WiredInUSA March 2016

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Maintaining tape standards

thick, black tapes. The systems ensure that the same quality standards as demanded for cable insulation are used during the production of tapes.

Sikora will be showcasing its Purity Concept systems at wire 2016 in Düsseldorf, Germany, next month. The systems are equipped with X-ray technology (X), infrared technology (IR) or optical sensors (V) for sample testing during production to identify impurities from 50μm.

Fire safety cables

UAE-based Middle East Specialized Cables (MESC) took advantage of Bahrain’s Gulf Industry Fair to showcase cable solutions designed and manufactured to international standards. The company is looking to reinforce its position in the Bahrain market. MESC’s area sales manager, K V Ramaseshan, said: “MESC is well known in the oil and gas sector, but it has now diversified…into thepower andconstruction businesses since it has a large capacity to produce the required cables and a wider approval.” MESC’s own fire performance laboratory conducts rigorous and comprehensive validation of a cable’s resistance to fire and propagation in accordance with various international standards. MESC’s cables are already in use in some major projects in its local market. The company is supplying over $816,782 worth of its armored flexible, single-core and cat 6 data cables to the Sustainable City project in Dubai. Elsewhere in Dubai, 200kmof special flexible and low-smoke halogen-free cables have been supplied to Mohammad bin Rashid City, and its special rubber flexible cable,

S S The Purity Concept system from Sikora

Films and tapes for the insulation of joints in high voltage cable are produced by using the same XLPE2 material used for the insulation of the cable. The Purity Concept systems with optical sensors are suitable for the inspection and analysis of thin, transparent films and tapes; the systems with X-ray technology are appropriate for

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