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Gauder Group, out in force
Since 1976, the Gauder Group has earned a leadership
position delivering new and secondhand machines to the
wire and cable industry.
European-made Gauder Group products are supplied
worldwide. Pourtier designs and manufactures rotating
machines for the production of medium and high
voltage insulated power cables, overhead conductors,
flat conductors for transformers, telephone and control
cables while Setic offer covers equipment for low voltage
conductors and cables, automotive cables, communication
cables (LAN, FO), telephone and control cables.
Gauder, a specialist in resale equipment, enables the
build-up of smart solutions from a large stock of machines.
Sales, training and service are available from China for all
products in the Gauder Group range.
In 1999 the group established a subsidiary in Changzhou,
to serve the Chinese market with locally made machines
at full European quality standards. Gauder Group China
manufactures most types of Setic rotating machines for
communication cables, flexible cords and automotive
cables, with a sales office located in Shanghai.
Following ten years of national success, the company has
recently expanded its market to Malaysia, Korea, Thailand,
Vietnam, India and Australia.
Visitors are welcome on the booth to discover the exhibited
machinery.
wire China stand: W1F04
Setic – Gauder Group – France
Fax: +33 4 77 71 10 85
Email:
Pourtier – Gauder Group – France
Fax: +33 1 64 26 61 10
Email:
Gauder Group China – China
Fax: +86 21 6439 8415
Email:
Website:
Pourtier COS 1200-2 energy recovery stranding and armouring line ▲ ▲
Dirk Schmidt, sales director of cable
machines and lines at Troester
GmbH & Co KG, was extremely
satisfied with wire Düsseldorf
2010: “The market seems to
be recovering, even though it
never really suffered a collapse in
Troester’s core business – CV lines
for high and extra-high-voltage
cables. The number and especially
the quality of enquiries increased
significantly, and our discussion
partners usually were directly at the
company’s decision-making level.”
Dirk Schmidt explained the positive
atmosphere at Troester is due to its
customers, “…mostly drawn from the
high and ultra-high-voltage sector. It is
an area which is currently experiencing
a boom as investments now need to
be made worldwide in the renewal and
enlargement of power grids.”
The increased preparedness of
customers to make investments is the
result of the liberalisation of the energy
markets on the one hand and, on the
other, the use of renewable energy.
Unlike conventional power stations,
which are often sited near consumers
in an effort to keep transmission
losses low, electricity from renewable
energy is generated most effectively
at locations where ideal environmental
conditions prevail. Consequently
electricity from offshore wind parks and
solar electricity from desert locations
make the most sense.
At Düsseldorf Troester showcased
a new AGP 300/35 S belt-type
Caterpillar, designed specifically for
the manufacture of large submarine
cables with diameters of up to
300mm. The AGP 300/35 S can be
used both as a traction and braking
unit, making it an economical
solution where weights of up to
100kg per cable metre need to be
transported and held securely at
the end of the submarine cable
manufacturing process.
Cables destined to be laid along the
ocean bed are produced in single
segments of up 36km in length.
Belt-type Caterpillars transport finished
cable to coiling stations or to a nearby
river or seaport onto cable-laying
ships that lay the power cable onto the
ocean floor directly from the sea.
Troester GmbH & Co KG – Germany
Fax: +49 511 864028
Email :
Website :
Troester’s AGP Caterpillar attracted interest at Düsseldorf ▲ ▲
Troester at wire Düsseldorf 2010