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Improved
services
UK-based RV Rugg
has made new
investments in the
latest wire forming
and wire fabrication
technologies
and now offers
improved
services for CNC
wireforming for
wire components,
wire fabrication
for wire products
and assemblies,
and a full range of
wire finishes. It is
intended that the
investment will
improve service
levels and promote
the company’s
development
into new industry
sectors.
Managing director
Steve Rugg said:
“Significant
investment
in several
manufacturing
areas during 2012
allows us to be well
prepared to meet
our customers’
needs for 2013
onwards. We have
purchased new
equipment for
straightening and
cutting, mesh
trimming and CNC
forming.”
RV Rugg works
in bothmild and
stainless steels,
and specialises
in bespoke
wire product
manufacture. The
current product
range includes wire
shopfittings, wire
guards for lights and
heaters, domestic
and catering
appliance products
such as oven
shelves, and wire
point of sale items.
Sket supplied double twist bunching machines,
tubular stranding machines and a cage-type
stranding machine to Erciyes Celik Halat in Kayseri,
Turkey. The supply started in November 2011 and
was completed a year later.
The machines are capable of producing a wide
range of steel wire ropes for lifts, cranes and mining
applications together with ACSR cables. All of the
machines had been commissioned by the end of
2012.
The total value of the Sket stranding machines
supplied was approximately €10m. Further projects
with this customer are in the planning stage.
Sket Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH – Germany
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€10mTurkish delight for Sket
▲ ▲ Order complete for Sket in Turkey
A team of scientists from Bangor
University, Wales, is working with
existing fibre optic technology
with a view to boosting transfer
speeds by combating signal
degradation over long distances.
There are several proposed
methods to combat the
issue, including adding more
fibre optic strands to a cable,
implementing signal strength
boosters and installing extra
encoding and decoding lasers at
each end. The problem, however,
is that all of these steps require a
significant financial investment.
The researchers at Bangor
are aiming to control costs
by manipulating existing
technology – optical
orthogonal frequency division
multiplex (OOFDM) – used by
wireless networks and digital
broadcasting.
Digital data has been converted
to physical electrical waves then
translated into pulses of light, as
with regular fibre optics.
However, the difference is that
these electrical waves can be
quickly encoded and decoded,
resulting in extreme speed
increases.
To date the team has broken the
20Gbps speed barrier in testing,
and expects to eventually surpass
40Gbps. As a comparison, Google
is offering fibre network clocked
at just 1Gbps to select residents of
Kansas.
Researchers say they hope to
have a module ready in about
two years.
Bangor University –Wales
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Boost to fibre optic network speeds
Rebranding of US business
Pourtier and Setic has re-branded its new machine
division in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
With over 20 years of continuous presence and after
several recent major machine installations in the USA,
the Gauder Group subsidiary will now promote the
sales of its Pourtier and Setic range under the name
“Pourtier & Setic of America”.
This product line includes Pourtier’s successful rigid
stranders and drum twisters for producing low,
medium, and high voltage cable and conductor, as
well as Setic’s large and small double twist bunchers,
and complete line of machines for the production of
LAN and special cable.
For the used machines market, USA and Canada sales
are managed with the subsidiary “Gauder America”
which has a joint venture agreement with Lloyd &
Bouvier.
Pourtier & Setic of America – USA
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Cuts at Swedish plant
Componenta is taking measures in Sweden to
develop the productivity and profitability of its
forging business as part of the group’s efficiency
programme that started in October 2012.
The measures concern Componenta Wirsbo’s
operations in Virsbo, Smedjebacken and Arvika,
and aim to boost productivity, operations
efficiency and profitability and to cut fixed costs
at the forge.
The intention is to downsize the plant in
Smedjebacken to a minimum and transfer
products mainly to the plant in Arvika, resulting
in the loss of 41 jobs in Smedjebacken.
Capacity utilisation rates at Componenta Wirsbo
were low during 2012, and its operative result has
been weak. The intended restructuring measures
will boost the operative result in the forging
business by some €2million.
Componenta – Finland
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