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Prysmian Group – 2015 Sustainability Report
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The Prysmian Group in the world
The Prysmian Group: innovation and advanced technology in order to maintain market leadership in
the global cables industry.
The Prysmian Group is world leader in the supply of cables and systems for energy and telecommunications.
With almost 140 years of experience, sales of about 7.5 billion euro in 2015, more than 19,000 employees in
50 countries and 88 factories, the Group offers the broadest range of products, services, technologies and
know how for every type of industry, sustained by a grassroots commercial presence and 17 R&D centres in
Europe, the United States, South America and China that are staffed by more than 500 experienced
professionals.
Prysmian is a public company, listed on the Italian Stock Exchange as part of the FTSE MIB index.
The Group is organised into the Energy Projects, Energy Products and Telecom operating segments, and is
active the development, design, production, supply and installation of cables for highly diverse applications.
The Company supplies terrestrial and submarine cables and systems for the transmission and distribution of
energy
, special cables for applications in various industrial sectors and medium-low voltage cables for
infrastructure and construction needs.
With regard to
telecommunications
, the Group produces cables and accessories for voice, video and data
transmissions, drawing on a complete range of optical fibres, optical and copper cables and connectors. The
Prysmian Group has reached many major milestones over the years, completing projects with innovative and
cutting-edge solutions that satisfy the highest expectations of customers and create value for both
stakeholders and the Group.
The Group has completed several major
undersea power delivery projects
for grid managers and utilities.
These included the recent NSN (North Sea Network) Link between Norway and the United Kingdom that,
when operational, will be the first cable system for the transmission of electricity between the two countries,
as well as the record-breaking Western HVDC Link project in the United Kingdom. This last involves a
number of industry firsts, in terms of voltage (600 kV), highest operational rating for an insulated cable (2200
MW) and distance (over 400 km). In the United States, the Trans Bay, Neptune and Hudson projects are
worthy of note, illuminating large areas from San Francisco to New York City with electricity from different
sources.
The Group is also world leader in submarine links for offshore wind farms. In addition to participating in all
the major projects completed at European level in recent years, Prysmian has recently designed the cable
link between a number of wind farms in the West of Adlergrund area of the Baltic Sea and the terrestrial
electricity grids in Germany.
In terms of
terrestrial infrastructure
, the Group has helped to build electricity grids in some of the world's
largest cities, from New York to Buenos Aires, from London to St. Petersburg, and from Hong Kong to
Sydney. Furthermore, in 2016, Prysmian will lead a consortium of 7 firms in the creation of a new HVDC
"Piemonte-Savoia" link between Italy and France. This project is strategic to increasing the security of
electricity supplies and will allow up to 1,200 MW of power to flow between Italy and France.
The Group also assists the
petrochemicals industry
, offering sector operators solutions for use in
exploration and production, as well as in the transformation and storage of hydrocarbons. These solutions