VOLUME II | ISSUE III | JULY 2011
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WIRE BULLETIN India’s Quarterly Bulletin Dedicated to the Wire and Cable Industry
Interwire show a huge success
ASK THE EXPERT Q: How can we meet our customers’ requirement of a bright annealed surface on brass wires when the bright surface luster becomes black after annealing?
See answer on p. 17
NEWS BITES • The new Companies Bill promises greater shareholder democracy and stricter corporate governance norms and mandatory CSR disclosure.
The Wire Association International (WAI) Inc’s 81st annual convention and its flagship Interwire trade exposition came to a successful conclusion on May 5 after a four-day conference at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, where attendance figures surged beyond the Association’s past two Interwire events. The total attendance reached 4,022, up 19 per cent from the 2009 event in Cleveland, Ohio. Attendees came from 53 countries. “Interwire had tremendous support from the wire and cable manufacturing community. More than 750 wire and cable facilities sent representatives—many sent multiple attendees—all with action items to accomplish at Interwire,” said WAI President Dominique Perroud.
An overview of the 2011 show floor. More than 400 companies were represented at the three-day exhibition. Production solution demonstrations, held through the hall, covered topics ranging from surface treatment technology and roll straightening to FEP foaming technology, wiredrawing lubricants, and wire breaks. Interwire will return to Atlanta, April 23-25, 2013.|WB
• Steel Authority of India Ltd. has decided to rope in a strategic partner to spearhead its plan to set up a 3 million tonnes steel plant in Afghanistan.
Volex and Huawei to supply cable assemblies to Indian markets
• India’s real GDP growth is expected to grow by 8.8 per cent in FY12 after having grown a tad faster at 9 per cent in FY11.
Volex Group Plc., a global source for customised electrical and optical interconnect solutions, has been selected by telecom solutions provider Huawei as a local cable assemblies supplier for both Huawei India and Huawei Indonesia.
QUOTABLE QUOTES fundamental belief is growth “is aOur way of life and we have to grow at all times.” ~Mukesh Ambani, CMD, Reliance Industries
Volex has a production facility in Chennai.
Character will guide all our actions and “decisions.” ~Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro “Innovation and technology should be used to make services and products avail-
According to these contracts Volex will provide cable assemblies to the Indian telecom market via its Chennai manufacturing facility and deliver products through its two
able to consumers at the bottom of the pyramid.” ~Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Group
IN THIS ISSUE: Editorial .............................. 2 Calendar & Event Review ..... 3 Industry News ..................... 4 Business Innovation ............ 6 Corporate Focus.................. 8 Featured Concepts ............ 10 Global News...................... 12 Products, Media, & Technology .................... 13 Production Tips ................. 16 Ask the Expert ................... 17 Technical Article................ 18 People on the Move........... 22 Ad Showcase..................... 24
Indonesian factories for Huawei’s telecom customers in its South Pacific region. Commenting on the new relationship, Conway Hui, Global VP, Telecoms and Datacoms at Volex, said, “Volex continues to demonstrate its strong relationship with Huawei as its global cable assembly vendor of choice. Volex’s manufacturing capabilities are well-suited to support the needs of Huawei’s customers in these significant markets. Huawei plans to have its Indonesia operation become the major logistics centre for the South Pacific region, in much the same way as Huawei’s Hungary Logistic Centre is for Europe, Russia, and North Africa.” Volex will supply Huawei India and Huawei Indonesia with subscriber, trunk, and power cable assemblies from its continued on p. 5
Lapp Group to invest in Bhopal Lapp Group, a manufacturer and supplier of high flexibility cables, cable accessories, and industrial connectors, announced a Rs 150 crore investment in Bhopal, to develop a manufacturing unit in Pilukedi, Rajgrah district. Spread over 30 acres, the facility will include three building units with an individual manufacturing apparatus in each. Initially the company will employ around 100 people at the facility, with plans to employ approximately 400 once it is fully operational. “India’s thriving economy is showing a promising outlook and I believe it is the future market of the connectivity solutions’ industry. With the estimated market size of approximately Euro 3 billion, we have a lot to do for the market,” said Siegbert E. Lapp, Director, Lapp Holding AG. Lapp referenced a change in purchase patterns and a shift toward the use of quality products. “Now the quality-conscious
Properzi supplies wire rod mills to Vedanta Aluminium Continuus-Properzi has delivered the fourth casting and rolling AL rod line to the Vedanta site in Jharsuguda in Orissa, which will begin production during 2011. This line is part of the historic contract signed by Vedanta and Properzi at the end of 2008 which included four complete lines of 15 TPH each. Each state-of-the-art line is equipped to produce EC grade AL in the standard diameters of 9.5 mm, 12 mm and 15 mm. The rod coils, up to 3 T each, are destined for both domestic and international markets. Presently, India has one of the lowest aluminium per capita consumption in the world with less than 1 kg per person per year. For reference sake, China’s consumption is presently in the range of 12 kg per person per year and countries like Germany and Italy are in the range of 26-28 kg per person per year.
View of the roughing mill of 15 TPH. *Note that the machinery shown without personal safety protections is for display purposes only. This huge project under completion by Vedanta must be framed under the Electricity Act whose target is to bring electric power to all the villages spread in the vast territory of India. “If we assume that India will follow the route taken by China, we can expect an immense number of projects in India over the next 10 years bringing the aluminium production from the present 1.2-1.3 million tonnes per year to more than 5 million tonnes per year,” a press release from Properzi said. Based in London, Vedanta is a diversified metals and mining group with wide-ranging interests in aluminium, copper, zinc, lead, iron ore, and commercial energy. From a revenue perspective, the company is the largest nonferrous metals and mining company in India. The company’s set up in Jharsuguda, will be one of the world’s largest aluminium production facilities.|WB A D V E R T I S M E N T
See page 7. Srinivas P. Kamisetty, M.D., Lapp India P. Ltd., Siegbert E. Lapp, Director, Lapp Holding AG and Frank Imkamp, CEO & President Asia-Pacific, Lapp Group (l-r). buyer overrides a quantity-conscious one and hence standardised products will witness an upswing in demand, making it essential for us to build up and meet their requirements,” he said. continued on p. 5