Cable
Cable Industry in South Africa
The cable industry in South Africa is a high
quality standard industry. The fluctuations in the supply and
demand of the cable industry is indicative of the infrastructure
development in South Africa as South Africa is currently upgrading
its cable networks and investing in reticulation projects that
allows rural communities the benefit of electricity and
telecoms.
Cable products in the South African Market
place:
- Rubber cables for the mining industry
- ABC cables for supply of power via overhead
cables
- PVC cables
- Silicone Cables
- Telecoms cables
- Fibre optic cables
Emerson in the Cable Processing Industry
Control Techniques South Africa division
of EMERSON Industrial Automation, provides many solutions and
products into the cable industry of South Africa. Two of our
largest customers include Aberdare Cables and Intercables. Aberdare
Cables in one of the largest supplier of cables in South
Africa.
Control Techniques offers competitively priced
products that are well suited for the applications in which they
are used. Our variable speed drives are robust and easily withstand
the harsh environments of the cable industry which contains
metallic dust from the cable manufacturing processes.
Applications
Control Techniques offers a wide range of
solutions to our customers in the cable industry. We sell both
individual drive modules and fully automated solutions for process
lines. Some of the solutions offered are:
- Extruders
- Conveyors
- Mixers
- Cables Twisters
- Wire Drawing Machines (copper and
aluminium)
- Bunching machines
- Spoolers
Product Solutions
Control Techniques offers a complete range of
variable speed drives for both AC and DC applications in the cable
industry and have successfully converted many old machines from DC
to AC using our products and solutions.
Our AC drives range
from 0.37kW to 1.9MW in power and our DC
drives range from 25 amps to 1850 amps. Operating voltages are
400V, 525V and 690V.
Our range of Unidrive SP
Free Standing drives provides our customers with an easy
solution for high power applications as these free standing drives
can be butted together to for large drive system offering high
power for applications like extruders and wire draw benches. Our
simple AC drive the Commander SK offers a
competitive cost solution for applications in the cable industry
like take up stands, conveyors, traverse units, fans, pumps etc and
range from 0.25kW to 132kW