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Nexans developed a new micro-extrusion process that creates the thinnest possible insulating jacket to enable minimally invasive medical cables to be manufactured with diameters of less than 0.1mm.

Western Power Distribution has integrated two superconducting fault current limiters (sFCL) from Nexans into Birmingham’s power grid.

Nexans has worked with Light, Rio de Janeiro’s electric utility, to develop the 'Lo-Sag' conductor, an overhead power line technology comprising a thermal resistant aluminium conductor wrapped around a composite carbon core. Compared with a traditional conductor, which uses a steel core, the composite carbon core of the same diameter is much lighter and 50% stronger.

Nexans has successfully commissioned the world’s first resistive superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) based on second-generation superconductor tapes. The SFCL, equipped with superconducting elements developed in cooperation with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, has been installed on behalf of Vattenfall Europe Generation AG to provide short-circuit protection for the internal medium voltage power supply that feeds the Boxberg lignite power plant in Saxony, Germany.

Nexans and thirteen European partners have reached a significant milestone in the progress of the EC funded ECCOFLOW project to create an innovative and multi-purpose superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) suitable for use in a range of utility applications. The design and development phase of the four year project is complete and manufacturing of the SFCL will commence soon.

Giuseppe Di Lorenzo outlines some of the key design challenges faced by his company when it embarked on the development of a new range of machine automation cables