EoW November 2008

english corporate news

Olympic cables contract for Prysmian Prysmian Cables and Systems 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 20km of high voltage cables at 220kV to supply energy to the village that covers over 66 hectares of land.

Sikora’s 500 th celebration

Sikora AG has produced its 500 th X-Ray 8000 in Bremen. The jubilee measuring system of the X-Ray 8000 NXT series was delivered to a customer in Russia at the end of August. On the occasion of the jubilee, all Sikora employees and families met for an open-air summer party at the Sikora premises in Bremen on 11 th July, where activities with musical and culinary accompaniment and attractions such as a bouncy castle and a Rodeo simulator contributed to the successful event. “I am proud that our measuring device has proved reliable in production lines for high voltage cables for 15 years,” said Harry Prunk, chairman of Sikora.

for LAN connectivity; MMF fibre cabling for broadcast backbone and broadband transmission, and RF radio frequency cabling and connectors. 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 cable accessories for MV and HV cables. Prysmian has recently opened a new plant in Beijing and aims to achieve growth of about 50% of its Chinese business by 2010. The total value of Prysmian’s investments in China is said to be over €100 million. Prysmian Cables & Systems – Italy Website : www.prysmian.com

Prysmian’s stamp was also on the International Broadcasting Centre, from which RAI Television, Italy’s premier television company, transmitted footage from the Olympics. The group cabled RAI’s entire broadcasting centre, providing connections 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: broadcasting cabling and connectors for media transmission; audio cabling and connectors; UTP CAT 5E & CAT 6 cabling

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

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EuroWire – November 2008