EoW January 2013

State-of-the-art components and a user-friendly operating system enable automated and error-free production. Advantages include a unique drive concept, low installation and maintenance effort, low energy consumption, inline-wire straightening and testing unit, straight wire behaviour and the guided identification of the drawing die wear. CPA acts as turnkey project supplier for the production of steel cord wire, bead wire, hose wire, saw wire and others, and combines this with the related process know-how. CPAWire Technologies GmbH – Austria Website : www.cpa.at

Crosshead from Erocarb

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New crossheads for extrusion lines

Erocarb produces many types of crosshead, from simple cartridge units for PVC to filling and jacketing units including equipment for CV lines and various crossheads for fluoropolymer cables and tubes. The company’s factory with multiple NC machines allows full control of the delivered units. A new “T” range has now been added: crossheads for multi-layers tubes and pipes. These crossheads are delivered with manual centring. Their distributors are defined for the specific polymers used: HDPE, PEX, EVOH and adhesive. The parameters of the distributors can be sized to the thickness of each layer for a stable co-extrusion process. Even Hastelloy® execution is available for extrusion of fluoropolymer. In this case the internal distributor will always be heated. The connection to the crosshead is perpendicular or angled to the extrusion line. On multiple layers crossheads, the layer entry correspondence to the extruder position can be chosen freely.

Erocarb SA – Switzerland Website : www.erocarb.ch

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