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NPS with increased production speed ▲ ▲ The SV 402.D type double spooler from Niehoff

are not compatible with the NPS and are a safety risk, Niehoff has protected the system for a long time.

Niehoff manufactures machines which cover nearly all processes of wire and cable production and handling. The Niehoff Package System (NPS) is a highly efficient, safe and economic handling system for automotive wires. It consists of the specially developed SV type spoolers and collapsible ABS plastic multi-way spools. At the latest Niehoff in-house exhibition at the headquarters in Schwabach, Germany, held immediately after the wire 2016 trade fair, the latest version of the SV 402.D type double spooler was on display. Niehoff engineers have achieved a 20 per cent increase in production speed, which now is up to 1,800m/min with original NPS spools. One more advantage of the system is that original NPS spools provide highest production safety and a very safe operation. The SV spoolers are foreseen to operate in line with extrusion lines. They spool the insulated wire with a particular conical wire laying technology onto the spools. Changeover from full to empty spools is carried out at full production speed, allowing for non-stop production and enabling the highest cable pay-off speeds into the downstream processes. The Niehoff standard range consists of six NPS spools in different sizes. Empty NPS multi-way spools can be fully dismantled and nested into each other. Dismantled spools take up only a third of the space of comparable conventional spools and require much less return shipping space than traditional spools. For applications where no regular spool exchange takes place, the NPS 400 one-way spool is offered. The NPS concept has resulted in a worldwide pool of more than three million NPS multi-way spools, all compatible with each other.

One of the measures is an RFID transponder system with which all new original NPS multi-way spools are equipped. By this transponder NPS users can identify if a spool belongs to the system and is compatible with it or not.

The transponder also simplifies spool labelling: As the spool identification is stored in RFID no label is needed.

The NPS is the only packaging system for automotive wires made of copper, copper alloys and aluminium, which allows trouble-free and tangle-free paying-off at highest speeds.

Even signal cables made of copper alloys with a cross-section of 0.13mm² can be processed without any problems.

Maschinenfabrik Niehoff & Co KG – Germany Website : www.niehoff.de

Responding to customer requests Involved in the fields of tungsten carbide tools since 1870 and machinery for decades, the French company Agir Technologies provides solutions and advice to a variety of requests from customers. The investments made in the company, such as a wire cutting EDM with two-wire spool of 0.03mm, a five-axis CNC machine to cut the electrodes, and new CAD/CAM software, allow Agir to widen its range of high precision and quality tools. Agir is specialised in the production of tungsten carbide tools for wire and cable manufacturing and other wire transformation, including wire drawing dies (round, shaped, pressure), drawing dies and plugs, cable extrusion tools, straightening tools, wire-guides, tools for welding rods and plated wires.

The company is able, thanks to its range of software, to calculate any drawing station for round wire just like for any shape wire.

Agir Technologies – France Website : www.agir-technologies.com

No matter which spools are returned, their components always fit together. To protect the NPS spools from foreign spools which

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