EoW March 2008

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heavy quick change engineering mesh lines and precision off coil light mesh lines.

for the annealing furnaces in thermosetting materials. Fibreglass is a much better material because of its durability, performance, cost, heat resistance and dielectric strength. other components in fibreglass and thermoplastic material for other applications like driving chains, tubes, pulleys, plates, bushes and pipes etc. The company also produces

Isolmax Srl 13 F44

Ideal-Werk – Germany Fax : +49 2941 206 30113 Email : info@ideal-werk.com Website : www.ideal-werk.com CliffordWelding Systems (Pty) Ltd – South Africa Fax : +27 3335 53434 Email : info@cliffeng.com Website : www.cliffeng.com

Isolmax specialises in the manufacture of thermoplastic materials and fibreglass. It has worked for customers using Teflon, nylon, lexan, PVC, glass epoxy, polyester glass and many other materials. The company is used to working to a high quality on more complicated projects, particularly for wire drawing machines (for copper), producing flanges for coils and plates

Isolmax Srl – Italy Fax : +39 02 9216 2288 Email : info@isolmaxsrl.it Website : www.isolmaxsrl.it

IPEC Ltd 11 F05

Independent Power Engineering Consultants (IPEC) will be exhibiting an enhanced version of the UltraSense cable insulation monitor. This 16 channel monitor is unique in providing 100% coverage of the critical interface between the inner semi-conductor layer and the insulation of HV and EHV polymer insulated power cable.

These measurements bring early information for process engineers and operators of the key dimensional parameters of the cross-linked cable, as well as generating a comprehensive quality record for each reel of production. The UltraSense monitor has been designed for cables between 100kV and 750kV with an OD between 50mm and 160mm. The equipment provides accurate measurements of all three wall thicknesses at 16 points around the cable as well as providing true eccentricity and ovality measurements for the cable as a whole. A powerful feature of the system is the ability to detect and alarm on thinning or missing layers. Alarms can be set for voids and inclusions in the insulation as well as fall-ins and protrusions of the semi-conductor layers. All this data is logged at preset intervals along the length of a cable run. The operator or process engineer can make an off-line analysis either during production or after production is completed. The data analysis software has a powerful zoom facility that enables the inspection of the cable structure millimetre by millimetre in order to fault-find during production process or in the event of a partial discharge failure in post-production test. A zoomed view on the data analysis screen of a cable joint in an HV cable ▲

IPEC Ltd – UK Fax : +44 161 226 0046 Email : info@ipec.co.uk Website : www.ipec.co.uk

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