SWCC Showa Cable Systems to Ship 100,000t Copper at Mie

SWCC Showa Cable Systems estimates its cable shipment at Mie works in Inabe City, Mie Prefecture, Japan would total to above 100,000 tonnes of copper through fiscal 2007 ending March 2008. The shipment was 54,000 tonnes of copper for April-September 2007. SWCC Showa Cable Systems produces bare copper wire, winding wire and insulated power cable at Mie works.Bare copper wire represents around 60% of Mie works’ annual copper shipment. SWCC Showa Cable Systems sells bare copper wire to Unimac, the subsidiary to produce winding wire inside Mie works, and Yoshida Densen, another subsidiary to manufacture insulated power cable for domestic construction markets. The parent also sells bare copper wire to other cable makers around Osaka.Mie works holds output capacity of bare copper wire at around 10,000 tonnes per month, whose annual production was 72,000 tonnes in fiscal 2006 while 70,000 tonnes in fiscal 2005 and 67,000 tonnes in fiscal 2004. The production has increased year by year thanks to the favorable demand for winding wire and insulated power cable.Unimac estimates its shipment of enameled copper wire at 16,500 tonnes per annum and paper insulated copper wire at 7,500 tonnes per year through fiscal 2007, whose total shipment was 19,000 tonnes in fiscal 2002 when domestic winding wire demand hit the recent bottom. Winding wire demand is recently favorable for automobiles and heavy electric machineries.Yoshida Densen operates 2 factories, one of which is inside Mie works and another is in Koga City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. In Mie the firm currently produces insulated power cable at around 1,400 tonnes of copper per month against the monthly capacity at 1,700 tonnes. The demand maintains steady for domestic construction markets.