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Interwire Trade Exposition – I-X Centre, Cleveland, Ohio
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and painting. It is available in diameters
from 0.9" to 0.475". Packing is in
1,900lb to 4,410lb coils.
Exel Fil SA – Spain
Fax: +34 93 25 30 583
Email:
Website:
Fil-Tec Inc
Booth 2769
Fil-Tec Inc offers a complete line of
performance yarns for applications in
power cables, copper and fibre optic
telecom and speciality cables.
Products on display will include binder
yarns with water blocking, non-wicking,
flame retardant/low smoke finishes;
core yarns; ripcords; filler yarns;
marker yarns and fibreglass
reinforcement yarns. Also on show,
Fil-Tec’s newest product, a dry core
yarn for dry core cable designs.
Fil-Tec’s water swellable binder and
core (wrap around the FRP) yarns are
designed to offer the following
benefits:
Very low dust, extends life of •
bearings and other moving parts
of the equipment
Less downtime due to mechanical •
maintenance related to SAP dust
problems
Less clean up time •
Cleaner working environment for •
the operator
Fil-Tec technology produces a water
swellable binder with higher yield, for
lower cost per kilometre of cable
produced. It also produces a package
that offers:
Excellent integrity and balance •
Can run at 5000 rpm without •
unwanted vibration
More metres per package, for •
longer runs without a break and a
more efficient stranding process
overall
Various swell factors are available,
affording the design engineer the
flexibility to choose the size yarn and
swell factor that best suits the cable.
Fil-Tec Inc – USA
Fax: +1 301 824 6938
Email:
Website:
GCR Eurodraw Spa
Booth 2800 – 3208
GCR Eurodraw will be exhibiting at
Interwire on the Italian Pavilion, with an
ROT 760 HD coiler, a horizontal-axis
static coiler designed for use in-line
with wire drawing machines or, in
some cases, in-line with a multi-wire
plating line.
The ROT is suitable to draw-down and
take-up high carbon steel wire at
high speeds. It is equipped with a
water-cooled die and a water-cooled
Fil-Tec’s dry core yarn m m