As New Zealand’s leading power cable supplier, Nexans Olex also provides specialist technical services, cable design, supply solutions, and other value added services gained from our extensive experience in the cable industry

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ew Zealand based
Nexans Olex has more
than 65 years experience
manufacturing and
providing a full range of general
purpose fixed and flexible cables as
well as special purpose cables. The
company employs more than 700
staff in Australia and New Zealand,
with three manufacturing plants
– two in Australia and one in New
Zealand.
As New Zealand’s leading
power cable supplier, Nexans Olex
also provides specialist technical
services, cable design, supply
solutions, and other value added
services gained from our extensive
experience in the cable industry.
From the New Plymouth
facility, Nexans Olex New Zealand
produces a wide range of electrical
power cables, ranging from building
wires and control cables to power
cables with rated voltages up to
35 kV. Complementing this range
is a broad selection of industrial,
fire rated and mining cables
manufactured by the factories in
Tottenham and Lilydale, Australia.
All facilities are quality certified to
ISO 9001.
Strategic management
The company has three strategic
aims that they align all activities to
achieve:
1.) To improve the speed
and quality of our customer
responsiveness;
2.) To have a clear customer
focus and to have deeper
relationships with fewer strategic
customers;
3.) Reduce the complexity in all
of our business areas.
“It’s really important that we
stick to those strategic aims,” said
Ian Skipworth, general manager
for Nexans Olex New Zealand.
“They have served us well in the
past 2-3 years and we’ve grown
our business and improved our
profitability.”
Recently, the company achieved
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Leading manufacturer of electrical cables in New Zealand

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the best environmental practice
standard for a PVC manufacturer
in New Zealand, which means they
can sell all of their products into
Green Star rated projects.
“We’ve only had a couple
projects in the past year where the
product had to be Green Star rated,
but I think it will be important for
our future,” Skipworth said.
Rebuild of Christchurch
In February 2011 an earthquake
devastated the city of Christchurch
in New Zealand’s South Island. The
earthquake caused widespread
damage across Christchurch,
especially in the central city and
eastern suburbs, with damage
exacerbated by buildings and
infrastructure already being
weakened by an earthquake a year
earlier.
The rebuild of the city is still
in its early stages. They are still
demolishing the last few buildings
in the center of the city – most of
the buildings in the central business
district have now been demolished.
Currently, residents are
rebuilding their houses or repairing
their houses and quite a lot of
subdivisions are being built, which
will go on for the next two or three
years. “There are many thousands
of houses going up so we are busy
I think
there will be
growth in the
New Zealand
market across
a number of
sectors.
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- Ian Skipworth

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9. supplying residential type products to
rebuild,” Skipworth said.
Nexans Olex has refurbished
its warehouse in Christchurch,
which was badly damaged in the
earthquake. The company installed
new equipment and stocked more
products at the site and recently
starting up a second facility to make
sure not to run out of cables in the
area as the demand is going to be
very heavy and unpredictable.
“We want to be able to respond
very quickly to any demand,”
Skipworth said.
Plans for growth
The New Zealand market is expected
to grow perhaps around 3 percent a
year for the next 3-4 years. This year
the company is spending close to $1
million on increased capacity in the
factory for the manufacture of building
wire, which is the product most often
used in residential developments. In
addition, over the past four years the
company has spent about $13 million
on new equipment.
“It’s a very competitive market,”
Skipworth said. “I think there will be
growth in the New Zealand market.
We see a trend with customers as
well – a lot of customers want to work
with us on supply chain solutions in
order to reduce their costs.”
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10. Major project
One of the projects the company is
developing at the moment is vendor
managed inventory with strategic
customers. That’s a process
whereby the customer will hold the
stock in their distribution center,
but Nexans Olex will manage
the customer’s stock levels. The
customer sends a report each day
to say they have shipped or sold
this many products and Nexans
come back with a recommendation
based on their historic stock profile
and figure out how much they need
to re-order. That way, the customer
should never run out of stock.
“It also means that instead of
holding lots of stock in all their
branches around the country,
customers can consolidate that and
hold it in one distribution center
which should mean better overall
product availability for all their
branches,” Skipworth said.
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Leading manufacturer of electrical cables in New Zealand

11. STATISTICS
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Company Name: Nexans Olex
Industry: Energy, Manufacturing
Founded: 1967
Headquarters: New Zealand
Key People/Titles: Ian Skipworth, General
Manager
Products: full range of general purpose fixe,
flexible and special purpose cables, specialist
technical services and cable design
Revenue: $100m NZD
Employees: 170 (NZ)
Website: http://www.nexans.co.nz/
- Ian Skipworth, General
Manager for Nexans Olex
New Zealand

12. Nexans Olex
69 Paraite Road, Bell Block, New Plymouth 4383
Tel: +64 6755 9800
www.nexans.co.nz