March 2014
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News
Technology
Tata Steel subsidiary Cogent Power has unveiled a range of new electrical steel
products designed to reduce electricity losses by 20 to 30 per cent, compared with
conventional grain-orientated grades.
The new products are being made at Cogent Power’s Orb works in South Wales, UK. Orb
produces cold rolled grain-orientated electrical steel for electricity transformers. As global
demand for electricity continues to grow, so does the requirement from the industry for
products that enable electricity to be generated and transmitted more efficiently.
The new grades – M080-23DR, M085-23DR, M090-27DR and M095-27DR – enable the
production of highly efficient steel cores housed within the transformers used in energy
transmission networks.
Stuart Wilkie, managing director of Cogent Power, said: “These new high-grade
products will make a significant contribution to the preservation of natural resources by
reducing the energy lost in the generation and transmission of electricity. They benefit
our customers and the whole of society.”
The launch of the new grades follows the integration in 2011 of Tata Steel’s electrical
steels production route. The Orb plant receives hot rolled coil from the company’s
steelworks at IJmuiden in the Netherlands.
Cogent Power – UK
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Sumitomo
Electric
Lightwave
has
introduced new, flexible, all-dielectric
indoor-outdoor riser, indoor riser, and
indoor plenum ribbon cables for faster
installation, easier connectivity, and
space saving, as required by high-density
networks in the migration from 10Gb/s
to 40 and 100Gb/s.
The new cables expand the fourth level
data centre and network solutions
product
line
for
its
integrated,
end-to-end optical fibre infrastructure
product offerings.
Prompted by the growing need to
upgrade an existing data centre
or network infrastructure quickly,
efficiently and cost effectively with
immediate
scalability,
Sumitomo
Electric Lightwave designed the cables
to allow for fast 12 fibre mass fusion
splicing, quicker and easier cable
entry, and faster fibre access through
easy-peel ribbon technology.
The patented Easy Split and Peel ribbon
design, a key differentiating factor,
eliminates the need for special tools,
allowing the installer to peel back the
ribbon quickly and easily by hand to
expose the underlying colour-coded
fibres.
The exclusive ribbon design increases
the speed with which the number
of fibres can be either fusion spliced
or terminated with MPO splice-on
connectors for real-time and on-site
cable builds. The ribbon cables test
equally well with all splice-on connector
types and all conventional industry
standard connectors.
Sumitomo Electric Lightwave – USA
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Reducing energy loss
Easy-peel plenum and riser ribbon cables
Ching Chan Optical Technology Co
Ltd, a manufacturer of fastener sorting
machines for fasteners that recently
celebrated its 20
th
anniversary, has
launched an improved design for its
wheel crack inspection system.
The CCM wheel crack (also known as head
open crack) inspection system is patented
in Germany, China and Taiwan, and is
capable of inspecting screw head open
cracks caused by the wiring process or
during the moulding process.
Ching Chan says that these types of
cracks are not 100 per cent detectable by
common top-view or side-view CCD.
Ching Chan explains that by applying
the wheel crack inspection system,
indications or cracks at head side or
flange rim will be reflected on the cone
mirror, and identified as non-conforming
by the software. Defects on zinc plating
surfaces can also be detected using this
CCM system.
Ching Chan Optical Technology Co Ltd
– Taiwan
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New design for inspection system
