Press releases, August 2013
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Commitment to offshore and shipbuilding technologies.
Hradil Spezialkabel GmbH has become a member of the Shipbuilding and Offshore Equipment Supply Industry Group in the German Engineering Federation (VDMA).
HRADIL general manager Alfred Hradil foresees that involvement in the Shipbuilding and Offshore Equipment Supply Industry Group will provide siginifcant impetus for his company as well as for all the other member companies. In this context, HRADIL has developed a new cable, the SC 44, which is the first to completely fulfil IEC standard 60079-14-9.3.1. In the words of Alfred Hradil: “We can guarantee that with our cable there will be no danger of fire-risk materials infiltrating other zones. This cable will thus have enormously wide-reaching consequences for offshore applications.“
The headquarters of Hradil Spezialkabel GmbH in Bietigheim-Bissingen, near Stuttgart.
The headquarters of Hradil Spezialkabel GmbH in Bietigheim-Bissingen, near Stuttgart.
The Shipbuilding and Offshore Equipment Supply Industry Group is part of the VDMA, the biggest industrial association in Europe. It has been an active partner of the German supply industry for over 30 years. As representative of the interests of over 200 member companies, the Group pursues three essential targets::
- To gain easier access to important new maritime sales markets by means of collective activities.
- To ensure open markets and fair conditions of competition on a worldwide basis by employing efficient economic strategies.
- To communicate a convincing public image of the technical and economic relevance of the whole branch.
According to Alexander Nürnberg, Chairman of the Group (which belongs to the VDMA inter-trade organisation), the turnover of the whole branch was about €11.6 billion in 2012. With a total of around 70,000 employees, the Shipbuilding and Offshore Equipment Supply Industry is the most important economic factor within the maritime industry.
