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Data center spread Page 9

Joint venture’s end in sight. Page 11

Lubricants ease production growth. Page 23

Third Thai facility. Page 29

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Google’s expansion plans continue at a pace after it launched its new data center facility in the Science Park at Canelones, Uruguay. Earlier in the year, the company announced a $13 billion investment plan for data centers across the US, giving the company a presence in 24 states in total, 13 of which are with data centers. You can find the full story on page 9. 5G is on the agenda at Corning, which has recently had a 5G ultra-wide band service installed by Verizon at its site in Hickory, North Carolina. Corning is using the technology to test how 5G can enhance functions such as factory automation and quality control at its fiber optic cable manufacturing site. Turn to page 13. Click on through to page 14 to read how Tesla’s first car factory in China has been officially connected to the country’s power grid. The move will increase power supply to the site to a level required for preliminary production. State Grid will eventually increase the supply eight times to allow the factory to run at full capacity. I would also like to take this opportunity, on behalf of everyone at wiredInUSA, to wish you all Season’s Greetings and a happy, healthy and prosperous new year.

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December 2019 Issue No.102 CONTENTS

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Show Diary 2020

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Making the News Industry news from the USA

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Europe news The latest news from Europe

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Asia & Africa News The latest news from Asia & Africa

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Products, Machines & Technology The latest news from machine industries

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Data center spread M A K I N G T H E NEWS

The new facility is Google’s 14 th global site, joining existing assets in the US, Chile, Ireland, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Taiwan and Singapore. At the start of 2019, Google CEO Sundar Pichai detailed the company’s $13 billion investment plan for data centers across the US, giving Google a presence in 24 US states in total, with data centers in 13 states. Google also plans to invest in a new data center in Hamina, Finland - an addition to the company’s existing data center campus housing one of the most advanced, and efficient, data centers in Google’s portfolio.

Google will build its second Latin American data center facility, located withinaduty-free tax zoneat Uruguay’s Science Park in Canelones. The decision to launch the new facility in Uruguay was made in 2017, after the installation of the Tannat cable that links Uruguay with Brazil and Argentina.

The 2,000km system was a joint project between Google and Antel Uruguay.

In addition, the project has been boosted by the presence of the Google Currie cable, which links Chile to the US along the entire west coast. The installation of the 10,000km system was completed in April 2019.

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Joint venture’s end in sight

HC2 Holdings Inc has announced that its marine services segment, Global Marine Group (GMG), has agreed to a sale of its stake in Huawei Marine Networks Co Ltd (HMN) — its 49 percent joint venture with Huawei Technologies Co Ltd — to Hengtong Optic-Electric Co Ltd. Under the agreement, GMG will sell 30 percent of HMN to Hengtong at closing, while retaining a 19 percent interest under a two-year option agreement at the greater of the same equity value

($285mm) or fair market value. Hengtong will also purchase Huawei’s full 51 percent stake. Hengtong will own 81 percent of the joint venture upon the closing of both sales, and 100 percent upon the exercise of GMG’s option.

Completion of the sale is expected during the first quarter of 2020.

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5G partners

Verizon has installed its 5G ultra-wide band service in Corning’s factory in Hickory, North Carolina. Corning will use the technology to test how 5G can enhance functions such as factory automation and quality control in its fiber optic cable manufacturing facility. Engineers from Verizon and Corning will explore how manufacturers can use 5G to speed data collection, allow machines to communicate with each other in near

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Car production gets connected

Tesla’s first car factory in China has been officially connected to the country’s power grid. State Grid Corporation of China has opened the first transmission line in a project that increases the electrical supply to the Tesla plant to a level required for preliminary production. State Grid will eventually increase the power supply eightfold, to allow the factory to run at full capacity.

among the quickest it has completed, taking only six months.

By the end of 2019, California-based Tesla plans to be producing at least 1,000 of its Model 3 cars a week at the plant, where construction began at the start of the year. China has exempted Tesla from a 10 percent sales tax, and the company is said to have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from local banks.

State Grid said the project, involving 55km of cables and about 17km of ducts, was

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Nantucket farm secured

Massachusetts has chosen Mayflower Wind, a joint venture between Shell New Energies and EDPR Offshore North America, to develop an offshore wind farm. Mayflower will build an 804MW project, located around 30km off the coast of Nantucket, with a scheduled start-up date in 2025.

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Power partners

Power generator and energy storage firm AES Corporation will collaborate with Google’s Cloud technology on energy management and opportunities to sponsor clean energy projects in the US and Latin America. The projects will be targeted to help Google meet its zero carbon energy objectives.

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Texas power purchases

Fast-food chain McDonald’s Corporation has entered into a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Aviator Wind West, part of the 525MW Aviator Wind project currently under development by Apex Clean Energy in Coke County, Texas. Under the terms of the contract, McDonald’s first for wind energy, the chain will buy electricity equivalent to the annual consumption of the company’s 1,300 restaurants as part of a wider plan to reduce the corporation’s greenhouse gas emissions by 36 percent before 2030.

Once completed, Aviator Wind will be the largest single-phase project for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and the largest single-phase, single-site project in the country. The wind farm is expected to generate some $140 million in tax revenue for the local economy. Facebook previously announced the signing of a 200MWPPA tied to the Aviator Wind East portion of the same complex.

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Flexential is expanding its FlexAnywhere service by providing customers with access to Seaborn Network’s Seabras-1 subsea cable system. Through this new partnership with Seaborn, FlexAnywhere can offer a route on Seabras-1, said to give Flexential customers the lowest latency available.

Seabras-1 stretches from New Jersey to São Paulo, Brazil carrying 72Tbps of capacity.

“With the Latin American subsea cable we are delivering on our promise of expansion, by offering the fastest and most reliable wholesale route from the US to Brazil,” said Chris Downie, chief executive officer, Flexential. “Just like our New Cross Pacific cables to Asia, and the Hawaiki submarine cable to Australia and New Zealand, the Seabras-1 to South America is built for performance [and] enables us to provide our customers with... the latest generation of high capacity, ultra-low latency service.” Data moving between the US and Brazil is growing by 30 percent a year. In response, Seabras-1 aims to meet this need while, at the same time, filling the void of legacy US- Brazil network systems that are nearing their end-of-life.

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Bufab secures a new addition

Bufab will acquire all outstanding shares in the US company American Bolt and Screw Mfg Corp (ABS).

“This strategic expansion into the North American market further underlines our commitment to growth, and to our Leadership 2020 strategy,” said Jörgen Rosengren, Bufab’s president and CEO. Jim Hooper, American Bolt and Screw’s current president and main owner, said: ”By joining Bufab we will be able to continue to improve our customer service, grow our business, and strengthen our team in the same way we have for the last decades. It will be business as usual, with the same high ambition level, but now as a part of a globally leading organization. I am pleased to continue as senior advisor to ABS, and together with the whole ABS team I look forward to the cooperation with Bufab.”

ABS is a distributor of fasteners and C-class components to the North Americanmarket.

Headquartered in Ontario, California, ABS has branch offices in Indiana, Georgia, Texas, Oregon and Arizona, with 96 employees and annual sales of around $52 million. “It gives me great pleasure to announce that ABS is joining the Bufab Group. Over many meetings in the past two years, we havegotten toknowthecompanywell, and see great similarities to Bufab in the solution- oriented, entrepreneurial approach to creating customer value.

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EUROPE NEWS

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Metalube lubricants helped Bahra Cables hit high performance targets

Lubricants ease production growth

Bahra Cables, a producer of industrial wire and power cable products, has achieved high performance targets using Metalube’s specialist wire drawing lubricants, Lubricool™ 22G and Metaclean NEC-50. Both lubricants are in use on the company’s twin wire copper rod breakdown machine. Using Metalube Lubricool 22G while maintaining in-house controls, daily monitoring, filtration and the ongoing use of Metalube Metaclean NEC-50 as a conditioning tonic, Bahra Cables says it has achieved maximum production speeds of 36m per second and an average daily production of 120 tonnes of drawn copper.

has excellent pH and emulsion stability and is low maintenance, making it a durable and high performance copper wire drawing lubricant. Bahra Cables has achieved a considerable sump life, limited downtime, and reduced disposal costs. Albert Molloy, global product manager at Metalube, said: “Bahra Cables is now one of the leading wire and cable companies operating in the Gulf region. We are delighted that Metalube’s products and technical services have played a role in their growth and helped them to achieve their production goals.”

Lubricool 22G has provided three years of useful life in the 8,000L system. The product

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Caster upgrade

An HVDC first

SMS Concast has received an order from Global Steel Wire SA, located in Santander, Spain, for the upgrade of its continuous billet casting machine. Production at Global Steel Wire SA (GSW) focuses on wire rod in special steel grades for the automotive and special engineering industries. At present, the existing caster produces roughly 900,000 tons of steel per year in 180mm square sections. The aim of the modernization is to increase production flexibility by broadening the range of cast formats with the addition of 200mm to 240mm square sections, increasing casting speeds, and improving the productivity and quality of the cast products. The upgrade can be implemented with minimal interruption to production, with start-up of the upgraded machine scheduled for early 2021. The order includes the installation of Condrive mold oscillation drive systems on all strands, following its successful running on one strand at GSW since October 2018. Constir-MEMS, powerful electromagnetic mold stirrers, are also part of the contract to achieve the required quality standards. An additional feature of the stirring system, Constir-MWS (modulated wave stirring) will allow the energy consumption of the stirrers to be reduced by up to 30 percent. The modernization will increase cast speeds and improve productivity

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ABB has been selected by the UK’s SSE Renewables, and Equinor of Norway, to supply high voltage direct current (HVDC) Light converter systems to the world’s largest offshore wind farms in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea. The project will increase current wind offshore capacity by 3.6GW. In the first use of HVDC technology in the UK’s offshore wind market, ABB will supply technology with one of the smallest environmental footprints. ABB will supply the HVDC Light converter systems, while Aibel will deliver two HVDC offshore converter platforms. In 2016, ABB and Aibel announced their partnership on the design, engineering and optimization of offshore wind connections. Paul Cooley, director of Capital Projects at SSE Renewables, commented: “Dogger Bank is, truly, a world-leading project, pushing new boundaries in the provision of ground-breaking technology to deliver low-carbon energy generation.” The Dogger Bank development consists of three wind farm projects – Creyke Beck A and B, and Teesside A. It will be a significant contribution towards the UK government’s goals of sourcing up to a third of its electricity from offshore wind by 2030. ABB also has contracts for Creyke Beck A and Creyke Beck B.

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More power for the Chinese grid

Manufacturer to change hands

Image: Abengoa Abengoa has synchronized the turbine of the Luneng Haixi tower solar thermal plant, currently under construction in China and in which Abengoa has been a technology provider. Successful synchronization of the turbine implies the correct operation of all the mechanical and electrical infrastructure to generate electricity (at low power). Abengoa has provided technology and engineering development for the 50MW Luneng Haixi State, located in the Qinghai province, as well as providing technical support during the construction of the solar field. Work began in early 2018 and has been carried out in extreme weather conditions, at temperatures down to –30ºC. The project is part of the renewable energy program launched by the Chinese government, aiming to achieve a solar thermal installed base of at least 27GW by 2030. Abengoa is also responsible for technology and engineering for the Royal Tech Yumen 50MW parabolic trough solar thermal plant project, being built in Gansu province. This project is being developed for SRT (Shuangliang Royal Tech CSP Technology Co Ltd) and is part of a thermo-solar demonstration program launched by the Chinese government.

Prysmian Group has received a binding offer fromCarlisle Companies Incorporated for the acquisition of Draka Fileca SAS (Fileca). The transaction will be subject to consultation with Fileca’s French employee representative bodies and regulatory approvals. Fileca was acquired by Prysmian in 2011 as part of the Draka acquisition, and is a global supplier of highly engineered cables for the spaceandaerospacemarkets. Thebusiness is headquartered in Sainte Geneviève, France. Completion of the transaction is expected during the first quarter of 2020.

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New scheme gets underway

Modular installation completed

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The wind and solar development company Mainstream Renewable Power has reached financial close for the first phase of its wholly owned and fully contracted 1.3GW Andes Renovables wind and solar power generation platform in Chile. The company has raised $580 million in debt to fund the construction of phase one. Finance has been provided by a consortium of six banks, and is one of the largest renewable energy debt financing deals undertaken in the region during 2019. Cóndor, the 571MW first phase of Andes Renovables, comprises one solar PV and three wind generation assets. Construction has begun, and the facility is scheduled to reach commercial operation in 2021. The next two phases, Huemul and Copihue, with a combined capacity of around 730MW, are expected to reach financial close in the coming months. The new wind farms will be built by Sacyr Industrial and Elecnor, with Vestas, Nordex Acciona and Siemens Gamesa supplying the wind turbines. Sterling and Wilson were selected to build the Río Escondido solar farm, while grid connection works will be carried out by Transelec, CGE, HMV and Siemens. Main power transformers for the projects will be supplied by ABB.

Hellenic Cables has completed work on Elia’s new modular offshore grid (MOG). The project was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by King Philippe of Belgium. The platform, located 40km off the coast, is linked to the mainland through two 220kV submarine cables provided by Hellenic Cables. In total, 91km of 220kV submarine cables were designed, manufactured and tested at Hellenic Cables’ manufacturing plant in Corinth, Greece. Hellenic Cables also provided the sea joints, transition joints between submarine and land cables, cabling and terminations on the MOG platform, as well as on-site assembly works, acceptance testing and commissioning. Mr Alexios Alexiou, Hellenic Cables’ general manager, said: “The MOG project marks our first, and very successful, collaboration with the Belgian TSO, Elia. As a company partly headquartered in Belgium through our parent company Cenergy Holdings SA, we are proud to contribute to the country’s environmental and sustainability targets with a project that helps harness Belgium’s enormous offshore wind potential.” Hellenic Cables is currently expanding production capacity of inter-array cables at the Corinth plant.

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Charging ahead with acquisitions

Custom cables

Comm-Tec GmbH is now selling the full range of cable products from Exertis Connect. As a result, Comm-Tec has expanded its portfolio with cable and network technology and is now capable of providing individually configurable solutions for copper and fiber optic cables through Exertis Connect’s in-house cable assembly. “The Exertis Connect cable solutions are an excellent complement to the Comm-Tec portfolio in the areas of network technology, as well as video/audio applications, and provides high quality standards at an attractive price/performance ratio and, in particular, an additional customer benefit through individually configurable cable solutions,” said Steffen Herzer, Comm-Tec’s business development manager. Steffen Herzer

Bruno Bensasson

EDF Group has acquired UK-based Pivot Power, which will become a wholly owned subsidiary of EDF Renewables. “This new acquisition of a smart electricity storage and electric vehicle charging systems player is strengthening our expertise globally,” said Bruno Bensasson, EDF Group’s senior executive vice president, renewable energies, and chairman and CEO of EDF Renewables. “Thanks to the skills developed within this specific field of electricity, the Pivot Power team will be a great addition to EDF.” Pivot Power already has a portfolio of over 40 projects across the UK, and is to develop a private wire infrastructure to enable the development of mass rapid charging points. The acquisition contributes to EDF’s target of 10GW of additional storage by 2035. The acquisition is also in line with the EDF Electric Mobility Plan, to become the leading electric mobility company in the UK, France, Italy and Belgium by 2022. Beyond this date, EDF’s goal is to provide power for 600,000 electric vehicles and to provide 75,000 charging points.

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ASIA & AFRICA NEWS

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Third Thai facility

Wire and cable maker Bangkok Cable (BCC) is investing in its third production plant, located in Chachoengsao, Thailand. Operations will begin in 2020. Pongsapak Nakornsri, assistant vice-president at BCC, said the new facility will produce instrumentation and control cables to serve growing demand in industrial sectors.

expand is based on the wire and cable market maintaining strong growth in 2020. “We have seen growing demand in infrastructure projects, supported by state policies and conglomerates that will fuel the need for high quality electrical cables in the power sector,” he said. “Higher quality cables have advantages over ordinary products in a commodities market, and create barriers for new entrants.” On 4 th November 2019, BCC signed an agreement with Cambodia’s Yong Sheng Trading, a subsidiary of Royal Group, to form a partnership in the wire and cable market in Cambodia. “Cambodia has fast- growing power demand, and BCCbelieves this initial step can launch products in that country, with an expectation for future investments,” said Mr Pongsapak.

BCC’s first two facilities are in Samut Prakan and Chachoengsao.

“The new plant aims to develop the quality of wires and cables to deal with difficulties companies face when using products from new market entrants,” Mr Pongsapak said. “Most of these products are imported from Europe, are costly, and have much longer lead times, creating an opportunity for BCC to capture value in this market.”

Despite the country’s economic slowdown, Mr Pongsapak said BCC’s decision to

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Island hopping cable

Superconductors hit the market

A consortium of regional telecom companies, including Samoa Submarine Cable Company (SSCC) and Office des Postes et Télécommunications (OPT) in French Polynesia, has approved the final stages of planning for the installation of the Manatua-One Polynesia cable. The cable will have landings in Tahiti and Bora Bora in French Polynesia, Rarotonga and Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, and in Apia, Samoa and Niue. It will be the first fiber cable to reach Niue and the Cook Islands. The 3,700km cable was manufactured in New Hampshire and delivered to the region to be laid by the specialist vessel SubCom Reliance . Cable lay operations began in Samoa in November, will continue through December in Niue and the Cook Islands, and finish in French Polynesia in January 2020. Vairani Davio, joint-chair of the Manatua Procurement Group and OPT’s chef de project telecom, said: “The Manatua cable is a physical embodiment of the Polynesian leaders’ shared vision of a connected region, delivering reliable, high capacity and affordable connectivity. It will strengthen our cultural connections and create the foundation for our islands’ digital transformation.” The 3,700km cable was manufactured in New Hampshire and delivered to the region to be laid by the specialist vessel SubCom Reliance. Photograph courtesy of Avaroa Cable

Myung Roe-Hyun

LS Cable and System believes it has become the first company in the world to commercialize superconducting cables. Although it is one of five companies in Europe, Japan and the United States that have the technology, LS Cable is claiming that Korea is the first country to successfully commercialize it. The new cables, commercialized with Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco), do not require a transformer and so save a considerable amount of space. Not only does that cut installation and operation costs for substations, it can also help avoid opposition to power facilities in urban areas. “Commercialization of superconducting cables will change the paradigm of the electricity industry, which has been dominated by European and Japanese companies,” said Myung Roe-Hyun, president and CEO of LS Cable and System.

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Southeast Asia developments

Solar development in Jordan

In collaboration with Abdul Latif Jameel Energy, FRV has developed three solar projects in Jordan. Photograph courtesy of FRV – Al Safawi Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV), a developer of renewable utility-scale projects and part of Abdul Latif Jameel Energy, has inaugurated its 50MW Mafraq I and Empire PV plants. The plants represent a total investment of $180 million and created approximately 500 jobs during the construction phase. The facilities will supply about 1.5 percent of Jordan’s total power generation capacity; Jordan aims to deliver 10 percent of total power generation through clean energy by 2020. In collaboration with Abdul Latif Jameel Energy, FRV has developed three solar projects in Jordan, the third being the 66.7MW Al Safawi (66.7MW) in northern Jordan, which started commercial operations in April 2019. Plans are already underway for a fourth 50MW plant, having won a competitive tender by the Water Authority of Jordan (WAJ). The project will be located in Al Dulail Industrial Park. Once completed, FRV will have developed approximately 270MW in Jordan. The four solar plants will supply over 600GWh per year in Jordan, approximately 3 percent of the country’s total electricity generation.

Hajime Miyazaki

NTT has launched a new subsea cable unit in Singapore. The new joint venture company, Orient Link, has been formed with partners of the Fund Corporation for the overseas development of Japan’s ICT and postal services (JICT) and WEN Capital (WEN). NTT holds a 42 percent stake in Orient Link, with JICT and WEN holding 38 percent and 20 percent respectively. Hajime Miyazaki, director of the London unit, NTT, confirmed that Orient Link had plans to start laying a new cable before the end of 2019. The new system, to the financial hub of Singapore, is due to be completed within two years. Earlier in 2019, NTT also confirmed plans to expand its subsea cable network to India in order to offer broadband services in the country. Once completed the newly expanded network will allow NTT to compete with companies such as Tata Communications, Airtel and Sify, to offer connectivity to the international cable landing station in Mumbai. “We are planning to bring international fiber to India at some point of time,” said Sharad Sanghi, MD and CEO of Netmagic, an NTT subsidiary.

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Automation project for wire and bar facility

Pacific crossing

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DXN Ltd, a specialist in pre-fabricated modular data centers, has completed a contract with Southern Cross Cable Ltd to supply cable landing stations in the Pacific. MatthewMadden, DXN’s CEO, said that the contract was for three deployments in the Pacific, located in Fiji, Kiribati and Tokelau. Southern Cross NEXT will provide data connectivity between Sydney, Auckland and Los Angeles and is scheduled for completion by January 2022. The route will also provide critical international cable connectivity to the Pacific Islands of Fiji, Tokelau and Kiribati. Laurie Miller, CEO Southern Cross Cables, said: “In looking for a solution for the Pacific Islands, we wanted the highest quality engineering to match our ambitions for the new cable. DXN Limited showed they can deliver all of that quickly, even in a challenging location like the Pacific.” Construction of the landing stations began in mid-November, with deployment scheduled for 2020. The facilities are designed to work in the most demanding climatic conditions, and include integrated standby power from batteries and a diesel generator.

A producer of non-ferrous metals bars, wire rod and strips, Ningbo Powerway Alloy Material Co Ltd, has contracted AMOVA GmbH to supply a logistics system for the Ningpo works complex in Yinzhou, China. AMOVA will design a complete logistics system for the facility that will ensure maximum efficiency of the material flow, from rawmaterial storage area down to the dispatch area, including the higher-level materials control and tracking systems. The containers, which are manually filled in the raw material storage area with scrap blends for the various copper alloys, will be transported to the melt shop using rail- bound vehicles. There, the containers will be stacked for storage until they are taken to the melting furnace by crane. Operation of the crane will be fully automatic, as will the emptying of the containers. Downstreamof themeltingandmilling shop, freely navigating vehicles will transport the strips between the downstream processing stages – rolling, annealing, cleaning, cutting and slitting – and finally to the buffer store from where they are taken to the packaging area. The packaged finished products will be intermediately stored in an automated high-bay store until dispatch. AMOVA GmbH is to supply a logistics system for the Ningpo works complex in Yinzhou, China. Photograph courtesy of AMOVA

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Latin American connections

Low latency link

Working in collaboration with Nokia, Angola Cables has successfully completed a trial test of a direct optical connection between Africa and North America, linking Sangano in Angola and Boca Raton, Miami. According to Ângelo Gama, the CTO of Angola Cables, the results show a reduction in latency between content providers in North America and the rapidly growing data consumption markets in Africa. “For example, the connection between Johannesburg and New York City will be reducedby up to18percent using thedirect SACS and MONET fiber optic connection,” Gama said. SACS, the South Atlantic Cable System owned and managed by Angola Cables, consists of four fiber pairs between Fortaleza, Brazil, and Luanda, Angola. The consortium-owned MONET system connects Fortaleza with Boca Raton, Florida. Angola Cables has successfully completed a trial test of a direct optical connection between Africa and North America. Photograph courtesy of Angola Cables

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Angola Cables has partnered with DE- CIX, an Internet exchange (IX) operator, to offer premium interconnection services to a variety of neutral IXs for operators and datacenters across Latin America. The objective of the partnership is to expand capabilities and boost Internet providers’ businesses via the south-south Atlantic connection. ISPs will be able to connect to over 100 countries, andover 1,700carriersworldwide. Theresa Bobis, DE-CIX’s regional director, south Europe, said there are major benefits arising from the partnership. “From now on, Angola Cables as a DE-CIX reseller will be able to provide Internet service providers with a reliable low-latency network and high quality access to premium network interconnections and Internet exchanges in Europe, the Middle East, North America and India.” The two companies have already established interconnections from São Paulo and Fortaleza to Lisbon, and plan to interconnect the same Brazilian cities to the DE-CIX Internet exchanges in New York, Madrid and Frankfurt.

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Cable assembly range Raltron’s RF cable assembly range has been extended to serve RF and Internet of Things applications, and complements Raltron’s RF connector, adapter and attenuator product lines. Raltron’s RF cable assembly choice now incorporates several series of flexible, low- loss coaxial cable assemblies including TNC, type N, BNC, MMCX, MCX, SMA, SMC, Type F, IPEX, FME and SMB, all with a frequency range from DC to 6GHz. Raltron also provides a DIM flexible low-loss cable assembly that operates up to 14GHz.

Compact data line protection

Littelfuse Inc has launched a range to safeguard signal integrity and maintain network communication. Its series of low capacitance TVS diode arrays (SPA diodes) is optimized to protect high-speed differential data lines from electrostatic discharge (ESD), cable discharge events (CDE), electrical fast transients (EFT) and lightning-induced surges. The SP3384NUTG series is designed to protect four channels against up to 15A, and up to ±30kV ESD, and is available in a compact μDFN package. The combination of low capacitance and low clamping voltage makes the SP3384NUTG a robust protection option for 2.5G/5G/10G ethernet high-speed data interfaces without signal degradation, resulting in high reliability for data center, industrial and telecommunications markets. “Building upon similar footprints in 1GbE and 5GbE applications, the SP3384NUTG expands our portfolio to fill a market need for ultra-strong ESD and surge protection for today’s fastest 10GbE consumer ethernet solutions,” said Tim Micun, director of

S S The extended cable assembly range from Raltron

A wide variety of RF connectors, including MCX and MMCX straight jack connectors for PCB receptacles, SMP, BNC, TNC, Mini UHF, SMA, SMC and SMB RF are also available, operating over a range of working voltages and frequencies between 0 and 26.5GHz.

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pushed back to fit tight in the cable entry frame.

business development, TVS diode arrays (SPA diodes) at Littelfuse.

The special shape of the sealing elements ensures high IP66 ingress protection, and a wide range of sealing elements for various diameters, shapes, and multiple holes are available. Unused entry positions in the frame can be sealed with blanking plugs, which can be easily removed at any time for additional cables to be inserted.

Cable management Conta-Clip has expanded its cable entry range, launching the KDS-R system for M20 to M63 round openings with or without plugs.

Hybrid cable development

S S The new cable management system from Conta-Clip

Belden Inc has launched new FiberExpress hybrid copper-fiber cables, designed for the transmission of up to 200W of low voltage power and data over distances up to 1,000m. FiberExpress cables are said to provide the benefits of DC power and fiber in just one cable, offering installation and labor savings with only a single cable pull.

The new cable management system consists of a few basic components: the cable entry frame with an integrated gasket; a two-piece thread and locking adapter, with a two-piece locknut to fix it in place; and sealing elements with a range of inlays. Assembly is quick and requires no tools; cables are simply fed through the enclosure opening and cable entry frame.

Hybrid cable construction also reduces the number of cables installers need to stock.

Slit, tapered, finned sealing elements are fitted around individual cables on the inside.

Belden’s new cables contain fiber strands thatmeet thedatademands of commercial applications.

Cables with sealing elements are then

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cables is simple. Depending on the cable or hose diameter, the sealing grooves can be easily peeled off to the required sealing area without need for a knife or cutter. The “peeling principle” always results in circular holes in the membrane. A further advantage is the large clamping area on which the KEL-SCDP can be mounted, without tools, on wall thicknesses of between 1.5mm and 4mm.

Fiber strands are paired with copper conductors to provide the necessary power in one cable jacket, and the cables can be used in indoor and indoor/outdoor (plenum and riser) applications. “Demand for real-time data analysis and on-demand content has caused an explosion of IoT and wireless devices,” said Brent Kiernan, global business leader for fiber system products at Belden. “These devices [often] aren’t located near a local power source, which drives the need for remote power that can reach beyond the 100m capabilities of power over ethernet. Running fiber allows for longer distances while maintaining ethernet compliance for devices like cameras, sensors and wireless access points.” FiberExpress cables can be ordered according to specific fiber construction, conductor, fiber strand, color and/or length requirements. Entry plate The KEL-SCDP is icotek’s latest cable entry plate, used to insert single cables without plugs and sealed at a rating up to IP65. A version also exists for rail technology, KEL- SCDP-RW.

S S The KEL-SCDP has a sealing range of 5mm to 36mm

The additional KEL-SCDP-RW is approved for use in the railway sector according to EN45545-2 HL3. Both variations are available in four sizes. Survey data collection MacArtney Underwater Technology has recently supplied the latest in a series of seven customized Nexus MK C Super MUX multiplexers to MMT, provider of customized marine surveys for the offshore energy industry.

Multiplexers, designed to simultaneously transmit data along a single channel of

The KEL-SCDP has a sealing range of 5mm to 36mm, and assembly and routing of

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The Nexus MK C includes a large number of sensor interfaces including ethernet, HD video and serial channels. The 25 connectors on the subsea unit, configured to match a broad range of interfaces, allow configuration of the multiplexer for numerous tasks. Controllable power switching and health monitoring are available via an accessible software user interface.

communication, provide operators with the opportunity to gather numerous types of data at once. Sweden-based MMT, working in close collaboration with specialist Reach Subsea, ordered the customized Nexus MK C connectivity solution (named the Super MUX by MMT) from MacArtney earlier this year.

The Nexus MK C is a fully customized plug- and-play multiplexer for work class ROVs.

It can handle data for ROV setups that require multiple cameras, sonars, attitude sensors, manipulators, and cable and pipe trackers, providing connectivity between the vessel and the ROV sensor package in one compact unit.

S S Multiplexers are designed to simultaneously transmit data along a single channel of communication. Photograph courtesy of MacArtney

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EDITORIAL Index

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25 31 25 16 21 32 33 18 23 29 36 21 25 27 36 33 25 32 27 15 27 20 31 11 24 9

Hellenic Cables

26 11 11 11 37 35 30 37 26 15 18 23 37 32 33 31 30 27 25 35 30 15 24 32 25 14 13

Abdul Latif Jameel Energy

Hengtong Optic-Electric Co Ltd Huawei Marine Networks Co Ltd Huawei Technologies Co Ltd

Abengoa

AES Corporation

American Bolt and Screw Mfg Corp

icotek

AMOVA GmbH Angola Cables

Littelfuse Inc

LS Cable and System

Antel

MacArtney Underwater Technology Mainstream Renewable Power

Aviator Wind West Bahra Cables Bangkok Cable

Mayflower Wind

McDonald’s Corporation

Belden Inc

Metalube

Bufab

MMT

Carlisle Companies Incorporated

Ningbo Powerway Alloy Material Co Ltd

Comm-Tec GmbH

Nokia

Conta-Clip

NTT

DE-CIX

Office des Postes et Télécommunications

Draka Fileca SAS

Pivot Power

DXN Ltd

Prysmian Group

EDF Group

Raltron

EDPR Offshore North America

Samoa Submarine Cable Company

Exertis Connect

Shell New Energies

Flexential

SMS Concast

Fotowatio Renewable Ventures

Southern Cross Cable Ltd

Global Marine Group Global Steel Wire SA

SSE Renewables

Tesla

Google

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Verizon

HC2 Holdings Inc

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