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EuroWire – July 2008 21
english corporate news
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff reports its most
successful participation ever at a wire
trade show, welcoming visitors from all
continents at its wire 2008 stand.
The completely new opto-electronic
traversing system NBAT for double twist
bunching machines as well as the MT200/
RI170.2 line which features new annealing
and preheating technology for the inline
production of data and telephone wires
attracted particular interest. Orders for
several double twist bunching machines
equipped with the NBAT were placed
during the trade fair.
The exhibited data cable line consisted
of an MT200 type wire drawing machine
with an integrated RI170.2 continuous
inductive annealer, developed andbuilt by
the Niehoff group joint venture company
NBM. This line will be field-tested by a well
known cable company manufacturing
high performance LAN Cat 8 cables.
Another cable manufacturer of the same
capability is planning to order a similar
line shortly.
During the five days of wire 2008
the other exhibited equipment – an
MMH50/RM121 multiwire drawing line,
the latest high speed rewinding machine
DSA Niehoff System Hacoba with CS630
spool pay-offs for multiwire bundles, a
double twist stranding machine DSI631
with back twist pay-off ARD630D and
longitudinal tape pay-off ALB600, and a
24-carrier high speed braiding machine
BMV24 with BAS 800 take-up and pay-off
unit – were sold.
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff
GmbH & Co KG – Germany
Fax: +49 9122 977 155
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Niehoff success at wire 2008
RFS appoints vice president
for global marketing
Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) has
appointed Eric Mariette to the role of
vice president of global marketing and
strategy. On 1 st May 2008, Mariette
assumed responsibility for ensuring
that RFS’s portfolio of RF solutions is
fully visible to the global wireless sector,
and that the company’s solution-set
continues to meet the varied demands of
the industry.
“By playing a role across the entire RF
chain, RFS fulfils a unique position in
our industry,” said Mariette. “Very few
companies offer the same breadth of
technology. Our approach is to look at
the ‘big picture’ solution, not just the
immediate problem.
For example, the challenge of migrating
from GSM 900MHz to UMTS 900MHz
encompasses a deal more than a choice
of antenna; it also introduces interesting
co-location interference issues, requiring
sophisticated filtering solutions.
“By having a total system approach, RFS
is able to predict what other issues might
arise and deal with them before they
occur.”
Mariette comes to RFS with twenty
years of experience in sales, marketing
and business operations across the
telecommunication and IT sector,
a great many of those years with
communications solutions group,
Alcatel-Lucent where he was Asia
Pacific vice president of business
support and operations for the mobile
communications and convergence
groups, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Radio Frequency Systems – Germany
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Website:
Eric Mariette, vice president of global marketing ▲ ▲
and strategy with Radio Frequency Systems