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Wire & Cable ASIA – January/February 2014
Industrynews
GMP Slovakia is a worldwide
manufacturer in the production of reels
and take-apart reels for the wire and
cable industry. The company designs
and realises different products and
bespoke special projects for the
handling of drums of large dimensions.
The company has manufactured many
pay-off items for offshore cables
during the last year, and specialises in
big drum production. The design is
studied by the technical department in
cooperation with private technical
offices and with the customer.
GMP not only designs, but ensures
that the assembly and functionality are
all working at the customer’s plant.
The company also supplies standard
reels for steel, copper and aluminium
wire and take-apart reels for coil
production. The company is proud of
its patented take-apart reel Easykoil
Plus, the reel which can be used also
as coil lifter. The internal mechanism of
the reel permits the barrel expansion
during the lifting operation and takes
the coil up.
Once suitable hooks are in the correct
position the barrel collapses during the
lifting operation and sets the coil free.
The reel can be also supplied with
changeable flanges to make coils of
different widths, and can be supplied
with circular slots in the flanges to fit
cardboard barrels. All take-apart reels
and handling equipment is CE marked.
GMP Slovakia – Slovakia
Website:
Big dimension reels
❍ Big dimension drums from GMP Slovakia
Ajaokuta looks to
wire rod production
Nigeria’s Ajaokuta Steel Company
Ltd will commence production of
wire rods, for use by major civil and
construction engineering contr-
actors, early in 2014.
Speaking in Ajaokuta, during the
signing of Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) between his
company, Zarubezhstrimontazh
Ventures Nigeria Ltd, and Ajaokuta
Steel on technical assistance for
the wire rod mill, retired
Lieutenant-General Salihu lbrahim
said: “We have installed an
unparalleled range of quality
testing assurance and research
facilities at Ajaokuta, which we will
use to vastly upgrade the quality of
wire rods in the Nigerian market to
meet highest global standards.”
Ajaokuta Steel Company Ltd –
Nigeria