WCA March 2008

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New double head spooling line from PS Costruzioni

Drawing on its wide experience and customer-oriented philosophy, PS Costruzioni has designed and manu- factured a fully automatic double head spooling line, PS 1000/22-B. The company’s engineers have created this line in order to satisfy a growing demand from cable companies in need of spooling big size flat and round cables. The line can spool cables with a minimum diameter of 6mm/0.23" up to a maximum diameter of 22mm/ 0.86" and can be used with several spool sizes from 450mm/17.73" up to 1000mm/39.40". Maximum linear speed is 400m/1.312,32ft per minute, according to the type of cable. Since both solid and delicate cables should be wound in spools, the best solution is to use two dancers (one for solid cables and one for delicate ones). In doing so, the pull on the cable can be perfectly checked. The PS 1000/22-B has a modular structure, comprising some basic units and additional ones which can be added according to the customers’ requirements. PS Costruzioni Meccaniche Srl – Italy Fax : + 39 039 689 8769 Email : ps@pscostruzioni.com Website : www.pscostruzioni.com Vitari’s new range Vitari has a range of new automatic wire straightening and cutting-off machines for wires from ø2.0 to 10mm, with feeding speed electronically variable from 30 to 200m/minute. The main characteristics are: The bar length measuring is made by an encoder; the wire cutting is by a brushless servomotor; the collecting bench of machine mod NR222 is modular, composed by elements of cutting a cutting bench of 3-6-9-12 metres and is equipped with a movable stopping device with display showing the bar length so the operator can move it to get an exact bar length. Vitari SpA – Italy

The new PS 1000/22-B from PS Costruzioni m

Draka Comteq’s new fibre coating technology

Draka Comteq has launched its latest innovation in fibre coating technology – ColorLockXS. The optical fibre technology, cabling, connectivity solutions and network engineering services company’s new product became available on Draka Comteq’s flagship bend-insensitive fibre, BendBrightXS from January. BendBrightXS, the first true bend-insensitive fibre introduced in 2006, has gained significant momentum in the marketplace as it meets the most stringent fibre bending standards while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing fibre infrastructure. The newest enhancement, ColorLockXS, improves fibre micro-bending performance as well as strip-ability, while adding new vibrant colours integrated into the fibre coating. Unlike other fibres, BendBrightXS is an all-glass fibre using proven and industry-accepted materials and technology, eliminating splicing concerns or special procedures for connectivity. Micro-bending improvement with ColorLockXS coating on BendBrightXS means that the fibre is resistant to kink-losses, a key metric for fibre performance in tight bends required in FTTx applications. Kink-loss can be described as partial bends (up to 45 degrees) of the optical fibre at radii as small as 2mm. Typical losses for BendBrightXS in such a situation are less than 0.1dB, even at a 2mm radius, which represents up to a hundred times improvement.

Draka Comteq – Netherlands Fax : +31 40 2923 866 Email : info@drakacomteq.com

Fax : +39 035 528 999 Email : vitari@vitari.com Website : www.vitari.com

Website : www.drakacomteq.com

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