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Wire & Cable ASIA – May/June 2012 41
WTM’s range of concentric taping
lines, with horizontal or vertical
lay-out, is able to satisfy any request
for tape application in the production
of special wires and cables, even
providing in-line thermal treatment by
heating and sintering ovens.
Thanks to the extreme accuracy of its
technology, WTM proposes taping
lines working with rotation speeds up
to 3,000rpm, maintaining the precision
of a few hundredths of a millimetre in
the tape deposition. WTM machines
are able to satisfy a very wide range
of tape tension control.
The machines can be equipped with
fully electronic taping heads with
multiple motorisations, suitable to
control the tape tension from 30
Newton down to 100 grams. A special
electronic system allows direct control
of the tape tension in each working
condition, even with the most critical
taping materials.
Spinning heads for yarns are also
available with the same precision and
capability. A vision system, with a
feedback signal provided by a
camera, can be installed in all cases
where a continuous monitoring and
adjustment of the tape position is
required during the taping process.
The complete range of machines that
WTM produces includes a newly
developed high speed single-twisting
machine, suitable for small and
medium size flexible cables, for reels
from DIN.630 up to DIN.1000, and
concentric back-twist feeders with
considerably higher performances in
respect to all traditional pay offs.
WTM also manufactures sintering
lines, rewinding lines with in-line
quality control processes, take-ups,
pay offs, capstans, caterpillars,
dancers and accumulators, in-line
tapers and binders, longitudinal
tapers, metre-counters and other
special equipment for the wire
industry.
WTM Srl – Italy
Fax: +39 049 870 5599
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