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AEI Cables announcement
Cable manufacturer AEI Cables has reassured
its customers about orders and deliveries after
entering into a period of consultation to discuss
possible redundancies.
The company, based at Birtley in Co Durham, is
reassuring its customers that business will continue
as normal and that all orders will be fulfilled for now
and the foreseeable future.
A spokesman for AEI Cables said, ‘The
company has been making significant financial
losses for a long period of time and only continues
to function with the financial support and
guarantees of its parent company.
‘The company believes that profitability is
possible only with a fundamental restructuring and
a marked improvement in productivity.’
The spokesman said the company could not
say how many redundancies may be necessary
until the statutory consultation period is complete,
and it could not rule out closure of the site in the
worst scenario. The company – which employs 240
people – will consider all proposals for avoiding the
redundancies and reducing the numbers affected
including sale of the business as a going concern.
The company started formal consultation on
Wednesday 14th September, for a minimum of
45 days.

BSRIA in support of new EU tool
to design efficient data centres
BSRIA has alerted its members
to an EU funded research
project that has launched a
free online tool to help design
energy efficient and renewable
data centres.
The RenewIT tool is designed
to help operators, designers
and stakeholders maximise the
sustainability of new data centre
sites by comparing more than 60
European locations by electricity
costs, access to renewable power
and other factors.
Financial services company
ING has been involved with
RenewIT from the start of the project. Using the tool, RenewIT demonstrated how ING could
improve the efficiency of one of its zero carbon data centres by adding a biogas fuel cell and
raising the operating temperature of the facility.
Jo Harris, sustainable construction group manager at BSRIA, said, ‘The tool will be extremely
useful for industry and our members. It allows data centre operators to replicate the advantages
and expenses of on site and grid renewables, predicts productivity gains from technologies such
as free cooling and the finer aspects of workload management can also be calculated.’
The tool covers the EU and there is potential for it to be extended to North America and
Asia in the future.

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