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44 Wire & Cable ASIA – November/December 2016
India Insight
January/February 2017
Pump manufacturer takes new
direction
The Coimbatore-based pump manufacturer CRI Group has
announced its move into high-end specialised wire and
cable.
In its first phase, the company has established a
manufacturing plant with an integrated cable compound
manufacturing facility, capable of processing over 10,000
tonnes of copper per year.
“In the second phase, the company has planned to invest
further to double the capacity in about two to three years
time,” said G Soundararajan, vice-chairman, CRI Group.
The company currently manufactures pumps, valves, pipes
and castings.
CRI’s wires and cables division will benefit from CRI Group’s
long-standing relationships with reputed EPC contractors,
retailers, consultants and contractors.
The company has a distribution network in 120 countries,
seven foreign subsidiaries and 32 branches in India. In
addition to sales through its existing channels, CRI is
establishing a new distribution network for some of its wire
and cable products.
The company has developed a winding wire with higher
dielectric strength and DC solar cables. Its wider cable
range will include lead-free insulated cables, EPDM cables,
special oil-resistant and chemical-resistant cables for waste
water, communication cables, halogen-free flame-retardant
cables, termite-resistant wires, flexible power cables for
industrial applications, and submersible cables.
CRI Group – India
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Students stay on track
Student research and development group Team Ashwa
Racing, from R V College of Engineering in Bangalore, is
supported by Habia for its cables and wires.
The team takes part in Formula SAE events in India and
around the globe, competing with some of the best
universities in the world.
Formula SAE is a student competition organised by SAE
International (initially the Society of Automotive Engineers).
The competition began in 1978 and calls upon teams of
students to design, build and test drive a formula racing car
prototype.
Habia’s country manager for India, Nagaraj S Aithal, said:
“We are very happy to support [Team Ashwa Racing]. They
are a dedicated and technically strong team who travel all
over the world as great ambassadors for Habia when they
participate in big events.”
In the recently held hybrid event in the US, Ashwa Racing
took second position in both the design and the project
management sub-events, and stood fourth overall among all
the teams in the world.
Habia Cable – Sweden
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Copper wire rod line
Ryker Base Private Ltd, a joint venture between Polycab
Wires and Cables and Trafigura, India, has placed an order
with SMS group for the supply of a Contirod® CR-3500 line.
The line, for the casting and rolling of wire rod in a single
process, will have a production capacity of 35 tons of cast
and rolled copper wire rod per hour.
Commissioning of the Contirod line, at Ryker’s new plant in
the Indian state of Gujarat, is scheduled for the first quarter
of 2018. Ryker will use the Contirod line for ETP copper wire
rod, the starting material for its own cable production.
In-house production of 8mm drawing stock will enable
Ryker to maintain a consistent supply for its existing wire
drawing plant.
The scope of supply includes a shaft melting furnace, a
twin-belt caster, a 12-stand rolling mill with separate
individual drives, a deoxidisation and cooling section, a wire
coiling station, a strapping unit and a film packing station.
Ryker Base Private Ltd – India
Rebar line
Concast (India) Ltd, a Primetals Technologies Group
company, has received an order from the Indian steel
producer Orissa Metaliks to supply a three-strand
continuous billet caster for the company’s production site
near Kharagpur, West Bengal.
The plant is designed to produce 384,000 tons of carbon
steel billets per year with a cross section of 100mm for
further processing to commercial rebars.
The aim of the project is to increase capacity. To save
energy, the casting machine is designed for hot direct rolling
of billets to rebars without reheating.
Orissa Metaliks is involved in producing steel products and
is part of the Rashmi Group. The caster has a machine
radius of 6m, a metallurgical length of 11m and a curved
tube mould. Maximum casting speed is 4.1m per minute.
Concast (India) Ltd – India
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