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íí to 60 per cent less energy in
comparison with desiccant dryers;
eliminate the need to regenerate
desiccant; and reduce start-up time as
a result of a drying cycle that is only
one-sixth as long.
• Conveying and loading systems . The
Clear-Vu™ loader is a portable
“mini-central” system that allows
flexible deployment and makes it
possible to automate loading in smaller
operations. The system automatically
conveys raw materials to as many as
eight stations while incorporating
features that streamline material
discharge, reduce maintenance
requirements, and eliminate plant noise.
Maguire also offers a range of
centralised or plant-wide conveying
systems. The FlexBus™ vacuum
loading control system uses a single
cable to connect a vacuum pump with
one or many individually controlled
receivers and readily accommodates
the addition of more.
• The Sweeper™. Available only from
Maguire, this device completely
empties octobins or Gaylords of
compound without wasting operator
time or resorting to cumbersome box
tilters. Every Sweeper continuously
sweeps the length and breadth of the
top level of pellets in a container,
reaching into every corner, as it uses
vacuum to transfer the material to an
extruder or dryer. The device descends
along with the level of pellets in the
octobin until the container is empty.
Maguire Europe Ltd – UK
Website:
Maillefer Extrusion OY
Stand: 10D21
Maillefer provides complete extrusion
solutions serving both wire and cable and
pipe and tube manufacturers worldwide.
The progress achieved together with
customers comes not only from its supply
of technological know-how and equipment
solutions, but also from products with high
added value.
The company also offers a wide range of
services and maintenance packages,
product cost and materials saving
solutions, as well as insulation cleanliness
and quality improvement solutions.
With customer value targets in mind,
Maillefer is expanding the wire and cable
product portfolio beyond the high
performance range. New products are
being launched in order to fulfil the more
diverse needs coming from customers who
are less concerned with possessing the
highest production performance available.
The different requirements and customer
value demands are coming, for example,
from the world’s developing markets. In
response, a medium voltage and a building
wire insulation line have been developed.
Both newcomers use the Maillefer
extrusion standard, tested in more than
4,000 installations. More new solutions are
on their way.
Over the past year, Maillefer has been
developing its product portfolio around one
central theme – customer value. It is not a
new idea, but rather a growing priority.
The new ways of working and supporting
its customers in everyday manufacturing
activity create new types of competi-
tiveness for its customers.
The current product families available from
Maillefer are energy cables including
manufacturing solutions for producing
automotive, building, LV, MV, HV and EHV
cables; fibre optic cable manufacturing
solutions for buffering and jacketing fibre
optic cables; plastic pipe manufacturing
technology; solutions for producing heating
and plumbing, medical, automotive,
irrigation, water and gas pipes; and
telecom cable making including solutions
for producing telecom, LAN, coax and
speciality signal cables.
Maillefer has sales and service support,
production facilities, development and
testing capabilities in Finland and
Switzerland. Regional sales and service
offices are established in China, Egypt,
India, Russia and the USA. In addition
Maillefer has a worldwide agent network.
Maillefer Extrusion OY – Finland
Website:
Medek & Schörner
Stand: 10A56-01
Medek & Schörner will be presenting and
demonstrating the following high-
performance cable marking machines at
wire 2014.
Cable marking machines:
• High quality gravure printers (LAN
cables, control cables, etc) for speeds
up to 1,200m/min
• Water misting unit for the application of
fine water dust for pre-cooling of the
hot wire immediately after the extruder
• Embossing metre markers/hot foil
sequential metre markers for highest
accuracy of length measurement
(power cables, telecommunication
cables, optical fibre cables, etc)
• High performance ring markers for
marking telephone wires, switchboard
wires, automotive cables and LAN
cables
• Video system for monitoring the print
quality of fast-running cable printing
machines, eg allowing real-time
inspection for bad quality and/or
missing prints
• Laser marking system for cables
❍ MLS Clear-Vu™ loading system, left,
with receivers atop a Maguire weigh
scale blender, right
❍ Maillefer’s new high performance screw
for XLPE insulation
❍ Medek & Schörner covers virtually the
entire spectrum of machines for
marking cables
wire 2014