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Feature
Cutting &
welding
EuroWire – March 2011
Photo courtesy of PWM Ltd
W
hile precision is a byword in every department of a state-of-the-art
wire making facility, it may have special force in the specialities under
review here. Certifiably accurate cutting – clean, straight, to length –
is so critical that anything less renders the product unacceptable; or, for a more
poignant word, unsaleable.
So, too, with welding. Electric arc welding joins an electrode and a base
material to create a melt pool at the welding point. If that point is missed, by
however slight a margin, so have the promised benefits of low capital and
running costs been missed.
That these are virtually negligible worries in the wire and cable industry is
due in no small part to equipment and services of the kind available from the
companies profiled in this section of EuroWire.
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