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14 Wire & Cable ASIA – March/April 2015
Industrynews
Furnaces head to China
CMI Industry Metals will supply 16 heating and heat
treatment furnaces to Shandong Nanshan Aluminum Co
Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of the Nanshan Group, for its
high-quality thermal processing related to superalloys in
Nanshan’s ‘Aviation Materials Park’.
Nanshan Group, a large-scale private joint-stock enterprise,
comprising over 40 companies, is investing into the
construction of an integrated alloy plant in Nanshan, China.
The CMI full-range supply will feature rotary furnaces, box
furnaces, car bottom furnaces, ventilated box heat
treatment furnaces, and the associated line equipment like
quenching, manipulators for material handling and
charging cars, as well as the comprehensive range of
services comprising planning, design, manufacture,
assembly, commissioning and training.
The supply will be a combination of both gas and electrical
furnaces. The applied CMI process technologies are based
on a sound track record of successfully running references
for several major blue chip companies supplying high end
industrial sectors.
An optimised equipment design using numerical
simulations and dedicated mathematical models, as well
as easy operator interfaces, secure systems management
programs, and precise process control to reach optimum
heat curves and temperature uniformity, are major
elements of the CMI solution.
CMI Industry Metals – Belgium
Website:
Success in Asia
Wiedenbach Apparatebau’s appearance at
wire China 2014 and Wire & Cable India 2014
proved very successful, with meetings with
numerous customers and potential customers
underlining that the demand for cable in these
two economic areas will continue.
One of the growing requirements is the trend
towards smaller cable diameters and also
smaller inscriptions.
Therefore, the visitors at the Wiedenbach
booth expressed interest in a new small
character printer that can create high-quality
fonts down to a minimum height of only
0.8mm.
On display was live cable printing with a high
pigmented white ink adhering extremely well to
PE as well as the newly introduced ‘Command
Control System’ (CCS), a web-based software
solution with which single printers and printer
series can be set and controlled remotely via
the Internet, and even by smartphone.
Wiedenbach Apparatebau GmbH – Germany
Website: ❍ The Wiedenbach booth at the wire China 2014 trade fair in Shanghai