WCN Autumn 2010

New aluminium conductor plant starts production in Turkey In January 2010 A Kablo Sanayi ve Ticaret AS in Istanbul completed an aluminium conductor plant. ESM AS designed the project for aluminium rod and conductor production. There is a growing demand for aluminium conductors, due to a rapidly increasing copper price in the market, but there is a bottleneck for the supply of aluminium conductors. More details of the completed project: Project: Aluminium and alloy rod and conductor production in Istanbul, Turkey. Owner: A Kablo Sanayi ve Ticaret AS, sister company of Sahinler Metal, Turkey. Capacity: 24,000 tons per year of aluminium and alloy rod with continuous rod casting and rolling line, and 18,000 tons per year of aluminium and ACSR conductor production. Production condition: The plant began production in January 2010 and achieved full capacity in May 2010. Supplier: The main production lines and machinery were supplied by ESM AS, products of Pioneer Machinery Co Ltd, Taiwan. The main production machines and lines were a continuous rod casting line, four rod breakdown machines, two tubular stranders (1+6/630mm), one rigid strander (1+54/630mm) and two rewinding machines and accessories. This new plant is designed to meet some of this demand.

Achieving higher speeds In line with the philosophy of continuous development at PS Costruzioni, the engineers at PS have been working on improving production speeds.

Improved PS 200/6-B spools 25% faster ▲ ▲

The automatic coiling line, model PS 470/16, handles NYM cable from 2x1mm 2 up to a maximum of 4x6mm 2 . The first goal of the engineers was an increase in linear speed. Compared to the previous PS 470/16, linear speed has been increased by 15% (to 20,000 metres per hour). The machine will now produce 3.35x100m coils of 5x2.5 NYM cable. The second goal was to reduce the need for mechanical maintenance. To achieve this the main motor has been installed in axis with the winding plates. This removes the need for mechanic transmission, and consequently less maintenance is needed. The double head automatic spooling line, model PS200/6-B, handles cable within the range of 16AWG to 10AWG. Again, the goal was to increase the linear speed. Now producing 4 x 152m spools per minute for 12AWG (the equivalent of 36,500m per hour) means that linear speed has been increased by 25%, compared to the previous PS 200/6-B.

China-based, with European outlook PS Costruzioni Meccaniche Srl – Italy Fax : +39 03968 98769 Email : ps@pscostruzioni.com Website : www.pscostruzioni.com

Launched by the Gauder Group in 2008, Daloo is the first low cost wire and cable machinery manufacturer located in China but backed by European experience. Daloo offers rotating machines with basic functions, of simple design and steady quality. The company will exhibit a rigid frame strander at wire China 2010, as well as components such as a payoff/take-up and pulling caterpillar. wire China stand W3C01 Daloo Machines – PR China Fax : +86 519 8548 3557

A view inside the A Kablo plant ▲ ▲

ESM Elektro Sistem Muhendisligi AS – Turkey Fax : +90 212 222 4642

Email : mad@esm-as.com.tr Website : www.esm-as.com.tr

Email : sales@daloo-machines.com Website : www.daloo-machines.com

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