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equipment has handled over the past two years.

rewinding, drum packing, and packaging machinery for wire handling machinery.

The machinery used has been both the TRS wet drawbenches (spray type, not immersed) as well as the TRD dry drawbenches (with both vertically and horizontally mounted capstans). All these drawbenches are non-slip with individual motors for each capstan, dancer arms to finely tune the speed of each capstan, liquid-cooled capstan and die boxes, rotating standard or pressure dies, and both wire diameter and individual die wear control in real time, as well as a host of other options, from skin pass blocks to double decks to different types of take-up (single block driven coilers, reel take-up, static drum or stem coilers, etc). The high productivity of these lines does not depend solely on the line speed (which can even be in excess of 6,000 feet/minute or 30 meters/second) but also on the reduced maintenance costs, ease when threading wire through machines, accessibility to all components, etc. The design of the units is such that a Gimax drawbench will adapt easily to both ferrous and non-ferrous wires. Machinery for the ferrous and non-ferrous wire industry includes descaling, pickling, dry drawing and wet drawing benches, chemical coppering tanks, and shaving and peeling lines for wire processing machinery; and respooling, coiling and

Gimax Group Srl – Italy Website: www.gimaxgroup.com

Häfner & Krullmann Booth 570

S S Häfner’s KCS spools have proven themselves on the market for many years

One of Europe’s largest manufacturers of plastic spool drums, Häfner & Krullmann will be displaying its new utility spools at Interwire, allowing users to store, transport and save space at the same time. These new spools fit exactly onto a Euro pallet and save space and money. They are made of high quality materials, which use resources sparingly. Häfner is well known in the USAas producer of spools and reels for bare wires and welding wires and for automatic winding.

Häfner & Krullmann – Germany Website: www.hafner-spools.com

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