EoW July 2009

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European quality fromTaiwan

Stranding line for OCI

Sheng Chyean sells mainly automotive part and repair machinery, always looking to improve and develop the technology to achieve the high standards of production expected of European and Japanese manufacturers. Main products include: brass bar, iron bar, aluminium and stainless steel bar and flat metal wire production equipment; melt casting equipment; continuous casting machines; extrusion drawing equipment; multi-type drawing machines; cold drawing machines; end tapering machines; processing and packaging machines; round bar and irregular bar straightening machines.

▲ ▲ Pourtier Gauder’s concentric stranding line

“In this new machine, Pourtier uses a motorised control system to ensure the uniform tension of each wire and can thereby guarantee a more regulated length in each bobbin.” Mr Najeeb continues: “Other machine manufacturers have used central stranders which only wind one wire at a time onto the bobbins. This allows discrepancy between the lengths on each bobbin and leads to more scrap during the feeding-on process.” Assembled in France in June 2008, the machine had a no-load trial. The complete line was developed in October 2008 and final commissioning took place in January 2009. Gauder Group – Belgium Fax : +32 4 367 8798 Email : gauder@gaudergroup.com Website : www.gaudergroup.com

Pourtier, of Gauder Group, is celebrating the commissioning of a new concentric stranding line, the COS 1200-2, for the production of a 37-wire concentric Cu/ Al strand of 240mm² at 500rpm. Mr Abdul Najeeb, project manager at Oman Cables Industry (OCI), explains: “This machine is the first in the world to use the system of winding three wires onto one coaxial bobbin (spinning on the centre line of the machine), from external coil baskets, and then stranding from this single bobbin. “This makes the machine very compact and fast and with two bobbins per module allows six wires to be run from each individual module. OCI’s machine has five modules and can have an additional seven non-twisted wires fed into the machine at the beginning of the process, giving us thirty-seven wires in total.

▲ ▲ Payoff stand from Sheng Chyean

Sheng Chyean Enterprise Co Ltd – Taiwan Fax : +886 4 7588500 Website : www.tw-sc.com.tw

New and used

Since 1980, GER SA has specialised in the sale of new and second- hand machinery for wire and cable, tube and sheet works, for the ferrous and non-ferrous industry. The company sells single machines and complete plants for most products including steel rod and wire, non-ferrous wire, steel ropes and electrical insulated cables. A wide range is available from stock, or can be sourced. Machinery can be reconditioned and modernised on request. GER also offers new electrical control systems, using state-of-the-art drives and components. Machines are test run before shipment, or can be installed and commissioned at the customer’s plant where full training for the operators completes the service for the customer.

GER SA – Belgium Email : ger@ger.be Website : www.ger.be

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EuroWire – July 2009