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• Convection

Bell-type

annealing

copper silver, copper magnesium, copper tin), 1,000 to 10,000 tpa.

furnaces • 100 per cent hydrogen protective atmosphere • Spheroidise annealing (SA) of hot- rolled wire rod • Quality surface, clean and decarb-free

The graphite furnace technology produces high-quality CuOF 8mm diameter wire rod, which benefits manufacturers of enamelled wire, LAN cables and fine wires. The upward casting equipment may be used to manufacture rods of all diameters between 8mm and 30mm, and is suitable feedstock for wire drawing, as well as continuous rotary extrusion processes.

Anneal furnace for annealing of drawn wires in batch:

• Low and medium carbon steel wires • Copper and copper alloy wires • Aluminium cable on reels

S S The RSL 1400 model sealed lid upwards vertical continuous casting machine

End-use applications include superfine wire, automotive wires, contact wire and trolley wires for high-speed trains, data communication cables, CTC and transformer strips and enamelled wires. Rautomead chairman Sir Michael Nairn will be presenting a paper at the Global Continuous Casting Forum, which runs alongside the Interwire exhibition. The paper will highlight Rautomead’s recent R&D activities with respect to the casting capability for new high-performance alloys. This R&D work led to the development of a new sealed-lid design of casting machine used to process copper chrome

S S Rad-Con furnaces at work

Rad-Con Inc – USA Website: www.rad-con.com

Rautomead Booth: 432

Continuous casting technology specialist Rautomead’s graphite furnace technology is suited to production of high-purity oxygen-free copper wire rods and copper conductor alloy wire rods (eg

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