This progress reflects the Group’s on-going concentration of sales and marketing resources on this expanding sector backed up by product and service innovation, tailored to meet the requirements of the customers.

Blu, Italy’s newest mobile telephone operator has awarded Chloride the contract to supply the power protection to its new telephony centre in Bologna. This follows the successful implementation of earlier contracts for power protection for its Rome and Naples call centres.

In Spain, Chloride BOAR has won the contract to provide power protection solutions for the operating platform of Estratel, a subsidiary of Telefonica. Estratel has nineteen operating centres throughout Spain and plans to open a further five centres later this year.

In Turkey, Masterguard has won a contract to provide a variety of power protection solutions for the data, voice and transmission sites of Globalstar. Globalstar is a global satellite-based personal telecommunications company providing both satellite and cellular calls, through one phone to virtually anywhere in the world.

Chloride’s innovative LIFE 2000 monitoring and diagnostic service is an important element of these telecommunications contracts. These contracts provide further evidence of the strong presence that Chloride enjoys in the telecoms sector.