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Subsea

The Halden facility includes a

Nexans high-voltage, test laboratory.

updates its extrusion line, and increasing the height of the tower to 121m (making it

Halden cable facility

Norway’s tallest building), involved a capital outlay of around €30 million.

Nexans has fne tuned its

The addition of a fxed cable way, which can take up to four cables, has

Market overview specialized facility at Halden in increased effciency, and there is a “The submarine, high-voltage market

Norway, after a cable failed to new building for raw material stor- currently stands at about €3 billion and meet the fnal acceptance test age. Process engineering has been is growing fast,” says Michelland. “It examined to improve process control is expected to stay a buoyant market at a couple of years ago and had and to maximize asset use. There has least for the next fve years,” he adds. to be remade. Meg Chesshyre also been a focus on the supply chain, There are three main elements to the visited the plant, which has a full reinforcing planning management, to market: grid interconnectors, offshore better anticipate planning adjustments wind, and the oil and gas business. order book and a more than and optimize slack. The grid business represents close to two-year backlog.

“We are investing on a regular 60% of the overall market, the wind basis,” adds Frédéric Michelland, segment slightly less than a third, and ne of the frst topics on senior executive VP high voltage and the oil and gas portion only 10 to 15%. which we worked signif- underwater cables. “The last three “Today 80% of the market is in Europe. “ cantly was to simplify the years, we have invested in the subma- Tomorrow we expect that percentage

O plant organization,” explains Vincent rine business the equivalent of about to remain more or less the same. The

Dessale, chief operating offcer subma- €40 million a year.” It is a constant good news is that Europe is our back- rine high voltage, with Nexans. The process and compares with an annual yard.” Nexans is well placed with a importance of the qualifcation process capex for the Nexans organization of manufacturing facility in Norway.

in terms of risk management and €150 million. assessment of the company’s capabili- “The capital is being directed to

Grid interconnectors ties is such that this is now a stand- strengthen [relieve] some of our bot- A major €300 million contract under- alone department, instead of being tlenecks into the plant.” The doubling way at Halden is for one of two inside the manufacturing area below of the capacity of the extrusion tower subsea cables for Terna’s new high- the plant manager organization. in 2011, with the addition of a second voltage, direct-current (HVDC) power

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