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Prysmian Group – 2015 Sustainability Report
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extend from power, instrumentation and control cables to a range of SURF products and services, including
umbilical cables for offshore platforms and high-technology flexible pipes for the lifting of petroleum.
In the
renewable energies
market, Prysmian technologies have been employed to establish several of the
world's largest solar and wind farms, such as the Ohotnikovo PV plant in the Ukraine and the main wind
farms in southern Italy.
The Group's fire-resistant cables can be found at the heart of the most spectacular, state-of-the-art
buildings
, including the Wimbledon tennis stadium, the futuristic Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and the
Shard skyscraper in London, which is the tallest in western Europe. In Milan, the Prysmian Group's cabling
solutions contributed to guaranteeing the safety of the millions of visitors from all over the world who went to
the 2015 Universal Exposition.
Turning to the
Elevator
business, the Group's cables can be found in many of the world's tallest or most
prestigious buildings, such as the new World Trade Center in New York City. By cabling the Burj Khalifa in
Dubai, the world's tallest building at 828 metres high, Prysmian has guaranteed safety on each of its 162
floors with elevator cables and fire-resistant cables whose length exceeds 1,300 times the height of the
tower.
The Group has also achieved exceptional results in the
transportation sector
by cabling some of the
world's biggest passenger aircraft and ships, such as the Airbus 380 and Royal Caribbean's GENESIS fleet,
the fastest trains and most innovative metro systems, such as that recently inaugurated in Shanghai. Three
million passengers travel on the London Underground each day, using 400 km of tunnels cabled by
Prysmian and Draka fire-resistant products.
Lastly, the Prysmian Group is the world's leading producer of Telecom cables, with a wide range of optical
fibre solutions for voice communications and around 30 factories dedicated to this sector. In this way, we
help to develop the infrastructure that supports information flows and communications between communities
around the world. The quality of our optical fibres and innovative cabling solutions enables the Group to
tackle the most difficult and ambitious challenges. In Australia, Prysmian is helping the government to
achieve the goal of creating a "Fibre-to-the-Premises" network that will connect 93% of the country's
residential and commercial buildings. This project confirms the Group's central role in the largest
infrastructure challenge ever faced in Australia's history.