Once more Shanghai hosted the Chinese cable industry as well as many other international players. The exhibition was more international than ever before. Many familiar faces visited from the neighboring countries, but also extensively from the South East Asia region in general. We received more than 400 visitors from about 200 different companies, institutes and partners.
A successful seminar was also held during the exhibition. Maillefer participated with three different topics presented by Doctor Pekka Huotari, Product Manager Heikki Saastamoinen and Product Manager Ramiro Rodriguez. They addressed exciting new solutions in “Perfect Roundness of extra high voltage cables”, “High efficient building wire manufacturing” and “Zero default aviation wire manufacturing”. An audience of more than 150 from research institutes and cable manufacturers attended the seminar and posed some very good questions showing in-depth interest in the issues.
Based on the discussions it seems that many of the Asian cable companies look in the future positively. In addition to the investments for growth in traditional business sectors, companies are looking for new business possibilities.
State-of-the-art solutions in terms of manufacturing productivity and end product quality draw attention more than before. The total cost of ownership including labor costs, material savings etc. is ever more on the table when talking about solutions for building wire, low voltage and optical fiber cables. Generally speaking, today cable quality is a must, especially in high voltage cables where it is taken to its maximum. Not only the electrical properties, but also the perfect cable roundness is recognized to be vital, minimizing the waste of material and maximizing the reliability in high voltage power cable systems with better joints and terminations.
We would like to thank everyone for visiting us and hope to see you again in two years time at the next wire China in 2016, if not already earlier at the many other global wire & cable exhibitions Maillefer participates in.
Brown Y.J. WU, General Manager
Maillefer International Trading (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
brown.wu@maillefer.net