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PrysmianGroup Insight
GETTINGTHINGSDONE
The European Investment Bank
(EIB) finalised a
€
100million loan
to fund the European research
and development programmes of
PrysmianGroup over the period
2013-2016. The loan represents
about 50% of the planned
investment expenditure in Europe
for the period, and one third of
PrysmianGroup’s R&D global budget
of some
€
300million.
The
is particularly intended
to support projects developed
in Prysmian’s R&D centres in
France, Great Britain, Holland,
Spain, Germany and Italy. It
is Italy, in fact, that is due to
receive a significant share as the
country is home to the Group’s
R&D headquarters, as well as a
number of centres of manufacturing
excellence for optical fibre and
KWDWebranking, Europe’s
most in-depth analysis of online
corporate communications, rated
PrysmianGroup third in its “Best
Improver” category. As a total of
62 Italian companies were selected
and surveyed, the rankingwas
topped by Eni, which snatched
the prize from Telecom Italia to
win the KWDWebranking 2013
Italy and gain recognition as the
best company in the country for
online corporate communications.
power transmission cables and
submarine systems.
The loanwill be used in
particular for industrial
research into innovative
materials
using nanotechnology,
networkmonitoring andmanagement
systems, optimisation of cable design,
for innovation and experimentation
in the alternativematerials and in
new product development, such as
underground and submarine power
transmission cables and systems,
high voltage P-Laser cables, cables
for the renewable energy sector,
high-performance optical fibre, cables
for Fibre-to-the-Home and Fibre-to-
the-Antenna applications, connectivity
and development of smart cables
and systems for monitoring and
management.
EIB to fundPrysmianR&Dprogrammes
SupportingME
andNorthAfrica
fibremarkets
Breakthroughachievement inonline
communication
Prysmian Group supported the Fibre
To The Home Council of Middle East
and North Africa conference held in
Marrakech, Morocco. The event was
attended by 300 representatives
of large regional and international
companies, industry experts and
stakeholders from several Arabic
and other countries representing
the public and the private sectors.
The Group showcased all of its
FTTH products, in particular
preconnectorised cables, pre-
terminated customer boxes and
riser and flextube cable samples.
Prysmian Group held the “Voice
of the Industry” speaker slot and
explainedwhy bend-insensitive
fibres are the future of FTTH
applications.
Prysmian’s achievement marked
amajor breakthrough and
represented a great result, with the
Group alsomoving up the general
ranking from 34th to 23rd place.
KWDWebranking, the only global
corporatewebsite ranking based
on stakeholder demands, has
been conducted by KWDigital in
collaborationwith Lundquist since
1997, making it the first andmost
transparent ranking of corporate
websites.
