Caballe at Wire Düsseldorf

With over 70 years of experience in the design and manufacture of rotating machinery for the production of power and telecommunication cables as well as steel ropes, the Spanish company C.M. Caballé provides the cable industry with a wide array of stranding, twinning, bunching and cabling machinery. The firm is constantly developing new, high quality equipment to meet the ever-changing needs of the Wire and Cable Industry.
The company’s portfolio includes the following equipment for:
• Power cables: double twist stranders, rigid stranders, drum twisters, single twist stranders, bow skip stranders, tubular stranders, planetary stranders and SZ stranders.
• Telecom and LAN cables: double twist pairing-quadding machines, single twist cabling lines, group twinners, drum twisters, shielding-jelly filling-sheathing lines, SZ stranders.
• Steel ropes: double twist stranders, tubular stranders, planetary stranders, bow skip stranders.
• Ancillary equipment: pay-offs, take-ups, capstans, caterpillars, taping machines, binders. At Wire Düsseldorf 2014, the company will show a new “bullhead” tubular strander for 32 DIN 500 reels and one DIN 1600 reel for the core for the production of OPGW cables. This machine is presented as an alternative to the classical planetary or tubular stranders. Caballe has solved the drawbacks of both machines by adding a what is called “Bull- Head-Feeder” (see attached picture). This is a system integrated at the end of the tubular strander that consists of a big pay-off with some bows that turn around it and convey the wires coming from the tubular to the closing point.
The main features of this bullhead tubular strander are:
– Number of steel/aluminium wires: 12 – 36
– Pay-off bobbins: DIN 500 – 630
– Central tube reel size: DIN 1600 – 2500
– Special wire path for the aluminium coated steel wires (ACS)
– Tension control by motor/dancer system
– Maximum stranding speed: 500 rpm With this system the central tube with the fiber optics inside is paid-off completely straight and no twist is given to it, so the quality is the same as with a planetary strander but with a much higher stranding speed. At the practice the productivity of this machine is 5 times higher than a planetary strander.