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Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2015
Industrynews
Cable protection
The Shanghai water authority has
launched a joint campaign with local
police to protect fibre optic cables
buried in river and sea beds.
The water authority has dispatched a
50-strong team of officers, with ships,
speed boats and helicopters, to patrol
the Yangtze River mouth and East Sea
near Chongming Island.
The threat to the cables, as also to gas
and oil pipelines in the area, is from
fishermen’s nets and iron anchors.
About 90 per cent of damage last year
was caused by fishermen.
Shanghai Water Authority – China
Website:
WIRE and Plastic Machinery has
recently acquired wire and cable
manufacturing equipment, which is
still installed in the western USA.
The equipment is being offered for
immediate sale.
Highlights include:
• Northampton 1.8m (1995) and
1.25m (1994) double twist
bunchers
• MGS 1.25m double twist buncher
(1995)
• Syncro FX-13 rod breakdown
machine 400HP DC, F annealer,
30" (760mm) dual spooler
• CWF rod breakdown 8mm–1.6mm,
13 die, F annealer, Bongard
1,050mm drop coiler (1999)
• 560mm (22") Watson 37-wire
6+12+18 rigid strander. AC vector
motors and drives
• 560mm (22") Watson 61-wire,
6+12+18+24 rigid strander. AC
vector motors and drives
• Two 4½" (114mm) Davis Standard
24L/D sheathing lines
• Two Skaltek MP-360 coiling lines
• 600mm Merritt Davis dual spooler
Others include 1.2m Edmands and
760/630mm Lesmo DT bunchers,
1.5m/1.8m MGS rewind line.
Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp –
USA
Website:
Equipment is
still installed
❍ Northampton 1.8m double twist buncher, made in 1995