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Focus on France & Spain

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Research pays off Founded in 1948, Setic joined the Gauder Group in 1987. The company benefits from highly skilled engineering and research and development departments to develop new and improved cable manufacturing processes as well as

AC type (using high quality Milliken conductor), or DC type (using large round compacted conductor or trapezoidal wires). This represents the company’s core business, in addition to flat conductors for transformers (paper covered, CTC)/ magnet wires, armoured cable and pipes (power, FO, oil pump for deep well, pipes) as well as control, instrumentation, special, data and telephone cables. The company is also active in the submarine and umbilical cable market and is now supplying the largest armouring line ever made for large high voltage three core AC submarine cable. It is also supplying laying-up line for umbilical cable for one European marine cable maker. The Pourtier range worldwide includes more than 1,500 lines in use (ie 10,000 individual machines) in production, 750 drum twisters for energy cable including HV (Milliken) and telecom cable, 150 rigid and planetary stranders for energy cable including HV and OPGW cable armouring and umbilical cables, and 2,200 taping heads for all applications including HV cable, transformer wire and special applications. Setic and Pourtier, Gauder Group – France Website : www.gaudergroup.com

for their other machine brands. This department was successfully launched in 2003. Bow Technology by Gauder Group offers a complete service, from design work to worldwide express distribution, including conception, evaluation trials and upgrade

of obsolete designs. More than 500 bow models are available for enhanced performance and extended lifetime of the equipment.

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exclusive design that attracts bare copper producers looking for energy savings and top quality productions. Pourtier joined the Gauder Group in 2002. Based in a suburb of Paris, the company develops state-of-the-art technologies to design and manufacture stranding lines, screening lines, drum twisters and taping machines. guarantee proven solutions for the production of all types of power cables, low and medium voltage and more specifically Pourtier-made machines

innovative rotating machines, including bunchers, stranders, cablers, twinners, quadders, group twinners and taping machines. The company offers complete solutions to produce high-quality LAN cables with enhanced performances (in one step or two steps according to product mix), low voltage conductors and cables, automotive cable, as well as instrumentation, special, data, telephone and control cables. Setic is the first company in the world to implement around Unilay with double twist process and is also the owner of the patented triple twist technology. More than 8,800 machines are in production worldwide. Setic has also created a dedicated department to answer market needs: customers satisfied with the bows equipping their Setic machines are requesting the same level of technology

high voltage and extra-high voltage power cable from overhead cable (including ACCC™, ACSS-TW and ACSR-TW with trapezoidal wires) to insulated cable

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