wiredInUSA March 2018

Cable nears completion

Japanese spooler first

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Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP and TE SubCom have announced that over half of the 15,000km of the Hawaiki Transpacific Cable system’s undersea fiber optic cable has been implemented by TE SubCom. TE SubCom’s cable-laying vessel, CS Responder , berthed in Auckland in February with several thousands of kilometers of undersea fiber optic cable on board, ready to begin marine activities for the New Zealand leg of the trans-oceanic cable system. The operation will include the landing of the Hawaiki cable in Mangawhai Heads. The US domestic segment of the cable, between Oregon and Hawaii, was completed in the last quarter of 2017, with cable landings successfully completed in Pacific City, Oregon; Oahu, Hawaii; and Sydney, Australia. Cable landing in American Samoa is scheduled for March 2018, and the Hawaiki cable system is expected to be ready for service in June 2018.

Topy Industries has chosen Danieli K-Spool technology to produce hot rolled, compact coils to serve its demanding downstream market. Topy Industries is the first Japanese steelmaker to operate spooler technology. The line, to be installed at Toyohashi rolling mill, Aichi prefecture, Japan, will produce 240,000 tons per year of spooled bar coils weighing between 1 and 3.5 tons at a maximum coiling speed of 35m per second. Perfectly shaped, no-twist spooled bars will be wound into compact coils by two K-Spool stations, independently served by separate lifting forks, by means of two Danieli horizontal spooler stations. Danieli Automation will provide automation and control systems, while strapping and labeling equipment will be manufactured by Swedish Sund Birsta, part of the Danieli group. In addition a two-pass fast finishing block, supplied with a Hi-Profile measuring system and a Danieli QTS quenching and tempering system, will upgrade the existing finishing mill. The project will be coordinated by Danieli Engineering Japan in Yokohama, and the line is planned to start production in summer 2018.

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