WCA November 2010

Technology news

All-rounder for the wire processing sector

Wafios has supplemented the FMU line of wire bending and forming centres with the new FMU 0.7. This machine is designed to process spring steel wire according to DIN EN 10 270 in the bottom diameter range between 0.15mm and 0.8mm. Thus the complete FMU line covers a diameter range from 0.15mm to 6.5mm. The FMU 0.7 can process round and profiled wire. For automotive industry applications torsion springs, tension springs with loops (according to DIN 2097) and bent parts can be produced on the FMU 0.7. For the electronic industry, the FMU 0.7 is used for the economical production of spiral-wound filaments made of tungsten wire, for the production of coils made of enamel-insulated copper wire and for bent parts made of copper or aluminium alloys for power distribution systems.

The new FMU 0.7 wire bending centre m m

The flexibility of FMU 0.7 allows for creativity, and a broad range of bent wire parts can very easily be produced, including eyeglass rims, bridges and ear pieces made of titanium-based alloys, body piercing jewellery of silver, gold and titanium alloys and bent parts for the medical industry. For programming the FMU 0.7, the established Wafios Programming System 3 (WPS 3) is installed. Production techniques and processes are the same for the entire machine line so operating personnel have to learn them only once to apply them to all five machine sizes. Identical production and operating processes thus provide high investment security and increase process safety. Wafios AG – Germany Fax : +49 7121 49 12 09 Website : www.wafios.de High-altitude power line for Tibet China’s Xinhua news agency reports that construction has begun of the world’s longest and possibly most difficult electricity transmission and conversion project on the Tibetan Plateau. China calls the project “Heaven Road”. Construction was apparently started simultaneously in Golmud City of Qinghai Province and Lhasa City of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The report said that of the transmission network’s total length of 1,774km, around 565km would run through year-round permafrost areas. The project will provide energy security, especially in winter, and for the TAR’s rapid economic and social development.

Xinhua News – China Website : www.xinhuanet.com

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