Elsewedy Electric
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'Elsewedy Electric is an Egypt
ian manufacturing company. It was founded in 1938 by the Elsewedy family.
The company manufactures and sells integrated energy products and services in seven energy segments: Cables and accessories, electrical products, telecommunications, transformer
s, wind energy
generation, energy measurement and management, engineering, procurement and contracting .
From 1960 - 1995, the family changed the company from just trading in electrical equipment to being a distributor for the sole cable manufacturer in Egypt at that time (1960).During this period, it was focused on selling cables to the Egyptian market, until the Elsewedy family established the first private sector cable factory in Egypt (Arab Cables) in 1984. At that time, all other cable manufacturers in Egypt were solely owned by the Egyptian government.
The company was located in one of Egypt's industrial zones, 60 km east of Cairo
with expressways
linking it to Egypt's major Mediterranean and Red Sea
ports. It was specialized in the manufacturing of: low, medium &high voltage power cables, control cables, and over head transmission lines.
In 1996, a second factory was built specializing in power cable
manufacturing for export, Egytech. Egytech was awarded quality standards such as (ISO, KEMA
, BASEC,CE, VDE,and SGS) and was capable of exporting products to Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Chad, Cyprus, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jordan ,Kazakhstan, Kenya, KSA, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Spain and South Africa.
To improve quality control ever the end product of the cables, the company established a factory of PVC
compounds and Master Batch. In 1996, Sedplast was established to improve effectiveness and efficiency throughout the processes and systems of the company. Sedplast specialized in PVC compounds including soft and rigid PVC, as well as White master batch, Black master batch, Color master batch, and Additive master batch.
In 1997, the company established an industrial facility to meet tailored customer requirements, including domestic appliance cords, Category 7
ethernet
cables; twisted pair
telephone cables for home and business premises, and complex instrumentation cables needed to monitor natural resources. To complete the vertical integration
, a joint venture
was established between Elsewedy Cables and Elastimold, a unit of the cables accessories company Thomas & Betts
. It was established to cover the markets in the MENA
region for medium and high voltage joints and terminations.
In collaboration with Southwire, USA a continuous cast
and rolled copper rod plant has been brought up in 1998 to have the largest plant through the Middle East and North Africa.
United Metals acquired Special High Grade Zinc with a purity of 99.995% according to ASTM B6. Another company was established in 1998 to increase the capacities of serving cables accessories, Elsewedy SEDCO, for the production of cable joints and terminations in Egypt through collaboration with international companies.
From 2002 - 2008, Ahmed Sadek Elsewedy, took the lead in the family business. Following its establishment in the Egyptian market, in 2002 a joint venture was formed between the Sudan
ese company the Giad and Elsewedy Cables. The company’s capital increased reach 8 million USD and new machinery was added to increase capacity to approximately 3,000 tons of aluminum conductors and 3,000 tons of copper conductors.
2003 was the year where the company began to diversify its specialty to more than cables. Sudanese Egyptian Electrical Industries a transformers industrial facility at Khartoum
, Sudan, with factory area of 12,000 square meters to manufacture 6,000 units yearly.
In 2004, the company began through the joint venture with an Italian company called Italsmea. Since then, Italsmea Elsewedy was renamed Elsewedy SEDCO for Petroleum Services to supply electrical bulk materials and explosion-proof equipment for petroleum companies.
To serve the Levant
markets, Elsewedy Cables set up an industrial facility for cables manufacturing in Syria
during 2005. In 2007, another factory was established in Syria for manufacturing transformers to cover Africa and the Middle East.
Since 2008, five additional cables facilities have been established in Algeria
, Saudi Arabia
, Ethiopia
, Yemen
, and Qatar
. Two transformer manufacturing facilities have also been established in Zambia
and Egypt.
Elsewedy Transformers Egypt is the only factory that manufacturers power transformers at operating voltages of up to 220 KV in the Middle East and Africa. The Egyptian company for Electrical Insulators was also fully acquired by Elsewedy Cables in 2008.
The company has also entered two new segments; electrical energy measurement and management, and wind energy
generation. Elsewedy Cables fully acquired Iskraemeco a Slovenia
n manufacturer of energy measurement and management operating since 1945 with a manufacturing capacity reaching 3 million meters. The group entered the wind energy sector through the strategic acquisition of a Spanish wind turbine manufacturer MTorres Olvega Industrial and a joint venture agreement with the German windmill tower manufacturer Siag.
In 2010, Elsewedy Cables renamed itself Elsewedy Electric, to reflect the recent diversification of its portfolio of energy products and services.
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
ian manufacturing company. It was founded in 1938 by the Elsewedy family.
The company manufactures and sells integrated energy products and services in seven energy segments: Cables and accessories, electrical products, telecommunications, transformer
Transformer
A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors—the transformer's coils. A varying current in the first or primary winding creates a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core and thus a varying magnetic field...
s, wind energy
Wind energy
Wind energy is the kinetic energy of air in motion; see also wind power.Total wind energy flowing through an imaginary area A during the time t is:E = ½ m v2 = ½ v 2...
generation, energy measurement and management, engineering, procurement and contracting .
History
In 1938, Elsewedy family started their business as a trader in electrical equipment.From 1960 - 1995, the family changed the company from just trading in electrical equipment to being a distributor for the sole cable manufacturer in Egypt at that time (1960).During this period, it was focused on selling cables to the Egyptian market, until the Elsewedy family established the first private sector cable factory in Egypt (Arab Cables) in 1984. At that time, all other cable manufacturers in Egypt were solely owned by the Egyptian government.
The company was located in one of Egypt's industrial zones, 60 km east of Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
with expressways
Limited-access road
A limited-access road known by various terms worldwide, including limited-access highway, dual-carriageway and expressway, is a highway or arterial road for high-speed traffic which has many or most characteristics of a controlled-access highway , including limited or no access to adjacent...
linking it to Egypt's major Mediterranean and Red Sea
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...
ports. It was specialized in the manufacturing of: low, medium &high voltage power cables, control cables, and over head transmission lines.
In 1996, a second factory was built specializing in power cable
Power cable
A power cable is an assembly of two or more electrical conductors, usually held together with an overall sheath. The assembly is used for transmission of electrical power...
manufacturing for export, Egytech. Egytech was awarded quality standards such as (ISO, KEMA
KEMA
Established in 1927, KEMA is an independent knowledge leader and a global provider of high-quality services to the energy value chain, including business & technical consultancy, operational support, measurements & inspection, and testing & certification...
, BASEC,CE, VDE,and SGS) and was capable of exporting products to Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Chad, Cyprus, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jordan ,Kazakhstan, Kenya, KSA, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Spain and South Africa.
To improve quality control ever the end product of the cables, the company established a factory of PVC
PVC
Polyvinyl chloride is a plastic.PVC may also refer to:*Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military honor*Peripheral venous catheter, a small, flexible tube placed into a peripheral vein in order to administer medication or fluids...
compounds and Master Batch. In 1996, Sedplast was established to improve effectiveness and efficiency throughout the processes and systems of the company. Sedplast specialized in PVC compounds including soft and rigid PVC, as well as White master batch, Black master batch, Color master batch, and Additive master batch.
In 1997, the company established an industrial facility to meet tailored customer requirements, including domestic appliance cords, Category 7
Category 7 cable
Category 7 cable , , is a cable standard for Ethernet and other interconnect technologies that can be made to be backward compatible with Cat 5 and Cat 6. Cat 7 features even more strict specifications for crosstalk and system noise than Cat 6...
ethernet
Ethernet
Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....
cables; twisted pair
Twisted pair
Twisted pair cabling is a type of wiring in which two conductors are twisted together for the purposes of canceling out electromagnetic interference from external sources; for instance, electromagnetic radiation from unshielded twisted pair cables, and crosstalk between neighboring pairs...
telephone cables for home and business premises, and complex instrumentation cables needed to monitor natural resources. To complete the vertical integration
Vertical integration
In microeconomics and management, the term vertical integration describes a style of management control. Vertically integrated companies in a supply chain are united through a common owner. Usually each member of the supply chain produces a different product or service, and the products combine to...
, a joint venture
Joint venture
A joint venture is a business agreement in which parties agree to develop, for a finite time, a new entity and new assets by contributing equity. They exercise control over the enterprise and consequently share revenues, expenses and assets...
was established between Elsewedy Cables and Elastimold, a unit of the cables accessories company Thomas & Betts
Thomas & Betts
Thomas & Betts is a designer and manufacturer of connectors and components for electrical and communication markets. Thomas & Betts is notable as the inventor of cable ties in 1958...
. It was established to cover the markets in the MENA
MENA
The term MENA, for "Middle East and North Africa", is an acronym often used in academic, military planning and business writing.The term covers an extensive region, extending from Morocco to Iran, including the majority of both the Middle Eastern and Maghreb countries...
region for medium and high voltage joints and terminations.
In collaboration with Southwire, USA a continuous cast
Continuous casting
Continuous casting, also called strand casting, is the process whereby molten metal is solidified into a "semifinished" billet, bloom, or slab for subsequent rolling in the finishing mills. Prior to the introduction of continuous casting in the 1950s, steel was poured into stationary molds to form...
and rolled copper rod plant has been brought up in 1998 to have the largest plant through the Middle East and North Africa.
United Metals acquired Special High Grade Zinc with a purity of 99.995% according to ASTM B6. Another company was established in 1998 to increase the capacities of serving cables accessories, Elsewedy SEDCO, for the production of cable joints and terminations in Egypt through collaboration with international companies.
From 2002 - 2008, Ahmed Sadek Elsewedy, took the lead in the family business. Following its establishment in the Egyptian market, in 2002 a joint venture was formed between the Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
ese company the Giad and Elsewedy Cables. The company’s capital increased reach 8 million USD and new machinery was added to increase capacity to approximately 3,000 tons of aluminum conductors and 3,000 tons of copper conductors.
2003 was the year where the company began to diversify its specialty to more than cables. Sudanese Egyptian Electrical Industries a transformers industrial facility at Khartoum
Khartoum
Khartoum is the capital and largest city of Sudan and of Khartoum State. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria, and the Blue Nile flowing west from Ethiopia. The location where the two Niles meet is known as "al-Mogran"...
, Sudan, with factory area of 12,000 square meters to manufacture 6,000 units yearly.
In 2004, the company began through the joint venture with an Italian company called Italsmea. Since then, Italsmea Elsewedy was renamed Elsewedy SEDCO for Petroleum Services to supply electrical bulk materials and explosion-proof equipment for petroleum companies.
To serve the Levant
Levant
The Levant or ) is the geographic region and culture zone of the "eastern Mediterranean littoral between Anatolia and Egypt" . The Levant includes most of modern Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian territories, and sometimes parts of Turkey and Iraq, and corresponds roughly to the...
markets, Elsewedy Cables set up an industrial facility for cables manufacturing in Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
during 2005. In 2007, another factory was established in Syria for manufacturing transformers to cover Africa and the Middle East.
Since 2008, five additional cables facilities have been established in Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
, Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
, Yemen
Yemen
The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....
, and Qatar
Qatar
Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...
. Two transformer manufacturing facilities have also been established in Zambia
Zambia
Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
and Egypt.
Elsewedy Transformers Egypt is the only factory that manufacturers power transformers at operating voltages of up to 220 KV in the Middle East and Africa. The Egyptian company for Electrical Insulators was also fully acquired by Elsewedy Cables in 2008.
The company has also entered two new segments; electrical energy measurement and management, and wind energy
Wind energy
Wind energy is the kinetic energy of air in motion; see also wind power.Total wind energy flowing through an imaginary area A during the time t is:E = ½ m v2 = ½ v 2...
generation. Elsewedy Cables fully acquired Iskraemeco a Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
n manufacturer of energy measurement and management operating since 1945 with a manufacturing capacity reaching 3 million meters. The group entered the wind energy sector through the strategic acquisition of a Spanish wind turbine manufacturer MTorres Olvega Industrial and a joint venture agreement with the German windmill tower manufacturer Siag.
In 2010, Elsewedy Cables renamed itself Elsewedy Electric, to reflect the recent diversification of its portfolio of energy products and services.