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meet mass-market demand. The company plans to begin production in early 2014.

Automatic wire twister

Eraser's new WT300 automatic bench wire twister can twist two or more wires up to 20 feet in length. This durable twister is made for high production to achieve a repeatable number of twists per inch on a bundle of wire up to the equivalent of two 16 AWG uninsulated wires.

Dr Serdar Atamert, founder and CEO of Epoch Wires Inc, explained: "Working with magnesium diboride as our base material guarantees low production and operating costs, however the main challenge we met was to make an infinitely long wire from this material in a high speed production line." He added: "We have overcome the conventional barriers of superconductivity in large-scale energy applications." One of the immediate applications of the new Epoch Wire is in MRI machines. ManufacturersofMRImachinesare troubled by the increasing costs of superconducting wires. In addition, operational costs of MRI machines are increasing due to the shortage and hence the upward trending price of liquid helium, which is used as the coolant. Magnesium diboride wire, cooled with cheap liquid hydrogen, could yield huge benefits for the medical industry. Prof Bartek A Glowacki, co-founder and director of Epoch Wires, said: "Magnesium diboride wire presents a unique opportunity for energy applications, especially in conjunction with the emerging hydrogen economy both as a coolant and as an energyvector,"adding: "Lowmanufacturing and operational costs are a typical blue print for revolutionizing the energy sector."

The WT300 has a reversible motor that enables it to twist, or untwist, in either direction, with a variable speed control that can be adjusted to perform from 0 to 26 turns per second. The WT300 is supplied with one wire entry guide and a set of steel clamp jaws that enable it to firmly grip magnet wire, very fine, and slippery wires.

XLPE-insulated motor cable

Helukabel ® has extended its Topflex ® product line with the introduction of Topflex 620 VFD. This flexible-PVC, XLPE-insulated power cable is designed for applications with high voltage spikes and long cable runs.

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