EoW July 2009

Wire products for the automotive industry

“ ACID-FREE PROCESS FOR STEEL ROD CLEANING & SURFACE PREPARATION” “New Way to Draw Steel Wire in the 21 st Century”

Single and double twist machines for automotive cables Lesmo’s single twist machine (MTO) from 400mm up to 2,000mm is a flexible machine that can work as a payoff or take-up. Its smooth deviation makes it an ideal machine for the production of cables for the automotive sector. The most common uses for the single twist machine include: • Smooth bunching of flexible copper and aluminium conductors, usually of 400mm to 630mm take-up size • Laying-up of fine insulated conductors and LAN cables (with or without in-line taping and binding head for applying screening, taping and binding) usually of 800mm to 1,000mm take-up • Roping of flexible conductors, multi-wires or pre-bunched, usually of 1,250mm to 1,600mm take-up • Laying-up of control and instrumentation cables (pairs, triples and quad) usually of 1,250mm to 1,600mm take-up • Screening with copper or aluminium wires and armouring with steel wires, usually 1,250mm to 1,600mm take-up

DCCD process features: • Eliminates acid, borax and precoatings • Zero energy consumption • Direct drawing from bare rod with no speed limitation, for H/C and L/C • New Lubricant Viscosity Control provides exceptionally adherent coating • Adjustable lubricant residual • Zero lubricant waste • Recommended for severe drawing applications (spring, rope, bead, CO 2 welding, PC strand, plating quality) • H/C wire drawn at 18 m/s (3600 ft/min) • Up to 8 times longer die life • Exiting wire temp. 45°C (113°F) • Greatly improved wire ductility

DECALUB 31, avenue de Condé 77500 CHELLES, FRANCE Fax: +33 1 60 20 20 21 E-mail: info@decalub.com Website: www.decalub.com

▲ ▲ Lesmo’s MTO single twist machine for automotive cables

Welding machines for automotive wire products The double twist back twist payoff offers a solution for the production of automotive cables, instrumentation, control cables and LAN, allowing the unwinding varying numbers of cables without the limitation on speed of the single twist take-up. Officine Meccaniche di Lesmo has been a well-known brand in the wire and cable field since 1962. OM Lesmo SpA – Italy Fax : +39 039 6981148 Email : omlesmo@omlesmo.com Website : www.omlesmo.com Lesmo can supply single twist take-up with back twist payoffs for unwinding the central core or a number of insulated cables, either a drum twister (close cradle and fork type), or a single and double twist back twist.

The German-based IDEAL-Werk specialises in the welding of all types of wire products and articles, in particular for the car industry. Various machine types have been developed, including dual force welding machines for the welding of starter rings, flash butt welding machines for steering wheels, butt welding machines for joining wire ends, butt welding machines for joining stranded conductors, numerically controlled welding robots for the welding of seat frames and even welding machines for joining steel cord for tyre reinforcing. IDEAL-Werk – Germany

▲ ▲ Specialist welding machines for the automotive industry

Fax : +49 2941 206169

Email : info@ideal-werk.com

Website : www.ideal-werk.com

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EuroWire – July 2009