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Key projects
In the last few years Prysmian has completed more than 30 submarine power links worldwide,
including
Basslink
in Australia, one of the longest in the world, the Italy-Greece interconnection, which is
currently the deepest, and
Neptune
in the US. Prysmian is currently undertaking many significant projects able to further
consolidate its global footprint, such as
Transbay
in San Francisco, the record-breaking
SA.PE.I.
in Italy, Cometa in Spain, the GCCIA between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and the Doha Bay
submarine powerlink. As for high and extra high voltage projects, the Group has been involved in
the expansion and reinforcement of the transmission networks in cities such as Abu Dhabi, New York,
London, Paris, Madrid, Singapore, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Vienna, Buenos Aires, Milan and Rome. In
2008, the Group has won other important commissions in the Middle East, such as the contract for
the expansion of the energy transmission grid in
Qatar, and installed the high voltage electricity network that
supplied energy to the
2008 Beijing Olympic Village.
In the last few years Prysmian has significantly enhanced its commitment to the development
of technologically advanced integrated solutions, to be used in the
Renewable Energy
field. Prysmian has been recently awarded contracts to supply high tech power cables for
the Greater Gabbard, Gunfleet Sands and Thanet offshore wind farms rising off the UK coast. These
offshore wind farms fields are amongst the world’s largest under construction and will play a
significant part in helping meet the UK’s renewable energy targets.
In the Industrial cable sector, Prysmian has been strenghtening its offering and market
position in the Oil&Gas sector. In fact, in 2008 it has signed a four-year frame agreement with
Brazil’s
Petrobras
for the design and supply of flexible pipes. With regard to the strategic niche of cables for
nuclear power stations, Prysmian provided two new
nuclear plants in China
with special cables, outcomes of an exclusive patented technology. Other interesting
initiatives have been recently carried out in the transport industry: the cabling of the
Genesis
Cruise Vessel, the largest ocean liner in the world, and the cabling of the
Alstom's high speed special testing train, that achieved the world’s
speed record in 2007.
Product quality and innovation are the hallmarks of Prysmian approach to industries where the
products are more standardized, such as low and medium voltage cables. Fire Resistant and Low Smoke
Zero Halogen (LS0H) cables are Prysmian’s cutting-edge products in the residential and commercial
construction cables market. Significant projects in this sector are the cabling of the
Burj
Dubai
tower, the tallest manmade structure in the world, the cabling of the Wimbledon’s Central
Court stadium and the cabling of
Singapore F1 circuit, where the first ever F1 night race has been run.
In the Telecom business, Prysmian has recently carried out several major projects in the
highly strategic Fibre-To-The-Home market, for example in the USA, where it has been selected as
one of the main partners to develop the
FTTH
Infrastructure of Verizon. In the
European
market,
a number of FTTH systems have been developed in Scandinavia and France and most recently
in Germany, where Prysmian was contracted to provide a complete fibre network to Schwerte, a town
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