Investing to improve

In recent years, Prysmian has made significant investments in the development and reorganization of its production facilities, with a view to confirming and reinforcing its position on high technology segments of the market and further improving its capacity to meet the new requests and requirements of Customers. Gross investments in property, plant and equipment amounted to Euro 107 million in 2009.

The following charts show how the Group’s investments in 2009 were split by type and geographical area: :