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Alcan Cable entered the Mexican market in 1995 and was the first company to introduce 8000 Series aluminum alloy Type MC (Metal Clad) cable and low smoke, single conductor aluminum alloy feeder cable, XHHW-2 LS. The company’s STABILOY® brand of aluminum alloy cables has become the standard for commercial, institutional and industrial building applications in Mexico.

Alcan Cable will increase list prices on the following aluminum wire and cable products by 9% effective Tuesday, February 1, 2011:FeederPlex® XHHWXHHW and USE SEU and SERMC and MC with Jacketing

Alcan Cable will increase prices by approximately 8.7% on the following aluminum wire and cable products effective Monday, October 18, 2010:  All FeederPlex®, XHHW and USE products  All SEU and SER products

Alcan Cable will increase list prices approximately 12% to 15% on the following aluminum feeder cable products effective Monday, January 9, 2012:

With copper costs continuing to rise, Delphi Automotive is introducing an Aluminum Cable that performs comparably to traditional copper core cable without the added cost. The technology, which is also lighter than copper cable, is now in production and will be introduced on 2012 model year vehicles.

Systems and methods presented herein provide for elastic conductors. The elastic conductors may be configured with a primary that includes an elastic material and a conductive material. For example, the primary may have an elastic fiber, such as spandex, with a conductive material, such as a braided metal wire, wrapped thereabout. Alternatively, the primary may be configured from an elastic material with a conductive material, such as certain nanopartiuclates, embedded therein. The elastic conductors may be used in a variety of ways to form various types of cables. For example, the elastic conductors may be configured to form coaxial cables, USB cables, twisted pairs, etc. The elastic and flexible nature of the cables may make their uses advantageous in wiring environments that are subjected to strain or other harsh conditions. Moreover, the relatively light weight of the cables may make their uses more advantageous in transportation (e.g., aircraft, automobiles, etc.).

Leoni, the leading provider of cables and cable systems to the automotive sector and other industries, now offers a solid aluminium conductor for the motor vehicle industry to wire the battery as an alternative to the common copper cable. It can be shaped in three dimensions and weighs only about half as much as the conventional component. Leoni will present this product for the first time at the IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt, together with other lightweight construction solutions.

In addition, the two parties discussed opportunities for future prospects of Alcan Cable’s STABILOY® cable products in the Chinese market, and how they will continue to develop their collaborative relationship. The executives from the Tianjin Free Trade Zone and Airport Economic Area who attended the meeting were Mr. Hans Dai, Vice Director, Foreign Investment Service Bureau and Mr. Allen Chen, Vice President. Prior to the meeting, Ms. Shin Ma, Project Manager, Foreign Investment Service Bureau, provided an overview of the current activities in the Tianjin Airport Economic Area. Attending the meeting from the Alcan Cable management team were Torben Wetche, Chief Financial Officer; Howard H. Atkins, V.P. Marketing; and Ivan Salamin, General Manager, Alcan (Tianjin) Alloy Products Company, Ltd.

The 30-metre cable, as well as the terminals to connect it to a network, was constructed using a high-temperature superconducting material called BSCCO. The team that developed it says it’s the most advanced electric cable yet built in terms of its distribution capacity: it can transport five times more electrical strength than a conventional copper cable of the same dimensions.

Heretofore, joining large aluminum underground power cable to aluminum or copper power cable with compression connectors was not feasible because of premature failure of the connector joint under electrical current loading. Unlike the long andbulky compression connectors used on bare overhead power lines where space is not a premium, underground compression connectors must be short to keep manhole size small and to reduce the time required to insulate the joint with hand-wrapped tape or otherinsulating materials. Overhead line connectors receieve appreciable cooling from air currents whereas commonly used paper or plastic insulation restricts the cooling of underground cable joints. Metal particle-filled grease joint compounds used inoverhead line compression connectors are not used for underground cable for several reasons. First, its use is precluded because of the possiblity of migration of the compound into the paper or along the insulation resulting in voltage puncture of theinsulation from ionization. Secondly, joint compounds of grease do not offer much improvement over no compound because grease will move under pressure and therefore does not constrain relative movement of connector and conductor strands whereashardenable resins such as epoxy do.

[0003] Mainly for reasons of saving weight, cables having a central conductor made of copper, a metal which is a very good conductor of electricity, are often replaced by cables in which the central conductor is made of aluminum that is covered in a layer of copper, with the copper layer constituting about 15% of the diameter of the cable while the aluminum thus occupies about 85% of the diameter of the cable.

Consisting of NUAL® aluminium alloy conductors, NUAL® WIDESTRIPE™ RW90 cable weighs half as much as copper conductors of equal ampacity, making it lightweight for easy, safe lifting and handling during installation. Alcan Cable’s NUAL® WIDESTRIPE™ RW90 XLPE insulation also has a higher maximum short-circuit temperature rating than thermoplastic insulation. It does not contain harmful components such as lead and other heavy metals in accordance with RoHS, Directive 2002/95/EC, and is manufactured to minimise adverse environmental impacts.

Record prices for copper will not lead to large-scale use of cheaper alternatives by industrial consumers because copper retains clear technical advantages in wiring, French cable group Nexans (NEXS.PA: Quote) said on Wednesday. Benchmark copper prices CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange breached the $10,000 mark for the first time last month after a rally driven by Chinese demand and tightening global supply. This has led some manufacturers and distributors to warn of a shift towards less expensive substitute materials like aluminium and zinc, while in France a surge in copper theft has led rail and power firms to consider alternatives. [ID:nLDE71E1Q1] [ID:nLDE6BF1HO] Nexans was increasingly using aluminium conductors and developing other alternatives but did not see a big shift away from copper, Chief Financial Officer Frederic Michelland said. "If you reasoned in purely financial terms, copper would have been abandoned a long while back in favour of aluminium," he told reporters at the group's head office. "Overall, copper still has a fundamental attractiveness that should last for some time to come." Substitution had remained limited in the past few years, representing between 450,000 and 600,000 tonnes annually compared with a global market of some 19 million tonnes of refined copper, Nexans executives said at a briefing on copper. Aluminium had claimed the largest share among copper substitutes and Nexans was notably developing use of copper-clad aluminium as a product that resolved some of the conductivity snags of aluminium. However, the cost advantage was not enormous and there were still technical drawbacks, Michelland said. "There is not yet a miracle (substitute) product," he said. Nexans, which supplies cables for sectors like energy, construction and construction, is one of the world's largest private consumers of copper, having used around 450,000 tonnes of the metal in 2010.