Drawing, Stranding, Annealing and Preheating Conductors
    - Aluminum, Aluminum Alloy and Copper Rod Breakdown.
    - In-Line Electric Copper Annealing.
    - Hot Inert Gas Copper Annealing.
    - Hot Air Aluminum and Aluminum Alloy Process Annealing.
    - Intermediate Copper Wire Drawing.
    - Fine Wire Copper Drawing.
    - Electro-Tinning, Hot Dip Tinning.
    - Drawing Lubricants and Systems.
    - Carbide, Polycrystalline Diamond and Diamond Die Control.
    - Steel Wire Stranding for ACSR.
    - Self-Damping and Trapezoidal ACSR.
    - Segment Stranding.
    - Wire Straightening, Preforming and Postforming.
    - Fine and Intermediate Wire Bunching.
    - 7 and 19 Wire Unilay Double Twist Conductor Stranding.
    - Aluminum and Copper Conductor Rigid and Planetary Stranding.
    - Drawing for Compressed and Compacted Conductors.
    - Stranding Die Control.
    - Cold Welding of Nonferrous Single Conductors.
    - Rod Welding with Upset Action.
    - Large and Small Diameter Strand Welding with Upset Action.
    - Electric Conductor Preheating Just Prior to Extrusion.
    - Conductor Cleanliness for High Speed and Intermediate Speed Extrusion.

Single Screw Plastic Extruders
    - Smooth and Grooved Barrels.
    - Special Screws.
    - Screw and Barrel Management.
    - Single, Dual and Triple Extrusion Adjustable Center Crossheads.
    - Fixed Center Single and Multi-Conductor Single Extrusion Crossheads.
    - Tool and Die Management Including Fluidized Bed Tool Cleaning.
    - Extrusion Fume Control.
    - Bulk Storage Silos and Bulk Handling Systems.
    - Clean Rooms and Ultra-Clean Handling Systems for High and Extra-High Voltage Power Cable.
    - Dancers, Position Sensors, In-Line Tension Reducers, Air Wipes, Fault Locators and Length Counters.
    - Hopper Loaders, Hopper Driers, Color Masterbatch Control, Gravimetric Mixers.
    - Indent Length and Information Marking, Embossed Jacket Marking and Inkjet Surface Marking.
    - Polyethylene Surface Preparation for Ink Cold Surface Marking.
    - Explosion Safe Rooms with Blow-Out Panels for Ink and Solvent Storage.
    - Capacitance Monitors for Telephone Cable Foam and Skin-Foam Singles.
    - Structural Return Loss Monitors (SRL) for CATV Coax Foam PE and Data Cable PVC Extrusion.
    - Eccentricity Monitors and Wall Thickness Instruments including Nuclear and X-Ray Monitors.
    - Single, Dual and Triple Polyethylene (PE) Extrusion.
            - Low, Medium and High Density.
            - Tubing and Pressure Extrusion.
            - Insulation and Jacket Applications.
            - Color Striped Jackets.
            - Thermoset and Thermoplastic.
            - High Speed Foam and Skin-Foam Extrusion of Telephone Cable Singles.
            - CATV Coaxial Cable Foam Extrusion and Medium Frequency Balloon Extrusion.
            - Low, Medium, High and Extra-High Voltage Power Cable Extrusion.
            - Low Voltage Applications for Building Wire etc.
            - Gradient Cooling for for MDPE and HDPE singles.
    - Single Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Extrusion.
            - Semi-Rigid and Flexible PVC.
            - Tubing and Pressure Extrusion.
            - Insulation and Jacket Applications.
            - High Speed of Data and Telephone Cable Singles.
            - Tandemized PVC/ Nylon Extrusion.
            - High Speed Ring Marking.
            - Medium Speed Number Coding.
            - Ink Striping.
    - Single Nylon Extrusion.
    - Single Polypropylene (PP) High Speed Extrusion of Telephone Cable Singles.
    - Single Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) Extrusion.
    - Single Polyurethane (PU) Extrusion.
    - Single Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP) for Medium Speed Extrusion of Data Cable Singles.

Rubber Mixing and Single Screw Rubber Extruders
    - Banbury Mixers, Mills and Straining Extruders.
    - Single Rubber Extrusion.
            - Ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) very similar to EPR.
            - Silicone Rubber.
            - Hypalon® or chlorosulfonated polyethylene rubber.

Crosslinking Methods and Techniques
    - Continuous Vulcanization (CV) Lines.
            - Catenary Steam Cure and Dry Cure.
            - Slant and Horizontal Steam Cure.
            - Horizontal Dry Cure (MDCV)®.
    - Electron Beam Curing.
    - Sioplas® or Moisture Cure Including Steam Rooms.
    - Peroxide Injection.
    - Crosslinking Byproducts - Control, Collection and Destruction.
    - CV Tube Gradient Cooling.

Pairing, Quadding, Stranding, Cabling
    - Pairing or Twinning.
            - Single Twist - Rigid and Planetary by Twist Compensation.
            - Double Twist - Rigid and Planetary by Twist Compensation.

    - Quadding.
            - Rigid.
            - Full Planetary.
            - Partial Planetary.

    - Stranding.
            - Rigid Single Twist.
            - Planetary Single Twist - Basic and by Twist Compensation.
            - Rigid Double Twist.
            - S-Z Stranding.
            - Stranding Tool and Die Control.
            - Planetary Double Twist by Twist Compensation.
            - Helical and Longitudinal Dielectric/ Thermal Barrier Tape Applications.
            - Binder Applications.

    - Cabling.
            - Rigid Single Twist.
            - Planetary Single Twist - Basic and by Twist Compensation.
            - Helical and Longitudinal Dielectric/ Thermal Barrier Tape Applications.
            - Cable Filling.
            - Cabling Tool and Die Control.
            - Binder Applications.

Welding, Soldering, Tape Forming, Corrugating and Armoring
    - Splicing Shielding Aluminum Tape With Spot Welding.
    - Soldering Copper Tape and Copper Coated Steel Tape for Shielding Applications.
    - Forming and Continuous Longitudinal Welding of Aluminum CATV Coaxial Cable Outer Conductor.
    - Forming and Continuous Longitudinal Welding of Thin Copper Tape for Coaxial Cable Outer Conductor.
    - Beltformers and Cone Formers for Longitudinal Copper, Aluminum and Steel Shielding and Armoring Tapes.
    - Tape Corrugating Prior to Tape Forming.
    - Rolling Ring Corrugating after Tape Forming and Welding.
    - Fixed Ring Corrugating after Tape Forming and Welding.
    - Aluminum and Steel Strip Corrugated Armoring (BX).
    - Steel Wire Armoring Including Preforming plus Jute and Tar Applications.
    - Longitudinal Smooth Tape Forming and Sealing.

Miscellaneous Processes and Equipment
    - Cable Filling Prior to Sheathing.
    - Cable Stripping and Single Conductor High Speed Insulation Stripping.
    - Large and Small Diameter Braiding in Copper, Bronze and Aluminum.
    - Process Reels and Spools Management (How Many and What Kind).
    - Energy Conservation in the Wire and Cable Plant.

Test Facilities
    - Test Cage Design.
    - Shielded Room Design for Partial Discharge Testing.

We are a small engineering services company and our principal holds a four year degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Manitoba. He is professionally registered in the Province of Ontario and for more than 30 years he has practiced plant and process engineering for multinational wire and cable companies. Moreover, his assigned projects have taken him all over the world. His expertise is in the manufacture of telephone cable, optical fiber cable, data cable, control cable, instrument cable, building wire, and low, medium, high and, extra-high voltage power cable (paper and plastic). He is the only engineer in the Western Hemisphere to have constructed a complete extra-high voltage MDCV (Mitsubishi Dainichi Continuous Vulcanizing) extrusion line, a horizontal continuous vulcanization machine capable of manufacturing 500 KV polyethylene insulated power cable. This project also included such service equipment as advanced plastics handling clean rooms and plastics holding and conveying systems and the control and destruction of crosslinking byproducts. He holds patents in both the United States and Canada and is a lifetime member of the Wire Association International, Inc.



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