wiredinUSA April 2013

Cable recycling plant

Cortinovis has incorporated the Sictra drawing division, integrating a range of products for cable processing from copper or aluminum rod, to cable production, laying-up and armoring. Sictra specializes in the design and manufacture of a wide range of wire drawing machinery for non-ferrous wires such as copper, aluminum and alloys. Sictra’s production program includes rod breakdown and multiwire machines, intermediate-fine wire drawing lines, spoolers, coilers and complete production lines to draw “trolley” grooved contact wire. Cortinovis incorporates Sictra

Danish recycling equipment Eldan Recycling A/S has delivered a cable recycling plant to the municipality of Faaborg-Midtfyn in Denmark. The firstmachine, aMicroModule, was installed at the beginning of 2012 and was run at full production throughout the year. In November 2012 the second machine, a Rasper R400-3, was delivered and successfully integrated with the Micro Module. Eldan Recycling’s machines have a modular design to enable a number of different combinations. “The modular approach is one of our trademarks. It gives our customers possibility to gradually grow their business as we see at the municipality of Faaborg-Midtfyn. The Rasper R400-3 will increase capacity and make it possible to process larger cables,” said Mr Flemming Hansen, product manager at Eldan Recycling. The Faaborg-Midtfyn plant processes dry cables collected from building and restoration projects within the municipality, and the output material is sold to metal traders. The processing capacity will be approximately 400kg per production hour. manufacturer of

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