Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Reports Its 2008 Financial Results

Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009
NEW YORK, /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ –Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation (OTCBulletinBoard: AWRCF) (the “Company”) announced today that it completed and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission the Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008.

Prysmian To Evaluate A Cross Border Merger With Draka, with Prysmian as Surviving Entity

Monday, Jun 29, 2009

In light of Draka Holding N.V. (Draka) press release issued this morning, Prysmian S.p.A. (Prysmian) confirms hereby that, consistently with its growth strategy, it has entered into preliminary discussions with Draka in order to evaluate, also with the assistance of its advisors, a possible combination between the two companies, to be implemented through a share for share cross-border statutory merger with Prysmian as surviving entity.

Siemens modernizes gas cleaning system for blast furnace of Ovako Wire Oy Ab

Friday, Jun 26, 2009

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has received an order from the special steel products company Ovako Wire Oy Ab in Finland to engineer and supply a gas scrubber for the blast furnace at its Koverhar plant.

Taipower launches domestic tender for 345KV power cable

Thursday, Jun 25, 2009

State-run Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) yesterday launched a tender for the supply of around NT$300 million worth of 345KV super high voltage cable to, for the first time ever, domestic suppliers, with Hua Eng Wire & Cable Co., Ltd. and Ta Ya Electric Wire and Cable Co., Ltd. joining the bid for the project.  

Nexans’ low-voltage cables power the new BioWanze bioethanol plant in Belgium

Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009

For this kind of large-scale project, Nexans places operational excellence and quality of service at the core of its offering to the industrial construction market

Paris, June 24, 2009 – Nexans, the worldwide leader in the cable industry, has completed a contract worth approximately 1 million euros to supply low-voltage power cables for the BioWanze project—a new plant producing bioethanol from wheat and sugar beet. The plant, located in Wanze near Huy sur Meuse (Belgium), represents an investment of 250 million euros for the Südzucker Group, Europe’s leading sugar producer. It will produce half of the annual bioethanol volume for the Belgian market, or 125,000 cubic meters per annum during the next six years.Nexans entered a frame agreement with Siemens NV/SA, the contractor in charge of project engineering and management, for the supply of approximately 350 kilometers of low-voltage (LV) power cables in only five months, with over one hundred different product references. The cables were manufactured by Nexans production facilities in Belgium, located in Dour and Buizingen.

Corning Cable Systems Introduces LANscape® Pretium® Evolved-Density, Growth-Enabled Solutions

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009

Corning Cable Systems LLC, part of Corning Incorporated’s (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, introduces its LANscape® Pretium® Evolved-Density, Growth-Enabled (EDGE) Solutions, high-density preterminated optical cabling solutions for the data center environment.

Euro Cable Plc. launches production of electric cables in Ethiopia

Monday, Jun 22, 2009

Euro Cable Plc., the first private cable factory in Ethiopia, announced that it has launched production of all kinds of electric cables for the first time in the country.

SNC-Lavalin Awarded Consultancy Services Contract for HVDC Interconnection Between Egypt and Saudi Arabia

Friday, Jun 19, 2009

SNC-Lavalin is pleased to announce that its Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Group has been awarded a contract for consultancy services on the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) electricity interconnection project between Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

Hawaii studying locations for undersea power cable for offshore windfarm

The state has asked University of Hawaii researchers to study the best possible routes for an undersea cable that would deliver power generated from windfarms on Lanai and Molokai to other islands.

The cable, which would be at least 30 miles long, is part of Gov. Linda Lingle’s effort to obtain 70 percent of Hawaii’s energy from clean sources by 2030.

The state now gets about 10 percent of its energy from renewable sources, making it one of the most fossil fuel-dependent states in the nation.

The cable would be able to connect large wind farms proposed for Lanai and Molokai with the power grids of those two islands as well as grids on the more heavily populated isles of Maui and Oahu.

The survey would be the first step in a process that allow the cable to qualify for federal economic stimulus funds, said Ted Peck, the state’s energy program administrator.

“We wanted to get these funds to Hawaii and circulating in the local economy as quickly as possible,” Peck said.

Data collected from the survey would become part of an environmental impact statement for the cable, the state Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism said in a statement Thursday.

David Murdock, a billionaire who owns 98 percent of Lanai, has proposed creating a wind farm on the island.

His plan would build 125 turbines spread over 10,000 to 12,000 acres and then export power to Oahu via undersea cables.

First Wind has committed $50 million to help the community buy the closed-down Molokai Ranch, which covers one-third of the island, including the area of the proposed wind farm.

First Wind and Castle & Cooke Hawaii agreed to build smaller wind projects together rather than competing to develop bigger wind farms. This allowed them to forgo a bidding war.

The companies say their collaborative effort may end after the early phase, and then they would start competing for the ability to provide Hawaii’s renewable power.

Belden Runs An Unamplified 1080p/60 Digital Video Signal Over 100ft of Connectorized HDMI Cable

Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Belden (NYSE:BDC) , a world leader in the development of signal transmission products for enterprise, industrial, building management, broadcast, and security applications, demonstrates the unique cable performance properties of their HDMI cable by running an unamplified 1080p/60 digital video signal 100 feet from a generic Blu-ray Disc player to a generic 1080p/60 display. This demonstration will be featured live throughout the InfoComm/NSCA tradeshow in Orlando, Florida June 17-19, 2009.