The structure of surface has a decisive importance for the treatment of wire. The required wire must have a surface providing optimal preconditions for follow-up processing like wire drawing with regard to cleanness, roughness and reproducibility. Basic material for steel wire (only Germany produces approx. 450,000 tons per month) is wire rod which is scaled on its surface due to its manufacturing technology (hot rolling). That scale layer has to be removed as completely as possible before further treatment in order to avoid surface errors caused by pressed-in residuals of scale.

In over 30 years working in the field of surface treatment for wire, strip and profiles as well as for environmental protection Staku-Anlagenbau GmbH grew to a specialist in developing galvanic processes for pre-treatment and refinement of metallic semi-finished products.

Siemens's Industry Automation Division has extended its range of Sirius 3RA6 compact starters to include a model with IO-Link. Several compact starters can be mounted side-byside. They send not...

“Unemployment is not only the worst-case scenario for employees, but also for the employer as dismissals weaken the efficiency of the company. Qualified and committed employees form the corporate perspective for the time after the global economic crisis. All measures have to be taken in consideration to avert enforced redundancy.” says Harry Prunk, CEO of Sikora AG)

Fundamentals – Calculations – ProcessesThe english translation of the “Taschenbuch Industrielle Wärmetechnik” is now available. Interest in heat engineering has increased...

The financial crisis has led to turbulence on the international economic markets. Traditional industries such as the automobile industry and its suppliers as well as the mechanical engineering sector are particularly hard hit. Especially in uncertain times, such industries are dependent on reliable partners who can select the ideal material from a large number of similar materials and are then also in a position to deliver consistently high quality. The path to the ideal end product thus begins with the advisory service of these material suppliers, for anyone who makes planning mistakes in times of crisis risks manufacturing a faulty end product, and will soon be left behind by the others. This is one more reason for Deutsche Edelstahlwerke GmbH to focus its attention on its advisory service skills.

Wien/AT (Medek & Schörner) – This year the family owned company Medek & Schörner – one of the market leaders in cable printing machines and optical fibre processing lines...

Troester GmbH & Co. KG is a world-leading supplier of machines and complete lines for the cable manufacturing and rubber processing industry, comprising CV lines for XLPE and rubber cables,...

Zumbach Electronics will exhibit a selection of its broad range of measurement and control systems for wire insulating and jacketing, wire drawing and other applications in the wire and cable...

The 23rd Control international trade fair for quality assurance, which will take place at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre from 5 through 8 May 2009, has already come back into focus: Because continuing internationalisation in the fields of production and assembly is drawing attention in particular to the issue of quality assurance.

A possible answer to future energy needs is to be provided by the international ITER project. ITER stands for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor – a research project to demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear fusion for large-scale energy production. For this purpose a research reactor is being constructed as from 2009 in Cadarache, France, by the European Union and Switzerland, Japan, the People’s Republic of China, India, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the USA.

Froma specialises in the planning and building of special production lines devised to meet each client’s particular needs.The company’s manufacturing programme covers the following...

Aumann and her Russian representation Permanent K&M ZAO, Moscow, are going to present their complete programme of Horizontal Wire Enamelling Machines consisting of single- and multi-line...

Design – Properties – TestingThe book aims to provide in a compact format basic knowledge and practically oriented information on specific properties of refractory materials, on their...

The machine model RSC was designed for an even, finely dosable and absolutely dust free powdering of cables, wires, hoses, profiles with powders like talc, stearate, lac powder, swellable powder etc....

Hagen/Germany (Bechem) – 1834 Carl Bechem founded the first German oil plant in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Thus the Carl Bechem GmbH can now look back on 175 years of experience in the...

Witt has developed a new flashback arrestor that for the first time protects hydrogen systems with particularly high flow rates up to 11 bar (approx. 160psi) overpressure from fire and explosion. The...

Among the main cable rotating machines companies’ offering a comprehensive range of bunchers, stranders and cablers, Gauder Group is in the top ranking with its Pourtier high and extra high...

Process monitoring units on critical production machines, in combination with a factory wide data collection network, are key instruments for the Nedschroef group to produce top quality products with complete transparency in their manufacturing operations. That’s why all Nedschroef plants throughout the world have been equipped with modern process monitoring and data collection technology supplied by Schwer + Kopka.

Under the motto “Quality assurance and cost reduction in cable production lines”, Sikora is presenting a variety of excellent measuring, controlling and testing equipment at wire Russia...

Additional temperature control features and an option for historical data collection have been added to Davis-Standard’s DS-eTPC touch-panel control system. The improved system, which offers...

Whether manufacturing or maintenance is involved, the task of industrial cleaning is to assure the levels of cleanliness required for further processing or error-free, correct functioning. And ever stricter demands coupled with rising cost pressure are making cleaning processes which are matched to actual requirements absolutely essential. The 7th parts2clean will present solutions for cost-effective, ecologically efficient and reproducible parts cleaning in nearly all industries. The leading international trade fair for cleaning within the production process and maintenance will take place in Stuttgart from 20 to 22 October 2009. The COROSAVE international trade fair for corrosion protection, preservation and packaging will also be held concurrent to parts2clean this year.

The new Simatic S7-1200 Micro-Controller from the Siemens Industry Automation division is characterised by its versatile and flexible setup concept, along with high performance and an extremely...

At wire Russia 2009 Medek & Schörner will once again present its range of cable marking equipment and optical fibre coding systems:– Top performance optical fibre colour coding systems,...

Pan Chemicals, is the Italian leader producer of wire drawing lubricants and one of the major supliers worldwide. The product range covers: Panlube S dry drawing lubricants; Panlube L wet drawing...

Whether it is steel ropes, cables, springs or screws – the products of the wire, cable and wire-processing industry are practically ubiquitous. They may look unassuming but they are indispensable when it comes to the transmission of electric power or electronic data, and they assure that mechanical systems function well. The technological and economic development of a society is closely connected with this industry and its suppliers.