EoW May 2013

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Full range of stranding and cabling equipment C M Caballé sa specialises in manufacturing and designing rotating machinery for the wire and cable industry. Since 1944 the company has consolidated its leadership through technology, quality, honesty and professionalism. Caballé engineers combine more than 60 years’ experience in rotating machines with the state-of-the-art design, manufacturing, assembly methods and technologies. The portfolio includes bunchers, stranders and cablers for power and control cables, telecom and LAN cables (metallic and fibre optics) and steel ropes.

In recent years Caballe has focused its innovation and new developments in stranders for high transmission capacity energy cables. High voltage and extra high voltage cables have specific requirements that the Spanish company meets with its new products and services. For underground high voltage cables: 127 wire rigid strander DIN 630 to produce compacted concentric conductors of copper and aluminium up to 3,000mm². Compacting by dies or rollers. Heavy duty capstan. Prespiralled sectors for Milliken conductors. Fully automatic loading system that reloads the 127 bobbins in less than 15 minutes. Drum twisters to assemble the sectors to produce Milliken conductors up to 3,000mm². Rotating take-up specially designed for this application for reels up to 50 metric tons. For overhead high voltage conductors: Rigid stranders DIN 630 or the new DIN 800 for aluminium alloy, ACSR conductors. Special forming heads for trapezoidal or “Z” shape wires. New DIN 800 rigid strander provides big advantages to overhead conductor manufacturers.

Cersa-MCI engineers, to improve in-line continuous production checks and quality certification, to reduce off-line checks and costs. Cersa is constantly involved research and development activity in cooperation with customers in the fibre optic and wire and cable industries, with the objective to extend the product line for these industries in order to meet most of their metrological and production quality control. For the last 20 years, 40 per cent of Cersa’s labour cost has been spent on advanced research and development programmes, resulting in several international patents. In order to maintain and extend its position on the world market and broaden product awareness, Cersa is developing an extensive representative network and setting-up local production and maintenance units, to ensure closer customer service. At the start of 2013 the company set up its Chinese maintenance and support office in Wuhan, and is currently moving into America, the Middle East and the former Soviet bloc market with an extensive product range. Cersa-MCI – France Website : www.cersa-mci.com

CMCaballé sa – Spain Website : www.cmcaballe.es

A rigid strander from Caballé

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