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reels & spools
Wide range of
spools and reels
Sonoco Crellin offers a broad product
line with an extensive range of spool
and reel sizes, from small precision
spools for wire as fine as 56 AWG to
reels capable of carrying more than
1,000lbs (454kg).
Wire producers from around the
world have relied on Sonoco Crellin’s
family of plastic spools and reels for
more than six decades.
Sonoco Crellin’s Reel Tough® revolu-
tionary design has been applied to
the large wire reel market product
line. Beginning with the Reel Tough®
DIN 630, made specifically for 630
bunchers, Sonoco Crellin’s innovative
design allows wire producers to
maximise drawing and bunching
machine capacity with smooth,
trouble-free winding and pay-off.
Constructed of high strength, solid
impact resistant polymers, Reel
Tough reels feature a unique design
which adds strength in the most
important area, where the ribs and
hub intersect.
Along with the DIN 630, the Reel
Tough 22" and 30" reels offer an ideal
replacement for steel reels used in
drawing, bunching and stranding
applications. At one-third cost and
weight, Reel Tough offers superior
performance, easy handling and
substantial freight savings.
Sonoco Crellin is part of the moulded
plastics division of Sonoco Products
company, a $4 billion global
packaging leader.
Sonoco Crellin – Germany
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10 years and still going strong . . .
More than 10 years ago, Maschinenfabrik Niehoff introduced the Niehoff Package
System (NPS), a handling system designed for cables, conductors and wires. The NPS
are collapsible multi-way spools made of ABS plastic and special spoolers.
The applications of NPS spools are continually extended. One of the NPS spools is
designed for the spooling and transportation of wire bundles and strands.
It features a correspondingly rugged and sturdy design and construction and is
available in flange diameters of 630mm or 560mm.
Like all other NPS spools, the NPS strand spools can be fully dismantled when empty
and stacked into each other, which means that an NPS strand spool takes up only a
third of the space of a comparable conventional spool and needs much less return
shipping space than traditional spools of the same capacity.
For the application of the NPS strand spool, a return on investment calculation has
proven that on the basis of a yearly production of 10,000 tons of copper conductor,
a net weight of 430kg per spool and the use of NPS630 spools instead of DIN630
metal or plastic spools, the investment on NPS630 spools and the conversion of the
bunching machines for automatic traverse and NPS630 take-up parts a return of
investment of 1.7 years is possible.
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH & Co KG – Germany
Fax: +49 9122 977 155
Email:
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The NPS spools can be fully dismantled when empty and need much less return shipping space than comparable
traditional spools
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