EuroWire Sept 2015

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Double quality accreditation success

One of the UK’s leading manufacturers of round and profile wires has been awarded two quality accreditations to reinforce its commitment to health and safety and environmental best practice. Alloy Wire, which employs 25 people across its factories in the West Midlands and Yorkshire, took just six months to work towards and secure OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001 and now plans to use the approvals to win new work across the nuclear, aerospace, spring, defence and oil and gas sectors. The firm is already enjoying a host of operational benefits as a result of its two commitments, including minimising risk of production delays and downtime through accidents and gaining significant cost savings in waste, recycling and energy consumption. Mark Venables, managing director, said: “These quality accreditations epitomise our desire for continuous improvement, efficient risk assessment and extensive training for all of our staff. “The fact we were awarded so quickly shows that most of our internal processes were already working and we hope that this news will provide further assurances to our global client base that they work with a company that cares about safety and wire production that is as environmentally friendly as it can be.”

▲ ▲ The Alloy Wire team celebrates receiving the quality accreditations

(0.001") to 21mm (0.827") and currently works with 4,000 customers in 15 sectors.

decision to make us even more competitive and, increasingly, some customers are demanding you meet environmental targets in order to be just included in a tender.” Alloy Wire is a manufacturer of precision drawn round wire, flat wire and shaped wire in a comprehensive range of high performance and exotic nickel alloys.

Its extensive stockholding of materials, ability to provide small batch quantities and three-week lead times has helped it establish a global reputation that sees Alloy Wire products sent to more than 45 countries across the world. AlloyWire Ltd – UK Website : www.alloywire.com

The company supplies wire from 0.025mm

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Crafts’ unique ability Many of the world’s largest wire and cable producers trust Crafts Technology because of its ability to provide innovative solutions to severe wear and corrosion problems. For more than 20 years, the company has produced precision wire annealer rings, made from tungsten carbide, and users of these specialised rings have experience greatly extended wear life in comparison to other hardened materials. The unique material characteristics of solid tungsten carbide wire annealer rings not only provide for exceptional wear life but also contribute to the production of a higher quality wire with exceptional signal characteristics. Crafts Technology understands how to create an ultra-hard material solution that can help users increase part quality and reduce production equipment downtime, giving the company a competitive advantage. It is not uncommon for users of tungsten carbide wear parts to increase service life by a factor of ten to 100 times that of hardened steel, which provides users with maximum equipment up-time and productivity. Crafts Technology – USA Website : www.craftstech.net ▲ ▲ The range of products on offer from Crafts Technology

Helping cut costs CILS prints barcodes, serial numbers and batch numbers, providing immediate, custom-printed durable labels for all industrial applications. The company manufactures high performance ‘ready-to-apply’ barcode and ‘variable data’ labels with a range of over 3,500 application-specific durable label material/adhesive combinations, resistant to the harshest industrial conditions including extreme temperatures (+388°C), chemicals/ solvents, abrasion, oil/fuels, etc. Labels are constructed to any size, shape and colour, and can be pre-printed with corporate designs.

CILS – UK Website : www.cils-international.com

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