EuroWire March 2024

Exhibitors at wire 2024

M+E Macchine+Engineering Srl 10 H55 With headquarters in Dervio, on Lake Como, around 40 miles north of Milan, Italy, M+E specialises in the design and manufacture of payoffs and take-ups for steel and stainless steel wires in coils or on spools for annealing, patenting, galvanising, oil tempering and other in line processes. It also manufactures wet drawing machines for steel and stainless steel wire, complete with horizontal or vertical axis spoolers.

so there is no clogging or downtime. One customer reported spending two to three hours a day cleaning printers before switching to Leibinger. Wire and tube manufacturers are also under pressure to be leaner and greener. Leibinger printers use less solvent and less power, to make production more sustainable, and with the latest IQJET printer there are zero maintenance costs for five years.

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Paul Leibinger GmbH & Co KG www.leibinger-group.com

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With specialised industry knowledge, the company designs, develops and builds all parts and components for its machines in-house, ensuring they are customised to each customer’s specific requirements. Lämneå Bruk AB www.lamnea.se Paul Leibinger GmbH & Co KG 09 F55 Printing on wires and tubes is a small but essential part of production that requires specialist skills. Printers need to work very quickly. As a specialist, Leibinger offers printers such as the Jet Rapid Wire that can print up to a kilometre of wire every minute. Wires and tubes can be difficult to print on. The print area is small and convex, and sometimes at a high temperature, if straight out of the extrusion unit. Dark surfaces require a special kind of opaque pigmented ink to make text readable and compliant.

Leibinger offers coding and marking solutions for the cable, wire and tube industries

Every metre of wire or tube needs to be perfectly printed. Leibinger says that its reliability and build quality ensure every product is compliant with all marking regulations. Many printers can get clogged when ink dries, resulting in the production line stopping for cleaning. Leibinger’s printhead technology prevents air from getting to the ink when not in use,

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