Order from Bridon International
In recent months Sket Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH has further consolidated its leading position as a supplier of machinery and equipment for the manufacture of cable and wire rope. Bridon International Ltd. has entrusted the company with the manufacture and supply of stranding machinery for the production of “High-Performance-Ropes“ having a total value in excess of 11 million Euros. This new equipment will be installed next year at Bridon’s new site in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
There is already a long standing relationship between the two companies stretching back for over a decade when SKET delivered a tubular stranding machine type SRW 1+45x660 to Bridon in Willington Quay in the year 2000. An SRW 1+26x610 from the same machine range followed in 2004. Also in2004, a forty bobbin tubular stranding machine type SRW 40x22“ was supplied to Bridon’s factory in the USA. In 2007, Bridon in Gelsenkirchen in Germany took delivery of what was at the time the largest take-up in the world, having a capacity of 370 tonnes, as well as two 200 tonne take-ups. In addition to supplying Bridon with these new machines, SKET has further supplied various separate machine assemblies and has renovated and upgraded a number of existing machines. The quality of the SKET machines supplied and confidence in the company with its committed workforce, its capacity and unmatched experience, were ultimately the factors which persuaded Bridon to place a new order in favour of SKET. In recent times, SKET has also successfully completed or is currently working on similar large orders for machinery for the manufacture of electric cable and wire rope. Planning related to this new equipment involved close collaboration between the two contracting companies. All design details related to the most important machine assemblies were agreed in advance before they were put into production. In this way it was possible to take all of the customer’s specific requirements into account along with all technical matters related to the future operation of the machines. As the manufacture of the order progresses, Bridon will carry out related audits on site in Magdeburg and on the premises of selected sub-contractors.
Bridon’s order covers the supply of:
– A tubular stranding machine type SRW 680 having a bobbin diameter of 680mm for the manufacture of steel wire strand above 40mm.
– A tandem cage stranding machine type MKVS having an advanced configuration for the closing of steel wire ropes having a diameter of up to 250mm. The strand capacities of the pay-off bobbins are up to 38 tonnes each. The maximum weight of rope produced will be in excess of 600 tonnes.
Closing cage type MKVS 8x2700 in Sket’s works during final assembly.