EoW March 2011

Feature

Photo courtesy of PWM Ltd

Cutting & welding

W hile precision is a byword in every department of a state-of-the-art wire making facility, it may have special force in the specialities under review here. Certifiably accurate cutting – clean, straight, to length – is so critical that anything less renders the product unacceptable; or, for a more poignant word, unsaleable. So, too, with welding. Electric arc welding joins an electrode and a base material to create a melt pool at the welding point. If that point is missed, by however slight a margin, so have the promised benefits of low capital and running costs been missed. That these are virtually negligible worries in the wire and cable industry is due in no small part to equipment and services of the kind available from the companies profiled in this section of EuroWire.

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EuroWire – March 2011