EoW November 2012

Feature Steel wire, rod & rope production

Reaching the market globally

• Aerial bundled cables (0.6-1kV ABC cables) • Underground 0.6-1 kV aluminium power cable • XHHW-2, SER, SEU LV aluminium building wires • LV service drop aerial bundled cables • 600 volt UD cables

Hasçelik Group, a leading Turkish aluminium and steel manufacturer, has four plants dedicated to producing and exporting worldwide. The company has been producing the following products since 1989:

Has Celik cable plant •

Has Celik steel wire rope plant • Galvanised, single stranded ropes as earth wire • Galvanised and bright steel wire ropes for different applications and purposes from 8mm to 70mm • Galvanised, stranded steel wires for ACSR steel core and suspension wires for telecommunication cables With modern facilities, equipment and technologies, plus engineers with many years of experience in production, Coreal and Hasçelik are producing steel and aluminium products in accordance with world standards such as EN, ASTM, BS, GOST, DIN, UNE, IEC, IEEE and NFC. With a strong commitment to quality, the company has developed a quality control team inspecting quality throughout every phase of the production. Hascelik Halat San Tic AS – Turkey Website : www.hascelik.com.tr www.coreal.com.tr

All aluminium conductors (AAC)

• All aluminium alloy conductors (AAAC) • Aluminium conductors steel reinforced (ACSR) • OPGW composite optical grounding wire • Aluminium clad wire and strand alumoweld • 9,5 EC grade aluminium rod • Aerial bundled cables (0.6-1kV ABC Cables) • Underground 0.6-1 kV aluminium power cable NAYY, NA2XY • From 6kV to 66kV underground XLPE insulated copper or aluminium power cables Coreal cable plant • All aluminium alloy conductors (AAAC) • Aluminium conductors alloy reinforced (ACAR) • Aluminium conductors steel reinforced (ACSR) • All aluminium conductors (AAC) • Aluminium alloy wire rod 9.5-12mm EC Grade, 6000 Series

£30m site to produce world’s largest multi-strand ropes

will allow Bridon to use innovative loading solutions to reduce both delivery timescales and order lead times for customers. Jon Templeman, chief executive of the Bridon Group, said: “The ropes produced at this state-of-the-art facility will expand the boundaries of the possible for customers across the sector. “Bridon Neptune Quay has been built to help us solve our customers’ most significant technological challenges – whether it is reaching new depths off the coast of Brazil or operating in some of the most challenging environmental conditions on earth. “This factory, which is the most advanced of its kind ever built, is a crucial part of Bridon’s work to become the global technology leader in wire and rope solutions.”

Bridon International is launching a new £30 million state-of-the-art factory that will produce multi-strand ropes in gross piece weights of up to 650 tonnes – making them the largest and most complex in the world. This will enable Bridon to keep pace with the ambitions of the oil and gas industry, supporting operators in reaching greater depths and working in more challenging environments. Enabling the manufacture of such vast and complex ropes, the world’s largest ‘rope closing’ machine has been installed at the facility. The closer is used to form dozens of strands of wire into a single finished rope and is the first of its kind capable of making a 600 tonne rope in a single pass, enabling the production of longer and higher capacity ropes in a single piece and avoiding the need for multiple passes. The Bridon Neptune Quay site, which is located on Newcastle’s Tyneside, will be fully operational by January 2013. The site’s deep-water portside location

The world’s largest and most complex multi- strand ropes will be made at Bridon’s new site in Newcastle, UK

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Bridon International – UK Website : www.bridon.com

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