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Technologynews
Enhancing pile
cage production
Colin Prior of Lemon Groundwork Supplies has specified the
latest automatic pile cage machine from Italian manufacturer,
MEP to enhance the company’s existing pile cage operations.
The GAM was supplied through MEP’s UK agents Whitelegg
Machines.
Lemon Groundwork Supplies is both a supply and supply and
fix company for cut and bent steel reinforcement bars, mesh
and clay heave products, along with a full range of associated
accessories and services.
Before the arrival of the new GAM, pile cages were produced
by hand; these ranged in size from 100mm (outside diameter)
to 2,100mm and were either wire tacked or hand welded.
The full GAM range is said to offer fast, accurate pile cage
assembly with the capability to produce automatically welded
cages from 150mm (outside diameter) up to 2,000mm and up
to 21m long.
Whitelegg Machines Ltd – UK
Fax: +44 1306 711865
Email :
Website:
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Green alternative for
cable packaging
A new environmentally-friendly RF60 paper fibre tube
is now available from Reelex. This new payout tube
allows all cabling packages using Reelex coiling
technology to be 100% recyclable, 100% com-
postable, and be manufactured entirely from post-
consumer recycled materials. End users can discard
both box and tube into the corrugated recycling
stream – eliminating plastic waste from the cabling
package, and greatly simplifying disposal.
The RF60 tube is said to offer improved payout
performance and increased flexibility without an
increase in pricing. The RF60 is offered at the same
price as existing MP60-TWR plastic tubes and is
shipped 5,000 per pallet.
Reelex Packaging Solutions Inc – USA
Email:
Website:
RF60 paper m
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fibre tube
from Reelex