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Drawing on its wide experience and
customer-oriented philosophy, PS
Costruzioni has designed and manu-
factured a fully automatic double head
spooling line, PS 1000/22-B.
The company’s engineers have created
this line in order to satisfy a growing
demand from cable companies in
need of spooling big size flat and
round cables.
The line can spool cables with a
minimum diameter of 6mm/0.23" up to
a maximum diameter of 22mm/
0.86" and can be used with several
spool sizes from 450mm/17.73" up
to 1000mm/39.40". Maximum linear
speed is 400m/1.312,32ft per minute,
according to the type of cable.
Since both solid and delicate cables
should be wound in spools, the best
solution is to use two dancers (one for
solid cables and one for delicate ones).
In doing so, the pull on the cable can
be perfectly checked.
The PS 1000/22-B has a modular
structure, comprising some basic units
and additional ones which can be
added according to the customers’
requirements.
PS Costruzioni Meccaniche Srl
– Italy
Fax: + 39 039 689 8769
Email:
Website :
New double head spooling line from
PS Costruzioni
The new PS 1000/22-B from PS Costruzioni m
Draka Comteq has launched its latest innovation in fibre coating technology –
ColorLockXS.
The optical fibre technology, cabling, connectivity solutions and network
engineering services company’s new product became available on Draka
Comteq’s flagship bend-insensitive fibre, BendBrightXS from January.
BendBrightXS, the first true bend-insensitive fibre introduced in 2006, has
gained significant momentum in the marketplace as it meets the most
stringent fibre bending standards while maintaining backwards compatibility
with existing fibre infrastructure.
The newest enhancement, ColorLockXS, improves fibre micro-bending
performance as well as strip-ability, while adding new vibrant colours
integrated into the fibre coating.
Unlike other fibres, BendBrightXS is an all-glass fibre using proven and
industry-accepted materials and technology, eliminating splicing concerns or
special procedures for connectivity.
Micro-bending improvement with ColorLockXS coating on BendBrightXS
means that the fibre is resistant to kink-losses, a key metric for fibre
performance in tight bends required in FTTx applications.
Kink-loss can be described as partial bends (up to 45 degrees) of the optical
fibre at radii as small as 2mm. Typical losses for BendBrightXS in such a
situation are less than 0.1dB, even at a 2mm radius, which represents up to a
hundred times improvement.
Draka Comteq – Netherlands Fax: +31 40 2923 866
Email: Website:
Draka Comteq’s new fibre coating technology
Vitari’s new range
Vitari has a range of new automatic
wire straightening and cutting-off
machines for wires from ø2.0 to 10mm,
with feeding speed electronically
variable from 30 to 200m/minute.
The main characteristics are:
The bar length measuring is made by
an encoder; the wire cutting is by a
brushless servomotor; the collecting
bench of machine mod NR222 is
modular, composed by elements of
cutting a cutting bench of 3-6-9-12
metres and is equipped with a movable
stopping device with display showing
the bar length so the operator can
move it to get an exact bar length.
Vitari SpA – Italy
Fax: +39 035 528 999
Email:
Website :