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EuroWire – September 2010 42
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“ ACID-FREEPROCESS FOR STEEL
ROD CLEANING & SURFACE
PREPARATION”
“New Way to Draw Steel Wire
in the 21st Century”
DCCD process features:
• Eliminates acid, borax and precoatings
• Zero energy consumption
• Direct drawing from bare rod with no
speed limitation, for H/C and L/C
• New Lubricant Viscosity Control
provides exceptionally adherent coating
• Adjustable lubricant residual
• Zero lubricant waste
• Recommended for severe drawing
applications (spring, rope, bead,
CO2 welding, PC strand, plating quality)
• H/C wire drawn at 18 m/s (3600 ft/min)
• Up to 8 times longer die life
• Exiting wire temp. 45°C (113°F)
• Greatly improved wire ductility
DECALUB
31, avenue de Condé
77500 CHELLES, FRANCE
Fax: +33 1 60 20 20 21
E-mail:
Website:
Launched by the Gauder Group in 2008, Daloo is the first low cost wire and cable
machinery manufacturer located in China but backed by European experience. Daloo
offers rotating machines with basic functions, of simple design and steady quality.
The company will exhibit a rigid frame strander at wire China 2010, as well as
components such as a payoff/take-up and pulling caterpillar.
Daloo Machines – PR China Fax: +86 519 8548 3557
Email: Website:
Daloo Machines is backed by the Gauder Group ▲ ▲
China-based, with European outlook
Main One Cable Company, a submarine
cable company offering open access,
wholesale broadband capacity in West
Africa, and its system supplier, Tyco
Electronics Subsea Communications
SubCom, have completed the first phase
of the Main One cable system.
The installation of the terminal equipment
is completed in Seixal, Portugal and is
under way at the system’s landing sites in
Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana.
The CEO of Main One, Funke Opeke
stated that Phase 1 of the Main One Cable
System spans 6,800km and will provide
much-needed capacity between the West
Coast of Africa and Portugal.
The dual fibre pair, 1.92 terabit per second,
dense wave division multiplex project will
first connect Lagos, Accra and Seixal with
onward connectivity to Europe, Asia and
the Americas, while Phase 2 of the project
is expected to extend to South Africa.
The cable system, scheduled to go live
on 1st July, will provide open access to
regional telecoms operators and Internet
service providers at rates lower than
existing international bandwidth prices in
the region.
The system will also provide broadband
capacity to expand Internet access in the
sub-Saharan region, as well as ease the
difficulties of switching traffic between
African countries without the need to go
through Europe.
Opeke said “We are thrilled that the
challenge of completing the marine work
for the Main One Cable System is behind
us and we will soon be able to concentrate
on the critical mission of providing
high-capacity bandwidth to regions
of the globe where it is long overdue,”
adding that, “Together with SubCom, we
have met our goals on schedule and we
eagerly look towards delivering capacity
to our customers and executing plans for
expansion of the network.”
President of SubCom David Coughlan
emphasised that, “We consider the work
we have done on Main One to be a
significant accomplishment and are proud
to be associated with this project.”
Tyco Electronics Subsea
Communications (SubCom) – USA
Website :
Main One Cable Company – Mauritius
Website :
Submarine firm completes
installation of cable system