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With easier communications, new
business opportunities emerge on a daily
basis. Although good, this provides a new
challenge for companies with existing
businesses facing competition from new
and aggressive firms.
One solution for companies is improving
the technology level on the offered
products. In the cable industry, there is a
strong demand for lightweight and easier
cable handling, higher frequencies and
higher quantities of data transmission,
and so on.
What pushes engineers to study new
materials and new processes and, of
course, to design equipment is the ability
to use them with the highest precision
and consistency in order to grant the
industrialisation of the final product. WTM
is among the companies involved in the
challenge.
Its philosophy is to stay a step ahead of
what the market is asking for. The latest
series of tape wrapping machines produced
by WTM lead its customers to reach targets
that were only dreams until last year.
A challenge won by WTM is wrapping
cables with the new Cogebi EasyStrip®
mica tape, which is based on inorganic
material support and not on fibreglass
support. This tape makes the cable more
flexible, lighter, smaller in overall diameter
and most of all allows the end-user to
save a large amount of time in stripping it:
even with an ordinary stripper, at the first
stoke, the copper in the cable is ready to
be connected.
Over the past few years, the company has
designed a wrapping line fully dedicated
to the application of copper silver plated
screening strip on the production of the
highest frequency coaxial cables. The
concept for this line is never bending the
cable, with the exclusion of the collecting
reel, and the process is monitored with
WTM’s Viso System.
For data transmission cables, WTM has
won another challenge with its wrapping
lines for coaxial, twinax and trinax, with
performances never achieved before.
Companies using these wrapping
machines have succeeded in at last
doubling the data transmission speed of
the cable, according to WTM.
Today, with WTM data cable wrapping
lines, it is possible to produce 34 AWG
cables: such a small dimension is not yet
standardised.
WTM Srl – Italy
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New challenges: WTM provides the answers
Composite contract
JDR Cable has been awarded a
subcontract by Siem Offshore Contractors
to supply submarine composite power
cables for the Veja Mate offshore wind
farm.
The Veja Mate offshore wind farm is
located 115km off the German coast,
within the German Bight sector of the
North Sea. The 67x 6MW Siemens-
supplied wind turbine generators will be
inter-connected by an inner array grid of
JDR-designed and manufactured 33kV
medium voltage alternating current
cables with a total length of around 97km.
JDR will also deliver hang-offs, connectors
and other necessary cable accessories,
and will be providing topside termination
and testing services through its global
services division.
JDR – UK
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