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Prysmian Group Insight
GETTING THINGS DONE
Prysmian Group has completed
the acquisition of the remaining
34% of AS Draka Keila Cables and
became the sole shareholder of the
Estonian company that joined the
Group following the merger of Draka
in 2011. Keila Cables is expected
to take advantage of the favorable
development of demand in the Baltic
Republics and Nordic Countries.
With six plants in Finland, Sweden,
Sycabel, a French association
grouping the country’s
most important electrical
and communication cable
manufacturers, has created the
new “CABLE de FRANCE” label. The
purpose is to inform customers
about products produced in France
by companies defending quality and
employment, and promote cables
produced in France into the French
market. Prysmian Group has worked
together with the association and
will soon begin to apply the “CABLE
de FRANCE” label to most of its
T&I products. In this way, the
Group guarantees to customers
that the products it sells are made
in one of its 12 French factories.
Furthermore, Prysmian France is
engaged in ongoing R&D to improve
products and processes with its 15
laboratories.
Fincantieri chooses Prysmian cables
Keila Cables fully owned
French label
for cable quality
Prysmian has been awarded
two orders to supply 800 km of
low voltage shipboard cables to
Fincantieri SpA, one of the world’s
largest shipbuilders involved in
the design and construction of
high-complexity, high added-value
vessels. Prysmian cables will be
used in the construction of two
different vessels. The first, requiring
500 km of cable, is a 142 m luxury
mini-cruise ship, model 6230
Norway, Denmark and Estonia,
Prysmian Group relies on a prominent
presence in the region. The company
offers a wide range of products, from
submarine and underground high and
medium voltage cable systems, to
special cable solutions for the oil and
gas, and marine industries, and the
renewable energy, telecommunication
and construction sectors.
Prysmian Group, in partnership with
Human Foundation, active in the
social innovation field, is promoting
the “Technology for Human Beings”
degree thesis competition, aimed
at students on three-year and
Master’s degree courses in Italian
engineering and physics faculties.
The programme is aimed particularly
at students concentrating on the
applicability of new technologies
for sustainable development. They
will have studied these topics from
a technical standpoint, considering
their application in developing
contexts and countries.
The prize will be awarded to a
maximum of six degree theses.
A scientific committee will select
three short-degree and three
Master’s degree theses, written
in Italian or in English, already
submitted in the twelve months
prior to the competition. Cash prizes
are provided for the six winning
theses, plus a six-month internship
in Prysmian for the top winners in
each category. The final awards
ceremony will take place during the
Human Foundation’s Annual Meeting
later in 2014.
The Scientific Committee evaluating
the theses will be made up of
experts nominated by the Prysmian
Group and Human Foundation
and presided over by a senior
representative of Prysmian Group
Energy R&D. The contest is aimed at
promoting innovative research into
sustainable technologies linked to
the fields of application of Prysmian
businesses, offering economic
support and training to young
people who distinguish themselves
in these fields.
Technology for Human Beings
The degree thesis contest launched by Prysmian and Human Foundation
C, being built at the Fincantieri
shipyard in Ancona, Italy, for
“Compagnie du Ponant”, a French
cruise operator. The second, being
built at the Fincantieri shipyard near
Naples in southern Italy, is a state-
of-the-art ferry commissioned by
Canadian Société des traversiers
du Québec, named “Gauthier”.
The cables will be manufactured
in the Italian plants of Merlino and
Giovinazzo.
