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EuroWire – May 2012 58
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Italy
EUROALPHA produces precision
machinery for the wire and cable industry,
specialising in drawing machines for
non-ferrous wires, with expertise in
limited-slip technology.
The company aims to provide customers
with top quality, user-friendly equipment
for uninterrupted production and heavy
working conditions, entirely designed and
manufactured in Italy, along with prompt
and complete proactive support.
The company produced its first
limited-slip rod breakdown line for
non-ferrous wires in 1993.
Other milestones include its first
multi-motor continuous annealer in
2004; and in 2010, a patented four-twist
bunching machine.
Euroalpha’s design, based on low-inertia
AC motors, state-of-the-art vector
inverters and a special SW algorithm
secures precision speed control through a
maintenance-free system.
It positively affects operations and
maintenance, improves the quality of
the finished wires, and contributes to
reducing running costs, by reducing
energy consumption and extending the
working lifespan of many wearing parts.
It also features low-noise operation
without soundproof cabinets, and
provides great operational flexibility of
the drawing machine, for optimal use
with different materials.
The R1 compact, limited-slip rod
breakdown machine is suitable for
drawing copper, aluminium and
aluminium alloy wires.
With capstans arranged onto two
superimposed rows it has a total length
shorter than 5m. The company states
that it performs at the same rate as
conventional straight-line rod breakdown
machines.
The DS-DA fully automatic
double-spooler is designed to perform
automatic changeover from full to empty
reels, with speeds up to 30m/sec.
A simple and effective X-Y hydraulic
elevator provides automatic loading/
downloading of the reels from two motor
driven conveyors.
Euroalpha’s D3 limited-slip multiwire
drawing machine is suitable for drawing
copper, aluminium and aluminium alloy,
and CCA wires, and is claimed to be the
first multiwire drawing machine to be
designed with individually motor-driven
drawing capstans.
It can be combined with the AM-series
annealers, with multi-motor technology
to minimise the slip at any diameter
of wire, and equipped with enhanced
systems for cooling and drying the wires.
AM annealers ensure uniform mechanical
and electric properties over all the
finished wires.
Euroalpha Srl – Italy
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Getting precise for the drawing
and annealing machines
▲ DS-DA fully automatic double-spooler