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| 2012 annual report prysmian group
INDUSTRIAL
Highly customised solutions in all segments.
The extensive product range, developed specifically for the
Industrial market, stands out for the highly customised
nature of the solutions offered. These products serve a
broad range of industries, including Oil & Gas, Transport,
Infrastructure, Mining and Renewable Energy. Prysmian Group
offers integrated, high value-added cabling solutions to its
customers, who include world-leading industrial groups and
OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), such as ABB,
AKER, Alstom, SNCF, Petrobras, Peugeot-Citroen, Renault and
Siemens.
The continuous specialisation of products and solutions
allows them to be customised for specific fields of application,
including use in the renewable energy sector, in the chemicals,
transportation, aviation and aerospace industries, as well as in
elevators.
Prysmian Group offers solutions to the Oil & Gas industry
for both upstream and downstream activities. Its products
therefore range from low and medium voltage power and
instrumentation/control cables, to multipurpose umbilical
cables for transporting energy, telecommunications, fluids and
chemicals when connecting submarine sources and collectors
to FPSO (Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading)
platforms.
In the transport sector, Prysmian Group cables are used
in the construction of trains, ships and motor vehicles; in
the infrastructure sector, the principal applications for its
cables are found in railways, docks and airports. The product
range also includes cables for the mining industry and
for applications in the renewable energy sector. Prysmian
Group also supplies cables able to withstand high radiation
environments for use in military applications and nuclear
power stations.
(*) The pro-forma figures are calculated by aggregating the Draka Group’s results for the two-month pre-acquisition period (January-February) with the consolidated
figures
(in milions of Euro)
2012
2011 (*)
% Change
% Organic
2010
Pro-forma
sales change
Sales to third parties
1,801
1,824
-1.3%
-1.5%
742
Adjusted EBITDA
139
116
61
% of sales
7.7%
6.4%
8.3%
Adjusted operating income
99
79
42
% of sales
5.5%
4.3%
5.7%
