Wire &amp; Cable India

February 20, 2014 Leoni, the leading provider of cables and cable systems to the automotive sector and other industries, has obtained a major contract from the Indian producer Reliance Industries Ltd. The project involving wiring at Jamnagar, the world’s largest oil and gas refinery, is worth about €22 million. Reliance......

IEEMA Seminar on new generation high performance conductor

wirecableMarch 12, 2014July 31, 2021

January 14, 2014 A seminar was organised by the conductor division of IEEMA during ELECRAMA to showcase the next-generation conductor technology to the users. Chairman of IEEMA Conductor Division, Mr. Chaitanya Desai stated that electricity has been traditionally delivered using bare overhead conductors such as ACSR and AAAC for over......

Southwire to acquire Coleman Cable at transaction valued at around $786 million

wirecableMarch 12, 2014June 24, 2015

December 20, 2013 Southwire Company and Coleman Cable, Inc announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Southwire will acquire Coleman for $26.25 per share in cash. The transaction, which values Coleman at approximately $786 million, including the assumption of $294 million in net debt,......

Bekaert expands in Central America and grows its ropes platform

wirecableMarch 12, 2014June 24, 2015

December 10, 2013 Bekaert, a global market and technology leader in steel wire transformation and coatings, plans to expand in Central and Latin America, including the start-up of a Dramix® plant in Costa Rica, the acquisition of the majority of the shares of the ArcelorMittal steel wire plant in Costa......

GCR Eurodraw supplies galvanised wire production plant in the Middle East

wirecableMarch 12, 2014June 24, 2015

December 5, 2013 GCR Eurodraw SpA, a world leading manufacturer of machine and equipment, supplier of technology and applications for steel wire processing, announced earlier this year that it has supplied a complete plant for the production of a 50,000 ton per annum of low carbon galvanised wire starting from......

New metal forming fluids and rust preventatives from METALUBE®

wirecableMarch 12, 2014July 31, 2021

January 30, 2014 A new range of lubricants and rust preventatives for the roll forming, cutting and pressing of metallic parts has been launched by METALUBE Ltd. The new range comprises the following product groups: • Cool-Tek™ – water dilutable concentrates for lubrication during the forming and cutting processes. Cool-Tek......

InnoVites integrates cable industry solution with CableMES based on Wonderware

wirecableMarch 12, 2014July 31, 2021

January 9, 2014 InnoVites B.V. announced that they would integrate their Cable ERP software with CableMES, which is based on the Wonderware MES platform. This integration would further complement the InnoVites offering to wire and cable industry and provide customers with optimal control of their manufacturing processes. The MES integration......

Rosendahl’s quality crossheads

wirecableMarch 12, 2014July 31, 2021

A cable producer’s main goal is to offer a high-quality product to the market; and a high-quality cable is the result of many different factors. One of them is the extrusion crosshead. What makes a crosshead a good crosshead? High centricity, for example. Experts at Rosendahl focus on a round......

KEC International wins orders worth Rs. 1,215 crore

wirecableMarch 12, 2014June 24, 2015

News Transmission, Distribution & Infrastructure

January 16, 2014 KEC International Ltd. (KEC), a global infrastructure EPC major, an RPG Group company, has secured new orders of Rs. 1,215 crore in its transmission and cables businesses. In this business, the company has secured orders in Saudi Arabia, Americas, Bhutan, Nepal and India amounting to Rs. 1,148......

ABB wins power products orders worth $56 million in India

wirecableMarch 12, 2014June 24, 2015