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New challenges: WTM provides the answers

performances never achieved before. Companies using these wrapping machines have succeeded in at last doubling the data transmission speed of the cable, according to WTM. Today, with WTM data cable wrapping lines, it is possible to produce 34 AWG cables: such a small dimension is not yet standardised. WTM Srl – Italy Website : www.wtmachinery.com

Over the past few years, the company has designed a wrapping line fully dedicated to the application of copper silver plated screening strip on the production of the highest frequency coaxial cables. The concept for this line is never bending the cable, with the exclusion of the collecting reel, and the process is monitored with WTM’s Viso System. For data transmission cables, WTM has won another challenge with its wrapping lines for coaxial, twinax and trinax, with

With new business opportunities emerge on a daily basis. Although good, this provides a new challenge for companies with existing businesses facing competition from new and aggressive firms. One solution for companies is improving the technology level on the offered products. In the cable industry, there is a strong demand for lightweight and easier cable handling, higher frequencies and higher quantities of data transmission, and so on. What pushes engineers to study new materials and new processes and, of course, to design equipment is the ability to use them with the highest precision and consistency in order to grant the industrialisation of the final product. WTM is among the companies involved in the challenge. Its philosophy is to stay a step ahead of what the market is asking for. The latest series of tape wrapping machines produced by WTM lead its customers to reach targets that were only dreams until last year. A challenge won by WTM is wrapping cables with the new Cogebi EasyStrip® mica tape, which is based on inorganic material support and not on fibreglass support. This tape makes the cable more flexible, lighter, smaller in overall diameter and most of all allows the end-user to save a large amount of time in stripping it: even with an ordinary stripper, at the first stoke, the copper in the cable is ready to be connected. Composite contract JDR Cable has been awarded a subcontract by Siem Offshore Contractors to supply submarine composite power cables for the Veja Mate offshore wind farm. The Veja Mate offshore wind farm is located 115km off the German coast, within the German Bight sector of the North Sea. The 67x 6MW Siemens- supplied wind turbine generators will be inter-connected by an inner array grid of JDR-designed and manufactured 33kV medium voltage alternating current cables with a total length of around 97km. JDR will also deliver hang-offs, connectors and other necessary cable accessories, and will be providing topside termination and testing services through its global services division. JDR – UK Website : www.jdrglobal.com easier communications,

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