EuroWire September 2018

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Anniversary time for Setic

▲ ▲ The Setic team celebrating the 70 th anniversary

Northcomm Technologies, located in Plano, Texas, USA, designs, develops and implements land mobile radio equipment. It is dedicated to providing customised solutions for mission critical radio communication needs. The company launched in 2014 in a small New York City apartment. In that time, it has grown from a small-sized hobby business to a national provider of top tier radio communication products and solutions. The company’s customer base currently includes branches of the US Federal Government, Motorola, and countless state and local entities. of Northcomm Technologies Group focuses on the manufacture of multi-conductor low voltage interconnects for land mobile The wire processing element IT is celebration time for French company Setic, manufacturer of rotating equipment for the wire and cable industry. The company, founded in Roane, France, in 1948 is now celebrating its 70 th anniversary – and is part of the Gauder Group companies purchased by Sampsistemi. Setic’s early and constant vision for technological and advanced solutions has been a trademark over the past 70 years, resulting in its current position in today’s rotating machinery market. It was only in the early 1960s that

about 10 per cent. Before automating with Schleuniger products, it would not be uncommon to waste and discard one in every 15 wire harnesses along some point in quality control. Additionally, the S.ON user interface in the Ecostrip 9380 allows Northcomm to save wire types and profiles for its catalogue products. It has the ability to load the material, run the product and rapidly move to final assembly. This precision and repeatability is key to its success. Schleuniger products have not only become useful to Northcomm, but have become integral to its overall processing system. Schleuniger Inc – USA Website : www.schleuniger.com Built on a strong foundation, Setic continues advancing with investment in its facility and in technological development, and has a worldwide presence through various locations. Setic – France Website : www.pourtier-setic.com Today, Setic designs, manufactures and supports equipment for the production of high end data and speciality cables, from twinning to stranding operations. Setic’s engineers constantly improve and develop equipment for the next generation of cable manufacturing processes.

radio infrastructure products. The wire harness assemblies add value to mission critical network providers as they no longer have to create unique or low volume harnesses in-house. Customers have easy access to interconnect and wire products that are typically made to order. Some of its applications include police and fire repeater stations, radio subscriber interconnect products, and OEM cable harness assemblies for land mobile radiomanufacturers. Shortly after purchasing the EcoStrip 9380, Prefeeder 2200 and Unistrip 2300, Northcomm Technologies successfully reduced its cable production process time by 77 per cent. However, time was only one aspect of the savings. Northcomm also reduced waste of cable and wire by communication telephony saw a great expansion, resulting in new demand for communication cables. Setic saw this and used its expertise from textile rotating machinery to create the first Setic rotating machine for communication cable. Late in the 1990s came a new international technological challenge for the production of Cat cable. Once again Setic had the vision, designing equipment for the production of such cable. This encouraged the company to move to a new facility for increased production, the creation of a new R&D department and enhanced sales force.

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