18TH May 2010 – Trieste, Italy. Redaelli, the Italian leading manufacturer of speciality steel wire ropes and tensostructures engineering, breaks a new record at international level: the Guinness World Record for the heaviest steel wire rope in the world. The record-breaking Flexpack rope, a compacted non-rotating steel wire rope, is 3020 metres in length, 164 mm in diameter, and weights and unprecedented 361,1 tonnes.