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Cable clamps to Hong Kong for UK manufacturer Ellis

Hong Kong a success for UK distributors

Ellis has supplied 125,000 cable clamps for installation on the high speed extension of the Hong Kong MTR network. The Hong Kong section of the rail link runs from West Kowloon to the Shenzhen/Hong Kong boundary, where it connects with the China mainland section of the network. When complete, trains will operate at speeds up to 200km per hour, reducing journey times by 50 percent. Ellis’s one and two hole polymeric cable clamps were specified by CLP Power, through local distributor Wang Yip Hong, and will be used to secure power, pilot and fiber optic cables throughout the tunnels. Ellis’s export sales director, Tony Conroy, said: “CLP is the biggest power utility company in Hong Kong and we are its

sole supplier of cable cleats and clamps – a relationship that speaks volumes for the work done by the team at Wang Yip Hong and why we put so much faith in local distributors when it comes to exporting.”

Ellis is represented by local distributors in 30 countries.

“There is no way we could have achieved and then maintained our status as the world’s leading cable cleat manufacturer without our distributor network,” added Mr Conoy. “They open doors for us that, quite honestly, we wouldn’t even have known were there, and as we look to expand our export operation into new territories and further develop our presence in existing markets, its size and importance will continue to grow.”

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