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8 Wire & Cable ASIA – March/April 2014
Industrynews
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SAMP has been awarded two of the
most challenging turnkey projects in wire
and cable production in China to supply
machinery, resources and expertise.
The first project includes three rod
breakdown machines, five multi-wire
drawing lines and 20 bunchers as a first
implementation step. All systems will be
installed during 2014. SAMP has been
selected by Kunshan Deli Copper
among German and Italian suppliers.
SAMP’s winning factor in this project has
been the superior performance in terms
of output and energy consumption in the
manufacturing of fine wires and strands.
Energy consumption has been included
as an essential part of the contract,
setting new standards for the wire and
cable manufacturing market.
Kunshan Deli Copper, built in April 2013,
is located in the Zhangpu Industrial Park
of Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province. With
a manufacturing plant of 210,000m2
located 34km away from Shanghai
Hongqiao airport, the company focuses
on the production of copper rods and
wires, including 8mm low-oxygen
copper rod with high purity, copper wire
2.6mm, fine wire, bunching conductor
and tin coating wire.
The products are widely used in
communication cables, power cables,
electronic cables, etc. The annual
production capacity will reach 400,000
tons of 8mm copper rod and 100,000
tons of fine copper wire, making up an
estimated turnover of over yuan 20
billion per year.
The second project makes SAMP even
prouder because it represents
recognition of the product development
and of the important investments in
research and development that have
taken place since 2009. Following the
successful completion of a competitive
field test among the world market
leaders, SAMP has been reconfirmed to
supply the Force Group with four
multi-wire drawing lines.
These will be added to the existing 11
multi-wire drawing lines and ten
bunchers delivered between 2000 and
August 2013 for copper wire and
aluminium fine wire production. In the
medium term, this investment will lead to
greater efficiency as well as lower
operating and maintenance costs while
simultaneously reducing energy
consumption.
The Force Group is one of the largest
automotive wire and cable enterprises
in China. Due to its advanced
manufacturing facilities and process
methods, Force produces a variety of
automotive cables according to
German, Japanese and American
standards.
At present, the company has
manufacturing plants in Beijing,
Shanghai and Changchun and as well as
offices in Chengdu, Guangzhou,
Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing and Zhuhai.
With a total covered space of 100,000m 2
and over 1,000 employees, Force has a
production capacity of 3,000,000km of
cables per year.
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❍ The RB450 rod breakdown
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