EuroWire March 2024

Exhibitors at wire 2024

final stage of the manufacturing process, help to prevent damage to the finished product. The company will be promoting five models of in-line drawing line for the fasteners industry (from 12 to 35mm); a new battery straightener – up to 32mm; a new wire butt welding machine range for diameters up to 32mm; a new vertical welding machine; clamps for coil and bobbin lifting up to 4 t; and unwinders and tilting machines for wire rod. Tramev Srl www.tramev.com Transworld Engineering Ltd 16 G17 Transworld Engineering is a spring machinery specialist, distributing to and supporting companies across Europe. It provides manufacturing machinery including spring manufacturing and wire forming, wire feeding, heat treatment, grinding and testing machinery, and high-quality tooling. The company was founded by Philip Barrett in 2009, after a period of travel and research in China that gave him the opportunity to select manufacturers and develop friendships and partnerships.

emulsifiable oils, through new additives that improve the wet drawing process in terms of lubrication and drawing performance. The group will also be promoting the production of various types of drawing dies and custom-designed parts by sophisticated micro-grains with zero porosity and higher density and hardness values; a wide range of round and shaped dies, which can be supplied in solid hard metal or coated with special Koner treatments to enhance their durability characteristics; and the D-lab instrument for measuring the diameter and ovality of dies, now with a larger touchscreen. Visitors to the stand will also find information about the K.80 system for die regrinding and polishing operations; the Ecoclean®/Ecowipe® machine for wire and wire rod cleaning; a new butt welder machine; wiping pads for galvanising operations; brushes for wire and wire rod cleaning; integrated solutions, both chemical and mechanical, for wire and wire rod cleaning; tungsten carbide die regrinding services by Koner East in Macedonia; and polycrystalline diamond die regrinding services by Koner in Italy. TKT Group www.tktgroup.it Tramev Srl 11 J06 Tramev is both a supplier of new standard or special accessories and a partner for the solution of technical problems for metal wire, wire rope and wire derivatives manufacturers. With light and portable tools from the company’s shears division, cutting, bending and straightening are easy operations. The Tramev shears line offers a full range of portable tools for cutting, straightening or bending of metal wire, allowing a fast and effective solution to problems related to wire, cable, strand and bolts and nuts. The company states that shears for wire and cable are its most successful products, but it has also developed – with customers and suppliers – other equipment to resolve common problems that are created along the wire and cable production chain. Some solutions, such as the gripper for handling of coils and bobbins, allow savings in terms of time; others, like the strapping rubber tube involved in the

The development of optical character recognition software enables the transcription of printed defects in real time. The software allows operators to promptly identify and address issues. Taymer International Inc www.taymer.com Tecnovo Srl 11 A56 Part of Italy’s TKT Group, Tecnovo has produced lubricants and auxiliary chemicals for wire drawing since 1945. powder lubricants for dry drawing (Tecnolubre); oils and liquid compounds for wet drawing (Sintek); pastes, greases and compounds for wire drawing (Tecnofix); products for preparing wire rods and wires for drawing (Tecnoline); and products for wire rod and wire rolling (Tecnolam). Tecnovo provides full and prompt technical assistance, starting with the selection of the most suitable products and thorough testing on the customer’s plant by its own specialist personnel. Its technicians work in close cooperation with those from group company Koner. Joint trials with dies and lubricants allow performance and synergy across different conditions. Tecnovo www.tktgroup.it TKT Group 11 A56 Tecnovo and Koner, manufacturing companies of the TKT Group and specialists in the respective sectors of lubricants and drawing dies, will share stand 11 A56 at wire 2024. In recent years TKT Group has consolidated and expanded its market position, and carried out research and development programmes, with investment in new machinery and technologies and an expansion of the product portfolio. A new automatic press machine with a pressing force of 120 tons was installed at the Koner plant at the end of 2023, to produce hard metal products up to an external diameter of 120mm. Innovations that will be presented at wire 2024 will include “dust free” Tecnovo calcium soaps – the result of years of research, for the steel wire drawing market; and an evolution in the formulation of Tecnovo “green” The company produces

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Since then, Transworld has had contact with several prominent figures in the world of spring production. Among those who have most helped the company is Stuart Pilley, now its managing director. His collaboration has benefited the company, helping to expand the market to an international level with his technical knowledge. His interest and ambition led him to acquire the company in 2023. With continuous collaboration bet- ween the two directors, Mr Barrett and Mr Pilley, the company is focused on tradition in customer care and modernity and technological advance- ment of the machines.

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