WCA March 2012

The Niehoff Package System (NPS) is known in the market as an efficient, safe and economical handling system not only for wires, but also for bunches, strands, conductors and cables. Invented and continuously further developed by Maschinenfabrik Niehoff, the NPS comprises specially developed spoolers which use a patented wire-laying technol- ogy and collapsible multi-way ABS plastic spools made in various sizes. Efficient and cost saving wire, strand and cable handling with NPS package system

These spools offer a secure, stable and tangle free package both when full or partially empty and enable highest cable pay-off speeds into downstream processes. The NPS works most efficiently and tangle free for all automotive wire and cable including small cross section wire like 0.22 mm² and 0.13 mm². SV 410 D type NPS double spooler. The SV 410 D type double spooler is designed to spool automotive wires

❍ ❍ An SV 410 D double spooler and an NPS 400/100 multiway spool

coming off from extrusion lines at a speed of up to 1,500m/min without any need of modifications onto all NPS 400 spools with a traverse width of 100 to 400 mm. The NPS 400/100 spool with a flange diameter of 400mm, a winding width of 100mm and a winding volume of 4,400cm³ is particularly interesting because its pack- age corresponds to the increasingly popular and handy miniature bundle format. This small package complies with the increasing requirements of the automotive industry and can now be directly manufactured inline with extrusions lines. Several cable manufacturers in Asia have already replaced the hard-to-handle cable rings (“donuts”) by NPS 400/100 spools which weigh a maximum of 15kg when full.

Collapsible multiway spools. The empty NPS spools can be dismantled into two pieces: a flange and a cone/flange which are nested into each other for reduced storage space. A full NPS spool takes up only one third of the space required by a comparable conventional spool, and needs much less return transport space than traditional spools and packages of the same ca- pacity. The results are considerable savings in shipping and handling expenses. Upon return to the cable manufacturer NPS spools can be easily and quickly re-assembled, reloaded and then re-used for dozens of cycles. Further ad- vantages are the savings on packaging material and the reduction of the cable scrap rate.

❍ ❍ Efficient, safe and economical

Further development. Cable and wire harness manufacturers have been work- ing with the NPS for more than ten years now. Using the NPS, they can achieve considerable cost savings in packing and transportation especially when their extrusion and assembly plants are situated hundreds, if not thousands, of miles apart. Therefore in Europe, the NPS has almost entirely replaced all alternatives such as cardboard barrels, boxes and disposable packaging. Like in the past,

Niehoff continues to develop further NPS handling solutions. Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH & Co KG – Germany Fax : +49 9122 977 155 Email : info@niehoff.de

Website : www.niehoff.de

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Wire & Cable ASIA – March/April 2012