WCA November 2015

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Ever-increasing quality ❍ The Supertek glass fibre rewinding station

plastics, rubbers, carbon fibres, medical plastics, membranes, chemical fibres, precious metals and alloys as well as simple steels, coppers and other metals, textiles or chemical products. This also includes a great variety of physical forms, from wires and threads of 5µ diameter or even less to foils, flat bands and profiles. The precision laying and winder servo rotation control allows highest positional accuracy of product handling, while the Supertek electromagnetic dancer control system allows a highly- accurate and consistent tension control claimed to be unbeatable in all

from drawing tower output to all other following processes. Precision tension control and laying geometry, fibre line handling at speeds up to > 3,500m/ min, and all with the absolute minimum on supervision or operator intervention. Optical fibres demand a highly accurate and consistent winding and process tension control. This is covered by the Supertek electromagnetic dancer system. The CMW is also for use where highly accurate, consistent speed control and tension are paramount in re-winding systems or similar processes. All the features apply not only to optical fibres. The digitally controlled traversing spool winder system is also suitable for materials such as

UNAVOIDABLE optical glass fibre twisting caused by spooling processes can result in unacceptable EMR transmission quality degradation. However, increasing optical transmission and laser coherent beam requirements demand ever-increasing transmission quality. Supertek has worked on this problem for some years and can now offer solutions providing very low twist values, in most cases well under 0.5 turns per 2m length, whilst still maintaining the highest standards in winding, laying and tension control. The use of the Supertek Compact Multi-Winder (CMW) full- or semi-automatic system allows all optical fibre requirements to be handled simply and highly accurately

other systems of this type. Supertek GmbH – Germany Website : www.supertek.de

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