North German submarine cable works
| North German submarine cable works
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1899 |
| Seat |
 Nordenham
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| management | Heiko Dirks, Jürgen Eilers, Hakan Ozmen, Lars Frederick Persson, Pier Francesco Tota |
| Number of employees | approx. 480 |
| Branch | Development, manufacture and installation of telecommunications and aerial cables, submarine energy cables for the offshore wind industry and special cables for the offshore industry as well as technical plastic products for material protection and packaging, drive, conveyor and environmental technology |
| Website | www.nsw.com |
Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke ( NSW ) GmbH, based in Nordenham, is a manufacturer of energy and telecommunications sea cables , aerial and special cables for the offshore industry and other underwater and land applications, as well as plastic products such as POLY-NET packaging and surface protection nets and SECAflex drive belts .
history
NSW was founded in Cologne in 1899 by Felten & Guilleaume Carlswerk AG and the German-Atlantic Telegraph Company . In 1904 NSW manufactured its first 7,993 km long gutta-percha- insulated subsea telecommunication cable and laid it with the two NSW cable laying vessels Von Podbielski and Stephan von Borkum across the Azores to New York .
In 1931 Siemens took over 50% of the company's shares. From 1932 to 1935 NSW developed insulating films based on polystyrene and plastic extrusion technology. At first, the exclusive focus of plastic extrusion was on the insulation of cables. With the expansion of expertise and further development of application areas, the POLY-NET® division was founded in 1959. Here NSW began with the industrial production of extruded and knotless plastic nets. Plastic film-insulated capacitors were also produced under the name Styroflex. The environmental technology, drive and conveyor technology sectors have been part of the company since 1978.
In 1958 and 1959, NSW supplied 1,855 km of telecommunications submarine cables with polyethylene sheath for the transatlantic telephone connection TAT 2. Other major projects such as the ICECAN telephone line (a 3224 km connection between Iceland , Greenland and Canada , which is part of the dedicated line between the White House in Washington and the Kremlin in Moscow ) and the transatlantic line TAT 4 (2223 km) followed.
From 1989 NSW participated in the development of the first fiber optic submarine cables. In the period that followed, NSW became one of the leading companies in the field of amplifierless submarine cable technology and, together with Siemens, which took over the remaining shares in the company in 1995, manufactured and installed thousands of kilometers of submarine cable for amplifierless systems around the world - sometimes under extremely difficult conditions Conditions like the rocky seabed of Spencer Gulf, Australia or the offshore oil fields along the Nigerian coast. Many of the systems are among the most important submarine cable systems in the world, such as B. the 1650 km long submarine cable system in Greece or the 2600 km long DFON system in the Philippines. With the cable system MINISUB, NSW produces a robust and light fiber optic cable. In February 2000, NSW was taken over by Corning . Under the leadership of Corning, NSW installed the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS), one of the longest hybrid submarine cable systems in the world, which contains 9,000 km of cable and connects 15 countries.
Another NSW product is submarine energy cables. They are used in the connection of offshore wind energy fields , island connections and in the oil and gas industry. The NSW energy submarine cable is used, among other things, to supply electricity to the island of Helgoland and to connect the offshore wind farms Alpha Ventus and BARD Offshore 1 .
Since 2009, the company has also been manufacturing reinforced data cables in cooperation with Fujitsu . Among other things, the JaKa2LaDeMa project was delivered here, in which NSW took over the production and laying of the 1700 km of telecommunications submarine cable. Fujitsu supplied the amplifier units (repeaters) for this project.
In Aberdeen, Scotland, NSW Technology Ltd. resident. NSW Technology looks after the offshore customers of the North Sea oil and gas exploration. NSW's services also include the delivery of system components and the laying of cables.
Between April 2007 and 2018 NSW was part of General Cable . As of June 2018, NSW will be a member of the Prysmian Group , which announces the introduction of a new organizational structure and begins incorporating General Cable. With headquarters in Milan, the company generates over 11 billion euros (pro forma as of December 31, 2017). Around 31,000 employees work at 112 production sites and 25 R&D centers in over 50 countries.
Products
electric wire
- Telecommunication cables (sea, offshore, air)
- Energy cables (sea, land and winding wire)
- Offshore cable
- Umbilicals
- Power probe cable
Plastic products
- Material protection and packaging
- surface protection
- Packaging nets
- Intermediate grid
- Washing grid
- Leaf stop
- Filter technology
- environmental engineering
- BIO-NET
- SESSILE
- NOR-PAC
- Drive and conveyor technology
- SECA & SECAflex
- Profile belt
Services cables
- planning
- laying
- Repairs
- Splicing work
- Qualification of fitters
Cable layers of the North German submarine cable works
- By Podbielski (built 1899)
- Stephan (built 1902)
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg (built 1905)
- Neptune (built 1926)
- Nostag 10 (built 2008)
literature
- Anne-Katrin Wehrmann: Cable for offshore electricity . In: Hansa , issue 10/2011, pp. 48–52, Schiffahrts-Verlag Hansa, Hamburg 2011, ISSN 0017-7504
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prysmian takes over General Cable. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .