WCA September 2015

Industry news

Equipment is still installed

Cable protection The Shanghai water authority has launched a joint campaign with local police to protect fibre optic cables buried in river and sea beds. The water authority has dispatched a 50-strong team of officers, with ships, speed boats and helicopters, to patrol the Yangtze River mouth and East Sea near Chongming Island. The threat to the cables, as also to gas and oil pipelines in the area, is from fishermen’s nets and iron anchors. About 90 per cent of damage last year was caused by fishermen. Shanghai Water Authority – China Website : www.shanghai.gov.cn • Two Skaltek MP-360 coiling lines • 600mm Merritt Davis dual spooler Others include 1.2m Edmands and 760/630mm Lesmo DT bunchers, 1.5m/1.8m MGS rewind line. Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp – USA Website : www.wireandplastic.com WIRE and Plastic Machinery has recently acquired wire and cable manufacturing equipment, which is still installed in the western USA. The equipment is being offered for immediate sale. Highlights include: • Northampton 1.8m (1995) and 1.25m (1994) double twist bunchers • MGS 1.25m double twist buncher (1995) • Syncro FX-13 rod breakdown machine 400HP DC, F annealer, 30" (760mm) dual spooler • CWF rod breakdown 8mm–1.6mm, 13 die, F annealer, Bongard 1,050mm drop coiler (1999) • 560mm (22") Watson 37-wire 6+12+18 rigid strander. AC vector motors and drives • 560mm (22") Watson 61-wire, 6+12+18+24 rigid strander. AC vector motors and drives • Two 4½" (114mm) Davis Standard 24L/D sheathing lines

❍ Northampton 1.8m double twist buncher, made in 1995

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Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2015