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priority at PWM and the company offers
a highly personal technical advice and
support service. PWM’s specialist staff
have over 30 years’ experience of cold
welding techniques and applications and
are happy to advise customers and help
them find the most cost-effective cold
welding solution for their project.
PWM’s on-going research and
development programme ensures that
it continues to offer wire and cable
manufacturers the most advanced and
comprehensive range of cold welders
in the world. To explain the cold weld
process, the company recently developed
a series of videos demonstrating the
technique, which can be viewed at www.
pwmltd.co.uk
PWM’s worldwide network of experienced
agents, together with the UK team,
provides fast and efficient on-site support
with full back-up and after-sales service
for all PWM products.
PWM Ltd – UK
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New division for
metals research
Continuous casting technology specialist
Rautomead Limited has recently formed
its new ‘Advancing Metals Technology’
(AMT) division, a scientifically-based
metals research and development
structure within the company.
The specific focus of the division is on the
scientific exploration and development of
non-ferrous metals and processes to drive
improvements in metallurgical efficiency
in a wide range of global production
processes and end-user applications.
In addition to pursuing in-house research
projects, the new division’s mandate also
covers involvement in a wide range of
individual projects with universities and
research groups in the UK and overseas.
Further collaborations are also on-going
with both existing and prospective
customers, with the goal of providing new
and innovative processes and products
within the non-ferrous metals technology
market.
Through harnessing its market-leading
expertise in the field of graphite
technology, and transferring the skills
it has developed in continuous casting
as the basis for these collaborations,
the division’s objectives consist of
developing imaginative and economical
technological solutions with operating
systems that will offer significant end user
processing improvements and application
enhancement benefits.
Specifically, such collaborative objectives
consist of innovating technologies which
are clean, safe and environmentally
friendly, help shorten the manufacturing
process, provide economies on the
small to medium scale, deliver reduced
operating costs, enhance product quality
and often embrace materials recycling.
Recent examples of Rautomead AMT
collaborative projects, which illustrate the
breadth of scope of the division, include
the application of Rautomead resistance
furnaces in a metals “reclamation by
electrolysis” process; the development of
a rheo-extrusion process for aluminium
alloys; investigating alternative methods
to produce thin strip Fecralloy material;
production methods and alternative
applications on nano-materials; melting
and continuous casting of alternative
non-ferrous elements; the use of cored
wire technologies as alloy feeders in a
continuous casting environment; and the
in-process monitoring of alloy levels in a
continuous casting environment.
Further collaborations are on-going,
or are being sought, in the areas of
“lightweighting” material, with specific
focused target applications in automotive,
aerospace and renewables.
Rautomead Ltd – UK
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International face of
companies
UK-based Stanaway Wire is European
agent for USA-based L&P Wire Tie Systems
and international agent for both L&P
Wire International and MountJoy Wire
Corporation.
Principal products
include aluminium
wire, annealed
wire, baling wire,
bedding and
upholstery wire,
brush wire, chrome
silicon wire, fish
hook wire, flat wire,
Galfan coated wire,
galvanised HT wire
for auto-baling,
galvanised MS wire,
hard drawn MB wire, low carbon wire,
music wire, musical string wire, patented
wire, plated wire, plow steel wire, profile
wire, rocket wire, saw wire, shaped wire,
stitching wire, oil tempered wire, tin coated
wire and ultra fine wire.
Principal John Stanaway has been
involved in the wire industry in a career
now spanning five decades. A past winner
of the UK’s most prestigious customer
service award (the Unisys/Management
Today Service Excellence Award), Mr
Stanaway conducts his business with an
open, ethical and honest approach which
has, he believes, won him the respect of
colleagues, customers and competitors
alike.
StanawayWire – UK
Website:
▲ ▲ John Stanaway, of
Stanaway Wire
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