A Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based provider of cable and wire management products and services is hailing a new solution as a cost-effective and attractive way for consumers and businesses to organize and protect their electrical leads. Officials at CableOrganizer.com, Inc. say their so-called “split wire loom” (pictured below) is a good way to rid a home or office of unseemly “wire octopuses” behind TV sets, computer stations and other places.
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March 17, 2009
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Quick Connect System 2810 from 3M Simplifies IDC Terminations
March 11, 20093M Communication Markets Division recently released the Quick Connect System 2810, designed to give local loop providers a simple-to-use, tool-less copper block, ideal for inside and outside plant applications. The QCS 2810 is the latest insulation displacement connector termination system from 3M, the company that invented the IDC more than 50 years ago.
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K-Sun Corp.: Receives SCEDC business award
March 5, 2009K-Sun Corporation in Somerset, Wis., has been named the 2008 St. Croix Economic Development Corporation’s Small Business of the Year. Wisconsin Secretary of Commerce Richard J. Leinenkugel addressed the 2008 SCEDC award winners at a recognition banquet Feb. 19. The Secretary noted the importance of small business in the state’s economy and said he especially enjoyed visiting the part of the state where his family’s 167-year brewery started. “I always feel good when I get north of Highway 29,” he said.
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3M Unveils New High-Performance, Lowest-Crosstalk 2 mm Hard-Metric Socket Connector
March 5, 2009At the Embedded World Conference in Nuremberg, Germany, 3M unveiled a new Ultra Hard Metric (UHM) Socket Connector engineered to deliver more than 7 Gbps backplane performance for systems based on 2 mm hard-metric connectors. System design engineers working with 2 mm hard-metric-based designs, such as VME or CompactPCI, can now dramatically increase overall system performance while preserving their existing investment.
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Nexans signs final joint venture agreements with Polycab, Indias largest cable company
March 4, 2009Nexans, the worldwide leader in the cable industry, has announced the signature of the final agreements with Polycab, India’s largest cable company, for the creation of a joint venture to be majority-held by Nexans and managed in close cooperation with its Indian partner. The joint venture, with its headquarters in Vadodara in the state of Gujarat, will cover the manufacture and marketing of special cables for the shipbuilding, material handling, railway and windpower industries. Today’s agreements also include the production of high voltage (HV) underground cables, which was initially anticipated to constitute a second phase.
Michel Lemaire, Executive Vice President for the Asia-Pacific area of Nexans, said: “By signing today’s agreement with Polycab, we team up with a high-quality partner to ensure the success of our first industrial venture in the Indian market as well as benefiting from the sustained growth of this emerging economy. Moreover, the immediate extension of the scope of our agreement to high voltage cables should allow us to take strong positions in the growing power infrastructures market in India. This makes the joint venture agreement completely coherent with Nexans’ strategy which aims at reinforcing the Group’s leadership in the energy sector and strengthening its presence in fast-growing areas”.
The industrial part which includes the construction of the new cable production unit of the joint venture will start immediately and cover a period from 18 to 24 months.
Polycab currently has sales of over $600 millions, with 12 plants employing more than 3,500 people in the manufacture of power and building cables.
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Leoni keeps on supplying engine manufacturer Cummins for another five years
March 3, 2009The wire, cable and wiring systems specialist Leoni has won a large order from engine manufacturer Cummins. The agreement states that Leoni will equip a variety of diesel engines with wiring harnesses for five years. Cummins is a global power leader that designs, manufactures, sells and services diesel engines and related technology around the world. Leoni has been supplying the company headquartered in Columbus, USA, with several types of wiring systems for more than 10 years. Recently, both companies signed a new sourcing agreement. According to this, Leoni will supply engine wiring harnesses globally for several Cummins product series until 2012.
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New synthetic cable innovator
March 2, 2009FibreMax is a new Netherlands-based company specializing in the manufacture of lightweight precision cables out of synthetic fibres. “By means of a unique endless winding production process we are capable of producing precision cables that are far lighter, stiffer, stronger and thinner than conventional steel wire ropes,” according to the company. “Our cables are even stronger, stiffer and lighter than traditional braided synthetic ropes.”
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