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More than a die company Paramount Die is more than just a die company with its sales engineers averaging over 20 years of experience in the wire industry, helping customers with expertise in all areas of the wire drawing process. Several trends have shaped the company’s development, including the ever-growing need for wire drawers to outsource finished die requirements. As this has caused wire drawers to be become more dependent on die suppliers, great pressure has been placed on Paramount to increase capacity for die finishing, reduce finished die costs, and improve lead times. Reducing cost has been done by standardising on cost effective carbide inserts and increasing quality and capacity through automation. Many highly automated machines now run on “Lights Out Operation” meaning that they will continue to produce product as long as there is raw material being fed into the system. This not only improves production output, but also the quality. Average lead times have been reduced from three weeks to just under five days. Another major wire industry trend has been the steady increase in drawing speeds. By placing an extreme amount of stress on drawing dies, faster drawing speeds have further increased the importance of die design and lubrication. In response, Paramount has worked continuously to improve the wear resistance and strength of all its products. Paramount Die Company – USA Website : www.paradie.com

Cable Components Group (CCG) designs, engineers and manufactures high performance extruded products for the wire and cable, fibre optic and industrial markets. CCG’s extrusion capability is predominately focused on engineered resins, (fluoropolymers) and speciality compounded products, (chemically foamable FEP, PFA, ETFE, PVDF, ECTFE, etc) and uses these polymers to manufacture tubing, tapes, crosswebs, staple fibre and non-wovens. These products and materials characteristically provide excellent fire retardancy, low-smoke generation enhanced electrical performance, especially suited to the evolving needs of the wire and cable industry. Additionally, chemical resistance is another benefit of these engineered resins and compounds that are targeted for industrial markets for pipes, tubing, non-wovens for filtration, etc. A total of 24 of the 30 CCG extrusion lines are suitable for high temperature materials and are capable of manufacturing foamed products, ie crosswebs, tapes, etc, which are sold under the FluoroFoam® brand name. The core competency of CCG, along with its 11 patents, focuses on wire, cable and fibre optic extruded fillers and tubes which are made for high temperature, as well as low temperature applications. The cable fillers include crosswebs, tapes, tubes, monofilaments and other tight tolerance profiles for Category 6, 6e and 6A LAN cables, as well as other industrial cables. Two new product lines are being added to the 2012 product offering: • FluoroSpun® – Flame-retardant non-woven tapes and core wraps that are made from extruded fluoropolymer fibres and made into non-wovens via needle punching or via CCG’s revolutionary melt-blown non-woven process. • Speciality film and shielding tape slitting – available in a range of widths on pads or cobbs. Fluorofoam® Masterbatch technology: For the wire and cable market, the FluoroFoam® chemically foamable fluoropolymer extrusion technology, which was initially launched by CCG for category cable crosswebs and tapes, is now being made and sold in a masterbatch pellet form for the stringent NFPA 262 Plenum Cable Standard (formerly UL 910). The FluoroFoam® masterbatch pellet used for insulating category 5e, 6, 6e, 6A and 7 LAN cable applications exhibits extremely low levels of flame spread of 1.0ft on a 4 pair CMP cable, as well as negligible (0.16) peak and (0.07) average smoke generation. FluoroFoam® is chemically foamable from a pelletised masterbatch and can generate a range of foam rates from 25-55 per cent. The beneficial aspects include enhanced electricals, excellent crush resistance/physical properties, accruing from foam cell structure of less than 0.001" on average. FluoroFoam® masterbatch chemically foamable FEP pellets provide a unique processability, akin to solid FEP extrusion, wherein running speeds of 1,600 to 1,800 fpm are readily attainable for thin wall CMP communications cables. Cable Components Group – USA Website : www.cablecomponents.com High performance

Features: • Improved bow strength (no holes) • Wire is out of the airstream • Bow shaped like a wing for improved aerodynamics and low cw factor • Wear strip eliminated and replaced by wear bushings with windows for easy inspection and dust cleaning • Wear bushings can be changed while bow is mounted on the rotor Advantages: • Lower power (amps) consumption and reduced noise • Higher TPM – maintaining wire quality • Reduced bow breakage • Increased life on wear surfaces reducing down- times andmaintenance • Wire breakds are contained within the bow – extending bow life

USPatent# 6,233,513 # 5,809,703 andOther PatentsPending

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