EoW September 2011

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Feature Ancillary Equipment

This is a broad category, encompassing as it does units with a wide range of distinctive functions. A capstan is about as unlike a caterpuller as one piece of equipment can be to another. A preheater serves a very different purpose from an armourer, a kevlar server, or a dancer, binder, or taper. Yet they all contri- bute importantly to state-of-the-art wire, cable and optical fibre manufacturing and testing. Jointly, separately, severally, these and many other ancillaries nonetheless form a unity ticket in a modern wire mill.

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EuroWire – September 2011