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offers faster communications processing. This accurate and reliable gauge now offers Ethernet and USB connectivity. BenchMike is an off-line diameter and ovality measurement system, with over 15,000 gauges installed worldwide. The Beta LaserMike team will also be exhibiting the latest version of its InControl process controller and data management system. Easy to set up, simple to configure and effortless to use, InControl gives cable makers precise and efficient control of production processes to drive quality manufacturing. An optional OPC UA server module offers flexible, central control. BetaLaserMike (an NDC Technologies brand) – USA Website: www.betalasermike.com Blachford Corporation Stand: 09E02 Blachford Corporation is a wire lubricant and speciality chemical supplier, based in the USA and Canada. Since the 1950s, Blachford has supplied the global wire drawing industry and many of the world’s largest wire drawing companies with meticulously researched and innovative wire drawing lubricant programmes tailored to the exacting technical specifications of individual wire drawing processes. In 2011 Blachford Corporation developed and introduced a technical advancement with its low-dust dry wire drawing lubricants. The first generation of these low-dust lubricants were sodium-based formulations

that were designed to be more cohesive and adherent to the wire than standard products.

S S Blachford has supplied the global wire drawing industry with innovative wire drawing lubricant programmes

Low-dust lubricants are less likely to produce nuisance dust when exiting the die (feathering) or when cooled on the wire and bent around a capstan prior to the next die box, improving housekeeping both on the machine, and in the facility. Blachford’s low-dust lubricants have enabled many of its customers to realise very significant benefits including lower observable dust creation, lower lubricant consumption, longer die life and higher drawing speeds. After the successful implementation of its low-dust sodium lubricants, Blachfordbegan working to develop low-dust lubricants that were calcium based. In 2016 it introduced its newest innovation – low-dust calcium lubricants. These new beaded low dust calcium lubricants are designed to reduce dust generation during handling and use through greater wire adherence and lubricant cohesion, compared to standard wire drawing lubricant powders.

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