Spotlight on innovation

Smart shearable screw for high-performance cable connections
Innovation guides our everyday work, supports competitiveness, and fine-tunes the production process.

Enable™ Tether cables for ROVs with new high performance yarns
“Enhanced fibers make cables less vulnerable to failure, and prolong service life.”

Why at Autoelectric, we think Henry Ford got it wrong!
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said: faster horses.”

Cutting the friction to serve our customers
Every frictional body has a resistance of friction equal to one quarter of its weight.

Nexans’ Scientific Committee bridges business and academe
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Nexans in top 50 on Innovation Hit Parade charts
The Patent Office is the mother-in-law of invention.

Active participation in standardization helps our business
Strong involvement in national cable organizations promotes our expertise and our customers’ interests.

Preparing next-generation High-Voltage Networks
"Nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

Korean Ceramifiable® cables that can take the heat
And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire.

White Paper clears regulator smoke screen
Our tests proved that our fire-performance cables can and do save lives

Concentric and compact connections for superconductors
For a smaller footprint in urban grids, our superconducting cables needed compact connections.

Nexans given prestigious award by Swedish telco Skanova
Nexans has beaten off competition from the likes of byNet and Nordlund Entreprenad to be named Fibre Company of the Year by telecommunications company Skanova.

Chilean giant goes deep underground
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

New medium-voltage power cable sheds costly weight
Innovation often means equaling performance, but with less material.

MOTIONLINE® PROFINET cable opens new horizons for automation
Innovation often requires combining diverse strengths to achieve a common goal.

Doubling voltages for aerospace cables
Every time I have gone up in an airplane, I have had the consciousness of a new discovery.

Overhead Lines: A New Start
New technologies put OHL back at the core of power transmission.

Nexans receives 2013 Supplier Award for Innovation
RWE's AmpaCity paves the way for highly efficient power transmission in congested areas.

Hybrid flat elevator cables reach new heights
Combining Nexans' separate competencies in a new product alows us to resolve complex problem.

Nexans fights crime with Peruvian utility
To fight electricity theft, we joined forces with our customer.

Nexans hosts Nobel laureate
LIPA was a milestone, proving the feasibility of HTS cables. AmpaCity is now demonstrating that the technology is ready for the market.

Fiber-to-the-Antenna: Reach for the sky
To enjoy a grander sight, climb to a greater height.
Nexans among the french Top 30 international patents filers
Nexans ranks among the Top 30 companies filing the most international patents

RHEYRAIL® tracks criminals
Even though we were late off the starting blocks, our careful research put us out in front.

The marriage of true scientific minds
One of Nexans prime missions is to be a talent scout for new innovators.

Test invented in Fumay goes viral
When you can measure and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

In the dark all fibers are no longer gray
A criminal investigation tool helps installers quickly identify optical fibers.

Superconductors in the round
By reducing the footprint of superconductors, this patent will accelerate their use in grids.

The "smart" cable that cries for help
As with the human body, a skin wound calls for fast action.

Keeping ballast water ship-shape
Ocean ecology can create new opportunities for cable innovation.

Electrifying power line communication conference
New ways of generating and saving electricity require smarter ways to move it.

To catch a thief
Like the red thread spun into Royal Navy ropes, coded copper tape proves cable ownership.

Jumpers for extremely cold conditions
Innovations often arise from the interaction of neighboring market segments.

Gooseneck solution for concentrated solar power
Sometimes a domestic item can shower you with ideas.

Nexans is in the top 50 Most Innovative Companies in France
THE INPI (National Institute of the Intellectual property - France) has just published its list of the top French companies having the most patents published in 2010. At Nexans, we are very proud to be in the top 50 applicants (#35 specifically).

Fire-safe aluminum for lighter rolling stock
In fire conditions, this flexible aluminum cable does not melt or generate droplets, reducing fire risk.

Coiled to prevent a spike
With superconductors, you can build devices with amazing benefits.

Pre-terminated assemblies facilitate data center installation
We help our customers meet their commitments by adding value to the installation process.

A self-protective sensor
This unit is more than an automative sensor; it protects and stabilizes itself against malfunction.

Duotrack® foils metal thieves
Sometimes, a technical innovation gives rise to unforeseen benefits.

Renewable materials in durable cables
The use of bio-based materials will allow us to reduce our dependence on oil.

Conference creates buzz for superconductivity
This Nexans-organized conference showcases Nexans as a prime mover for superconductivity in Europe.

Crane cables get smart
This really is an intelligent cable - it tells us during operation if everything is OK.

OneReach extends video grasp
One innovation drives another. After developing copper/fiber cable for CCTV, we pushed back the boundaries of PoE.

Aquafish power for fish farms
Offshore technologies help fish farm operators upgrade operations and enhance their ecological image.

Visibox allows reel visibility
Convenient packaging adds value to our products by generating important savings for installers.

A few meters of cable could go a long way
Breakthroughs are often accomplished by combining technological assets with industrial tools on an international scale.

Flexible power cable for hybrid electric vehicle
Innovation is often cooperative and synergistic, with the final result more than what each partner could have separately achieved.

Blowing micro-cable straight out of the box
Intelligently packaging micro-cables is an art in itself, and something that busy installers have come to expect.

Reinforced ground-check conductors for safer mining
The weakest link in the chain or cable is a place to start innovating. Fix that vulnerable point and you add value.

One pathway and a little push-pull
Safety should be our first objective; obtaining certification can help us develop new products for our customers.

Eco-friendly cables for petrochemicals
The green concerns of our customers often stimulate us to use proven knowhow to develop new solutions.

Going with the wind
When our clients decide to raise the bar on cable specifications, tough testing can lead to new breakthroughs.

Darkness at noon
Innovations often breed new innovations. What we learned with fluorescent cables inspired us to create a new reflective mining cable.

You talking to me?
You don’t need a brand-new product to do innovative marketing; you just need a customized marketing approach.

Korean car cable offers high performance
Rather than being perceived as a threat, a new competitive technology should be seen as an opportunity to do it better.

Giant UNIWEMA® for king-sized corrugated tubes
When your customer starts thinking big, you have to start thinking big, too, especially in terms of innovation.

EASYFIL® 1+1+1= 1?
Time-proven wiring products can often be given new life by rethinking how they can be assembled and packaged.

Cracking is no joke
A customer complaint, rather than being disruptive, often serves as a springboard for achieving a safer, better product.

HV cables bridge gap during repairs
Field installation cable is more than just a product; it’s a service designed to protect our customer’s precious network assets.

Reliable cables for submerged pumps
Environmental concerns inspired us to bridge electrical insulation and chemical protection, developing a unique new pump cable.

INFIT™ Alsecure® Plus Tel fits right in
Hopefully, INFIT™ technology will one day be as familiar in the cable world, as INTEL® is in computing.

INFIT™ technology opens new markets
INFIT is a leapfrog technology which allows most plants to produce superior fire-performance cables using traditional extrusion techniques.

Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer
Meeting customer demand for a cable that could glow in the dark required perseverance and intuition.

Check out the Nexans LAN Technology Watch
Find info about General LAN market trends, Tyco/Bel Stewart on RJ-Point Five, Force 10 Networks' 40 GbE switch/router, Cisco's effort to acquire CoreOptics, and a new Google Patent

A cool way to turn on the heat
Thermal modeling makes it possible to adapt an entire cable system to a specific environment.

Cables smaller than the eye can see
Nano cables are opening up new markets in developing countries and non-destructive testing.

Backbones for datacenters
‘Smaller is better’ has often driven innovation . Fumay and NCS combined their expertise to offer a unique high-performance cable for an expanding market.

More fiber in the pipe
Customer requests for faster, easier installation, is leading us to push ribbon technology to its limits.

Cables for ultra-cold environments
Nexans production units and the NRC have proven their ability to conquer the challenges of distance, language and cultural barriers to develop exciting new shipbuilding products.

Cheaper, better fire-performance
By looking for gaps in existing patents, we discovered some neglected solutions.

Some cables like it hot!
Transitional technologies, like hybrid vehicles, demand transitional thinking.

Anti-robbery cable terminates power crime
This innovation not only eliminated power losses which were cutting into utility profits, it created a model for social and environmental responsibility which is spreading to other developing countries.

Cable on a hot tin roof: ENERGYFLEX
A durable, high-performance connection between photovoltaic panels and the “inverter”.

Camera goes “down the tubes”
A simple, self-contained robotic camera which rapidly scans joints, foreign matter and water within tubes.