EoW September 2013

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Putting faith in Sket engineering

Database of regulated substances BOMcheck is a web database, an industry collaboration to manage supply chain compliance with the EU REACH regulation RoHS directive and other regulated substances in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Mobile, Schneider Electric, Toshiba, Agfa, Texas Instruments and TE Connectivity, most of whom also play a leading role in the IEC 62474 materials declaration standard, BOMcheck is currently used by over 480 customers to gather materials declarations from over 3,100 suppliers worldwide. To date, suppliers have published over a million RoHS and REACH materials declarations in BOMcheck. Each declaration has the same format and is signed electronically by a supplier’s authorised individual to meet the quality and trustworthiness requirements in clause 4.3.4 of the EN 50581 standard for RoHS2 technical documentation. Led by Philips, Siemens, GE, Osram, Sony

After imple- mentation of the huge projects “Neptune 2” of Kiswire Korea in Malaysia and “Bridon Neptune Quay” in the UK last year, another customer has put its confidence in Sket Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH as a supplier of large machinery for making steel wire rope. Brunton Shaw UK signed a contract with Sket for planning and designing, manufacture and delivery of a Tandem Cage-Type Strander for making non-rotating (multi-strand) and offshore ropes with 24 outer strands. type comprises a rotating pay-off suitable for reels with a flange diameter of up to 4,500mm and a maximum weight of 225 tonnes, and a traversing take-up designed for 5,000mm reels weighing 400 tonnes max. can accommodate eight bobbins having a flange diameter of Internet exchange DE-CIX has completed construction of the backbone network for its flagship DE-CIX Apollon platform. The fibre optic network connects four supernodes and three feeder sites across the city of Frankfurt, Germany. The mesh network can support 100Gbps transmission and has a total capacity of 12Tbps. The network will provide the foundation of DE-CIX’s new switching platform, expected to be ready for service in September 2013. ADVA Optical Networking has supplied its 4x28Gbps metro 100G technology, housed within its FSP 3000 reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) platform. When DE-CIX completes the roll out of 100Gbps capability, the DE-CIX Apollon network will include more than 300 100G ports. It is believed this will put it among the largest metro networks in the world. Harald A Summa, CEO for a successful The machine MKVS 1+16x2000+8x2300 The stranding cages

▲ ▲ Stranding machine type MKVS 1+16x2300+8x2700 delivered to Bridon in the UK

designed to manufacture special ropes with diameters of up to 160mm. The equipment will be installed in the first half of 2014 at the Brunton Shaw site in the UK. Sket Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH – Germany Website : www.sketvmb.de time is right to further extend advanced, high performance capabilities to our clients.” With the backbone in place, DE-CIX will attach Alcatel-Lucent’s 7950 XRS core routers. DE-CIX – Germany Website : www.de-cix.net

2,300mm or 16 bobbins with 2,000mm flange diameter.

Detailed tailored

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to Shaw’s particular requirements will ensure the highest performance and operating reliability of the line Brunton

Backbone in place to meet Internet demand

DE-CIX, has experienced 50 to 100 per cent increases in traffic each year for the past 15 years, and we expect this trend to continue. “Because of this, we’ve built this future-proof platform that can be easily upgraded when the said: “DE-CIX

State-of-the-art expansion

In the framework of further expanding its commitment in the polymer films industry, Tosaf has now completed a substantial expansion of its production simulation labs in Israel. New and enhanced state-of-the-art laboratory systems now allow a full range of basic developmental and customer-specific test runs. The versatile set of test and simulation devices includes a multilayer co-extrusion blown film line, a cast film line, a corona surface treatment system and a printing simulator. A cold chamber supports the development of advanced additives for cold climate environment. With a newly installed, modified QUV system, Tosaf is responding to increasing customer demand for results from accelerated weathering in aggressive environments. A specialised greenhouse simulation is dedicated to the accelerated testing of agricultural films exposed to UV light, high temperatures and humidity. Tosaf Compounds Ltd – Israel Website : www.tosaf.com

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