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80 kilometres of Firetufplus cable installed at O2 arena

O2, which is owned and operated by AEG [Anschutz Entertainment Group], is being heralded as "Europe's finest indoor music and sports venue". Described by AEG as “a city-within-a-city”, the O2 arena is surrounded by an entertainment district that will open to all, night and day. This comprises a number of leisure attractions, including an 11-screen cinema, exhibition space, an indigo music club, restaurants, bars and cafés, all lining an avenue ... [more]

Latest Draka catalogue published

Draka has published its latest all-products catalogue. It runs to a full 108 pages and describes in detail the company’s entire range of third-party approved cables that meet the demands of the vast majority of construction and industrial applications. This includes house wiring and low voltage supply cables for use in domestic, commercial, retail, healthcare and leisure sector buildings. It also covers specialist communication and data tr... [more]

Draka Firetufplus cable chosen for Bankside office buildings

The Bankside 2 and 3 office buildings, adjacent to the Tate Modern and the replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, incorporate fire detection and alarm installations that depend on Draka’s premium-specification Zero Halogen, Low Smoke [0HLS] Enhanced-category Firetufplus cabling. Over 53,000 metres of the BS 5839-1:2002 compliant, third-party-approved fire resistant Draka cable have been installed to provide reliable power to the lif... [more]

Desktop EDA to distribute IGE+XAO Group electrical plan design package in Australia and New Zealand

The IGE+XAO Group has announced the signature of a new partnership with the Australian company Desktop EDA. This Melbourne-based company, created in 1996, is specialized in software packages dedicated to Computer-Aided Design for electronics and mechanical industries. The product range includes, in particular, IDF Modeler, a software package allowing designing three-dimensional (3D) images of Printed Circuit Boards, as well as Elektracad, an ... [more]

Nexans records strong growth of cable businesses sales

The Nexans Board of Directors has approved the accounts for 2007. Key figures: * Net sales in 2007 totaled 7.412 billion euros compared with 7.489 billion euros in 2006. At constant non-ferrous metals prices, sales amounted to 4.822 billion euros compared with 4.442 billion euros in 2006. At constant consolidated scope and exchange rates, sales have increased by 4.8% compared with 2006, representing organic growth of 12.1% for the cable b... [more]

 

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