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Corning Inc. will build an optical cable plant in Hickory and add 110 to its Catawba County workforce, making North Carolina the No. 2 employment center for the company.

Prysmian Group has won a contract to supply array cables to Orsted's 1.4GW Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm off the east coast of England.

Enel Green Power (“EGP”), the Enel Group’s renewable energy arm, and Australian renewable developer Carnegie Clean Energy Limited (“CCE”) signed a Collaboration Agreement aimed at developing and testing CCE’s CETO 6 wave energy generator. Under the agreement, EGP and Carnegie will also work together to identify, develop and invest in new opportunities for CETO 6 across Australia, Europe and globally.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is working alongside Enel to install about 14,000 charging stations for electric vehicles throughout Italy, over the next five years. This is the objective of the agreement signed today in Rome by the EIB and Enel X Mobility, a subsidiary of Enel X, the Enel Group business line that focuses on developing innovative products and digital solutions. Enel X Mobility will receive a 10-year loan totalling 115 million euros, guaranteed by Enel Spa, of which 50 million euros have already been finalised.

France-based Nexans, a leader in cables and cabling systems, has been awarded a major contract by Rexel to supply lead-free Hypron cables for Oman’s Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (LPIC) project.

In April 2018, Fainplast has started an important new expansion of its production plant in Ascoli Piceno. The new building currently under construction stands on a property already owned by the company and situated next to the existing factory. In prevision of such expansion, already in 2017, 2 new bridges were built over a small river dividing the 2 areas. 7000 sqm. of the new building will be dedicated to warehousing and production equipment while 1200 sqm. will be available for new offices and laboratories. The total investment for such new facility was estimated in 5 Million euro.

Ningbo Orient Wires & Cables has bagged a CNY180 million (USD27 million) contract to supply and lay 35 kilovolt submarine cables for an offshore wind farm in Guangdong province, its second successful bid to supply power lines for the project.

Metro Optic, Crosslake Fibre, and Utilities Kingston announce today their plans to build a new fibre-optic cable system from Montréal to Toronto. The project will be developed by Maple Leaf Fibre Ltd., a joint venture of two leading independent Canadian providers of fibre optic network capacity, Crosslake Fibre ULC based in Toronto, Ontario and Metro Optic based in Montréal, Quebec. The Maple Leaf Fibre cable system will have a terrestrial segment between Montréal, Ottawa, and Kingston, and a submarine segment through Lake Ontario between Kingston and downtown Toronto.

Research and development of innovative solutions in the energy field, focusing in particular on renewable energy. With this objective in mind, Enel created its new 'Innovation Hub & Lab' in Passo Martino, in the province of Catania. It is a 100,000 square metre complex with latest-generation laboratories, ready to host start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises and other national and foreign companies, as well as world-class research centres. The technologically cutting-edge facility was inaugurated today, with Salvo Pogliese, the Mayor of Catania, Antonio Cammisecra, Head of Enel Green Power (EGP), Enel's Global Renewable Energy Division, and Ernesto Ciorra, Enel’s Head of Innovability (Innovation and Sustainability) in attendance.

OMC's Keyed SMA (KSMA) fibre optic system launched last October is now available in all of its standard SMA diode housings.