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Wire Processing Essentials:
The Index of Processability
of a Wire (IPW), The Physics
of Crimping: Page 138
Wire Harness Business
& Strategy: The Sale
Process, An Introduction:
Page 140
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Overmolded Cable
Assemblies: Page 142
Cable Maker Continues
Research on Magnetic Pulse
Crimping: Page 145
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Table of Contents
November/December 2016 Vol. XLIV, No. 6
Vol. XXXV, No. 6
EMPHASIS: Fiber Optics ...46-60
Serving manufacturers, processors,

distributors and users of wire and cable
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Feature Articles
Cable Market
Recovery
Fiber optic secondary coating line ...57
46 Special Requirements for Low-Smoke,

Halogen-Free, Flame-Retardant Compounds
ne - Wire & Cable Economics column.
Mike Patel - Fiber optics present special demands on cable materials.
48 Extrusion Success in Datacable Industry
Gordon Murray - Small size and ability to yield high-quality insulation.
nical Achievement Awards Class

of 2007
50 Worlds
Highest-Density Optical Fiber
with
Deployable Reliability
Wire & Cable Technology International Technical
Achievement
Awards,

Hiroo Unoura, Masahiko Ito, Keizo Yamaguchi - Single fiber: 114 channels.
Reels for processing
ally to wirehighly
and
cable individuals for major technical
developments
related
54 Addressing
the Critical Handling
Demands
sensitive
materials
...78
of
Optical
Fiber
&
Fiber
Optic
Cables
materials or accessories for making wire and cable.

Jeff Swinchatt, John Dudus - Custom technology optimizes applications.
56 High Quality in Fiber Optic Cables is a Must,

Especially at Ultra-High Speeds
2D, Zero Water Peak Fiber

Dr. Mikko Lahti - Keeping EFL and tube shrinkage under control.
or Low Bend Sensitivity in Access
Networks
58 Meeting Increasing Demands for
ave Peckham/Ron Smith/Jason Pedder/Pete Weimann/Stefan

Jost/Tim Goddard/
Broadcast & AV Applications

Ed Sullivan - Fiber optic technology delivers digital, high-bandwidth
m Hartpence/Jinkee Kim/ Kelvin Bradley/Robert
Lingle, Jr./William Hatton/

and low signal-loss streams for coping with these demands.
Breakdown
id Mazzarese - How optical fibers
with enhanced
68 Reelsbending
Roundup characteristics
plastic reels ...82

WCTI Editorial Staff - State-of-the-art in reels, spools, drums, etc.
ements of Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) technology. IWCS Award Winner
86 New Generation of ETFE for High-Temperature Durable Cable

Phil J. Spencer, Masatosi Abe, Shigeru Aida, Ryoji Watanabe,
Masakazu Ataku, Masahide Yodogawa - Auto applications project.
ace Quality Measurement & Defect Detection

102 Marking & Printing Roundup

Fardeau/Sbastien Gathier - Ongoing development
of whole surface quality

WCTI Editorial Staff - State-of-the-art in marking and printing.
analysis technology for wire, optical fiber and
110 cable.
Spotlight On Payoffs, Take-Ups & Respoolers
Quality marking of
wire & cable ...102
Windpower
Mike McNulty - Beginning and ending of most wire and cable processes.
Columns
- Electrical energy is fundamental to economic

andMarket
social
development
26 Fiber
Growth
to Focus Minds on Location
of
New
Preform
Capacity
Beyond 2017
to wind as a solution.
Philip Radbourne - Wire & Cable Economics
40 WCISA Scholarship Program; WCISA at
wire China 2016 & Wire & Cable India 2016
ality Measurement on
Ring marker ...108
oducts Under Difficult
Conditions42
Whats New @ WCISA
Green Vehicles Research; Automotive/Telecom Alliance;
How Britains
Can Stay
in the
EU; Mostto
Innovative
Country;
st Scheid - In the age of digital picture processing,
it should
be
simple
recognize
Metals That Bond with Many Surfaces
on a wire. But certain boundary conditions haveKonrad Dengler - European
required a totally
new technology.
Perspectives
& CableSpark
Protection
Roundup
tester with
44 Some Illustrative Slip Calculations

Dr. Roger N. Wright - Tips from WireDrawing 101
self-test
of a Wire (IPW),
Suppliersremovable
have
responded to our call for the138state-of-the-art
in
& calibration
The Physics of Crimping
module ...122
J. Ruben Lozano - Wire Processing Essentials column
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technology.
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140 The Sale Process: An Introduction
Loren M. Smith - Wire Harness Business & Strategy column
The first installment of The Lean Side column.
Industry Events, Tech Briefs, Wire Harness &

Cable Connector, Departments on next page...
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...62
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Vol. XXXV, No. 6

...90
Serving manufacturers, processors,

distributors and users of wire and cable
...116
Cable Market
AnnouncementRecovery
of
collaboration between
IWCS & UL to
produce conference
in China ...62
ne - Wire & Cable Economics column.
Industry Events
62 Straight From The Show 65th IWCS Conference
Images and news from IWCS 2016, October 2 to 5, 2016,

at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI, USA.
90 Straight From The Show wire China 2016
News from wire China 2016, September 26 to 29, 2016,

nical Achievement Awards ClassImages
of and
2007
at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Shanghai, China.
Wire & Cable Technology International Technical

Achievement Awards,
116 Straight From The Show Wire & Cable India 2016
Images and
news from Wire & Cablerelated
India 2016, October 5 to 7, 2016,
ally to wire and cable individuals for major technical
developments
at the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Center in Mumbai, India.
materials or accessories for making wire and cable.
Tech Briefs
2D, ZeroAutomated
Water
Peak Fiber
quality
Precise, long-life
100 Innovation of High-Carbon Wire Production Lines
testing ...96
cross head ...98
or Low Bend Sensitivity
in Access
Networks
145 Cable Maker Continues Research
ave Peckham/Ron Smith/Jason Pedder/Pete Weimann/Stefan

Jost/Tim Goddard/
on Magnetic Pulse Crimping
m Hartpence/Jinkee Kim/ Kelvin Bradley/Robert Lingle, Jr./William Hatton/
Cold rolling cassette
Wire Harness & Cable Connector
127
id Mazzarese
- How
with new
internal optical fibers with enhanced bending characteristics
coating ...100
ements of Fiber-to-the-Home
(FTTH) technology.
IWCS
Winner
128 WHCC
News &Award
Info
138 The Index of Processability of a Wire (IPW),
Physics of Crimping
ace Quality Measurement & DefectJ.TheDetection
Ruben Lozano - Wire Processing Essentials column
Fardeau/Sbastien Gathier - Ongoing development

of whole surface quality
140 The Sale Process: An Introduction
analysis technology for wire, optical fiber and cable.
Loren M. Smith - Wire Harness Business & Strategy column
Windpower
142 Everything to Know About Overmolded Cable Assemblies

Brian Morissette - Injection molding has provided better functionality.
145 Cable Maker Continues Research

- Electrical energy is fundamental to economic
and
social
development
on
Magnetic
Pulse
Crimping
An
alternative
to
mechanical
crimping and ultrasonic welding.
to wind as a solution.
146 WHCC Products
ality Measurement on
Departments
oducts Under Difficult Conditions8 Editorial
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124
148
150
151
Showcase: Materials
Showcase: Machinery
Advertisers Index
Classied Advertising
Editorial Index
st Scheid - In the age of digital picture processing, it should be simple to recognize

on a wire. But certain boundary conditions have required a totally new technology.

section: News, technology and
& Cable Protection
Roundup
products for wire
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end
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Todays Smaller Cables
Require Automated
Processing: Page 162
Disruptive PIM Solution for
Data Connections: Page 164
Hot Crimping of Copper
Wiring: Page 166
High Heat Tolerance Magnet
Wire & Insulation: Page 168
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Cables 2017 Preview
WHMA 2017 Conference Preview
Welding & Pointing Emphasis
Quality, Process & Tension Control Roundup
Spotlight on Extrusion Machinery & Tooling
Editorial deadline: January 9, 2017
Ad closing: January 13, 2017
Production finished: January 20, 2017
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Company Profiles
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Magnet Wire Emphasis
Guides/Pulleys/Sheaves/Traverses Roundup
Fiber Optics: Machines & Materials Roundup
Spotlight on Wipes
Editorial deadline: June 19, 2017
Ad closing: June 23, 2017
Production finished: June 30, 2017
Mail & Internet posting: July 7, 2017
March/April 2017
Interwire 2017 Preview
UL and IWCS China 2017 Cable & Connectivity
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Wire & Cable Expo China 2017 Preview
Rod Production Emphasis
Conductors Roundup
Drawing Machines & Dies Roundup
Spotlight on Bows
Editorial deadline: March 6, 2017
Ad closing: March 10, 2017
Production finished: March 17, 2017
Mail & Internet posting: March 24, 2017
2017 IWCS Conference Preview
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Straight From The Show

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As another year comes to a

close, we are looking forward
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will be lled with technology
and news related to making,
processing and using all types
of wire, cable and wire harnesses. Our editorial plans and
trade show coverage for 2017
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Polymers Emphasis
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College Costs
I am often amused, irritated and slightly fearful about the ongoing talk of free college tuition and expanded student loan amnesty
programs. Last summer, I dropped my kids o at college, and I can
tell you that attending and operating one is anything but free and not
a reection of functioning in a real market economy. No matter where
you look, money is seeping into and out of these places, from the expansive building infrastructure to the armies of deans, administrators
and advisors to upscale food, entertainment, tness and counseling
options. The college cost
bubble is growing like crazy thanks to government
manipulation as well as a
culture that has elevated
the pampered university
experience as a utopian
right for every 18-22 year
old, regardless of skills,
interests or nances.
College is now immune to natural market
forces, and massive government involvement has
produced a long list of
unintended consequences
including unimaginable
amounts of wasted money
and time, depressed values
of undergraduate degrees,
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too many colleges and universities, shortages of workers in noncollege professions, bloated enrollments at graduate schools and
social nonsense terms like trigger warnings, campus safe spaces and
pronoun guidelines. The new proposals of free tuition and expanded
student loan relief will only be accomplished by unconstitutional
government-enforced plunder waged on all employed taxpayers.
The accompanying chart shows what happens when natural
market forces are inuenced by government intervention and manipulation. Is anyone surprised to see that health care and child care
costs are also way out of whack?
Four Words
What can I say about the USA Presidential election that has not
already been said? I could go on a rant about the result being an epic
rebuttal of elitism and identity politics or how uninhibited governments always lead to tyranny and corruption or I can make the case
that the vast majority of the population doesnt even understand the
US Constitution, but instead I will present four words:
Service: all federal government leaders and workers are to carry
out their dened and limited duties to serve others, not themselves.
This is the same dynamic applies to strong businesses, communities,
neighborhoods, sports teams and families.
Solidarity: we are all in this together, so along with natural rights,
everyone has duties including working, paying taxes, following laws,
living within ones means and helping those in need, as they are able,
and not passing these duties onto others.
Subsidiarity: the organizing principle that matters ought to be
handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. Problem solving should start with the individual, and when
needed, it should progress to the next logical levels: family, friends,
neighbors, religious organizations, charities, volunteer associations,
cities, states, etc. In other words,
the central authority (government)
should have a subsidiary function
and only perform the tasks that
cant be accomplished at the next
immediate levels.
Humility: the mother of all virtues. Not too common today, but an
eective antidote to most problems.
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WIRE & CABLE EVENTS

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Wire & Cable Vietnam 2016
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February 27, 2017 March 1, 2017
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3rd Advanced Cable Middle
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Dubai
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INDUSTRY NEWS
James Monroe
Sponsors 4th Annual
Play Fore Playmakers
It was with great honor that James

Monroe Wire & Cable Corporation,
Lancaster, MA, USA, sponsored the
fourth annual Play Fore Playmakers
Charity golf tournament on July 18,
2016, at Sterling National Country
Club, located in Sterling, MA, USA.
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Myth or Must? Page 154
Vol. XLIV, No. 5
Women in Wire: Part of Cable

Making Dream Team
Page 156
Use of Cables on Aircraft:
Page 158
Todays Smaller Cables
Require Automated
Processing: Page 162
Disruptive PIM Solution for
Data Connections: Page 164
Hot Crimping of Copper
Wiring: Page 166
High Heat Tolerance Magnet
Wire & Insulation: Page 168
Wire & Cable Technology International: 2017 Editorial Plan

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Cables 2017 Preview
WHMA 2017 Conference Preview
Welding & Pointing Emphasis
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Ad closing: January 13, 2017
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Company Profiles
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Magnet Wire Emphasis
Guides/Pulleys/Sheaves/Traverses Roundup
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Production finished: June 30, 2017
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March/April 2017
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UL and IWCS China 2017 Cable & Connectivity
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Conductors Roundup
Drawing Machines & Dies Roundup
Spotlight on Bows
Editorial deadline: March 6, 2017
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Production finished: March 17, 2017
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2017 IWCS Conference Preview
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James Monroe has supported the tournament in the past and this was the first
year that the company was the major
sponsor. James Monroe is a leader in
the wire and cable industry producing
custom wire and cable products to a
wide range of markets worldwide.
The annual tournament has always
been a great success, and this year was
no different, raising US$33,800 for the
Life is Good Kids Foundation (formerly known as the Life is good Playmakers Organization). This money was
raised from golf registrations, donations,
a live auction and hole and corporate
sponsorships. In addition, monies were
raised and prizes were awarded out on
the course with a professional long ball
hitter from Charity Golf International
(CGI) who would hit for each foursome
on a par 5 and an air cannon that could
be used to shoot your golf ball up to
250 yards for closest to the pin prizes.
Boston Red Sox legend, Luis Tiant,
was also on-hand to play a round of golf
with three winning bidders from an online auction held prior to the tournament.
On August 11, 2016, David Fisher,
President of James Monroe, with Jay
and Penny Munsey, Tournament Directors, presented a check in the amount
of US$33,800 to the Life is Good Kids
Foundation at its headquarters in Boston
MA, USA.
It is an honor that in our first year
of sponsoring the tournament that it had
generated the biggest return for The Life
is Good Kids Foundation to date, said
Fisher. We all at James Monroe look
forward to sponsoring and supporting
the efforts of the Life is Good Kids
Foundation next year.
The fifth Annual Play fore Playmakers Charity Golf tournament to benefit
the Life is Good Kids Foundation will
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specifications that define the requirements for Class 120 polyvinyl acetal
film insulated wire constructions. Also,
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convenient way of testing than making
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third party test laboratories given during
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Neuman, age 66, died on Wednesday,
August 24, 2016, after a lengthy illness.
Ron became a successful engineer, manager and business owner,
developing an expertise
in specialized extrusion
tooling for industrial applications. His career in the
wire and cable industry
spanned decades, including more than 15 years at
Laribee Wire, where he was responsible
for all phases of the companys operations.
He was a Co-Founder and Sales Manager
of the Gema Engineering Company,
which began in 1995 and after its acquistion by Canterbury Engineering in 2002,
he served as Sales Manager until he
joined JoeTools in 2009. Born in Detroit,
MI, USA, Ron grew up in Fort Lauderdale,
FL, USA, and graduated from the University of Texas (UTEP). He was a member
of the Armed Forces, and served in the
Vietnam War where he was wounded and
awarded a Purple Heart. He is survived by
his wife of 48 years, Mary Sue Groover;
a son, John; a daughter, Kimberly Neuman Salamone; a brother, Don; a sister,
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grandchildren.
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on China Conference
Shrewsbury, PA, USA-based IWCS

Inc., producer of the International
Cable & Connectivity Symposium, and
UL, a global independent safety science
company, have collaborated to establish
a regional Asian conference in Shanghai, China. The UL and IWCS China
2017 Cable & Connectivity Symposium
is the regions leading forum for the
exchange of information on technical innovations and solutions in the industry.
Based on the IWCS educational symposium format, the China symposium
will be held April 25 to 27, 2017, at
the Marriott Shanghai City Centre,
Shanghai, China.
We were pleased to be asked by UL,
a prominent and respected global organization, to oer this additional regional
conference in China, commented Robert Wessels, Jr. of CommScope, Inc.
and Chairman of IWCS. This is our 65th
year of the global symposium conducted
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in the United States and we are now

looking forward to presenting topics to
a broader audience in Asia, particularly
to those who cannot travel here.
The IWCS Symposium has been the
leading worldwide conference for peer
reviewed papers and presentations on
technologies and trends in cable and
connectivity for the communications,
data, electronics, power, industrial,
automotive and aerospace industries.
L.F. Lai, VP and General Manager

of ULs Wire and Cable division, stated,
The IWCS Connectivity Symposium is
an internationally reputable conference
for the wire and cable industry with a
well-established history.
Reliable and higher speed connectivity is an increasing need, which is
being fullled by the fast development
of emerging technologies from global
industry players.
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wire and cable connectivity with the
strongest need for acquiring the knowledge of latest innovations, it is logical
to establish this regional event in China
as the premier venue to learn of new
technologies in cable and connectivity
materials, products, processes and applications. Lai continued. IWCS is
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The Wire Association International
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crowd of 190 participants, October 18 to
20, 2016. It is the third such conference
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WAI held at the Crowne Plaza hotel in

Monterrey, following the similar interest
in its 2008 and 2010 events there.

This internationally recognized educational forum comprised 20 technical
presentations, 42 exhibiting companies
and a plant tour of the new KIA automotive factory where tour-goers saw the
companys stamping, welding, painting,
assembly and quality-assurance processes. Sergio Valds Ramrez, Viakable,
and Cesar Estrada, Asociacin Nacional de Transformadores de Acero AC
(ANTAAC), were featured speakers.
Remarking on the event, WAIs 2016
President, Andy Talbot, said, The
Monterrey ITC had many high points
several outstanding technical papers
were presented, and every speaker and
presentation was informative and relevant. The KIA plant tour was one of
many highlights of this event, as was
the enthusiastic participation of all of
the exhibitors and attendees.
WAI Past President, Antonio Ayala,
and three-time planning volunteer, said,
ITC was characterized by the high
quality of its speakers and papers, its
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the participants. The KIA plant visit was
a success. Everything went great.
The event was created with the cooperation of the ANTAAC, the Monterrey Convention and Visitors Bureau
(OCVMTY) and with the assistance
from the following conference planning
volunteers: Patricio G. Murga, Viakable; Eduardo Anaya, Indepa SC; and
Antonio Ayala, AA Enterprise.
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WCISA 2016 High School Scholarship Winners:

Amanda Accorsi, daughter of
John Accorsi of T&T Marketing,
Inc. US$1000
Brooke Arruda, daughter of Raymond Arruda of Davis Standard
US$500
Jessica Connor, daughter of Gerald Connor of Davis Standard
US$500
Lauren Klei, daughter of Herbert
Klei of Chase Corp. US$500
Brooke Norman, daughter of SuWCISA Scholarships
san Norman of Davis Standard
The Wire and Cable Industry
US$500
Suppliers Association (WCISA),
Brenna Foster Richards, daughter
Akron, OH, USA, had a large number
of David Richards of RichardsAof scholarship applications and requests
pex, Inc. US$500
this year. The competition was strong

Kimberly Thomson, daughter of
enough that the WCISA Board of DirecRobert Thomson of Davis Stantors decided to award multiple annual
dard
US$500
scholarships in 2016 as well as a contriWCISA 2016 Employee & Intern
bution to a special scholarship for a wire
and cable industry scholarship program Scholarship Winner:
organized by the IWCS.
Joshua Worstell, Intern at Die
Quip Corp. US$3500

WCISA 2016 Special Scholarship:

US$3000 contribution to the IWCS
Wire & Cable Industry Student
Scholarship Fund at Renssalaer
Polytechnic Institute; 2016 winners: Patrick Aselin, Zev Beigel,
Andrew Ehlers, Steven Lee
The awards for each scholarship are

to be used towards education expenses.
The winners were selected by WCISAs
Board of Directors, which reviewed all
applications.
WCISA offers three types of scholarships, as follows: WCISA High
School Graduate Scholarship; WCISA
Employee & Intern Scholarship; and
WCISA Scholarship for extraordinary
circumstances, awarded on a case-bycase basis.
WCISA is a nonprofit corporate
membership organization of North
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IWCS Announces 2016

Scholarship Recipients
IWCS, International Cable & Connectivity Symposium, the premier venue

for new technologies in cable and connectivity products, processes and applications, has annpounced the 2016 IWCS
scholarship recipients. This scholarship
program includes the John T. Barteld/
IWCS Scholarship Endowments and
the Christopher Kenneth Eoll Memorial
Endowment as well as six additional
annual student scholarships. Support for
the scholarship program has come from

several cable and connectivity organizations for many years. These awards are
open to deserving juniors, seniors and
graduate university students.
IWCS supports higher education
in disciplines important to our industry, stated David Kiddoo, CEO at the
IWCS conference awards ceremony in
Providence, RI, USA.
The programs at De Montfort University (UK), University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of North
Carolina Charlotte and Renssalaer
Polytechnic Institute provide excellent
academic programs for students interested in the skills necessary to advance the
technologies of cable and connectivity.
Our ultimate goal, continued Kiddoo, is to encourage a strong succession of new engineers and technicians
wanting to join our cable and connectivity industry.
A total of US$27,000 was awarded
for the 2016/2017 Academic Year and
includes greatly appreciated contributions from our partners in this vitally

important program to benet the growth
of the industry. With strong continuous
commitment from Charles Glew over
several years, Cable Components
Group not only supports contributions
to the existing scholarship funds, but
provides additional scholarships, internships and employment to outstanding
students and graduates.
Sponsoring these students is a very
important element in the growth of our
industry, said Glew. And I find it
personally satisfying to encourage these
talented individuals.
The Wire & Cable Industry Suppliers Association (WCISA ) and
the Wire Association International
(WAI) are long-time sponsors of these
scholarships. WCISA also awards multiple scholarships every year. These are
to graduating high school seniors as
well as to employees/interns of WCISA
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in programs furthering their education
within the industry.
The Wire and Cable Industry Student
Scholarship Fund, introduced last year,
is jointly sponsored by WCISA, Cable
Components Group and the International Cable & Connectivity Symposium.
Scholarship funds were also provided
through the Christopher Kenneth Eoll
Memorial Endowment.
The 2016 university scholarship
recipients were recognized at IWCS
2016 in October 2016. Attending this
conference gives the scholarship recipients a unique opportunity to gain insight
from and network with top engineers,
researchers and executives from the
cabling and connectivity industry.
De Montfort University scholarships
went to Florence Akinnouye, PhD
Candidate; Beier Li, PhD Candidate;
and Edwin Arihilam, PhD Candidate.
University of Massachusetts scholarships went to Ms. TienVan Tessa
Le, Senior, BS Plastics Engineering and
Zhiyu Frank Xia, PhD Candidate
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RPI, encourage students to network with industry leaders at IWCS reception.
in Plastics Engineering. Two previous

IWCS Scholarship recipients at U Mass
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University of North Carolina scholarships, including an annual contribution from The Christopher Kenneth Eoll
Memorial Endowment, were awarded to
Jason Marmon, Masters Candidate in
Electrical Engineering; PhD Candidate
in Nanoscale Science. A second deserving student will be identied for the
second Semester 2016/2017.
At Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute,
the W&C Industry Student Scholarship
Fund, sponsored by Cable Components
Group, WCISA and IWCS was awarded

to Steven Lee, Senior, BS Mechanical
Engineering and Material Science &
Engineering; Patrick Aselin, Junior,
Materials Science and Engineering
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Zev Beigel, Junior, Mechanical Engineering (Wire & Cable Industry Suppliers Association Scholar); and Andrew
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by:
Philip Radbourne, Director
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As ever, demand in the ber optic cable market historically has come through in sharp waves, which can see
the market switch from feast to famine. The industry still
remembers the 2001 telecoms crash, and the market
disruption of preform capacity and technology shifting to
China. But it has become clear that globally, demand for
ber optic cable has shown strong and expanding growth
levels in 2016.
Integer Researchs latest global data service tracks these
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The Chinese market for ber optic cable has continued
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Almost every region globally has shown sustained growth
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been Brazil, where the US$19 billion (the largest in Brazilian history) bankruptcy proceedings of local xed telco, Oi,
hit sentiment and demand in the telecom sector. It directly
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power cables used to power the various telecom systems.
Elsewhere globally, a combination of demand drivers from
FTTH, mobile data and cloud computing that is driving
data center infrastructure has seen robust demand in
Mexico, ASEAN, the rest of Latin America, North Africa
and the Middle East. There are also mega-projects, with
in-built Wi-Fi that are also consuming large volumes of
ber optic cable. Although still concentrated in North America, hyper-scale data center will likely become a strong
driver of ber optic cable demand worldwide through
2017-2020. Each of these hyper-scale data centers now
consume between US$5 million and US$10 million of
ber optic cable. But they also consume vast amounts
of power, and their siting need to be linked to convenient
electrical grid locations.
Some market participants are even exploring investments
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in West Africa as a location for new a ber optic cable
plant. Corning has expanded its Winston Salem ber
optic cable plant in the USA, and was reported to be mulling a new ber optic cable plant in Mexico in Q3 2016.
Even India, which has shown ts and starts in its growth
rates over the last ve years has shown stronger order
levels, driven by 4G, Smart City, FTTH deployments and
BharaNet, the rural ber optic cable connection program.
But its level of telecom capital expenditure and ber optic
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One demand driver that has emerged globally, beyond
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This has all meant that upstream, because of the shift to
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G.657 single mode optical ber and the range of OM2,
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have emerged. At the moment, the worldwide and optical
preform market is concentrated among a limited number
of producers, such as Corning, Hengtong, YOFC, Furukawa/OFS, Shin-Etsu and Prysmian. The tightening in
optical ber has hit nonintegrated ber optic cable makers
or optical ber producers the most. If we see a further
switch to higher ber counts in a variety of markets, then
perhaps there will be signicant investments in new preform capacity in the developed world for the rst time in
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Great Lakes Solutions, Philadelphia, PA, USA, a business of Chemtura Corporation, has announced the
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These new facilities reinforce Great
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safety, the development of innovative,
new products and customer collaboration and support.
The custom-built facility has been
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but also for synergy between the Great
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and those of Chemturas Petroleum
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who are co-located on the Naugatuck
R&D campus. The applications areas
include not only small scale bench-top
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formulation of new exploratory flame
retardants, but also large-scale extruders
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Thermcraft, Inc., Winston Salem, NC, USA, has introduced Scott

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the USA and Canadian markets. With
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and sales experience in the furnace and
oven industry, Miller can find the thermal processing solution for your needs.
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Thermcraft also introduces Bill
Thomson as its new General Manager.
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foster an environment
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Special steel products from the

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are in demand in the Republic of China

(Taiwan). To give local customers access to the entire product range of their
steelworks and strengthen customer
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has opened a new sales office in Taipei,
Taiwan.
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Customers are Asian companies mainly
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Congressman Joe
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Davis-Standard, Pawcatuck, CT,

USA, welcomed Joe Courtney, U.S.
Congressman for Connecticuts Second
District, on August 19, 2016, at its headquarters in Pawcatuck. Congressman
Courtney and Congressional staff member Taijah Anderson visited the site to
learn more about Davis-Standards technology, economic impact on the region
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and the upcoming expansion of the Pawcatuck facility. Davis-Standards President and CEO, Jim Murphy and other
Davis-Standard leadership provided an
overview and tour of Davis-Standard,
offering insight into the companys impressive global growth, plant specifics
and diverse equipment portfolio.
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operation and it was an honor to tour the
facility in Pawcatuck, said Congressman Courtney. The cleanliness of the
machining floor, advanced manufacturing practices and employee engagement
is really something to behold. Were
very proud of Davis-Standard and the

strong economic boost they continue to
provide to southeastern Connecticut.
Murphy added, We enjoyed Congressman Courtneys visit and appreciate his support of the manufacturing
industry. Last year, Congress enacted an
R&D tax credit this has been beneficial
in helping us further our technological
advancements. We also appreciate the
Congressmans support of the Pawcatuck expansion, which will house manufacturing capabilities for our growing
blown film business.
Davis-Standard is adding 15,000 ft2
of manufacturing space and over 30 jobs
in the next two years to its Pawcatuck
headquarters, which currently employs
over 400 people. The addition, slated for
completion later this fall, will house the
manufacturing and precision machining of advanced multi-layer blown film
dies. It also enables Davis-Standard
to move all blown film manufacturing
for its Gloucester Engineering product
line from Gloucester, MA, USA, to
Pawcatuck.
Davis-Standard has operated in
southeast Connecticut since 1848 and is
one of the oldest and largest employers
in the southeast Connecticut/southwest
Rhode Island region. The expansion of
the Pawcatuck site reinforces the companys commitment to the local region.
Through its long-standing position as a
market leader, it is considered the Center for Excellence for Connecticuts extrusion technology sector. In addition to
the Pawcatuck facility, Davis-Standard
has manufacturing facilities and subsidiaries in the USA, Europe and Asia.
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SMS group to Supply

Wire Rod Mills in China
Chinese Guangdong Guoxin Industrial Co. Ltd. has awarded SMS group
the order to supply the mechanical core
components and the complete electrical
and automation package for a new wire
rod mill complex. The new complex will
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conductor. Like all of its spools, the
Maxi version is supplied step wound
to give a robust product, while maintaining ease of handling. The tape has the
ultimate advantage of being joint free,
offering seemingly endless lengths of
stable mica taped conductor.
Burkhard Dahmen, (left seated), Chairman of the Managing Board of

SMS group GmbH, and Huang Min (right seated), Chairman of
Guangdong Guoxin Industrial Co. Ltd., signing the contract.
be built in the Sino-German Development Zone, Jieyang City, Guangdong

Province, with production scheduled to
commence in 2017.
The works will be designed for an
annual capacity of 1.4 million tons
(700,000 tons per year per mill). The
two one-strand, high-speed mills will
roll wire rod in diameters from 5.5 to 25
mm and rebars in diameters between 6
and 14 mm at 105 mps. The steel grades
to be rolled will comprise cold-heading,
alloyed, spring and stainless steels as
well as tire cord and welding wire.
As core equipment, both wire rod
mills will feature compact cantilever
stands (CL stands) in the intermediate
mill, six and four-stand wire rod blocks
and a loop laying head. The CL stands
will be of identical design and exchangeable with one another. SMS group will
supply their tried-and-tested and reliable
wire rod blocks in six and four-stand
designs. The division into two blocks
means that all final dimensions can
be finish-rolled in a maximum of four
passes. All dimensions can therefore be
rolled thermomechanically, i.e., at low
temperatures and with close dimensional
tolerances.
Besides the mechanical equipment,
the SMS group will also supply the
complete electrical and automation
package, from the roller table at the exit
end of the reheating furnace down to the
coil transfer system, and perform the
commissioning activities. The supply
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scope includes the technological control

systems for the automation, the switchgear, drive system, sensor technology
and HMI system.
To allow an optimized cooling strategy to be conducted for each steel grade,
the CCT model (Controlled Cooling
Technology) developed by SMS group
will be implemented in combination
with an automated control system for
the water-cooling sections.
www.sms-group.com
Cable Tapes Announces

Expansion Plans in UK
Cable Tapes Ltd., Manchester, UK,

market leading supplier of mica tapes to
the cable industry, has announced news
of its expansion plans. With an impressive eight new specifically designed
high-capacity machines, the company
reportedly now has the largest and most
modern installed subcontract taping
capacity in the UK. With the acquisition of the brownfield site conveniently
positioned adjacent to its existing premises, the company will be developing its
distribution operation.
While enhancing and strengthening
manufacturing and delivery capabilities,
Cable Tapes Ltd. continues to lead the
market with its products. The company
said it is proud of its Maxi spools,
which contain over 20,000 m of tape.
These giant spools are a huge leap forward in the production of mica taped
Cable Tapes Ltd. offers a single

source for all cable lapping tapes and
twines. www.cabletapesuk.com
New Management
at Eurolls De Mexico
Eurolls SpA of Italy announced

that on August 1, 2016, it appointed a
new General Manager and Production
Manager at its subsidiary in Monterrey,
Mexico.
The new General
Manager for Eurolls De
Mexico is Alan Tafoya,
while the new Production Manager is Marco
Trevisani. Trevisani has
over 25 years of experience working with the Alan Tafoya
Eurolls Group in Italy.
Eurolls De Mexico
manufactures and regrinds rolls for customers in the tube, wire,
hot mill and continuous
casting sectors for both
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the ferrous and nonferTrevisani
rous markets. The goal
of the company has always been to
provide the North and South American
markets with a local service center
that can conveniently manufactures a
range of critical parts with Italian quality. As Eurolls is looking to expand its
production capabilities in Monterrey,
Eurolls De Mexico is investing in new
equipment, which includes new CNC
lathes, grinders, CNC centers and other
machines.
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As the company would like to aggressively expand its sales presence in
these markets, Eurolls de Mexico is also
searching for sub-agents inside Mexico
and Latin America. If interested, contact
Steven Nichols, who is the Sales Manager for the USA and Canadian markets.
He is based in New Jersey, USA, and has
been working for the Eurolls Group
for more than 20 years. Aside from
handling the sales activity for tooling
in North America, Nichols has recently
been appointed as the Controller for the
Mexican company.
For all tooling and Eurolls Machinery
Division inquiries for Mexico and Latin
America, send email to Alan Tafoya at
atafoya@eurolls.com. www.eurolls.com
ADVARIS Finalizes
Partnership with Maillefer
ADVARIS Informationssysteme
GmbH, Bruchsal, Germany and Maillefer Extrusion Oy of Finland have
concluded a strategic partnership for the
business area called Maillefer Factory

System (MFS). From now on, ADVARIS will be equipping Maillefer and its
international customers with cuttingedge operation management systems for
the cable and wire industry. Maillefer
offers a complete set of technology
and services for turnkey-ready cable
factories and extensions of existing factories as a general contractor and is now
planned to intensify this business area.
Maillefer has chosen suitable partners for the individual trades involved
in creating a cable factory.
Right from the beginning, ADVARIS was our ideal partner for enterprise
resource planning (ERP) and manufacturing execution system (MES). For
us, as a premium supplier, the decisive
factors are high quality, reliability and
know-how, and ADVARIS delivers all
three, said Juha Hiltunen, head of the
Project Management.
The ADVARIS ERP/MES solution
ADVARIS Cable includes all software
modules required for the operation of
a cable factory. From cable design to

manufacturing, to quality assurance
and delivery, Maillefers customers can
now rely on the support of an integrated
system. For a long time now ADVARIS
Cable MES has set standards as the leading, sector-specic solution. With the
new system release in spring 2016, ADVARIS has become one of the pioneers
of the Smart Factory in length-based
manufacturing.
ADVARIS Managing Director, Dr.
Manfred Moser, sees numerous benets from the cooperation: Bundled
Dr. Manfred Moser from ADVARIS

(right) and Juha Hiltunen of Maillefer.
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strengths and a stimulating exchange
of knowledge as complementary partners, create additional competitive
advantages for both companies. Thus
for ADVARIS users, Industry 4.0 is
no longer Utopia, but is becoming an
established way of life.
www.advaris.com / www.maillefer.com
SMS Supplies Ningxia Iron
Ningxia Iron & Steel based in

Zhongwei City, China, is expanding
its product portfolio and increasing its
capacity with new high-speed wire rod
mill equipment from SMS group. The
core equipment supplied by the SMS
group for the new one-strand mill will
include a ten-stand wire rod block, a
high-speed pinch roll unit and a looplaying head.
The new mill system will be designed
to produce 600,000 tons of wire rod
per year.
With the new high-speed equipment
from the SMS group, our company can
be sure that all processes will run stably
and reliably, achieving high availability and productivity, commented Cao
GuangJiang, of the Ningxia Iron &
Steel Group.
The Ningxia Iron & Steel Group said
that it will produce quality products such
as rebar in the size range of from 6 to
20 mm diameter in carbon structural and
low-alloy steels. These products will be
manufactured for the Chinese market on
the new wire rod mill.
Starting material will be 150 mm
square CC billets with a length of 12 m,
heated in a furnace with a throughput
rate of 140 tons per hour.
Commissioning of the mill is scheduled for 2017. For additional technical
specifications on this equipment, contact
the SMS group or visit the companys
website. www.sms-group.com
NIEHOFF Magazine:
Market Growth Report
The latest issue of the NIEHOFF

Magazine, the customer journal of the
Niehoff Group, Schwabach, Germany,
is available now. The main article titled,
Where is growth? focuses on the
global cable industry and its outlook
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based on findings discussed at the CRU

Wire and Cable Conference 2016 in
June 2016.
The growth rate of the cable sector is
higher than the global GDP growth rate.
Promising market possibilities are given
in China and India as shown by market
reports on both countries where the two
major trade fairs for the wire and cable
industry in the second half of 2016 are
taking place.
Niehoff, its local subsidiaries, Niehoff Machinery Changzhou and Niehoff of India, and partner companies
presented at the following exhibits:
wire China 2016, booth W1F63: an
MMH 121 + RM 201 type multiwire drawing line made in Germany
and a D 631.5 + ARP 630 type
high-speed double twist bunching
machine made by NMC.
Wire & Cable India 2016, booth E
02: a 16 wire multiwire drawing
line type MMH 121 + RM 201
made by NoI and a stranding machine type DSI 631 for data cables
with backtwist pay-off type ARD
630 D.
Besides cutting-edge technology,
the comprehensive customer service
Niehoff Original+ is one of Niehoffs
key success factors. It includes among
others the reliable and fast supply of
OEM spare and wear parts and the onsite service for technical assistance. One
article in the publication also describes
the Niehoff Online Service and the
Niehoff Data Interface (NDI), and introduces the new spare parts management
system. The following article shows
interesting details of another sector of
Niehoff Original+: the modernization
of Niehoff machinery.
In this NIEHOFF Magazine issue,
two cable manufacturing companies,
which rely on Niehoff technology are
introduced. These are Shanghai Qifan
Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd.,
China, and Havells Indias Wire &
Cable Division.
In an interview, Ing. Karl Frschl,
the longtime Technical Manager of the
Gebauer & Griller Kabelwerke (cable
works), Austria, talks about experiences
and insights which he gained in 43 years
with the company and the wire and cable
industry.
Biannually, the NIEHOFF Magazine

informs about company news and developments, trade shows and events and
other interesting topics. The magazine,
published in English and German with
summaries in Chinese and Russian,
is available from any Niehoff office
worldwide, or at the Niehoff website:
www.niehoff-gmbh.info/de/up-to-date/
niehoff-magazines)
For more information about Niehoff,
visit the website below.
www.niehoff.de
Hubers Fire-Retardant
Additives Capacity
Expansion Announced
The Fire Retardant Additives (FRA)

business unit, part of the Huber Engineered Materials division of J.M.
Huber Corporation, Atlanta, GA,
USA, has announced a 10% capacity
expansion of its Martinal fine precipitated alumina trihydrate production at
its newly acquired Martinswerk Plant
in Bergheim, Germany. The additional
capacity is projected for completion by
the third quarter of 2017. This addition
follows a 20% capacity expansion in
precipitated alumina trihydrate just
completed at Hubers Bauxite, Arkansas
facility in the United States.
The investment by Huber in additional capacity in Bergheim commences
only seven months after the February
acquisition of Martinswerk GmbH,
including the joint venture interest in
Magnifin Magnesiaprodukte GmbH
& Co. KG.
This investment is the first in a
series of expansions planned for Bergheim as we begin implementing our
longer term strategy for the business,
said Jerry Bertram, Vice President
corporate News
and General Manager of Hubers FRA
business unit.
The capacity expansion is part of
our ongoing global growth plan and
underlines Hubers commitment to the
non-halogenated fine precipitated fire
retardant market and enables us to meet
increasing demand from our valued
customers, added Martin Schulting,
Managing Director of Hubers FRA
European operations.
Huber is a global leader in the production of fine precipitated alumina
trihydrate and magnesium hydroxide,
both nonhalogenated fire retardants. Its
FRA business unit has four manufacturing sites in North America and two in
Europe. www.hubermaterials.com
Continued Success for

Surface Technology
from Steuler in China
In the wake of the order from Wuxi

Xingcheng for the supply of two
roll pickling plants for the continuous pickling of stainless steel wires,
Steuler Anlagenbau GmbH & Co.
KG of Germany has been working with
Steuler-Bobby (Shanghai) Equipment
Engineering Ltd. on a further order
from China since early 2016. The client
is Jiang Yin Xing Cheng Special Steel
Works Co. Ltd., Jiangyin, China, a
subsidiary of the Jiangyin Steel Group,
to which Wuxi Xingcheng also belongs.
The surface treatment plant is scheduled for commissioning in the fourth
quarter of 2016. The order covers engineering, supply, assembly and commissioning of a complete, automatic
continuous tunnel pickling line for wire
coils. The plant can treat bearing, spring
and cold-drawn steels in the form of wire
rods and drawn wires with an annual
capacity of approximately 120,000 tons.
The surface treatment plant comprises pre-treatment with potassium
permanganate/sodium hydroxide, multistage pickling, zinc phosphating as well
as borax coating, soaping or lime coat-
ing with the necessary rinsing stages.

In addition to the surface treatment
plant, the order includes Steuler Anlagenbau implementing a Zero Liquid
Discharge (ZLD) wastewater treatment
plant. It recovers a large proportion of
the water from the spent acids, spent
solutions and rinsing water and feeds
it back into the process as fresh water.
The solids contained in the process solutions as well as the dissolved acids, salts
and metals are neutralized using lime
and converted into a solid suitable for
disposal. Thus the entire surface treatment plant operates without generating
wastewater (ZLD).
This is already the third surface
technology order Steuler Anlagenbau
has received that incorporates the
STEULER-ZLD process. There is an
increasing demand for surface treatment
plants that operate without generating
wastewater from China, India and other
Asiatic countries, because ever-greater
emphasis is being placed on significantly reducing environmental and water
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Besides operating without generating
any wastewater (ZLD), the entire Steuler
process is characterized by very low
operating costs too. They are well below those associated with conventional
methods of wastewater treatment, such
as neutralization, precipitation, drainage
and discharge into an on-site soak pit or
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DSM Opens Expanded

Research Center in USA
Royal DSM, a global science-based

company active in health, nutrition
and materials, has opened its expanded
US$5 million research and technology
center for DSM Engineering Plastics
today in the Detroit suburb of Troy,
MI, USA.
The opening of the Troy Research &
Technology Center strengthens DSM
Engineering Plastics product development and application development
capabilities in North America, and will
enable it to collaborate more closely and
efficiently with its customers.
The center will offer a variety of material characterization techniques. Some
of the new facilitys features include
a broad range of mechanical testing
capabilities:
Analytical techniques
including microscopy.
Extensive testing capabilities
on aging and chemical resistance
of materials.
Physical material testing, including
rheology and thermal analysis.
3D printing capability to
enable rapid prototyping.
In addition, DSM is dedicating part
of the lab to application testing in partnership with its customers. It also will
develop novel test setups to drive a better understanding of the performance of
DSM materials under field conditions.
DSM already anticipates expanding
the Tech Center in 2017. The lab has
additional floor space available to allow
for increasing capacity of its current
testing activities, and for introducing
further capabilities including flammability testing and secondary operations
such as plastic welding. DSM also plans
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support product development, along
with more application-specific testing.
www.dsm.com
Ryker India Orders

Casting & Rolling
Line from SMS group
Ryker Base Private Limited, a joint

venture of Polycab Wires and Cables
and Trafigura, India, has placed an
order with SMS group for the supply
of a CONTIROD CR-3500 line.
The line for the casting and rolling of
wire rod in a single process will have a
production capacity of 35 tons of cast
and rolled copper wire rod per hour.
Commissioning of the CONTIROD
line at the JVs new plant in the Indian
state of Gujarat is scheduled for the first
quarter of 2018.
Using the CONTIROD CR-3500,
RYKER will produce predominantly
ETP copper wire rod (Electrolytic Tough
Pitch) as starting material for its own
cable production. The in-house production of 8 mm drawing stock on the new
CONTIROD line will enable RYKER
to supply a consistently high product
quality for the existing ultra-modern
wire drawing plant.
Thanks to the use of modern, energyefficient installations and high performance, the new line will establish the
preconditions for achieving the aspired
goals. The scope of supply includes a
shaft melting furnace, a twin-belt caster,
a 12-stand rolling mill with separate
individual drives, a deoxidization and

cooling section, a wire coiling station, a
strapping unit and a film packing station.
The shaft melting furnace employs
the SMS groups proven lambda control
system in combination with the further
developed charging and distribution
system for cathodes and recycled scrap.
This technology minimizes natural gas
consumption and increases product
quality. The twin-belt caster produces
a rectangular cast ingot in a practically
horizontal casting process. This is an
important precondition for a high and
consistent quality of the finished products, in particular with the demanded
large dimensions.
The homogeneous cast ingot is
formed into the required wire rod dimensions in the 12 individually driven stands
of the rolling mill.
The casting and rolling technology
employed establishes the very good
preconditions required for the downline drawing processparticularly for
the production of enameled wire and
multi-fine wire in an environment with
constantly growing demands on drawing speed and technological properties.
In the cooling section, the oxide layer
on the surface of the wire is first reduced
by a chemical reaction with a water/alcohol solution before it is cooled to the
desired target temperature in a second
step using water without the addition
of alcohol.
The separation of the two process
steps allows for a significant reduction
in alcohol consumption.
www.sms-group.com
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Reivax Maquinas Adds
New Wire Forming to Line
Reivax Maquinas, Breda, Spain, has

for over 25 years been supplying wire
forming machinery to North America
and other regions of the world. In recent
weeks, the company unveiled the newest
addition to its family of automatic ring
forming and welding machines.
The machine construction is quite
robust with reliable production and
operator-friendly design. For North
American customers, Allen Bradley
software is used for the PLC control.
Operation of the machine is such that
the program will automatically adjust
the payo according to the ring being
produced. Changeover from one size to
another is exceptionally quick. Finished
rings are at and with a length precision
of 0.1 mm. The ring diameter range is
from 150 to 1500 mm.
A video demonstrating this model
as well as many other wire forming
machines built by Reivax Maquinas
can be viewed at the YouTube page:

www.youtube.com/user/Reivax
MaquinasEng.
For more information, contact
Straus-Artys Corporation, Woodbury,
NY, USA or visit the websites below.
www.straus-artys.com
www.reivaxmaquinas.com
Grace to Director
at Lloyd & Bouvier
Lloyd & Bouvier Inc., Clinton,

MA, USA, is further strengthening its
presence in the wire and

cable machinery market
with the addition of Greg
Grace as Director of Engineering. Grace comes
to Lloyd & Bouvier, Inc.
with over 20 years of
experience in the wire Greg Grace
and cable industry. He began his cable
career in engineering and operations at
Times Fiber Communications, working with wire drawing, extrusion and
braider machinery making coaxial cable.
He continued his wire and cable career
at Judd Wire working with extruders
and braiders as well as cablers, tapers,
drum twisters and electron beams making automotive, medical and airframe
products.
Grace then expanded his knowledge
of wire and cable equipment further at
PMC Aerospace, making airframe and
thermocouple wire and cable.
Grace comes to Lloyd & Bouvier
Inc. from Bartell Machinery where he
has been designing, troubleshooting and
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equipment.
Lloyd & Bouvier, Inc. is a supplier
of new, used and rebuilt wire and cable
equipment. www.lloydbouvier.com
Davis-Standard Germany
Welcomes Paul Knorsch
Davis-Standard in Erkrath, Germany, has announced that Paul Knorsch

has joined the company as the Aftermarket Group and Business Development Leader at Davis-Standards German
subsidiary, ER-WE-PA
GmbH. In his new
role, Knorsch will work
closely with the Global
Aftermarket Team to
Paul Knorsch support Davis-Standard
products, locations and initiatives
worldwide. He will be based in Erkrath
and report to Kai Mllendorf, ER-WEPAs Managing Director.
Knorsch will play an integral role
in driving aftermarket growth and supporting customers. He will be dedicated
to further enhancing the existing aftermarket offerings in spare parts management, retrofits and rebuilds as well as
control upgrades. In addition, Knorsch
will promote the latest technology to
demonstrate how Davis-Standard can
improve customers existing extrusion
lines. Knorsch has worked for decades
with customers on specialized solutions
around the world. His knowledge and
expertise within the extrusion industry
will be a great asset to Davis-Standard.
METALUBE Hosted
Asia Conference
In September 2016, METALUBE

of the UK, hosted a conference at the
Saujana Hotel in Kuala Lumpur for its
Asia Team. Delegates came from Turkey, UAE, India, Malaysia, Thailand,
Indonesia and China, covering almost
the entire region.
Douglas Hunt, Commercial Director
said, This type of event is valuable in
so many ways. It gives us a platform to
train our METALUBE teams, share new
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METALUBEs Asia Conference attendees.
product developments and to highlight

sales techniques. However, most importantly it allows our employees, who are
scattered across the region, to meet-up,
form relationships and convey their
personal experiences.
METALUBE manufactures a range
of nonferrous drawing oils and maintenance lubricants as well as a variety of
corrosion protection and forming oils.
This experienced exporter already has
offices in China, India, Brazil and UAE.
www.metalube.co.uk
Aagaard Joins
Davis-Standard as
Product Manager
Davis-Standard, LLC, Pawcatuck,

CT, USA, has announced the appointment of John Aagaard to Product
Manager, Reclaim-Fiber. In his new
role, Aagaard will focus on sustainable
business growth, offering
sales support to both new
and existing customers.
Prior to joining DavisStandard, he worked
for American Maplan
d.b.a. Battenfeld-CinJohn
cinnati-USA, as Project
Aagaard
Sales Engineer in the
packaging division. He also worked for
Raytheon-Missile Systems as a Mechanical Designer & Project Engineer.
John brings outstanding leadership
experience to our team, said Steve
DeAngelis, Davis-Standard Vice President of Sheet and Foam Systems. His
knowledge and expertise will further

enhance our continuing efforts to provide optimal customer care and service
worldwide. www.davisstandard.com
Joe Maglich
Joins T&T Team
Joe Maglich recently joined T&T

Marketing, Inc., Allamuchy, NJ, USA,
as Account Manager, Mid-Atlantic.
Maglich is a graduate
of the Ohio University
Russ College of Engineering program with
a degree in Chemical
Engineering. His sixplus year professional
career has been focused Joe Maglich
on technical sales and customer support
for DuPont and later at its spin-off, Axalta Coating Systems. Maglich resides
in the greater Philadelphia, PA, USA
area. In his spare time, he enjoys playing drums and guitar, fishing, baseball
and traveling. www.ttmarketinginc.com
New Niehoff
Agencies for Indonesia,
Thailand & Vietnam
Since July 1, 2016, Maschinenfabrik Niehoff of Germany has been collaborating with three new agencies for
Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. These
are PT. Reinplas Sejahtera (Indonesia),
the KBF Group Co., Ltd. (Thailand)
and Song Song Co., Ltd. (Vietnam).
The addresses and contacts for these
corporate News
agencies are as follows:
PT. Reinplas Sejahtera
Taman Kebon Jeruk Blok AA V/23
Intercon, Jalan Meruya Ilir
Jakarta Barat 11650
Indonesia
Phone: (62-21) 585 9753, 585 9753
Fax: (62-21) 585 9754
E-mail: reinplas@indo.net.id
Contact: Benny Giat
KBF Group Co., Ltd.
9 Moo 5, Soi Thessaban 3
Tambol Nongtamlueng
Amphur Phanthong Chonburi 20160
Thailand
Phone: + 66 88 699 8448
E-mail: kamolyaoat@gmail.com
Contact: Kamol Yaoat
Song Song Co., Ltd.
4/F 119 Dien Bien Phu Street,
Dakao Ward District 1
Ho Chi Min City , Vietnam
Phone: +84 8 39111877
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+84 8 39111791
Mobile: +84 908 272 494

www.songsong.com.vn
E-mail: tuyet@songsong.com.vn
Contact: Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tuyet
According to Niehoff, all three of
these agencies are familiar with all the
issues of industrial companies especially
wire and cable manufacturers.
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff develops
and builds with an experience of more
than 60 years all machinery needed for
the production of nonferrous metals
wires and the further processing into
automotive, data and special cables,
with the exception of extruders.
www.niehoff.de
ITAL Delivers
Six Lines in 2016
In 2016, ITAL Srl of Italy delivered

six complete lines for the production of
cases and tubes for optic fibers, for a
result that makes us proud and sure that
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our efforts pushed in the right direction,
said Aldo Taddeo, CEO of ITAL.

We aim to a continuous growth.
Nevertheless, we are not interested in
increasing the quantity at the expense of
the quality. We want to strengthen our
partnerships with the customers: their
needs are our challenges. This year some
challenges had been really exacting,
but for us it had been a motivation to
get better and better, aiming in the right
direction, continued Taddeo.
Happy and satisfied customers,
this is our priority, and for this reason,
some of our partners already started big
investment projects, in which ITAL will
play a fundamental role. But we never
stop: we want to get better and better and
keep on ensuring the highest qualitative
standards possible, innovating while being flexible to our customers requests.
For ITAL, the optic fiber business is
strategic, and market analysis support
the growing requests for production
plants.
ITAL has ambitious projects. Relative to the Shanghai fair, Taddeo said,
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We just got back from the Wire and
Cable Trade Fair with lots of contacts
for the Asian market, some of which will
soon become contracts. Surely our ITAL
Asia and Pacific facilitated us both for
the gathering of contacts and for ensuring local presence.
Dynamism and versatility, assisted
by experience, are the fundamental traits
that emerge from Aldo Taddeos words,
supported by the success of last two
years. We wanted some technical details
but, comprehensibly, ITAL want to protect its secrets. One thing is clear: ITAL
is ready for new challenges. www.ital.it
50" Belt Caterpuller complete the line.

Customers can modify the existing line
with alternative components if needed.
Inventory items are available for
review at the companys website.
inventory.wireandplastic.com
Carris Reels Acquires

Lone Star Reel
David Ferraro, CEO of Carris

Reels, Proctor, VT, USA, tells us that
Carris Reels is excited to announce the
purchase of Lone Star Reel from Mike
Pawlish and Larry Beal.
Wire & Plastics Stock of

Fiber Optic Machinery
Wire & Plastic Machinery Corporation, Bristol, CT, USA, is a major provider of second-hand machinery for use
in optical cable manufacturing. Through
the firms 3 million ft2 of warehouse
space located in eight separate buildings
throughout the USA, it can supply a
wide variety of products. Complete extrusion lines provide tight buffer, loose
tube and jacketing. The company also
has a variety of different stranding and
rewind lines. While many items are sold
as is, the company can provide items in
various stages of reconditioning from
simple cleaned and painted, all the way
to basically new operating condition.
A complete SZ Stranding Line
originally supplied by Tensor includes
Skaltek 2.0 m Core Payoff and Takeup.
Sixteen 800 mm dancer controlled loose
tube shaftless payoffs feed into the nineplate strander (servo motor driven).
The concentric dual binder includes
anti torsion belt caterpuller. A Nokia
Maillefer waterblock tape former is
fed by a Tensor dual tape payoff and a
Robolon Concentric Binder and MGS
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employees and production capabilities

provide Carris and Lone Star Reel with
a platform for continued growth of our
broad line of quality packaging solutions
for wire and cable.
Additionally, Carris Reels will
retain the Lone Star Reel name for
the unparalleled customer service that
Lone Star Reel has become known for.
This announcement demonstrates our
philosophy for making long-term strategic investments in areas where Carris
Reels can add value for our customers
and stakeholders.
www.carris.com
RJ Amaral to VP at
amaral automation
Mike Pawlish, Dave Ferraro, Larry Beal.
Lone Star Reel is a manufacturer of

plywood reels and nailed wood reels,
that has served wire and cable customers throughout the southern USA for
approximately 20 years.
Pawlish and Beal started the company in McKinney, TX, USA, in 1997,
and expanded into Bonham, TX, USA,
five years later.
Today, nailed wood reels are manufactured in the Bonham plant and
plywood reels are produced in the
McKinney plant facility. The two former
owners will remain actively engaged in
the company.
Ferraro commented, We enthusiastically welcome Lone Star Reel to our
community of companies. This acquisition provides a similar product portfolio
in a new geography for Carris. In addition, Lone Star Reels 150 experienced
Warwick, RI, USA-based amaral

automation associates has named RJ
Amaral as VP Service
and Sales. He will be
responsible for coordination of all field service
work for wire machinery
and electrical control
panels. He is also a member of the AA LLC, and RJ Amaral
has administrative oversight.
RJ Amaral had been with INTERPLEX in Attleboro, MA, USA, where
he was Sr. Automation Engineering
Technician. To learn more about the
products and services available from
amaral automation associates, visit the
website listed below.
www.amaralautomation.com
AGC Enhances R&D

Tech Center for
Fluorochemical Testing
Exton, PA, USA-based AGC Chemicals Americas (AGCCA), a leading

global supplier of high-quality fluoropolymer resins, compounds, fluoroelastomers and specialty chemicals and
materials, has invested more than US$1
million to enhance its research and
development technical center, which is
located in Exton. The upgrades made
by the company fortify AGCCAs commitment to providing technical solutions
and R&D services to customers around
the world.
CORPORATE NEWS
AsahiGuard, the companys enhanced
technical center supports Fluon Melt
Processable Fluoropolymer Resins and
Compounds. These resins compounds
include Fluon Filled PTFE Compounds,
PTFE Resins and Micropowders;
AFLAS Fluoroelastomers; and AsahiKlin Fluorinated Solvents; as well as
polyols for polyurethanes.
AGCCA is oering tours of the new
research and development technical
facility so that its customers, prospects
and members of the scientic and local
community can see the laboratories and
equipment operating in real-time.
To learn more about the new technical center or for additional information
on the products and services oered
by AGCCA, contact Kristin Carlin at
kristin.carlin@us.agc.com.
www.agcchem.com
SMS Group to Modernize

Shear at Daehan Steel
SMS group of Germany received

the FAC from Daehan Steel Co., Ltd.
Hall 11 Booth F14
for the modernization of Daehan Steels

shear no. 3 in the VCC line (Vertical
Compact Coiler) of the rebar mill in
Pyeongtaek, South Korea.
The modernization involves the replacement of the switch and the scrap
guiding system of the existing shear
with new equipment. Thanks to a newly
developed high-speed switch and the
upgrade of the automation system, it
is possible to implement head and tail
end cropping at speeds of up to 35 mps
without any major modications to the
adjacent plant parts. As a result of the
modernization, Daehan Steel can now
increase throughput to 70 tons per hour.
www.sms-group.com
ZT S.R.L.
Via Friuli, 7
36015 SCHIO (VI) - Italy
Tel/Fax + 39.0445.57.56.90
info@zt-italy.com
WET DRAWING AND COPPERING
DRY
Dry drawing machine
Pay off
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Sand belt machine
www.zt-italy.com
Renovated areas include laboratories

for LUMIFLON Fluoropolymer Resins; AsahiGuard Water & Oil Repellents; analytical testing; physical testing
and microscopy.
Other labs received new equipment.
A state-of-the-art conference room was
added to facilitate collaboration with
customers when developing solutions
to the customers specific chemical
application or formulation challenges.
The improvements to our research
and development technical center are
an investment in our commitment to
nding the best and most ecient uorochemical solutions for our customers,
commented Bill Lillis, VP of Fluoropolymers. We are excited to have our
team of experts working in a scientically advanced setting when conducting
research, testing and analysis.
AGCCAs technology center provides application and product development, technical support, physical
and analytical testing, environmental
studies, material ID and color analysis.
In addition to LUMIFLON and
WET
Wet drawing machine
Decoiler
PACKAGE
Precision layer machine
Drum packing machine
ZINC COATING
WIRE TREATMENT
ACCESSORIES
SECOND HAND
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Whats New @ WCISA
News from North American Suppliers of Machinery,

Accessories and Materials for Making All Types of Wire & Cable
WCISA Scholarship Program:
2016 Winners Awarded $10,500
WCISA had large number of scholarship applications and
requests this year. The competition was strong enough
that the WCISA Board of Directors decided to award multiple annual scholarships in 2016 as well as a special scholarship contribution for a wire and cable industry scholarship
program organized by the IWCS, www.iwcs.org. The 2016
winners are listed below:
WCISA 2016 High School Scholarship Winners:
Amanda Accorsi, daughter of John Accorsi of
T&T Marketing, Inc.: $1000
Brooke Arruda, daughter of Raymond Arruda of
Davis Standard: $500
Jessica Connor, daughter of Gerald Connor of
Lauren Klei, daughter of Herbert Klei of
Chase Corporation: $500
Brooke Norman, daughter of Susan Norman of
Brenna Foster Richards, daughter of David Richards of
RichardsApex, Inc.: $500
Kimberly Thomson, daughter of Robert Thomson of
WCISA at wire China 2016:
Drew Richards, CEO of RichardsApex, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, USA, and WCISA President, reports,
wire China 2016 was a very strong and important
show for WCISA member companies exhibiting in
the North American Pavilion as well as on their own.
The four-day show provided exhibitors with a platform to directly engage Asian customers and an opportunity to expand globally. For RichardsApex, we
were able to collect many lucrative, highly targeted
leads, which gave us the opportunity to strengthen
our brand from the feedback we gathered from both
customers and prospects alike. Personally, I was very
happy with the firm commitments we received to
expand the RichardsApex product line, especially for
the continuous cast copper rod industry, in the ever
important Chinese market.
WCISA is an Official Sponsor of wire China 2016 as
well as other wire and cable trade fairs produced by
Messe Dsseldorf GmbH.
WCISA 2016 Employee & Intern Scholarship Winner:

Joshua Worstell, Intern at Die Quip Corp., $3500
WCISA 2016 Special Scholarship:
$3000 contribution to the IWCS Wire & Cable Industry
Student Scholarship Fund at Renssalaer Polytechnic
Institute; 2016 winners: Patrick Aselin, Zev Beigel,
Andrew Ehlers, Steven Lee
The awards for each scholarship are to be used towards
education expenses. The winners were selected by the
WCISA Board of Directors, which reviewed all applications.
WCISA offers three types of scholarships, as follows:
WCISA High School Graduate Scholarship, awarded annually for high school graduates with a parent or grandparent working at a WCISA member company: $500-$1000
awards.
WCISA Employee & Intern Scholarship, awarded annually for
people currently working at a WCISA member company:
$3500 award.
WCISA Special Scholarship for extraordinary circumstances,
awarded on a case-by-case basis.
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North American Pavilion in China, (left to right): Mike

McNulty, Executive Director; Drew Richards, President;
Rahul Sachdev, Immediate Past President of WCISA
(Wire & Cable Industry Suppliers Association).
WCISA Wire and Cable Industry Suppliers Association
info@wcisaonline.org www.wcisaonline.org
North American suppliers of machinery, materials and accessories
for making all types of wire and cable. Established in 1996.
WCISA at Wire & Cable India 2016:
Rahul Sachdev, Executive Vice President of Wire &

Plastic Machinery Corp., Bristol, CT, USA, and WCISA
Immediate Past President reports, We experienced a
steady stream of attendees visiting the North American pavilion. All three days were quite active and exhibitors reported meaningful discussions and were
optimistic of future prospects. With the Indian economy slated to grow around 7% per year the mood
was upbeat as a lot of companies are experiencing
significant growth and have capital equipment projects in the pipeline. The number of visitors from two
years ago may have been less, but the decision makers were present all three days.
Overall the show was positive and quite a few exhibitors expressed their intention to participate again in
two years time.
WCISA is an Official Sponsor of Wire & Cable India
2016 as well as other wire and cable trade fairs proWCTI
duced by Messe Dsseldorf GmbH.
North American Pavilion in India, left to right:

Thomas Schlitt, Managing Director Messe Dusseldorf
India, Rahul Sachdev, Friedrich Georg-Kehrer,
Global Portfolio Director Metals and Flow Technologies
and Justin Kesselring, Project Manager Messe
Dusseldorf North America.
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European Perspectives
by:
Dipl.-Ing. Konrad Dengler
Industrial Journalist
Finkenweg 6
D 91091 Grossenseebach
Germany
KDengler@t-online.de
European Automotive-Telecom
Alliance Established
At a Round Table on Connected and Automated Driving,

initiated and chaired by Gnther H. Oettinger, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, the
automotive and telecom industries formally announced
on September 30, 2016, the creation of Europes first
Automotive-Telecom Alliance. The Alliance includes
six leading sectorial associations, among them the
133 Million for Green Vehicles Research
European Automobile Manufacturers Association
ACEA and the European Association of Automotive
European Automotive-Telecom Alliance
Suppliers CLEPA, both Brussels, Belgium as well as
How Britains Can Stay in the EU Despite Brexit
37 companies including telecom operators, vendors, automobile manufacturers and suppliers for both cars and
The Most Innovative Country in the World
trucks. The main goal of this Alliance is to promote the
Metals Can Bond with Nearly All Surfaces
wider deployment of connected and automated driving
in Europe. The first concrete step is the advancement of
a
Pre-Deployment Project aimed at testing three major
EC Makes 133 Million Available
use-case
categories, albeit with exact details still to be
for Green Vehicles Research
decided:
On October 4, the European Commissions Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) revealed Automated drivingcould include high-density platooning, remotely controlled parking, highway chaufnew funding opportunities for automotive research. The
feur and high-definition maps.
EC announced three Horizon 2020 calls for project proposals in the areas of Green Vehicles, Smart Cities & Road safety and traffic efficiencycould include
traffic optimization for smart cities.
Communities and Blue Growth. A total of 210.5 million

Digitalization of transport and logisticscould inwill be available to applicants. Nine topics with a total
clude remote sensing and data management.
budget of 133 million are open for research and innoThese
tests will identify and address both technological
vation proposals on the use of alternative fuels, hybrid
and electric vehicles, improved heavy-duty vehicles and and regulatory issues. Among other important elements,
fast-charging infrastructure. The deadline to apply is the project will tackle interoperability issues as well as
infrastructure investment to address connectivity needs,
February 1, 2017. The topics include the following:
Optimization of heav-duty vehicles for alternative and the improving of safety and security. At the same
time, pilot projects will help to elaborate the basic busifuels use.
ness models that both sectors can start deploying when
Next-generation electric drive trains for fully electric investing in these technologies.
vehicles, focusing on high efficiency and low cost.
About the EU Automobile Industry: According to
Electric vehicle user-centric design for optimized ACEA, 12.2 million people, or 5.6% of the EU employed
energy efficiency.
population, work in the automobile sector. The 3.1 mil Physical integration of hybrid and electric vehicle lion jobs in automotive manufacturing represent 10.4%
batteries at pack level aiming at increased energy of EU manufacturing employment. Motor vehicles acdensity and efficiency.
count for over 400 billion in tax contributions in the
Multi-level modeling and testing of electric vehicles EU15. The sector is also a key driver of knowledge and
innovation, representing Europes largest private conand their components.
tributor to R&D, with 44.7 billion invested annually. The
Electrified urban commercial vehicles integration
automobile industry generates a trade surplus of some
with fast-charging infrastructure.
100.4 billion for the EU.
Aerodynamic and flexible trucks.
http://www.acea.be/press-releases/article/37-leading Demonstration (pilots) for integration of electrified companies-join-forces-in-european-automotiveL-category vehicles in the urban transport system.
telecom-alliance
Production of next-generation battery cells in Europe for transport applications.
How Britains Can Stay in the EU Despite Brexit
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/
Great Britain fears the economic consequences after
h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-transport_
the Brexit decision to exit the EU. One way to escape
en.pdf
certain economic consequences is offered by the EU
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member state, Estonia. The country offers a virtual Estonian citizenship, the so-called e-residency, a transnational digital identity available to anyone in the world
who is interested in administering there a location-independent business online. Via this possibility, which was
established at the end of 2014, British companies and
residents retain the possibility of further profiting from
the advantages of a united Europe at least in economic
terms. By means of a virtual place of residence or registered office, as an e-resident one can establish Estonian
companies, open an account, take care of bank transactions and electronically sign and transmit documents
and contracts.
Digitally, quickly, from all over the world. There are signs
that after the Brexit poll the number of applicants for eresidency has already significantly increased. Already
available on-line is a manual titled, How to stay in,
where the Estonian government promotes the advantages and the simple process of e-residency clearly and
specifically for Brexit-affected Britons.
www.howtostayin.eu.
https://www.bnt.eu/de/aktuelles-2/215-news/2214-howto-stay-in-estonia-offers-britons-a-solution-after-brexit
Switzerland is the Most

Innovative Country in the World
Switzerland is again leading the Global Innovation Index (GII). For the sixth time in a row, the country has
occupied the top spot. Thus, it belongs to the few countries that connect technological solutions optimally with
business opportunities, wrote the polytechnic magazine,
MM MaschinenMarkt, Wrzburg, Germany. The GII
published jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization (Wipo), Insead and the Cornell University
analyzed 128 countries based on 82 indicators that try
to measure both the input required for innovations (for
instance funds and personnel) and the output obtained
with it (concrete, new creations).
European countries are still leading in terms of innovation because 15 of the 25 most innovative countries are
in Europe. Sweden and Great Britain ranked after Switzerland, followed by USA as the first country outside Europe. Likewise Finland (5th), Ireland (7th), Denmark (8th),
Netherlands (9th) and Germany (10th) are all in the Top 10.
In all evaluation criteria other than infrastructure, Switzerland is among the top ten.
Additionally, Switzerland has the highest efficiency, which
means it is able to implement innovations optimally in
business opportunities. But innovation is migrating slowly
towards the East. The working benches built at one time
in Asia are transforming more into think tanks. For example, China ranked among the best 25 countries as
a country with medium income and also India jumped
from 81st to the 66th.
http://www.maschinenmarkt.international/english/
western-europe/switzerland/articles/547710/?cmp=nl330&uuid=9E3D24F2-C001-4DA7-A53E369ABC96671F
Metals Can Bond with Nearly All Surfaces
A research team at Kiel University, Germany, has discovered a method called the nanoscale-sculpturing
process to change the surface properties of metals
without affecting their mechanical stability or characteristics. This method previously only known from semiconductors is based on using an electro-chemical etching process, in which the uppermost layer of a metal is
roughened on a micrometer scale in a tightly-controlled
manner. Through the etching process, a 3D-structure
with tiny hooks is created. If a bonding polymer is then
applied between two treated metals, the surfaces interlock with each other in all directions like a three-dimensional puzzle.
In this way, we can permanently connect metals which
could previously not be directly joined, such as copper
and aluminum, emphasized Professor Rainer Adelung, head of the Functional Nanomaterials team at
the Institute for Materials Science. Metals such as
aluminum, titanium or zinc can permanently be joined
with nearly all other materials, become water-repellent,
or improve their biocompatibility.
The potential spectrum of applications of these super
connections is very broad, ranging from metal work in
industry right through to safer implants in medical technology applications.
Their results of the research project have been published in the journal Nanoscale Horizons of the Royal
Society of Chemistry: M. Baytekin-Gerngross, M.D.
Gerngross, J. Carstensen and R. Adelung: Making
metal surfaces strong, resistant, and multifunctional by
nanoscale?sculpturing. Nanoscale Horizon. DOI: 10.1039/
C6NH00140H
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/nh/
c6nh00140h#!divAbstract
http://www.uni-kiel.de/pressemeldungen/?pmid=2016285-nanosculpturing&lang=en
WCTI
Dipl.-Ing. Konrad Dengler is an industrial journalist

and specialized translator serving the wire and cable
technology, tube technology, materials and production technology and quality testing industries.
He can be reached by phone at +49 9135 6982 or
by email at KDengler@t-online.de.
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Tips From WireDrawing 101
Some Illustrative
by:
Dr. Roger N. Wright
Roger N. Wright, LLC
600 State Street
Lawrenceville, IL 62439 USA
E-mail: wrightinc@earthlink.net
www.rnwinc.com
Slip Calculations
In the last column, we addressed pass schedule implications vis--vis slip. Slip is the relative motion of the
wire and the capstan surface as related to differentials
between the drawing speed and the faster capstan surface speed. That is, the exit velocity of the wire prior to
engaging the capstan, V, and the surface velocity of the
capstan, Vcapstan, do not have to be the same. Their difference, Vcapstan V, is the amount of slip, or:
% slip = 100(Vcapstan V)/Vcapstan. (1)
The exit velocity of the wire for sequential passes follows the simple relation:
Vn+1 = Vn /(1-r),
(2)
where Vn+1 is the velocity of the wire exiting die (n+1)

and where r is the decimal reduction from die n to die
(n+1). Also,
Vcapstan = p D w,
(3)
where D is capstan diameter and w is capstan revolutions per unit time.

It is possible to set or adjust capstan surface velocity,
by manipulating D, as with a step-cone machine, or by
adjusting w. It is possible to have Vcapstan = V, in which
case we would have no slip drawing practice.
Designing in some slip allows the easy accommodation
of changes in wire velocity due to die-size variations
and die wear. Some degree of capstan wear is also accommodated. On the other hand, slip promotes capstan
wear and compromises wire surface quality.
Engineered slip schedules can range from a small percentage per pass, to say, 20% per pass. Small degrees
of slip increase the risk of drawing breaks, and larger
amounts of slip increase wear and surface damage.
The engineering of slip schedules is an aspect of pass
design. In some cases, the accumulation of slip over
several passes is factored into such pass design.
Slip interacts with drawing stress, and it is useful to

know how the capstan exerts a pulling stress on the
wire in the face of slip and related friction. Classical beltdrive formulas are applicable. The relationship of drawing stress, sd, to the stress coming off the capstan as
back stress at the next die, sb, is given by:
sd/sb = exp(jm) = exp(2pNm),
(4)
where j is the angle of die contact, m is the coefficient of

friction between the wire and the capstan, and N is the
number of wraps of the wire around the capstan.
Let us look at a couple of calculations:
Case I.
Question: A condition of 5% slip exists on a 0.3 m diameter capstan rotating 600 revolutions per minute. What
is the speed in meters per minute for the wire as it exits
the previous die?
Answer: Considering Equations (1) and (3), Vcapstan can
be calculated to be 565.5 meters per minute and V1 to
be 537.2 meters per minute.
Case II.
Question: A certain capstan maintains a coefficient of
friction of 0.10 on a wire that is wrapped three times. If
the drawing stress on the previous die is 700 MPa, what
will be the back stress on the next die? What would
be the value of the back stress if there were only two
wraps?
Answer: Using Equation (4), the back stress for three
wraps is 106 MPa, and the back stress for two wraps
is 199 MPa.
And so it goes. These calculations involve too many
significant figures, and such analysis should be semiquantitative. The important point is to know what goes
up when something goes down. You really do not necessarily need a calculator, if you have a good feeling for
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for work-a-day formats and continuing study. www.rnwinc.com
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Special Requirements for Low-Smoke,

Halogen-Free, Flame-Retardant Compounds
by:
Mike Patel,
Director Marketing/Business Development
Vinyl Division
Teknor Apex Company
505 Central Ave.
Pawtucket, RI 02861 USA
www.teknorapex.com
While there is an increasing demand for low-smoke,

halogen-free, flame-retardant (LS HFFR) compounds in many
cable applications, fiber optics present special requirements
for these types of materials. Tight buffer compounds must be
tough yet elastic to protect the optical fiber from mechanical
damage and the signal losses caused by micro-bends. Jacket
compounds must exhibit a low degree of post-extrusion
shrinkage, which can impose stress on the sensitive fibers
during post-extrusion temperature cycling and over time
during end use.
Added to these requirements are considerations that apply
to all cables, whether these cables are fiber optic or copper.
Chief among these, particularly in mass transit, cell tower,
data center and other infrastructure applications, is flame
behavior. The growing demand that cable materials in such
uses be halogen-free poses a challenge to compounders, who
must meet this demand while still providing high levels of
flame retardance.
Because of the highly efficient gas-phase flame suppression
mechanism provided by the presence of halogens, halogenated
materials such as PVC (which is inherently flame retardant)
have long been effective in applications with some of the
highest FR requirements.
The polyolefin resins used for metal hydrate-based LS
HFFR compounds, on the other hand, must be formulated
with nonhalogenated flame-retardant materials, generally at
Table. Fiber Optic HFFR Compounds.
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Teknor Apex LS HFFR compound is used in data cable.
fairly high loadings, without compromising other application

requirements such as processability, mechanical performance,
flexibility and cost.
Range of Compounds Designed

for Fiber Optic Cable Applications
Teknor Apex Company has developed a wide range of LS

HFFR products for wire and cable under its Halguard brand
including a portfolio of compounds designed specifically for
fiber optic cables. The portfolio provides choices for a broad
range of end-use performance and flame retardancy as well as
low-cost options for buffer and jacket applications (see Fiber
Optic HFFR Table).
Passing flame tests on cables has been achieved by using
the appropriate grade, ranging from VW-1, to vertical tray, to
riser. All of the jacket compounds exhibit low-shrink behavior. Some of the compounds exhibit superior char formation
under burning conditions, and others incorporate an innovative
flame-retardant system, which facilitates their ability to offer
EMPHASIS: Fiber Optics

cost-effective alternatives to premium grades.
Of the Halguard fiber optic cable compounds that are listed
below, all but one have a maximum continuous operating
temperature of 105C.

Halguard 58002 tight buffer compound.

This 47 Shore D material provides a high melt flow
rate of 19.6 g/10 min. for ease of extrusion. The
compound exhibits elongation of 170% and a flexural
modulus of 29,000 psi (200 MPa). This tight buffer
compound has a UL-94 vertical flame rating of V-0
and oxygen index of 39%.
Halguard 58200 tight buffer compound.

A more flexible material than Halguard 58002, this
compound has a Shore D hardness of 41, elongation of
185% and 14,600 psi (100 MPa) flexural modulus. It
has a UL-94 vertical flame rating of V-0 and an oxygen
index of 39%. The maximum continuous operating
temperature is 90C.
Halguard 58215 jacket compound.

This material offers superior char formation and high
melt flow rate of 24.3 g/10 min. This 53 Shore D material has a UL-94 vertical flame rating of V-0 and an
oxygen index of 38%. It exhibits elongation of 140%
and a flexural modulus of 29,200 psi (201 MPa). This
compound has passed the UL-1581 720-hour sunlight
resistance test. It is UL-AATJ2-recognized as free of
halogen acid gas content.

This material provides char formation and superior
flame retardance, with a UL-94 vertical flame rating
of V-0 and an oxygen index of 53.5%, enabling cables
to pass the UL-1666 riser flame test. The 53 Shore D
material has a fractional melt flow rate (0.4 g/10 min.).
It exhibits elongation of 140% and a flexural modulus
of 39,300 psi (271 MPa). It is UL-AATJ2-recognized
as free of halogen acid gas content.

This compound is a low-cost flexible grade that passes
the UL-1685 vertical tray flame test. It has a UL-94
vertical flame rating of V-1 and an oxygen index of
40%. This is a 48 Shore D compound with 174% elongation and a 21,400 psi (148 MPa) flexural modulus.
This flexible grade compound has a melt flow rate of
6.8 g/10 min.

This compound is a low-cost grade that provides a
high degree of flame retardance, with a UL-94 vertical flame rating of V-0 and an oxygen index of 50%.
It is a 57 Shore D material with elongation of 140%
and a flexural modulus of 29,000 psi (200 MPa). The
melt flow rate of this low-cost, highly flame-retardant
compound is 1.8 g/10 min.

This material is a low-cost grade that provides high
resistance to thermal shock and has a high melt flow
index of 18.0 g/10 min. The material has passed internal Teknor Apex tests for heat shock at 121C and
exhibits deformation of only 4% at 121C (UL-1581).
This 51 Shore D compound has elongation of 235%
and a flexural modulus of 16,500 psi (114 MPa). It has
a UL-94 vertical flame rating of V-0 and an oxygen
index of 39.5%. It has passed the UL-1581 720-hour
sunlight resistance test. With a brittle point of -47C,
this material is well suited for indoor/outdoor applications where cables may be exposed to a wide
temperature range.
Balance of Requirements & Costs
The Halguard portfolio enables fiber optic cable manufacturers to achieve a balance between the numerous challenges
they face among performance, processing, flame retardancy
and cost requirements for buffer and jacket compounds.
Continuing work to develop new formulations will expand
the range of available options and help cable producers to
target application parameters with even greater confidence.
More information as well as additional technical specifications are available for Teknor Apex LS HFFR compounds
engineered for the special requirements of fiber optic cables by
contacting the author or visiting the Teknor Apex website.
www.teknorapex.com
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Unmatched in their versatility, Teknor Apex vinyl compounds are meeting the toughest material requirements
for performance, durability, safety, cost competitiveness, sustainability and more in hundreds of applications in nearly every market. Teknor Apex brings over
six decades of experience and intelligence in customcompounding PVC and HFFR formulations to meet
evolving performance and regulatory challenges as
well as emerging opportunities. Today, Teknor Apexs
portfolio of PVC compounds is vast, supported by rich
technical knowledge of new additives and limitless
formulation possibilities. Whether you need an existing product or a custom solution for your application,
Teknor Apex approaches each relationship as a preferred partner, to fully understand your business and
exceed global supplier performance expectations
all in the name of improving performance of your
products which utilize Teknor Apex vinyl compounds.
Teknor Apex Company currently maintains nine USA
locations as well as operations in Belgium, Singapore,
Germany and China. Throughout its global expansion
Teknor Apex Company has remained a privately held
company. www.teknorapex.com
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Extrusion Success in Datacable Industry

Small size and the ability to yield high-quality insulation
by:
Gordon Murray
Howar Equipment Inc.
499 Edgeley Blvd., Unit 12
Concord, Ontario L4K 4H3
Canada
www.HowarEquipment.com
UNITEK Crossheads, represented in North America by

Howar Equipment Inc., has had great success with its new
UXH0710 Generation 2 series of fixed-center crossheads for
small stranded and solid conductor insulating and jacketing
requirements. With free flow technology, these crossheads
can be used for single layer, stripe or skin layer insulation.
Benefits resulting from their usage include short head
lengths for easy set-up, extremely durable material, small
diameter for even heat, precise and few parts for highest
concentricity, few tooling change steps, reduction in cleaning time and gum space adjustment through die retainer nut.
Ideal for Insulating Flexible

Fiber Optic & Data Cables
The simple, compact design of the UXH0710 series is

ideal for insulating extremely flexible fiber optic cables and
data cables. The short length of the head makes the set up and
feeding in of cable/fiber easy for the operator.
Once assembled, the fixed-centered head will immediately
run a highly concentric product since there is no further operator intervention and adjustment needed. The gum space
can be adjusted on the fly at the exit side of the crosshead
with the die nut.
Easy Tooling Extraction

Without Removal of Heaters
Tooling is extracted in three steps from the exit side of the

crosshead without needing to remove any heaters. The new
head design is based on a proven flow technology implemented on the companys fluoro-polymer heads, and tested
in collaboration with some worldwide customers requesting
smaller sized heads that are more user friendly when doing
tooling changes.
Immediate Concentric Startup

for Significantly Reduced Scrap
The fixed center crosshead allows for a repeatable, immediate concentric start up which drastically reduces scrap and
over insulation. A common, single head design means fewer
components to the crosshead and a smaller spare parts list.
Fast Color Changes & Reduced Downtime
The combination of extreme small inner volumes and the

easy operation approach is ideal for quick color changes and
reduced downtime. The smaller inner volume minimizes
resonance time in the crosshead and is ideal for smaller gauge
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conductors as well as solid or foamed insulations.

A larger, 13 mm (0.512") bore reduces melt pressure allowing faster line speeds at lower pressures. The UXH0710
series is capable of processing conductors up to 7 mm (0.275")
in diameter and an insulated diameter up to 10.5 mm (0.413").
Additional technical specifications are available at the
Howar Equipment Inc. website.
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Company Profile:
Howar Equipment Inc. was created to specifically
service wire and cable manufacturers. The product
line is dedicated to accessories and auxiliary equipment needed to manufacture wire and cable. The
background of the companys personnel includes
wire drawing, wire bunching, cable stranding and
extrusion machinery knowledge. This in-depth understanding and knowledge aids in the integration of
the accessories to the entire manufacturing program.
The philosophy of the company is driven around
understanding the entire manufacturing process in
order to offer solutions when it comes to supplying
wire and cable manufacturing accessories.
Worlds Highest-Density Optical

Fiber with Deployable Reliability
by:
Hiroo Unoura, CEO
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
inlg-pr@lab.ntt.co.jp
Masahiko Ito, President/CEO
Fujikura Ltd.
Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
wwwadmin@jp.fujikura.com
Accommodating 114 channels in a

single optical fiber enables transfer of
thousands of HDTV videos per second.
Keizo Yamaguchi, President

Hokkaido University
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
kouhou@jimu.hokudai.ac.jp
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT),

and two partners, Fujikura Ltd. and Hokkaido University,
have demonstrated the worlds highest-density optical fiber
using a deployable optical fiber diameter of less than 250 m.
This optical fiber contains 19 optical paths (cores) that can
support six kinds of optical signals (modes), and it provides
114 (six modes 19 cores) spatially multiplexed communication paths (channels) in one optical fiber. A glass diameter1
of less than 250 m makes it possible to ensure that optical
fiber has sufficient reliability (i.e., bendable fiber that does
not break). Accommodating 114 channels in one optical fiber
enables us to transfer thousands of HDTV videos per second.
The achievement indicates the reality of ultra-large capacity optical fiber that can handle a Peta to Exa-bit transmission
capacity. They will continue to contribute to the realization
of a future ultra-large transmission capacity optical link. This
remarkable achievement was reported in March 2016 as a
post-deadline paper2 at the Optical Fiber Communication
Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2016), the largest conference
on optical communication in North America, which was held
in Anaheim, CA, USA. This work was partially based on work
commissioned by the National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology (NICT).
From Conventional
Optical Fiber to this Achievement
Recent figures released by the Ministry of

Internal Affairs and Communications3 indicate that the data transmission capacity in Japan
exceeded 2.5 Tera-bits per second (Tera = 1012)
in November 2013. This trend will require a
data capacity of 100 Tera-bits per second by the
late 2020s. It is also expected that the capacity
crunch facing existing optical fiber, which has
one optical path (core) supporting one kind of
optical signal (mode), may be reached at the
same time. This background means they must
install additional optical fibers in the 2020s.
However, the maximum number of optical fibers that can be stored in one optical fiber cable
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is limited. They will also need to construct additional optical

wiring infrastructure underground and in buildings, if there
is insufficient space in the existing infrastructure.
To address these concerns, worldwide research has been
under way on new optical fiber that uses space multiplexing
technology. For example, multi-core optical fiber accommodates many cores in one optical fiber, and multi-mode optical
fiber supports many modes in one core.
However, it is difficult to obtain more than 50 communication paths (channels) using one core or mode multiplexing
because of the limit to the glass diameter or the controllability
of the refractive index profile4. With this as the background,
NTT, Fujikura and Hokkaido University (Laboratory of Information Communication Photonics) combined their expertise
to realize an optical fiber with more than 100 channels while
maintaining a deployable glass diameter by considering the
best mix of core and mode-multiplexing.
A summary of the achievements of NTT, Fujikura and
Hokkaido University is as follows:
Clarified the design guideline for an optical fiber
with more than 100 channels.
Fabricated an optical fiber with the optimum
design and evaluated its optical characteristics.
Verified the fibers applicability to large capacity
transmission using the latest transmission technology.
These studies led to two major achievements:
114 channels (six modes 19 cores) are successfully
spatially multiplexed in a glass diameter of less than
250 m, which is capable of actual deployment in a
terrestrial optical network.
The fabricated optical fiber can be used for Peta-bit
class transmission since all 114 channels have a
satisfactorily low loss and are optically consistent
From conventional optical fiber to this achievement.

(i.e., the transmission performance of
each channel is almost identical).
As a result, the worlds highest-density optical fiber has been realized that can be reliably
used in future optical links.
Design Guideline of Optical Fiber
NTT has investigated and experimentally

confirmed that an optical fiber with a glass
diameter of less than 250 m can be used for
over 20 years if an allowable bending radius
of 15 to 30 mm is assumed considering actual
deployment conditions in the terrestrial optical
network.
To realize an optical fiber with more than
100 channels, NTT and Hokkaido University
numerically derived the optimum refractive
index profile for guiding three or six kinds of
optical signal (mode) in one core, and considered various core arrangements that can
sufficiently suppress optical signal interference
between neighboring cores5. As a result, they
clarified that a world-record 114 channels can
be spatially multiplexed when using a glass
diameter of less than 250 m by arranging hexagonally 19 cores that can support 6 modes (114
channels = 6 modes 19 cores). This design
resulted in a core density more than 60 times
that in conventional optical fiber, which has
one core and supports one mode (see Figure 1).
Fig. 1 Design guideline for worlds highest

core density optical fiber.
Fabrication & Evaluation
Utilizing the above design guideline as a

basis, Fujikura Ltd. fabricated an 8.75 km long
optical fiber, and NTT evaluated the fibers
optical property.
Fig. 2 Optical property of fabricated optical fiber.
The optical attenuation at 1550 nm is less
than 0.24 dB/km for all 114 of the channels, and to the best sion7 technology and an optical-fiber-type Fan-In/Fan-Out
of our knowledge, this optical attenuation level is the lowest device. The Fan-In/Fan-Out device enabled 114 individual
reported value for multi-core fiber using a 6-mode core. And multiplexed/de-multiplexed optical signals to be launched
the fabricated optical fiber achieved superior uniformity where into the fabricated optical fiber.
They confirmed that they obtained a satisfactory transmisthe variation in optical attenuation between channels was less
sion quality with a Q-value exceeding 5.7 dB, which correthan 0.03 dB/km.
Moreover, they realized a transmission velocity difference sponds to the lower transmission limit, for all 114 channels
between modes6 of less than 0.33 ns/km in the fabricated (reference Figure 3 on the next page of this article).
optical fiber, and this is one of the key parameters as regards
optical transmission using multiple modes. This is also the Future Prospects
lowest reported value for multi-core fiber using a 6-mode
The present achievements indicate that an optical fiber
core, and reveals that the refractive index profiles of 19 cores using space multiplexing technology can be deployed while
were precisely controlled during optical fiber fabrication (see maintaining sufficient reliability for a few tens of years.
Figure 2).
A 100 times larger capacity can be realized by using mode
and core multiplexing appropriately, and makes it possible
Applicability to Large-Capacity Transmission to increase the transmission capacity greatly with a limited
To prove the applicability of the fabricated optical fiber to infrastructure. They aim to launch a practical application of
ultra-large capacity transmission, NTT evaluated the transmis- this optical fiber in the 2020s. To meet the increasing data comsion quality using the latest QAM digital coherent transmis- munication demand in a sustainable way, they will continue
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Worlds Highest-Density Optical Fiber with Deployable Reliability ...continued
Fig. 3 QAM signal transmission performance.
to contribute to the realization of an optical infrastructure

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for the future.
References:
Glass diameter-Generally, optical ber becomes easier to break as glass diameter

increases. To ensure 20 years or more reliability with a bending radius of 15-30 mm,
existing optical ber is proof tested to eliminate tiny cracks during the fabrication process. A maximum glass diameter of 250 m can be ensured at a practical proof level.
2
Postdeadline paper A technical paper that is received after the regular submission
deadline. In the optical communication research eld, [research groups from
around the world submit their best results. A limited number of papers that receive
an extremely high evaluation in a selection meeting held during the conference
1
period are accepted for presentation in the postdeadline session.

3
Ministry of Internal Aairs and Communications http://www.soumu.go.jp/johotsusintokei/whitepaper/ja/h26/html/nc255320.html.
4
Refractive index prole The optical transmission property of an
optical ber is tailored by controlling the refractive index dierence [in its radius]. The refractive index of a multi-mode ber is
controlled and decreases gradually from its center core to its outer
cores. More precise refractive index control is required as the
number of transmission modes increases.
5
Optical signal interference between neighboring cores A small portion of an optical signal is transmitted outside the core. This causes
interference between dierent optical signals and degrades transmission quality when neighboring cores are too close to each other.
6
Transmission velocity dierence between dierent modes The
arrival time of a signal at an optical ber end diers with the
transmission mode since the transmission velocity of each mode is
not exactly the same. A larger dierence in transmission velocity
makes it dicult to recover the original optical signal at the receiver.
7
QAM digital coherent transmission Traditional optical communication uses intensity modulation in which signals are sent using
two distinct states ON and OFF to correspond to digital 0s and 1s. Quadrature
amplitude modulation (QAM) digital coherent transmission modulates two independent optical signal components, namely I- and Q-components, using the N-th level.
This makes it possible to transfer NN multiple signals simultaneously.
Company Prole:
Fujikura Ltd. provides products for the energy, telecommunications, electronics and automotive industries.
The company endeavors to further expand its business
through ecient manufacturing operations as well as a
high level of customer services. www.fujikura.co.jp
Extrusion Systems and tooling for the Wire and Cable Industry.
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505 Mill Street, Rome, NY 13440
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Addressing the Critical Handling Demands

of Optical Fiber & Fiber Optic Cables
by:
Jeff Swinchatt & John Dudus
The MGS Group MGS, Hall, Northampton
PO Box 4259
Rome, NY 13442-4259 USA
www.themgsgroup.com
The MGS Group, which consists of MGS Manufacturing, Hall Industries and Northampton Machinery Co., is an
international supplier of automation and technology solutions
for product handling and twisting systems. The group offers
technology customized to optimize your application including comprehensive design and engineering capabilities and
personalized service for equipment that is ruggedly built for
decades of reliable, consistent service.
The MGS Group has worked intimately within the fiber
optic industry as it has developed in the past four decades. Our
R&D efforts have included many industry-specific initiatives
to address technical demands in handling the optical fiber, fiber
cable components and complete cable constructions. Due to
the technical nature of the demands, our expertise in areas
such as tension control has developed over the course of this
time. While our full range of products and the customers of
these products have benefited from this expertise, our project
activity and specific designs to overcome challenges with fiber
optic production have continued to grow. Today we have a full
range of exciting solutions for this market segment.
Solving Complex Problems
The MGS Group has many examples where weve solved

complex problems for customers as illustrated by the large
variety of machines/systems that weve supplied to the industry. You can visit our website for more specific examples. For
years, we have adapted fiber payoff, take-up, dancer and accumulation machine designs to meet customer challenges and
most recently, we have adapted our Fully Automatic Takeup
system, the FAT18 to automatically package fiber cable.
Focus on Optical Fiber Handling
Throughout optical fiber manufacturing processes, attention to handling is critical. From the fiber tower to intermediate
processes and onto the cabling operation, precise guidance of
the fiber has to be employed.
The MGS Group has specialized in these challenges and
delivered solutions optimized for each customers individualized process techniques. This customer-oriented approach to
machine sales has resulted in continued success in a market,
which has faced both technical and competitive influences
over the past years. From a machine perspective, The MGS
Group has delivered over 1000 machines to the fiber industry
since the 1980s and the number continues to grow.
Payoffs & Take-Ups
Precise care of the fiber product is essential. Our machine

designs are proven performers, and when combined with
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customer-specific engineered solutions, provide capability

and value. The Groups portfolio offers payoffs and take-ups
addressing any challenge. For fiber cable production, gantry
and portal designs have for years been standard options for
fiber customers. Compliment these designs with moveable arm
and cone pintle style payoffs, and The MGS Group can offer
and adapt to the special needs of our customers applications.
Our multiple fiber payoff stations handle the fiber with
adherence to traditional handling guidelines without cutting
corners. Product handling is important to keep extrusion lines
Fiber payoff arms (above) and fiber payoff shafts (below).

running 24/7 in todays demanding market. Toward that end,
accumulation of the fiber product at both payoff and take-up
ends of the process aide in uninterrupted production.
Our standard components are optimized for each application. All variables are considered to engineer the right approach to address the demands of your construction, process
and preferences. Our product arrives ready to do the job.
Line capstans are available from bare fiber to large diameter cables. Once again your needs govern what we propose.
We have designs from horizontal to vertical, turn-around
and isolation, each available to address your needs as it is or
adapted to best fit your requirements.
The MGS Group FAT system is perfectly suited to fiber

cable packaging. With the designs attention to positive and
delicate handling of the product and precise tension control,
we ensure placement of the fiber onto the reel with care. Many
fiber cable constructions use Kevlar strength members, which
are essential to protect the fiber. But anyone who has ever tried
to cut Kevlar knows how difficult it is. When in an automated
process, this cut must be done cleanly, consistently and in one
stroke or the machine production would be interrupted and the
automated process would stop. Our R&D engineers looked
at this challenge and got it right. Our machine is reliable and
brings automation to packaging of these cables.
Today, weve adapted this capability to our new FAT SFL
Series, Model 820 Fully Automatic Takeup (SFL-Smaller,
Faster, Less expensive). This streamlined design achieves
higher production speeds in a smaller footprint and less expensive machine. This system is ready to meet future demands for
automated fiber industry packaging. Whether it is packaging
or production product handling, The MGS Group is ready to
solve your problems. www.themgsgroup.com.
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Company Profile: The MGS Group is the management arm for MGS
Manufacturing, Hall Industries and Northampton Machinery. The
Group joins complimentary machinery businesses focusing on the wire,
cable, fiber optic, hose, tube and related industries. Product designs reflect quality, durability and fit-for-purpose in the engineered machinery
marketplace. The MGS Group solves problems. www.themgsgroup.com
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High Quality in Fiber Optic Cables is a

Must, Especially at Ultra-High Speeds
by:
Dr. Mikko Lahti, Director, R&D
Maillefer Extrusion Oy
Ensimminen savu, PO Box 176
FI-01511 Vantaa, Finland
www.maillefer.net
Global Demand Increasing Fast
The global demand for fiber optic cables is increasing at a

fast rate. During the past 10 years, the average global yearly
growth has been 17%, and it is projected to keep increasing.
At the same time, the market has seen very tight competition
between the margins. The key to this issue is to increase efficiency of the production lines.
Normally there is room for improving cable production capacity when making stranded loose tube cables. The improved
loose tube production capacity gains the overall productivity because stranding lines normally have some production
reserve. In addition, the buffer tube properties have a high
impact on fiber optic cable performance. Therefore the Excess
Fiber Length (EFL) and tube shrinkage properties should stay
in tight tolerances even at high speeds.
Efficiency is Key
The efficiency of fiber optic cable production lines can

mainly be improved by increasing the line speed. In order to
reach higher line speeds, the manufacturing process itself must
be highly robust and withstand abnormalities and changes in
factory environments. In the loose tube process, it means that
EFL and post-shrinkage must stay well under control during
the whole production batch. The loose tube properties are
important in final cable quality. When EFL is outside tolerance values it can cause attenuation increase in temperature
cycling. In addition, the loose tube must have stable EFL and
post-shrinkage. All these properties can be adjusted with appropriate process parameters. Higher line speeds need tighter
tolerances and precisely defined process conditions in order
to guarantee excellent cable quality.
The Process
Loose tube manufacturing is a series of actions done in

a fast sequence. Each action affects the next, and the final
product properties are a sum of all the individual actions. The
process begins by extruding a tube and threading it through a
cooling trough. The cooling water temperatures are adjusted
according to the tube material and other tube parameters. The
fibers are guided into the tube through a crosshead with jelly
needles. Depending on the chosen water blocking method,
filling gel or super absorbent polymer coated yarn is injected
or guided into the tube with the fiber bundle. Once the extrudate comes out of the crosshead the cooling process begins.
Cooling water temperature and distance between the
crosshead and cooling trough determines the cooling rate.
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However, the thermal shrinkage of polymer during cooling

cannot be avoided. The thermal shrinkage of optical fibers can
be neglected. The difference in the heat expansion coefficient
of the plastic tube and the glass fiber creates the desired EFL.
Thus the tube velocity at the die exit has to be several percent
higher than the fiber velocity. Immediately after extrusion, the
polymer begins to cool down. Since the plastic tube shrinks
thermally during the cooling process, whereas the optical
fibers do not, EFL starts increasing.
The speed difference of the tube and the bundle can be
altered by increasing the tube speed compared to the bundle
speed. If the bundle and the tube are not coupled together, it
can be done simply by forcing the tube faster forward in the
cooling trough. It can be done with a compression caterpillar located in the cooling trough between the crosshead and
mid-capstan. A suitable compression speed difference with
the line depends on the line speed, tube structure and other
process parameters. If the bundle is coupled with the tube,
compression will not have any effect since it will force the
whole loose tube structure to move faster rather than separately increase the tube speed.
When the speed difference between the fiber bundle and
the tube is high, the compression needs less force. In other
words, compression gets easier when we are closer to the
crosshead. This happens especially with jelly filled products,
because the jelly viscosity is still low due to high shear stress
in the crosshead. In order to compress hot tube, a special caterpillar design is needed. Only when a very gentle, but firm
grip is guaranteed can hot tube compression be ensured. It is
very important when demanding tube designs are the target
or polyolefins are used as buffering materials.
After matching the accurate tube speed with the compression caterpillar, the loose tube is run around the mid-capstan.
When the tube has run multiple loops around the center capstan, the fiber bundle and the tube are intentionally coupled
together to lock-in the compressing effects. However, since
the plastic tube in most cases has not reached room temperature at this stage, the tube will continue cooling through the
multi-pass. If the polymer chains are not in their relaxed state,
post-shrinkage will occur after the manufacturing process.
When utilizing Maillefers compression technology the
tube is compressed during cooling which eliminates post
extrusion shrinkage. Compression is possible only when the
tube temperature is above glass transition temperature (Tg). If
the temperature is below Tg then movement of long polymer
chains is hindered and it is impossible to effect macro scale
orientation of polymer chains during cooling.
A Giant Leap in Secondary Coating
Maillefers secondary coating process has taken a giant

leap in productivity. We have recently set totally new limits for
line speeds. When tripling traditional manufacturing speeds,
there are obvious process items that must be redefined. In order
Maillefer Fiber Optic Secondary Coating Line OEL 40.
to confirm good cable quality, several process modifications

are needed.
Todays trend is to produce dry loose tubes without any
filling compounds. When the fibers are placed into tubes at
ultra-high speeds, alignment and line tension control process
parameters are extremely critical. With jelly filled tubes,
the material properties as well as the jelly filling techniques
are the heart for quality end products. Of course several
other variables, including crosshead tooling, cooling water
temperature, melt temperature, mid-capstan location, fiber
tension, compression caterpillar speed, location, etc., need
to be adjusted accordingly to achieve the targeted EFL and
post-shrinkage properties.
Ultra-High Speeds
Today we can offer ultra-high speed solutions for a wide

range of tube configurations. We offer the possibility to set
new limits for traditional jelly-filled loose tubes when using
PBT as buffering material. We also offer totally dry designs
with polypropylene or with PBT which can be produced at
800 mpm.
Micro tube production is also a growing trend. The tube
consists of 12 fibers with a very thin plastic layer. Micro
tubes are produced from PBT or PC and the tubes final outer
diameter can vary only between 1.3 and 1.4 mm. Extremely
efficient micro tube production is possible with our latest innovations and process know-how.
Key Components
For ultra-high speeds our main development areas have

been the compression caterpillar, the cooling trough and the
crosshead alignment bench. When production speeds are in
the range of 800 to 1000 mpm, the product enters the compression caterpillar at elevated temperatures. Therefore the
caterpillar grip needs to be very firm and gentle, otherwise
it will adversely affect the product geometry. With our new
design it is possible to achieve 1000 mpm line speeds and
still keep the diameter in very accurate tolerances even with
extremely fragile dry designs. Our special belt design makes
it possible to compress tubes even at elevated temperatures.
The special design also remarkably decreases belt wear.

When doubling production speed, the speed difference of
the fiber bundle and the buffer tube increases dramatically.
Therefore the two components need to be separated as accurately as possible. It can be done with our new crosshead
alignment bench. High line speeds also need longer cooling
lengths. It is guaranteed with a motorized multi-pass design
which ensures efficient cooling under low tension.
All these new elements make it possible to open up your
productivity window, even doubling your production speeds.
Fiber is entering our homes and the effectiveness will be a
challenge in the coming years. Our new technology enables
our customers to make an efficiency leap, which guarantees
competitiveness also in the future.
To learn more about the technology for high quality in fiber
optic cables available from Maillefer, contact the author or
visit the Maillefer website.
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Company Profile:
Maillefer helps wire and cable, and pipe and tube
manufacturers to exceed their goals. No limit is fixed
for Maillefer. The company provides its customers
with new opportunities to succeed in and develop their
businesses. With Maillefers technologies, production
know-how and networks, its customers can always stay
ahead of competition. Maillefers clientele includes
large manufacturers and industry newcomers as well
as small, niche businesses. Each customer is unique
and regarded exclusively along the Maillefer partnership. The company delivers its clients versatile support, from 24/7 problem solving and spare parts to
Service Level Agreements.
www.maillefer.net
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Meeting Increasing Demands for

Broadcast & AV Applications
by:
Ed Sullivan for
Optical Cable Corporation (OCC)
5290 Concourse Dr.
Roanoke, VA 24019 USA
www.occfiber.com
The wide use of HD video, emergence of 4K and 8K

ultra-high broadcast standards and increasing popularity in
the audio-video sector is placing greater demands on data
transmission systems. Fiber optic technology, with its ability
to deliver digital, high-bandwidth and low signal-loss streams,
provides an ideal solution for coping with those demands.
However, when it comes to remote broadcasting from harsh
conditions, the advanced needs of permanent broadcasting
studio infrastructures and the increasingly popular use of
audio-video technology among businesses and government
agencies, a new set of demands is being placed on the fiber
optic cable industry.
Field Deployment Applications
Sporting events are among broadcasts toughest venues,

requiring the rapid pulling of miles of field-deployable fiber
optic cable across fences, through water, around rough-hewn
rodeo arenas and along frozen ski slopes or blazing racetracks.
Remote broadcasts demand brisk deployment of dozens of
strands of cable to cameras that fly over football fields, hang
from cranes and are regathered and tossed into crates to be
shipped to the next tough venue. Most important, in all of
these harsh broadcasting environments, the technology must
survive again and again.
Remote broadcasting specialists such as IMS Productions
are involved with such rigorous field environments throughout
the year. Headquartered across from the famed Indianapolis
Motor Speedway, IMS Productions Mobile Unit Group
travels the nation in heavy-duty trucks equipped with studios
and satellite uplinks that provide live production services
for national sports and entertainment broadcasts and events.
Our fleet of mobile studios travels to hundreds of events
across the country throughout the year, sometimes having
to set up and tear down the same day before heading to the
next venue, said Paul Nijak, IMS Productions Director of
Engineering. Even with all the rigors of meeting this schedule, remarkably little fiber cable gets brokenperhaps one
or two pieces a year.
One of IMS Productions typical weeks includes providing broadcast production for the Verizon IndyCar Series, in
locations such as St. Petersburg, FL, USA, where the 1.8
mile, 14-turn circuit incorporates city streets and a section
of airport runway where 100,000' of broadcast cable are laid
behind temporary walls and fences, flown across sections of
track and sometimes pulled through swamps and waterways.
Immediately following the race, IMS Productions crew will
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gather up the cable and head cross-country to a PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Built Ford Tough Series event, where an
average of 15,000' of cable is unspooled by hand around a
ring where it is exposed to considerable grime and foot traffic.
The cable that IMS Productions utilizes for all the field
events it covers is deployable broadcast-quality fiber manufactured by Optical Cable Corporation (OCC), Roanoke,
VA, USA. Nijak says the cable looks and feels like OCCs
acclaimed MilTac, 12-strand, field-deployable tactical grade
cable, but is somewhat lower in cost.
The broadcast quality of this fiber cable is high enough to
meet the 4K ultra-high-definition broadcasting standard that
IMS Productions is currently field testing with Time Warner
Cable Sports.
Our installations range from extremely hot to extremely
cold temperatures, Nijak explained. For example, this year
we covered the Alberta Alpine Ski event in Calgary, Canada.
At that venue, we trenched down into the snow with a chain
saw to bury the cable so that groomers could pack snow over
the top to help protect the cable. In total, we laid about 50,000'
of OCC fiber running all the way up the side of the mountain.
Nijak added that OCC invests time with his group, going
out into the field and seeing first hand how installers handled
the cable.
OCC has also begun making its cable specifically tailored
for us so that we can deploy and connect it more quickly,
Nijak said. So, theyre partnering with us, as opposed to just
saying, Heres our product, go use it.
Broadcasting from sporting events like the Indianapolis

500 demands the brisk deployment of miles of strands of
cable, which are then regathered and tossed into crates to be
shipped to the next tough venue.
Permanent Broadcast Infrastructures
Permanent broadcast fiber installations such as TV

production facilities, require the pulling of cable through
a conduit that will stay in place as lasting infrastructures.
Diversified, a leader in custom media-related solutions, has
a deep heritage in broadcast systems. It provides design and
integration services for TV stations, broadcast and cable net-
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A smooth handoff makes sure you stay ahead. As OM Lesmo joins MFL Group, customers
wont lose a step. Established in 1962, OM Lesmo remains a leading brand of rotating equipment for
the wire and cable industry. And today, MFL Group is the exclusive source of installation, commissioning,
startup, spare parts, and maintenance for all OM Lesmo products. Committed to the industry for
more than 100 years, MFL Group applies the power of three with machines for wire drawing and
stranding/cabling and extruding. Were leveraging this unmatched knowledge and experience with
financial dependability to continuously improve the performance of all our brands and to provide
the support your business needs to ensure maximum uptime and profitability.
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works, professional and collegiate sports venues and mobile
production units as well as production and post-production
facilities.
Many facilities require unique cable infrastructure so
Diversified has a strong appreciation of the advantages fiber
optic cable offers for greater durability and ease of installation.
OCCs six and 12-strand DX Series indoor/outdoor distribution cables are often a good solution for many challenging
installations.
OCCs fiber cables are very easy to pull and manage,
said Justin Guzman, Project Engineer. This saves time and
keeps our projects on track.
The OCC cable has the inclusion of a rigid central strength
member, which is of vital importance in permanent installations. Fiber cable is pulled through conduit and is often
exposed to ten times the tension that it would normally incur.
Broadcasting from remote venues like the Professional Bull

Riding (PBR) event in Las Vegas, seen here, required 15,000'
of OCC cable to be unspooled by hand around a ring where
it is exposed to considerable grime, foot traffic, rough fences,
water and a wild bull or two.
Guzman added, Our team has total confidence in handling

OCC cable and knows signal continuity is maintained in the
toughest installations.
On one project, Guzmans team had a situation where the
cabling in the building needed to be plenum rated. However,
the final 200' of cable was in an underground conduit that was
subject to flood-out.
For our copper cable types, we had to run both an
underground-rated cable and a plenum-rated cable, Guzman
explained. Where the conduits emerged from underground,
we spliced them together. For the fiber, we were able to utilize the OCC DX indoor/outdoor cable series, which met the
criteria for water blocking and plenum rating. This enabled
us to forgo a lot of additional fiber splicing and management.
Guzman added that the unique capabilities of OCC cable
met both criteria and saved much labor and unneeded splicing.
Expediting AV Applications
Companies large and small are dependent on using AV

applications for critical services ranging from training to
teleconferencing. Many of these applications require the
integration of a variety of different AV devices within facili60
ties at many geographic points. This often requires staffing

installation people with installation skillsets such as crimping
and soldering, particularly when various types of AV gear are
not configured to work together.
When the companies transition AV facilities from analog
to digital, it requires a new type of cabling to carry digital
signals. This means a different type of installation technician
is neededIT integrators. These technicians have the tools
and skillset required to install fiber optic cable to transport
packetized data, alongside cable to power the equipment.
Performing this type of installation entails pulling both types
of cable, cutting it to length, terminating it and then plugging
it into AV gear.
However, if this process can be simplified, installation
becomes more efficient and less expensive. In some instances,
OCC has provided AV users hybrid cables that included both
the fiber optic and power cable all in one. Additionally, OCC
has provided the cabling in kit form, with each kit containing pre-terminated, pre-cut cabling for connecting specific
equipment housed in each of multiple (sometimes hundreds
of) AV rooms. Each plug & play hybrid cable is labeled
with a specific part number and each cable box would be
designated for a specific AV location such as a conference
room, lab or command center.
This kitting of the plug & play cable for specific AV
room locations has allowed standard installation contractors
to handle the installation rather than requiring the expertise
of IT or AV contractors. This result has been a reduction of as
much as 25% in installation time as well as saving significant
money on labor.
Additional savings on the plug & play cable can also be
realized when it is pre-terminated at the factory, which means
it has also been pre-tested by factory technicians. This also
provides a greater degree of reliability and reduces the time
to certify the installed system.
OCCs comprehensive line of SMPTE 311-compliant
cables rounds out the companys cable offerings, providing a
range of products for a variety of audio, video and broadcast
WCTI
applications. www.occfiber.com.
Company Profile:
From the development of our first cables through our current product offering, which ranks among the industry's
most comprehensive, Optical Cable Corporation (OCC)
is a company that provides uncompromising product
quality and performance, with solutions for a multitude of
market applications. OCC has earned a reputation as an
industry leader, an innovator and a designer of some of
the highest-performing cabling and connectivity products
available. For years, OCC has been internationally recognized for pioneering the design and production of fiber
optic cables. Today, OCC is internationally recognized
as a leader in engineering and manufacturing a complete
line of top-tier cabling and connectivity solutions, including products and solutions suitable for the most demanding applications. www.occfiber.com
Wishing Joy and Peace this Holiday Season.

Thanks for another great year!
Here's to 2017!

Tel: (401) 405-0755 Fax: (401) 738-9800

Images, facts and news from the 65th IWCS Conference
IWCS 2016 Explores Innovative Technologies

IWCS, Shrewsbury, PA, USA, producer of the International
Cable & Connectivity Symposium, the premier venue for
new technologies in cable/connectivity products, processes
and applications, welcomed attendees to the 65th annual
conference in Providence, RI, USA, October 2-5, 2016.
IWCS 2016 topics included the Internet of Things (IoT),
Power over Communications Cables, Global FTTX and
Installation, Materials for Cable/Connectivity Applications,
Fiber Optic Connectors for Harsh Environments, Copper
Cable Performance and Design and more.
The executive session and technical symposium offered a
high-caliber program containing 99 technical papers and
presentations in 16 sessions that attracted presenters
and attendees from across the USA, Asia and Europe.
The conference also included 22 poster papers, 11 new
product presentations, seven professional development
courses led by industry experts and a supplier exhibition.
Attendees came from 25 countries, spanning six
continents, with 31% from outside the USA. Attendees
from Europe accounted for 13% and 14% came from Asia.
Also, 11% of the attendees were from Japan and China.
Overall attendance increased by 24% over the prior year.
This conference gives attendees a unique opportunity
to gain insight from top engineers, researchers and
executives from the cabling and connectivity industry,
said David B. Kiddoo, IWCS CEO. The quality of the
papers was excellent and overall popularity of the topics
including the enhanced connectivity focus, generated a
high level of global interest in this years program.
A formal announcement of a collaboration between IWCS
and UL to produce a regional conference in Shanghai,
China, next year was made at the plenary session. Robert
Wessels, Jr. of CommScope and IWCS Chairman,
signed the collaboration agreement with L.F. Lai, VP/GM
of ULs Wire and Cable division. The new event, called UL
and IWCS China 2017 Cable & Connectivity Symposium,
will be held April 25 to 27, 2017, at the Marriott Shanghai
City Centre and will be based on the IWCS conference
format of a technical symposium, plenary session with
keynote speaker, executive track and a professional
development program. Simultaneous translations will be
provided for each presentation. Selection of presentations
will be made with a Call for Papers and peer review.
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This is our 65th year of the global symposium conducted

in the USA, and we are now looking forward to presenting
topics to a broader audience in Asia, particularly to those
who cannot travel to the USA, commented Wessels. L.F.
Lai said, As China is the largest market for wire and cable
connectivity with the strongest need for acquiring the
knowledge of latest innovations, it is logical to establish
this regional event in China as the premier venue to learn
of new technologies in cable and connectivity materials,
products, processes and applications.
A highlight of the plenary session was the recognition for
the best papers and presenters of the prior year. The Jack
Spergel Memorial Award for Outstanding Technical Paper
for, Characterization of Modal Dependence of MMF
Chromatic Dispersion for Wideband MMF, was presented
to co-authors Bulent Kose, Jose Castro, Ph.D., Rick
Pimpinella, Ph.D., Yu Huang, Ph.D., Alexander Berian,
Asher Novick and Brett Lane, Ph.D., all of Panduit
Corporation, Tinley Park, IL, USA.
The Outstanding Poster Paper for, Development of
2000-Fiber Ultra-High Density Underground Optical
Cable, was presented to co-authors Tomohiro Ishimura,
Masayoshi Tsukamoto and Yutaka Hoshino of
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Mie, Japan.
The Kitts-Kingsley Award for Best Presentation was given
to David Mazzarese, Ph.D. of OFS, Norcross, GA, USA,
for, Splice Loss Criteria for Outside Plant Cable.
Ian Greveling of Corning Optical Communications
LLC, North Carolina, USA, a retiring member of the IWCS
Board of Directors, and retiring Symposium Committee
Member Paolo Marelli, of Prysmian Group, Milano, Italy,
were also honored.
New Symposium Committee members added in 2016 are
Eduardo Garza, Hitachi Cable America; Richard Mack,
CRU; James Malkemus, General Cable; Dr. Akira
Murata, Fujikura, Ltd.; Wayne Kachmar, Technical
Horsepower Consulting, LLC; Robert LaRocca,
Underwriters Laboratories, LLC; Simone (Cy) Genna,
The Chemours Company; and Durgesh S. Vaidya,
OFS, a Furukawa Company.
Seven recipients of the student scholarship awards for
the 2016/2017 academic year were also acknowledged
at the plenary session. Contributions came from Cable
Components Group, the Wire & Cable Industry
Suppliers Association (WCISA), The Christopher
Kenneth Eoll Memorial Endowment and the Wire
Association International (WAI).
The two-day supplier exhibition, poster session and
new product presentations were each well attended.
Over 100 suppliers exhibited exciting new innovations to
support the growth and advancements in the cable and
connectivity industry. www.iwcs.org
Wire & Plastic Highlights Optical Fiber

& Datacomm Processing Machinery
Wire and Plastic Machinery Corporation, Bristol,

CT, USA, had a productive two days of exhibition at
the IWCS Conference in Providence, RI, USA.
Our centrally located double-size booth specically
highlighted our Optical Fiber and Datacomm
processing machinery inventory.
Rick Narang, Greg Malcervelli, Erik Macs and
Denis Godin handled the discussions with the steady
stream of existing and new customers through the
booth. www.wireandplastic.com
Cimteq: Manufacturing Made Easier
For the 65 th anniversary of the IWCS, Cimteq

maintained its presence with its current and new
immerging products. This year, Cimteq has been
highlighting its new development CableMES, which
captured the attention of the exhibition. This solution
developed by Cimteq, leverages the global scope and
scalability of the Wonderware platform together with
Cimteqs extensive cable manufacturing knowledge to
produce a solution that enables cable manufacturers
to more eectively manage and control every aspect
of the manufacturing process.
Cimteq has also seen an increase in demand for its
most innovative software CableBuilder which is set to
make the design and manufacturing processes more
ecient and easier to handle. CableBuilder enables
you to seamlessly manage cable product data through
the typical workow milestones of Design, Production,
Customer Quotation, Ordering, Quality Assurance
and ERP system. This enables signicant productivity
gains through the ecient handling of product data,
ensuring continuity and data integrity throughout the
cable life cycle.
If you would like to receive further information relating
to our products or services, you can pay us a visit at
www.cimteq.com and book a demonstration today!
All photos (except in blue boxed-in areas) courtesy IWCS, Inc.
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Maillefer Production Eciency,

the Only Way to Success!
At IWCS 2016, Maillefer Extrusion Oy, Vantaa,

Finland, presented new limits for ultra-high-speed
buering. The global demand for optical ber cables
is increasing at an ever growing rate. During the past
10 years, the average yearly global growth has been
17%, and it is projected to keep increasing. At the
same time, the market has seen very tight competition
between the margins. The key to this problem is in
increasing the eciency of cable manufacturing lines.
Product Engineer, Juha Kotala, was present at the
show and commented, It is great to meet customers
and hear that they are facing challenges to reach
the production capacity which is needed nowadays.
R&D Director, Dr. Mikko Lahti, continued, We have
been studying buering process for years. Still today
we can explore new things when running the line close
to 1000 mpm. Both on material and on process side
we have gathered exiting knowledge which can lead to
even better cable quality at ultra-high speed buering.
The gentlemen agree that it is really benecial to
change ideas and experiences with fellow colleagues
Maillefer Compression Caterpillar CCA 1000.

every year, and that the show gives a perfect
opportunity for further networking during the evening
events. Both hope to meet everyone again next year.
Please read more about our whole product portfolio
at the webite listed below, and the latest news at:
blog.maillefer.net.
www.maillefer.net

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Inhol & Melos Report on

Successful Presence
Inhol and Melos had a successful presence at the

IWCS 2016 show. It is always busy in our booth,
and we had the opportunity to meet again with
our customers and potential customers. The USA
market is still moving rapidly towards high-grade
halogen-free materials and systems to meet national
and international specifications. Meanwhile, some
customers of Inhol/Melos obtained
impressive results on the Burning
behavior of Fiber Optic Cables with
Bedding compound FM 0474/5!
Additionally, a range of new charforming sheathing compounds also
contribute to improved heat-release
and flame-spread reduction of cable
systems.
Mecoline and Inhol compounds are
exclusively made in Europe and USA
to meet international specifications
and high performance requirements.
These quality and specification
aspects are increasingly important
for the internal and external markets
of the wire and cable industry. Inhol and Melos will

continue to meet the growing demand for high-quality
compounds and technical support. Our major markets
in the USA and Europe include high-grade compounds
for green energy, installation, railways, shipbuilding,
automotive and off-shore.
www.inhol.com / www.melos.com
Beta LaserMikes Accurate

Lay Length Measurement
system can be used in conjunction with LayScan for

a total on-line cable performance quality solution.
SRL Pro can be used before and/or after the extruder
to identify potential causes of structural return loss
problems on data communication cables. To learn
more visit the website below.
www.ndc.com/betalasermike
At IWCS, we gave cable makers a close look at

our innovative Beta LaserMike LayScan lay length
measurement system, says Jay Luis, Marketing
Commuunicaitons Manager for Beta LaserMike
products at Dayton, OH, USA-based NDC. Cable
manufacturers are looking for ways to
improve crosstalk performance and reduce
product costs. LayScan accurately and
consistently measures the lay length of
twisted pairs in data communication cables
up to Category 8 products. And, it eliminates
scrap, costly rework and productivity losses
resulting from manual, time-consuming lay
length measurement methods and crosstalk
performance issues from lay variations.
LayScan can be used to measure the four
pairs at the cabler or to measure an individual
pair at a twinner to confirm the accuracy
of twisted-pair cable construction during
production. A data acquisition and control
system effectively collects and processes
each lay length in the cable and allows the full
use of the customers off-line analysis tools
such as trend charts, statistical analysis or
FFT analysis to readily observe, measure and
report systematic lay variations within each
lay. Data can be easily stored on a local PC.
LayScan measures lay lengths up to 25.4 mm
at throughput speeds up to 152.4 mpm with
a measurement accuracy to within 0.025 mm
on the same twisted pair.
The Beta LaserMike SRL Pro software
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AGC: New Generation EFTE
AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc., Exton, PA, USA,

exhibited its products at IWCS 2016. The company
manufactures, markets and sells high-quality
uoroproducts including Fluon uoropolymer resins
and compounds, AFLAS Fluoroelastomers and
AsahiKlin uorinated solvents. The company also
markets and sells specialty chemicals including
LUMIFLON FEVE resins, Asahi Guard E-SERIES
water and oil repellants, F-CLEAN greenhouse lms,
Solesphere ne silica additives and various uoro
intermediates.
At IWCS, AGCs Masahide Yodogawa presented
a paper titled, New Generation of ETFE for High
Temperature Durable Cable - Class F(200C) ISO6722
and LV-112 and GMW15626. www.agcchem.com
Addivant: Liquid Antioxidant Solution
On the third and nal day of the technical conference,

Dr. Mark Moody, from Global Specialty Additives rm,
Addivant, presented the rst paper of the morning
in the Commercial Applications of Cable Materials
session 12 (chaired by Mehdi Emad of Solvay
Specialty Polymers). His paper, Development
of a new high performance liquid antioxidant
solution, LOWINOX FAST XL, suitable for use in
pre-compounded XLPE, was well received by the
audience with a number of questions asked/answered.
The paper highlighted development of this new
antioxidant solution starting with lab testing to larger
scale compounding and cable trials. Comparative data
against an existing liquid antioxidant for this type of
MV/HV XLPE cable application showed the benets
of LOWINOX FAST XL. www.addivant.com
The 66th International Cable Connectivity Symposium IWCS 2017

takes place in Orlando, FL, USA, October 8 to 11, 2017
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Reels Roundup
compiled by the Editors at Wire & Cable Technology International
Suppliers have responded to our call for the state-of-the-art

in reel equipment and technology
Steel Drums for Power

Grid Interconnection
Maika Kellermann of August Hildebrandt GmbH,

Schwerin, Germany, says, The Hildebrandt Group
will enable a HVDC power grid interconnection
between Germany and Norway. The Hildebrandt
Group will supply up to 100 steel drums with a flange
diameter of 4200 mm and total width of 7000 mm for
cables grossweight of 65,0t. These drums will transport HVDC cables to connect Germany and Norway
by a power grid interconnection.
This is a milestone project for the Hildebrandt Group.
One of the leading cable manufactures in the world
awarded us with the contract to supply these oversized drums for the transport of its HVDC cables. Our
excellent service level, expertise lead and long-term
relationship convinced our customer. The Hildebrandt
Group presented the best offer in terms of quality
and prices to our customer. We will also supply the
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customer with lifting and handling equipment for this

project. These accessories complete our product range
for the cable production industry.
We understand ourselves as a full-range supplier,
said Christoph Braun, Head of Sales at Hildebrandt
Group.
In addition to steel drums, the Hildebrandt Group
also produces wooden, plywood and plastic drums.
The product range also covers handling equipment
and any kind of steel construction. The Hildebrandt
Group is certified by DNV-GL for ISO 9001 and 14001
and is CE-certified by DNV-GL. www.cabledrum.com
Steel & Plastic Reels Produced to European

& USA Standards for Todays Applications
Philip Young, Managing Director, Inosym Ltd., Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand, says, Inosym has
been supplying reels to the cable and wire industry for
16 years and to over 65 countries. Specializing in steel
and plastic reels that are manufactured to European
and USA standards, Inosym can offer reels to meet
all the varying needs of the modern manufacturing
plants. Inosym is committed to providing our customers with world-class quality reels and bobbins at
competitive prices.
Inosym reels were developed to provide cable and
wire manufacturers with a product that was realistically priced and of high quality. We believe we are
achieving this and are assisting our customers to
reduce capital expenditure and increase profits.
ABS plastic reels are offered
from 250 to 1000 mm for insulating, group twinners, stranding,
bunching and jacketing. MF
(Metal Flange) pressed metal
process reels come in sizes from
100 to 1250 mm and are made
from high-quality steel plate and
tube. Applications include universal take-up and payoff reels,
bunching, stranding, insulating
and jacketing.
SM (Semi Machined) doublewall high-speed reels come in
sizes from 315 to 1250 mm and
are made of high-quality steel
plate and tube. Applications
include drawing, bunching,
stranding and insulating.
FM (Fully Machined) steel
Your Global Supplier for

Wire and Cable Technology
Founded in Italy in 1936, SAMP is an established and world
renowned company offering a wide range of machinery for the
wire and cable industry.
SAMP machines guarantee high productivity, incredible flexibility
and great savings in terms of energy and material consumption.
For more information about our multi-wire drawing machinery,
as well as our rod breakdown and extrusion equipment, please
contact us at: info@sampinc.com
www.sampsistemi.com
www.maccaferri.it
Reels Roundup
high-speed reels in sizes
ranging from 100 to 1000
mm and are manufactured
from high-quality steel plate
and tube. Applications include high-speed singlewire drawing, high-speed
multi-wire drawing, bunching and enamelled wire coating.
SD (Steel Drum Reels) are large steel process and
shipping drums available in sizes ranging from 800
to 4500 mm. SD Steel Drum Reel options include
at-sided anges, corrugated ange and break-down
reels. Applications include drum twisting, stranding,
insulating and jacketing.
and available in all sizes: 400 x 400, 400 x 250, 400 x

150, 400 x 100 (the rst numbers indicate the ange
diameter in mm, the other ones the traverse width in
mm). In addition to their favorable price, the new NPS
spools oer all the other advantageous characteristics
of NPS spools.
The NPS is a highly ecient, safe and economic
handling system for automotive cables and consists
of the specially developed SV type spoolers and the
collapsible NPS multiway spools made of ABS plastic.
The spoolers spool the insulated wire coming from
extrusion lines with a patented wire-laying technology onto the NPS spools. They oer a secure, stable
and tangle-free package both when full or partially
empty and enable highest cable payo speeds into
downstream processes.
The empty NPS spools can be fully dismantled and
stacked into each other. Therefore, an NPS spool takes
up only a third of the space of a comparable conventional spool and needs much less return shipping
space than traditional spools of the same capacity
resulting in considerable savings in shipping and handling expenses. Further advantages are the savings
on packaging material and the reduction of the cable
scrap rate. Upon return to the cable manufacturer,
NPS spools can be easily and quickly re-assembled,
re-loaded and nally re-used for dozens of cycles.
The NPS works most eciently and tangle-free for
With more than 40,000 m2 of production space, Inosym can provide our customers with rapid delivery
of both large and small reel orders. Inosym is sure
you will nd the quality, performance and price to
be world class. www.inosym.com
Price Revolution for a New

Generation of NPS Spools
Information from Maschinenfabrik Nieho GmbH

& Co. KG, Schwabach, Germany, says, A completely
new generation of spools for the Nieho Packaging
System (NPS) has been introduced to the market by
Maschinenfabrik Nieho. These NPS spools are considerably more cost-ecient than their predecessors
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A new generation NPS spool (size 400 x 400).
all automotive wire and cable including small cross

section wire, e.g., 0.22 mm and 0.13 mm.
The NPS is the worlds only packaging system for
automotive cables made of copper, copper alloys and
aluminum, which allows trouble-free and tangle-free
paying-o at highest speeds. Even signal cables made
of copper alloys with a cross-section of 0.13 mm can
Reels Roundup
be processed without any problems. More than 500
NPS spooler units with more than 3 million NPS spools
are currently in use all over the world.
Niehoff Group globally supplies state-of-the-art manufacturing solutions for the production of wires made
from nonferrous metals, automotive, data, and special
cables. With a manpower of about 800, manufacturing
subsidiaries and sales/service centers worldwide, Niehoff provides from a single source and tailored to each
individual demand expertise and customer-driven
solutions in all aspects, from product development to
turnkey projects and from all-round technical service
and maintenance in customers languages to the supply of Niehoff Original+ OEM spare and wear parts
and modernization measures. www.niehoff.de
Packaging for Installers Also Provides

Applications for Manufacturing
Timothy Copp, Vice President Business Development

Manager, REELEX Packaging Solutions, Inc., Patterson NY, USA, says, Not just for end-users, REELEX
packaging has applications for manufacturing too.
REELEX twist and tangle-free packages have demonstrated their benefits to end-users and installers all
over the world, but the characteristics of the reel-less
technology can greatly benefit in-process applications
as well.
When manufacturing our coiling machines, we pull
a ton of hook-up wire. As a result, our guys know
first-hand what is involved in making conduits, wire
harnesses and pulling wire. Almost every reel of wire
we receive to be used in wiring our equipment we
rewind into REELEX and repackage in boxes. Besides
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being much easier to transport and store, the REELEX

boxes do not need any reel stands, brakes or other
equipment. Our production people just bring over the
boxes they need and start pulling. This eliminates the
need to maneuver reel stands, or waste time dealing
with overruns and tangles.
Each REELEX machine we manufacture uses thousands of feet of various hook-up wire gauges, in addition to multi-conductor cables. Each reel that comes
in gets repackaged into REELEX so that the electrical
technicians on the production floor can benefit from
the positive aspects of REELEX.
Pulling wire through conduits is hugely simplified
and trouble-free when pulling from REELEX. Besides
the noticeable absence of back-tension compared to
dispensing from reels, the twist and memory-free payout of the wire makes pulling multiple wires together
much smoother.
To see how REELEX tangle-free technology might
benefit the manufacturing environment, please visit
the website listed below.
www.REELEX.com
Innovating for the Future
Rick Brown of Vandor Corporation, Richmond, IN,

USA, says, Vandor Corporation was founded in 1972
and began manufacturing reels by 1980. The knowledge and experience gained from our Enviromold
production process offered a leadership opportunity
in developing a low-cost plywood replacement reel.
Today, that leadership is demonstrated through 36
patents and a network of customers who value our
competitive prices, on-time delivery and innovative
products. And with our ISO 9001:2008 QMS certification, we keep our customers success at the forefront.
Today, Vandors Reel Options division manufactures
reel flanges from 6.5" up to 24" diameter. We employ an
in-house assembly department, and flanges and tubes
can also ship individually bulk packaged for remote
assembly in order to save on freight costs. Many of
our patented designs allow our customers to simply
assemble reels in house with a staple gun or torque
driverdepending on the assembly method.
Our combined tooling is designed to provide maximum flexibility for our customers. Vandors Reel
Options products are also compatible with automatic
winding equipment. Reel Options newest boxed reel
product, the LABOR~SAVER is specifically made for
auto-winding equipment and comes preassembled
and shipped with End~Stands attached to the reel. The
unique LABOR~SAVER system allows the reel to be
loaded, wound and packaged into individual boxed
containers using automated equipment. With a simple
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true to its center axis in order to avoid vibration and
machine wear. Wire drawing spoolers such as static
spoolers also require a precise geometry in order for
the spooling to be done at high speeds and without
affecting the wires quality.
Machined outer surfaces may be required, when the
driving mechanism of the reel relies on a smooth and
precise surface in order to rotate the reel according to
the production machines requirements thus providing proper back tension. The arbor hubs may also be
machined in order to fit well in machinery, especially
in higher-speed applications.
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pull of the wire, reels payout with low resistance. By

eliminating the extra step to attach the end stands
to the reel prior to boxing, the LABOR~SAVER does
just what the name suggests during the winding and
packaging process, while providing dependable onsite product payout. www.reeloptions.com
Machined Reels for

High-Speed Spooling & Processing
Chris Hauer of Howar Equipment, Concord, Ontario,

Canada, says, Howar Equipment supplies machined
steel reels manufactured by world reel manufacturer
leader BOXY, for numerous applications. The machined reels product line is specifically designed to
suit special applications where speed, rotation balancing and precision are of the essence.
Almost all constructions of steel reels can be machined to some extent, but the applications where the
reels are to be used will define the construction type
and the required machining operations.
Machined reels are required whenever a reel will be
used in a high-speed application, since the reel will be
rotating at higher speeds, therefore needing to spin
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Terry Carey of FIC Manufacturing Company, Akron,

OH, USA, says, FIC Manufacturing Company is a
full line vertically integrated manufacturing company
providing quality packaging products to the wire and
cable industry. Product selection includes:
Plastic Spools in flange diameters of 2" thru 14".
Plywood Reels in flange diameters of 8" to 48"
with barrel material consisting of cardboard tube,
plywood bending stock as well as stave barrel. All
plywood flange material is offered in Southern
Yellow Pine construction.
Nailed Wood Reels in flange diameters of 15" to
120". All nailed wood reel components have been
heat treated and stamped allowing for exportation.
All reel packages are manufactured at our three locations: Akron; Philadelphia, PA, USA; and Chicago,
IL, USA.
As more and more companies go to a just-in-time
delivery program, inventory is critical to allow for
these programs to be successful. FIC Manufacturing
works with numerous customers installing a component base inventory program in our facilities. Based
on historical data, FIC Manufacturing Company will
hold unassembled inventory for our customers allowing for releases to be shipped and delivered with
minimal lead times. This allows for less inventory
being held in our customers facility with our timely
delivery of finished product.
All our associates are committed to a TEAM ENVIRONMENT that services our customers needs and
allows for continued growth at FIC Manufacturing
Company. www.foundationind.com
Reel Walker for Safe Reel Handling

Canada, says, Safety is a main concern for all manufacturing plants and costs for noncompliant work
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60" Steel Flange Reel with Wood Core.
and a major provider of second-hand machinery. In the

course of acquiring the multitudes of machines in our
inventory, we also acquire a wide range of Bobbins and
Reels. The sizes, styles and quantities of reels varies
greatly. For immediate needs or temporary changes in
processing, customers can get rapid delivery of steel,
plastic and wood/steel reels from 10" flange diameter
up to 96". We also carry a wide variety of stem packs.
Many items are listed in our on-line inventory and
quotations for on-line items can be obtained easily
through the website listed below.
www.wireandplastic.com
practice can be quite expensive. Operators need tools
to make their jobs safer and easier.
The Reel Walker has been developed and tested
for the safe handling of reels, whereby the operator
rolls and rotates the reels within the plant. Often
home-made devises are used to facilitate the requirement, but Howar Equipment has developed a newly
available Reel Walker.
The Reel Walker features a design which incorporates the following:
Free rolling shaft (made in 2", 3", 5" diameters).
Grip enhancing Arbor Sleeve.
Self-lubricating bearings.
Ergonomic Shaped handle.
Non-Slip Hand Grip.
Powder-coated finish.
For reels up to 40" (1000 mm).
Reel weights up to 1450 lb (660 kg).
Steel Flange Reels with Wood Cores
Information from Wire and Plastic Machinery Corporation, Bristol, CT, USA, says, Wire and Plastic
Machinery Corporation is a USA-based supplier of
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Large-Diameter Structural Steel Reels

Canada, says, Large diameter reels with greater
load capacity is a growing requirement to transport
power cables. HOWAR Equipment supplies a large
variety of steel reels from small wire drawing spools
to large diameter cable reels for process and shipping
applications.
The SR- Structural Reels line boasts reels up to 200"

diameter (5 m) with loading capacity of 50 tons. The
reels are designed according to the application, cable
type and method of transportation.
The benefit of the SR reels is that they are a fabricated
steel reel made up of structural steel members. The
flanges are made of a smooth inside steel sheet liner
to protect the cable from damage and to create an ite-
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gral flange assembly. The flange is then structurally
supported by means of steel tubes, channels or angles.
The outside perimiter of the reel flange can be supplied
with a flat steel plate or an I-Beam, which will hold
the wood lagging while supporting the weight of the
reel being transferred to the ground when transported
or stored.
The drum of the reels is composed of a smooth rollformed steel sheet in a variety of thicknesses, with the
addition of stiffening members underneath to support
the static weight as well as the winding tension during
cable production.
The central arbor where the reel will rest on the pintles or payoff shaft, is manufactured from a machined
steel bushing to create a precise meeting point between
the reel and the take-up and payoff equipment.
The complete line up of reels is complimented by the
wire drawing, cable stranding, extrusion reels as well
as reel handling equipment available for all wire and
cable production requirements.
www.cabledrum.com
Large Pressed Metal, Fully Machined,

Heavy-Duty Fabricated & Shipping Reels
Rene Mayer of Mossberg Associates, Inc., Cumberland, RI, USA, says, Back in the late 1960s, Mossberg
Pressed Steel was manufacturing hundreds of thousands of small metal spools 12" and under in size. As
technology improved, machines were made to handle
larger reels and developments in plastics improved
the strength of smaller spools. With the exception
of a few cases, these manufacturing improvements
virtually wiped out the need for small metal spools.
full range
supplier
for reels
PEFC/04-32-1261
Over the past three decades, customers relied on the

used market to fill their needs, but with that market
drying up, Mossberg Associates, Inc. is seeing an increase in demand for new ones. While we will never
see the quantities of the past, we have supplied several
thousands of 8" to 12" heavy-duty metal spools in the
past four years.
Continued ...
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Mossberg also supplies larger pressed metal, fullymachined, heavy-duty fabricated and shipping reels
of all sizes. Ancillary equipment is also available.
www.mossberg-reel.com
Pressed Steel Reels in

Application-Specific Constructions

Canada, says, Pressed steel reel manufacturer Metavan N.V., which is represented in North America by
Howar Equipment Inc., is a specialized reel manufacturer due to its focus on the curled flange pressed
steel reels for bunches, wire spooling and extrusion.
The automatic and robotic manufacturing facility and
specializing in the pressed steel, results in a quality
product with short lead times (two to five weeks),
while still allowing customization of the reels to suit
the customer needs.
These steel reels are predominantly used for drawn

wire shipping and processing, as well as for bunchers and some extrusion lines. The reels are available
in diameters from 300 to 1250 mm (12" to 49.5") and
can be manufactured using various steel thicknesses,
depending on the application (one-way shipping or
process reels).
The entire manufacturing process is completed by
epoxy painting, or powder-coating the reels to any
desired color for protection and personalization requirements, which can also include stenciling and
embossing.
www.HowarEquipment.com / www.Metavan.com
Spools for High-Precison Applications
Information from Hfner & Krullmann, says, The

Leopoldshhe, Germany-based manufacturers products are used, among many other purposes, during
the manufacturing of highly sensitive conductors.
Precise adherence to specifications is essential when
producing and processing superconductors. This
explains why leading superconductor manufacturer
Bruker EAS relies on precision spools from Hfner
& Krullmann.
The production and deployment of superconductors
depends on exacting compliance with remarkably narrow tolerances. Among other uses, superconductors
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Applications: With its high-precision production of

spools and reels, Leopoldshhe-based manufacturer
Hfner & Krullmann is able to meet the special requirements that arise in the processing of highly sensitive
winding material. Photo: Bruker EAS.
are deployed in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

scanners. The tiniest faults in their production lead
to functional deviations. The superconductors, some
of which have rectangular cross-sections, are wound
closely, layer to layer. Absolute dimensional accuracy
must be achieved as they are wound onto spools and
subsequently preserved during storage, transport and
unwinding.
This means that the requirements to be met by these
spools are equivalent to the demands made on precision machine parts. They begin with the minimization
of deviation from concentric running and do not end
with stiffness specifications for flanges. The surfaces
of cores and the inside of flanges must be perfectly
smooth, since any protuberances could lead to winding flaws or damage the winding material. Winding
widths must be extremely accurately dimensioned
to ensure that a precisely defined number of layers
of winding material sit compactly alongside one another on the barrel. This dimensional precision must
be guaranteed over the entire height of the flange and
must be maintained during winding. The spool must
also run perfectly true in all directions. In spite of their
low weight, spools must also stand up to robust handling, as even barely visible distortions of the flanges
or other hidden damage could make the entire winding material unusable. The qualities of the spools must
also remain absolutely constant in changing weather,
climate or moisture conditions. Reels from the Hfner
VMV series, in particular, meet these requirements.
The spheres of application of these reels range from
their uses as manufacturing or as delivery spools
across the wire and cable industry, in cablers and for
stranding, up to their deployment in rolling mills for
ribbons and other nonround cross sections. A further
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application is their use to wind PV ribbon, which
continues to get thinner and thinner. The VMV reels
are particularly suitable for winding materials with
angular cross-sections and for layer-to-layer winding.
Hfner oers a large variety of dierent ange diameters as standard: 315, 350, 355, 400, 500, 560, 600,
610, 630, 710 and 800 mm are all available. A similarly
wide range of winding widths is oereddepending
on the core diameter, every size in a range of from 50
to 560 mm is available. The arbor holes in the reels
can be modied exibly with the help of adapters to
achieve diameters between 16 and 127 mm. Highly
durable polyamide and steel versions are available. To
ensure reels can be driven or winding material taken
up from them, all reels have suitable features, either
between the ange ribs or in the form of additional
holes or slits. The reels can accommodate considerable lling weights. For example, the VMV 800, for
example, is known to be used with up to 1000 kg of
bare copper wire.
Flame
Retardants
Zinc Borate - Small particle
size specific for Wire and
Cable
Flame Check - Non Halogen
specialty flame retardants
and packages
Antimony Oxide
ATH
Magnesium Hydroxide
Phosphate Esters
Chlorinated Paraffin
Give us a call and let us help solve
your biggest challenges.
High precision: The VMV 800 of Hfner & Krullmann

is known to be used with up to 1000 kg of bare copper
wire. Photo: Hfner & Krullmann.
In addition to the very substantial number of

standard dimensions oered, Hfner is also able to
produce custom spools and reels to meet customer
specications.
The company can adapt the core diameters and
winding widths of spools and reels to meet special
requirements even when only small quantities are required. Among other designs, very narrow pancake
reels can be produced.
For all of these reasons, leading wire manufacturers now use only plastic reels from Hfner, both for
internal use and as delivery spools.
Continued ...
www.hafner-spools.com
Service you expect.
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CHEMICAL
1665 Enterprise Pkwy, Twinsburg, OH 44087

Ph: (800) 991-2436 F: (330) 920-0971
www.hbchemical.com
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Reels Recognized for Safety Excellence
Gordon Wood, Sales and Marketing Director at Carris Reels, Proctor VT, USA, says, Carris Reels has
been awarded the prestigious John Arnold Award
for achieving scores for
overall safety performance that were highest
among the 370 member
companies of the exclusive Raffles Captive Insurance Group. Raffles
member companies can
only be referred by other
member companies and
must pass a rigorous
vetting process based on
successful safety inspections by outside firms.
Additionally, Raffles
member companies must exhibit above average financial strength and a solid history of successfully
controlling losses to be included among this diverse
group of best-in-class companies.
Lone Star Reel was welcomed into the Carris community of companies in September. Mike Pawlish
and Larry Beal started the company in 1997 and grew
it to over 150 employees producing nailed wood and
plywood reels in Bonham and McKinney, TX, USA.
Their commitment to customers and product earned
them a customer base throughout Texas and the
southeast. The former co-owners of Lone Star will
continue to operate the plants with their dedicated
workforce. Carris will eventually introduce additional
reel products to the Texas operations and their served
markets including plastics and the new Hybrid Reels.
Three new plastic reels have been developed by Carris Reels and are offered from the Vermont Plastics
facility in Rutland, VT. The newly designed reels are
called Hybrid Reels as they are comprised of several
materials including recycled polypropylene flanges,
paper tubes and metal bolts. Three flange diameters
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can be matched with varying traversed paper tubes

for capacity flexibility. Sizes currently include:
10-" dia. X any traverse length X 4" bbl dia.
with 1-9/16" arbor
11-" dia. X any traverse length X 5" bbl dia.
with 1-9/16" or 2-1/16" arbor
13-" dia. X any traverse length X 5. bbl dia.
with 1-9/16" or 2-1/16" arbor.
The Hybrid Reels are intended for capacities from
25 to 100 lb and can be shipped assembled or unassembled. The reels are compatible with both Hall
and Windak machines as well as all other take-up
equipment.
Other new plastic reels newly introduced by Carris
Plastics in VA are the one piece recycled High Density
Polyethylene (HDPE) spools (6 " x 4 " x 2 1/8"). In
addition, Carris offers an entire family of HDPE reels
(that are spin welded to PE extruded barrels) including flange diameters 8 ", 10 ", 11 " and 13 ".
J.Hamelin, Saint Jerome, Quebec, Canada, is pleased
to announce the relocation and consolidation of the
Quebec repair facility from Chambly, Quebec to
the companys head office and main manufacturing
plant in Saint Jerome. J. Hamelins President, Harold
Stotland says that the company first envisioned this
consolidation six years ago and that this change will
result in significant customer service benefits and
operational advantages as the companys reel repair
business continues to grow with operations now in
four Canadian provinces. Over 1000 reels per week are
being repaired at J. Hamelins facilities and returned
to the companys loyal customers throughout North
America. Part of that total includes more than 25 truckloads of used reels per month that are shipped from
the companys Edmonton, Alberta plant to eastern
manufacturers via piggy back service. Freight rates
west to east are very competitive.
In addition to repairing nailed wood reels, J. Hamelin repairs and reconditions steel reels using the
companys full capabilities including widening or
narrowing reels, sandblasting and full painting.
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HB Chemical was founded in 1985 and has grown
to be a distributor of quality rubber chemicals
and products throughout North America. With
10 warehouses located in the US, Mexico
and Canada, HB Chemical provides the most
economical products to meet customer needs and
quality requirements while providing the very best
in customer service.
In 2006 our Northeast Ohio warehouse expansion
was completed to serve our distribution warehouses
in California, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts,
Missouri, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Ontario,
Canada and several locations in Mexico.
HB Chemical is certified to ISO 9001 standards and
is recognized as one of the top 30 US Chemical
Distributors and among the top 80 in the world by
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Accelerators
Magnesium Oxide
Antioxidants &
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Inhibitors
J. Hamelin plans to continually adapt its capacities

to meet the growing demand for fast, thorough and
eective repair service. Presently at many Canadian
wire plants, 70% of the reels in use have been repaired
at least once.
The Carris Michigan plant was moved some 8 miles
to a 63,000 ft2 facility in New Carlisle, IN, USA, this
past spring. The new oor space supports additional
repair and recycling of wood reels while aording
greater space for inventory, which now enables
the company to provide even more responsive and
reliable delivery to the customers of this growing
midwest division.
Additionally, Carris Indiana serves the midwest
markets with reels that are manufactured from plywood, nailed wood, plastic and stamped metal.
www.carris.com
Continued ...
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Plasticizers
Carbon Black
Process Aids
Dispersions
Stearates
Fatty Acids
Sulfur
Flame Retardants
TiO2
Lubricants
Waxes
Service you expect.
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Ph: (800) 991-2436 F: (330) 920-0971
www.hbchemical.com
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Reel Recycling Gains Greater Importance
Dave Winebarger, Vice President & General Manager

of Sonoco Reels, Hartselle, AL, USA, says, Sonoco
Reels has expanded the EcoReel recycling operation
to cover more ground than ever before. We are getting
calls from nearly every state in the continental USA
now. The sizes and types of reels we are recycling
today have expanded greatly from what we had been
able to accept in years past.
Most investor-owned utilities support environmental protection efforts. Years ago, one of our largest
customers challenged us to identify a way to recycle
reels to help eliminate landfill waste, notes Mike
Preston of Southwire Company, LLC in Carrollton,
GA, USA. We accepted the challenge, and through
our partnership with Sonoco, we created a reel recycling program that benefits the environment, our
customers and our individual organizations.
The ability to offer timely removal of used reels
through the EcoReel program can be proof to wire
and cable buyers that a commitment to providing
them with relevant solutions goes beyond just making
sales. The service is provided by Sonoco at no cost to
either the cable customer or manufacturer.
Christy Phillips, Recycling Program Lead at Sonoco
Reels says the EcoReel program includes a nationwide network of contractors who will pick up viable
reels then deliver them to one of Sonocos 22 Service
Centers around the country. We are trying to make
recycling something that all parties in a reels cycle
can appreciate and benefit from, says Phillips. Our
customers get good quality reels at a competitive price
while their customers no longer need to deal with the
disposal of their empty reels.
platform for marketing less popular or overstocked

recycled reels in inventory.
Christine Lovett, Account Manager with Sonoco
Plastic Reels tells us that their hand-assembled/disassembled reel is gaining a lot of traction in reclosable food packaging applications. Food producers
are adding zip-seal convenience to more and more
products, remarked Lovett. Our Twist-lok plastic
reel allows them to break down the reels right after
they are emptied, so storage space of old reels is
reduced by up to 70%. These reels can, of course, be
Recycled EcoReel before (right) and after (left).
Phillips schedules truckloads and sometimes LTL

pickups for companies with a steady or significant
supply of used wood, polyfiber and CIC reels that
are viable for refurbishing. She is also developing a
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Twist-lok plastic reel.
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certied food grade and are easily recycled through
established industrial recycling programs.
Sonoco Reels and Spools is one of the worlds largest
manufacturers of wood, steel, plastic and polyber
reels. The companys extensive selection of plastic
reels and spools includes varieties from small precision spools for wire as ne as 56 AWG to Reel Tough
reels able to carry over 1000 lb. Other lines include
nailed wood reels with anges up to 160" in diameter;
plywood reels with anges up to 60" in diameter; tubular steel reels for pipe and conduit range to 42" or
larger; heavy-duty corrugated steel reels and customengineered structural in-process and shipping reels
to over 24' in diameter.
A recycling leader with locations and expertise
worldwide, Sonoco is a proud member of the
2015/2016 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index,
marking the seventh consecutive year it has received
the prestigious recognition. www.sonoco.com/reels
REELS AND DRUMS
Metal reels for wire and cable. Process and transport.
REEL FOR DRAWING

AND STRANDING
CABLE AND ROPE

PROCESS REEL
CABLE AND ROPE

PROCESS REEL
STRUCTURAL DRUM
IN TUBULAR VERSION
MASSIVE REEL
REINFORCED DOUBLE
FLANGE REEL
HANDLING EQUIPMENT
All the necessary accessories for reels and coils handling.
Steel Reels Designed for

Trouble-Free Performance
Information from the Beacon Reel Company, New

Milford, CT, USA, says, We have been in the wire
and reel industry for over 50 years, which gives us
great value in expertise and experience. We pride
ourselves on our personalized friendly service, geared
specically to your companys needs, made to your
specications.
Our steel reels are designed for trouble-free performance from the day of purchase. We back our reels
with outstanding service, dependability and fair
pricing. Key benets of our steel reels include quality,
reliability and aordability.
If you have any questions or would like to request a
new reel quote, just contact us for more information.
Let us know how we can help you.
www.beaconreel.com
ROLLING SYSTEM FOR

DRUMS
TAKE APART REEL FOR

COILS PRODUCTION
TILTING UNIT FOR

REELS AND COILS
TILTING DEVICE FOR

REELS
AUTOMATIC LIFTER
FOR REELS
AUTOMATIC LIFTER
FOR COILS
Cost-Eective, Fully Recyclable

Toroidal Steel Fluted Reels
Information from George Evans Corporation, Moline,

IL, USA, says, Since 1939, The George Evans Corporation (GEC) has provided the wire and cable industry with durable, cost-eective and fully recyclable
Toroidal steel uted reels.
The experience, versatility and modern technology in
our custom manufacturing shop allows us to design
and build reels to meet all of your packaging, shipping
and industrial application needs.
At the George Evans Corporation, we oer customers
the following reel products engineered to meet their
specic production requirements:
Continued ...
Headquarters & Production plant:

GMP Slovakia s.r.o.,
Pribenik - Slovakia
Companies of the group:
GMP Reels India Private Ltd,
Nashik - India
sales@gmp-slovakia.com
www.gmp-slovakia.com
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Toroidal Reels
Western Electric Reels
NEMA I & NEMA II Reels
GEC Custom Design Reels
Structural Reels
Pittsfield, MA, USA, says, Pittsfield Plastics Engineering provides a complete line of plastic spools, reels,
cores, cones and bobbins to satisfy the packaging
needs of bare wire, insulated wire, tape, solder wire,
film, textile monofilaments, multifilaments, thread and
other stranded products.
Pittsfield Plastics engineering is an industry-leading,
ISO 9001:2008-certified injection molder, extruder and
mold maker striving to exceed customers expectations. Customers seek us out when they need the best
custom plastic parts, plastic fine wire spools, plastic
bobbins, plastic cores, extruded plastic specialties and
much more.
Pittsfield Plastics advanced mold-making facility
serves customers needing unique parts from custom
molds. Our experienced engineers, designers and tool
makers will assist you in moving your project from
design concept and prototype development to the
Let GEC build your next reel! www.george-evans.com
finished part. The company provides start-to-finish,
customer-driven injection molding services for both
short-run and high-quantity requirements.
Reels & Drums in a Variety of Types
Information from GMP Slovakia S.r.o., Pribenik, Pittsfield Plastics adds value to our customers operaSlovakia, says, GMP Slovakia offers reels and drums tions by offering products and services with the right
in single-wall, double-wall, heavy-duty, massive reel balance of cost, quality and on-time delivery.
and fully machined types. Also available are struc- www.pittsplas.com
tural drums, corrugated drums, conical reels, tire cord
spools and forged spools.
Steel Reels, Spools, Drums, Quality
GMP Slovakia also supplies the wire and cable in- Packaged Products & Integrated Services
dustry with take-apart reels and other reel, drum and
Information from Tektapes/SCR, Houston, TX, USA,
spool handling equipment. www.gmp-slovakia.com
says, Steel Cable Reels (SCR), a Cabrol Group Company, serves North America and South America with
Steel & High-Quality ABS Plastic Reels
steel reels, spools, drums, quality packaged products
Information from Kinrei Of America, LLC, Wayne, NJ, and integrated services. With four manufacturing loUSA, says, Kinrei Of America, LLC, offers Donnelly cations and a strong distribution network, the group
reels. Customers can choose from steel and high-qual- leads the global steel reel supply chain. Capabilities
ity ABS plastic reels. Plastic reels are manufactured include reel sizes from 4' to 14', which meet NEMA I &
by Sudhir Enterprise of India. Steel reels are made in II specifications, Western Electric and DIN standards.
SCR design and development teams specialize in cusIndia and China. www.kinreiusa.com
tom reel construction with a focus on value engineering, logistics and bottom line cost impact. Offered are:
Wooden Reels Designed

Shipping & Process Reels
to Respect the Environment
Reel Return & Inventory Management
Information from Madem Reels, Garibaldi, Brazil,
says, We are the biggest wooden cable reels supplier Engineering Services
in the world, and we are proud to think green! Our Large Diameter Reels
wooden reels respect the environment, are biodegrad- Short Lead Time
able, use 100% renewable lumber and help to protect Competitive Pricing
nature. Madem Reels is ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certi- Get in touch by visiting the companys website.
fied. www.mademreels.com
www.steelcablereels.com
Full Line of Plastic Spools,

Reels, Cores, Cones & Bobbins
What Makes This Reel Supplier Different?
Information from J.J. Lowe Associates Inc., of DanInformation from Pittsfield Plastics Engineering, Inc., bury, CT, USA, says, Pentre Group believes, it has the
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most diverse product range of reels, drums and spools
in Europe with total control of all the manufacturing
process. Pentre Group is not a trading company that
sub-contracts manufacture to third parties in order to
enhance its product range. Service and quality are inbuilt in everything the company does on a day-to-day
basis underwritten by recognized quality accreditations such as ISO 9001.
On standard products from design to delivery, on
custom bespoke projects from concept through commissioning to completion, all are delivered by our
in-house teams.
This is the companys strategy and commitment being
achieved by the fact that its factories are equipped with
specialized machinery, operated by dedicated experienced operators with extensive manufacturing know
how, and most importantly supported by decades of
industry knowledge.
The portfolio includes Hearl Heaton ABS Plastic
Precision Process Reels, Steel Reels from high speed
applications to one way shipping requirements, Steel
Drums suitable for the offshore market, in-house
processing and product dispatch. A range of lifting
beams, transportation cradles and pallets is available.

Also supplied is a multitude of dispatch reels/drums/
spools with options in steel, plywood, softwood,
cardboard and plastic all which can be viewed at the
website shown below.
J.J. Lowe Associates Inc. is the exclusive sales agent
for the Pentre Group in North America and the company has been selling Pentre Groups reel products
for more than 40 years.
WCTI
www.pentregroup.com
www.pscm.it
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New Generation of ETFE for

High-Temperature Durable Cable
by:
Phil J. Spencer, Masatosi Abe, Shigeru Aida,
Ryoji Watanabe, Masakazu Ataku and
Masahide Yodogawa
AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc.
Exton, PA, USA
us.agc.com
This article describes a project carried out to elevate

a high MFR (fast line speed) ETFE grade to meet a
200C temperature class rating in auto applications.
ETFE is a Fluoro copolymer made from TFE (Tetra

Fluoro Ethylene) and Ethylene. ETFE provides an excellent
all round performance of mechanical plus chemical and
thermal properties. ETFE finds applications in many wire and
cable insulation markets where high temperatures coupled
with aggressive chemicals/fluids can be found. Under-hood
automotive applications where sensor cables are used in
precisely these conditions, i.e., close to aggressive fluids at
both very high engine operating temperature and also very
low winter temperatures are an ideal place for ETFE insulation. ETFE is also at home in aerospace cables, electronics,
life sciences, oil and gas, chemical industry (as vessel lining)
and even as a transparent covering for major sport stadiums,
railway stations, etc.
In recent times, under-hood auto temperatures have been
rising as air flow is restricted due to the complex array of
components making up the modern enginewe all need aircon, ABS, etc. The need to reduce vehicle weight to reduce
CO2 emissions is also becoming more important in a global
context. We (the customer) demand longer warranties and in
turn oils and coolants are getting more aggressive to survive
longer service checks. To cope with these new requirements,
specifications are rising and demands on cable insulation are
also increasing. These increases in specifications have reduced
the safety factor provided by the cable insulation.
To address this issue, AGC has developed a new ETFE
specifically designed to meet rising global automotive specifications. However, these performance enhancements can also
be useful in other market areas.
ETFE is commonly used in automotive wire insulation
for 60 V to 600 V single core cable. ETFE is typically rated to
service temperature class E, which covers -40C to 175C in
the ISO 67221 standard. In the ISO 6722 standard, temperature
Class F range is -40C to 200C. There are further thermal specification requirements, for example Class F requires a Thermal
Overload Test of Service temperature plus 50C, giving a test
temperature of 250C. And this sets the minimum melt point
of the ETFE. The German LV-1122 also has additional requirements to pass the Stress Test on top of the ISO 6722 requirement.
Similarly, GMW156263 has even more requirements in order
to pass the Thermal Stability in the Wound State.
FEP is commonly used in temperature Class F for automotive cable applications. FEP is a perfluorinated thermoplastic,
which has proven excellent chemical and thermal resistance.
However, FEP does not have the best mechanical properties
within the group of fluoropolymers and when compared to
ETFE, its MIT flex life and abrasion resistance is lower. Over
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the years, improvements have been required to increase FEP

stress crack performance.
Another demand trend in the automotive market is to
reduce vehicle weight and hence reduce emissions. The socalled gram strategy is already adopted by some OEMs.
In comparison with ETFE, FEP has a higher density of 2.1
to 2.2 compared to only 1.74 for ETFE. This makes ETFE
cable insulation significantly lighter in weight. The project to
improve ETFE thermal performance was initiated by changes
made to LV112 Class D and E test requirements. There are
multiple approaches to improve thermal stability of ETFE.
One approach is to increase the fluorine content in the actual
ETFE polymer backbone. This is done by simply increasing
the TFE (tetrafluoroethylene) monomer ratio. Fluon LM-ETFE grades from AGC utilize this benefitthese grades have a
higher TFE monomer content which results in greater thermal
stability. However, this monomer ratio also results in lowered
melting point (approximately 225C compared with 260C.)
In many cases, service life prediction studies require a high
heat-age test at elevated temperature or perhaps a long high
thermal overload test. In these tests, the insulation is exposed
to temperatures far above actual service conditions. In this
case The LM ETFE would simply melt down and fail. Another
challenge is to maintain other key ETFE performances while
elevating the thermal and stress crack performance. ETFE is a
well known fluoropolymer with excellent mechanical properties including abrasion resistance, cut through resistance, tensile, elongation and MIT flex life. These are mainly due to the
almost perfect alternating etheylene and tetrafluoroethylene
structure. Some ETFE grades also contain a fully fluorinated
termonomer. Lastly, a high MFR is desirable as this allows
high-speed cable production and reduced production costs
(over 310 mpm is possible for smaller cables). Typically,
higher MFR is achieved by lowering molecular weight, but
this would tend to reduce stress crack resistance and long-term
thermal resistanceopposite to the needs here.
Elevating a Fast Line Speed ETFE

to meet 200C Automotive Rating
This article describes a project carried out to elevate a high

MFR (fast line speed) ETFE grade to meet a 200C temperature
class rating in automotive applications by means of a proprietary
approach. The new development ensured key mechanical properties, e.g., abrasion resistance, cut through resistance, tensile,
elongation and MIT flex life were all maintained or enhanced
while also improving the long-term thermal aging and increasing stress crack performance of the ETFE resin.
This new generation of ETFE is called HT-ETFE in this
article. Table 1 shows a comparison of fundamental properties
between a conventional standard ETFE and the new HT-ETFE,

which has a similar MFR range. The high MFR gives excellent
high-speed cable processing. TGA data also shows increased
thermal stability is achievedthe 5% and 10% weight loss
temperatures are 15C higher for HT. Further confirmation on
thermal stability can be seen in the 168 hour 232C carried out
on actual wire insulation. A significant improvement is seen in
the MIT flex life performancean extra 10,000 cycles to failure
compared with standard high MFR ETFE.
Table 1. Comparison Table of Fundamental Properties
of Standard ETFE and HT-ETFE.
resistance, higher cut through resistance and higher tensile

properties compared to High MFR FEP. The MIT flex life
of HT is also higher than FEP. In addition, HT maintains an
almost 20% advantage in density. This contributes to weight
reduction of the cable when HT-ETFE is used as insulation
material. The extra toughness shown by HT could contribute
to make it suitable for even thinner wall insulation, which
results in further weight savings.
Table 2. Comparison Table of Key Mechanical
Performance of HT-ETFE and FEP.
Tables 3, 4 and 5 show test temperature requirements for

each automotive wire standard. Table 4 shows both old and
new testing temperatures due to the changes of LV-112 in 2013.
Table 3. ISO6722 Class Requirements.
Figure 1 shows stress crack resistance of HT-ETFE compared with standard ETFE. This test was done using the MIL
81822 method A. It shows a clear and expected trend between
MFR and stress crack resistance. As the molecular weight
increases (i.e., MFR decreases), the crack temperature increases. HT-ETFE shows significant improvement compared
to standard ETFE.
Table 4. Renewed LV-112 Additional Requirement.
Table 5. GMW15626 Additional Requirement.
Fig. 1 MIL 81822 method A crack temperature trends.
HT-ETFE clearly shows improved stress crack performance and hence potential to move to a higher temperature
class level. Table 2 shows a comparison between HT-ETFE
and FEP cable insulation (FEP meets Class F of ISO6722).
HT-ETFE maintains the usual excellent mechanical properties associated with ETFE. HT-ETFE exhibits higher abrasion
HT-ETFE cable has been tested for ISO6722 and additional

requirements of LV-112 and GMW15626.
Conclusions
HT-ETFE cable has been tested to ISO6722 and LV-112

requirements. The LV-112 testing was done by the Fulda,
Germany-based, OEM-approved test lab, EDAG (Engineering + Design AG) as shown in Table. 6. It passes all requirements with multiple cable sizes.
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New Generation of ETFE ...continued

Table 6. Results of ISO6722 and LV-112 Class F
Protocols for HT-ETFE**.
ETFE in the Auto cable 200C temperature class for the rst
timeto match FEPbut with lower density, higher abrasion
resistance, higher cut through resistance and the opportunity
for ultra-thin wall ETFE insulation to also reduce weight.
High MFR also ensures high production line speeds for greater
production eciencies and to keep costs in check. us.agc.com
References:
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Figure 2 shows a picture of HT-ETFE cable after heat

aging at 250CClass T6 (Class F). Thermal Stability in the
Wound State test is specically required by the GMW15626
standard. It shows no crack after the required thermal stress.
The performance enhancement puts a (noncross-linked)
Fig. 2 2.5 mm2 cable test specimen of HT-ETFE after

Thermal Stability at Wound State test on GMW15626
Class T6 (F) temperature 250C.
DESIGNERS & MANUFACTURERS

ISO9001 OF PAYOFF & TENSION CONTROL
REGISTERED
EQUIPMENT FOR WIRE & CABLE
WCTI
International standard ISO 6722-1 Fourth Edition. Road vehicles 60V

and 600V single core cables Part 1: Dimensions, test methods and
requirements for copper conductor cables.
LV112 Electrical cables for motor vehicles Single-core, unshielded
(English translation).
GM Worldwide Engineering Standards General Specication GMW15626
Single-Core Standard ISO Cable.
Authors:
Masahide Yodogawa is Sr. R&D Manager, Fluoropolymer Div.,
AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc., Exton, PA, USA, a subsidiary of
AGC (Asahi Glass Co. Ltd., headquarters in Tokyo, Japan). He
joined AGC in 1999 and spent over 17 years in material technology
development of uoropolymer and uoroelastomer.
Phil J Spencer is FCP Technical Services Manager, AGC Chemicals Europe.
Masatosi Abe is in the R&D Div., Asahi Glass Co. Ltd.
Shigeru Aida, Group Mgr., Fluoro-Melts group, R&D Div., AGC Chemicals,
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.
Ryoji Watanabe is in Performance Chemicals General Div., Asahi Glass Co. Ltd.
Masakazu Ataku, Manager, Planning Div., Technology General Div., Asahi Glass.
The paper from which this article was generated was presented at IWCS
2016TM in Providence, RI, USA. The IWCS International Cable & Connectivity Symposium is produced annually by International Wire & Cable Symposium, Inc. (IWCS,
Inc.), and is recognized as the premier technical
event in the wire and cable industry. www.iwcs.org
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Record Trade Visitors at wire China 2016

As one of the Asias most influential international
Spain, said, I have attended wire & Tube China for
trade platforms for the wire, cable, tube and pipe
many years. This is an excellent opportunity for us to
industries, wire & Tube China 2016 concluded very
secure new suppliers and better cooperation. During
successfully in Shanghai with a record 42,199 trade
the four-day show, I met with new suppliers from Eu-
visitors from 94 countriesan increase of 10.9%
rope and Mexico, which gives us the advantages for
compared to the 2014 staging. In addition to the
our global reach.
large number of local attendees, a growing number
Alex Garcia, President of US ALYTA International
of overseas buyers attended the trade fairs. The majority of
Corporation, noted, We are mainly involved in the produc-
the overseas visitors came from South Korea, India, China
tion of carbon steel and stainless steel pipes. The exhibition
Taiwan, Japan, Russia, Malaysia, Iran, Thailand, the USA,
is condensed and I have successfully met with two Chinese
Indonesia and Vietnam.
suppliers. I am satisfied with the results.
With the newly upgraded Fasteners Shanghai Special Zone
According to domestic visitor, Mr. Tian from BSH Electrical
and two new outdoor pavilions, the total exhibition area
Appliances (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd., As Asias largest profes-
reached an unprecedented 1 million ft to accommodate
sional wire and tube exhibition, wire & Tube China gives the
1645 exhibitors from 31 countries and regions. In addition,
visitors the opportunity to understand the development trends
the country group exhibits and pavilions from Germany, Italy,
and cutting-edge products and technologies of the industry.
North America, Australia, France, South Korea, Japan and
We focus on the wire and fastener industries, especially on
Taiwan provided increased international participation allow-
spring machinery and wire bending machines. During the ex-
ing visitors to discover cutting-edge products from around
hibition, we were able to meet with many suppliers for relevant
the world. Chinese companies also showcased their latest
productsa really productive experience.
domestic-produced equipment and technologies with indepen-
With the topic, Innovation, Optimization and Vitality, the
dent intellectual property rights of interest to overseas visitors.
2016 China Wire & Cable Industry Conference focused on
Both exhibitors and visitors were very satisfied with their par-
exploring the new, optimized development path for Chinas
ticipation and gave wire & Tube China positive ratings.
manufacturing industry. During the forum, the 13th Five Year
Dr.-lng. Christoph Mller-Mederer, CFO from WAFIOS AG,
industrial development strategy was presented.
said, The biennial wire & Tube China brings together high-
The debut of the Tube & Pipe Industry Development Seminar
quality buyers from China and many surrounding countries,
2016 was well received. The lectures covered topics for firms
some of whom have already signed on-site letters of intent to
on transforming and updating product structures to adapt to
purchase. This show has clearly become an important channel
market demands, meeting higher customer requirements and
for WAFIOS to expand into the Asian market. I believe that
developing cross-border e-commerce of steel pipes in China.
with the advancement of Industry 4.0, the industry as a whole
Dietger Schrrs, Executive Secretary of ITA, a supporting
will become better and better.
organization of the event, said, Although the global tube
Zhao Jianyi, General Manager from Shanghai Kingstone
and pipe market is facing downward pressure, we and our
Cable & Equipment Co., Ltd., agreed, We have witnessed
member units are actively looking for ways to stay competi-
the 12 years development of this event. With this platform,
tive in the existing market and face new challenges. I believe
we have continually optimized our company image and have
that in the next two years, the pipe industry will present new
succeeded in many business opportunities.
opportunities.
During the exhibition, we have met many professional buyers
The next wire & Tube China will be held from September 26 to
looking for precision pipe cutting technologies, helping Han*S

Laser to obtain bigger market shares. I am satisfied with the
exhibition and it brings us good results, remarked Xia Jianjie,
Head of Sheet Metal Division of Han*S Laser Technology
Industry Group Co.
29, 2018, at the Shanghai New International Expo Center.

For further information on visiting or exhibiting, contact Messe
Dsseldorf North America (MDNA), Chicago, IL, USA, visit
the MDNA website that is listed below, subscribe to the blog
at http://blog.mdna.com or you can follow MDNA on twitter at
The exhibition was also very rewarding for the buyers.
http://twitter.com/WireTube_MDNA.
Ander Garcia-Arino, Purchase Coordinator of VINCO from
www.mdna.com www.wirechina.net
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WTM Taping with In-Line Sintering/Curing Process

Aldo Zanirato, who is the Sales Manager at
WTM Srl, located in Padova, Italy, reports, The
Wire China 2016 show transmitted to us a very
enthusiastic feeling.
The great competence and professionalism
of the visitors boost WTM to continue in the
direction took many years ago, confirming the
philosophy to propose always the best and the
most advanced solution.
This is then, a must in times like these when
most of the visits received were focused on
advanced technologies and looking for WTMs
solutions to enhance the production with up-todate equipment.
The consolidated taping technology WTM offers,
in combination also with in-line sintering/curing
process, allows any cable producer to reach the
highest quality in products and performances
in production. A wide range of wrapping heads
for any different taping materials and cable
dimensions can be combined in different machine
configurations.
Any producer of special cables can receive from
WTM a level of technology allowing to solve the
most critical tape applications problems, that is
particularly appreciated on the production and
shielding of high-frequency coaxial cables, twinaxial and high-rate data transmission cables,
aeronautic/aircraft assembly, aerospace cables,
military systems, wireless communications and
cloud computing connections.
Moreover, our new single twist stranding
machine, shaft type, studied and created in detail
for the production of very sophisticated LAN
cables (Cat. 5/6/7/7a/8) has intensely interested
a great number of visitors.
This twist stranding equipment offers, at the
same time, the possibility to produce other
high-level cables, like those required for the
robotic industry and overhead laying, basically
characterized by high flexibility.
We are glad to thank all those people who visited
our booth at the show and for the interesting
discussions that were held there. The information
we collected will be very precious for improving
and innovating our products and services, with
the aim of meeting customers requirements in
the best way.
To receive additional technical specifications
on the taping and in-line sintering and curing
equipment available from WTM Srl, visit the
companys website listed below.
www.wtmachinery.com
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...Continued
Inhol & Melos: Chinese Market is

Moving to High-Grade Materials
Inhol, Melos and their agent DLF had a successful
show. It was really busy at our stand. As usual, we had
the opportunity to talk to our respected customers and
it was very pleasant to meet new potential customers
at the Shanghai New Expo Center.
and external markets of the wire and cable industry.

Inhol and Melos will continue to meet the growing
demand for high-quality compounds and technical
support. Our major markets in the Far East include highgrade compounds for railways, shipbuilding, automotive
and off-shore applications.
www.inhol.com
www.melos.com
The Chinese market is still growing

and moving rapidly towards high-grade
materials in order to meet international
specifications. Meanwhile, Inhol and
Melos received an official recognition
as strategic suppliers from one of
the leading innovative Chinese cable
factories.
Mecoline and Inhol compounds are
produced in Europe and the USA to
meet international specifications and
high performance requirements. These
quality and specification aspects are
increasingly important for the internal
MFL Expects Significant Increase in Asian Business

MFL has attended wire China on multiple occasions
and has always experienced business as a direct
result of this participation. September 26 to 29, 2016,
we attended for the first time since MFL finalized an
agreement to purchase Construcciones Mecanicas
Caball S.A., Barcelona, Spain, which has also
participated seperately in the past. This agreement
significantly increased the scope of supply of the MFL
Frigeco brand, the nonferrous division of the MFL
Group, by consolidating Caball, OM Lesmo and
Eurodraw Energy into the group.
In addition, the MFL ferrous group, Mario Frigerio
SpA, was again present at wire China. Over the last
ten years, the ferrous group has had much success
and asserted itself as the leader in the manufacture of
drawing lines, low relaxation PC lines and single and
multi-wire electrochemical and heat treatment systems
for ferrous wire and wire rope.
The many customers that are familiar with all of these
brands can know turn to a single source for all their
equipment needs. The many customers who visited
our stand at wire China experienced the broadest
engineering and manufacturing knowledge base in the
industry for the production of ferrous and nonferrous
wire, wire rope and cable. In addition, they could see first
hand the extensive commercial and service network we
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have created, and how it can help them as they move

forward with very important and complex projects in this
growing market.
Our technical staff had the opportunity to visit with
many existing customers, but most importantly to meet
many new potential customers. The show was an
overall success and we expect a significant increase
in business from this market moving forward, and we
expect it to be strong for some time into the future.
www.mflgroup.com
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Beta LaserMike: Cable Testing
Wire China was a great opportunity for us to present

our automated quality testing solutions for LAN/Data,
Telecom and Coaxial cable products, says Jay Luis,
NDCs Marketing Communications Manager. We
exhibited the latest DCM ES-2G LAN/Data cable
testing system with our recent line of Beta LaserMike
measurement solutions for on-line and off-line
gauging. The latest DCM ES-2G lets cable makers
test more cable faster and with higher quality results.
The new DCM ES2G efficiently tests
the Cat. 5/6/6a/7/7a/8
cables to 2.2 GHz.
A new innovative
technology eliminates
jacket removal effect on reflection measurements such
as input impedance and return loss. Automated 4-pair
switching platform enables cable testing in less than
three minutes. Easy-to-use testing software offers full
test management and reporting capabilities.
www.ndc.com/betalasermike
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Wire & Plastic: Nuances

of Used/Rebuilt Machines
CT, USA, had Rahul Sachdev and Erik Macs on hand
for the four days of exhibition in Shanghai as part of
the North American Pavilion in Hall 1.
Rahul was also representing the WCISA (Wire &
Cable Industry Suppliers Association) group as
immediate past President and along with Executive
Director, Mike McNulty, assisted incoming President,
Drew Richards of Richards-Apex with his ceremonial
duties (see image on opposite page).
We had a very good group of people visiting with us
discussing the nuances of used and rebuilt machinery.
Many of our visitors were specifically from the China
market. However, we also had a large contingent
of visitors from several other southeastern Asian
countries as well as visitors from Australia.
To learn more about Wire and Plastic Machinery, visit:
(left to right): Mike McNulty, Drew Richards, Rahul Sachdev

of WCISA (Wire & Cable Industry Suppliers Association).
Maillefer Theme Competence that

counts Carried on in Shanghai
The wire show in Shanghai was a success for the
Maillefer team. We met nearly all our existing and
several new potential customers from China. We also
hosted a number of customers from other parts of Asia
who were interested in getting familiar with the latest
technology in wire and cable (W&C) manufacturing.
Our core theme, Competence that counts, launched
already at wire 2016, was carried on in Shanghai. The
theme is based on our long background in the W&C
industry and proven track record in extrusion technology
and processes. Several W&C manufacturing standards
are innovations from Maillefer, which proves that we
have always emphasized customer-driven R&D.
know-how-based offering under Maillefer Consultation.

Great thanks to all visitors in helping us build an
unforgettable wire show in Shanghai. In case you have
any questions concerning our offering, please contact us
for more information. We are very happy to help you in
improving your business. Hope to see you again in wire
China 2018. Maillefer Extrusion Oy, Vantaa, Finland.
See the Maillefer team at wire China 2016, below.
www.maillefer.net
We received confirmation for the chosen path from

visiting customers and competitors, as so many said:
Modern extrusion technology originates from Maillefer.
And it still is the leader in research and development by
continuously bringing improved products and processes
to the market.
This is our way of constantly moving forward. Maillefer is
not only an equipment supplier, but a customer-oriented
cable manufacturing process expert. Our goal is to
develop and improve our customers competitiveness.
And we are determined to continuously broaden our
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images and news from wire China 2016
Microdia: Overseas Cross Head Maker Attracted Specialists
Microdia, of Switzerland, unique overseas cross head

manufacturer, at the show attracted a large number of
wire and cable specialists.
saving floor space, energy and hardware. This versatile

cross head can also run solid, solid+stripe, foam, foam
skin and skin-foam-skin.
In the booth, Patrick Zacchia, CEO; Karin Frauenfelder,

Dpty. CEO; Jean Daniel Steiner, Extrusion specialist;
Yuca Chen, Sales Manager, Microdia Asia Pacific;
Bryan Zu, Sales Agent Microdia Asia Pacific and Naoto
Fukase, CEO of T. FUKASE AND CO., LTD., sole agent
of Microdia in Japan attended to the numerous visitors
from the five continents.
Switching from one product to the other is made quickly

without major change in the head configuration. High
concentricity level is obtained thanks to the renowned
Microflex fine tuning centering system.
In spite of the fierce competition on the Chinese market,

Swiss-made cross heads are preferred by major local
extrusion line manufacturers for their concept, precision
and longevity.
The Microdia Asia Pacific in Shanghai experienced
team offers appreciated support to all current and future
Microdia cross head users in the country.
Attention of numerous
visitors was drawn by
the new Microdia Mflex
9000-07 SFS + S 3ex, a
cross head designed to
extrude networking wire
CAT 6,7,8 skin-foamskin + stripe with only 3
extruders instead of 4,
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The Microdia Mflex 9000-07 SFS + S 3ex head has

already been adopted by several satisfied European
leaders in the field, which names cannot de published
as per Microdia secrecy policy. www.microdia.ch
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TECH BRIEF
Innovation of High-Carbon
Wire Production Lines
In todays world, the word progress

has also become synonymous with expectations of better quality. In the sector
of high-carbon steel wire, the evolution
of the chemical composition of these
wires, with always higher carbon contents, has meant a continuous innovation
of both the wire production equipment
as well as the entire production process.
According to Mario Colombo, HiCarbon Chief Technologist of Eurolls
SpA, Attimis (Udine), Italy, this increase
in the mechanical properties of the wire
has amplified the difficulties of highspeed drawing due to the development
of high temperatures. Much has been
done to optimize the drawing process,
with new die angles and significant
developments in lubricant quality, but
existing capstan cooling systems in
the wire drawing machines have meant
that it has not been possible to exceed
certain limits.
New Cold Rolling

Cassette Exeeds Limits
The research and development department of Eurolls, a recognized world

leader in the design and production
of rolls and cold rolling cassettes, has
developed a solution that permits ex-
ceeding existing limits via

introduction of a new cold
rolling cassette specifically designed for highcarbon wire production.
The cold rolling process, due to a lower friction coefficient and an
innovative wire lubrication system, generates
less heat thereby lowering
wire temperature during
the reduction process.
New Internal Coating
All recent Eurolls wire drawing lines

have been supplied with the possibility
to adopt this new cold rolling system.
Furthermore, these same new lines have
not only an improved capstan cooling system, but benefit also from the
development of a new internal coating
specifically studied by Eurolls research
and development.
This internal coating ensures a reduced formation of deposits and rust
while guaranteeing an increase in heat
transmission (same cooling capacity, but
with a lower quantity of cooling water).
In this evolving world and market,
it is of vital importance to be ready for

the future demands and requirements.
This has always been the Eurolls SpA
philosophy.
For the wire industry, Eurolls was the
first company to convert the traditional
die process in wire drawing, to wire
rolling, by means of its unique quality
microcassettes. Eurolls was the first to
produce Micro, modular, traditional
and custom-made cassettes. The entire
manufacturing process and know-how
was developed in house, and Eurolls was
the first to introduce this technology to
the wire industry world.
The possibility of rolling more sophisticated materials is always a new
Eurolls challenge,
and with the cooperation of its customer
base, the company
continues to develop
new alternatives to
traditional wire drawing lines.
More information and additional
technical specifications on Eurolls new
cold rolling cassette
specifically designed
for high-carbon wire
production, is available at the the companys website.
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Marking & Printing Roundup

compiled by the Editors at Wire & Cable Technology International
Suppliers have responded to our call for the state-of-the-art

in marking and printing equipment and technology
Fiber Coloring & On-Line Marking
Information from Rosendahl Nextrom GmbH, Pischelsdorf, Austria, says, Nextroms OFC 52i Advanced
Coloring System is both the two-in-one solution and
fastest on the market. Fiber coloring and optional
on-line ring marking extend your fiber variety by a
multitude of mark patterns.
And since speed and reliability are the keys to successful fiber coloring, we focused on both parameters.
The OFC52i has never been faster.
Coloring up to 3000 mpm
Ring marking up to 1200 mpm
Upcoating up to 900 mpm
We have improved our machine design. The OFC52i
stands out with its robust mechanical and electrical
design. The optimized tooling, UV monitoring instrumentation and large spool sizes allow for longer fiber
lengths with fast set-ups. User-friendliness enjoys a
high priority with us. This is also why our machine is
compactly designed and easy to operate.
The OFC52i offers efficiency through variety. We
know that manufacturers need efficient production.
The OFC52i offers the flexibility to manufacture a variety of quality products. The latest development was
the ring marking process at high production speeds.
Fiber marking is used to identify more than 12 fibers
and is traditionally based on 12 colors. During the ring
marking process, the marks are printed on the fiber
by a high-speed ink jet. Subsequently, the marks are
dried before the color is applied to the fiber. We use
solvent-based ink for the ring marking process, which
is very cost efficient. That means that high-quality
black marks are printed in exact intervals. To extend
the fiber variety further, a wide range of mark patterns
can be applied.
The Nextrom OFC52i has a user-friendly

concept with fast set-ups.
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A vision system provides quality checking. Our

high-speed machine vision system proofs the ring
marking quality. It inspects the mark quality and
helps manufacturers to reduce production costs by
means of quality assurance and reduced reworking.
The ring marking process is a benefit to all the coloring lines that require higher flexibility. We offer the
state-of-the-art ring marking process as an upgrade
for all coloring lines, also for nonNextrom lines, as a
stand-alone unit. www.rosendahlnextrom.com
Accessories for Marking,

Printing & Labeling Wire & Cable
April Grossman of Schleuniger, Inc., Manchester,

NH, USA, says, Schleuniger offers a full line of accessories for marking, printing and labeling wire and
cable. Schleunigers HotStamp products are designed
for economical, high-quality marking of wires, cables
and tubing. The company also offers an In-Line Labeling System that can be integrated with wire cut and
strip machines to create a fully integrated processing
line. The labeling system is perfect for hard-to-mark
applications.
Finally, Schleuniger offers ink jet printers that can

automatically mark the most complexly engineered
harnesses at a high speed.
www.schleuniger-na.com
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For more information on Saint-Gobain Tapes

visit: www.fluorowrap.com
email: tapes@saint-gobain.com

Blown Ion Treaters Enable
Ink Jet Printing on Wire & Cable
Gina Vicini, Marketing Projects Coordinator for Enercon Industries, Menomonee Falls, WI, USA, says,
Many wire and cable decorating operations have
switched to ink jet printing because of its numerous
advantages over traditional marking technologies.
However, ink jet chemistry alone is not always enough
to achieve bonding success. Thats why in-line atmospheric plasma has emerged as an enabling partner
technology for many wire and cable ink jet printing
applications. Enercons new Blown Ion Plasma treaters
offer powerful treatment that enables more treatment
control than ever before.
Pretreatment allows wire and cable manufacturers to
take advantage of many ink jet printing benefits. First,
it expands the possible locations on the line where you
can print. Secondly, inks can be printed at extremely
high speeds and changing over between products is
very rapid. Lastly, as a digital technology, ink jet supports variable data and adds more message control
by managing messaging from a database rather than
the shop floor.
Plasma cleans, etches
and functionalizes surfaces, which increases
free surface energy to
improve wettability and
bonding. The bonds created between the ink and
the surface on pretreated substrates is strong
enough to pass the demanding durability tests
required by wire and cable manufacturers.
Enercons new Blown Ion Plasma treaters bombard
a materials surface with a high-speed discharge of
ions, thereby facilitating a scrubbing effect to remove
contaminants from the surface of the wire or cable.
Through direct contact, these ions positively charge
the objects surface, increasing surface energy and
making it more receptive to inks and coatings.
In-line atmospheric plasma systems are very safe,
economical and simple to integrate into virtually
any printing operation. Schedule a free lab trial or
a demonstration in your own facility by contacting
Enercon. www.enerconind.com
Noncontact Laser Gauge Controls

Sequential Printing/Marking With
Precise Length & Speed Measurements
Jay Luis of NDC Technologies, Dayton, OH, USA,

says, NDC Technologies, a leading global provider
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of precision measurement and control solutions, reports that its innovative Beta LaserMike LaserSpeed
noncontact laser gauge enables wire and cable manufacturers to accurately and consistently measure the
length and speed of products during sequential printing applications. Manufacturers are realizing many
advantages with this technology such as increased
productivity, reduced manufacturing costs, improved
product quality and better process reliability.
Manufacturers have installed the Beta LaserMike

LaserSpeed gauge at various locations on the production line such as adjacent to the printing system just
after the jacket is extruded onto the wire or cable.
Many manufactures have installed the LaserSpeed
gauge before the capstan station or take-up reel. Placing LaserSpeed next to the printing system where the
marking occurs enables manufacturers to better track
the actual product length and speed.
The LaserSpeed gauge is a direct replacement for
error-prone mechanical contact encoders. It projects a
unique pattern on the surface of the product without
making contact. As the product moves, light is scattered back to LaserSpeed. This information is translated into product speed and pulses are produced to
determine the product length. These pulses can be sent
directly to the printing system via quadrature output.
Pulses can also be sent to a PLC system. This enables
manufacturers to control the exact spacing between
print marks with better than 0.03% accuracy.
NDC offers a full line of LaserSpeed gauges for a
broad range of applications. LaserSpeed has no moving parts and is factory calibrated, reducing the need
for routine adjustments/maintenance. LaserSpeed is
also Measuring Instrument Directive (MID) Certi-
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ONE-PIECE FINE WIRE SPOOLS
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Deliver High Performance!

Pittsfield Plastics Engineerings expanded product
offering now includes premium fine wire spools that
meet the demanding requirements of the wire and
cable industry. Unique injection molded, one-piece
construction is a cut above the competition and
domestic availability helps reduce cost.
KEY BENEFITS
One-piece spools eliminate seams and are

precision crafted
Exceptional strength and durability
Available in high-impact polystyrene (HIPS)
or acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)
Sonically welded end caps for improved
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Available in wide range of colors
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fied and meets the 2014/32/EU Length Measurement
standard.www.laserspeedgauge.com / www.laserspeed.eu
Hot Foil Printers
Information from Wire and Plastic Machinery Corporation, Bristol, CT, USA, says, Wire & Plastic
Machinery Corporation was founded in 1981 as a
dealer of pre-owned wire and cable machinery. The
company now has eight warehouses in the USA with
over 30,000 items in stock within a total covered area
of 3 million ft2 (278,000 m2). Of that inventory, we have
many items that are utilized for marking and printing
onto wire and cable.
Taymer HF-2000 Hot Foil Printer available

from Wire and Plastic Machinery.
Our inventory consists of Band Markers, Hot Foil

Printers, Ink Jet Printers and Offset Printers. We also
carry an assortment of striping towers. Some units
are suitable for as is use or can be completely reconditioned. Customers can see our Printer highlighted
inventory at the website below where they can rapidly
obtain specific quotations for certain machines. Stripers can be seen at the website listed below.
Marking Systems & Innovations

Used in Cable Manufacturing
Werner Lichtscheidl, Managing Director, Medek

& Schoerner GmbH, Grossebersdorf, Austria, says,
For decades Medek & Schrner has been a world
market leader in cable marking machines and optical
fiber processing lines. As the only company operating
in this market segment, Medek & Schoerner covers
virtually the entire spectrum of machines for marking
cables and processing optical fibers. A brief overview
of marking systems and innovations used in cable
manufacturing follows.
GRAVURE PRINTING: Even though this printing
method does already exist for decades, it is by far and
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still the most efficient

and reliable one. Speeds
of up to 1200 mpm can be
achieved with best printing quality independent
of cable diameter and
text height. The Medek
& Schoerner ink wiping
system has proven to be
the most effective, especially at high speeds.
The spectrum of Medek & Schoerner gravure printing machines
ranges from very simMedek & Schoerner
ple, purely mechanical
High Speed Printer
printing machines for
Model KS 42 C-FM.
the low-performance
sector up to high-performance machines with drive
units synchronized with the production line to ensure
extremely high print quality, even on critical insulation materials; e.g., single-head printer model KS 42
C-FM and tandem-head printer model KS 442 C-FM.
Tandem-head machines make it possible to change the
marking or printing color quickly without interrupting the printing process, thus further increasing the
output of the equipment. Additional equipment such
as automatic ink viscosity control, also improves the
ease of operation.
Optical fiber ribbons in most cases have to be marked
with text. Medek & Schoerner has successfully installed gravure printer models KS 42 C-FM in several
fiber ribbon production lines for inline printing of
the ribbon surface. The big advantages are marking speeds of up to 700
to 800 mpm with same
excellent printing images over the complete
speed range; clear and
very precise lettering
with closed text lines, no
text distortion or blurred
marking, constant color
density, etc. All those
advantages cannot be
offered by other marking
systems such as ink jet
printers.
The VST video stroboscope from Medek
Medek & Schoerners
& Schoerner has been high-speed tandem gravure
designed to continu- printer model KS 442 C-FM,
ously monitor the print with Print Quality Inspection System VST-KS.
quality of fast-running

cable printing machines. The VST system oers more
comfort to the operator allowing for easy inspection
of the print and/or insulation quality. Additionally
checking the quality on a screen oers more safety
to the operator since he can control the image from a
distance and does not have to check close to the fastrunning cable.
The biggest advantage of the print quality inspection
and alarm is to avoid the production of scrap, so that
the price of the VST will amortize and pay for itself
already after a few manufactured drums of cable. The
Medek & Schoerner print quality-control system is
suitable for line speeds ranging up to 2000 mpm and
above compared to existing competitors systems with
500 mpm only.
HOT FOIL METER/FOOTAGE MARKING: In applications where length marking on cable insulations
is required hot foil meter and footage markers oer
accurate, highly legible sequential length marks in
meters (FMS Series) or feet (FFS Series), along with
any text, company logo, and/or any other user denable code in user selectable colors, on hot or cold cable
insulation or tubing.
The range of hot foil

markers begins with the
simple, easy-to-operate
and reliable FMS 2-C,
operating at speeds up
to 60 mpm, moving up
to the high-end FMS 5,
which provides extremely accurate sequential
marking solutions for
the most demanding
production standards at
speeds up to 150 mpm
and above; advanced AC
servo drive systems are
provided for extremely
accurate length marking. All meter/footage
markers from Medek &
Schrner are fully modular for maximum flex- High-performance Hot Foil
Meter Marker Model FMS 5.
ibility.
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marking methods are not suitable, laser printers may
be a good solution.; e.g., printing on very sensitive
optical fiber cables with a particular thin insulation.
For such cable types, one can forget the use of ink jet
printers due to bad adhesion of the printing and also
hot foil markers since stamping would damage the
very thin insulation too much.
The new Medek &
Schoerner 50W fiber
laser is a compact
system and is practically maintenancefree since there are no
wearing parts. There
are no consumables
required such as inks
and thinners, ink wipers, color tape, etc.
On a number of materials the laser printer already itself can
create a good printing
quality and a good
color change on the
cable insulation. Oth- Medek & Schoerner 50W Laser
Printer Model FL50.
er materials require
a special laser activating additive to be mixed to the
masterbatch. This additive has been tested thoroughly
and affects the properties of the insulation material in
no way. The additive (to be mixed approximately 2%
to the masterbatch) allows a good printing quality on
materials such as PE, XLPE, HDPE, etc.
Medek & Schoerner has developed a special Radiation Protection Device allowing to operate the Laser
Printer under Laser Class 1, which means that the
originally Class 4 Laser is safe under normal operating
conditions. This unit mainly contains the protection
unit, a cable guiding device, a filter unit and a PC terminal to adjust parameters and enter the text to mark.
For the safety of the operators, a filter unit especially
configured for plastic vapors is included in the package. The Laser printing process is a combination of
material alteration and material vaporization. The
exhaust unit prevents the evaporating material from
causing health hazards for the operator, and last but
not least also from damaging of the focusing lens. The
exhaust unit can be connected directly to the radiation
protection device and comes with various filter grades.
In case of an internal error, blocked exhaust filter, lack
of compressed air or not completely closed housing,
the laser turns off immediately, so all possible protection of the operators is provided.
RING MARKING: Ring marking of thin wiresespecially control cables or automotive wiresinvolves
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spraying the marking ink

onto the wire as it runs
past through rotating jet
wheels. Since there are
no limits to the frequency
of oscillation of special
ring marking machines
with rotating jet wheels,
they can keep up with
the highest wire extru- Ring Marker Model RS 70.
sion speeds normally
encountered today.
Medek & Schoerner has advanced the development of
high-speed ring marking equipment thanks to innovative technology and the high-performance components
developed by this market leader. Marking speeds of
up to 2500 mpm can be achieved. Fully automatic
equipment makes it possible to change both colors
and markings at the touch of a button.
Both the RS 70 (1200 mpm) and RS 707 (2500 mpm)
equipment systems are available in single and tandemhead versions, allowing for extremely quick changing
of color and/or ring spacing.
www.medek.at
Superior Printing Technology for

Jacketed Wire, Cable & Wire Harnesses
Information from Gem Gravure Co., Inc., Hanover,
MA, USA, says, When you are searching for the best
way to mark your wire and cable, you need a company
that will focus on your unique needs, and a company
with a talent for understanding your processes and
the resources to create practical solutions. Since 1952,
Gem Gravure Co., Inc. has been providing superior
printing technology for jacketed wire and cable as
well as wire harness.
It started with Gems original patented process for
gravure marking wheels and expanded to continuous
ink jet (CIJ). Messages went from static to variable.
While contact markers and wheels remain a highspeed solution for many customers, ink jet coding is
Gems strength.
Gem Gravure Co., Inc. is the exclusive representative for KBA-Metronic in the United States, Canada
and the borders of Mexico. KBA-Metronic is based in
Germany.
The KBA-Metronic alphaJET printer is one of the
most reliable, eco-friendly ink jet printers available.
A solvent recovery system is built into each alphaJET
unit, reducing make up consumptions to low ecofriendly, budget-friendly rates.
The ink jet inks available from Gem Gravure Co.,
Inc. range from heavy pigmented opaque to soft pig-

mented to dye-based inks. This broad range of ink jet
inks allows Gem Gravure customers to select bright
opaque codes, codes resistant to automotive solvents
or dye-based codes that resist transfer. GEMs staff
of expert chemists designs fluids specifically for the
needs of the customer. A full line of low VOC and VOC
exempt inks is available.
www.gemgravure.com
ID Products, Wire Markers & Printers
Information from Heilind Electronics, Inc., Wilmington, MA, USA, says, Heilind Electronics was built
on the foundation of having a deep inventory, flexible policies, responsive systems and an unwavering
commitment to deliver the highest levels of service
possible. We pride ourselves on having extremely
knowledgeable salespeople who are highly trained to
answer all customer questions.
In addition to excellent service, customers find large
inventories at very competitive prices including ID
products, labels, wire markers and printers.
www.heiland.com
Everything for Your Marking Requirements

Information from Wiedenbach Apparatebau GmbH,
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Spotlight On Payoffs, Take-Ups & Respoolers

by Mike McNulty, Editor
Payos and take-ups are at the beginning and the end of

virtually every wire and cable manufacturing process,
and respoolers are basically the combination of the two
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along with some type of tension control and traversing

devices. The fundamental operation of a payo, take-up
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The Model RG rolling ring drive assembly is ideal for winding a variety of
materials from hair-thin fiber to heavy
gauge wire, cable, rope and chain. The
traverse winding assembly does not
require its own drive motor. Instead,
the take-up reel motor is used to power
the traverse guide. The pitch on the RG
drive is variable. Once pitch is set, it will
remain automatically synchronized with
the rotating reel, even if the take-up reel
motor speeds up or slows down.
Beauregard & Assoc.

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or respooler has not changed much over the years, but

performance levels, durability and capabilities continue
to improve and evolve. Some notable areas of development and innovations are as follows:
Improved winding patterns and traverse quality

including automatic sensing and control.
Improved tension control and guidance.
Automated operation.
Modular designs.
Improved unwinding of products.
The importance of payos and take-ups cant be overlooked or underestimated, as these devices are the rst
and last components to handle the product. The selection, installation and maintenance methods regarding
payos and take-ups can make or break your wire and
cable operations. A good relationship with payo and
take-up suppliers as well as an awareness of the classic
and latest product oerings are two things of value to
any wire and cable manufacturer.
Each wire and cable process, from rod breakdown to
jacketing, and everything in between, has its own unique
demands for the payo and take-up. Other factors, such
as product performance requirements, nished product
type and size, downstream processes, labor costs, oor
space and ceiling height, etc., will have an impact on
payo and take-up selection.
When considering payos and take-ups, the fundamental
functions are pretty basic and similar from one model to
the next, but the choices, styles and sizes are numerous.
Black Sea Technology, Inc.

6100 Corporate Drive
Houston, TX 77036 USA
Tel: +1 832 925 7166
Fax: +1 713 534 1852
Email: info@blackseatech.net
Website: www.blackseatech.net
Payos
The job of a payo device is to get the input materialrod, wire, conductor, strand, cable, etc.out of its
packagespool, reel, stem, barrel, basket, etc.and into
the processing machinedrawing machine, strander,
extruder, treatment line, etc. For simplicity, I divide
payos into two classes: static or dynamic.
In a static payo, the package of input material does
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not move. The material is pulled out of or unwound

from the package and a twist is put into the material
as it comes out of the package. Typical static payos
include yers, whisker discs and basket payos. In
static payos, the package of input material sits on
the factory oor or on a rack or some type of platform.
Advantages of static payos include low cost and simplicity of operation and maintenance. They are well
suited for many operations.
In a dynamic payo, the package of input material is
rotated around its axis as the material is removed from
the package. Dynamic payos can be motor driven or
simply allowed to rotate from the force of the down-
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stream process pulling on the input material. With dynamic payos, the package of input material is always
raised o the oor in some way. Examples of payo
features for lifting the package include cantilever shafts,
pintles, turntables, oor rollers and more. Depending on
package type and axis of orientation, dynamic spoolers
can be designed not to put any twist on the input material
as it exits its package.
Advantages of dynamic payos include less stress on the
input material, the ability to traverse the package and in
some cases, higher speeds. Some payos, rotating and
backtwist, for example, are hybrid types that combine the
principles of dynamic and static payos. The reel or spool
rotates and twist is taken out of the wire by rotating the
payo or using a yer bow to rotate around the payo
package. These devices are common in stranding operations to compensate for the twisting action of stranding.
Davis-Standard, LLC
1 Extrusion Drive
Pawcatuck, CT 06379 USA
Tel: 860-599-1010
Fax: 860-599-6258
info@davis-standard.com
A critical function of a payo is to provide and control

back tension of the material being paid-o. This can be
accomplished with a dancer, tension brakes, load cells,
etc. The accuracy and capacity of the tension control used
is a function of the demands of the process. Automation
is another consideration, which can be accomplished
with dual payos and/or accumulators.
Take-Ups
The job of a take-up device is to get the output materialrod, wire, conductor, strand, cable, etc.out of its
manufacturing process machinedrawing machine,
extruder, treatment line, etc.and put it into some type
of packagespool, reel, stem, barrel, basket, box, etc. As
with payos, we can divide take-ups into static or dynamic classes. The take-up is basically a payo operating
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499 Edgeley Blvd. Unit 12

Concord, Ontario, Canada
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drawing machines and on multi-wire drawing machines,
most take-ups are of the dynamic style.
Of special consideration on spool or reel take-ups is the
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Via Serena, 32
21040 Sumirago (VA), Italy
Tel: +39 0331 681021
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Frigeco USA, Inc.
67 Beaver Avenue, Corbit Building, Suite 12

Annandale, NJ 08801 USA
Tel: +1 908 894 5801 Fax: +1 908 894 5809
Internet: www.frigeco.com
M.F.L. U.S.A. Service Corp.

70 Industrial Drive
Cumberland, RI 02864-6021 USA
Tel: +1 401 334 1151
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in reverse, so most of the payo discussion on function,
in conjunction with other devices to get the job done.
The options
available
today
forInternational
measuring
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& Cable
Technology
117 and controlling wire and cable tension are pretty diverse, and there
are many excellent products designed specically for
the wire and cable industry. The capabilities and performances of these devices and systems have increased
quite a bit over the last few decadesaccuracies are now
as low as 1% and better, and advances in computer
processors, electronics, communication devices and
software have found their way into modern tension
control systems. Even so, the fundamental technology
behind these products is rooted in classic engineering
concepts like friction, torque and force, and traditional
components such as weights, springs, friction belts,
clutches, brakes and load cells are widely used.
Weights and springs are still used on tension control
dancers that operate in conjunction with take-ups or
payos, and tension capstans, essentially a type of a
tension equalizer, operate eectively with friction belts.
Clutches, brakes and load cells are used in many dierent congurations to measure and often control force
or torque on a reel of wire or cable or on a pulley or
pulleys over which the wire or cable travels. Multiple
devices are often used together with a controller to make
a complete tension control package. For example, in a
wire payo operation, a brake can control the torque on
used to make the wire, cable or fiber.
a payoff reel, a load cell can measure wire tension over

a pulley and the controller can provide communication
between the two to get constant wire tension. Load cells
To improve packaging options and flexibility.
can also be used.
To prepare material (wire, cable or fiber) for a

downstream process, bobbin winding for braiding
In my view, consistency is the key, and this can be
applications, for example.
accomplished with good process design, solid documentation, operator training and the proper selection
To eliminate partial spools or substandard quality

product from a spool or reel of wire, cable or fiber.
and layout of payoffs, take-ups and tension control

equipment.
To maximize the production levels of wire, cable

and fiber operations.
Over the last few years, the wire and cable industry has
seen some tension control innovations, and the recent
economic troubles may shed some light on the costsavings benefits of doing a good job in controlling tension in wire and cable manufacturing processes. Some
examples that come to mind are as follows:
Respoolers start with a payoff and end with a take-up.

In between, critical functions include traversing and
tension and quality control. The fundamental operation
of a respooler has not changed much over the years, but
performance levels, durability and capabilities continue
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Wireless tension control systems for rotating machines such as strandersto eliminate slip rings.
Automatic elimination of tension brake cogging

within one shaft revolutionpatented device
eliminates this problem associated with residual
magnetism in hyteresis brakes.
Slim magnetic brake designs, for easier replacement

of rope or belt control systems on older machines.
Standard digital readouts on hand-held tension

meters.
Simplified installation and adjustment of tension

control devices.
Low-cost tension control for fast paybacktension

brushes, capstan tensioners and improved flyer arms.
The use of fiber optics.
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Frther Str. 30, 91126, Schwabach, Germany

Tel: +49 9122 977-0 Fax: +49 9122 977-155
Email: info@niehoff.de
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Niehoff Endex North America Inc.
One Mallard Court

Swedesboro, NJ 08085 USA
Tel: +1 856 467 4884 Fax: +1 856 467 0584
Email: sales@NiehoffEndex.com
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Respoolers
Respoolers are valuable for all sorts of wire, cable,
optical fiber, rod, conductors and tape processes and
applications. These include stand-alone respoolers,
traverse systems, bobbin winders, automatic handling/
packaging equipment, integrated devices (printers, QC
systems, counters) and tension controls. Reasons for
respooling:
To make smaller packages of product from larger

ones.
To add some value to bulk products, marking or

testing, for example.
To add some element of packaging that is applied

at a much slower speed than the production level
Pioneer Machinery USA
55 Madison Avenue, Suite 400

Morristown, NJ 07960 USA
Contact: Jack Patino
Tel: +1 973 285 3211
Fax: +1 866 892 8724
Service: +1 201 532 3025
Email: sales@pioneermachinery.us
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Wire & Cable India 2016 Confirms Leading Position
The recent staging of the trade fair
reported many productive conversations
trio Wire & Cable India, Tube India
and the prospect of good post-show
and Metallurgy India at the Bombay
business. They were especially pleased
Convention & Exhibition Center in
about the quality of visitors with high
Mumbai, India, confirmed the events leading position for the
decision-making authority and good technical knowledge.
industry in India.
Held concurrently again was India Essen Welding & Cutting,
Over three days, 406 exhibitors presented the latest tech-
organized by Messe Essen and Messe Dsseldorf India.
nologies from the wire and cable industries, tube processing
The next staging of Wire & Cable India, Tube India, Metallurgy
and tube trading as well as metallurgy on 86,000 ft2 of exhibit
India and India Essen Welding & Cutting will take place from
space. In addition to the high participation of exhibitors from
November 27 to 29, 2018 in Mumbai. For further information
India, the shows again featured large country pavilions from
on visiting or exhibiting at any of these events, contact Messe
Austria, China, Italy, Germany and the USA. About 12,300
Dsseldorf North America (MDNA), Chicago, IL, USA, visit
trade visitors took partfor a 28% increase compared to the
the MDNA website listed below, subscribe to the MDNA blog
previous events.
at http://blog.mdna.com or follow the MDNA and the show on
The concurrent staging of the three trade fairs generated valu-
twitter at http://twitter.com/WireTube_MDNA.
able synergies for both exhibitors and visitors. The exhibitors
www.mdna.com
Successful Seminar
for Maillefer
Close to 40 delegates attended the technical seminar
held by Maillefer Extrusion India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai,
India, on the eve of the show.
All three topicsfiber optic cable lines, CCV lines and
serviceswere well received. Our customers were
happy to meet and mingle with our CEO and Product
Managers as quite a few have had long associations with
Maillefer over the many years, and were eager to know
more about our new product offerings and innovations.
Wire & Cable India concluded on a positive note. The
three-day event was a success. Many Indian cable
company representatives visited the fair, although there
were less overseas visitors from other Asian countries
and the Far East due to the close proximity of wire China
just the previous week. Our product focus was on CCV
technology, Maillefer Services, Maillefer Factory System
and Maillefer Consultation.
There were quite a few inquiries for fiber optic and solar
cable lines. The increase in demand could be due to the
Indian governments initiative to promote digital India
and solar energy. We foresee good growth potential for
both these markets for the next five years.
Our Secondary Coating Line, the OEL 40///Explore, is
designed to reach ultra-high speeds up to 1000 mpm for jelly
and dry tubes with PP, PBT, PC, PE and other materials.
Increasing production efficiency is key in responding to the
growing global demand for fiber optic cables.
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When it comes to photo-voltaic wire in compliance to

TUV 2Pfg and UL 4703, our insulation line EEL 20 can
be configured for either tandem or co-extrusion to meet
the stringent TUV and UL specifications and standards.
The biggest advantage for customers with our extrusion
technology is the wide window of processing different
polymers, which offers production flexibility of various
types of insulated wires and cables.
Our sales and service office in Mumbai is geared up
to offer customized services ranging from Support
Services to Upgrade Solutions and Maintenance and
Performance Solutions to Service Level Agreements.
We would like to thank everyone who visited us and hope
to see you again at the show in 2018. www.maillefer.net
Well-Attended North American Pavilion

Rahul Sachdev, Executive Vice President of Wire
& Plastic Machinery Corp., Bristol, CT, USA, and
Board Member of WCISA (Wire & Cable Industry
Suppliers Association), Akron, OH, USA, reported,
We experienced a steady stream of attendees visiting
the North American pavilion. All three days were quite
active and exhibitors reported meaningful discussions
and were optimistic of future prospects. With the Indian
economy slated to grow around 7% per year, the mood
was upbeat as a lot of companies are experiencing
signicant growth and have capital equipment projects
in the pipeline. The number of visitors from two years
ago may have been less, but the decision makers were
present all three days.
Overall, the show was positive and quite a few
exhibitors expressed their intention to participate again
in two years time.
www.wcisaonline.org
Thomas Schlitt, Managing Director Messe Dusseldorf

India, Rahul Sachdev, Friedrich Georg-Kehrer,
Global Portfolio Director Metals and Flow
Technologies and Justin Kesselring, Project
Manager, Messe Dusseldorf North America.
Continued...
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...Continued
Images and news from Wire & Cable India 2016
Steady Stream of Booth Visitors

CT, USA, had Rahul Sachdev and David Forber
participating for the three days of exhibition in Mumbai,
India. We saw a steady stream of visitors to our booth.
Most visitors had decision-making authority and were
well versed in technical matters. We made several
new contacts with potential customers and our overall
impression of the show was quite positive.
Make plans to attend

from November 27-29, 2018
in Mumbai, India.
WCTI
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ShowcaSe acceSSorieS
Roughness Measurement
Automatic, in-line system
Supplier of optical high-precision

3D scanning sensors and solutions announces the formal North American
launch of its new noncontact wire, cable
and filament surface roughness measurement system, the MicroProfiler MP 900.
The MP 900 is based on the companys patented Line Confocal Imaging
(LCI) technology that enables accurate
in-production roughness measurement
from a fast moving surface of any type
and color. The system scans and analyzes a products actual surface profile
at the rate of 512,000 points per second.
The maximum line speed is 150 mpm
(500 fpm) and products with diameter
of 1 mm (0.04") to flat can be measured.
The systems minimum reported Ra
is 0.2 m (8 in) and other standard
roughness parameters such as Rz, can
also be calculated. Roughness of the
product is displayed in real-time and
operators are automatically alerted for
abnormal process changes enabling
instant corrective actions. All roughness
results from the

entire length of
each produced
reel are stored in
the systems database for quality
certification and
production reporting purposes.
Continuous
surface roughness
measurement allows manufacturers to really optimize their processes for each product
and material, and
to push the envelope for absolutely maximum line speed
and production output.
Other benefits include improved
product quality, reduced scrap, faster
process startups and changeovers and
reduced labor needed in quality control
activities. FocalSpec, Inc., Cumming,
GA, USA.
www.focalspec.com
High-Speed Camera
Records manufacturing equipment
The IL5 High-Speed 5MP Camera

enables recording of any cable and
wire manufacturing equipment moving
or turning at high-speed such as wire
straightening, stranding, twisting and
weaving equipment as well as cutting
machines. Since this type of high-speed
manufacturing is susceptible to vibration
or alignment problems, slow motion replay allows you to analyze and troubleshoot what you were not able to see with
the naked eye or normal speed video.
With four models to choose from,

with crisp, clean video from 2560 x 2080
at 230 fps to 800 x 600 at 1650 fps, there
is an IL5 to fit your application needs.
Fastec Imaging, San Diego, CA, USA.
www.fastecimaging.com
Nanoparticle Coating
Curing of FO Coatings
New Xaloy MPX Technology

for single and twin screws provides
improved abrasion and corrosion resistance, with 61% less mass loss in abrasion tests. A technology that uses very
tiny tungsten carbide spheres barely
larger than the particles in cigarette
smoke has yielded a coating for single
and twin plasticating screws that resists
abrasive and corrosive wear better than
standard coatings applied by high-velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) thermal spray.
The new thermal spray coating is
made up of particles only 5 microns in
diameter. Consisting mainly of tungsten
carbide, the particles are six to seven
times smaller than those in standard
HVOF coatings and more densely
packed owing to a uniform spherical
shape produced in a controlled plasma
process. The combination of ultra-fine
particle size, higher coating density, and
a 2.5 times greater application velocity
results in a stronger bond with the par-
The OmniCure AC8225-F+ features

a custom optical design for optimum
optical performance over longer working distancesa typical requirement for
fiber coating processes. With high peak
irradiance and high efficiency, the system supports increased line speeds and
helps customers realize significant cost
savings via less electricity consumption.
For plasticating screws
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Higher power UV LED curing system
Xaloy MPX nanopartical coating

for plasticating screws.
ent metal of the screw and improved

resistance to wear.
Compared with standard HVOF
tungsten carbide coatings, Xaloy MPX
technology exhibits 61% less mass loss
in ASTM G65 abrasion testing, 18% less
mass loss in ASTM G77 sliding wear
testing and 8.5% greater bond strength
in ASTM C633 bond testing. Xaloy
MPX coating survived over 1000 hours
of salt fog testing. Nordson, Neckarsulm, Germany.
www.nordson.com
This compact, air-cooled system can

be easily integrated into existing or new
production lines. Excelitas Technologies Corp., Waltham, MA, USA.
www.excelitas.com
Resistance
Welding Machines
Models with updated designs
CEA, which is headquartered in

Lecco, Italy, has recently established a
new division known as Restech. This
division has been established for CEAs
complete line of resistance welding
machines.
Along with the new name of Restech
comes updated designs of the companys
butt welding machines, seam welders,
spot welders and customized welding
machine versions. All of the companys
welding machine models are easy-touse as well as provide highly reliable
operation.
The companys most popular butt
welder covers a range from 2 to 14 mm
diameter for steel, brass, aluminum and
copper.
Standard features of the Model N 12
include annealing function and fourwheel cart. Jaws opening and closing is
fitted with lever operated jaws. Movable
jaw by means of bearings for very precise sliding with low friction to achieve
highest quality welds.

The Restech butt welder family
covers from 0.5 to 18 mm diameter.
The welders are manually operated,
offer welding upset and welding power
adjustment, incorporate movable jaws,
graduated scale to easily set the jaw
opening and more.

To receive additional technical
specifications on this equipment, contact
Straus-Artys Corporation, Woodbury,
NY, USA.
www.ceaweld.com
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Spark Tester
With removable self-test module
According to European standards,

openly operated measuring and testing
equipment has to be checked regularly.
Therefore, spark testers are tested with
regard to the accuracy of the supplied
high voltage, the short circuit current
and function (sensitivity).
The SPARK 6030 HF spark tester
offers (optionally) a three-step, self-test
and calibration system including the
SIKORA App for mobile monitoring
and analysis of the measuring results.
As each test probe has to be calibrated,
the testing module has to be controlled
regularly as well.
In order to support this process, the
manufacturer has developed the module
of the SPARK 6030 HF further. New is
the easy-to-change module that combines all testing functions and which can
easily be exchanged from an additional
opening in the housing of the SPARK
6030 HF.
In order to meet the requirements of
the ISO 9001 standards, The manufac-
New Fiber Curing System

For optical fiber coating & coloring
A leading manufacturer of highperformance UV curing systems used in

optical fiber draw towers, has announced
the release of its new, innovative Xtrema
ECO UV Curing System. The patented
and advanced Xtrema ECO is the first
significant UV curing industry advancement in over 30 years and is designed
specifically for optical fiber coating and
coloring applications.
According to the company, optical
fiber manufacturers continually pursue
new ways to increase line speeds and efficiency, while reducing operating costs,
and the firm now has a solution in the
Xtrema ECO. The current technology
being used throughout the industry inefficiently focuses only a small percentage
of the total UV light onto the fiber, causing the majority of the light generated
to be wasted. The Xtrema ECOs new
and improved elliptical reflector design
provides a higher percentage of UV output concentrated at the fiber, resulting in
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turer recommends a yearly calibration

of the spark tester by simply exchanging the test module. Due to the fact
that all functions are directly mounted
at the module, the complete module is
exchanged for calibration. Therefore, a
submission of the complete device to
the company as well as the assignment
of a service engineer is not necessary.
As for the previous version of the
module, the sensitivity and short circuit
current tests are generated. For the sensitivity test, 20 discharges are simulated in
20 seconds. All of these discharges have
to be completely detected by the spark

tester. For the short circuit current test,
an error caused by the contact of a user
and the bead chain electrode during the
operation is simulated. Here, a defined
value must not be exceeded in order to
guarantee the safety of the user. The calibration module measures continuously
the accuracy of the testing voltage. The
standard for spark testers requests an
accuracy of 5%. The test is successful
if this criterion is met. SIKORA AG,
Bremen, Germany.
www.sikora.net
The spark tester

SPARK 6030 HF
with removable
self-test and
calibration module.
faster line speeds (25% to 100% increase

depending upon existing UV lamp arrangement), energy savings up to 50%,
reduced parts cost, reduced production
expenditures and lower heat emissions
resulting in cooler fiber temperatures.
The Xtrema ECO system offers significant efficiency and cost reduction
benefits to the optical fiber industry. The
Xtrema ECO UV System is designed
to be installed on new draw towers or
coloring machines, but can be easily
retrofitted to replace existing UV equipment. This new technology will allow

optical fiber manufacturers to run faster
production speeds and reduce the costs
to produce fiber.
The manufacturer of the Xtrema
ECO system has been in business for 27
years and offers cost-effective solutions
to manufacturers throughout a broad
spectrum of industries. Miltec UV,
Stevensville, MD, USA.
www.miltec.com
SHOWCASE MATERIALS
Low-Shrink LS-HFFR
Jacket Compound
High-temp in/outdoor performance
A new low-smoke, halogen-free

ame retardant (LS-HFFR) jacket compound provides enhanced resistance to
thermal shock and excellent processability, along with the low-shrink properties
required for ber optic cable.
Halguard 58650 compound performs well over a broad temperature
range, from a brittle point of -47C
to a maximum continuous operating
temperature of 105C. It exhibits postextrusion linear shrinkage values of
only 2%, has passed the manufacturers
internal tests for heat shock at 121C,
and exhibits deformation of only 4% at
121C (UL-1581). The new compound
passes a 720-hour sunlight resistance
test (UL-1581) with high levels of property retention. Its UL-94 vertical burn
rating is V-0 (see Table).
The manufacturer recommends
Halguard 58650 compound for fiber
optic and copper data cable as well as
telecommunications antenna, power,

industrial and transit applications. The
product is available globally. Halguard
58650 oers a superior balance of ame
retardancy, high-temperature performance and processability compared
with standard HFFR compounds. This

combination is well suited for indoor/
outdoor applications where cable is
exposed to a wide temp ranges. Teknor
Apex Company, Pawtucket, RI, USA.
www.teknorapex.com
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It is a real pleasure
At Holiday time to say
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we wish you continued
progress and success
In the New Year.
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Ph: 315. 336-8154 Fax: 315 336.3854
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ShowcaSe machinery
Updated Extruder
Versatile & quick screw exchange
Companys 3.5" (90 mm) extruder

offers engineering updates such as a new
extruder frame, advanced feedscrew
design and quick screw exchange (QSE)
technology. This extruder is designed for
high-temperature processes up to 300C,
and those requiring specialty copolymer
resins for film, coating, adhesion and
molding applications.
The standardized extruder frame
has been built with additional space
to simplify maintenance and improve
heater access. Computer designed
stainless steel feedscrews provide
reliable melt homogeneity for resins
like acid copolymers, which improves
bond performance to materials such as
aluminum foil.
Other extruder advantages include
electrical barrel heating with air-cooled
blowers for each zone, temperaturecontrolled water cooling for gearbox oil
cooler, water-cooled screw and feed section and fixed die support and thermal
Steel Cord Technology

For the tire industry
The technological evolution of the

automotive industry has obliged tire
manufacturers to develop products with
improved performance, safety, grip and
environmental impact. Both the rubber
compounds used and manufacturing
process determine these characteristics.
Important in this process is the presence
of a metallic belt composed of a fine
steel cord netting formed from a series
of high-tensile wires (which can reach
values up to 4200 MPa) with a brass
surface to guarantee improved anchorage characteristics.
The numerous types of steel cord
formations, chosen by the manufacturer
in accordance with the desired dynamic
and static performance/characteristics
of the finished tire, are based upon the
concepts of quality and consistency in
both individual components and design
parameters. The steel cord production
process is a complex and sophisticated
process based upon a combination of
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expansion capability.
The QSE adapter enables processors to easily change the screw without
dismantling the melt pipes, feed block
and other components. An extraction
tool is included to manually change the
breaker plate melt-filtering inserts. The
adapter is engineered with an electrical

pressure gauge, manual or motorized
pressure spindle, double thermocouple
for every heating zone and breaker plate
with two-screen pack. Davis-Standard,
Pawcatuck, CT, USA.
Davis Standard extruder with QSD adapter.
wire reduction sequences (using both

dry and wet drawing equipment), heat
and chemical (patenting, cleaning, brass
plating) treatments terminating with
bunching machines.
The new technologically advanced
Eurolls Double Twist Bunching Machine has been designed for high performance (rotation speeds up to 5000 rpm),
ease of threading (new cable production)
and operation/line control plus simplified maintenance interventions. The new
concepts present in this machine not

only guarantee stability, a constant final
product quality, high operating flexibility for assembly of new wire formations and the use of latest quality entry
material (increased carbon content and
substantial presence of chromium), but
also reduce the difficulties encountered
by tire manufacturers when producing a
high-quality final product. Eurolls SpA,
Wire Machinery Division, of Italy.
www.eurolls.com
ShowcaSe machinery
Low-Tension Binder
For single and dual-end yarns
bobbin dimensions of up to 290 mm for

the outer diameter. This enables continuous production lengths. The integrated
mini twist lock keeps strands perfectly
formed and supports immediate binding
at the stranding point.
Essential parameters such as bobbin weight, bobbin diameter and brake
curve are stored in the database. These
parameters are used during line opera-
The ROBI low-tension binder is for

single and dual-end yarns with up to
4500 rpm. The ROBI high-speed cross
binder was developed for SZ-stranded
fiber optic cable elements. At 4500 rpm,
it is definitely fast, but at the same time
very gentle in its handling.
The ROBI has an adjustable binding
tension to maintain the loose tube shape
and the products quality. Beyond that,
it is specially designed to maintain the
very short reversal spots generated by
the dynamic drive system of the manufacturers SZ-strander.
The system can achieve a constant
yarn tension below 2 N with the optionally available active yarn tension control
system. This system keeps the tension
constant at all operating conditions even
while the binder is ramping up/down and
at high production speeds. The user can
attain constant and high-precision binding to maintain the products properties.
RAN-201403-W+C Tech Qtr BW_RAND W+CT Qtr BW
And size-wise, the ROBI allows large
tion to maintain a constant yarn tension

at various production speeds.
The manufacturer describes the
ROBI low-tension binder as fast, but not
furious. And according to the company,
its user gets a well-shaped product and
continuous production lengths at high
speeds. Rosendahl Nextrom GmbH,
Pischelsdorf, Austria.
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Long-lasting UHMW
Sheaves and Pulleys
for Demanding Applications
Excellent abrasion resistance

-259 to 200F thermal resistance
Chemical and impact resistance
Ideal for clean wire, fiber optic and insulated wire products
Single or nested sheaves with U, V and flat groove configurations
Adjustable cable guides and deflector pulleys also available
Also available in various materials such as Ceram-P, nylon, Delrin and

HDPE, as well as aluminum, hard-coated anodized aluminum or
ceramic-coat aluminum, steel, stainless steel and plasma nitride steel.
Sheaves and Pulleys, LLC

(203) 272-1352 info@randmachineco.com
1486 Highland Ave., Unit 9, Cheshire, CT 06410 USA
www.randmachineco.com
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ShowcaSe machinery
Hydraulic & Chain
Draw Benches
Models with new innovations
Hundreds of draw benches from

Violi Srl, Arezzo, Italy, are in operation around the world. Recently, Violi
Srl introduced further innovations for
the TRI and TR series of hydraulic and
chain draw benches for tube and bar
applications with circular cross sections or complex profiles. The benches
incorporate innovative design solutions
that are patent protected.
The TRI hydraulic draw benches are
PLC controlled both for working phases
and safety protection. The sliding carriage grippers are perfectly aligned with
the hole of the draw-in to eliminate any
bending effects on the metal structure.
Speed is adjustable and the operation
of the bench is extremely simple via
joystick controller. Gripper jaws can be
replaced in minutes. The draw benches
are extremely compact with total length
normally being 1.5 to 1.8 m more than
the working draft. As an option, an op-
posite bench can be supplied for use of

anchored spindles.
The TR chain draw bench series is
designed to process bars and tubes up to
12 mm diameter. The anchor grippers,
with adjustable jaws, are equipped with
a locking system manually managed
by the machine operator. The return of
Quality Compounding for the
wire & cable
Industry
ECC offers a broad portfolio of customized elastomeric or polyolefin based

compounds utilized for medium/high voltage as well as certain low voltage
flame retardant applications including:

EPR Compounds
Elastomeric, Crosslinkable, and Thermoplastic Compounds
Flame Retardant and Halogen Free Compounds
Moisture Crosslinkabe Compounds
Specialty/Custom/FR Masterbatches
Insulation, Jacketing, and Bedding Compounds
ISO 9001 certified manufacturing process ensures quality, efficiency
and ultimately customer satisfaction.
Non-carbon black product lines produce super-clean, elastomeric
high voltage cable compounds.
Personalized customer service and support to customers worldwide.
108 Rado Drive, Naugatuck, CT 06770 USA | Tel: +1 203-723-2590

www.ElectricCableCompounds.com
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the draw lift is electrically controlled.

Working speeds can be fixed to one or
two rates, or inverter adjustable.
To learn more about these machines,
contact Straus-Artys Corporation,
Woodbury, NY, USA.
www.violomacchine.it.com
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IEWC Announces
New CSCO & CMO
Appointments
Milwaukee, WI, USA-based IEWC

has announced the recent appointment of Lanny Million to Chief
Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) and
Joseph Crum to Chief Marketing
Officer (CMO).
Million, who has recently served
as IEWCs Sr. Vice President, Strategic Global Sourcing and Business
Development, will
take on the role of
CSCO in addition
to his current duties
focused around strategic global supply.
A 30-year veteran
Lanny
and proven leader
Million
in the wire and cable
industry, Million has consistently
demonstrated his ability to achieve
strong business results through
a consultative and collaborative
approach.
In addition to his current responsibilities as IEWCs Chief Information Officer, Crum will assume the
role of Chief Marketing Officer.
His marketing experience coupled
with his results-orientated nature are the perfect
match for this dual
role. Crum will lead
the charge in the
build-up of IEWCs
marketing efforts
both throughout the
Joseph Crum
USA and abroad,
along with hiring a Marketing
Director to ensure the proper strategies and alignments are in place
within IEWCs ongoing marketing
activities.
Anastasia Chapek, IEWCs Global
Customer Service Director, will
begin reporting to Crum to better
align her customer service role
with the commercial business.
IEWCs Chief Executive Officer,
David Nestingen, commented,
Our world today continues to
dramatically change, from China
to the UK, to the USA and every128
where else in-between. The new

appointments of Joseph Crum
as Chief Marketing Officer and
Lanny Million as Chief Supply
Chain Officer will only reinforce
the commitment IEWC has towards driving commercial results
and business success for both
IEWC and its partners around the
world. www.iewc.com
HUBER+SUHNER &
Bombardier to Partner
After more than 20 years of successful collaboration, Bombardier Transportation has named
HUBER+SUHNER as A-supplier
for its cable requirements. Bombardier intends to equip existing
and new rolling stock throughout
the world predominantly with
RADOX EN and GKW cables.
In the future, the majority of cables in trains and metro carriages
manufactured by Bombardier will
be based on HUBER+SUHNER
connectivity solutions.
Bombardier Transportation and
HUBER+SUHNER signed a
five-year agreement. As a result,
HUBER+SUHNER will become
the preferred cable supplier of
the railway technology leader. In
the future, the majority of Bombardiers cable orders for global
production are to be awarded to
HUBER+SUHNER.
The agreement represents a further milestone in the good collaboration between the two companies
and guarantees the leading market
position of HUBER+SUHNER.
www.hubersuhner.com
JDR Invests in
Subsea Technology
JDR, a leading UK-based supplier
of subsea umbilicals and power ca-
bles to the offshore energy industry, has unveiled a state-of-the-art

horizontal lay-up machine (HLM)
at its Hartlepool manufacturing
facility. The HLM will enable JDR
to provide the next generation of
reliable and safe subsea connectivity to the oil, gas and renewables
sectors.
JDR has installed the HLM, the
biggest in the UK and second
largest in the world, for subsea
umbilicals. The technology will
provide increased manufacturing
capacity and enhance solutions to
clients operational challenges in
particular for complex steel tube
and power umbilicals.
The HLM is part of JDRs ongoing
Hartlepool expansion to better
service its growing oil, gas and
renewables client base and give
JDR the increased capacity to be
the partner of choice across the
offshore energy industry.
David Currie, CEO of JDR, said,

Were proud to be leading the
way in subsea technology innovation. The HLM will nearly double
our production capacity. Were
committed to offering unrivalled
technical expertise to design, test
and deliver the next generation of
subsea technology to the global
offshore energy industry.
www.jdrcables.com
TE Connectivity
Names Heath Mitts
Executive VP & CFO
TE Connectivity Ltd., Schaffhausen, Switzerland, a world leader in
connectivity and sensors, recently
announced that it has named
Heath A. Mitts as the companys
Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer (CFO), effective
September 12, 2016.
Mitts joins TE from IDEX CorpoNoveber 2016
WHMA
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ration, where he most recently

served as Senior VP/CFO. IDEX
is a globally diversified company
specializing in fluid, metering,
health and science technologies
as well as fire, safety and other
products. Prior to serving as CFO
at IDEX, he held senior global
finance positions at PerkinElmer
and Honeywell International.
We are thrilled to welcome Heath
aboard as our CFO, said TE Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Tom Lynch. We are confident
that with his strong financial experience and track record, he will
help us continue to deliver consistently strong financial performance
and value for our shareholders.
Mario Calastri, who served as TEs
interim CFO since February 2016
will resume his position as Senior
Vice President and Treasurer.
Mario did an excellent job stepping into the role of interim CFO
over the last seven months and will
work closely with Heath during
the transition period, said Lynch.
www.te.com
GORE Cables Used

for F-16 Upgrades
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.,
Landenberg, PA, USA, has announced the successful integration of GORE Aerospace Ethernet Cables into upcoming F-16
upgrade initiatives. Gores new
10-gigabit cables, exceed Cat. 6a
electrical requirements by delivering reliable signal integrity with
sufficient margin for high-speed
data transmission over longer distances. These cables are qualified
according to C21091 Specifications
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for F-16 upgrades that require exceptional electrical and mechanical

performance in harsh aerospace
environments for the assurance of
mission-critical success.
GORE Aerospace Ethernet Cables
can be easily retrofitted into any
existing aircraft structure, making
them ideal for F-16 upgrades. They
are much smaller, lighter weight
and more flexible with a tighter
bend radius for easier routing in
tight areas compared to leading
alternative cables. www.gore.com
BASEC Designated
by UK Government
as Regulation Body
The British Approvals Service for
Cables (BASEC), Milton Keynes,
UK, has been designated by the
UK Government Department for
Communities and Local Government (DCLG) as a Notified Body
for conducting cable testing to the
Construction Products Regulation
(CPR) and a Notified Body for
cable product certification to the
CPR. BASEC is among the first to
be appointed across Europe and
one of few to have scope for both
activities.
The international cable test and
certification body has been assigned the Notified Body number
2661. This number will appear on
the label of every piece of cable
that BASEC tests or certifies under
CPR, before it is distributed and
sold. It will also need to appear
on all manufacturers declarations
of conformity for cable products
that BASEC has had a role in. In
addition, European Union Commission and other Member States
have been informed that BASEC
has fulfilled the relevant requirements to carry out conformity assessment according to the CPR. As
such, BASEC and its identification
number has been added to the EU
NANDO information system.
The CPR regulation demands that
cable manufacturers supplying
any type of cable that is intended
Dave Hoare, Product Manager at

BASEC, setting up the large-scale
vertical ladder test used for CPR.
to fit permanently into the structure of a building (including power distribution, final circuit wiring,
control and instrumentation and
data communications cables) to
European markets, meets the new
cable testing, certification and CE
marking requirements of CPR by
July 1, 2017.
Cable wholesalers and distributors
supplying into the EU also have a
responsibility to ensure the cable
manufacturers they work with
have done this, or if necessary
to undertake the CE marking requirements themselves.
Dr. Jeremy Hodge, Chief Executive at BASEC said, In order to
meet the CPR requirements before
the July 1, 2017 deadline, cable
manufacturers and distributors
seeking to comply with the CPR
must work with a Notified Body.
All documentation should be in
place by this date or they may
risk having their products taken
off the market. We are working
across the global cable industry
to inform, educate and implement
CPR for cables. In particular, there
has been an increasing demand for
CPR training from international
cable manufacturers who import
cable into Europe from China, the
Middle East and the USA.
The benefits of achieving compliance with CPR for cables include
free circulation of construction
cable in the EUs single market
and cable products only have to
be assessed once according to a
harmonized European standard.
For additional information on
BASEC, visit the website below.
Continued...
www.basec.org.uk
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NKT to Split Into Two

Firms with Purchase
of ABB Business
NKT Cables has decided to split

the NKT Holding company into
two separately listed companies,
which both will be among the
market leaders in their respective industries. The timing of this
decision is linked to NKT Cables
acquisition of ABBs high-voltage
cables business. NKT Cables has
entered into a purchase agreement to acquire ABB HV Cables,
a wholly owned business of the
ABB Group including ABB HV
Cables committed investment in
a new, cutting-edge cable-laying
vessel to be delivered and paid
for in the first quarter of 2017. The
total enterprise value amounts to
836 million.
The combination of NKT Cables
and ABB HV Cables creates a leading on and offshore high-voltage
power cables company. ABB HV
Cables is a leading player within
DC high-voltage power cables, a
position which allows NKT Cables
to enter this market, which has
strong growth potential. Since
2012, ABB has made significant
investments to position the business at the technological forefront
of the high-voltage cable industry
with best-in-class manufacturing
facilities in Karlskrona, Sweden.
The new combined business will

be strongly positioned in both the
growing offshore wind industry
as well as for the development of
the interconnector grid in Europe.
In addition, a strong organizational fit rooted in a shared Nordic
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heritage and culture is believed

to support the integration of the
business. To secure future cooperation, NKT Cables and ABB
Group has signed an agreement
for long-term strategic partnership
to pursue market opportunities
within interconnectors and onshore power transmission projects.
www2.nktcables.com
Southwire Acquires
United Copper
Industries
Southwire Company, LLC, Carrollton, GA, USA, has acquired

United Copper Industries, Denton, TX, USA. The acquisition expands Southwires manufacturing
capabilities in the companys core
building wire products segment
and enhances Southwires geographical footprint, increasing
the ability to respond favorably
to customer growth in key markets. United Copper Industries
is the third largest manufacturer
of building wire in the USA. The
company offers a full line of copper building wire products and
metal-clad cables. The company
has a workforce of approximately
300 employees.
The 450,000 ft2 facility in Denton

is comprised of sales and support
resources, a copper rod mill, a
manufacturing plant and distribution resources.
Southwire plans to fully integrate this campus into Southwires
existing operations so that the
campus will serve as a strategically
located facility with opportunities
for long-term operations, expansion and increased capacity.
www.southwire.com
Hitachi Metals
Harness Assembly
Lines in Europe
Hitachi Metals, Ltd. will introduce harness assembly lines for
rolling stock wire and cables at
its operation base in the Czech
Republic to strengthen its system
for offering solutions in the rolling
stock cable business in Europe,
with mass production that commenced in October 2016.
Hitachi Metals has been working
to increase the profitability of its
Cable Materials Business based
on its three growth drivers of rolling stock, medical products and
automotive electrical components.
In June 2016, production lines for
manufacturing cables for rolling
stock and industrial applications
using Hitachi Metals proprietary
technologies was introduced at an
operation base in China.
Against this backdrop, Hitachi
Metals will introduce harness
assembly lines for rolling stock
wire and cables at Hitachi Cable Europe s.r.o., in the Czech
Republica location offering convenient access to other European
countries. The system for offering
solutions will be strengthened in
the European market (UK, Germany and France), where investments have been made to improve
railway networks.
www.hitachi-metals.co.jp
TE Wire Signs
Cable Licensing With
Cambridge Enterprise
TE Wire & Cable LLC, Saddle
Brook, NJ, USA, a leading thermocouple and specialty wire
and cable manufacturer, has announced completion of a licensing agreement with Cambridge
Enterprise for a ground-breaking
thermocouple cable technology
developed by researchers in the
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Department of Materials Science

and Metallurgy at the University
of Cambridge. This dual-wall,
low-drift type K and type N mineral insulated (MI) thermocouple
cable design was developed to improve temperature measurement
accuracy, extend thermocouple
life and significantly enhance drift
characteristics.
The new cable design was developed for high-temperature
thermocouple applications and
thermocouple installations that
require longer use at higher temperatures. The technology will
be of particular interest to those
involved in aerospace/aircraft
manufacturing for measuring
jet engine temperatures and for
processing applications like heat
treatment.
nounces that its parent company,

Fujikura Ltd., has appointed
Yoichi Nagahama as Chairman of
AFL, succeeding Takamasa Kato.
Additionally, Fujikura appointed
Satoru Ogawa as Vice Chairman.
Nagahama joined Fujikura in 1973
and has held several positions including Vice President of Fujikura
America Inc.; Vice President of
finance for Fujikura Asia; General
Manager of Finance and Accounting, Senior Vice President and CFO/

GM of Corporate Strategy Planning
for Fujikura, Ltd.; and President
and CEO of Fujikura, Ltd. Continued...
Yoichi
Nagahama
BRAIDERS
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Specializing in Rebuilt Braiders

and Composite & Wire Machinery
New Design Drive Braiding Machines
#2 Harness Braiders
Specialty Application Braiders
Robert Canny, TE President, said,

Even though this is a completely
new technology for us, TE Wire is
well positioned to promote it to
our customers and corresponding applications. Our depth of
application knowledge and industry ties in heat treatment and
the aerospace world will allow
us to refine this technology in cooperation with forward-thinking
customers.
This new technology is outlined in
a paper titled, Development of a
Low Drift Type K Thermocouple
Cable for Aerospace Applications. www.TEWire.com
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AFL Announces
New Chairman
& Vice Chairman
Ask About Our New Design

Drive system
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Satoru joined Fujikura starting

in the research and development
department where he focused on
developing manufacturing capabilities and methods. Over the next
30 years, Ogawa held positions
including Product Engineering,
Assistant Plant Manager, General
Manager and General Director.
www.AFLglobal.com
Omni Cable Hires

Allen Henry
as Regional VP
Omni Cable, headquartered in
West Chester, PA, USA, has hired
Allen Henry as the Western Regional Vice President. Henry is responsible for Omni
Cables Denver, Los
Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle locations and workAllen Henry
ing closely with the
companys Regional Managers in
those facilities to grow business.
Allen has exceptional management experience, strong leadership skills and an outstanding
sales performance in the electrical
industry, said Jason Obetz, Omni
Cables EVP, Sales & Marketing.
Henry brings with him over 15
years of industry experience.
I was looking for a greater challenge, one where I can bring my
experience from multiple industries and provide a different point
of view, said Henry. Having
come from large corporations, I am
excited to be joining a company of
partners at Omni Cable.
www.omnicable.com
TE Connectivity
President Curtin to
Succeed CEO Lynch
Schaffhausen, Switzerland-based
TE Connectivity Ltd. has announced that its Board of Directors
has appointed Terrence Curtin
to succeed Tom Lynch as the
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companys Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Curtin was previously

elected to TE Connectivitys Board
of Directors at the companys
annual general meeting held on
March 2, 2016, and is currently
TEs President.
Lynch has served as the companys Chief Executive Officer since
January 2006 and was elected to
Chairman of the Board in January 2013. He led the transition of
TE Connectivity from a former
electronics segment of Tyco International to a separate and independent public company. Lynch
will serve as the companys CEO
until the transition to Curtin on
March 9, 2017. Upon transition,
Lynch will continue as Executive
Chairman of the Board.
www.te.com
cables for industrial ethernet and

fieldbus network systems.
Lapp has also acquired S.C. Fender Cables, a company employing
a staff of 20 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It specializes in cables for
alarm and fire protection systems
and, along with CEAM, was part
of COFIMA Holding.
The acquisition of CEAM
strengthens Lapps leading role
in industry-standard data communication systems, said Andreas
Lapp, Chairman of the Board of
Lapp Holding. Lapp has thus
attained additional expertise and
manufacturing capacities, especially in the fast growing Industrial Ethernet and fieldbus systems
markets.
Yazaki to Close Samoa

Production Operation
Yazaki Corporation has announced that its subsidiary in
Samoa, Yazaki EDS Samoa, will
close its production operations.
This announcement has been communicated with the employees as
well as the Samoan and Japanese
government.
Yazaki Corporation is fully committed to providing support for its
employees who will be impacted
by this decision. Also, the company will continue to contribute to
Samoa by providing support for a
promotion of the Samoan Governments growth strategy.
www.yazaki-group.com
The Lapp Group Buys

CEAM & Fender
The Stuttgart, Germany-based
Lapp Group, a leading supplier of
integrated solutions and branded
cable and connection technology
products, has acquired CEAM
Cavi Speciali. The company employs a staff of 110 in Monselice,
Italy, and is one of the leading
European manufacturers of data
The acquisition took effect on October 13, 2016. The parties agreed
not to disclose the purchase price.
www.lappkabel.com
UK Cable Loom
& Harness Maker
Celebrates 10 Years
Convert Ltd., a leading UK manufacturer of cable looms and harnesses, is celebrating ten years in
business. The Kent-based company initially employed nine
people when it was set up in 2006.
It has grown significantly over the
past decade and now employs 30
members of staff and turns over
1 million.
Operating predominantly in the
automotive, public transport and
scientific/medical sectors, Convert
manufactures cable harnesses for
car head and rear lights, passenger gates at railway stations and
a range of scientific equipment. It
boasts some top industry names
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under stress.
A prime example of such massive interest are the discoveries
in robotics and oil exploration
space say analysts at Allied Market Research. These encounters
have completely transformed the
designs and needs add researchers evaluating the share, size, and
demands of the cables and connec-
among its customers such as

Wipac, Bibby Scientic Ltd., GKN
Hybrid Power, Cubic Transportation and OEM Automatic Ltd. as
well as leading luxury and sports
car manufacturers.
Dave Lord, Converts Managing
Director, said, We are delighted
to be celebrating our tenth anniversary. Id like to thank our customers and sta for their commitment
over the past decade. From the
outset weve been lucky to work
with some fantastic customers for
whom we will bend over backwards to meet any engineering
challenge. Weve been fortunate to
have attracted highly skilled sta
who really know their stu when
it comes to electrical engineering,
allowing us to make high quality
cable looms and harnesses which
meet customer specications.
www.convertltd.co.uk
Demand for Connectors

& Cables that Demo
Signal Integrity
According to Omkar Gaikwad of
Allied Market Research, increasing interest in robotics and oil
exploration has persuaded many
cables and connector manufacturers to focus more on precision.
Dramatically changing demands
in product design and performance are inuencing the cable
and connectors market in a big
way. Ever since electric integrity
became important for product
manufacturers, it captured the
interest of companies active in
defense, aerospace and other environments, which is constantly
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joy ride
NEW UniStrip 2050

Benchtop Stripping Unit
Schleunigers new UniStrip 2050 combines convenience and quality at a very competitive
price. It is a simple and cost effective device for stripping wires up to 2/0 AWG (70 mm2)
or cables up to 0.59 (15 mm) and is pneumatically driven so no electricity is required.
Operated by a foot pedal, its easy for even the most novice users to run. The powerful,
robust design of the UniStrip 2050 make it suitable for a wide range of applications,
while its simple operation makes it ideal for a variety of production environments.
schleuniger-na.com/us2050_wcti
Weve been very pleased with the equipment and especially

the technical help. Id give Schleuniger high marks all around
and would look to them for solutions in the future.
Doug Leithauser, Manufacturing Engineer, IMMI
To Be Precise.
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tors industry.
Its not hard to understand that
to fulfil the demands, changes
are required to standardize the
micro-D connectors. The modern
technology such as new latching
connectors today hold answers
for end users seeking significant
improvements to ensure rapid
connection and release.
Besides, the technology demonstrates signal integrity for ruggedized electronic goods flooding
the marketplace. Not only does
the latch technology promise high
shock, but it is also tested for vibration performance, according to
military level specifications.
Miniaturization of certain devices,
for example, brings the end user
several benefits. It does not stop
here as sleeker and smaller devices
are easier to hold and maneuver.
For some such as patients, these
devices cause less discomfort.
Similarly, these types of products
can easily connect to the cables.
Moreover, expected to facilitate
the high volume of data transmission for complex electronics, connector manufacturers now must
discover new ways to provide
greater precision with the shrinking footprint.
If we take a closer look at the deepspace and military applications,
they are relying greatly on robots.
The survey by Allied Market
Research also takes us close to
some of the emergency rescue
equipment manufacturers, who
have started using miniature
cables and connectors. Since several emergency applications today
require equipment that run on
temperatures, up to 200C, it is not
something unusual to see the geothermal industry and petroleum
research centers testing the new
micro-D connector technology.
The user no longer has to go back
to a laboratory and use additional
equipment to release the connector. Thus, there is a growing demand for quick plug-and-release
technology.
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That isnt enough as problems associated with recyclability of certain material and minimum use of
material are playing a decisive role
in the product development phase
of the connector. An emphasis on
environmentally optimized manufacturing also comes into play during the production. Therefore during the plastic injection process,
the manufacturers can now curb
the material use by introducing
hot runner technology.
Similarly, introduction of an energy-efficient production technique
in the manufacturing plants have
reduced emissions. There is an
observed increase in the demand
for environmentally safe materials
in 2016.
Additionally, buying trends are
opening new avenues. So far the
market conditions for cables and
connectors seem to be right on the
target. With sourcing being relatively weak in other industries, the
sector is punctuated by a favorable
economic outlook. This is creating
a fairly flat market for cables and
connectors. Looking at the present
conditions the brighter side of the
industry points at the growing
adoption rate in the commercial
aviation as well as the light-weight
transportation industry. Both of
these industry sectors are showing
signs of high profits and continued
development. Fueling the drive
in these categories is the growing
electronics goods and connector
content. The current demand and
supply landscape looks lean and
is definitely in balance.
By the end of 2016, the demand for
such components will pick up and
therefore it becomes important to
place their order way in advance
to avoid problems associated with
capacity and lead time later in the
year. Not only will the demand

drive innovation, but will push
manufacturers to explore new regions. Some of the most promising
regions for market expansion are
North America and Europe.
Countries in the Asia Pacific regions are also making a headway
into the cables and connectors
market. So with so much happening in the cables and connectors
space, the future of the industry
appears to be robust for the next
five to six years.
To get more informaiton from
Allied Market Research, visit the
website listed below.
www.alliedmarketresearch.com
LEONI Sells
Leoni Studer Hard
Subsidiary in Bautzen
LEONI AG, headquartered in
Nrnberg, Germany, has sold the
subsidiary, Leoni Studer Hard
GmbH with its location in Bautzen, Germany, to Ionisos SAS.
Ionisos SAS is a French-based
company that specializes in ionizing radiation.
By selling this activity, LEONI
AG is making the first step in
streamlining the scope of its Wire
& Cable Solutions Division. This
process is part of our strategy to
develop a more solution-oriented
business model, said Bruno
Fankhauser, who is a Member
of the LEONI AG Management
Board.
Ionisos SAS reported that it intends to continue and enhance the
Bautzen plant. The Bautzen facility
provides irradiation crosslinking
services to customers in thirdparty companies.
www.leoni.com
Leoni Studer
Hard GmbH.
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Rea Magnet Wire & Viakables
Magnekon Plan Joint Venture
The Rea Magnet Wire Company, Fort, Wayne, IN,
USA, and Magnekon, a division of Viakable, Monterrey, Mexico, have announced plans to form a joint
venture (JV) to serve magnet wire customers primarily
in North America. Due to governmental filing requirements, this transaction is currently under regulatory
review in Mexico. The JV will combine the NAFTA assets of both companies as well as leverage operational
and supply chain synergies and include an enamel
manufacturing plant (Kemek).
Rea will own majority interest in the JV, whioch will
be named Rea Magnekon and be headquartered in
Fort Wayne. The JV will be governed by the strong
family and international business cultures cultivated
by Rea and Magnekon who represent over 100 years
of combined magnet wire experience.
This agreement represents each organizations strong
commitment to providing customers with the best
overall value in magnet wire and related wire products, and will better enable us to meet the expressed
needs of our North American customers, said Scott
Harrison, CEO/President of Rea Magnet Wire.
Rea is a global wire producer serving the needs of
motor, generator, transformer, automotive and electromechanical customers.
Viakables magnet wire production line began in 1956
and expanded in 1997 as Magnekon. The company
today produces a broad variety of products with aluminum and copper conductors including rectangular
and square wire.
www.reawire.com / www.magnekon.com
R&M UK Promote Two

Swiss cabling specialist, Reichle & DeMassari (R&M), has announced Oli
Barrington as the new Managing Director for the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Barrington has been in the cabling industry for many years and brings to his new
Managing Director position a wealth of
knowledge in the Data Center and Office
Cabling markets.
Additionally, R&M UK will strengthen
its team with the addition of carrier expert James Crowfoot. Crowfoot brings
extensive experience as well as a solid
network in a business area, which is
growing rapidly in the UK and internationallysales to telecom operators
expanding into the data communication
industry. www.rdm.comh
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Oli
Barrington
James
Crowfoot
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Wire Processing
Essentials
Part 25b: Wire Processing Essentials
The Index of Processability of a Wire (IPW),
The Physics of Crimping
by:
J. Ruben Lozano, B.I.E.
Vice President of Sales-Americas
Lakes Precision Inc.
1900 Epler Court
Three Lakes, WI 54562 USA
www.lakesprecision.com
What does crimping wires have in common

with soap bubbles and calculus?
Back in 1980, an inventor by the name of James Ossi designed a bubble sculpture machine, which injects soapy
uid and air into a rectangular glass chambered exhibit.
The bubbles that are formed inside this chamber are not of
the spherical kind we are used to seeing, but rather, they
are presented in prism forms. Although this seems out of
the ordinary, what is happening inside is just nature doing
her work. The at glass chamber walls of Ossis exhibit are
compressing the bubble spheres sideways, which attens
the sides of the bubble while each individual bubble compresses the adjacent bubble and this compression between
the curved surfaces of the bubbles in turn forms at surfaces between them, creating a beautiful honeycomb-like
display of adjoined attened bubbles. Back in my college
years, I remember the literal and metaphorical headaches
I experienced associated with understanding and applying
the concepts of Calculus. I might confess often cursing at
the ancient mathematicians for delivering such unwarranted
mental distress to otherwise happy-go-lucky chaps in their
prime, nonchalant years. Turns out that applied Calculus
was just the method by which all that ancient collection of
brilliant thinkers attempted to explain the simple cleverness
of nature as evidenced by Ossis square bubbles.
You see, nature always tries to nd the most ecient way of
doing things, in other words, to optimize either by maximizing or minimizing something to such exact balance where
any deviation from it simply isnt as ideal. What the bubbles
inside James Ossis chamber are doing is simply optimizing
their surface areas in response to their internal air pressure,
given the constraints of the glass walls, surface tension and
the compression exerted by the neighboring bubbles. Once
they nd their proverbial sweet spot they stabilize by forming perfectly at-surfaced prisms.
What does all of that have to do with crimping connector terminals onto conductor wires? The answer is basically the same
as the soap bubbles in Ossis chamber. The compressed conductor laments, which are cylindrical in shape optimize their
contact surfaces in response to the combination of parameters
and constraints found in the crimping process.
For example, think of two perfectly straight wire laments
just touching each other, the contact area between the surfaces is innitesimally small, one could think as a line of
molecules touching each other (Figure 1).
If you could apply a sucient compressive force between
the two laments, the cylindrical surfaces at the contact
point would begin to deform simultaneously forming a
rectangular shape whose dimension would be in direct response to the materials physical properties and the extent
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Fig. 1 Two conductor laments

touching, contact is innitesimal.
of the force applied. The contact surface would then be

amplied from a single innitesimal contact line up to the
extent that the constraints would allow, and the immediate
benet would be in improving the conductivity between the
two laments (Figure 2).
Fig. 2 Two individual laments compressed

forming a at contact surface.
However, as I pointed out in my previous article, conductor

wire strands come in more than just a pair of strands, they
come in even, odd and prime numbers. I also pointed out
that the most ecient conguration, (again the wisdom of
nature), is the hexagonal lay,
So, if we consider the hexagonal lay stranding conguration, what would be the most ecient compression pattern attainable? Lets consider it by analyzing the smallest
possible hexagonal lay, the seven-strand (untwisted for
explanation clarity). The seven-strand conguration, uncompressed, has 12 innitesimal contact points (six with
the center lament and six more between the peripheral
laments (Figure 3).
Fig. 3 Smallest hex

conguration, 7 strand
lay, twelve innitesimal
lines of contact between
the laments.
This means that upon compression, we would be able to

produce 12 rectangular contact areas between the laments. The question is, what would be the optimal total surface area that can be produced (taking into consideration
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that the surface area would be the sum of all 12 resulting

rectangular areas)?
If you think about it, if you were compressing all six peripheral laments concurrently and uniformly against the central lament, in a radial direction towards the center, you
could visualize that the central lament would be gradually
deformed from a cylindrical shape to (you guessed it), a
hexagonal prism shape. However, one might think it could
either be a symmetrical hexagonal prism with all six rectangular at areas equal to each other or an irregular hexagonal prism with every single at area dierent than its
neighbor (Figure 4 and Figure 5).
Fig. 4 Filaments
homogeneously compressed to regular
hexagonal pattern.
Fig. 5 Filaments
unevenly compressed to
an irregular hexagonal
prism conguration.
Side 2: 0.086" Area= 0.086*0.1875 = 0.01612

Side 3: 0.091" Area= 0.091*0.1875 = 0.01706
Side 4: 0.050" Area= 0.050*0.1875 = 0.00937
Side 5: 0.096" Area= 0.096*0.1875 = 0.01800
Side 6: 0.051" Area= 0.051*0.1875 = 0.00956
Total contact area for irregular hexagon = 0.08326, which is
92% of the regular hex area (Figure 7).
Fig. 7 More likely crimp
conguration showing quasihexagonal shapes, this is
more likely in real processes.
The contact surface eciency
uctuates between 90% to
97% compared to the ideal
regular hexagon crimp. In
practical terms, it serves
the purpose.
If you take a look at crimped terminal cross sections (as in

Figure 8), you can see that for the most practical cases,
the compressed shapes of each lament inside of the terminal barrel is never a perfectly formed hexagon. Thus one
may assume that the contact surface eciency will never
be 100% as compared to a true hexagonal crimp. However,
understanding the basis of cylindrical shape compression,
you can gauge by virtue of how symmetrical your crimp
pattern looks, your total crimped terminal conductivity follows suit. Does this mean that a relative eciency against
a true hexagonal pattern is faulty? No. Most crimps should
be perfectly functional if under controlled process. Reasonable symmetry should be a good indicator of ecient crimp
conductivity. www.lakesprecision.com
Suppose that the wire in question was a nominal 18 AWG 7/26

core, the nominal core diameter would be 0.048" and each
individual lament would be approximately 0.016" in diameter.
Taking the rst option, compressing the central lament to a
symmetrical hexagonal prism, we know that in a hexagon the
sides are equal to the enveloping circles radius. Thus, the
hexagon side would be 0.08" in radius (half of the lament diameter). If the compressed length of the center lament was
0.1875", then the contact area for one of the sides would be
0.08" x 0.1875" = 0.015 in2. Thus the total contact area for the
hexagon would be 6*0.015" = 0.09 in2 (Figure 6).
Fig. 6 Ideal crimp conguration showing all regular

hexagonal compression,
this crimp is not attainable
in real life.
On the other hand, on the irregular hexagon prism each

side would measure as follows:
Fig. 8 Example of a symmetrical and reasonably

symmetrical compression pattern on a lament.
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Side 1: 0.070" Area= 0.070*0.1875 = 0.01315
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Wire Harness
Business & Strategy
The Sale Process: An Introduction
Despite some consolidation, the wire harness industry remains very fragmented, with over 1000 harness
companies in North America. Because hundreds of
them are owned by founding entrepreneurs who will
at some point be pursuing a sale of their company,
lets take an in-depth look at that process. Well begin
with the recommendation to engage an outside resource in the sale and conclude with the tricky matter
of valuation. Future columns will address definitions
of good and bad buyers, life after the sale, how not to
sell and deal killers.
Fly Solo or With a Copilot?

I represent sellers, so you may want to disqualify me
as an objective observer, but, yes, I believe it is prudent to involve an M&A (merger and acquisition) firm
in the sale. The owner lacks experience, cannot bring
objectivity to the process and cannot afford to be distracted from priority #1: the day-to-day responsibility
of running the business and continually adding value.
A well-chosen M&A firm, on the other hand, with a
solid grasp of the business, the industry and the firms
major selling points, will be adept at stimulating a confidential, competitive process resulting in an optimal
selling price and terms. Meanwhile, the owners ability to run the business will not be disrupted.
The Seven-Step Sales Process

Here are the seven key services an M&A firm should
fulfill for the prospective seller:
1. Establish price buy-in. It is critical to get on the
same page with an owner regarding a realistic
price range (min-max) and likely terms. Without
agreement on that central objective, going forward together is futile.
2. Build a compelling narrative. Because businesses do not sell themselves, paint a picture of
where a company has been, where it is in the current environment and what the companys future
might look like under effective management. This
picture should be drawn with the understanding
that brevity and precision are far more important
than elaborate detail. And the most valuable part
of the picture is a persuasive description of how a
prospective buyer can grow the business.
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by:
Loren M. Smith, CEO
Blue Valley Capital LLC
211 South Ninth
Marysville, KS 66508, USA
lms@blvcapital.com
www.bluevalleycapital.com
www.linkedin.com/in/lorensmith
3. Helping prospective buyers appreciate the attributes of a company includes providing context for historic performance, identifying expenses the new owner will not incur post-closing and
a customer forecasttypically covering three
yearsof future performance.
4. Make initial contact with prospective buyers.
During this phase, without revealing the name
and location of the selling company, convey basic
information to a broad range of potential buyers
including private equity firms, wire harness companies, electronic assembly houses and connector manufacturers. This wide net reflects the difficulty in predicting likely buyers.
5. Narrow the buyer list. After gauging interest
based on prospect responses and analyzing the
strengths of prospective buyers, narrow the list
to no more than a dozen. At this stage, do not
reveal the name of the selling company without
seller approval.
6. Invite offers. Once a viable list has emerged,
invite potential buyers to submit bidsfinally revealing the name of the company. Managing the
competitive process that will ensue requires experience and judgment.
7. Rank the offers. The key criteria in evaluating
offers include price, terms, motivation and credibility. Although assessing buyer motivation and
credibility is somewhat subjective, that determination can be as critical as price.
Process a letter of intent (LOI) from the top-ranked
buyer and manage the closing. The LOI spells out the
price and terms a buyer is committing to. Once this
document is signed by the seller, the buyer engages
in due diligence. Unless something is discovered in
due diligence that materially affects value (such as an
undisclosed lawsuit, an environmental issue or misstated financial numbers), move to a closing. Typically, this process takes 45 to 90 days.
The clich in the M&A world, Theres no such thing
as an easy deal, is absolutely true because a buyer and seller need to reach agreement on so many
issues. But all the deal point hurdles can be surmounted if the buyer and seller both strive for fairness
and if both are truly motivated to get a deal done. And
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receiving outside support from a seasoned M&A firm

certainly helps.
competitive markets.
Size. A $20 or $30 million revenue harness company will demand a higher multiple than a $5 million company.
Complexity of product. A company producing

wire harnesses with hundreds of circuits often
enjoys a more secure position with its customers. Specializing in complex products leaves less
room for competition.
Status of computer system. Today, the capabilities of a companys hardware and software are
crucial. Potential buyers will evaluate whether a
company has outgrown its computer system or
stayed ahead of the curve.
Bottom line. Many owners are so focused on

running their business they have little idea what
their business is worth. But once they do contemplate selling, a solid beginning is multiplying
the EBIDTA by four to six and then adjusting for
the kinds of factors Ive suggested. If they score
reasonably high on these measurements and
engage in a competitive sale process, they will
optimize the price. But no matter how the calculations turn out, the decision to sell is almost always an emotionally difficult matter.
Bringing Objectivity to Valuation

Although data points can determine price ranges,
these are just indicators. For example, if the sale
process attracts a few highly competitive buyers, the
projection can be exceeded. Here are the key factors
determining the sale price:
The starting point: EBIDTA. The fundamental
value of a business is a multiple of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), plus add backs. For wire harness
businesses, the sale price generally ranges from
four to six times EBITDA, which tells a prospective buyer what the companys cash flow is before
paying interest and taxes and reducing income
by calculations of annual depreciation and amortization. Add backs are expenses the company is
incurring under current ownership that would not
continue under new ownership.
Risk. What is the probability that historic cash flow
(particularly over the last few years) will continue
in the near future? Is there reason to suspect that
the next few years will see a precipitous drop in
revenue and cash flowor is there reason to anticipate a spike because of market conditions or
opportunities that have not been realized?
High on the list of factors to consider are the
quality and duration of the companys customer
relationships. And if the companys large-customer base is highly concentrated, it can expect its
multiple to be discounted because of the projected impact of losing one key customer.
Management team. Will the management team
responsible for recent performance stay in place
for the foreseeable future, and is the current management team capable of growing the business?
Growth potential. Two favorable factors for a
harness company are customers that appear likely to expand and customers that currently award
only a small percentage to the harness company
and seem eager to increase that share based on
recent performance. But the worth of a company
needs to be downgraded if it is close to its ceiling
in revenues from current customers.
Market. Some harness companies can demand
higher multiples than the standard four to six
times EBIDTA because they primarily sell to customers operating with higher margins. Cases in
point are military and medical equipment harness
companies because their customers are in less
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Author & Company Profile...

Loren M Smith is CEO and sole shareholder of
Blue Valley Capital LLC, a position he has held
since 2001. From 1976 to 2001, he was CEO and
majority shareholder of MWC, a manufacturer of
electrical wire harness assemblies. During that
period, by acquiring and integrating a number of
mid-market wire harness manufacturers, MWC
became the worlds leading supplier of electrical
wire harness assemblies serving the construction
equipment industry. Loren eventually sold MWC
to a private equity group.
As CEO of MWC and Blue Valley Capital, Loren
has spearheaded the sale and purchase of dozens of mid-market (US$2M-US$75M) manufacturing companies.
Early in his career, he was with Texas Instruments (TI), rising to general manager of TIs
connector division. Smith earned a BS degree
from Miami University in Oxford, OH, USA,
and an MBA from Northeastern University in
Boston, MA, USA.
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Everything to Know
About Overmolded
Cable Assemblies
Brian Morissette, Cable Assembly Product Engineer
Epec Engineered Technologies
www.epectec.com
Overmolding has dramatically changed the appearance and functionality of cable assemblies over the
last several decades. Through the utilization of the
injection molding process, overmolding has allowed
cable assemblies to have better functionality by:
Allowing them to become impervious to fluids,

therefore being able to be exposed to harsher
environments.
Providing them the ability to withstand shock,
vibration and continual flexing without damage
to the termination point.
Making them more aesthetic by using tooling that
allows for the inclusion of corporate logos and
trade names as part of the overmold itself.
Through the use of 3D printing, models of the
overmold can be quickly and cost effectively created to ensure that the overmold meets the application requirements prior to hard tooling.
of the molding machine itself have to be considered

in the overmold design. In many applications, it is
suggested that a 3D printed model of the overmold
be created in order to test the form and fit prior to the
creation of the more costly hard tooling, after which
you may not be able to make a change to the tooling.
Cable Assembly Overmolding Process
The overmolding of a cable assembly is accomplished

by forcing a material into a mold cavity under a great
deal of pressure. For cable assemblies, the most popular materials used for an overmold are thermoplastic or
thermoset materials. The injection molding machine,
also known as a press, consists of a storage area for
the mold resin. Sometimes it can be called a hopper.
Delivery of the material is usually an injection ram or
a screw-type plunger enclosed inside a metal tube also
known as a barrel. Heating elements are installed into
the barrel of the machine causing the mold resin to be
heated to a molten state.
The process begins with the resin specified for the mold
fed into the barrel of the molding machine at the hopper end. It is then mixed with any desired colorants
and transits the length of the barrel to the actual mold
where the resin and colorant mixture are forced in the
mold cavities. Once inside the mold cavity, the material
will cool taking on any features designed into the mold
itself including logos, trade names or part numbers.
Various overmolded cable assemblies custom

manufactured for each applcation.
Overmolding Design Considerations
When designing cable assemblies, engineers are using

the overmolding process to provide strain or bend relief. This includes grommets as part of the assembly for
any point(s) where an assembly needs to be installed
through a housing/opening and as a covering for the
connector backshells to protect materials that can be
used in the overmolding process from expanding.
And any parts that are to be injection molded must
be designed carefully.
Consideration must be given to the material that will be
used for the mold, the appearance desired of the part
after the molding is complete and the composition of
the molding material. Also, the operating parameters
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Injection molding machine used during the cable

assembly overmolding process by the forming of
plastic parts using plastic resin and polymers.
Cable Overmold Tooling Materials
With the introduction of 3D printing, the use of photopolymers for simple injection molds is possible. The
photopolymers allow the molding of lower-temperature resins for a small number of molding cycles.
Injection molding machines are classified by tonnage.
The tonnage of a machine states the amount of force
the machine utilizes to keep the mold closed during
the injection process. In general, the larger the injection
machine, the larger the tonnage the machine will be
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able to exert resulting in a larger molded part being

able to be produced.
Molds or dies are the physical tool used to manufacture
the molded part. Molds can be expensive to produce
and the more detailed the mold, the more expensive
the molds will become. Because of this, molds are
made from various metals depending on the amount
of cycles to which the molds will be exposed. When
the mold is going to be utilized in a production environment and is expected to be exposed to thousands
of molding cycles, then the metal of choice should be
hardened steel.
Hardened steel molds are the most expensive to
manufacture, but the up-front costs will be offset by
the longer life expectancy and the higher number of
mold cycles of molds before they wear out. Steel molds
are typically used in mass production environments.
Aluminum can be used for molds that will see a limited
number of mold cycles or for prototypes to prove out
a mold design. Aluminum (soft tooling) offers a much
shorter life span than steel, but its malleability offers
lower tool fabrication costs. Most molds are produced
using Computer Numeric Control (CNC) machines
or by using electrical discharge machining processes.
The material that is elected for the mold is driven in
accordance with the material that will be used for
the molding itself. If the resin to be used is a thermoplastic, the mold material can be steel (hardened or
stainless) or aluminum. If the material will be a liquid
injection-type material like silicone, the tooling needs
to be hardened steel. If a liquid injection is to be accomplished, the tooling needs to be produced to very
exact measurements to eliminate any specs or gaps
where the liquid could escape as flash.
For smaller quantities, it is also possible to create
molds from 3D printed materials in order to test the
mold itself or to produce small quantity runs of cables.
Using 3D printed molds is much more cost effective
and can be completed much quicker than hard tooling, but in many instances can only be used for 50 to
100 cables.
Single or Multiple Cavity Designs
A mold can be designed to have a single or multiple

cavities. In a multi-cavity mold, every cavity is designed and produced to be identical allowing for the
production of multiple molds during a single mold
cycle. In some instances, multiple cavity molds can
include cavities that are not identical, but have designs
that create significant issues. Such an isue is making
sure the resin can flow into the different designed
cavities completely without creating voids or air gaps.
When molding takes place, the resin material is delivered through the hopper into the heated barrel.
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Through the actual heating of the material and the

forces of the screw, the mixed and softened resin moves
forward towards the mold tooling. The molten resin
collects at the end of the barrel and is known as a shot
at that point. The shot is the amount of resin that is
needed to fill the cavities of the mold and includes an
allowance for any expected shrinkage of the resin. The
typical time for a cavity to fill is seconds.
The injection screw or ram continues to apply pressure
to the shot until the resin is in the entrance (also called
the gate) to the cavity where it cools and solidifies. The
entrance to the cavities are normally the smallest and
narrowest part of the mold tooling, so it is the first area
to completely solidify.
When the material at the entrance turns solid, the injection molding machine cycles through its process and
prepares another shot and awaits the next molding
cycle. The resin in the mold cavities continues to cool
and can be removed from the cavity once it becomes
solid again.
To aid in the cooling process, water or oil can be
circulated through the mold tooling in a series of
openings or channels. When the resin is cooled to the
point where it is a solid, the mold will open and the
completed mold can be removed. The mold removal
can be aided by pins or metal fingers inside the mold
tooling. When the molded part is removed from the
cavities, the cycle can begin again.
Pre-Mold & Overmold Designs
Some applications require a mold to be comprised of

two parts, a pre-mold and an overmold. The pre-mold
can be previously molded smaller parts or could consist of machined parts such as screws or pins. These
parts can be placed in the cavity while the mold is
empty and when the overmold cycle occurs, the resin
flows and solidifies around them.
A process such as this is employed when screws are
required to be part of the overmold in order to allow
for fastening of the connector to other components of
the installation.
Appearance of the Finished Product
The molding process leaves marks and blemishes on

the finished product. The marks can be caused by the
pieces of the mold tooling having dimensional differences, the mold tooling showing signs of wear, marks
where the resin entered through the gate or marks
where the ejector pins touch the resin when pushing
it out of the mold cavity.
These marks and blemishes are unavoidable, but can
be minimized through the specification of tight dimensional tolerance when designing the mold tooling
and by placing gates in areas of the cavity where they
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Everything to Know About Overmolded Cable Assemblies ...continued

would be less noticeable. Mold tooling designers will
take these issues into consideration when designing
the tools.
ing environments.
Cable assembly overmolds are no longer the hard
plastic that they were decades ago. Mold compounds
now allow for a soft tactile feel providing surfaces able
to be held onto while using gloves.
Further material developments will only increase the
use of overmolds and provide for more functionality
in the products used in every eld and industry.
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Company Prole...
Overmolded cable assembly with minor marks and

blemishes from the molding process.
Summary
The last several decades have seen an evolution in

cable assembly overmolding due mainly to the development of materials and in the advancement of
technology. Overmolded cable products can now be
used in almost every industry and application while
being able to withstand the rigors of the most demand-
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TECH BRIEF
Cable Maker Continues Research

on Magnetic Pulse Crimping
LEONI AG, Nrmberg, Germany,

the leading European provider of
cables and cable systems to the automotive sector and other industries,
reinforces its research on magnetic
pulse crimping (MPC) in collaboration
with the company, BMAX, a global
leader in magnetic pulse-based systems for mass production. The focus is
on using MPC as a new process to get
a robust and reliable interconnection
between aluminum wire and copper
terminals. This new technology, called
the Tubular Neutral Junction (TNJ),
is the first solution available derived
from using MPC.
A Look at the Technology

MPC is a technical and economical
alternative to mechanical crimping
and ultrasonic welding, based on magnetic deformation generated by the
discharge of stored electrical energy.
During the process, electrical energy
is converted into electromagnetic
fields leading to a high-speed impact
between both metallic assembly partners. This extreme speed and impact
induces a severe plastic deformation
and thus creates the robust interface
between aluminum and copper using a
tubular neutral junction element. This
interface is the connection to standard
vehicle components such as terminals
and connectors.
The MPC process cycle time is
similar to mechanical crimping or
ultrasonic welding. Moreover, no
mechanical contact with workpieces
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Magnetic pulse crimping (MPC) technology.
is necessary, and this avoids surface

contamination, tooling marks and the
wearing out of MPC tools.
The MPC power interconnection
offers two different design solutions
that are both a robust electrical and
a physical connection. Both junction designs, TNJ and DDNJ (Deep
Drawing Neutral Junction), provide a
reliable connection via the aluminum
cable and prevent galvanic corrosion.
As a result, any available terminal
can be connected to a wiring harness.
Other Aluminum/Copper
Connection Solutions
LEONI has also developed solutions using aluminum wires connected
to copper terminals by ultrasonic
welding or tin soldering plus crimping for power cables. These solutions
are already in mass production. For
tubular terminals and high power
junctions, MPC will be a valuable

connection technology for LEONIs
customers.
About the LEONI Group

LEONI is a global supplier of
wires, optical fibers, cables and cable
systems as well as related services
for the automotive sector and further
industries.
LEONI develops and produces
technically sophisticated products
from single-core automotive cables
through to complete wiring systems.
The companys product range also
comprises wires and strands, standardized cables, special cables and
cable system assemblies for various
industrial markets.
The LEONI group of companies,
which is listed on the German MDAX,
employs more than 76,000 people in
32 countries. www.leoni.com WHCC
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New XLPE Control Cable
Elgin, IL, USA-based HELUKABEL, has launched

its latest cable product offeringthe new TRAY X is
a NFPA 79-2012 conformant
flexible control power cable
with cross-linked (thermoset) polyethylene (XLPE) insulation. www.helukabel.com
Cooled Cable & Connector

for Fast Electric Car Charging
HUBER+SUHNER, Herisau, Switzerland, has developed a cooled cable and connector that enables highpower charging of electric vehicles. This development
can multiply the power-throughput of a charging
cable and keep charging times below 20 minutes (80%
state of charge) even with big battery packs of new
electric vehicles and trucks.
The company is also expanding its product range for

battery cables in road vehicles by introducing new
highly flexible, robust cables. HUBER+SUHNER has
also launched the SUCOFLEX 526V assembly, the
first member of the SUCOFLEX 500V family of highperformance cable assemblies designed for test and
measurement applications up to 26.5 GHz.
www.hubersuhner.com
Cable Telecom Solutions
Spartanburg, SC, USA-based AFL is

launching new cable telecommunications solutions. These include Wrapping Tube Cable with SpiderWeb
Ribbon (SWR), the TITAN RTD
FTTx system and FlexScan PON OTDRs. www.aflglobal.com
Splitter Cable Systems
LEONI AG, Nrmberg, Germany, has enhanced

its portfolio of products for data centers with splitter cable systems (QSFP28 to 2 QSFP28). They
combine extremely fast data transfer with high port
density and facilitate connection of one switch with
two further switches.
As an enhancement
of its product portfolio comprising highspeed data cables as
well as an in-house
board and connector design for high-speed products,
LEONI now also provides splitter cable systems that
are used in large data centers. www.leoni.com
16 AWG 4 Conductor Unshielded

Cable Added to DuraLife Line
Radix Wire, located in Euclid, OH, USA, has recently
announced the arrival of the companys latest Underwriters Laboratories UL 2196 certification listing for
its growing DuraLife FPL product family. The new
DuraLife FPL 16 AWG cable features four numbered
Oxygen-Free Bare Copper (OFHC) conductors that
are insulated with black, ceramifiable silicone rubber
and protected by a low-smoke zero-halogen FRPE red
outer jacket. These new cables have been designed
and engineered for use in FHIT System No 28A.
www.radix-wire.com
Cable Storage Reels
Hannay Reels provides the industry with the

AVC1500 Series of portable cable storage reels. The
AVC1500 Series features rugged steel and aluminum
construction with a nonreflective matte black finish.
AVC1500
Series portable
cable storage
reel.
Sub-Miniature Cable Connectors

Amphenol RF, Danbury, CT, USA, offers its SMPM
line of high-performance products. SMPM interconnects offer high performance
in a sub-miniature package,
along with versatile connectivity options. SMPM cable connectors are available in
straight and right-angle configurations for 0.047" and
0.086" diameter semi-rigid and conformable cables
as well as RG-178 flexible coax. www.amphenolrf.com
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This reel comes with permanently attached standard

direct crank and Velcro cable fastener. The manual
rewind models come with spring actuated pin-lock
and cam-lock drag brake. Optional heavy-duty locking caster wheel set, frame mounted carry handles
and divider discs can be added upon request.
www.hannay.com
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Single-Wall Heat
Shrinkable Tubing Products
TE Connectivity (TE), Menlo Park, CA, USA, introduces its new single wall, flame-retardant (SWFR)
product line. These single wall heat shrink tubing
products are rated for the UL VW-1 flammability test
specified by the UL 224 standard. Because the highly
flame-retardant
polyolefin jacket
is nonhalogenated, SWFR tubing
can be used in
confined spaces
where it is unacceptable for material containing
halogen to burn
and potentially emit toxins. SWFR products offer an
optimum solution for insulating and mechanically
protecting parts, connections and terminations across
many applications from industrial controls to home
appliances and mass transit vehicles. www.TE.com
Bio-Compatible Medical Cables,

Nonblooming with UL Approval
Cable specialist SAB Brckskes GmbH & Co. KG,

located in Viersen, Germany, now offers the industry
a broad range of new cable materials for medical devices. The companys bio-compatible material series
SABmed S contains in addition to the basic type with
high abrasion and tear strength, an ultra flexible and
smooth cable, a cable with UL approval as well as a
nonblooming cable type. There are highest demands
on connection cables for medical devices especially
for electro therapy and surgery and dental technology
if the cables are to be used between the generator and
applicator, and thus are in contact with the patient.
All of the cable types are bio-compatible according
to EN ISO 10993-5 and offer best characteristics with
regard to notch resistance. Also, single cores, interfaces for bus systems (for example CAT5 up to CAT7,
RS232, USB, etc.), power cables or cables for handheld equipment can be supplied by SAB Brckskes
GmbH & Co. KG. Connection cables for temperature
sensors can also be manufactured by the company.
Cable color can be adapted to the color of the specific
medical device. www.sab-broeckskes.de
Flexible THHN/THWN & TFFN

Cables at Heat & Cold Aging
Red Sea cables (RESCAB) which is located in Saudi
Arabia, manufactures THHN/THWN and TFFN
cables that are in compliance with UL standards to
achieve end-user satisfaction. The company achieves
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high quality by selecting UL-certified materials in

the production of these cables. Design, material and
processing technique results in the passing of the flexibility, heat and cold ageing tests. In UL tests including flexibility at room temperature (after heat aging),
heat shock and cold bending, no cracks or splits were
observed. To learn more about these THHN/THWN
and TFFN cables that are in compliance with UL
standards, contact Ahmed Saleh, Technical Manager
at Red Sea Cables. www.rescab.com
New Plug for Category 8

Provides Higher Data Speeds
To ensure that Category 8 adopters will effectively

reach data speeds of up to 40 Gb/sfour times the
speeds of many of todays usersOptical Cable
Corporation (OCC), located in Roanoke, VA, USA,
is introducing a new RJ-45 plug with integral circuit
board technology that provides advanced control of
crosstalk, return loss, and other impediments, ensuring consistent performance at higher frequencies up
to 2000 MHz. Prior to the introduction of this product, cable
engineers viewed the challenge
of transmitting data at rates
of up to four times faster over
a standard RJ-45 connector
as a major concern. The new
plug contains technology that
provides advanced control of
plug performance. This new,
proprietary technology utilizes
a higher-performance type of
circuit board material than
that which is contained in a
standard connector. Without
this higher-performance circuit
board material, the achieving quality data transmission
rates of 40 Gb/s would not be
possible. The plug, which was
recently granted a patent for circuit board layout,
features materials ideal for direct-attach, high-speed
links and data center server connections.
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Company
Page
Internet
AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc.
www.agcchem.com
Ajex & Turner Wire Dies Company
99
www.ajexturner.com
Amacoil, Inc.
11
www.amacoil.com
Amaral Automation Associates
61, 89
www.amaralautomation.com
Anbao Wire
123
www.anbao.com
Baums Castorine Co. Inc.
123
www.baumscastorine.com
Beacon Reel Co., The
115
www.beaconreel.com
www.blackseatech.net
Black Sea Technology, Inc.

Blue Valley Capital llc
144
Carris Reels
27
www.carris.com
CEMANCO LC
126
www.cemanco.com
CERSA-MCI
10
www.cersa-mci.com
Chori America Inc.
107
www.chori.co.jp
Clinton Instrument Company
31
www.clintoninstrument.com
Color Resource Concentrates
109
www.color-resource.com
Commission Brokers
www.commissionbrokers.com
Composite Wire & Machinery, Inc.
133
www.compositewire.com
Davis-Standard, LLC
75
Electric Cable Compounds Inc.
126
www.electriccablecompounds.com
131
www.electricalwireshow.com
Evans Corporation, George
99
www.george-evans.com
Fainplast Compounds
101
www.fainplast.com
Frigeco USA, Inc., MFL Group
59
www.mflgroup.com
GEM Gravure Company, Inc.
33
www.gemgravure.com
GMP Slovakia
83
www.gmp-slovakia.com
Harwick Standard
73
www.harwickstandard.com
HB Chemical
79, 81
www.hbchemical.com
Heilind Electronics, Inc
137
www.heilind.com/rpages/3M_450_wct.
Hildebrandt GmbH, August
77
www.cabledrum.com
HOWAR Equipment
Huestis Industrial
121, 125, 126
35
www.huestis.com
Inosym
8, 26
www.inosym.com
ITAL Srl
16
www.ital.it
IWCS 2017
119
www.iwcs.org
IWCS China, UL and IWCS China 2017
25
www.iwcs.org www.ul.com
KEIR Manufacturing
99
www.BackBoneBows.com / www.keirmfg.com
Kinrei of America, LLC
18
www.kinreiusa.com
Madem Reels
37
www.mademreels.com
Mexichem
148
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Company
MFL Group, Mario Frigerio SpA
Nano-Diamond America, Inc.
Page
Internet
59
www.mflgroup.com
14, 45
www.nano-die.com
Niehoff
23
www.niehoff.de
OTECH Corp.
55
www.otechcompounds.com
Parker Hannifin Italy Srl
49
www.parker.com
Pioneer Machinery USA.
152
www.pioneermachinery.us
Pittsfield Plastics Engineering, Inc.
105
www.pittsplas.com
Pressure Welding Machines Ltd.
20
www.pwmltd.co.uk
Process Sheaves LLC
41, 121
www.ProcessSheaves.com
PS Costruzioni Meccaniche Srl
85
www.pscostruzioni.com
Rainbow Rubber & Plastics, Inc.
22
Rand Machine & Fabrication Co., Inc.
125
www.randmachineco.com
REELEX Packaging Solutions Inc.
www.reelex.com
Roblon A/S
53
www.roblon.com
Rosendahl Nextrom Technologies
www.rosendahlaustria.com / www.nextrom.com
Roteq Machinery Inc.
19
www.roteqmachinery.com
www.rtdmfg.com
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics
103
www.plastics.saint-gobain.com
SAMP U.S.A., Inc.
69
www.sampinc.com
Schleuniger
135
www.schleuniger-na.com
S&E Specialty Polymers
17
www.sespoly.com
SIKORA International Corporation
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SIMPACKS
Inside Back Cover
www.simpacks.com
Steel Cable Reels (SCR)
15
info@steelcablereels.com www.steelcablereels.com
Teknor Apex Co.
www.teknorapex.com
Tektapes
15
info@tektapes.com www.tektapes.com
Tips & Dies Inc.
52
www.tipsanddies.com
Vandor Corporation
71
www.reeloptions.com
WCISA Wire and Cable Industry Suppliers Association
www.wcisaonline.org
WHMA
129
www.whma.org
Wire & Cable Technology International Buyers Guide
144
www.wiretech.com/buyersguide.asp
Wire & Cable Technology International & IWCS
12
www.wiretech.com www.iwcs.org
Wiedenbach
29
www.wiedenbach.com
Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp.
13
Witels-Albert USA Ltd.
115
www.witels-albert-usa.com
Wyrepak Industries Inc.
24, 88
www.wyrepakind.cm
ZT Srl
39
www.zt-italy.com
Zumbach Electronics Corp.
21
www.zumbach.com
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North american JV for Magnet Wire & related Products
Optical Cable Adoption of Category 8............2

Convert Celebrates 10 Years ............................2
Sierra Cables Starts Power Cable JV ..............3
APT Celebrates LCF Cable Installation ............4
WAI Mexico Conference Report ......................4
JDR Wins Dong Energy Cable Contract ..........5
TE SubCom to Co-Build Cable Network ..........6
15% Growth in Chinese Copper Demand ......6
Taihan Electric Wire Gets USA Order ............... 7
Sales & Net Income .......................................... 7
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venture (JV) to serve magnet wire customers primarily in North
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EDITORIAL INDEX
Companies, organizations & events listed in Wire &
Cable Events (p. 10) and in Spotlight Ads (pp. 110115) are not indexed here.
AA Enterprise............................................................................20
AA LLC .....................................................................................38
ABB ........................................................................................132
ABB Group .............................................................................132
ABB HV Cables ......................................................................132
Addivant....................................................................................67
ADVARIS Informationssysteme GmbH ....................................31
AFL .................................................................................133, 146
AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc. (AGCCA) ....................38, 67, 86
AGC Chemicals Europe ...........................................................88
AGC (Asahi Glass Co. Ltd.)......................................................88
Allen Bradley ............................................................................35
Allied Market Research ..........................................................135
amaral automation associates ..................................................38
American Maplan d.b.a. Battenfeld-Cincinnati-USA .................36
Amphenol RF..........................................................................146
Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. .................................................................88
Asociacin Nacional de Transformadores
de Acero AC (ANTAAC) ..........................................................18
Automotive-Telecom Alliance....................................................42
Bartell Machinery ......................................................................35
Beacon Reel Company.............................................................83
Beta LaserMike...........................................................65, 96, 104
Bibby Scientific Ltd. ................................................................135
Blue Valley Capital LLC ..........................................................140
BMAX .....................................................................................145
Bombardier Transportation .....................................................128
Bombay Convention & Exhibition Center ...............................116
Boston Red Sox........................................................................12
BOXY........................................................................................74
British Approvals Service for Cables (BASEC) .......................130
Bruker EAS ...............................................................................78
BSH Electrical Appliances (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. ..........................91
Caball .....................................................................................94
Cable Components Group ..................................................22, 62
Cables and Trafigura ................................................................34
Cable Tapes Ltd........................................................................30
Cabrol Group Company............................................................84
Cambridge Enterprise.............................................................132
Canterbury Engineering............................................................14
Carris Reels ........................................................................38, 80
CEA ........................................................................................121
CEAM Cavi Speciali ...............................................................134
Charity Golf International (CGI) ................................................12
Chase Corporation .............................................................20, 40
Chemours Company, The .........................................................62
Chemtura Corporation ..............................................................28
China 2017 Cable & Connectivity Symposium ...................16, 62
Christopher Kenneth Eol Memorial Endowment, The ..............62
Cimteq ......................................................................................63
COFIMA Holding.....................................................................134
CommScope, Inc. ...............................................................16, 62
Construcciones Mecanicas Caball S.A. Barcelona ................94
Convert Ltd. ............................................................................134
Cornell University .....................................................................43
Corning .....................................................................................26
Corning Optical Communications LLC .....................................62
Crowne Plaza ...........................................................................18
CRU Wire and Cable Conference 2016 ...................................62
Cubic Transportation ..............................................................135
Daehan Steel Co., Ltd. .............................................................39
Davis-Standard, LLC ......................................20, 28, 36, 40, 124
De Montfort University (UK)......................................................22
Die Quip Corp. ....................................................................20, 40
DIN ...........................................................................................84
DLF ...........................................................................................94
DNV-GL ....................................................................................68
DSM Engineering Plastics ........................................................34
EDAG (Engineering + Design AG) ...........................................87
Enercon Industries..................................................................104
Epec Engineered Technologies ..............................................142
ER-WE-PA GmbH.....................................................................36
Eurodraw Energy ......................................................................94
Eurolls De Mexico.....................................................................30
Eurolls Group............................................................................31
Eurolls SpA ...............................................................30, 100, 124
European Association of Automotive
Suppliers CLEPA ....................................................................42
European Automobile Manufacturers
Association ACEA ...................................................................42
European Commission .............................................................42
Evans Company, George .........................................................83
Excelitas Technologies Corp. ................................................120
Fastec Imaging .......................................................................120
Fender Cables, S.C. ...............................................................134
FIC Manufacturing Company....................................................74
FocalSpec, Inc. .......................................................................120
Fujikura America Inc. ..............................................................133
Fujikura Asia ...........................................................................133
Fujikura Ltd. ................................................................50, 62, 133
FUKASE AND CO., LTD., T. .....................................................98
Furukawa Company .................................................................62
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. ......................................................62
Furukawa/OFS .........................................................................26
Gebauer & Griller Kabelwerke ..................................................32
Gema Engineering Company ...................................................14
Gem Gravure Co. Inc. ............................................................108
General Cable ..........................................................................62
GKN Hybrid Power .................................................................135
GMP Slovakia S.r.o. .................................................................84
Gore & Associates, Inc., W. L. ..........................................24, 130
Great Lakes Solutions ..............................................................28
Guangdong Guoxin Industrial Co. Ltd. .....................................29
Hfner & Krullmann ..................................................................78
Hall ...........................................................................................80
Hall Industries ...........................................................................54
Hamelin, J.................................................................................80
Hannay Reels .........................................................................146
Han*S Laser .............................................................................91
Han*S Laser Technology Industry Group Co............................91
Havells India, Wire & Cable Division ........................................32
Hearl Heaton ............................................................................85
Heiland Electronics, Inc. .........................................................109
HELUKABEL ..........................................................................146
Hengtong ..................................................................................26
Hildebrandt GmbH, August .......................................................68
Hildebrandt Group ....................................................................68
Hitachi Cable America ..............................................................62
Hitachi Cable Europe s.r.o. .....................................................132
Hitachi Metals, Ltd. .................................................................132
Hokkaido University ..................................................................50
Honeywell International ..........................................................130
Howar Equipment Inc. ..................................................48, 74, 76
Huber Corporation, J.M. ...........................................................32
Huber Engineered Materials .....................................................32
HUBER-SUHNER...........................................................128, 146
IDEX Corporation ...................................................................128
IEWC ......................................................................................128
IMS Productions .......................................................................58
IMS Productions Mobile Unit Group .........................................58
Indepa SC.................................................................................20
India Essen Welding & Cutting ...............................................116
Indianapolis Motor Speedway ..................................................58
Inhol ....................................................................................65, 94
Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) .................42
Inosym Ltd. ...............................................................................68
Insead .......................................................................................43
Institute for Materials Science ..................................................43
Integer Research Ltd. ...............................................................26
International Technical Conference ..........................................18
International Wire & Cable Symposium, Inc.
(IWCS, Inc.) ..........................................................16, 20, 62, 88
Ionisos SAS ............................................................................136
ITA ............................................................................................91
ITAL Srl .....................................................................................37
IWCS 2016..................................................................5, 62, 88
IWCS 2017............................................................................67
IWCS International Cable & Connectivity
Symposium .................................................................16, 22, 62
JDR.........................................................................................128
Jiangyin Steel Group ................................................................33
Jiang Yin Xing Cheng Special Steel Works Co. Ltd. ................33
JoeTools ...................................................................................14
Judd Wire .................................................................................35
KBA-Metronic .........................................................................108
KBF Group Co., Ltd. .................................................................36
KIA ............................................................................................18
Kiel University ...........................................................................43
Kinrei Of America, LLC .............................................................84
Lakes Precision Inc. ...............................................................138
lambda ......................................................................................34
Lapp Group.....................................................................134, 145
Laribee Wire .............................................................................14
LEONI AG .........................................................14, 136, 145, 146
LEONI Studer ...........................................................................14
Leoni Studer Hard GmbH .......................................................136
Life is Good Kids Foundation ...................................................12
Life is Good Playmakers Organization .....................................12
Lloyd & Bouvier Inc...................................................................35
Lone Star Reel....................................................................38, 80
Lowe Associates Inc., J.J. ........................................................84
Madem Reels ...........................................................................84
Magnekon ...............................................................................137
Magnifin Magnesiaprodukte GmbH & Co. KG ..........................32
Maillefer ....................................................................................97
Maillefer Extrusion India Pvt. Ltd. ...........................................116
Maillefer Extrusion Oy ............................................31, 56, 64, 97
Mario Frigerio SpA....................................................................94
Marriott Shanghai City Centre ............................................16, 62
Martinswerk GmbH ...................................................................32
MDAX .....................................................................................145
Medek & Schoerner GmbH ....................................................106
Melos ..................................................................................65, 94
Messe Dsseldorf GmbH ...................................................40, 41
Messe Dsseldorf India ..........................................................116
Messe Dsseldorf North America (MDNA) .......................91, 116
Messe Essen ..........................................................................116
Metallurgy India ......................................................................116
METALUBE ..............................................................................36
Metavan N.V. ............................................................................78
MFL...........................................................................................94
MFL Frigeco .............................................................................94
MFL Group ...............................................................................94
MGS Group, The ................................................................38, 54
MGS Manufacturing..................................................................54
Miami University .....................................................................141
Microdia ....................................................................................98
Microdia Asia Pacific.................................................................98
Miltec UV ................................................................................122
MM MaschinenMarkt ................................................................43
Monroe Wire & Cable Corporation, James ...............................12
Monterrey Convention and Visitors Bureau (OCVMTY) ...........20
Mossberg Associates, Inc. ........................................................77
Mossberg Pressed Steel ..........................................................77
MWC.......................................................................................141
MWS Wire Industries ................................................................14
National Electrical Manufacturers Association
(NEMA) ...................................................................................14
NDC Technologies ......................................................65, 96, 104
Niehoff Group ...........................................................................32
Niehoff Machinery Changzhou .................................................32
NIEHOFF Magazine .................................................................32
Niehoff of India .........................................................................32
Niehoff GmbH & Co. KG, Maschinenfabrik ........................36, 70
Ningxia Iron & Steel ..................................................................32
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NIT) ................50
NKT Cables ............................................................................132
NKT Holding ...........................................................................132

Nokia Maillefer ..........................................................................38
Nordson ..................................................................................120
Northampton Machinery ...........................................................54
Northeastern University ..........................................................141
Nudenberg-Wheeler Technology Research Campus ...............28
OEM Automatic Ltd.................................................................135
OFS ....................................................................................24, 62
Ohio University .........................................................................36
OM Lesmo ................................................................................94
Omni Cable.............................................................................134
Optical Cable Corporation (OCC) .....................................58, 147
Panduit Corporation..................................................................62
Pentre Group ............................................................................84
PerkinElmer ............................................................................130
Pittsfield Plastics Engineering, Inc............................................84
PMC Aerospace........................................................................35
Polycab Wires...........................................................................34
Prysmian...................................................................................26
Prysmian Group........................................................................62
PT.Reinplas Sejahtera ..............................................................36
Radix Wire ..............................................................................146
Raffles Captive Insurance Group .............................................80
Raytheon-Missile Systems .......................................................36
Rea Magnekon .......................................................................137
Rea Magnet Wire Company ...................................................137
Red Sea cables (RESCAB) ....................................................147
REELEX Packaging Solutions, Inc. ........................................72
Reichle & DeMassari (R&M)...................................................137
Reivax Maquinas ......................................................................35
Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute ..................................20, 22, 40
Restech ..................................................................................121
RichardsApex, Inc. .......................................................20, 40, 96
Roblon ......................................................................................38
Rosendahl Nextrom GmbH ............................................102, 125
Royal DSM ...............................................................................34
Royal Society of Chemistry ......................................................43
Ryker Base Private Limited ......................................................34
SAB Brckskes GmbH & Co. KG ...........................................147
Saujana Hotel ...........................................................................36
Schleuniger, Inc. .....................................................................102
SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH Group ...........................................28
SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH Taiwan Ltd. ...................................28
Shanghai Kingstone Cable & Equipment Co., Ltd. ...................91
Shanghai New International Expo Centre ....................90, 91, 99
Shanghai Qifan Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd. .......................32
Shin-Etsu ..................................................................................26
SIKORA AG ............................................................................122
SMS group GmbH ..................................................29, 32, 34, 39
Solvay Specialty Polymers .......................................................67
Song Song Co., td. ...................................................................36
Sonoco Reels ...........................................................................82
Southwire Company, LLC .................................................82, 132
Steel Cable Reels (SCR) ..........................................................84
Sterling National Country Club .................................................12
Steuler Anlagenbau GmbH & Co. KG.......................................33
Steuler-Bobby (Shanghai) Equipment Engineering Ltd. ...........33
Straus-Artys Corporation ..........................................35, 121, 126
Sudhir Enterprise ......................................................................84
Technical Horsepower Consulting, LLC....................................62
TE Connectivity Ltd. ...............................................128, 134, 147
Teknor Apex Company .....................................................46, 123
Tektapes/SCR...........................................................................84
Tensor .......................................................................................38
TE Wire & Cable LLC .............................................................132
Texas Instruments (TI) ............................................................141
Thermcraft, Inc. ........................................................................28
Times Fiber Communications ...................................................35
Time Warner Cable Sports .......................................................58
Troy Research & Technology Center ........................................34
T&T Marketing, Inc. ......................................................20, 36, 40
Tube India ...............................................................................116
Tyco International ...................................................................134
Underwriters Laboratories, LLC (UL)........................62, 146, 147
United Copper Industries ........................................................132
UNITEK Crossheads ................................................................48
University of Cambridge .........................................................133
University of Massachusetts Lowell.......................................22
University of North Carolina Charlotte ...................................22
University of Texas (UTEP) ......................................................14
US ALYTA International Corporation ........................................91
Vandor Corporation ..................................................................72
Viakable ............................................................................18, 137
VINCO ......................................................................................91
Vinyl Division ............................................................................46
Viola Srl ..................................................................................126
WAFIOS AG..............................................................................91
Western Electric .......................................................................84
Wiedenbach Apparatebau GmbH ...........................................109
Windak......................................................................................80
Wipac......................................................................................135
Wire and Plastic Machinery
Corporation ............................. 38, 41, 63, 76, 96, 106, 117, 118
Wire Association International (WAI), Inc. ....................18, 22, 62
Wire & Cable India 2016...................................................32, 116
Wire & Cable India 2018.........................................................118
Wire & Cable Industry Suppliers Association
(WCISA) ............................................3, 20, 22, 62, 96, 97, 117
wire China 2016............................................................32, 40, 90
wire China 2018........................................................................41
WireDrawing 101 ................................................................4, 44
Wire Machinery Division .........................................................124
wire & Tube China 2016 ...........................................................91
World Intellectual Property Organization (Wipo) ......................43
Wright, LLC, Roger N. ..............................................................44
WTM Srl....................................................................................92
Wuxi Xingcheng........................................................................33
Yazaki Corporation .................................................................134
Yazaki EDS Samoa ................................................................134
YOFC........................................................................................26
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