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Niehoff chief executive retires

set up branches and subsidiaries in several countries. During his time as CEO Niehoff expanded its product portfolio while the number of employees in the group worldwide increased from around 500 to 720. The company also built a new factory at the company’s headquarters in Schwabach, with the first part of the plant inaugurated in 2010. Turnover also increased from €50m to €125m, consolidated in the whole Niehoff group to €150m. Mr Rockenhäuser’s successor is Arnd Kulaczewski, previously managing director (CEO) of the press builder Schuler SMG in Waghäusel, Germany.

S S Heinz Rockenhäuser, left, with Arnd Kulaczewski who has succeeded him as chief executive of Niehoff

Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH Germany Email: info@niehoff.de Website: www.niehoff-gmbh.info

After 20 years as chief executive of the Niehoff group, Heinz Rockenhäuser retired at the end of October. Growing number of customers With a growing customer database in the UK and Europe, Anglia Metal Ltd produces plain and tinned single end, multi-wire end, bunched and braiding bobbins in sizes ranging from 0.1mm to 3.5mm in various packaging types. Producing copper wire mainly within the data, telecom, building, defence, industrial and automotive industries, Anglia discusses precise specifications with existing and potential customers and is flexible in the products it produces, always with the overriding rule that it will react to customers’ needs. As a BSI approved company, quality is the aim and Anglia’s quality and technical department continues to provide assistance and guidance to ensure customer needs are met. Anglia Metal will be exhibiting at wire Düsseldorf in hall 12, stand A34.

Under the leadership of Mr Rockenhäuser, Niehoff considerably expanded its market share and also

Stand 10/C18

Extending the range Encouraged by customers, and based on its deep technical expertise, Euroalpha has extended its range of limited-slip drawing machines to multi-wire: exclusive equipment that goes beyond the technology of similar ones currently available on the market. D3 is the first multi-wire drawing machine ever designed with drawing capstans individually motor-driven, and up to 32 wires. Additional drawing modules with capstans driven by high-precision gear transmission are incorporated in the frame for producing thinner wires. Such design represents an ideal solution for cutting the negative effects of the slip, more consistent on the slower capstans, and

guaranteeing a rigid mechanical transmission to the faster capstans, drawing thinner sizes.

Consistent

energy almost

consumption

savings, negligible maintenance, extreme operational flexibility (thanks to the variable elongations the same drawing machine can produce a very wide range of finished wires), reduced wire breakings, low noise level, and other important benefits of the limited-slip technology are therefore available on multi-wire drawing machines as well.

Euroalpha Srl – Italy Email: info@euroalpha.it Website: www.euroalpha.it

Stand 11/A43

T T Up to 32 wires now

available from Euroalpha

Anglia Metal Ltd – UK Email: sales@angliametal.com Website: www.angliametal.com Stand 12/A34

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