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Prysmian Group Insight
GETTING THINGS DONE
Prysmian Group has opened a new
medium and high voltage cable
production facility in Rybinsk, in
the Russian Yaroslavl region, as the
latest step in its expansion plans
in the country. The $55 million
investment will allow the Group to
produce medium and high voltage
cables locally, using manufacturing
processes that meet the best
quality standards and best-in-class
technology within the cable industry.
The Rybinsk plant, which also
produces cables for the oil and gas
industry, fire performance cables
(Low Smoke Zero Halogen) and auto
wires, will soon supply the full range
of applications in the energy cable
business, including medium voltage
cables up to 35kV and high voltage
cables up to 330kV with maximum
cross-section 2500mm2 and cross-
linked polyethylene insulation.
Cesare Biggiogera, CEO Prysmian
Group Russia, explained that the
new investment in Russia “will allow
to start producing Medium Voltage
and High Voltage cables locally,
using manufacturing processes that
meet the best quality standards
of the Group and the best-in-class
technology of the cable industry:
it will help us to reach the forecast
sales target of around
€
200 million
in 2016.”
After the acquisition in 2009 of
Rybinskelectrocabel, one of Russia’s
most dynamic cable manufacturers,
the Group’s expansion in Russia
continued with the integration in
2011 of the St. Petersburg’s Neva
Cable factory, which makes telecom
copper and optical cables.
New facility in Russia
Rybinsk to produce cables for power transmission and distribution
Prysmian at
work on new
EU building
regulations
Prysmian Group’s E&I Business Unit
gears up to support customers in
mandatory from 1 July 2013. The
CPR lays down the conditions for the
placing or making available in the
market a wide range of construction
products, including power, control
and communication cables. The new
The new Rybinsk facility
will now add 10,000
tonnes of production
capacity, bringing the
total potential production
of Rybinskelectrocabel to
25,000 tonnes per year.
The plant will employ more than
300 people, adding 100 to the
existing 220 currently working on
the site. This will allow the Yaroslavl
region to become Russia’s leading
area for cable and wire production,
with the total production capacity
of Prysmian and the region’s other
cable manufacturers meeting 20%
of Russia’s energy cable demand.
Regulation applies directly, without
national interpretations and should
remove existing barriers to trade.
Prysmian Group is working both
locally and at corporate level to
serve and support our customers
in relation to the new CE-Marking
rules, as well as to anticipate
market requirements.
