Partnerships
HCCL - Hangzhou Cable Co. Ltd.
Founded in 1958, Hangzhou Cable Co. Ltd (‘HCCL’) is a world-leading manufacturer, a national high and new technology enterprise and the vice president business of Cable-Wire industries Association of Zhejiang Province. HCCL was successfully listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2015. Their products have been widely used in the construction of large-scale national infrastructures in which the developed patents have filled many domestic blanks in different fields.
On August 18, 2016, Hangzhou Cable Co. Ltd (‘HCCL’) and the UNSW Joint Laboratory was established, marking the official launch of the first overseas Research and Development Center of Hangzhou Cable Co. Ltd (‘HCCL’). On September 6, 2016, Hangzhou joint laboratory was established to symbolise the launch of the flagship HCCL graphene cable research project for high throughput manufacturing and is showcasing an entrepreneurial joint venture collaboration between China and Australia.
In August 2018, the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, highly praised the great partnership between HCCL and USNW and highlighted the ground-breaking achievements of graphene cable project during a speech at UNSW Sydney.
In October 2018, HCCL transferred the UNSW joint laboratory-developed graphene cables technology into the Hangzhou Joint Laboratory for industrial production. The continuous pilot production of graphene cables started from the perspective of facilities and techniques where two existing production lines were customised and used.