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After 6 years of being on the internet and recognized as the leading online publication for the Cable &Wire Industry (www.thecabledirectory.com). We are proud to publish the first issue of our new monthly E-Magazine, TCD Review.

TCD Review will comprise of all the leading stories over the month in the Cable & Wire Industry, keycable related stories and some of the major industry project awards which relates directly to our busi-ness. Each issue of TCD Review will incorporate special features including Exclusive Interviews, QuarterlyFinancial Reviews and New Product Development.

This month contains the news about the possible Prysmian and Draka merger and an interview with theMD of International Cable Management, Michael Knox.

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Prysmian to evaluate a cross border merger with Draka

J-Power and Marubeni to build cable plant in Saudi Arabia

LS Cable lands US$200 million Iraqi network deal

JDR opens new manufacturing facility in Hartlepool

Nexans lands 33.5 million Euro subsea umbilical contract from Petrobras

Sterlite Technologies wins US$77 million BSNL contract

ADBIC and Midal sign joint venture to establish US$100 mill. aluminium plant

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Prysmian secures a set of extra high voltage projects worth 20.3 million euros

Houston Wire & Cable Company stocks Type P drilling rig and marine cable

UAE cabling giant Ducab sets sights on Qatar plant

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Hyundai Heavy Industries secures US$1 billion order in UAE from ADGAS

Samsung Engineering lands US$2.6 billion refinery order in Algeria

GASCO awards EPC contracts for US$ 9 billiongas development project

Jacobs secures US$350 million contract for FEED services from Indian Oil Corporation

Zhenhua Heavy lands US$2.2 billion dealwith ADHK

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Michael Knox is the CEO of Inter-national Cable Management, a serv-ice company in cable and wire dis-tribution, operating across the inter-national energy sector. He was bornin Aberdeen where he now resides.Mike was educated in Glasgow wherehe was brought up in the West Endof the city as a Barnardo boy.

Mike and Cables have been to-gether ever since he started his ca-reer as an electrician. After complet-ing his apprenticeship with BalfourKilpatrick he subsequently enteredthe oil industry with BK as a mate-rial controller on the BNOC /BritoilThistle A project in the North Sea.

Mike then went on to set up hisown consultancy company which fo-cused on electrical and instrumentdisciplines and management and pro-curement of Cables and Electricalproducts. During the next 5 yearsMike worked on various North SeaProjects including BNOC, Thistle A,Chevron Ninian South, Britoil BeatriceA, B and C., and latterly BP Magnus.

Michael KnoxInternational Cable Management

Having completed 5 years expe-rience in the Offshore Oil and Gasindustry, Mike moved on and estab-lished North Sea Cables, a stockistand distributor of cables for the off-shore oil and gas industry. The com-pany in a very short time becamethe leading cable distributor for off-shore Cables and associated prod-ucts in Europe. During the next 10years subsidiary companies andbases were established in Norway,Holland and England.

Having established NSC in Eu-rope, Mike’s vision was to take thecompany global and with investmentfrom a VC, North Sea Cables becameNoskab and Mike set about organi-cally establishing companies andbases across Asia, Australia and theMiddle East. The final piece of thejigsaw was to establish a presencein America. A decision which re-sulted in acquiring an establisheddistributor in Houston, Texas.

In 2002 due to a combination of

two major projects in the USA goinginto chapter 11 and difficult tradingconditions in America, Mike lost con-trol to the VC and as a direct resultMike exited. Six months later andwith no direction and leadershipNOSKAB went into receivership. TheKnox family lost a substantial sumdue entirely to the VC. Lesson learnt.

The following year, 2003 Mikeand his son established Caspian In-ternational Cables, now Interna-tional Cable Management, a 100%family owned business. The com-panies’ head office is in Aberdeenwith offices in London and Dubai.The company has two divisions,projects and distribution. Projectswhich focus on major Greenfieldand Brownfield projects across theenergy sector including Oil & Gasand Power & Renewables. The Dis-tribution division services both UKand export clients day to day re-quirements across various industrysectors including OGP and P&R.

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What is the biggest difference you have noticed in business today compared to when you firststarted in distribution?

Competition. Business today is global and as result much more competitive. Also the internet hascontributed to global competitiveness. However client and respective industry relationships remainhighly important. Emerging countries including China and India have also contributed to making thebusiness more competitive.

What markets are strong at present?

Oil and Gas at $60 a barrel has resulted in many projects being postponed and or delayed, howeverit is still pretty active and will continue to be so particularly with the offshore module fabricators andshipyards. Downstream activities are also quieter with parts of the world holding up. As the oil priceincreases these industries will get busier. Power, including nuclear and renewables will play an impor-tant role across the world in the coming decades as too will water.

What parts of the world at present are busy and will be in the future?

In the Oil and Gas sector activity is picking up with certain regions experiencing ongoing activity. Inparticular, EuroAsia.—Kazakhstan. Asia, China, Singapore and Korea also Indonesia and Australia. TheMiddle East, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are all busy. In South America, Brazil, whilst West andNorth Africa including Algeria, Libya, Nigeria and Angola are all active and will continue to be so at $60a barrel. These regions and countries will experience increased growth as the price of oil and gasincreases and power plant projects are implemented.

What markets do you see you participating in the future?

We will continue to focus on the OGP and also other Energy sectors both in power and renewable.

Where do you see the company in 5 years time?

Our goal is be international operating across various regions in our industry. At present we arecommitted to increasing our share of the business in Europe and repeating the strategy in the MiddleEast. Our skills are easy to transfer, however the personnel are at times more difficult to appointparticularly in overseas locations. International is our goal and across different regions subject toappointing key personnel.

What type of person do you seek to recruit?

Our team are multi cultural and talented, the majority are young and the average age with theexception of myself is 30 years. Our team enjoy the business, are energetic and experienced. Goodcommunication and teamwork, and the ability to be flexible and inquisitive are tools which are anessential ingredient in our line of business. The ability to recognise that you are never too old to learnis also a valuable tool no matter the age.

Do you have any other interests in business?

Yes I am also a director of an online media and publication business Red Mist Media. Again the teamis young and energetic and enjoy the business. For an insight visit www.yourprojectnews.com andwww.thecabledirectory.com

What interests do you have outside your work?Outside of business my main interest is spending as much time with my wife and my family. We

recently have had an addition to the family our first grandchild, our granddaughter, a real treasure andcharacter. We all enjoy travel and visiting the world. I also enjoy watching and playing golf.

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J-Power Systems, a 50-50 joint venture between SumitomoElectric Industries and Hitachi Cable will join with Marubeni Corpto build a factory in Saudi Arabia producing underwater powercables.

The value of theproject is 3 billionyen. J-Power Sys-tems will provide 75percent of the newcompany’s capital ofaround 1.5 billionyen, with the re-mainder fromMarubeni MetalsCorp, a whollyowned unit ofMarubeni.

The factory is ex-pected to go on-stream in January2011.

J-Power and Marubeni to buildcable plant in Saudi Arabia

Prysmian has confirmed that,consistently with its growth strategy,it has entered into preliminary dis-cussions with Draka in order to evalu-ate, also with the assistance of itsadvisors, a possible combination be-tween the two companies, to be im-plemented through a share for sharecross-border statutory merger withPrysmian as surviving entity.

Prysmian to evaluate a cross border merger withDraka, with Prysmian as surviving entity

Any such combination would bein the interest of all stakeholders,including the shareholders of bothcompanies, and is likely to belargely based on their respectivemarket capitalisations.

The discussions are at a pre-liminary phase and any proposedtransaction will be submitted tothe respective boards for approvalonly if, and when, the main ele-ments of the combination will besufficiently defined.

Furthermore, any proposedtransaction would be subject toseveral conditions, includingshareholders’ approval, financingand employee consultation pro-cedures. There is therefore no as-surance at this stage that a trans-action of any kind will take place.

LS Cable has won a US$200 mil-lion order from Sinatel Co to sup-ply and install a communicationnetwork in Iraq.

Under the contract, LS Cablewill set up the network for broad-casting, Internet and fixed-line andmobile telecom services in severalkey Iraqi cities by mid-2012, LS saidin a filing with the Korea Exchange.

LS Cable landsUS$200 million

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J-Power general plantfor illustration

According to the June editionof economic magazine “Home &Market”, TELE-FONIKA Kable, withits revenues amounting to PLN4.346 billion in 2008 (approx. EUR1.2 billion), placed 16 th in a rank-ing of the 400 largest Polish pro-duction companies. The companyis also the largest company withinthe electro-technical industry inPoland.

TELE-FONIKA Kableplaces 16th

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JDR Cable Systems has celebrated the opening of a new deepwaterquayside facility at Hartlepool dock in North East England.   

JDR Hartlepool was officially opened by Iain Wright, Member of Par-liament for Hartlepool, at an event attended by representatives fromleading energy companies, political figures and regional developmentagencies.  

The new purpose-built state-of-the-art 100,000 sq ft facility incor-porates two 2,200 tonne carousels and is the only site in the UK de-signed specifically to manufacture subsea power cables for the oil andgas sector and the burgeoning offshore renewables market. The loca-tion at Hartlepool dock allows the cables to be spooled directly ontocable-laying vessels.  

JDR will supply, amongst other projects, 200km of inter-array cablesfor the 140 wind turbine generators of the world’s largest offshore windfarm – Greater Gabbard off the coast of Eastern England. 

JDR’s expansion to Hartlepool was supported by a £850,000 Selec-tive Finance for Investment (SFI) grant now branded Grant for BusinessInvestment from Regional Development Agency One North East. 

JDR opens new manufacturingfacility in Hartlepool

Iain Wright officiallyopening JDR Cables

Nexans has been awarded a 15 million Euroscontract by the Tata Power Company for a projectto design, manufacture and supply high voltageunderground cables to reinforce the power infra-structure in Mumbai, India’s financial capital andthe second most populous city in the world. 

In a two-year ‘total supply and service’ contractfor Tata Power, starting in 2009, Nexans will de-liver five complete circuits of 220 kV cable andassociated accessories to provide an extra 300 MVAof power carrying capacity for the undergroundnetwork linking various EHV (Extra High Voltage)substations across Mumbai. 

Nexans should supply the cables during 2009 and2010 to meet Tata Power’s project implementationphases, which will continue until 2011. The XLPEcable will be manufactured in Nexans plant locatedin Hannover, Germany while the accessories willbe supplied by the Nexans plant of Cossonay inSwitzerland.

Nexans secures 15 millionEuros contract to supply

power underground cables toreinforce Mumbai’s powertransmission infrastructure

Nexans has been awarded a 33.5 million Euro con-tract by Petrobras to develop, manufacture and sup-ply the electro-hydraulic control umbilicals for devel-opment of the Tambau and Urugua deepwater naturalgas and oil fields, located in the Santos Basin around130 miles offshore from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

The umbilicals will connect the FPSO Cidade deSantos MV20, serving the Tambau and Urugua gasand oil fields, to the subsea manifolds and then con-nect the manifolds to the production wells. Nexans’specialist umbilical facility in Halden, Norway, willproduce a total length of over 65 km of umbilicals,in 16 lengths, to be installed in water depth reach-ing 1,500 meters. The umbilicals will weigh 2,400tonnes, which is exceptionally heavy for a subseaumbilical. Petrobras aims to develop productionfrom the two fields within a very short time scale,so the umbilicals are being manufactured on a fast-track basis to ensure delivery for the first quarterof 2010.

Nexans lands 33.5 millionEuro subsea umbilical con-

tract from Petrobras forBrazil’s Tambau and Urugua

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Ducab the leading manufacturerof high quality power cables in theMiddle East and winner of Moham-med Bin Rashid Business ExcellenceAward for their achievements in themanufacturing sector has voted asSuperbrands for the year 2009.  

Ducab was among over 3,000 UAE-based companies to receive theSuperbrands award, which recognisesoutstanding brand qualities identifiedwith a particular brand name.  

The Superbrands event, whichwas held at the Intercontiental Fes-tival City in Dubai on Sunday June28th, saw the unveiling of the 2009Superbrands book; Ducab has a fea-ture dedicated on its brand and prod-uct range.

Ducab a Superbrand for 2009

“We are thrilled to have obtainedsuch a high-status award. Ducab hasworked extremely hard since its in-ception in 1979 to create and main-tain a brand that is renownedthroughout the region for quality andexcellent customer service. Receiv-ing this award means that Ducab willbe cherished and referred to for yearsas a high quality, prestigious brand,”said Chew Wah Tan General Manager,Sales and Marketing at Ducab. 

Mr. Mike English, Director,Superbrands Middle East, said:

“This year we have chosenSuperbrands that affect people’s dailylife, brands that lead the way, andare building the future of the UAE. ASuperbrand will never let us down,

even in the toughest of situations theyare always there to deliver what thepromised and are always there fortheir customers.”

The Superbrands book pays trib-ute to the strongest brands in theUAE. Brands that have attained theSuperbrands status are carefully se-lected from brands most highly ratedby the independent SuperbrandsCouncil which consists of eminent fig-ures in the world of branding.

The Superbrands organization wasestablished to promote excellence inbrand management and the disciplineof branding itself. It has been track-ing the branding phenomenon for thepast ten years and maintains coun-cils in 39 different countries.

Euro Cable has announced that it has launchedproduction of all kinds of electric cables for the firsttime in the country.

General Manager of the factory, Saed Ibrahim in-formed that in addition to supporting efforts of ex-panding electricity in the country the launching ofthe production of the electric cables would facili-tate successful housing development in Ethiopia.

The General Manager indicated that the factorywas established with over 70 million birr capital injoint venture with Demes Kablo, a Turkish company,

Euro Cable launches production of electric cables in Ethiopia

adding that the establishment of the company herein Ethiopia would play an important role in reducingthe foreign currency expenditure of the country.

He recalled that electric cables were importedfrom abroad, adding that the locally produced elec-tric cables would save 40 per cent of foreign cur-rency expenditure.

In addition to transferring technologies to thecountry, the joint venture entered to production withwell experienced Turkish experts, would facilitateways to export the product to other countries.

The MT Connect System from Brand-Rex is a high-performance, optical-fibre cabling and connectionsystem that is said to have a number of advantagesover conventional fibre cabling systems.

Featuring a pre-terminated, modular product setbased on MT ferrule connector technology, the MT Con-nect System is suitable for use in data centre back-bone and zone cabling situations, where multiplepoint-to-point fibre connections are required.

The company claims that the system offers ben-efits over conventional optical fibre cabling ap-proaches, including the fast and reliable installationof multiple fibre links and smaller-diameter cablesthat save space in pathways and racks.

Brand-Rex offers optical-fibre connection system

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Nexans has completed a contractworth approximately 1 million eurosto supply low-voltage power cablesfor the BioWanze project—a newplant producing bioethanol from

wheat and sugar beet. The plant,located in Wanze near Huy sur Meuse(Belgium), represents an investmentof 250 million euros for theSüdzucker Group, Europe’s leadingsugar producer. It will produce halfof the annual bio-ethanol volume forthe Belgian market, or 125,000 cu-bic meters per annum during thenext six years. Nexans entered aframe agreement with Siemens NV/SA, the contractor in charge ofproject engineering and manage-ment, for the supply of approxi-mately 350 kilometers of low-volt-age (LV) power cables in only fivemonths, with over one hundred dif-ferent product references. The ca-bles were manufactured by Nexansproduction facilities in Belgium, lo-

cated in Dour and Buizingen.

A collaboration charter

Today, large-scale projects suchas BioWanze are characterized bythe majority of engineering workbeing completed on site and final ca-bling decisions being taken accord-ing to specific construction site re-quirements. This is why Nexans,when participating in such projects,ensures that its customers’ evolvingneeds are continuously met, both interms of cable manufacturing anddelivery. This approach requires athorough planning effort and closecollaboration with the customer, asdefined in a charter which providescollaboration guide for all projectphases, from contract signing towork completion.

BioWanze plant

Sterlite Technologies has announced that it haswon a contract from BSNL, valued at US$ 77 Mil-lion, for enabling a Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Net-work based on Gigabit Passive Optical Network(GPON) technology. Sterlite was awarded a majorshare of the total outlay of project, amongst com-petition from global players. Sterlite has stream-lined its efforts to ensure that the contract is ex-ecuted within FY10.

BSNL plans to implement similar FTTH networksat 25 cities across India by Year 2012, which wouldimpact 2 million subscribers. This would provide sub-

France Telecom has revealedmajor upgrades to two interna-tional consortium cable systemsSea-Me-We4 and the trans-Atlan-tic TAT14 as part of a corporateupdate for this month.

As a member of the twoconsortiums that operate the ca-bles, France Telecom has in-creased its capacity on the twosystems as a result.

With the latest Sea-Me-We4upgrade, France Telecom more

Sterlite Technologies wins US$77 million BSNL contractscribers access to never-experienced bandwidth andspeeds (in excess of 100 Mb/s) as well as multitudeof applications ranging from utility applications suchas High-Definition Video Conferencing or entertain-ment applications as High-Speed Gaming.

The current phase of the FTTH network would becapable of providing high-speed internet, IPTV solu-tions, VoIP, and other Value Added Services to about500,000 subscribers. BSNL, one of the largest telecomservice providers globally, will be the first telco inthe country to deploy commercial scale Fiber-to-the-Home network.

France Telecom doubles capacity on Sea-Me-We4 and TAT14than doubles the capacity it ownson the system.

One the trans-Atlantic route,the first upgrade to the TAT14 ca-ble will give France Telecom twicethe previous capacity.

The TAT14 cable stretches 15,000km linking five European countries:Germany (Norden), the UK(Widemouth), Denmark (Blaabjerg),France (Saint-Valéry-en-Caux) andthe Netherlands (Katwijk) to theUnited States (Manasquan and

Tuckerton, New Jersey). TAT14 wasplaced into commercial service in2001 by an international consortiumcomprising more than 50 telecom-munications carriers with a designcapacity of TAT14 is 3.2 Tbit/s, ena-bling the possibility for additionalupgrades, of which a second is al-ready being planned, according toFrance Telecom.

According to the operator, twonew systems coming online in thenext two years will further boostits international capacity.

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Nexans’ low-voltage cables power the newBioWanze bio-ethanol plant in Belgium

eLandia has announced thatit is joining Governor TogiolaTulafono and the people ofAmerican Samoa to inauguratethe undersea fiber-optic cablethat now connects AmericanSamoa and the IndependentState of Samoa to Hawaii andthe rest of the world. Formallaunch of the cable provideshigh-speed connection for theTerritory’s people and busi-nesses to the global market-place, promoting innovationand new opportunities for edu-cation, economic development,and healthcare.

The cable project re-acti-vates the submarine PacRimEast cable, which was liftedfrom the ocean floor and recon-nected, to cost effectively de-liver 1 Gb/s broadband to280,000 island residents. Resi-dents and businesses will nowbe able to benefit from im-proved delivery of broadbanddata, voice, video, and cableservices. The American Samoagovernment and eLandia hadpreviously formed AmericanSamoa Hawaii Cable, LLC toundertake the ambitiousproject. eLandia will operateadvanced network andbroadband services over thenewly deployed cable.

eLandia andAmerican Samoa

inauguratesubmarine

fiber-optic cable

An undersea telecommunica-tions cable linking Kenya with 21nations is expected to be opera-tional by next July, said ChrisWood, chief executive officer ofthe West Indian Ocean Cable Co.

The US$260 million East AfricaSubmarine Cable System will bethe third fiber-optic cable connect-ing the East African country to theoutside world. The link, with thecapacity to carry 1.4 terabytes ofdata per second, may slash pricesby as much as 80 percent and makeconnection speeds as much as fivetimes faster, Wood said in an in-terview on July 3 in Nairobi, thecapital.

Kenya currently has 3 millionInternet users out of a total popula-tion of 37.9 million people, accord-ing to the Web site of Internet WorldStats. The penetration rate of 7.9percent compares with 5.6 percentfor the whole of Africa, it said.

The East African cable, knownas EASSy, will first be installed inMozambique, followed by the con-

Kenya to be linked to 3rdundersea telecommunications cable

struction of landing stations atports in Kenya and neighbouringSudan, Wood said.

Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent andTyco Telecommunication have thecontracts to manufacture and laythe 10,800-kilometer (6,712-mile)cable under the sea. The link willstretch from South Africa north toSudan, including nations such asNamibia, Lesotho, Ethiopia, Zam-bia and Burundi, to Europe, he said.

Taipower has launched a tenderfor the supply of around NT$300 mil-lion worth of 345KV super high volt-age cable to, for the first time ever,domestic suppliers, with Hua EngWire & Cable Co. and Ta Ya ElectricWire and Cable Co. joining the bidfor the project.  

Taipower used to open the ten-der to foreign suppliers, but the com-pany has decided to allow only do-mestic suppliers to join the bid afterboth Hua Eng and Ta Ya won techni-cal evaluation approval and produc-tion certification from the state-runpower concern last year.

However, as the bidding prices

Taipower launches domestictender for 345KV power cable

offered yesterday afternoon by thetwo firms failed to fall within the floorprice range set by Taipower, furthernegotiations are needed to determinewhich of them will win the project.

Both firms hoped Taipower notreduce the power cable prices, giventhe ever-rising copper prices in in-ternational markets. The price stoodat US$4,805 per metric ton on Tues-day and surged to US$4,880 onWednesday.

The 345KV super high voltage ca-ble is now the highest power trans-mission cable available in Taiwan andis suitable for underground powertransmission.

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JDR has been awarded a con-tract for the supply of subseapower cables for the UK’s ground-breaking Wave Hub project by theSouth West RDA (Regional Develop-ment Agency).

Wave Hub is a major marinerenewables infrastructure projectthat will create an electrical‘socket’ on the seabed in some 50metres of water around 10 milesoff the coast of Cornwall in SouthWest England and connected to theNational Grid via a subsea cable.Wave Hub will have an initial maxi-mum capacity of 20MW (enoughelectricity to power approximately7,000 homes) but has been de-signed with the potential to scaleup to 50MW in the future.

The scope awarded to JDR in-

ADBIC and Midal Cables haveannounced the establishment of aUS$100 million aluminium rod andconductor plant during the signingof their joint venture agreement.The signing serves to reinforce thestrategic partnership formed bythe companies last year. The jointventure agreement was signed byJamal Al Dhaheri, Senior Vice Presi-dent for Metals at ADBIC, andHamid Al Zayani, Managing Direc-tor of Midal Cables.

Construction of the aluminiumplant will begin in the first quar-ter of 2010 at Khalifa Port and In-dustrial Zone in Taweelah. Thestate-of-the-art plant will produce150,000 tons per annum of alu-minium products, including alu-minium rod and aluminium electri-cal overhead conductors, to serveas feedstock to further Abu Dhabi’s

ADBIC and Midal Cables sign jointventure agreement to establishUS$100 million aluminium plant

downstream industries and to beexported internationally.

The establishment of the alu-minium plant is the first step to-wards the development of ADBIC’supcoming metals cluster, which willplay a fundamental role in expand-ing Abu Dhabi’s downstream manu-facturing capacity in the metals sec-tor. Strategically located betweenAbu Dhabi and Dubai, the cluster willfocus on base metals such as alu-minium, steel and copper.

ADBIC and Midal Cables alsotoday announced the signing of aMemorandum of Understanding(MoU) with EMAL aimed at sourcingmolten aluminium, the plant’smain feedstock, from their newsmelter. By the second quarter of2011, ADBIC’s plant will be readyto receive its first batch of moltenaluminium from EMAL.

JDR awarded Wave Hub project

cludes 25km of 33kV three-phasepower cables which will providethe essential link between theWave Hub and the onshore controlroom. The Wave Energy Convertorsare connected back to the WaveHub by four additional 300m three-phase power cables and dry mateconnector sets.  All cables includefibre optics and will be subject torigorous integration testing.  JDRwill also supply the ‘Wave Hub’assembly consisting of subsea ter-minations and a complete subseaprotection structure. The packageof equipment will be delivered inthe second quarter of 2010 fromJDR’s new deepwater quayside fa-cility at Hartlepool Dock. The firstwave energy devices are expectedto be deployed in 2011.

In line with its expansion ofcapacity across the board, ElSewedy Cables injected an ad-ditional US$ 12 million into ElSewedy Cables Syria. This invest-ment will be used to increase thecapacity of the Syria plant by6,900 tons to reach 24,000 tonsby the beginning of Q4 2007.

El Sewedy Cables Syria iscapitalizing on Syria’s proximityto Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon inaddition to serving as an exportbase to Saudi Arabia. El SewedyCables has witnessed a signifi-cant increase in demand fromSaudi Arabia and will serve thegrowing demand both from itsplants in Egypt and Syria until theGroup’s Saudi Arabia plant be-comes operational in 2008.

The capacity expansion inSyria is in line with the Group’sstrategy of increasing capacityin low cost environments.

El Sewedy Cablesinjects additional

capital in El SewedyCables Syria

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Prysmian secures a set of extra high voltage projects in theNetherlands and Germany worth a total 20.3 million euros

The second project, assigned bythe Dutch power company Eneco andthe Danish leading energy companyDONG Energy will consist of 36.9kilometres of a 380 kV cable systemfor the connection between theDutch grid and a new gas-fired powerplant to be constructed soon in Rot-terdam. The project is expected tobe completed in May 2010.

The third project will be in-stalled in Germany, and has beenentrusted by Dutch energy com-pany NUON. It comprises a connec-tion between the grid and the newgas-fired power plant the client isabout to construct outside the cityof Frankfurt. The connection willbe 8.4 kilometres long and willemploy a 380 kV cable system. Thisproject, to be completed by Octo-ber 2010, requires a special designin order to reduce the Electro Mag-netic Field (EMF) values and there-fore to improve efficiency andsafety of the product.

Prysmian has been awarded -through its Dutch subsidiary - threenew contracts for the upgrade anddevelopment of Extra High Voltagepower transmission systems in TheNetherlands and Germany. Theprojects’ value amounts to total•20.3 million.

The first contract has beensigned with the Dutch state-ownedpower transmission system opera-tor, TenneT. It consists in the up-grading of an existing 380 kV ca-ble interconnection, which runsacross two canals in the outskirtsof Rotterdam. The “NieuweWaterweg” (“New Waterway”) ca-nal, in particular, is vital to theeconomy of the region, as it is the

primary access from the North Seato the port of Rotterdam. The newproject, that follows the one engi-neered and installed in 2005, re-quires higher single phase short cir-cuit current and can meet higherpower demand. It entails 13.2 kilo-metres of underground HV cableswith separate optical fibres fortemperature monitoring. Essentialto Prysmian’s success has been theability to deliver a turn-key serv-ice that will cover the whole spec-trum of needed activities. In fact,the Group will provide projectmanagement, supervision and en-gineering, all civil works, cleaningand checking pipes.

Prysmian will also be engaged inexcavating, pulling and laying ca-bles, delivering cables and acces-sories, adapting, revision andchange of the existing water circu-lation system, jointing, testing allsystems and maintenance. Comple-tion is scheduled by the end of 2009.Prysmian Cable

Prysmian has announced the appointment of Hakan Özmen asthe new Head of The Global Telecom Cable and Fibre Business. MrÖzmen took office on July 1st.

Born in 1970, Hakan Özmen graduated in Industrial Engineer-ing from the Middle East Technical University in 1993 and ob-tained a Masters degree in Business Administration from YeditepeUniversity in Istanbul in 1999. For the last four years Mr Ozmen

has been Chief Executive Officer ofPrysmian Turkey.

Mr Ozmen succeeds Mr Giovanni B. Scottiwho will leave the Company after 12 years,the last nine of which were spent as Headof The Global Telecom Cable and Fibre Busi-ness. Mr Scotti has had a long and distin-guished carrier in the industrial sector, pre-viously working for companies includingMagneti Marelli and GE Plastics in variousexecutive international roles.

Prysmian Group announces HakanÖzmen appointed as new

Head of Global Telecom Business

Hakan Özmen

Houston Wire & Cable Com-pany has announced that it hasType P drilling rig and marine ca-ble in stock and ready for im-mediate shipment.

Type P cables are specificallydesigned for installation and usein marine environments includ-ing: offshore drilling rigs, ma-rine vessels, and fixed/floatingoffshore and onshore facilitieswhere harsh marine environ-ments exist.

Houston Wire &Cable Company

now stocks Type Pdrilling rig andmarine cable

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The Afghan fibre optic net-work has been connected toUzbekistan’s telecommunica-tion network and officially in-augurated by Uzbek and Afghantelecommunications officials,Afghan Arzu TV reported.

The Afghan telecommunica-tion network is also planned tobe connected to Iran and Paki-stan in the near future.

The authorities of the Com-munications and Information

Afghanistan fibre optic cable networkconnects to Uzbekistan

Technology Ministry of Afghani-stan signed an agreement withUzbekistan to launch theproject via Sher Khan, the riverport serv ing the northernKonduz Province.

Work on the Afghani fibre op-tic network started two years ago.

The MoCIT said the fibre op-tic network would connect allthe country’s provinces, dis-tricts and even villages to eachother.

The project is estimated tocost US$70 million for the com-pletion of work on the entirenetwork. The fibre optic net-work project betweenUzbekistan and Afghanistan wassupposed to be complete within20 months but because of thedeteriorating security situationwork on the project was af-fected. It is planned that workwill complete by the end of2009.

The signing ceremony for the joint venture agree-ment between Brooketon Sdn Bhd, Telekom BruneiBerhad and DST International (B) Sdn Bhd was held atDST Headquarters in Jerudong.

Haji Mahmud bin Haji Daud, Permanent Secretaryat the Ministry of Communications, in his speech said,“Today’s signing of the joint venture agreement is an-other important milestone towards the efficient run-ning of an international submarine cable connectingSoutheast Asia to the United States of America knownas the ‘Asia America Gateway’ (AAG).

The new cable will improve e-commerce traffic andthus provide significant support for Brunei Darussalam’sefforts towards promoting e-government initiatives.

The cable is located from Singapore, Malaysia, Thai-land, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Phil-ippines, Guam, Hawaii and the United States ofAmerica.

Brooketon, Telekom Brunei Berhad and DST Interna-tional sign agreement on role in submarine cable project

submarine cable-259620

Cyprus TelecommunicationsAuthority and Syrian Telecommu-nication Establishment havesigned an agreement to build analternative Cyprus-Syria highspeed submarine cable under theprovisional name ‘Alasiya’. A fea-sibility study for the building ofthe new cable is to be completedwithin three months, whilst the

Cyprus and Syria building new submarine linktwo telcos also came to agree-ments on a strategy for providingcapacity to Europe as well as aframework for international te-lephony termination rates be-tween their two networks.

In December 2008CommsUpdate reported that Cytaand STE had agreed to initiate fea-sibility studies for establishing a

second undersea fibre-optic linkbetween their countries, alongsidean agreement to increase internetcapacity by upgrading the existingUGARIT submarine cable link be-tween Tartous in Syria andPentaskhinos in Cyprus. The 239kmUGARIT cable launched operationsin 1995, and its design transmissioncapacity is limited to 622Mbps.

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Maillefer provides EPL 25 extru-sion lines for manufacturing highlyresistant silicone cables for electri-cal wiring. Interest is building for thistype of cable. Indeed, several fac-tors are building towards a peak indemand for production capacity. VesaKoskivuo, product manager, cites ex-amples “like the European standardsbeing defined for safety cables andfire resistance, the growing activityin Arctic regions, and the increasedexploration for resources. Cablesneed to resist to mechanical andchemical aggressions placed on themwhile remaining functional even inextreme conditions. We are ready tomeet our customers’ demand with anextrusion line especially designed forthis toughened product.”

Mr. Koskivuo summarizes the at-tractiveness of silicone cable. Flex-ibility across a wide temperature win-

Maillefer provides EPL 25extrusion lines for manufacturing

highly resistant silicone cablesdow is one key advantage. From Arc-tic sub-zero to oven hot tempera-tures, the cable retains its flexibil-ity. “That is a key advantage whencable is laid across frozen tundra orinstalled in exposed structures.

” Another big plus is its behaviourwhen burned. An outer crust formsaround the conductor when con-sumed by flame, which helps it keepits dielectric qualities. “Cleary, its fireresistance characteristics make thecable worthy for safety applications,like emergency electrical systems andfire alarms. Plus, low smoke genera-tion is an added advantage.” Chemi-cally stable, the insulation materialis resistant to aging agents like UV,salt, heat and humidity. Cables pre-viously insulated with silica are ad-vantageously replaced with silicone.Silicone is tough and offers very goodmechanical and chemical resistance. 

Alcan Cableannounces list

price adjustmentsfor STABILOY®Building Wire

Products

Alcan Cable have adjustpublished list prices on thefollowing U.S. aluminumBuilding Wire products:  SEU/SER, XHHW/USE andFeederPlex™. These adjust-ments are reflective of recentchanges in component costsand market conditions.

The new list price sheetswill be posted on the AlcanCable websitewww.cable.alcan.com nolater than 12:00 (E.S.T.) July7, 2009.

Should you have any ques-tions regarding this an-nouncement, please contactyour local Alcan Cable SalesRepresentative.EPL 25 extrusion lines

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In order to meet the require-ments of the latest internationalfire and flame performance ap-provals Habia Cable is now able tooffer an improved range of fireresistant wires and cables underthe Habiaflame brand.

Habiaflame2 is a durable, fire& flame resistant cable designedfor use in very high temperatureareas and for the protection ofcritical safety circuits in industriessuch as steel, aluminium and glassproduction. With a peak tempera-ture of 1565°C Habiaflame2 is theideal solution where in the eventof fire vital equipment needs toremain operational. The excellentfire performance of the cable al-lows extra time for equipment tobe saved or shut down limiting un-necessary damage.

With over 25 years experiencemanufacturing the Habiaflamerange of fire resistant cables,

Habia launches fire resistantcable for extreme heat resistance

Habiaflame2 is tested and ap-proved to the latest fire resistantcable standards including: -

- IEC 60331-31 – flame with im-pact at 830°C for 120 minutes

- IEC 60331-21 – flame at 750°Cfor 90 minutes

- IEC 60332-3-24 Cat C – flamepropagation

- BS 6387:1994 W clause 11.2 –flame at 650°C with water spray

- EN 50200 – PH120

The cables are designed withnickel plated copper conductorswith a resisting barrier tape of Micathat is insensitive to heat and willnot propagate fire. The single wireor multi-core cable is then sur-rounded by a woven glass fibrebraid which is impregnated witheither a standard or halogen freetopcoat. Both topcoats are highlytemperature stable and protectagainst chemicals and liquids.

Other improvements include: -

- Standard single cable sizes from5mm² up to 70mm².

- Multicore & Custom versions (onrequest)

- Stronger, bolder colours for easeof identification

- Improved surface finish forchemical & liquid protection

- Flexibility – bend radius of 10times the outer diameter of the cable

- RVH version that is halogen free

Habiaflame wires and cablesalso have obvious advantages overtypes of high temperature cables.With a lifecycle that is many timeslonger than many other high tem-perature cables the replacementof these cables is less frequent.This offers considerable cost sav-ings together with a reducedthreat of breakdown situationsand lost production.

Power cable firm Ducab hasplans to set up a plant in Qatar –its first outside the UAE – by early2010 at the latest.

“We have a manufacturing li-cence [or Qatar]. It will be set upin the second phase which is ex-pected to be late this year or earlynext year,” said Andrew Shaw,managing director of Ducab, ac-cording to the Gulf Times news-paper.

Ducab, which is jointly ownedby the Dubai and Abu Dhabi gov-ernments, has already set up a100%-owned subsidiary, DucabQatar, which launched a distribu-tion and logistics centre yesterday.

Shaw declined to provide fur-

UAE cabling giant Ducab setssights on Qatar plant

ther details about total investmentin the Qatar subsidiary and its po-tential capacity, but the parentcompany currently produces over110,000 copper tonnes equivalentof low-, medium- and high-voltagecables, as well as a range of com-ponents and accessories.

The executive also hinted thatproduction would be initially forQatar’s consumption, but could berolled out over time to includeother GCC markets. Shaw said thatthe Gulf state’s location made itattractive as it was closer to rawmaterials suppliers, and addedthat Ducab planned to take a 10-15% share in the local market inthe next few years.

Ducab Cables

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OKI Electric Cable has an-nounced it has commercialized arobot cable that is 30% lower pricethan those now on the market andthat has a 50% higher bending per-formance compared to thefluorocarbon insulated cables thathave a strong track record in themarket. The newly launched “ORPCable,” will be available to theworldwide market starting today.

OKI Electric Cable has been of-fering its “OR Super Series” that hassignificantly higher performancethan conventional fluorocarbon in-sulated robot cables*1. However, by

OKI Electric Cable unveils a highly flexible robotcable with bending cycle of 100 million times

applying a flame-resistant specialelastomer*2, an original technologydeveloped by OKI Electric Cable, andby improving the internal structure,the company succeeded in develop-ing a highly flexible, smaller diam-eter “ORP Cable” offered at a lowprice. In particular, flexing durabil-ity for sliding and twisting is morethan 50% higher than conventionalgeneral fluorocarbon insulated robotcables. It has been designed to en-dure over 100 million times slidingand bending and 20 million timestwisting. In addition, the “ORP Ca-ble” prevents the cable body mean-dering*3, which is often seen withconventional cables and can lead tobreaking and damaging the wirefrom moving usage. OKI Electric Ca-ble’s delicate twisting technologyenables the cable to get 5% thinner.

While conventional robot cableshave been sold in 100m rolls, the“ORP Cable” is ready to be sold inpieces or in 10m units, which is theunit requested for machine tools.OKI Electric Cable will also be ableto respond to customer requestsfor shorter turn-around-times.

ORP Cable

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The underground laboratory inHomestake SD was designed for re-search purposes in the major sci-entific disciplines. The project,initiated by the National ScienceFoundation, addresses the needsof particle and nuclear physics, ge-ology, hydrology, geo-engineering,biology and biochemistry.

In the decommissioned mine inHomestake, the deepest mine inNorth America, DUSEL is perform-ing tests in the fields of geologyand rock mechanics, among otherthings. The temperature of therock is measured from the en-

Sensor cables from Brugg Cables measure temperatureand rock deformations in North America’s deepest mine

trance of the mine toa depth of 8000ft(2438m).

This is achievedwith the aid of Dis-tributed TemperatureSensing and sensor ca-bles from Brugg Ca-bles. Rock deforma-tions are also meas-ured. This is madepossible by the newstrain-sensing cable, also suppliedand installed by Brugg Cables. Thiscable is capable of detecting evensmall tensile loads.

DUSEL

By opening its Factory in Bahra,Company received the Saudi Ara-bian Standards Organization Cer-tification for its building wire prod-ucts ranging from 450 to 750 Volts,and for the strength cable rangingfrom 1 to 3 Kilo-volts.

Bahra cables are Saudi manu-factured cables and distributedall over the Kingdom knowingthat there is a huge demand on

SASO certifies Bahra cables products

Cables as Saudi Arabia is witness-ing more than 800 new projects formore than $500bn.

Commenting on this achieve-ment, Eng Talal Idriss, CEO ,BahraCables Company said:

‘Obtaining the SASO certificate isone of huge steps for Bahra Cables.We are demonstrating that our prod-ucts are one of a kind manufacturedwith the latest technologies.’

‘The Kingdom’s power-gen-eration capacity and demand isincreasing as its population iscontinuing to grow. We are proudof Bahra Cables Company’s rolein helping the Kingdom of SaudiArabia meet its growing need forreliable energy,’ said Dr. FaysalAlaquil, CPC Director of BusinessDevelopment and officialspokesperson.

The contract for the submarine cable project to supply power fromthe Bakun hydro-electric dam in Sarawak to the peninsula is expected tobe awarded in mid-2010.

Sarawak Energy Bhd (SEB) group managing director Tan Sri Abdul AzizHusain said a consultant for the project had been appointed, and that aninternational tender would be called early next year.

Chin said the project was estimated to cost between RM8bil andRM10bil. The project’s environmental impact study is now under way.

Aziz said the first 675km-long submarine cable would link Sematan insouthern Sarawak to Tanjung Leman, Johor.

The second underwater cable, he added, would only be built in 2017.

Malaysia-Sarawak submarine cablecontract to be awarded next year

Submarine cable for illustration

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Alcoa shares rallied 7% to US$10.08 in extended trading following theupbeat report. Before the evening rally, the stock close up 5 cents at US$9.46— a 71% drop from a year ago and 16% retreat since the beginning of 2009.

Alcoa, the first of the Dow industrials to report this earnings season,posted a loss of $454 million, or 47 cents a share, vs. a profit of 66 cents ashare, or US$546 million, a year ago, when aluminium prices were justabout double where they currently stand.

Losses from continuing operations came to 32 cents a share. Excludingrestructuring charges, the company would have lost 26 cents a share.

Revenue fell to US$4.2 billion from US$7.2 billion a year ago.

The average price of aluminum during the quarter was US $1,485 permetric ton, a 9% increase from the first quarter of 2009, but a 49% dropfrom a year earlier.

The New York-based metals giant, which already lost almost US $1.7billion over the prior two quarters, was expected to report another loss, onaverage, of 39 cents a share with total sales of US $4.3 billion, according toa FactSet Research survey.

Borouge value creating plas-tics solutions, has awarded acontract to Gulftainer to provideon-site logistics services at itspolyolefins plant located inRuwais, Abu Dhabi, over the nextfive years.  

The services will include bag-ging and packaging, containeryard operations as well as main-tenance of associated equipmentand vehicles. 

“Being an efficient and reli-able supplier to our customers isa priority for us”, explainsAbdulaziz Alhajri, CEO of AbuDhabi Polymers company

Based on the Commerce De-partment’s most recent Steel Im-port Monitoring and Analysisdata, the American Iron andSteel Institute reported todaythat steel import permit appli-cations for the month of Junetotaled 810,000 net tons.  Thiswas a 23% decrease from the1,055,000 permit tons recordedin May 2009 and a 21% decreasefrom the May preliminary im-ports total of 1,020,000 NT.  Im-port permit tonnage for finishedsteel in June was 781,000 NT, adecrease of 22% from the pre-liminary imports total of1,002,000 NT in May and the low-est such monthly import figuresince 1975.  June 2009 total andfinished steel import permit tonswould annualize at 17,112,000NT and 16,026,000 NT, down 46%and 38%, respectively, from the31,927,000 NT and 25,956,000NT imported in 2008. 

Alcoa posts loss on sharplylower aluminium prices

Borouge awards logistics servicescontract to Gulftainer in Abu Dhabi

US steel importsdrop 23%

Alcoa Headquarters

(Borouge). “With additionalpolyolefins capacity coming onstream in mid-2010 and the startup of our logistics hubs in Singa-

pore, and Shanghai andGuangzhou in China, it is impor-tant that we optimise our sup-ply chain operations also in AbuDhabi to ensure we are a long-term reliable partner for our cus-tomers throughout the MiddleEast and Asia.”  

“Gulftainer is committed toleveraging its service excellenceand professionalism to meetBorouge’s logistical needs,” saysPeter Richards, Director andGeneral Manager of Gulftainer.“In addition, this agreement isa positive step in our strategy forgrowth in the region.”

Gulftainer and Borougefinalise deal

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ABB will supply electrical solutions in twoprojects for the City of Cape Town ElectricityServices Department, to help improve reliabil-ity of power supplies in the region. The orderswere booked in the second quarter.

For one of the projects, ABB will replaceand maintain interlocking equipment that en-sures the safe operation of switchgear at threesubstations and a power station in Cape Town.ABB will also provide REF 545 feeder terminalsfor the protection, control and supervision ofa high-voltage transmission network.

For another project, ABB will deliver a rangeof medium-voltage equipment including com-pact gas-insulated switchgear (GIS), rated at12 kV, 24 kV and 36 kV, and ancillary equip-ment for nine substations in the Cape Townarea.

ABB will supply electrical andautomation solutions worthUS$25 million for an expansion ofthe Machu Picchu hydroelectricpower plant in Peru’s Cusco re-gion, about 1,300 km east of thecapital, Lima.

A second powerhouse built un-derground at an elevation of1,800 masl will add 100-MW tothe plant’s present 90-MW capac-ity. Besides more than doublingthe plant’s current generation ca-pacity, the expansion will helpregulate the level and flow of theVilcanota river, minimizing therisk of landslides and flooding.

The project will be executedas part of a strategic alliancewith Harbin Electric Machinery

ABB has won orders worthUS$52 million to provide powerproducts and solutions for a super-critical coal-fired power plant inthe southern Indian state of AndhraPradesh.

The contract was awarded byTata Projects, the engineering,procurement and constructioncontractor for the Balance of Plantrelated to the 2x800 megawattKrishnapatnam thermal powerplant.

ABB wins US$25 millionpower order in Peru

ABB awarded US$17 millionpower order for Cape Town

ABB secures US$52million award by

Tata Projects, India Co, one of the world’s leadingturbine suppliers, and is expectedto be completed by the end of2011.

As part of the project, ABB willprovide an integrated instrumen-tation control and electrical so-lution, which includes protectionand control equipment, instru-mentation and control products,medium- and high-voltageswitchgear, generator circuitbreakers, excitation systems,transformers and cables. ABB willalso supply its renowned System800xA power plant control systemfor the hydro governor and bal-ance-of-plant, enabling all auto-mation functions from a singleplatform.

ABB has secured a US$52 million order from Span-ish technology company Abengoa to supply transform-ers and shunt reactors for projects to interconnectthe grids in Brazil’s northern and southern regions.

ABB’s equipment will serve three projects un-der construction for Manaus Transmissora deEnergia, one of Brazil’s leading energy transmis-sion companies:

· a 374-kilometer extension of the 500 kilo-volt Oriximina-Itacoatiara transmission line in thestates of Para and Amazonas

· a 212-km extension of the Itacoatiara-Cariri500 kV transmission line in the state of Amazonas,which includes the 500/230 kV Cariri substation

· an expansion of the 500 kV Ribeiro Goncalves-Balsas transmission system and the 230 kV Balsassubstation in the northeastern states of Piaui andMaranhao

ABB wins US$52 millionpower order in Brazil

eBoP solution

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The Malta-Sicily electricity grid interconnection project was giventhe final green light this week when EU ministers approved the nearly 4billion euro energy package, funds allocated through the European Eco-nomic Recovery Plan and derived from the unspent portion of the EUbudget.

The ministerial approval follows the Commission’s original proposaland approval from the European Parliament.

The project, which is to be realised by way of a submarine cablelinking Malta to Sicily, had been given a 20 million euro budget by theEuropean Commission, while Malta will receive another 5 million euroas part of a small isolated island project.

The project had been hard fought by Malta, after having been leftout of the first wave of announced projects to have been funded – astate of affairs that was rectified later at Committee of PermanentRepresentatives level.

The hard-fought increase in Malta’s allocation came about followinga direct intervention by Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and a series ofmeetings undertaken by Malta’s Permanent Representative to the EURichard Cachia Caruana.

NGCP will invest around US$625million over the next three years intransmission projects covering thethree main power grids.

These projects are expected tohelp develop and improve the powertransmission network in the coun-try to keep up with growing demand.

NGCP president Walter W. Brownhad said that such transmission

NGCP to invest US$625 millionin power grid projectsprojects are part of the company’seffort to upgrade and expand thepower grids, at the same time aligntheir operations and maintenancepractices with global standards.

The upgrade of transformers andfacilities is part of the company’sTransmission Masterplan, which iscurrently under development.

For 2009 alone, NGCP has iden-

tified 11 priority transmissionprojects, of which two are in Luzon,four in Visayas and five in Mindanao.

These projects form part of theNGCP’s mandate as official opera-tor of the state-owned NationalTransmission Corp., with the rightto operate, manage and maintainthe transmission grid for the next 25years.

EU ministers approve Malta-Sicilypower grid connection project

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Europe’s largest copper pro-ducer is experiencing better de-mand for some semi-finished cop-per products according to the CEO.

‘We reached the bottom point(in product demand) in March andin April had a slightly better ca-pacity usage and a further im-provement since May and June,’said Bernd Drouven, CEO of thecompany, previously calledNorddeutsche Affinerie.

Main demand improvement wasin cast wire rod products. ‘We noti-fied short time working for our castwire rod products plant in Hamburgin May but we have not required thisshort time working,’ he said.

‘This shows that we had reck-oned with it but that the order in-take has been better,’ he said on

The consortium formed byAREVA’s Transmission and Distri-bution division and PTMultifabrindo Gemilang, Indone-sian electrical equipments con-tractor, has been awarded a •120million contract by PT PLN, theIndonesian Public Electric utility.

Through this contract, AREVAwill modernize the Indonesiannetwork in line with the “10 GW

Generation program” launched in2006. This turnkey contract in-cludes delivery of several highvoltage substations as well as un-derground electrical cables, inorder to distribute power to themain Java cities.

This project supports the gov-ernment’s ambitious program toincrease access to electricity forIndonesians within reliability andcontinuity of power supply.

Legnano Teknoelectric Com-pany, a leading processor ofelectrical steel and manufac-turer of magnetic cores fortransformers, has informed thatit has decided to open its firstmanufacturing plant in the Mid-dle East in the Jebel Ali FreeZone.

 The manufacturing plant,built on an arena of 27,500 square

Legnano Teknoelectric Company toset up specialised plant in Jafza

Aurubis CEO says copper productdemand recovers

AREVA securesmajor contract in

Indonesia

AREVA and DAELIM IndustrialCo., have been awarded a con-tract by Korea Hydro & NuclearPower Co., to replace the 6steam generators on the Ulchin1 & 2 NPPs during outagesplanned for 2011 and 2012.

For the purposes of thisproject, a consortium has beenset up, jointly by AREVA andDAELIM. AREVA as OriginalEquipment Manufacturer willlead the consortium and per-form the primary system and li-censing operations in coopera-tion with KHNP and KoreaPower Engineering Co., Inc.(KOPEC). DAELIM will imple-ment all the secondary and lo-cal activities associated withthis project.

AREVA awarded6 steam genera-tor replacement

contract inSouth Korea

Legnano Teknoelectric plant(illustration) -stacking and

assembling Dept. withtesting room

metres, will process grain-ori-ented electrical steel, from coilsright up to fully built magneticcores for distribution and electri-cal power transformers. 

 The facility will equippedwith an 80 metric tonnes liftingcapacity.

The new facility, is slated toopen by fiscal 2012, and willgive employ state of the arttechnology to deliver productsin just a few days to markets inAsia and the Middle East thatare currently three or fourweeks away by sea.

the sidelines of a metal industryevent in Hamburg. Industries show-ing a demand improvement for castrod products included automobilesand the electricity sector, he said.But order intake for continous castformats was still weak, Drouvensaid. It had not fallen further butalso not risen. Short time workingwas continuing for 100 personnelin the continuous cast format sec-tor of the Hamburg plant, its Ger-man product subsidary Prymetalland a plant in Italy, a companyspokeswoman added.

Aurubis generates a high pro-portion of its earnings from salesof copper products rather thanmetal production but the companydoes not reveal the precise break-down. It has about 2,000 person-nel at its main Hamburg plant.

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Sandvik has signed a multi-year delivery contract for steam gen-erator tubes for the nuclear power industry. The contract is valuedat well over SEK 1 billion (US$ 130 million), and deliveries will beginduring 2013.

The customer is Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Equipment Co.Ltd., and the steam generator tubes will be used in nuclear powerplants in China.

A US$375 million contractto provide main machineryfor the Nhon Trach 2 thermo-electric plant in southernDong Nai prov ince wassigned between the VietnamMachinery Erection Corpora-tion (Lilama) and the Sie-mens Corporation from Ger-many on June 10.

Under the contract, Sie-mens will provide the plantwith compressors, gas tur-bines, the generator andheat recovery equipmentand the main transformers.

The 750 MW plant whichis part of Electrical SystemVI Project invested in by theVietnam National Oil andGas Corporat ion(PetroVietnam) is expectedto generate an average 4.5billion kWh per year onceoperational in late 2011.

Siemens to supplyequipment for

Vietnam thermo-electric plant

Sandvik signs billion SEK contract fordelivery of steam generator tubes

Power transmission and dis-tribution major Transformersand Rectifiers India has inaugu-rated a new facility for manu-facturing and testing high ca-pacity transformers at Moraiya.The Moraiya unit is the compa-ny’s third facility in the Gujaratalong with plants in Odhav andChangoder.

Company chairman and man-aging director Jitendra Mamtorainformed the new unit has thecapability of manufacturing andtesting 765 KV transformers.

“We look at exciting possi-bilities in integrated power

Transformers and Rectifiers opennew plant in Gujarat

companies, transmission compa-nies, distribution companies,large industrial power users, in-frastructure companies and re-newable energy suppliers to sellour products,” Mamtora said.

He said investment in thetransmission and distribution in-dustry would grow 100 percentin the next two decades.

“We see rapid strides to bemade in India in the areas ofpower grid development tomeet the increasing demand forequipment for power grid ex-pansion and interconnection de-velopment,” Mamtora added.

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Hylec-APL has launched the TEE range of outdoor cable connec-tors that provide up to IP68 ingress protection with varying cableentry options and up to six-pole connection.

The range uses the cable sealing and cable retention capabilities ofthe IP68 cable glands combined with transparent threaded connectorbodies to provide a completely waterproof connection without externalscrewed caps.

The range includes cable connectors, plug and socket connectorsand junction boxes, all of which are quick and easy to install and offermaximum protection against the weather.

Hylec-APL’s range of waterproof cable connectors include the Teetube,Teebox and Teeplug, which are all approved to ISO9002 quality standards.

Molex was awarded the 2008“Best Technical Support” award byHuawei Technologies Co. a leaderin providing next generation tel-ecommunications network solu-tions for operators around theworld.

The award recognizes Molex’scontinued assistance to and sup-port of Huawei’s R&D team in pro-viding timely and professionaltechnical advice and strong salesand customer service for Huawei’snew product design.

Molex receives 2008 Best Technical Support Awardfrom Huawei Technologies

“We’re honored to have re-ceived the “Best Technical Sup-port” award from Huawei,” saidFrank Tan, VP of APS sales andmarketing, Molex Incorporated.

“Molex worked closely with theHuawei R&D team to ensureprompt technical support and fastissue resolution.” In recognizingMolex, Huawei executives notedthat the company’s excellent cus-tomer relationship managementhas led to a very high level of trustin Molex’s technical capabilities to

provide leading datacom solutions.Said Zheng Yi, vice director of CEG,Huawei:

“The Molex team even organ-ized an audit trip for the Huaweiteam to Molex’s Little Rock con-nector factory to help us betterunderstand the company’s manu-facturing processes.” Molex is theonly connector supplier to win thisaward from Huawei. Most recently,Huawei chose the Molex Impact™6-pair standard backplane anddaughtercard connectors.

TEE Range

Sometimes it’s the little things that make all the difference, which iswhy making a plastic bag thicker and more durable is so important. 3MElectrical Spring Connectors 312 (yellow) and 512 (red), 500 count, arebeing sold in new bags that are designed to stand on their own and areresealable. This makes it easy to grab a single connector at a time andnot end up with a couple hundred on the floor around your feet. Look forthis eye-catching, new packaging at your electrical distributor.

3M Electrical Spring Connectors 312, “yellows,” and 3M Electrical SpringConnectors 512 “reds,” are designed for speed and efficiency. They spinon quickly and tighten down easily. The live inner spring action deliversuniform holding power. Yellows accommodate 5-7 #22wires, 3-6 #20, 2-6 #18, 2-6 #16, 1-4 #14, and 1-3 #12AWG. Reds can handle 2-10 #18, 2-7 #16, 1-6 #14, 1-5#12, 1-3 #10, 1-2 #8, 1 #6 AWG. 3M continues to makethese connectors in the USA.

New connector bags from 3M make all the difference

3M Electrical SpringConnector

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Hylec launches completely waterproofTEE outdoor cable connectors

Samsung Engineering has achieved the largest plant order to be givento a Korean contractor from Algeria. A contract signing ceremony washeld on July 4th with to seal a US$2.6 billion contract for the moderni-zation of its Skikda oil refinery.

The contract covers most of the refinery complex, from the crudedistillation unit to the aromatic facilities. The refinery plant will haveits refining capacity increased up to 330,000 BPSD. In addition, the con-tract includes new plants for the production of Isomerate (700,000 MTPA),Para-Xylene (220,000 MTPA) and Benzene (200,000 MTPA).

Within a 36-month construction period, Samsung Engineering willperform EPC work on a lump-sum turn key contract basis, with bulkmaterials and construction costs to be settled on a reimbursable con-tract basis. 

Samsung Engineering plans to achieve this year’s target of 7 trillionKRW in new orders and 4 trillion KRW in revenue.

GASCO has awarded the con-tracts for EPC work on the Inte-grated Gas Development Project onLump Sum Turn key Basis. The Let-ters of Award were issued on 15thJuly 2009.

The projects will commencefrom the contractors’ Home Officesand will later on move to the Sitesat Habshan and Ruwais for con-struction activities. The projectsare due for completion by 2013.

The IGD Project will be built inHabshan titled Habshan 5. Therewill be 4 Gas Processing Trains witha processing capacity of 2,000MMSCFD. Gas will be transported

Samsung Engineering lands US$2.6 billionrefinery order in Algeria

GASCO awards EPC contracts for US$ 9 billiongas development project

Signing ceremony

from Offshore field Umm Shaif toenable ADMA-OPCO to meetplanned increase in Oil Production.The remaining gas will comprise ofa mix of associated gas as a resultof increase in Oil Production byADCO from 1.4 to 1.8 MM Barrelsper day and non-associated gasesof high sourness from Habshan gasfields. 4 new Sulphur RecoveryUnits will also be built.

The IGD Project, in addition toproviding sales gas to the consum-

ers in the Emirate, will further pro-vide a link between offshore andon shore facilities of ADNOC to pro-vide operational flexibility for oiland gas production.

Habshan Plan

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Sabic and ExxonMobil Chemical are seeking bidders for a new petro-chemical project. Sabic and ExxonMobil Chemical signed an agreementin November for the multi-billion dollar joint venture at their plants inJubail and Yanbu. The two companies would issue packages for the Jubailplant by the end of the year.

The project would have a production capacity of 400,000 tonnes peryear of carbon black, rubber and specialty polymers for domestic andinternational sale.

Plants would be based at the Kemya complex in Jubail and the Yanpetin Yanbu. Yanpet is a 50-50 joint venture between Mobil Yanbu Petro-chemical, an affiliate of ExxonMobil Chemical and SABIC. Kemya is a 50-50 joint venture between SABIC and Exxon Chemical Arabia, anotheraffiliate of ExxonMobil Chemical.

Plans for Yanpet have yet to be announced.

Zhenhua Heavy Industryhas signed a deal with Span-ish company ADHK worthUS$2.2 billion.

ADHK will purchase 10 off-shore drilling platforms, sevenpieces of land drilling equip-ment and two floating cranesto under the deal.

Offshore drilling platformsare a new product for ZhenhuaHeavy and they will pursuethis strategy to increase itsshare of the offshore productsmarket.

The equipment manufac-turing export deal is the larg-est in the history of China.

Hyundai Heavy Industrieshas received a US$1 billion or-der for a gas treatment plantfrom ADGAS in the UAE.

HHI will reclaim a fore-shore and build a gas treat-ment plant in Das Island. Theplant will consist of 24 mod-ules with a capacity of 283million cubic meters of gasper day.

The plant will send the gasproduced in the Umm Shaifgas field to the Habshan plant.

Construction is due to startJuly 2009, to be completed bySeptember 2013.

Zhenhua Heavylands US$2.2 bil-

lion deal withADHK

Hyundai HeavyIndustries securesUS$1 billion order

in UAE fromADGAS

Sabic and ExxonMobil Chemicalseek multi-billion dollar

petrochemical project bidders

Oceaneering has announced that it secured a contract in late Junewith estimated revenue in the range of US$44 million to US$64 millionfrom Petrobras Netherlands B.V., a subsidiary of Petrobras.

The contract is an umbilical supply order for the exploration andproduction units of Petrobras. This includes electro-hydraulic thermo-plastic control umbilicals totaling approximately 165 kilometers (100miles) in length.

Product manufacturing has commenced at the Oceaneering Multiflexfacility in Brazil and is scheduled to be completed by late 2010. Themaximum water depth at the locations where these umbilicals are to beinstalled is 6,500 feet.

ExxonMobil ChemicalPlant for illustration

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Oceaneering lands US$64 millionPetrobras umbilical global

supply contract

Jacobs has received a con-tract from Indian Oil Corpora-tion to provide project manage-ment consultancy services fora delayed coker unit at itsParadip refinery. IOCL’s refineryis a 15 MMTPA facility.

The contract value was notdisclosed. The cost of a DCU isestimated at US $350 million.

Jacobs will undertake FEEDservices, and supervise the re-sulting lump sum turnkey con-tractors who will install a 4.1MMTPA DCU with associated fa-cilities at the refinery.

SABIC has announced that it hasreceived an approval from the NDRCto participate in a joint venture withSinopec in the Tianjin petrochemicalcomplex under construction inTianjin, China.

The approval follows a coopera-tion agreement signed by both com-

Petrofac has been awarded acontract by Apache North Seafollowing a tender for OnshoreEngineering and Ad-Hoc Off-shore Construction Services.  

  The contract duration is forthree years with two optionalone-year extensions and thevalue is £25 million per annum.Petrofac will undertake devel-opment of onshore engineeringand offshore construct ionprojects to support the five For-ties field platforms. 

Maire Tecnimont has an-nounced that its main operatingcompany Tecnimont has beenawarded three contracts for theFEED stage of the Borouge 3 ex-pansion project in Ruwais.

The value of the contracts is equalto approximately US$22 million.

The contracts cover the multi-

SABIC and Sinopec joint projectapproved by Chinese Government

panies on June 21, 2008. The agree-ment stated that both parties wouldenter into a 50/50 joint venture andwould study the feasibility of addingpolycarbonates that uses raw mate-rials based on SABIC technology. 

The complex is due to be com-pleted in September 2009 with invest-ments of around US$3 billion. Theproduction capacity is rated at ap-proximately 3.2 million tons includ-ing a variety of petrochemical prod-ucts, including ethylene and other

products such as Polyethylenes, Eth-ylene Glycol, Polypropylene,Butadiene, Phenol, & Butene-1.

Maire Tecnimont secures US$22 millionFEED contracts for Borouge

Expansion Project in the UAE

ple polyolefin units, the LDPE unitand the utilities and offsite facili-ties. The duration of the FEEDphase is programmed to be ap-proximately nine months. Realiza-tion of the project will see Borougeincrease its production capacity ofpolyolefins in Abu Dhabi by addingsix new process units.

Petrofac secures £25 millionengineering and offshore construction

contract on Forties from Apache North Sea

The Forties Field

Paradip refinery

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Jacobs securesUS$350 million

contract for FEEDservices from Indian

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