■ Reinforces expertise by establishing a construction group and recruiting executives from outside
■ More contracts won for turnkey-based projects by strengthening construction competitiveness and improving profitability
■ Transferring power cable construction competency to the submarine cable segment
LS Cable & System (CEO Ja-Eun Koo) said on February 24 that it recently began to bolster its competitiveness in the construction business by establishing a construction group and recruiting executives from construction companies.
Power cable construction is generally divided into supply of materials, electric works and public works projects. Cable makers have been handling only part of the electric works that require high-level skills other than simply supplying materials, but LS Cable & System has noted that the number of turnkey-based tenders has recently been increasing covering everything from supply of materials to completion of projects for the sake of convenient management.
As latecomers from the Middle East, China and India are leveraging their price advantage to fast encroach on the global cable market, construction technology and management capabilities are gradually becoming ever more important competitive factors. The measures taken by LS Cable & System are intended to expand its likelihood of winning contracts and improving profitability by reinforcing its construction competitiveness.
LS Cable & System is planning to bolster its expertise by integrating the power, submarine and communication cable construction teams scattered in respective sales divisions into a single organization, and maximize synergies by sharing success stories of individual business segments. Especially this year, the company will capitalize on its experience in existing power cable construction to reinforce its submarine cable construction competency as well. To this end, the company seconded project teams to Qatar and Venezuela prior to the beginning of cable construction where super large-scale submarine cable constructions are currently underway to provide thorough management and supervision while also accumulating construction experience.
LS Cable & System has been accumulating construction competency in all parts of the world, including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America for more than 10 years since 2004 when the company won its first contract for a turnkey project in Qatar. In particular, the company has global construction centers in Qatar, Singapore, India and Saudi Arabia to reinforce its construction competency, and secures expertise by developing engineers as local experts.
Tae-Hoon Kim, LS Cable & System’s Vice President of Construction Group said, “LS Cable & System has had trials and errors in the past few years, and is now recognized overseas as a company that has not only good product quality, but also construction competency. Our strengths in construction made decisive contributions to our winning the contracts for large-scale projects in the Middle East last year.”
LS Cable & System bolsters cable construction business.
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