WCA November 2020

Industry news

New sales companies and expansion in South Africa

benefits manufacturers of bar-wound motors, enamelled wires, superfine wires, LAN cables, wiring harnesses, railway wires, shaped, contact wires, CTC and transformer strips. Equipment is available for the production of 1,000 to 12,000 mt per year for products from 8 to 30mm in diameter. Sample coils can be manufactured to order and produced on the continuous casting equipment installed at the Rautomead facility in Dundee, UK. Rautomead Ltd www.rautomead.com UltraScan Pro ultrasonic wall and concentricity gauge, TempTrac Pro preheat temperature measurement system, BenchMike Pro off-line sample inspection system and DataPro/InControl process controllers. NDC Technologies Inc www.ndc.com NDC Technologies Inc Stand: 11 D68 NDC Technologies will exhibit its complete line of intelligent, connected measurement and control solutions from the Beta LaserMike Products range at wire 2020. Visitors will get a first-hand view of a complete end-to-end measurement system solution – from the extruder through to the puller – for producing higher quality products, increasing productivity and realising production savings. Among these is LayScan, a solution for accurately and consistently measuring the lay length of twisted pairs at the cabler. LayScan Pro enables cable makers to precisely monitor and control the lay length as twisted pairs are being made inside the bow of a twinning machine. NDC’s new AccuScan Pro gauge provides 100 per cent on-line inspection of multi-strand wire. The system accurately measures the diameter of multiple wires simul- taneously and instantly detects any missing and broken strands. Other measurement solutions include the AccuScan family of two- and four-axis diameter and ovality gauges, LN3000 Series lump and neckdown detector, CenterScan eccentricity gauge,

Rautomead Ltd At wire 2020 Rautomead will be presenting its new model RS 3000SX continuous casting machine for the manufacture of extra-low oxygen content CuOF rod. The company’s standard graphite furnace technology will produce low oxygen CuOFE (<5ppm) copper rod, which is suitable for most oxygen-free wire applications. Technical requirements from the automotive industry are driving demands for lower oxygen content copper rod, eg for use in the manufacture of high-efficiency bar- wound electric motors. The enhanced graphite crucible electric resistance Lapp is continuing the strategic expan- sion of its sales network. The demand for connection solutions from Lapp is constantly growing: in some regions of Africa, the company was able to achieve up to 50 per cent turnover growth in the last financial year. The demand is particularly high for automation, the food industry and the energy sector with the expansion of power grids and the use of renewable energies such as wind and solar energy. It is predicted that the African market will be among the world’s fastest growing in just a few years. With its 54 countries, a wealth of raw materials deposits and around 1.3bn inhabit- ants, Africa offers great potential. In some countries, growth rates (GDP) of between six and ten per cent were achieved in 2018. “For us, Africa is a sleeping giant,” said Andreas Lapp, chairman of the board of Lapp Holding AG. “We see great opportunities for growth in the long term.” German companies are still under- represented in Africa, especially small and medium-sized companies. For this reason, Lapp views the African Continental Free Trade Agreement establishing an African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) positively. The agreement was signed by 52 African member states and is intended to create predictable framework conditions for trade and investment by German companies.

furnace design of the RS 3000SX, combined with modified tooling and production techniques, improves the oxygen reduction capability of the graphite technology system to produce extra-low oxygen content copper rod. Rautomead will also be promoting its RSL sealed lid continuous casting technology, designed for processing progressive alloy rods such as copper chrome zirconium, together with its conventional open-furnace models for producing high-purity, oxygen-free copper wire rods and conductor alloy rods such as CuMg, CuAg and CuSn. This continuous cast rod material Last year, the Collège Andreas Lapp was opened in Galebre, Ivory Coast. The initiative for establishing the school first came from Lapp employee Désiré Kope, who works in the company’s logistics and service centre in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Mr Kope had saved for many years to set up a school in his home in Ivory Coast. With additional financial support from Andreas Lapp, his dream has become a reality. U.I. Lapp GmbH www.lappkabel.com Lapp has had its own subsidiary in South Africa since 2010, which is used as a base to serve seven countries in southern Africa. Lapp Southern Africa has moved to a new location in Johannesburg. With 2,700m 2 of storage space, it is four times the size of the old location. A separate sales company will also be opened in West Africa, and in the near future Lapp will expand in East Africa. ❍ ❍ The Lapp Southern Africa premises in Johannesburg, South Africa

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