WCA MAY 2015

Technology news

Embracing wide range of machines

❍ Sket has been manufacturing and supplying drum twisters for more than 50 years

Sket has been manufacturing and supplying drum twisters – a relatively recent machine addition – for over 50 years. The machines are tailored to the product specific requirements of the user. Right from the planning stage the requirement priorities of the customer are taken on board and solutions are proposed which, after acceptance by the user, are developed through to fruition. The equipment is in consequence tailored to the specific needs of the end product resulting in a machine design which meets with all technical and technological require- ments. As with other systems, this machine system also follows the trend towards the development of ever-bigger diameters and cable lengths. Pay-off and take-up bobbin diameters are typically in the range 1,000 to 5,000mm. The throughput weights can be more than 50 tonnes. In this way the tendency in the cable industry for ever-longer production lengths is taken into account and the suitability of the drum twister for the manufacture of offshore energy cables is facilitated. Sket Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH – Germany Website : www.sketvmb.de

SKET Verseilmaschinenbau’s products embrace a wide range of machines and equipment for the manufacture of electric cable and steel wire rope. In addition to high-speed tubular stranding machines, cage-type stranding machines and central stranders, and drum twisters for the cable industry are also included. In German, drum twisters are referred to as universal stranding machines and this is a much better description of the role for these machines – all-purpose machines which can be used universally. Drum twisters are usually to be found wherever cable is produced. More specifically, the main areas of application for these machines are to be found in: • the manufacture/production of energy cables out of round or sector shaped conductors (aluminium or copper) • the manufacture/production of telephone cables, control cables and special cable • the screening of medium and high voltage cables • the armouring of energy cables with round or flat steel wires • the production of Milliken conductors for high voltage and super high voltage cables • the manufacture of offshore energy cables

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