EoW May 2008

english technology news

Borealis boosts competitiveness of low voltage cable producers

The material gives cables greater flexibility, thus improving ease of installation and helping to significantly reduce time and cost. Hans Christian Ambjerg, vice president Borealis Wire and Cable, comments: “Borealis’ Visico FX innovation demonstrates our commitment to developing products that respond to the business and sustainability challenges facing the wire and cable industry today. The low voltage cable market in particular faces increasing competition from low cost producers driving down sales margins. Visico FX gives companies a competitive edge by tackling the need for higher productivity and lower costs at the same time as addressing environmental concerns by reducing energy usage and waste generation.” Borealis has over 40 years' experience in developing solutions for the wire and cable industry and is a world leader in this market segment.’

flow by eliminating production steps and speeding up the overall production process. By removing traditional bottlenecks from XLPE production, Visico FX shortens lead-times, reduces manufacturing complexity and lowers the potential for handling-related errors. At the same time, it delivers the environmental and cost-related benefits of reduced energy usage, and minimised handling and production space requirements. In addition to the leading industry advances in curing speed, Visico FX improves productivity by delivering a consistent, high quality product with less down time required for cleaning. Suitable for running on standard extruder equipment, the new material shares the unique scorch retarder technology of standard Visico material. This creates a smooth production process with minimum change required, higher output and less scrap. Moreover, Visico FX offers time and cost saving benefits to grid owners and cable installers.

Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value-creating plastics solutions, has launched a unique high productivity, low voltage cable insulation material that will boost the competitiveness of cable manufacturers. Making its début at wire 2008, newVisico™ FX LE8823 delivers all-round advances in productivity and cost efficiency, resulting in higher output and increased profitability at the manufacturing stage with knock-on benefits for grid owners and installers. Visico FX is an innovative base material for low voltage moisture cured XLPE cables which enables faster production of consistently high quality cables. Its outstanding crosslinking speed is twice that of traditional Visico material and typically more than five times that of grafted XLPE materials. This allows cost efficient curing under ambient conditions when used in combination with the Ambicat catalyst, resulting in a more efficient production

Borealis AG – Austria Fax : +43 122 400 333 Website : www.borealisgroup.com

NDT equipment from CMS

Contrôle Mesure Systemes is a leading manufacturer of NDT equipment, specialising in eddy currents, flux leakage and ultrasound testing. The company focuses its activity in the field of equipment for the inspection of tube, bars, wires and special profiles for the detection of surface defects by eddy current and sub-surface defects by ultrasound.

NDT equipment from CMS ▲ ▲

CMS has the ability to supply complete system re-vamping, or just few accessories. A sister company gives CMS the knowledge to provide drawing or full mechanical systems, for EC, MFL and UT. All CMS equipment is in compliance with the strictest standards such as API, DIN, ASMT and GOST. The company has a worldwide network of agents that assure the distribution of CMS equipment in more than 25 countries. CMS is also able to offer fully customised systems, multi-channels, multi-frequencies with heavy specifications.

Contrôle Mesure Systemes – France Fax : +33 3 8594 1415 Email : contactcms@cmseddyscan.com Website : www.cmseddyscan.com

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