Wire & Cable
Heavy-duty drawing, stranding, and extrusion lines for industrial cabling. Engineered for immense tension and continuous output.
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BWE Ltd (formerly Babcock Wire Equipment) was established in 1969 and has four principal product ranges: Conform - extrusion machinery for aluminium, copper and other non-ferrous metals. Conklad - machinery for cladding or sheathing wires...

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BWE Ltd (formerly Babcock Wire Equipment) was established in 1969 and has four principal product ranges:
BWE Ltd has been manufacturing Cold Welding Machines since the company was established and this is still very much part of the business today. |
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The Coldweld range covers fine wires from 0.08mm using simple hand-operated machines to large electrically powered machines which can weld rods up to 35mm in diameter. BWE Ltd is a very well established substantial private company which enables it to undertake large contracts with confidence, to focus on the technology, and is able to respond quickly and appropriately to customer needs. BWE Shanghai Ltd is a subsidiary Company formed to support the customers of BWE in China and to manufacture and supply continuous extrusion technology and cold welding equipment to the Chinese market. BWE Shanghai may be contacted through www.bwe.com.cn BWE Ltd owns the registered names Conform, Conklad and SheathEx together with a number of critically important patents associated with the processes and their development. |
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| Over the years it has been the policy of BWE Ltd to invest in the business. The range of applications and patents demonstrates its success in development of the technology. | |
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Heavy-duty drawing, stranding, and extrusion lines for industrial cabling. Engineered for immense tension and continuous output.
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The Conform Process Use of a single revolving wheel as the driving force in an extrusion process enables the manufacture of products of unlimited length. In its simplest form the wheel has a single groove in its periphery which accepts the...
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The Conklad Process In the 1980’s BWE pioneered the development of cladding and sheathing using the Conform continuous extrusion method. This work led to the introduction of Conklad, which has become the industry standard for many...
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The SheathEx Process The most recent innovation in continuous extrusion is BWE’s new, patented, SheathEx process. In the Conklad process the bottom of the die chamber is heated by the extrusion wheel and the top is cooled by the shoe that...
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The Coldweld Process Cold welding is a method for joining non-ferrous metals and their alloys without using heat, fillers or fluxes. Round wire sections, dissimilar materials and materials of different sizes can all be welded with BWE’s...
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