EoW November 2012

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The wire and cable industry goes digital

get a ten per cent discount on both the shell scheme and space only option at the Wire & Cable Expo in Tianjin, China, from 25 th -27 th June 2013. expowire.net is also involved in the organisation of Made in Steel 2013, the event that gathers producers, distributors, users and the whole world that lives “off” and “for” steel. The conference and exhibition will take place in Milan, Italy, from 3 rd -5 th April 2013. Members of expowire.net are entitled to a special five per cent discount on the exhibition fees. But expowire.net is not working only on building partnerships and offering further advantages to its members. expowire. net, which is already translated in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian, will soon be available in Russian and Chinese. expowire.net – Italy Website : www.expowire.net Nexans lands €110m contract Nexans has been awarded contracts worth around €110 million by Libya’s PEWCO (Public Electrical Works Company), a wholly-owned subsidiary of GECOL, the state-owned company responsible for the production and distribution of electrical power, to supply cables for projects to upgrade the country’s power transmission and distribution infrastructure. The contracts involve the supply of over 1,000km of high-voltage (HV) and low and medium-voltage (MV) cables. The transmission contract comprises 245kV underground cables to be manufactured and supplied by Nexans France. The 33kV and 15kV distribution cables and the optical fibre cables will be supplied by Nexans Greece, while the accessories will be supplied by Nexans Italy. PEWCO will install the cables. Nexans will supply all required accessories as well as optical fibre cables (for substation automation, control and communications and monitoring of the cable temperature), as well as engineering services, technical assistance and training to PEWCO and GECOL. Cable delivery and installation is expected to take place during 2012 and 2013. Nexans – France Website : www.nexans.com

field of machines and products for wire and cable manufacturing. ACIMAF now has its own online showcase on expowire.net, which already hosted many ACIMAF members. This partnership is in line with the portal’s intent to cooperate with all the international trade associations of the wire, cable, fasteners and metal working field.

Creating links is important. And who knows it better than a web portal? expowire.net, known as wiredrawing. net, can announce the onset of various collaborations. One of the most significant ones to be established is with ACIMAF, the Italian wire machinery manufacturers’ association, founded in 1987 to promote the image of Italian technology in the

Companies on expowire.net can also now

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