EoW March 2013

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Improved services UK-based RV Rugg has made new investments in the latest wire forming and wire fabrication technologies and now offers improved services for CNC wireforming for wire components, wire fabrication for wire products and assemblies, and a full range of wire finishes. It is intended that the investment will improve service levels and promote the company’s development into new industry sectors. Managing director Steve Rugg said: areas during 2012 allows us to be well prepared to meet our customers’ needs for 2013 onwards. We have purchased new equipment for straightening and cutting, mesh trimming and CNC forming.” stainless steels, and specialises in bespoke wire product manufacture. The current product range includes wire shopfittings, wire guards for lights and heaters, domestic and catering appliance products such as oven shelves, and wire point of sale items. RV Rugg works in bothmild and “Significant investment in several manufacturing

Sket supplied double twist bunching machines, tubular stranding machines and a cage-type stranding machine to Erciyes Celik Halat in Kayseri, Turkey. The supply started in November 2011 and was completed a year later. The machines are capable of producing a wide range of steel wire ropes for lifts, cranes and mining applications together with ACSR cables. All of the €10mTurkish delight for Sket ▲ ▲ Order complete for Sket in Turkey

machines had been commissioned by the end of 2012. The total value of the Sket stranding machines supplied was approximately €10m. Further projects with this customer are in the planning stage. Sket Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH – Germany Website : www.sketvmb.de

Boost to fibre optic network speeds

resulting in extreme speed increases. To date the team has broken the 20Gbps speed barrier in testing, and expects to eventually surpass 40Gbps. As a comparison, Google is offering fibre network clocked at just 1Gbps to select residents of Kansas. Researchers say they hope to have a module ready in about two years. Bangor University –Wales Website : www.bangor.ac.uk

The researchers at Bangor are aiming to control costs by manipulating existing technology – optical orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OOFDM) – used by wireless networks and digital broadcasting. Digital data has been converted to physical electrical waves then translated into pulses of light, as with regular fibre optics. However, the difference is that these electrical waves can be quickly encoded and decoded,

A team of scientists from Bangor University, Wales, is working with existing fibre optic technology with a view to boosting transfer speeds by combating signal degradation over long distances. There are several proposed methods to combat the issue, including adding more fibre optic strands to a cable, implementing signal strength boosters and installing extra encoding and decoding lasers at each end. The problem, however, is that all of these steps require a significant financial investment.

Rebranding of US business Pourtier and Setic has re-branded its new machine division in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. With over 20 years of continuous presence and after several recent major machine installations in the USA, the Gauder Group subsidiary will now promote the sales of its Pourtier and Setic range under the name “Pourtier & Setic of America”. This product line includes Pourtier’s successful rigid stranders and drum twisters for producing low, medium, and high voltage cable and conductor, as well as Setic’s large and small double twist bunchers, and complete line of machines for the production of LAN and special cable. For the used machines market, USA and Canada sales are managed with the subsidiary “Gauder America” which has a joint venture agreement with Lloyd & Bouvier.

Cuts at Swedish plant Componenta is taking measures in Sweden to develop the productivity and profitability of its forging business as part of the group’s efficiency programme that started in October 2012. The measures concern Componenta Wirsbo’s operations in Virsbo, Smedjebacken and Arvika, and aim to boost productivity, operations efficiency and profitability and to cut fixed costs at the forge. The intention is to downsize the plant in Smedjebacken to a minimum and transfer products mainly to the plant in Arvika, resulting in the loss of 41 jobs in Smedjebacken. Capacity utilisation rates at Componenta Wirsbo were low during 2012, and its operative result has been weak. The intended restructuring measures will boost the operative result in the forging business by some €2million. Componenta – Finland Website : www.componenta.com

Pourtier & Setic of America – USA Website : www.gaudergroup.com

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