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32 Wire & Cable ASIA – May/June 2015
Technologynews
SKET Verseilmaschinenbau’s products
embrace a wide range of machines
and equipment for the manufacture of
electric cable and steel wire rope. In
addition to high-speed tubular
stranding machines, cage-type
stranding machines and central
stranders, and drum twisters for the
cable industry are also included.
In German, drum twisters are referred
to as universal stranding machines and
this is a much better description of the
role for these machines – all-purpose
machines which can be used
universally. Drum twisters are usually
to be found wherever cable is
produced.
More specifically, the main areas of
application for these machines are to
be found in:
• the manufacture/production of
energy cables out of round or
sector shaped conductors
(aluminium or copper)
• the manufacture/production of
telephone cables, control cables
and special cable
• the screening of medium and high
voltage cables
• the armouring of energy cables
with round or flat steel wires
• the production of Milliken
conductors for high voltage and
super high voltage cables
• the manufacture of offshore energy
cables
Sket has been manufacturing and
supplying drum twisters – a relatively
recent machine addition – for over 50
years. The machines are tailored to the
product specific requirements of the
user.
Right from the planning stage the
requirement priorities of the customer
are taken on board and solutions are
proposed which, after acceptance by
the user, are developed through to
fruition. The equipment is in
consequence tailored to the specific
needs of the end product resulting in a
machine design which meets with all
technical and technological require-
ments.
As with other systems, this machine
system also follows the trend towards
the development of ever-bigger
diameters and cable lengths.
Pay-off and take-up bobbin diameters
are typically in the range 1,000 to
5,000mm. The throughput weights can
be more than 50 tonnes.
In this way the tendency in the cable
industry for ever-longer production
lengths is taken into account and the
suitability of the drum twister for the
manufacture of offshore energy cables
is facilitated.
Sket Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH –
Germany
Website:
Embracing wide range of
machines
❍ Sket has been manufacturing and supplying drum twisters for more than 50 years