EoW September 2013

Feature Handling & packaging equipment (including reels, spools and wrapping) I n the early days of the Industrial Revolution manufactured wares were produced for near neighbours. Modern wire makers may be permitted something like nostalgia for that period they never knew. The purchaser of their product – attenuated, susceptible to damage from kinking, breakage, exposure – may be half a world away. Making a virtue of necessity, the dedicated professionals reviewed in these pages have met and mastered the challenge of developing solutions for the handling and packaging of a finely wrought, high-value product.

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Photo courtesy of GMP Slovakia

September 2013