EoW November 2007

newmachinery & equipment launched in 2007

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

Gauder’s range to suit all needs

The Gauder Group has designed and manufactured a comprehensive range of innovative concentric heads for multi-wire and taping applications.

Pourtier’s latest development enables cable manufacturers to enhance their taping/ screening process for the production of LV, MV and HV, as well as control and special cables. The ‘TEC 630- 95-dc’ model is used to place a screen, armour or a counter helix on a bundle of insulated conductors – tape or multi- wire – at high speed (up to 600rpm). The product capacity of the 630mm reel (600kg) being 30 times greater than one

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

Capacity 30 times greater with Gauder’s latest development ▲

of a single pad used on tangential heads, allows the operator to save 85 minutes for pad change! Other main characteristics are a fine tuned tension control by two AC motors with vector drives (for independent driving of screening/taping head and reel) and an accurate lay length thanks to encoder for precise adjustment to linear speed. This version proves to be particularly interesting for counter helix application, especially with the double loading ‘dc’ doubling the product capacity. As an example, to apply a counter-helix tape of 10mm width and 0.2mm thick around a cable of 20mm diameter with a lay length of 400mm, the length of tape on the reel would be 33,700m, which represents almost three hours of production time at a rotation speed of 500rpm. Setic - Gauder Group – France Fax : +33 4 77 71 10 85 Email : sales.setic@gaudergroup.com Website : www.gaudergroup.com

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

Making it even easier for you! In January this year, Propack launched Propaflex, designed to guarantee total, high quality protection for all products sold in rolls.

Propaflex is a plastic sheet extruded so as to obtain two different surfaces: the inner one is smooth and clings perfectly to rounded surfaces, the outer one is specially undulated, reduces friction with other materials and is capable of withstanding violent impacts, heavy weights, shocks or compressions.

Adding the plastic band makes it easier for users

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An addition to this is that the company has now put a plastic band on Propaflex to facilitate the packaging of the rolls. Studying the needs of the users, Propack discovered that it was important to have the ability to steady Propaflex when the reel is completely packed. The best way of doing this was to use a plastic band in the Propaflex external surface. This allows the user to roll up the reel with Propaflex and then to easily fasten it with the plastic band. Propack SpA – Italy Fax : +39 011 9507808 Email : info@propackgroup.com Website : www.propackgroup.com

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EuroWire – November 2007