EuroWire July 2022

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Harting ranked at forefront of German SMEs The magazine Focus Money , together with Deutschland Test and the Institute for Management and Economic Research (IMWF), has named Harting as Company of the Year 2022 in the electronic components category. trust (recommendations and reliability), service quality and sustainability in economic, ecological and social terms. Harting took the highest marks in each case. The survey included around 21,000 companies.

is at the same time an obligation to further consolidate these top positions and always convince our customers with quality.” Harting Technology Group provides industrial connection technology for data, signal and power applications, through 14 productionplants and 44 sales companies. The company also produces electro- magnetic actuators for automotive and industrial use, and hardware and software for applications in automation technology, mechanical and plant engineering, robotics and transportation engineering. Harting Stiftung & Co KG www.harting.com

The analysis by DDW on the importance and evaluation of the companies was based on 28 factors with different weightings. These included turnover and employee figures, the respective strength of patent activities, expenditure on research and development, employer offerings, industry cooperation activities, certifications and investment activities. Philip Harting, CEO of the Harting Tech- nology Group, commented on receiving the awards, “This makes us proud and

Having achieved the maximum score, Harting was also positioned among the top German SMEs. According to analysis by the DDW (Die Deutsche Wirtschaft) information network, the family business ranks third among the 10,000 most im portant German medium-sized compa nies. The ranking covers German-owned companies posting annual sales of up to €1bn. The Company of the Year award assessed the price-performance ratio, customer

R&M increases production of fibre optic cables

“Our own cable plant with more than 50 experienced specialists makes us independent and responsive,” said Mr Rüsseler. “Together with our fibre optic plants in Switzerland and abroad, any fibre optic assemblies, special assemblies or project-related complete packages for medium and large network rollouts can be offered from a single source.” In the future, the plant will operate in three shifts in order to further boost production capacity and meet increased demand. In addition to standard fibre optic cables, R&M supplies customer-specific designs with special cable structures, as well as entire data centre network infrastructures for cloud, colocation and edge applications. The company also supplies the telecom munications, mobile communications and 5G markets, metro networks and In ternet exchanges with fibre optic cables. Other sales markets include solutions for the access network, fibre to the home connections (FTTH), local data networks (LAN) and fibre-optic-based solutions for building automation.

R&M (Reichle & De-Massari), a developer of cabling systems for network infrastructures, based in Switzerland, is expanding production capacities at its cable plant in Děčín, Czech Republic. By the end of 2022, R&M will be investing several million Swiss francs in new production facilities for fibre optic cables. The plant has been working at maximum capacity since it was taken over by R&M in 2018. “As expected, the high demand for fibre optic cabling is continuing,” said Andreas Rüsseler, CMO at R&M. “This is why we are expanding and optimising our cable production.” Telecom, Internet and cloud industries are continuing to investmore in theexpansion of fibre optic networks. The 5G ecosystem is also growing, and its expansion requires tightly meshed fibre optic networks between antennas, core networks and edge data centres. Other growth markets that require new high-performance fibre optic networks include smart cities, smart buildings, smart mobility, health care and automated factories.

Andreas Rüsseler

The portfolio of pre-terminable products includes MPO trunk cables, breakout cables, harness cables and multi-fibre cables, patch cords and pigtails. In addition to standard 19" splice panels, R&M assembles compact distribution modules and optical main distribution systems (ODF) for telecom and data centre applications. Rodents that like to eat underground cables can be deterred by robust cable constructions. R&M offers cables with steel strip reinforcements, glass roving in several layers of thickness and protection with fibre-reinforced plastic rods. Another project is aimed at optimising the fire behaviour of cables. New long-term fire-resistant and low-emission cables that meet the increasing safety requirements of the market are also available from R&M. Reichle & De-Massari AG www.rdm.com

Assemblies are ready for installation are equipped with R&M con nectors, manufactured in house, and are delivered factory-tested. that

The R&M cable plant in the Czech Republic manufactures standard and special fibre optic cables

Photo credit: R&M

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