EoW September 2008

english corporate news

Ridgway extends its taping territory

Ridgway adopts a flexible approach for the cable industry and offers customised taping solutions – often designing new taping heads to meet specific customer requirements. With a choice of vertical and horizontal machines Ridgway offers taping solutions for cables from 0.75mm 2 to 70,000mm 2 . For large cable armouring Ridgway offers a version of its pipe reinforcing machinery, capable of applying up to six steel tapes from one head. Using the latest telemetry, load cells and servo drives it is possible to maintain constant tape tension through tape pads to 1,000mm. Ridgway has developed new markets in the emerging economies. A two bay high speed taping line has just been delivered in Poland for the covering of solid, stranded and sector cables. At the end of last year, a Slovakian company took a 33-tape line. Ridgway has just booked its 11 th high speed taping line for India in three years since re-entering this buoyant market with its servo controlled multibay lines. These lines for paper and mica offer large capacity with 400mm tape pads on 4-pad tangential heads giving high throughput running at 1,000rpm. There has also been a rise in demand for lines producing bunched paper conductors.

A typical taping line from Ridgway Machines ▲ ▲

Penetration of new markets has helped Ridgway achieve year on year growth of 60% over the last 3 years. Sales have been achieved in all continents with exports representing 90% of revenues. Ridgway Machines Ltd has just launched a new website detailing its range of taping machines for the electrical coil, cable and conductor and pipeline industries.

Tenova LOI Italimpianti, a major supplier of industrial furnaces and services to the metal industry, has received the FAC (Final Acceptance Certificate) for the Arcelor Mittal 450 t/h walking beam furnace at the MSPKK Hot Strip Mill in Krakow, only four months after start up. The scope of the Tenova contract, included in a Siemens VAI package, was for engineering, supply and supervision services for erection and commissioning. The Tenova LOI Italimpianti furnace is equipped with the latest Tenova technology combustion system with the patented FlexyTech ® Low-NOx burners, which achieved significantly lower emissions than the values guaranteed. FAC for the Arcelor Mittal walking beam furnace Tenova LOI Italimpianti – Italy Fax : +39 02 469 3026 Email : tenova@tenovagroup.com Website : www.tenovagroup.com

Ridgway Machines – UK Fax : +44 116 235 3057

Email : shunt@ridgwayeng.com Website : www.ridgwayeng.com

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EuroWire – September 2008