee and new management team.
“Following on from a corporate re-branding and
new website in 2013 I am delighted to see the
IWMA take up residence in its own premises which
has come about at precisely the right time with the
association in such good hands.”
speaker, and Arcelor/Mittal preparing to host
a visit for delegates to its rod mill in Duisburg on
Wednesday, 4th November.
There will also be an event at a downtown Düsseldorf
location on the Tuesday evening where delegates
will get the chance to network and socialize.
If you would like to be involved by presenting a
paper at this exciting event, then please forward by
email a short abstract of no more than 50 words to
the IWMA office at [email protected]
Preparations are well under way with Dr Probst,
retiring CEO of Leoni AG, committed as a keynote
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AFRICA
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Cable
crossing
continents
The consortium behind the Asia-Africa-Europe
1 (AAE-1) submarine cable system project
has signed a supply contract with NEC
Corporation for the S1H segment, the
Thailand to Vietnam and Hong Kong section
of the network. The announcement followed
awards to a contractor for the AAE-1 S1S
and S2 segments, and signals major progress
in linking the major cities of Asia, Africa and
Europe.
At a length of around 25,000km, AAE-1 is
scheduled to come into service in 2016 and
will be the first high-capacity intercontinental
submarine cable to pass through the
Songkhla and Satun provinces of southern
Thailand. AAE-1 is expected to be the first
high-capacity cable system to link all major
south east Asian nations to Africa and Europe
via the Middle East.
ASIA / AFRICA NEWS
The consortium will work with NEC to ensure
AAE-1’s Thailand to Hong Kong segment
is ready for service at the same time as the
Europe to Asia segment. AAE-1 will employ
100Gbps technology, with wavelength add/
drop branching units along the lowest-latency
route, as well as cross-sectional capacity to a
minimum of 80x100Gbps in each trunk fiber
pair.
When completed, the AAE-1 cable network
will connect Hong Kong, Vietnam, Malaysia,
Singapore, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Oman,
UAE, Qatar, Yemen, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia,
Egypt, Greece, Italy and France, with other
locations under consideration.
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Harnessing China
PV projects
South Africa solar
Kenyan counties link
Wire harness manufacturer Lorom has built
its fourth wire harness plant in mainland
China which is expected to be in full
production before the end of 2014.
Xinyu Xinwei New Energy Co Ltd, a
wholly owned subsidiary of SPI Solar,
has an engineering, procurement and
construction agreement for a 20MW PV
project in Wulaichabu City, Inner Mongolia.
The agreement with Inner Mongolia
Jingzhaolai Energy Co Ltd marked SPI
Solar’s first agreement for a PV project in
the Inner Mongolia region. The project was
scheduled to begin in October.
Solar Capital De Aar 3, a joint venture
between Italian thin-film module maker
Moncada Energy Group Srl and Solar
Capital Group, has energized its 85.26MW
thin-film PV power plant in South Africa.
The Kenyan government has instigated
the second phase of its national
infrastructure project. Launched in
2009, the national optic fiber backbone
infrastructure project (NOFBI) aims
at connecting the entire country to
high-speed broadband.
Founder and CEO of Lorom, YT Yuan, said:
“The investment in our first ever cable and
cable system plant in the Beijing area
demonstrates both our commitment to
serving our Chinese customers even better
with the latest technology locally made,
and our confidence in Lorom’s prosperous
future here in China.”
The new Beijing-based Lorom plant will
manufacture complex wire harness and
cable assemblies for local automotive
customers. Initial planned capacity is
250,000 wire harnesses per year.
Within just a few days, Xinyu Xinwei New
Energy signed a similar agreement for a
30MW PV project in Alxa League, Inner
Mongolia. The project with Alxa League
ZhiWei PV Power Co Ltd is expected to be
connected to the grid by the end of March
2015.
“We are pleased to have announced yet
another EPC project in the Inner Mongolia
region as we continue to establish a
presence there while rapidly penetrating
the market for solar across China overall,”
said Xiaofeng Peng, chairman of SPI. “We
continue to see solid growth opportunities
and are excited by our success thus far in
this important market for SPI Solar.”
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A local Moncada subsidiary, Costruzioni
Moncada South Africa (Pty) Ltd, built the
power plant in De Aar, Northern Cape
under a $232 million EPC contract. The
plant relies on amorphous silicon modules
produced by a Moncada subsidiary.
Moncada and Solar Capital provided 25
percent of the project funding, with the
remaining 75 percent supplied by South
Africa’s Standard Bank. Construction on
the project began in January 2013. Solar
Capital De Aar 3 was among the preferred
bidders in the second round of South
Africa’s renewable energy independent
power producer procurement program
(REIPPPP), managed by the South African
department of energy.
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The second phase was launched by ICT
cabinet secretary, Fred Matiang’i, in
Embu county. Matiang’i says the project
will be completed by the end of 2015
and will see all 47 counties’ headquarters
connected with high-speed Internet,
enhancing communication between the
two levels of governments and creating
job opportunities.
The project, which is being undertaken by
China’s Huawei Technologies, is funded
by the Chinese Exim Bank through a
government to government agreement
and to date has laid 4,300km of cable.
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Renewable
investments
Russian subsea
connection
Hybrid
plant
Sri Lankan copper
fighting imports
Egypt-based investment bank EFG
Hermes has made its first investment
beyond the borders of the Middle East
and Africa with the acquisition of a 49
percent stake in EDPR France.
Huawei Marine is to manufacture subsea
cable, and other wet plant, for the Far East
submarine system under a turnkey contract
between Huawei Marine and Rostelecom.
The multi-million dollar investment will
enhance communications for the far east
region of Russia, and provide high capacity
connectivity across the Sea of Okhotsk.
Work on a 5MW pilot station for both solar
and wind energy is expected to start in
southern Bahrain within the next three
months. According to a report in the Gulf
Daily News, the station will be built on
120,000 square miles of land near the Al
Dur Power and Water Plant.
Orange Electric claims that a significant
shortage of copper scrap is blocking
growth in Sri Lanka. In an attempt to
solve the problem, the manufacturer has
established a copper scrap recycling plant.
The $208 million investment will give the
bank a stake in EDPR France's portfolio
of 33 operational wind farms with a
combined capacity of 334MW. The
transaction also marks the launch of a
new direct investment strategy by the
bank and a growing interest in renewable
energy. The deal is EFG Hermes’s second
in the renewable energy sector within a
year, following an earlier commitment
via the InfraMed fund to establish the
Arab world’s first utility-scale wind farm in
Jordan.
The repeatered system, over 1,900km long,
will be deployed in two segments, the first
linking Okha in Sakhalin Island with Ola in
Magadan, and then on to Ust-Bolsheretsk
in Kamchatka which currently relies on
satellite infrastructure. Each segment of the
Far East submarine cable system will have
an initial 2-fiber pairs lit, and is designed to
have a capacity of 1.6Tbps. The project is
due for completion in late 2015.
The new plant is among efforts by the
Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) to
develop renewable energy sources, and
will be linked to Bahrain’s power distribution
grid by the first quarter of 2015. A tender
has already been issued, and the minister
of state for electricity and water affairs,
Dr Abdulhussain Mirza, said a company
specializing in renewable energy plants will
be awarded the project before the end of
the year.
Under the terms of the agreement, EFG
Hermes’s private equity arm will manage
the investment vehicle, while EDPR
France will retain operational control over
the acquired assets. EDPR France has a
15-year feed-in tariff arrangement with
Électricité Réseau Distribution France for
the energy generated by the wind farms.
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Situated in Colombo, the new plant is
said to be capable of processing “all the
copper waste available in the country”
(estimated at 200 tonnes per month) which
has the potential to meet over 20 percent
of domestic copper wire demand.
It has been estimated that the facility could
achieve a foreign exchange saving of $16
million. According to Kushan Kodituwakku,
Orange Electric's managing director,
the shortage of copper is interfering with
the everyday business opportunities of
traditional and small industries across Sri
Lanka and that despite a government
ban, Sri Lanka has been exporting copper
waste to India and Japan.
Customs reports state that Sri Lanka has
imported over 67,000 tonnes of copper wire
and cable since 2007. Kodituwakku believes
that readily available domestic copper
scrap would result in a higher-grade cable
than the imported scrap can produce.
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Providence, USA
9th - 12th November 2014
Rhode Island Convention Center
1 Sabin Street, Providence, RI 02903
The IWCS International Cable · Connectivity
Symposium is returning to its “home”,
Providence, Rhode Island, for the sixth time in
the past ten years.
The IWCS Suppliers' ExhibitionTM will include
over 120 exhibits providing interaction among
users and suppliers, to learn about product
developments and user applications to
come.
Also, New Product Presentations provide an
opportunity for suppliers to report on new
commercial products. The schedule for
these presentations will be included in the
registration package at the conference.
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Artofil
Booth 110
problems caused by time-consuming manual
lay length measurement methods and crosstalk
performance issues from lay variations during
datacom cable production. LayScan enables
manufacturers to simultaneously measure four
pairs at the cabler and twinner to confirm the
accuracy of twisted-pair cable construction
during production.
Artofil has manufactured high performance yarns,
including water blocking spun yarn and fine, filler
and binder yarns, since 1951. The company offers
a range of products suited to any cable design,
including microduct and nano cables.
Beta LaserMike
Booth 106
NDC Technologies will be showcasing several
Beta LaserMike products, including the DCM
ES-2G LAN/data cable testing system and the
LayScan® length measurement system.
LayScan measures lay lengths up to 25.4mm
at speeds up to 152.4m/min with 0.025mm
accuracy. LayScan can be used in conjunction
with the Beta LaserMike SRL Pro structural return
loss measurement system, used before and/or
after the extruder to identify potential causes of
structural return loss problems.
A Beta LaserMike product team will be available
to discuss the new DCM SCS-700 cable testing
system and NDC Technologies and Hitachi Cable
USA will give a joint paper presentation at the
conference technical session.
Davis-Standard LLC
Booth 227
Davis-Standard will be exhibiting its motorized
payoffs and take-ups. The machines are floor
traversing and collapsible, unlike Davis-Standard’s
current cantilevered arm and gantry style
machines. Advantages over previous designs
are said to include a smaller overall footprint and
enhanced operator ergonomics.
A complete range of machines is available from
1,250mm to 5,000mm (48 to 195 inches) with the
greatest concentration of machines within the
1,800mm to 2,500mm (70 to 98 inches) size range.
Each is available with a North American standard
controls platform.
The ES-2G LAN/data cable testing system will be on display
The latest version of LayScan is designed to
solve scrap, rework, and productivity loss
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Mossberg Associates Inc
Booth 418
For international projects, machines are
equipped with a Siemens AC drive, PLC and
HMI with a Mitsubishi servo drive. Machines are
available as stand-alone with a dancer or with
an accumulator.
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The software uses an EM field solver to analyze
high frequency skin and proximity effects in wires,
eddy currents in shields, and dielectric losses in
insulation. Frequency-dependent data is also
incorporated by identifying variations in material
properties at different frequencies. On output
the software provides ASCII reports for LRCG
parameters, and plots S-parameter data for RL, IL,
NEXT, FEXT, ELFEXT, PS-NEXT and PS-FEXT.
Mossberg Associates is an independent supplier
of large cable drums, fully machined multi-wire
reels, pressed metal process reels, shipping reels
and ancillary equipment that includes take-apart
reels, reel tilters and movers and coil and reel
lifters.
Pourtier and Sectic of America
OptEM Engineering
Booth 318
Booth 405
OptEM Cable Designer software can be used to
design and model all types of copper cables, and
is particularly suited to unshielded and shielded
twisted-pair, quad, ribbon, and subsea umbilical
cables, as well as flex circuits from DC to 10GHz
in telecommunication and data transmission
applications. OptEM Cable Designer utilizes
hierarchical-design techniques, where existing
design elements are building blocks (instances)
in constructing higher-level designs.
Built-in libraries of materials (frequency and
non-frequency
dependent)
and
object
definitions are used in construction and can be
easily customized.
Pourtier and Setic, manufacturer of rotating
machines for the non-ferrous wire and cable
industry, recently re-branded its new machine
division located in Greensboro, North Carolina,
USA, under the name of Pourtier and Setic of
America.
With over 20 years in the market and several major
machine installations in the USA, the company’s
product line includes Pourtier’s successful rigid
stranders and drum twisters for producing low,
medium and high-voltage cable and conductors,
as well as Setic’s large and small double twist
bunchers, and a complete line of machines for the
production of LAN and special cable.
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Dies are individually hand-made in matched sets,
in standard or custom sizes, to suit round or profile
wire.
PWM Ltd
Booth 104
PWM’s best-selling M101 cold welder and other
manually operated models from its comprehensive
range will be in action at Booth 104 at this year’s
IWCS in Rhode Island, from 9th to 12th November.
Represented by Joe Snee Associates, exclusive
distributor for PWM’s machines, spares and dies in
the USA and Canada, visitors are invited to watch
demonstrations of the cold welding technique
and try out the machines for themselves.
The versatile M101 cold welder for bonding
copper wire 0.04" to 0.141" (1mm to 3.6mm) and
aluminum 0.04" to 0.197" (1mm to 5mm) is also
commonly used to weld profiles and strips for
armouring lines. Low maintenance and simple
to operate, the M101 can be used either on a
workbench or supplied with a trolley, enabling
the operator to wheel it quickly to the work area,
saving effort and reducing downtime.
PWM’s smaller BM10 and BM30 manual welders
are robust, reliable machines, designed for
non-ferrous wire and strip 0.0039" to 0.071" (0.1mm
to 1.8mm).
They can also be used on a workbench or supplied
with a trolley. The M10, M25 and M30 hand-held
models will weld copper/aluminum wire 0.0039" to
0.071" (0.1mm to 1.8mm).
Comfortable to hold and quick and easy to
use, they are suitable for welding wire breaks in
confined spaces.
PWM’s range also includes air/hydraulic, electro/
hydraulic, pneumatic and electro/pneumatic
powered cold welders, for wire and rod up
to 25mm (0.984") copper and 30mm (1.181")
aluminum.
PWM’s cold welding equipment is designed and
made to high standards in PWM’s British workshops.
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Roblon A/S
Booth 509
The Roblon precision coiling unit offers automatic
precision winding at high speed.
The controlled positioning of products such
as cables, wires and plastic tubes provides a
uniform winding pattern with no major gaps,
which virtually eliminates product crossings in the
take-up process.
Sensors detect the flanges of the reel, and when
the product reaches the flanges the traversing
direction reverses.
By use of advanced controlling the Roblon
precision coiling unit controls and monitors the
tension by which the product is being placed on
top of the previous product layer and also the
tension by which the product is being placed
evenly side by side during the take-up process.
The uniform positioning of the product means
longer lengths per reel and the possibility for
higher pay-off speed during installation and use.
The Roblon precision coiling unit eliminates very
important safety issues in the take-up process,
because manual guiding of the cable while
winding it onto the reel is no longer necessary.
As the unit is 100 percent automatic, there is
no need to spend resources on monitoring the
winding quality of the reel.
The unit is designed as a stand-alone unit
for easy integration with take-ups in new or
existing production lines. Typical application
areas are:
• OFC SZ stranding lines, to ensure the quality of
the unprotected FO-center
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• sheathing lines, for perfect reel finish in in-line
production
• wire lines or rope twisting lines, for perfect reel
finish in in-line production
• rewinding lines, for perfect reel finish
Rosendahl Nextrom
Technologies
Booth 324
Developed to meet strict military, transportation,
and energy industry needs, both the flame
retardant and zero halogen, flame retardant
formulations feature intumescent char formers
and low smoke synergists to smother fires in
mission-critical cables.
In addition to the SuperBulk range, Web Industries
offers specialized products and services to the
power/energy, datacom, telecom, and control
cable markets, including precision-tuned signal
isolation tapes, custom-tailored cable binders,
film formulation, extrusion, laminating, and
converting.
Nextrom, a business unit of Rosendahl Nextrom
GmbH, is a global supplier of production
technologies for optical fibers, including optical
glass making, fiber drawing, fiber coating, ribbon
making, proof testing and fiber optic cable
production.
Rosendahl is a global supplier of production
technologies for wire and cable, including
extrusion, SZ-stranding, optical fiber and
corrugation equipment.
Tensor Machinery Ltd
Booth 430
Tensor Machinery has been a designer and builder
of process equipment for the manufacture of fiber
optic and copper cables for over 30 years. The
Tensor range includes UV coloring lines, ribbon
fiber manufacturing, SZ and planetary stranding,
payoffs and take-ups, steel tape armoring, yarn
serving and jacketing lines for indoor and outdoor
cable products.
SuperBulk polypropylene cable fillers, developed to meet strict
military, transportation, and energy industry needs
Web Industries
Booth 411
Web Industries
of SuperBulk™
will be promoting its line
polypropylene cable fillers.
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Get (securely) connected
OFS has launched the LC Crimp and Cleave
connectivity solution for industrial networks.
The LC Crimp and Cleave connector utilizes
the optical and mechanical properties
of HCS® (hard clad silica) and GiHCS®
(graded index) optical fibers by adopting a
mechanical connection to the cable, rather
than traditional epoxy/polish methods.
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OFS Crimp and Cleave connector. Photograph courtesy of OFS
Forward looking connections
Optical Cable Corporation has introduced
the first commercially available connector
designed to meet the coming Category
8 copper connectivity and cabling
industry standard developed by the
Telecommunications Industry Association.
OCC’s Cat8 field terminable plug is designed
to provide the highest level of performance
for direct attach, high speed applications
when used in combination with a category
8 copper cable, providing data transmission
speeds of up to 40Gb/s. It meets the latest
draft of ANSI/TIA-568-C.2-1 balanced
twisted-pair telecommunications cabling
and components standard, addendum
1: specifications for 100 ohms Category 8
cabling, expected to be released late next
year. The Category 8 standard defines the
performance requirements of copper cables
and connectivity for the next generation of
BASE-T ethernet being developed by the
IEEE.
Industrial network applications demand high
bandwidth and reliable cabling. OFS GiHCS
optical fiber, in a low smoke zero halogen
cable construction with Crimp and Cleave
connectors, offers technicians a simple
connector installation that can withstand
temperatures between –20ºC and +80ºC
and in conditions of abrasion, vibration and
“Our introduction of the industry’s first
subject to industrial chemicals.
Category 8 plug is another example of
“What was, historically, a ten-minute process OCC’s industry leadership and the strength
for installing fiber optic terminations is now of our team – in both copper and fiber optic
made simpler and easier with OFS’s new cabling and connectivity products,” said
Crimp and Cleave technology,” said Mike Neil Wilkin, OCC’s chairman, president and
Hines, marketing manager for industrial CEO.
and energy markets at OFS. “Designed with
the field installer in mind, technicians with “OCC's Category test fixtures provide
minimal fiber optic experience can rapidly manufacturers and other members of
install new, or repair damaged, fiber optic the telecommunications industry a better
methodology and better process control for
cables.”
guaranteeing Category level performance
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signals with bit rates up to 21.6Gbps over
cable lengths of up to 15m. The cables
support
uncompressed
DisplayPort
resolutions up to 4096x2160/60Hz.
in connectors and cabling,” said Derrick said Jeet Sanyal, engineering manager,
Stikeleather, OCC product design engineer. Molex.
The OCC Category 8 field installable plug
uses the same shielded housing used in
the company’s Category 6A shielded field
installable plug, a design that enables simple
terminations without specialized tools.
Military ribbons
Molex Incorporated’s Temp-Flex® FEP
flat-ribbon cable is thought to be the only FEP
solution on the market that meets the MIL-spec
requirement for M49055/11 & M49055/12
for harsh environment applications. Unlike
competitive PVC (polyvinyl chloride) and TPE
(thermoplastic elastomers) products, Molex
offers extruded FEP (fluorinated ethylene
propylene) dielectric insulation material for
a high performance ribbon cable that can
withstand exposure to chemicals, extreme
temperatures, abrasions and flexion.
“Temp-Flex FEP cables were specifically
designed for the most severe environments,
yet they remain extremely flexible, making
them ideal for today’s smaller more rugged
applications including flight data recorder
boxes, missile systems and robotics found
in manufacturing plants across multiple
industries.”
Temp-Flex FEP flat-ribbon cables are durable
in temperatures ranging from -65ºC to
+200°C. They are resistant to acids, alcohols,
aldehydes, bases, esters, hydrocarbons
(aliphatic, aromatic, and halogenated),
ketones and oxidizing agents. An extruded
cable encapsulates each conductor with
insulation that will not delaminate, while the
low-loss dielectric constant (2.1) ensures the
optimum signal transmission with minimal
loss.
Optical assemblies
Molex Incorporated used October’s military
communications conference, MILCOM
2014, to highlight its hermetically sealed
multi-fiber circular MT optical assemblies.
For extreme sealing performance in a small
footprint, the new sealed multi-fiber circular
MT optical assemblies are said to provide
MIL-spec requirement for M49055/11 & M49055/12 for harsh
system reliability in extreme environments,
environment applications
including severe weather conditions, high
“Signal failure has long been prevalent in altitudes and high atmospheric pressures.
military, aerospace and industrial equipment These conditions can cause ordinary
applications due to the limited capability of surveillance and sensor equipment to fail,
PVC and TPE cables, which can degrade and so create critical communications
after repeat exposure to harsh conditions,” problems.
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Hermetically sealed multi-fiber circular MT optical assemblies
Mark Matus, global product manager at
Molex, explained that hermetic sealing can
address this problem, but: “Hermetic sealing
for fiber optic connections has historically
been limited to large, single-channel
applications and until now was unavailable
in
a
high-density,
reduced-footprint,
multi-channel option.
“The hermetic-sealed multi-fiber circular MT
optical assemblies, which are designed for
critical use applications where long-term
system reliability in harsh environments is
critical, ensure industry-leading gas-tight
sealing for superior performance.”
The new assemblies contain 12 to 24 fibers in
one connector, compared to competitive
products that utilize discrete-fiber (one fiber
per contact) connector designs.
The assemblies are appropriate for
applications
that
require
optimal
environmental
and
pressure
sealing
capabilities, such as aerospace and
defense, mining, oil and gas exploration,
industrial process control, and medical. They
can operate in temperatures ranging from
-40° to 158°F (-40° to 70°C).
High performance copper cables
DVIGear has announced the availability
of High Resolution™ DisplayPort copper
cables, designed to transport DisplayPort
Long distance transport of high-resolution
DisplayPort signals over copper cables
faces several challenges, such as insertion
loss, differential skew and jitter. Insertion
loss is caused by cable capacitance,
which acts as a low-pass filter, blocking
higher frequency signal components from
passing. Skew occurs when the differential
DisplayPort signals get delayed and become
out of phase as they pass over a long cable.
Both factors contribute to increased digital
jitter, which degrades the performance of
the cable. This jitter becomes more severe
with higher resolutions, higher bit rates
and longer cable distances. Conventional
cables that support lower resolutions at
short distances are often unable to support
the data rates required by higher resolutions
at longer distances. The resulting video can
be disrupted by visual artifacts or may not
be visible at all.
To overcome these challenges, DVIGear's
HR™ series DisplayPort cables are
constructed using robust, heavy gauge
24AWG copper wires for durability.
The heavier wire gauge has increased
cross-sectional cable area, as well as
decreased capacitance and lower
differential skew, allowing high speed
signals to pass with minimal jitter. These
features enable cable lengths of up to 15m
with full compliance with DisplayPort 1.2
signal parameters.
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New lines on show
Alpha Wire will be in Munich in November
for Electronica 2014, the world’s largest
electronic trade fair. The company will be
showcasing the tough new Pro-Tekt line
of cables, and its growing EcoGen line of
wire and cable.
Alpha Wire will be featuring the newest
addition to the EcoGen family, EcoCable
Mini. This 300V cable is Alpha Wire’s smallest
and lightest cable, said to be up to 32
percent smaller and 44 percent lighter
than standard 300V PVC cable.
high voltage cables to offer the entire
cross-section set to automotive customers.
Huber+Suhner has extended its range of shielded Radox® battery
and high voltage cables
In compliance with ISO 6722, the company
now offers the intermediate cross sections
8, 12, 20, 30, 40 and 60mm2 in addition to
its standard sizes. Radox power cables are
suited to high voltage applications in hybrid
“EcoCable Mini is the smallest solution to and electric vehicles; the cable shielding
our customers’ biggest cable problems. prevents interference with the sensors and
The size and weight savings are great electronics in the vehicle space. The entire
for the newest designs coming out in all product group is also available unshielded.
markets,” stated Emmanuel Deboval,
director of sales EMEA at Alpha Wire. “We Huber+Suhner
is
among
the
first
are sure the audience at Electronica will manufacturers
to
offer
the
entire
2
be impressed by the size and weight of cross-section set from 1.5mm up to
this cable and will be able to take samples 150mm2. Where thicker cables had
home with them.”
previously to be used if the appropriate
intermediate cross-section was unavailable,
EcoCable
Mini
features
recyclable a suitable cross-section is now said to exist
mPPE jacketing and insulation with for every application, offering important
superior dielectric properties, a -40°C to space, weight and cost savings to car
+80°C temperature range, five shielding makers.
options, and is available in over 250
standard multi-conductor and multi-pair Radox cables have an electron beam
constructions from 28 to 20 AWG. Custom cross-linked
insulation,
resistant
to
and composite configurations are also weathering, ozone, moisture and chemicals.
available.
The cables are designed for high and
low temperatures and feature excellent
abrasion resistance.
Extended cable range
Huber+Suhner has extended its existing
range of shielded Radox® battery and
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RET cable
Habia Cable has launched new remote
electrical tilt (RET) cables for mobile station
antennas. RET, or variable downtilt, antennas
enable mobile phone network operators to
optimize a network by adjusting the beam
of an antenna to meet changing conditions
such as variations in the density of traffic
during the day. Typically the movement
of the antenna array is controlled using an
RS485 signal carried over a multicore cable
together with electrical power to drive a
motor. The demands on the cable are high,
as they need to withstand the typically harsh
environmental conditions at the top of a
mast.
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Brian Dempster, business development
manager at Habia Cable, described the
new RET cables as tested and approved for
temperatures from -40º to +60ºC as well as in
conditions of moisture, UV, dust and vibration,
and electromagnetic interference.
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p23, 26
Alpha Wire
Beta LaserMike........................................................................... p2
p52
Artofilp44
p20
Basin Electric Power Cooperative / General Cable
p22
Beta LaserMike
p44
Carlisle Companies Incorporated p21
Cersa Mci ..................................................................................... p7
Inhol BV....................................................................................... p12
Interwire..................................................................................... p19
Conergyp30
Davis-Standard LLC
IWCS............................................................................................. p15
p44
DVIGearp51
p32
EFG Hermes
p40
Habia Cable
p53
Huawei Marine
p40
Huber+Suhner p52
InvestBulgaria p33
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p17, 42
IWMAp34
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP)
p23
p30
Molexp50
Moncada Energy Group Srl / Solar Capital Group
p39
Mossberg Associates Inc
p45
NEC Corporation
p37
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NextEra Energy Resources
p9
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OptEM Engineering
p45
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p49
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p46
Roblon A/S
p46
Rosendahl Nextrom p47
RSCC Nuclear Cable (RSCC)
p24
S&E Specialty Polymers LLC
p26
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Tensor Machinery
p47
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p10
Web Industries
p47
Wire Association International (WAI)
p16
The World Bank p33
Xinyu Xinwei New Energy Co Ltd
p38
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Paramount Die......................................................................... p13
Wire & Cable ASIA / EuroWire.............................................. p25
Zumbach ................................................................................... p11
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