Report Includes Profiles of 34 Global Leaders
Production and sales are sized for energy and telecoms wire and cable for 2019 and forecast to 2026, globally, for the regions and for major countries. The forecast charts a drop in 2020 due to COVID-19 and recovery starting in 2021.
Production tonnage of cable and $ sales revenue are plotted from 2001 to 2020, against the copper price in $/tonne. The correlations show past consistency and enable reliable prediction of the value of future sales of wire and cable.
This Report Includes:
- Product groups - Insulated Copper Power Cable, Insulated Aluminium Power Cable, Low Voltage Cable, Uninsulated Conductors, Metallic Telecoms Cable, Fibre Optic Cable, Winding Wire - Charted by country and region, from 2019 to 2026.
- Factors driving prices of cable analysed in detail - Commodity Prices, Production Capacity, Demand, Learning Rate.
- End-user segments with shares - Networks (utilities and industry), OGP, Railways, Transport, OEM, Automotive, Buildings, Metallic Communications, Fibre Optic.
- The most profitable product groups are identified with long-term growth prospects.
- Extensive analysis of the manufacturing sector, with overall vendor shares for Top.
- Market drivers in the utility sector, industrial and building network systems, the process and the OEM industry.
- The price difference between copper and aluminium became significant in the early 2000s: rising from 1.2 in 2000 peaking at 4.0 by end of 2013 and now 3.5 in 2021. The report discusses cost, weight, conductivity, capacity, tensile strength and the flex ratio, the difference between the core price and the hollow price, leading to aluminium substitution for copper.
- Technologies of OHL bare conductors, underground and industrial insulated cable, subsea cable, fibre optic.
- The report identifies several hundred cable manufacturers, with market shares within product segments.
- Profiles of 34 global leaders - European - Prysmian, Nexans, NKT High Voltage Cables (inc ABB), Cablel® Hellenic Cables, JDR, Tele-Fonica Kable, Leoni, United States - Southwire, General Cable (Prysmian), Parker Scanrope, Nexans Amercable, Belden Inc, Japanese - Sumitomo, Fujikura, Furakawa, Hitachi, J-Power Systems (JPS), J-Power Systems Saudi Co, Yazaki, Korea - LS Cables, Taihan Electric Wire Co Ltd, Iljin Cable, India - Finolex, J-Power Systems Private Ltd (FJPS), Birla Cable Ltd, Polycab, Chinese - Zhongtian Technology [ZTT], Ningbao Orient Cable, Far East Cable Co Ltd, Wanda Group Holdings Co Ltd, Baosheng High Voltage Cable Co Ltd (BHVC).
- Insulated land cables and bare conductors are not the most profitable category of cable but they are stable long-term earners. The incidence of underground cabling is charted by country.
- A brief section deals with mechanical wire rope with market size and shares.
- The progress of superconductors is outlined; potentially one of the most important developments for the electrical sector in the future, with a review of the major companies and developers and research & industry bodies.
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Executive Summary
CHAPTER 1 - ALL CABLE - ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS AND MECHANICAL ROPE
Wires and cables perform two basic functions. 1) They conduct electricity or communications, for which they need high conductivity, or 2) They carry loads, for which they need high tensile strength. Sometimes they combine both requirements. This report surveys the marker for the first group, electricity and communications conductors, and contains a brief review of the second group, mechanical wire rope. The report excludes products from either group in the informal sector, small producers of low-end wire and cable, mainly based in China and India.
CHAPTER 2 - GLOBAL MARKET SIZE AND END USE - ENERGY WIRE AND CABLE AND TELECOMS
Metallic wire and cable production and consumption are sized in 2017 and forecast to 2022. For metallic cable, material prices are plotted from 2000 to 2017, and charted against tonnage production, $/ton of cable produced and $ sales revenue, to establish commodity price predictors. Fibre optic sales are plotted against prices.
CHAPTER 3 - THE EUROPEAN WIRE AND CABLE MARKET
The European market for wire and cable is estimated and forecast to 2026. Analysis by product type and end user, with analysis of Western and Eastern Europe. Profiles of the five major markets; France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom are provided with consumption, historical and forecast to 2026, product shares and listings and surveys of the manufacturers, with extended coverage of the market leaders. An extensive section covers manufacturing facilities in Eastern Europe.
CHAPTER 4 - THE RUSSIAN WIRE AND CABLE MARKET
The Russian market for wire and cable is estimated and forecast to 2026. Analysis by product type and end user and listings and surveys of the substantial Russian manufacturing industry.
CHAPTER 5 - THE CHINESE WIRE AND CABLE MARKET
The huge domestic market for wire and cable in China is surveyed and analysed in detail, with consumption estimates by product group and end user and forecasts to 2026. International trade, market gaps, end users, certification, a detailed discussion of user markets and analysis of the manufacturing sector. Analysis of production capacity utilisation.
CHAPTER 6 - THE ASIA PACIFIC (EXCLUDING CHINA) WIRE AND CABLE MARKET
The Asian market for wire and is estimated and forecast to 2026 with analysis and end user. Profiles of four major markets; Japan, India, Korea and Taiwan, are provided with consumption, historical and forecast to 2026, Analysis of product shares and listings and brief surveys of the manufacturers.
CHAPTER 7 - MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA WIRE AND CABLE MARKET
This chapter covers the Middle East and North Africa, including the countries of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, Turkey, the littoral counted on the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa and the 47 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. The markets for wire and cable are estimated and forecast to 2026, and end user and a survey of the growing manufacturing sector in the region, together with lists of the leading manufacturers in each market.
CHAPTER 8 - NORTH AMERICAN WIRE AND CABLE MARKET
The United States was the largest single market, in terms of production and consumption of wire and cable until 2003, when China overtook it. The US remains the second largest today. The domestic market is surveyed and analysed in detail, with consumption estimates by product group and forecasts to 2026, and end users. LV wire & cable markets, construction, automotive wire and cable, HV and MV power cable, electricity transmission and distribution, telecoms technology and market size. American wire and cable manufacturers are outlined and discussed extensively with market shares within product segments.
CHAPTER 9 - SOUTH AMERICAN WIRE AND CABLE MARKET
The LAC market for wire and is estimated and forecast to 2026 with analysis by product group and end users. Two countries dominate the Latin American market, Brazil and Mexico. Mexico and Brazil are parts of two different economic and trade orbits, NAFTA and MERCOSUR. The two largest markets are profiled with consumption forecasts to 2021 by product group.
CHAPTER 10 - GLOBAL WIRE AND CABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
Summary table of wire and cable forecasts of production in tonnes and consumption in $ billion, by country and region, 2019 - 2026.
CHAPTER 11 - COPPER SUBSTITUTION IN METALLIC CABLE
Copper and aluminium prices are compared from 1960 to 2020 and World bank forecasts to 2026. The increasing divergence between them is shown and plotted as a factor of Cu/Al to chart copper substitution. Advantages and disadvantages of each material as a cable core.
CHAPTER 12 - THE TYPES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF EHV AND HV CABLE - OH AND UG
Detailed outlines of the technologies of OHL bare conductors and UGC and subsea insulated cables: high pressure, fluid-filled pipe (HPFF); high-pressure, gas-filled pipe (HPGF, GIL); a self-contained fluid-filled (SCFF, MI); solid cable, cross-linked polyethene (EPR, XLPE).
CHAPTER 13 - THE TECHNOLOGY OF SINGLE AND MULTIMODE FIBRE OPTIC
The composition of a fibre optic cable and the difference between multi-mode and single-mode fibre.
CHAPTER 14 - WIRE ROPE
Wire rope is used for its mechanical properties, not conductivity, although there are conductors with high tensile strength, especially copper alloys. Wire rope is not a primary focus of this report, which is concerned with energy and telecoms wire and cable. This chapter has a short survey of the wire rope market, including a market size estimate and a review of global manufacturers.
CHAPTER 15- LONG TERM PROSPECTS AND PROFITABILITY OF CONDUCTORS
The most profitable segments of the wire and cable market are those with the best prospects of long term growth but they are not the largest. This chapter reviews the most profitable segments and plots them against long-term growth prospects.
CHAPTER 16 - ENERGY AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLE MANUFACTURERS
A chart of the top 56 companies which account for 54% of the global market is included, ordered by % share. The industry leaders in the United States, Europe and Japan are reviewed and tabulated with their market shares by product segment.
CHAPTER 17 - PROFILES OF WIRE AND CABLE MANUFACTURERS
Profiles of the 29 leading cable companies globally.
CHAPTER 18 - WIRE AND CABLE MARKET DRIVERS
The final uses of wires and cables are so diverse that there are many drivers of demand. In this report, the publisher comments on the following categories:
- Transmission and distribution for electrical supply - Insulated cables and bare conductors
- Railways - Insulated cables and bare conductors for dedicated T&D systems
- Telecoms - LV and telecoms cables
- Automotive sector - LV cable and wire harnesses
- Offshore OGT (oil, gas produces) and wind power sectors - EHV, HV and MV submarine cables and MV and LV topside wires and cables
- Construction - HV, MV and LV insulated cable
CHAPTER 19 - PRICE TRENDS AND FACTORS DRIVING PRICES
The prices of electrical equipment and cable have been volatile over the years. Many factors have contributed to this, the principal factors being; commodity prices for metallic cable, level of demand for cable, cable production capacity both for metallic cable and fibre optic, the learning rate for new technologies. The publisher reviews each of these factors in this chapter and presents conclusions for the cable market.
CHAPTER 20 - INSULATED LAND CABLES - HV, MV & LV
Insulated underground land cables are not the most profitable segment of the power cable market nor the one with the highest long-term growth prospects but together with bare conductors, they have the most stable demand. This chapter contains a series of tables analysing the extent of underground lines by country. The drivers for undergrounding, together with advantages and problems are discussed.
CHAPTER 21 - SUBSEA ENERGY CABLES
The offshore market requires three categories of cable and this applies to oil, gas and wind. The difference between the offshore dry tree and subsea wet tree industry is explained, with the state of the subsea market and future demand. SURF is outlined in detail. HVDC is discussed.
The subsea energy markets consist of three main categories:
1. Interconnections between land masses
2. Offshore wind power
3. Oil & gas exploration and production.
These markets require three categories of cable.
Interconnections and offshore wind power
1. Subsea power cable -cable used underwater to carry power or control functions - export and transmission cable EHV, and HV - array cable HV and MV. Oil & gas exploration and production
2. Umbilical cable - cable that is usually a mixture of hydraulic pipes and electrical elements and may also contain risers and flow lines - MV, trending to HV.
3. Topside cable - cable used on the platform structure - MV and LV.
Subsea cables are a premium growth market. The technical barriers to entry are high and order backlogs are solid. These cables also achieve high margins above the average for the cable industry. There are relatively few manufacturers, which are listed and discussed. The global submarine cable networks are outlined, together with their development, technology and cable laying techniques.
CHAPTER 22 - SUBSEA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
The global communications networks are outlined with development and the technology of submarine cable categories described.
CHAPTER 23 - INDUSTRIAL MARKETS
The transport, aircraft, shipping, automobile, mining, construction, terrestrial wind power, manufacturing and process industries are discussed, together with their requirements for cable and harnesses. As an example, the largest aircraft requires 500 km of cable. The chapter quotes some of these statistics to put these markets into perspective.
CHAPTER 24 - ELECTRIFIED RAILWAYS
Electric railways constitute a specific market for cable with different characteristics from industrial and other end users because of the distance cables travel, over many miles of track and this parallels the transmission and distribution cable market in which cables also cover long distances. The railways pose special mechanical demands on cable, which are outlined, together with railway statistics.
CHAPTER 25 - ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, SUPERCONDUCTORS
Superconductors are materials that have no resistance to the flow of electricity; they are one of the last great frontiers of scientific discovery. Some materials cooled below a material-specific temperature called ‘critical temperature’ (Tc), undergo a phase transition into the superconducting state. The fundamental value proposition of superconducting wire is the elimination of electrical loss. This chapter outlines the technology, the development and status of the market for HTS superconductors, the opportunities, manufacturers and players.
CHAPTER 26 - METAL THEFT
Metal theft is a worldwide problem and it seriously affects vulnerable wire and cable installations. There continue to be frequent reports of cable theft, both of power cables and telecom cables, from many parts of the world, with cables being stolen for the scrap value of their metal content, especially copper. The report outlines the problem, the scale and its effects.
CHAPTER 27 - CABLE PROPERTIES
Wire, cable and rope have physical properties which distinguish them from each other and determine their suitability for different applications. They help to determine not only which product type is best for a particular use but more specifically which sub-type will perform best in a particular situation. The physical properties are mechanical and electrical; tensile strength, flexibility or flex ratio, weight, conductivity, cost.
Companies Mentioned
A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes:
- Baosheng High Voltage Cable Co. Ltd., BHVC
- Belden Inc
- Birla Cable Ltd.
- Cablel® Hellenic Cables
- Chinese Manufacturers
- Far East Cable Co Ltd
- Finolex J-Power Systems Private Ltd (Fjps)
- Fujikura
- Furakawa
- General Cable (Prysmian)
- Hitachi
- Iljin Cable
- J-Power Systems (JPS)
- J-Power Systems Saudi Co, (JPS Saudi),
- JDR
- Jiangsu Shangshang Cable Group
- Leoni
- LS Cables
- Nexans
- Nexans Amercable
- Ningbao Orient Cable
- NKT High Voltage Cables
- Parker Scanrope
- Polycab
- Prysmian
- Southwire
- Sumitomo
- Taihan Electric Wire Co Ltd
- TF Kable
- Wanda Group Holdings Co., Ltd,
- Yazaki
- Zhongtian Technology [ZTT]
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