Nexans releases FY 2012 results, records euro 7.2 billion sales

wirecableApril 1, 2013July 22, 2013

April 1, 2013July 22, 2013

February 7, 2013 The Nexans Board of Directors meeting on February 6, 2013 approved the Financial Statements for 2012. Net sales for 2012 totaled 7.178 billion euros compared with 6.920 billion euros in 2011. At constant non-ferrous metal prices1, the figure is 4.872 billion euros compared with 4.594 billion euros......

Nexans’ innovative overhead line technology helps Brazil solve electricity transmission problems in its large cities

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September 1, 2012March 14, 2013

July 3, 2012 Nexans has worked with Light, Rio de Janeiro’s electric utility, to develop the innovative Lo-Sag™ conductor to help solve Brazil’s crucial issue of supplying more electricity to its large urban centres*, where the construction of new overhead transmission lines is severely restricted and needs controlled clearance to......

Wooden cable drum return programme

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August 31, 2012September 12, 2012

July 17, 2012 Nexans continues to reinforce its commitment to sustainable development by rolling out a new programme to collect and reuse its wooden cable drums. The drum return programme is the latest phase in Nexans’s packaging Purchasing green initiative, launched in 2010, when it became the world’s first cable......

Nexans goes live on grid with world’s first fault current limiter based on second-generation superconductors

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March 19, 2012March 27, 2012

14 January, 2012 Nexans has successfully commissioned the world’s first resistive superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) based on second-generation superconductor tapes. The SFCL, equipped with superconducting elements developed in cooperation with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, has been installed on behalf of Vattenfall Europe Generation AG to provide short-circuit protection......

Nexans completes acquisition of AmerCable Holdings Inc.Nexans,AmerCable ,

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March 19, 2012March 27, 2012

2 March, 2012 Nexans, a worldwide leading expert in the cable industry, confirms that it has completed the acquisition of AmerCable on February 29, 2012. AmerCable is the leading North American producer of Mining and Oil & Gas cables, and is also active in other industrial cables segments including Renewable......

Nexans awarded contract for airfield lighting cable for India’s MAFI project

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March 19, 2012March 27, 2012

1 March, 2012 Nexans has been awarded a contract by Tata Power’s Strategic Electronics Division (Tata Power SED), India, amounting to approximately 5 million euro to supply specialized medium voltage (MV) primary and low voltage (LV) secondary airfield lighting cables for the Indian Air Force’s ‘Modernization of the Airfield Infrastructure......

1200 km POWERMINE cables to be supplied for new copper mine in Peru

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January 19, 2012January 27, 2012

7 December, 2011 Nexans has been awarded a major contract to supply power, control and instrumentation cables from its specialized POWERMINE® range for CHINALCO’s new Mount Toromocho open-cast copper mine in Peru. In cooperation with Anixter USA, its distribution partner for this project, Nexans is providing more than 1,200 km......

Industry leaders successfully demonstrate transmission voltage superconductor fault current limiter

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November 17, 2011December 27, 2011

14 October, 2011 Nexans, Siemens and American Superconductor Corporation announced the successful qualification of a transmission voltage resistive fault current limiter (FCL) that utilizes high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire. This marks the first time a resistive superconductor FCL has been developed and successfully tested for power levels suitable for application......

Nexans to supply 130 kilometres of URC-1 cable containing 96 fibres

wirecableNovember 17, 2011December 27, 2011

November 17, 2011December 27, 2011

27 October, 2011 Nexans has been awarded a contract to supply 130 kilometres of URC-1 cable to Emerald Bridge Fibres Ltd. (Emerald Bridge). Emerald Bridge is a joint venture between UK fibre network provider Geo Networks Ltd. (Geo) and Ireland’s leading telecom provider ESB Telecoms Ltd, to lay the most......

Nexans wins turnkey contract to supply & install infield power cables for the Riffgat offshore wind farm

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September 14, 2011September 15, 2011

24 August, 2011 Nexans has been awarded a contract by the project developer Offshore-Windpark RIFFGAT GmbH & Co. KG, which is owned by Enova and EWE ENERGIE, to supply and install the infield submarine power cables and ancillary equipment for the Riffgat offshore wind farm currently under construction 15 km......