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... (Continue reading)
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,... (Continue reading)
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... (Continue reading)
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... (Continue reading)
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... (Continue reading)
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... (Continue reading)
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... (Continue reading)
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... (Continue reading)
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... (Continue reading)
21 June, 2011 Nexans announced the signing of an agreement with the Shandong Yanggu Cable Group to create a joint venture based on Shandong Yanggu’s power cable business in China. Nexans will hold 75% and Shandong Yanggu will hold 25%... (Continue reading)