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MM Cables, a wholly-owned division of Metal Manufacturers Limited, is Austra lia’s major supplier of cables for the manufacturing, power, construction, mining, defence, transport, government, telecommunications, and computer in dustries, meeting the needs of both the local and export markets.

Metal Manufactures is one of the top 100 publicly listed companies on the Australian Stock Exchange and its major shareholder, BICC pic of the UK, is one of the world’s major cable manufacturers and engineering enterprises. MM Cables is organised into three main divisions Energy Products (Liverpool, NSW), Communication Products (Clayton, Vic

toria), and New Zea

land (Christchurch,

South Island).

Each division has customer-oriented business units offer ing specialised skills backed by years of experience, a service network, and a range of products to satisfy the needs of its many existing and poten tial customers.

The units are cre ated to ensure that the company as a whole retains the fo cus and the customer commitment of a

smaller, personalised

business, but with the resources of a large company.

MM Cables Energy Products (Liver pool) is certified AS 3901/ISO 9001/NZS 9001 by Standards Australia and to BS 5750 Pt.l by Basec (British approvals service for electrical cable).

The Communication cable factory (Clayton) is also accredited to AS 3901/ISO 9001/NZS 9001 by Standards Australia. MM Cables New Zealand is that country’s only cable manufacturer to be certified to the International Standard ISO 9001.

The Energy Products Division is divided into market-specific business units: construction, pyrotenax, power, mining, defence and machined products.

Energy cables range from small building wires to 66 kV XLPE power cables; from single strand to the largest multi-wire conductors required for overhead trans mission lines. The company’s business unit supplies major contractors, indus trial customers, and electrical whole salers with all their cable requirements.

The bulk of these requirements are made

up of general wiring, construction and distribution cables. These range from small single strand building wires to large diameter impregnated paper insulated cables. include copper and aluminium. The construction business unit also supplies MM Cables’ Firestop range of cables, including two-hour fire construction, designed to minimise the spread of fire and to reduce the risk of smoke, acidic and toxic gases whilst maintaining circuit integrity. These cables are approved to AS 3013.

Pyrotenax Mineral Insulated Cables for power supply, heating and thermo electric applications offer the highest rating conductors for hazardous applica-

tions in essential services. Under fire conditions MI cables release no toxic emissions or smoke and cannot propa gate flame. MI Cables can be installed in the economical ESR configuration for P° wer supplies. Very low levels of electromagnetic radiation are an ad ditional advantage of this product for defence applications.

Compact, efficient Busway ducted systems are appropriate when circuit currents exceed 1000 Amps. Complete Busway design and site support service is available. MM Cables supplies the electricity supply industry with a total range of energy and communication products, including bare overhead con ductor for transmission systems up to 500kV; power cables for all transmission and distribution voltages; mstrumen tation, control and monitoring cables for SCADA systems and remote monitoring and switching applications; optical fibre and telephone cables for utilities com munication systems. MM Cables supplies

a complete range of cables for defence equipment suppliers and is the cable supplier to the navy’s new Collins Class submarine and Amecon frigate projects.

Due to its ability to comply with Australian, British and American de fence standards, MM Cables is a recog nised supplier of equipment for marine, aerospace and ground support systems, where cables are custom-designed to suit the harsh and demanding defence en vironments. It also supplies the mining industry with a complete range of cables, accessories and electrical services necess ary for any mining operation above and below ground.

Mining products include cables, coup

lers, glands, trans-

Sortable substations,

ame-proof enclos

ures and power dis tribution centres, with full technical services and backup.

The machined products unit pro duces critical and ad vanced precision ma chined parts for the Australian Auto motive Builders, as well as cable glands and couplers.

All products made by the company are tested to ensure the highest degree of quality and re

liability. This quality

assurance and its ongoing R&D has

been responsible for the company’s expanding export markets in both Asia and the Pacific. MM cables is a signifi cant supplier of cables to power, con struction, mining and telecommunica tion industries throughout the Asia-

Pacific region.

It has access to all BICC technology and distribution and co-operates with BICC to maximise export opportunities.

MM Cables has the ability to compete internationally across a very wide prod uct range. This is supported by the successes with a variety of cable supplied to projects in the Asia-Pacific region.

Its communication products division is the largest manufacturer of communica tion products in Australasia. Its product range includes copper telephone, optical fibre, high speed data, instrumental and specialised cables designed to suit a range of end-user specifications in the telecom munications, utilities, railways, compu ter, mining and defence sectors. □

An MM facility: meeting the needs of both the local and export markets