Ravicab Cables Private Limited announced that it has acquired Leoni Cable Solutions (India) Private Limited (LCSI), a subsidiary of Leoni AG located in Bengaluru.
A press release said that the acquisition of India’s LCSI “provides an expansion in market reach, extension in product range and finds a perfect synergy with the growth aspirations of Ravicab.” For the acquired business, this means a clear perspective for future development in terms of investment and growth. LCSI, which opened in 2013 with a production area of around 15,000 sq m, had revenues of approximately €25.5 million in 2021 and a workforce of 190 people. The plant manufactures wire and cable for domestic, industrial, signaling applications, and specialty markets.
Ravicab reported that with the LCSI acquisition, it has leverage in the specialty products business of renewable energy and railways with E-Beam cable. Ravicab, has also inherited LCSI’s processes and systems for manufacturing specialized cables, which include iconic brands like Kerpen and Icon.
The sale was part of Leoni’s Wire & Cable Solutions Division (WCS), which it has been divesting. “This sale is another step in the process of gradually selling the WCS division and concentrating our business on the Wiring Systems division (WSD).”
Per Leoni, the currently largest remaining unit in the WCS division is its Business Group Wire Products & Solutions (BG PS), a relatively small unit. “For this unit, too, we are constantly reviewing the optimal setup and the best possible future ownership structure.”
The two central units of the WCS division were the Business Groups Industrial Solutions and Automotive Cable Solutions. In other news, Leoni reports that its two Ukrainian plants—one in the Lviv region and the other in the Ivano-Frankivsk region—have continued to produce wiring harnesses, despite the challenges posted by Russia’s invasion of the country on Feb. 24.

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XLCC, a new entrant to the power cable market, has been given planning approval to build the first HVDC subsea cable factory in the U.K.

A press release said that XLCC got the June 29 okay from the North Ayrshire Council Planning Committee for its plans to construct the factory in Hunterston, Scotland. Construction was expected to start soon at the Brownfield site, where XLCC will manufacture XLPE (cross-linked polyethylene) coated HVDC subsea cable for use in interconnector projects and export cables to bring power back to the shore from offshore wind farms.

“We look forward to delivering a factory of great local and international importance for HVDC subsea cable,” said XLCC Project Director Alan Mathers. “The U.K. will be positioned as a world leader in the green economy, with the site at Hunterston playing a key role in connecting cheap, green energy from renewables projects around the world.”

XLCC has appointed HIGHVOLT as the primary provider of test systems for the pre-qualification, type and routine testing of subsea cables. Cable testing and certification will take place in 2023 and 2024, with the first cable lengths being produced in 2025 for deployment to client projects. The company has also ordered a new cable-laying vessel to be delivered in the first half of 2025.

Once fully operational, the facility “will support 900 jobs in the area, with thousands more in the wider supply chain.” XLCC notes that it will need 60 HVDC jointers for the facility, and it is working in partnership with Ayrshire College to increase the number of PEO (Performing Engineering Operations) courses available to prospective students across Ayr, Kilmarnock and Kilwinning campuses.

XLCC has already reported its first order: four 3,800 km long cables to connect solar and wind renewable power generation in the Sahara to the U.K. for the Xlinks Morocco-U.K. power project.

The CEO of XLCC is Simon Morrish, the founder and CEO of Ground Control and Levitate Capital. He was described as an experienced investor in businesses and projects related to the electrification of energy and transport, who previously worked for McKinsey & Co., and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

NEC Corporation has been selected to build a recently announced trans-Pacific subsea cable, JUNO, that will connect California in the U.S. with two sites in Japan.

A press release said that the system—approximately 10,000 km long—will be built by Seren Juno Network Co. (Seren), a company established by NTT Ltd. Japan Corporation; Mitsui & Co., Ltd.; PC Landing Corp.; and JA Mitsui Leasing, Ltd. It will land in Japan in the Chiba Prefecture, located on Japan’s eastern Pacific coast to the east of Tokyo, part of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the Mie Prefecture, within the Kansai region on Japan’s main island of Honshu.

Subsea cable has typically deployed a maximum of 16 fiber pairs, but using NEC’s newly developed energy efficient repeaters and its SDM (Space Division Multiplexing) technology, the system will be able to adapt as many as 20 fiber pairs for the first time in a trans-Pacific subsea fiber-optic cable. The cable is expected to provide a maximum capacity of 350 Tbps, the largest among any existing cable system between the U.S. and Japan.

“With the rapid growth of the global digital economy and an increasing demand for cloud solutions and lower latency, the undersea internet cable sector is quickly becoming more critical to global internet infrastructure,” said Takanobu Maeda, president and CEO of NTT Ltd. Japan Corporation. “This new subsea cable is the latest joint effort NTT has led in a long and proud history of providing reliable global internet infrastructure.”

The JUNO cable will support the strong demand for communications, including the spread of 5G across Asia and North America. By providing communication routes from two separate Japanese locations to the U.S., the system will be highly resilient to natural disasters in the coastal areas of Japan. The system is also designed to remotely alter the bandwidth of each route, enabling it to respond flexibly to customer business needs and changes.

NEC, a supplier of submarine cable systems for more than 50 years, notes that it has built more than 300,000 km of cable. It also makes and installs repeaters, does surveys and route designs, training and delivery testing. Its OCC Corporation subsidiary manufactures subsea optical cables able to be used at ocean depths beyond 8,000 meters.