WCA March 2009

➣➢➣ capstan and this model has an automatic threading device. It includes a pattern-lay coiling system to obtain well laid packages. The unit is available with capstan sizes up to 1,000mm for winding very large diameter wires.

market and can run at speeds in excess of 35m/sec (6,900ft/min) and does not require the presence of an operator during normal operation (one operator or supervisor can control up to five machines). The new model INF-4 drum packer will be another highlight of the booth – the Gimax line to coil wire into ‘no twist’ drums is among the most compact machines on the market, but the main feature is its line speed. The drum packer is capable of running with MIG welding wire at a speed of 30m/sec (6,000ft/min). This same machine has also been supplied to handle steel flux cored wire, 5356 aluminium, stainless steel and CuSi brazing wire. Drum sizes can even reach the large 1,000kg/2,200lb drums.

Hearl Heaton Booth 3272

Hearl Heaton (part of Pentre Group) is exhibiting at Interwire with the team of J J Lowes Associates Inc, exclusive sales agent for the Americas. A range of reels will be on display: ABS Flanged type reel – utilised • within insulated wire production steel wire drawing reel – curled • flange design – single wire product steel wire drawing reel – fully • machined – multi wire production steel shipping reel – multi trip and • also single trip capability Hearl Heaton has over 40 years of experience in the design and manu- facture of ABS (plastic flanged) high-speed process reels for the wire, cable, telecommunication and fibre optic industries. The quality and high specification of Hearl Heaton reels is said to be guaranteed by the use of certified materials and of virgin ABS for flanges, specially selected to give maximum strength without brittleness. Hearl Heaton and Pentre Group design, manufacture and supply worldwide a comprehensive range of high speed steel and plastic ABS process reels, plywood, cardboard reels, wholly-moulded plastic spools, steel and wooden shipping reels and drums.

GCR Eurodraw’s ROT 760 HD coiler m m

GCR Eurodraw will attend Interwire with its associated companies Comapac Wire Machinery and DEM Wire Rolling Technology. GCR’s production programme also includes wire rod surface preparation lines, metallic surface treatment lines, dry straight-through drawing machines, vertical and horizontal wet drawing machines, thermal treatment lines, mono- and multi-wire electrolytic plating lines, units for hot-dip galvanizing lines, double-twist stranding, cabling and assembling machines, spiral wrapping machines, skip stranders, tubular stranders, single and multiple payoffs and take-ups for spools with random or precision layer rewinding, single and multiple pay-offs with random or pattern lay take-up systems, single or multiple-head rewinding lines and units, and cold rolling lines.

Hearl Heaton – UK Fax : +44 1924 400 803

Email : info@hearlheaton.co.uk Website : www.pentregroup.com

Front view of the INF-4 drum packer m m

The Polidigital will also be present in two examples; the new compact version of the fully digital semi- automatic respooler with a greatly reduced footprint, and also the ‘Coil’ version. The ‘Coil’ can handle almost all types and sizes of spools, coils and wire, and is said to represent the maximum in flexibility that the market can offer. The new REV-1 will also be exhibited – the new fully automated machine to respool (random and precision layer) wire onto small plastic spools. The machine can produce two spools per minute – the spools generally hold 1lb of aluminium wire, or 2lb of steel wire. The machine will be in operation during the show for a full demonstration.

GCR Eurodraw Spa – Italy Fax : +39 029354 0452 Email : gcr@gcrgroup.com Website : www.gcrgroup.com

IDEAL–Werk Booth 1646

Ideal & Clifford are well known industry names in the manufacture of equip- ment for the wire industry. This year, under the USA subsidiary Ideal Welding Systems, Ideal & Clifford will be exhibiting mesh welding technology as well as unveiling a newly

Gimax Group Srl Booth 2226

Gimax will be exhibiting a selection of its respooling machines and drum packers. Visitors to the booth will see the fully digital Robobina, a totally automatic respooling line for welding wire, designed to run solid and tubular wire on plastic or fibre spools as well as on wire baskets. With 18 years of history, the Robobina is believed the most advanced auto- mated respooling line available on the

Gimax Group Srl – Italy Fax : +39 0444 5360 71

Email : sales@gimaxgroup.com Website : www.gimaxgroup.com

Opticut straightening and cutting m m machine

Interwire Trade Exposition – I-X Centre, Cleveland, Ohio 25 th -30 th April 2009

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