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▲ A closing cage type MKVS 8x2700 taken in Sket’s works during final assembly

€11m deal for Sket

progresses, Bridon will carry out related audits on site in Magdeburg and on the premises of selected sub-contractors.

the time the largest take-up in the world, having a capacity of 370 tonnes, as well as two 200 tonne take-ups. In addition to supplying Bridon with these new machines, Sket has further supplied various separate machine assemblies and has renovated and upgraded a number of existing machines. Planning related to this new equipment involved close collaboration between the two contracting companies. All design details related to the most important machine assemblies were agreed in advance before they were put into production. In this way it was possible to take all of the customer’s specific requirements into account along with all technical matters related to the future operation of the machines.

SKET Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH has received an order from Bridon International Ltd for the manufacture and supply of stranding machinery for the production of “high-performance- ropes” having a total value in excess of €11 million. This new equipment will be installed at Bridon’s new site in Newcastle- upon-Tyne. There is already a long standing relationship between the two companies stretching back for over a decade when Sket delivered a tubular stranding machine type SRW 1+45x660 to Bridon in Willington Quay in 2000. An SRW 1+26x610 from the same machine range followed in 2004. Also in 2004, a 40 bobbin tubular stranding machine type SRW 40x22" was supplied to Bridon’s factory in the USA. In 2007, Bridon in Gelsenkirchen in Germany took delivery of what was at

Bridon’s order covers the supply of:

• A tubular stranding machine type SRW 680 having a bobbin diameter of 680mm for the manufacture of steel wire strand above 40mm • A tandem cage stranding machine type MKVS having an advanced configuration for the closing of steel wire ropes having a diameter of up to 250mm The strand capacities of the pay-off bobbins are up to 38 tonnes each. The maximum weight of rope produced will be in excess of 600 tonnes. Sket Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH – Germany

Fax : +49 391 405 5815 Email : info@sketvmb.de Website : www.sketvmb.de

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