More than any other, this is the industry which utilises the largest amount of electric cabling and enamelled copper or aluminium wire for the windings of motors, transformers, relays, power plug cables and internal appliance cables. Alongside the building trade and the automotive industry, this is one of the driving sectors of the wire and cable manufacturing industry. Cables tend to be flexible and generally small in diameter. They range from three-core cables, sheathed with plastic or even rubber for applications which are more flexible and subject to bending, to single-core cables for internal cabling; cables for electronics, sheathed with high temperature resistant compounds; and shielded coaxial and micro-conductors, used in mobile phones and in other small home appliances.
The enamelled wire used for windings is fine or even capillary in smaller home appliances, making this a product of great added value, and, because of the current market price of copper, enamelled aluminium wire is becoming increasingly popular for larger windings too.
A large part of these products come from the Far East, destined for use by European or American manufacturers of home appliances.
At Sampsistemi we have a comprehensive manufacturing programme for the home appliance industry, from multi-wire drawing lines for fine or capillary wire to single wire drawing lines for copper or aluminium which feed enamelling ovens with blank wire. Small or medium-sized bunchers are used for conductors or to strand sheathed wires. A recent innovation by Sampsistemi is a tandemised sheathing and stranding line with SZ process technology for the manufacture of flexible cords, which are normally three-core cables and subject to alternate bending test prior to use in mobile applications. Protected by numerous patents, this line has significant competitive advantages over other solutions available on the market. Sampsistemi also supplies sheathing lines for electronic and micro-coaxial cables, to extrude PVC, polyethylene, nylon, teflon and more.
