EuroWire May 2023

9-11 May 2023

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

matic bobbin-loading systems. These lines include PP yarn and bitumen applicators, as well as special caterpillars for heavy pulling.

to minimise the stopping times, as well as several rigid stranding lines with completely automated processes. FLYMCA SL www.flymca.com

equipment to advanced companies from North Africa, the Middle East, South America and Southeast Asia. FLYMCA’s production is centred on its standard equipment for stranding and cabling, such as rigid stranders, bow cablers, skip stranders, tubulars, planetaries and drum twisters. A second focus is placed on customised equipment – machinery specifically developed for a customer to fulfil all of its specifications, mainly projects for the production of special cables such as offshore, submarine, umbilical and wire steel ropes for oil and gas industries. In 2023 and 2024, the company expects high demand for submarine cables for HV and FO. The main equipment being required includes rigid stranders for 630 or 800mm diameter bobbins, prepared for production up to 4,000mm 2 with round, rectangular or trapezoidal wires, and with multiple options to add water blocking compounds, tapes, yarns, etc. Armouring lines are the second type of requirement that is filling production capacity to its limits: machines for multiple 800 or 1,000mm diameter bobbins. The cages are prepared for operation in planetary and rigid modes with automatic changeover, using auto-

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Gimax Srl Booth 1134, Italian pavilion

Gimax will be present with a booth in the Italian trade pavilion, but will also be found on the booth of Cable Consultants Corp – official and exclusive representatives for the USA and Canada. Gimax has been producing machinery for the wire industry for more than 44 years, and offers complete lines or individual machines covering almost the entire process and handling of ferrous and non ferrous wire. The company supplies drawing equip- ment for producing copper-based brazing wires, aluminium welding alloys, cobalt flux cored wire and titanium fine wire, and stainless steel, among other products. The machinery includes both TRS wet draw benches (spray type, not immersed) and TRD dry draw benches ›››

Standard stranding equipment is a focus for FLYMCA

Projects for aerial cables continue to be an important part of the company’s sales: non-stop bow cabling production including accumulator, with specific systems for taping and cutting the cables

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