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REELEX PACKAGING SOLUTIONS, INC.39 Jon Barrett RoadPatterson, NY 12563Tel: +1 845 878 7878 • Fax: +1 845 878 7884Email: sales@REELEX.comwww.REELEX.com

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SALES CONTACTS:Sales Information: Sales@reelex.comSupport Requests: Support @reelex.comPhone: +1 (845) 878-7878Fax: +1 (845) 878 7884Web: www.REELEX.comAddress: 39 Jon Barrett Road Patterson, NY USA 12563

COMPANY OVERVIEW:REELEX Packaging Solutions, Inc. (for-merly Windings, Inc.) develops, licenses and supports the proprietary REELEX®

method of coiling and packaging wire, cable, fiber optics, tubing and other filamentary products. This technology creates a self-supporting figure-eight wind that allows the product to dispense from the inside-out without rotation, twists, tangles or kinks. The REELEX coil is typically packaged in a cardboard box, though many other pack-age types are available. REELEX Packaging Solutions manufactures and supplies all necessary winding and ancillary equipment to create REELEX coils, as well as supply-ing packaging materials, worldwide service, and support.REELEX has over 100 licensees operating in over 140 manufacturing plants worldwide, and has become the standard package for most networking cable constructions as well as several other types of wire, cable and fiber optic products.

HISTORY:Walter Taylor (1905-1965), the original inven-tor of the REELEX wind, first conceived of the figure-eight coil as an improved way for combat troops to lay field telephone wire. As a soldier advanced, the wire would dispense from a coil in a canvas container attached to

his belt. Unlike spools which had to be sta-bilized and allowed to rotate, the figure-eight coil could payout without tangles, twisting or rotation - allowing the soldier to carry and fire a rifle with both hands.During the 1960s and 1970s, REELEX was again called by the military for special

projects, and while none were ultimately adopted, REELEX technology continued development as a means for packaging wire and cable. In 1973, Belden became the first cable manufacturer to sign a license agree-ment and the first to purchase a REELEX machine. With the growth of international telecommunications infrastructure, wire manufacturers began receiving demands from their customers for the new “tangle-free package”. Building on this end-user demand, REELEX continued to gain market acceptance in the US and Canada as the pre-ferred cable package for small telephone and electronic cables, coaxial, data, and alarm and security cable.Today, there are over 100 licensees operating in over 140 manufacturing plants worldwide, and REELEX has become the standard pack-age for most low-voltage products destined for premises installations.

TECHNOLOGY & NEW PRODUCTS:The REELEX coiling method cancels twist in the product by using a traverse to guide the product back and forth across the coil while winding. By weaving the product across the width of the coil, the winding process imparts a half-twist in one direction, and then back in the other direction. These twists

cancel each other out as the coil is dispensed, resulting in low-tension, smooth payout without any twists, kinks, snags or tangles. Products dispense from REELEX coils through a payout tube which is inserted into a hole woven into the wall of the coil by the coiling machine. Payout tubes are available in a wide range shapes and sizes in order to accommodate the physical characteris-tics of various products. EcoCore® is the newest payout tube system, and replaces the traditional plastic tube with a low-cost cardboard tube called a “core”. This new system is lower cost, highly flexible, envi-ronmentally friendly and available for all flexible product types.The REELEX coil can be packaged in a wide variety of packages, including the new ProFlex® shrink bag. Ideal for end-user lengths of cable, tubing, fiber optics and more, ProFlex is an innovative package that incorpo-rates a heavy-duty handle into a single piece bag made from plastic shrink film. Combining low-waste, low-cost and incredible versatility, ProFlex® represents the “outside the box” innovation that REELEX stands for.

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Spotlight On Stranders, Bunchers & Cablersby Michael McNulty, Editor

Wire & Cable Technology International

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Eurolls Group/Cortinovis MachineryVia Zanica, 87

24126 Bergamo, ItalyContact: Giampaolo Bozzetto, President

Tel: +39 035 313211Fax: +39 035 312523

Email: cortinovis@cortinovismachinery.comInternet: www.cortinovismachinery.com

Individual wires, conductors and cables are twisted together in a helical pattern, in con-tinuous or alternating directions, around the central axis of the finished product by stranders, bunchers and cablers. The

terms—stranders, bunchers and cablers—are loosely used in a variety of ways depending on the factory, industry sector or region. Some people call all rotating machines stranders, for example, and many people use the word buncher and strander interchangeably. My per-sonal definitions are contained in two subhead sections of this article: Stranders and Bunchers and Cablers.From a development standpoint, rotating machines have seen a good amount of development over the last few years. Some trends that I have identified include the following:

•Higher-speed operation without a sacrifice in product quality.

•Improved finished product quality; better round-ness, more uniformity and higher performance, for example.

•Improved guidance systems and tension control; minimized deflection and stress on the product being stranded, bunched or cabled. Innovative bow designs and improved lay length controls are examples in this area.

•Increase in electronic and digital control of rotating machinery. For example, AC variable speed motors and drive eliminate the need for line shafts to drive individual components on stranders and cablers.

•High-powered PC controls and sophisticated, easy-to-use touch-screen operator interfaces.

•Proven use of triple twist technology. •Larger capacity rotating machines.•Automated loading and unloading systems. •Integrated quality and process control devices for

monitoring, controlling and reporting finished prod-uct data and production levels.

•Improved traverse systems on the take-up reels.•Single-twist production quality from double-twist

machines.•Reduced floor space.•Reduced utility consumption and noise emissions as

well as improved safety features.•Higher-quality strand at longer lay lengths.

StrandersTraditional stranders are rotating machines in which the reels holding the material to be twisted are located within the rotating element of the machine, and the take-up reel of the strander is located outside of the

C.M. Caballé S.A.Progreso, 293-299

Barcelona, Spain 08918Contacts: Rafael Caballé, Luis Morancho

Tel: +34 93 460 1413Fax: +34 93 399 0008

Email: caballe@cmcaballe.esInternet: www.cmcaballe.es

POURTIER – Gauder GroupZI-3, rue Gustave Eiffel • F-77506 Chelles, France

T: +33 1 64 21 84 00 • F: +33 1 64 26 61 10Email: sales.pourtier@gaudergroup.com

Internet: www.gaudergroup.comSETIC – Gauder Group

Espace Industriel de Matel, rue de Matel, 126F-42300 Roanne, France

T: +33 4 77 23 25 55 • F: +33 4 77 71 10 85 Email: sales.setic@gaudergroup.com

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Spotlight On Tooling: Drawing & Extrusion...Continued

senior Al Qaeda operatives and helped them hide ter-rorist assets in diamonds.Tools steels are alloy steels that are suitable for makingtools as well as machining or forming metals, plasticsand wood. Alloy steels are characterized by the addi-tion of elements other than carbon. Additional elementsinclude chromium, vanadium, molybdenum, tungstenand cobalt. These steels are designed to provide wearresistance and toughness combined with high strength.Development can be traced back to the end of the 19th

century with increased e orts and progress revolvingaround World War I and World War II. Many types oftool steels are available including water-hardening,cold-work, hot-work, shock-resistant, plastic-mold andhigh-speed class tool steels.The beginning of tungsten carbide production can betraced to the 1920s when a German electrical bulb com-pany began looking for alternatives to diamond wiredies used for drawing tungsten wire. Reports indicatethat tungsten carbide rst became available to the in-dustry in the 1930s. Tungsten carbide die material is acomposite of tungsten carbide particles held togetherby a binder material. In most cases, the binder and WCparticles, in powder form, are mixed together with asmall amount of wax and then put through the sinter-ing process—heating, but not melting the mixture, in a

vacuum furnace at temperatures up to 1430°C (2600°F).The binder used in most grades of WC is cobalt. Nickeland other materials are also used as binders. The binderis added as a percentage by weight varying from 3% to30%. In general, as the cobalt content drops, the hardnessincreases and the toughness decreases.Pure tungsten (periodic element W) is a steel-gray to tin-white metal. Tungsten has the highest melting point andlowest vapor pressure of all metals, and at temperaturesover 1650°C (3000°F), it has the highest tensile strength.The metal oxidizes in air and must be protected at el-evated temperatures. It has good corrosion resistanceand is a acked only slightly by most mineral acids.Tungsten metal powder is converted to WC by reactionwith pure carbon powder at high temperatures.WC die materials are available with di erent grainsizes. Larger grain sizes will provide greater strengthand toughness but the trade-o is a reduction in wearresistance and hardness. Conversely, smaller grains willprovide increased resistance to wear and higher levelsof hardness.In general, WC die material has moderate wear re-sistance, good toughness and good thermal shockresistance. It is used in extrusion processes, steel wiredrawing and in wire drawing applications where dia-monds are not economical.

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