Scotland to embark on large cabling project

November 12, 2008

The Scottish government has lodged plans to create an underground cabling network between Lewis and the mainland. If the planning application, which was submitted by a subsidiary of Scottish & Southern Energy, is given the go ahead the island could become a future site for renewable energy. The cabling would run from Gravir, in South Lochs, underneath a salmon farm and out to sea via Loch Odhairn. It would end up in Inverness on the Scottish mainland and the multi-million pound undersea cable would carry electricity from Feiriosbhal wind farm.


Leoni accomplishes market break-through in Russia

November 11, 2008

The Wiring Systems Division of the wire, cable and wiring systems specialist Leoni is taking over the wiring systems business of the Russian automotive component supplier Itelma related to international producers. Furthermore, the company receives the first order from the commercial vehicle manufacturer Kamaz. The agreement between Itelma and Leoni confirms the purchase of Itelma’s wiring harness business related to international manufacturers of passenger cars and light truck vehicles. The wiring systems business for Russian carmakers remains with Itelma.
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$15-million submarine cable hooks wind project into electricity grid

November 11, 2008

A team of Norwegian engineers and divers have finished installing the most powerful extension cord in the world. The 7.3-kilometre-long submarine cable being run along the bottom of Lake Ontario connects the Wolfe Island wind project to the provincial electricity grid. On the windiest day, the Wolfe Island project will generate enough electricity to power 75,000 homes. About 40 experts were involved in laying the cable on the bottom of the lake. “It’s actually buried in a channel of up to 10 feet at which point it comes out of the channel and lies right on top of the lake bed,” project site supervisor Jablonicky said. The $15-million submarine cable is a critical part of the infrastructure required for the Wolfe Island wind project, expected to be operational by April 2009. Calgary-based Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. awarded the contract for the Wolfe Island cable in January 2007 to Nexans, a Norwegian cable company that does installations around the world. The cable was designed, manufactured and delivered via a special cable-laying barge pulled by a tugboat to Kingston during the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend from a plant in Halden, Norway. The cable is about 25 centimetres in diameter and is really three cables wrapped into one with three current-carrying conductors and 32 fibre optic conductors -all wrapped inside a lead sheath. “It is a very well-protected cable,” Jablonicky said.


Mohawk Announces the Addition of Warren Associates to Their Sales Force

November 7, 2008

Mohawk, a leading manufacturer of fiber optic and copper cable products, is pleased to announce the appointment of Warren Associates to Mohawk’s field sales force covering Northern CA, Northern NV, and Hawaii. Warren Associates is a recognized leader in the low voltage/security industry, and has recently announced the creation of their new COMM/DATA division, which Mohawk is proud to be a part of.
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Technip to Manufacture Umbilicals in Malaysia

November 7, 2008

Technip announces an expansion of its Asiaflex Products manufacturing facility to include the production of subsea umbilical(1) systems as of 2010. In January 2008(2), Technip announced the creation of Asiaflex Products that will manufacture Technip’s complete range of flexible pipes. The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility is currently under construction in Tanjung Langsat, Malaysia, and is on schedule to deliver flexible pipe, plus umbilicals in 2010.
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Entrada Group announces strategic contract with Cable Manufacturing & Assembly Co., Inc. and Axiom North America

November 5, 2008

Entrada Group is pleased to announce that both Cable Manufacturing & Assembly Co., Inc. and Axiom North America have contracted with Entrada to provide integrated outsourcing services to assist in the transition, start-up, and management of their new operations at Entrada Group’s Industrial Park in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico. Both companies plan to utilize their first Mexican operations to produce products for both re-export to the United States and Canada as well as potentially supplying other Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) located throughout Mexico.
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Lihua International completes acquisition in PRC Bi-metallic conductor wire industry

November 5, 2008

Lihua International, Inc. announced Sunday the completion of a share exchange transaction with Magnify Wealth Enterprise Limited, in which Lihua International issued 14,025,000 shares of its common stock to Magnify Wealth in exchange for 100% of the equity interests of Ally Profit Investments Limited, a British Virgin Islands company, with operating two subsidiaries in the People’s Republic of China. Danyang Lihua Electron Co., Ltd. (“Lihua Electron”), located in the PRC, is a leading value-added manufacturer of bimetallic composite conductor wire, such as copper clad aluminum (“CCA”) fine wire, CCA magnet wire and CCA tin plated wire. Lihua Electron sells to distributors in the wire and cable industries and to manufacturers in the consumer electronics, white goods, automotive, utility, telecommunications and specialty cable industries. Jiangsu Lihua Copper Industry Co., Ltd. (“Lihua Copper”), the Company’s other PRC subsidiary, which the Company anticipates will begin operations prior to the end of 2008, will utilize refined, or recycled, copper to manufacture and sell low content oxygen copper cable and copper magnet wire to Lihua Electron’s existing customer base.


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