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Wire & Cable ASIA – March/April 2016
Industrynews
TALURIT AB’s latest swager, with a
capacity of 4,200 tons, is the largest
swager yet manufactured by the
company, and thought to be the
largest serial-made swager within the
wire rope industry.
The 4,200-ton swager is the first in a
series of three machines
commissioned from Talurit AB and is
bound for Kakogawa in Japan. The
swager is developed for making a
mechanical splicing of an eye on a wire
rope with a diameter up to 152mm.
Wire rope swaged in these sizes is
often used in the offshore industry,
when securing oil platforms.
Talurit AB – Sweden
Website:
Aloha to cable
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks
has signed a turnkey agreement with
Bluesky Pacific subsidiary Amper SA,
for a 9,700km submarine cable system
across the Pacific Ocean.
The Moana Cable will link New Zealand
and Hawaii when completed in 2018.
The system will have two main
segments: the first 8,000km segment,
based on two fibre pairs, will connect
New Zealand to Hawaii serving Samoa
and American Samoa and significantly
enhancing route diversity for New
Zealand; the second 1,700km segment,
based on one fibre pair, will link the
Cook Islands to the Samoa hub.
The cable will be the first long haul
submarine cable in the Pacific Islands
region relying on the latest 200Gb/s
transmission technology, with ultimate
capacity between Hawaii and New
Zealand of 20Tb/s.
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks
– France
Website:
Amper SA – Spain
Website:
❍ The new swager, thought to be the
largest in the wire rope industry
Talurit’s swager record?