Furukawa Electric: gerecyclede kabelgoot goedgekeurd door Britse spoorwegen
TOKYO –(BUSINESS WIRE)– ”Green Trough ®”, een gerecyclede kabelgoot van plastic ontwikkeld door Furukawa Electric (TOKYO:5801)(ISIN:JP3827200001), is officieel goedgekeurd door de Britse spoorwegen. Het product werd tot nu toe op ruim 100 kilometer spoor gebruikt als onderdeel van een proef. Naar verwachting komen daar nu nog honderden kilometers bij in heel Groot-Brittannië.
”Green Trough ®” is een milieuvriendelijk gerecyclede kabelgoot, de eerst in de wereld waarin gebruikt plastic het belangrijkste product is. Het weegt ruim een kwart minder dan kabelgoten van gewapend beton, waardoor de werklast en bouwduur aanzienlijk lager liggen. Bovendien is het weerbestendig en heeft het een langere levensduur. De ”Green Trough ®” kabelgoot werd eerder al op diverse plaatsen in Japan geïnstalleerd.
Furukawa Electric: Recycled Plastic Cable Trough Has Been Officially Approved by the UK Railway Network |
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TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– ”Green Trough ®”, a recycled plastic cable trough developed by Furukawa Electric (TOKYO:5801)(ISIN:JP3827200001), has been officially approved by the UK railway network. Green Trough ® contributes to the formulation of global scale circulatory society due to its superior environmental performance. Background Cable trough is a cable protection conduit which is mainly installed along a railway, and reinforced concrete is widely used in the market. However, reinforced concrete cable trough is difficult to handle and install due to its weight, in addition, it is fragile and corrosion-prone from chemical substances such as chloride and snow melting agents. Therefore, the market has been requesting improved cable trough with better workability and higher durability. “Green Trough ®” is an environmentally friendly recycled plastic cable trough developed by Furukawa Electric, the first in the world of its kind, using waste plastic as a main material. It weighs only approx. 1/4 of reinforced concrete cable trough, and therefore can reduce the work load and construction period drastically. In addition, it has high weather resistance and corrosion resistance parameters, which realize longer operating life. To this day, Green Trough ® has been approved and installed in various different segments such as railway, highway, photovoltaic power plant, large-scale plant etc., all over Japan. Contents “Green Trough ®” has been approved and is already installed in the UK as part of control period 5 (CP5), total supplied is approx. 100km of “Green Trough ®” as of the end of September this year. Cable trough demand is expected to expand up to several hundred kilometers for project such as the High Speed 2 (HS2) project in the U.K, and the global demand of “Green Trough ®” is expected to increase more than ever due to its workability, durability and superior environmental performance. In such circumstances, Furukawa Electric will proactively continue the development and improvement of “Green Trough ®” in order to take the place of concrete trough, and expand the business not only in the U.K, but globally. In the U.K. market, “Green Trough ®” is sold and distributed via Trough-Tec Systems, who have been a strategic partner of Furukawa Electric and continue to expand this business. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151223005782/en/ Contacts Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. |
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