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On our own behalf - Wire

Week 12/2023 in retrospect

Here, we present you the top articles from our four categories. This week, the most read one comes from the category „Business“. By Daniel Keienburg

Wire drawing / Simulation

Wire drawing with “Copra”

The new version of “Copra FEA RF Wire Rolling” now also includes a feature to simulate shaped wire drawing. The software considers the nonlinear plastic ... By Jörg Dambock

Cable manufacturing / Unwinding

Unwinding sensitive products at highest speeds

Kurre Systems is worldwide known for innovative solutions when it comes to customer-specific requirements in the cable industry. A new generation of high-speed ... By Jörg Dambock

Windak's “FC” series of automatic coiling machines

Flexible and versatile coilers

One of the Windak top products is the “FC” series of automatic “Flex Coilers”. Why this type of equipment is in great demand among their customers? The ... By Jörg Dambock

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Signing ceremony: YK Steel commissions SMS group to build a minimill for the production of rebars. © SMS Group

27/02/2023 – New plant in Korea to produce reinforcing steel

New plant in Korea to produce reinforcing steel

SMS supply rebar minimill to YK Steel

YK Steel, Korea, has commissioned SMS group to supply a new minimill with integrated melting, casting, and rolling and including all electrical and automation ... By Jörg Dambock

Morgan “Intelligent Pinch Roll” and Morgan “High Speed Laying Head” from Primetals Technologies. © Primetals

24/02/2023 – Startup expected summer 2023

Startup expected summer 2023

Primetals to upgrade wire rod mill for recycled-steel producer

Metals producer AFV Beltrame Stahl Gerlafingen has recently contracted Primetals Technologies to upgrade its wire rod mill in Gerlafingen, a city in the ... By Jörg Dambock

“Oelflex DC Grid” from U.I. Lapp. © Lapp

23/02/2023 – Boost for DC technology

Boost for DC technology

Lapp supports the new “Open Direct Current Alliance”

The use of direct current for sustainable industry is one of the major trend topics. But until now, DC technology in Germany has essentially only been ... By Jörg Dambock

Four trade fairs with a total of 400 exhibitors from 21 countries presented current technologies. © Messe Düsseldorf

22/02/2023 – “wire, Tube and Metec India” and “India Essen Welding+Cutting”

“wire, Tube and Metec India” and “India Essen Welding+Cutting”

Successful staging of metal trade fair quartet in India

From 23 to 25 November 2022 the Bombay Convention+Exhibition Center in Mumbai again served as the meeting point for the leading regional trade fairs of ... By Jörg Dambock

The Kocks “RSB 300++/4” will be part of an SBQ rolling mill in Shanghai. © Kocks

21/02/2023 – Order for a Kocks Reducing+Sizing Block

Order for a Kocks Reducing+Sizing Block

Baoshan Iron+Steel decides for a Kocks “RSB”

Chinese special steel producer Baoshan Iron+Steel Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of the Baosteel Group, is to equip its new combined bar in coil/wire rod mill ... By Jörg Dambock

From left to right: Lars Gestranius, Director, Project Engineering & Quality; Daria Graul, Quality Manager; and Lars Fagerholm, President, Davis-Standard Infrastructure Business Unit, Maillefer Group. © Maillefer

20/02/2023 – On our own behalf - Wire

On our own behalf - Wire

Week 07/2023 in retrospect

Here, we present you the top articles from our four categories. This week, the most read one comes from the category „Business“. By Daniel Keienburg

Hongtai Steel’s “EAF Quantum” © Primetals

20/02/2023 – Innovative technology and low power-on times

Innovative technology and low power-on times

Primetals receives FAC for electric arc furnace quantum

Primetals Technologies has recently received the final acceptance certificate (FAC) for an “EAF Quantum” implemented at Chinese steel producer Hongtai ... By Jörg Dambock

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Digital Issue 01/2023

In the current issue 1/2023, the articles hit the buzzwords of our time: sustainability, energy costs, CO2 footprint, e-mobility or shortage of skilled workers. Scientists from Paderborn produce wire sustainably through recycling. Nexans also uses recycling to improve the eco-balance of power cables. An example from Niehoff shows how new machines help save energy costs, even if the "old" one still does. Several contributions are devoted to the straightening of wire.