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EuroWire – September 2008 14
english corporate news
A typical taping line from Ridgway Machines ▲ ▲
Ridgway adopts a flexible approach for
the cable industry and offers customised
taping solutions – often designing new
taping heads to meet specific customer
requirements.
With a choice of vertical and horizontal
machines Ridgway offers taping solutions
for cables from 0.75mm2 to 70,000mm2.
For large cable armouring Ridgway
offers a version of its pipe reinforcing
machinery, capable of applying up to six
steel tapes from one head.
Using the latest telemetry, load cells and
servo drives it is possible to maintain
constant tape tension through tape pads
to 1,000mm.
Ridgway has developed new markets in
the emerging economies. A two bay high
speed taping line has just been delivered
in Poland for the covering of solid,
stranded and sector cables. At the end
of last year, a Slovakian company took a
33-tape line.
Ridgway has just booked its 11th high
speed taping line for India in three years
since re-entering this buoyant market
with its servo controlled multibay lines.
These lines for paper and mica offer large
capacity with 400mm tape pads on 4-pad
tangential heads giving high throughput
running at 1,000rpm.
There has also been a rise in demand
for lines producing bunched paper
conductors.
Ridgway extends its taping
territory
Penetration of new markets has helped
Ridgway achieve year on year growth of
60% over the last 3 years. Sales have been
achieved in all continents with exports
representing 90% of revenues.
Ridgway Machines Ltd has just launched a
new website detailing its range of taping
machines for the electrical coil, cable and
conductor and pipeline industries.
Ridgway Machines – UK
Fax: +44 116 235 3057
Email:
Website:
Tenova LOI Italimpianti, a major
supplier of industrial furnaces and
services to the metal industry, has
received the FAC (Final Acceptance
Certificate) for the Arcelor Mittal
450 t/h walking beam furnace at the
MSPKK Hot Strip Mill in Krakow, only
four months after start up.
The scope of the Tenova contract,
included in a Siemens VAI package,
was for engineering, supply and
supervision services for erection and
commissioning.
The Tenova LOI Italimpianti furnace
is equipped with the latest Tenova
technology combustion system with
the patented FlexyTech ® Low-NOx
burners, which achieved significantly
lower emissions than the values
guaranteed.
Tenova LOI Italimpianti – Italy
Fax: +39 02 469 3026
Email:
Website:
FAC for the Arcelor
Mittal walking beam
furnace