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26 Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2013
GMP Slovakia is a producer of steel
reels, drums and handling equipment
for the wire and cable industry.
Although formed ten years ago, the
company has a dedicated and
experienced staff, capable of helping
customers with queries and finding
solutions to their problems.
Every project is studied by the
technical staff in cooperation with
professional planning offices, which
work with the most modern graphic
systems to guarantee the best
functionality of all products.
The range of products includes many
different models of reels, for any kind
of application, for steel, copper and
aluminium wire and for cable and rope
transport or process.
Dimensions of the models can be
according to DIN standard or
customised upon request.
GMP Slovakia is also the designer
and manufacturer of a patented take
apart reel for coil production –
Easykoil. This is a take-apart reel that
allows the operator to release
automatically the flange below
without any intervention, by just
placing the suitable hooks in the
correct position.
This is the best solution to save time
during the opening and closing
operation to load the coil and
remove it once the reel is loaded
with wire. Easykoil is also available in
the Plus version, which can work as a
coil lifter, avoiding the use of
additional equipment to lift the coil
once the reel is full of wire.
GMP Slovakia – Slovakia
Website :
Easykoil, making it easier for you
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❍ Experience counts with a dedicated
team at GMP Slovakia
Pohang Steelworks completes
its wire rod mill 4
Pohang Steelworks has celebrated the commencement of operations at its
700,000 ton annual production scale wire rod mill 4.
Chief executive Chung Joonyang, national assembly member Kim
Hyeongtae, Pohang city mayor Park Seungho, Kiswel chairman Hong
Mincheol, SeAH Specialty Steel CEO Yoo Eulbong, and others from Korea
and abroad attended the ceremony.
With the expansion of this mill, POSCO is equipped with a 2.8 million ton
annual capacity for the production of wire rods for the manufacture of nails,
wires, screws, bolts, nuts, bearings, springs and wire ropes.
The new mill will also produce extremely high strength spring steel, and
high strength wires for deep sea development.
Pohang Steel Works – South Korea Website:
Ghanian minister of communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, took part in
a ground-breaking ceremony at the start of work on the Eastern Corridor Fiber
Optic Backbone. The project, estimated to cost €38 million and to be
completed in April 2014, will involve 800km of fibre cable from Ho through 27
other local authorities to Bawku, with links to Tamale and Yendi.
Dr Boamah expects the completed project to lead to a transformation in
governance, education, health service delivery, agriculture, environmental
monitoring, disaster prevention and management in the country.
Dr Boamah also appealed to communities where the cable would pass to act
as the caretakers of the project to prevent unscrupulous people from cutting
the cables.
Work begins on Ghana’s network