wiredInUSA March 2019

Pilot’s protection Trelleborg has supplied a range of cable protection solutions to the Kincardine offshore wind farm. The company manufactured and delivered distributed buoyancy modules (DBM), bend stiffeners andUraduct ® cableand flow lineprotection to the Scottish pilot project. Daniel Bate, renewables sales manager within Trelleborg’s applied technologies operation, said: “The region’s desire to enhance and accelerate the development of renewable energy is helping propel innovation and project successes that can be used on future renewable projects. This is an exciting time for the renewables industry, as we see the worldwide demand for renewable energy growing and supporting competitive clean power.” Once completed, Kincardine will use seven floating turbines and have an installed capacity of 50MW. Subsea cables are used in floating production environments to inter-connect the floating structures and to run between the substation and the shore. Trelleborg’s DBMs and bend limitation products are designed to secure, guide and protect the power cables from excessive movement or bending that can cause fatigue damage. Chipboard fixing GebuVolco has introduced a new chipboard screw, SilverMate. SilverMate

is an extra strong chipboard screw with a specially developed tip.

The SilverMate has the CE approval mark and is packed in a sturdy professional box with a viewing window and easy access tray. Improved milling ribs ensure a perfect damage-free finish. An extremely sharp point, combined with the improved thread, ensures rapid engagement in the wood with a minimal splitting risk. The SilverMate is believed to be the strongest chipboard screw in its class, making it suitable for mounting into almost any type of wood. Sophisticated shaft ribs on the partial thread version and a superior wax also ensure minimal turn-in-resistance. A balanced range of chipboard screws, also available in a chromium-6 free galvanized version, offers wide coverage of all needs. By using only three Pozi- and three Torx ® versions across the range, bit changes will be less frequent. The advantages of the SilverMate screw are said to include minimal risk of head twisting; minimum turn-in-resistance, due to the use of superior wax; particularly fast engagement, almost immediately from the first rotation of the drill with minimum starting pressure; low risk of splitting, due to the four special milling ribs at the tip of the screw; and special shaft ribs that give extra space to the screw head when it penetrates the wood, further reducing the chance of splitting.

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wiredInUSA - March 2019