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All aboard for Prysmian cables Walter Kueng is leading Tenova Mining & Minerals, Mauro Medici is at Tenova Pomini & I2S, Roberto Pancaldi is head of Tenova Thermprocesses and Andrea Rocca leads Tenova Steel Making & Strip Processing. Tenova Group – Italy Website : www.tenovagroup.com Changes at the top at Tenova Alberto Iperti has stepped down as chief executive of Tenova. He will remain on the board and assist during a transition phase that will see four new managing directors at the helm of different divisions within the company. “I thank Alberto Iperti very much for his personal commitment and valuable contribution over the past two years,” said Gianfelice Rocca, executive chairman. “Reviewing the strategy, he quickly and successfully reshaped the organisation towards a focused and profitable growth and thus created a sustainable platform for our new leadership structure.” Under Mr Rocca’s governance as executive chairman, since 1 st October Tenova has been managed by a team of four managing directors leading the company’s business areas around the respective industry competencies within the Tenova portfolio.

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▲ ▲ €26m contract win for Prysmian from the Swiss Federal Railways company

most viable solutions to their needs,” said John Chrupcala, director of BU Industrial at Prysmian Group. With 31,000 employees, 3,175 route kilometres, more than 1 million passengers per day and 195,000 tonnes per day of freight transported every year, the Swiss Federal Railways is the largest travel and transport company in Switzerland. This new project confirms Prysmian’s technology and market leadership role in the sector of cables for the railway industry, where the group can rely on a number of projects completed or currently on-going with the main national railways companies in Italy (Trenitalia), Germany (DB), Spain (RENFE) and Turkey (TCDD). Prysmian Group – Italy Website : www.prysmiangroup.com

Prysmian Group has been awarded a new contract for a frame agreement worth approximately €26 million by SBB CFF FFS, the Swiss Federal Railways company. The contract includes the supply of a total of approximately 2,800km of signalling cables for the upgrade of the Swiss railways infrastructure. The contract management will be coordinated by Prysmian Group’s team in Switzerland. The cables will be manufactured in Berlin, Germany, and delivered on a call-off basis over a period of five years from October 2014 to the end of 2019. “This award reflects customers’ trust in Prysmian’s capabilities to meet the increasing demand for the development of new infrastructures and to act as a single-stop shop where players from different industry segments can find the

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