Habia Cable Announces Installation of New Large Cabling Machine in China

Thursday, Jul 08, 2010

Habia Cable is currently installing a new large cabling machine in their new multicore cable factory in China and the machine will be commissioned shortly.   The machine has capacity for 19 bobbins and so will enable Habia to manufacture medium and large size cables in long lengths, primarily to support the Asian market as well as selective European Customers, where large volumes are needed.

An exciting new feature of this investment is our ability to manufacture multi-coax cables.  For example, our new Speedfoam range can now be professionally cabled into multicore versions, armoured and/ or waterblocked if required.

Speedfoam is a halogen free, low loss coaxial cable using a precision foamed polyolefin dielectric to provide low-loss properties in a flexible, light-weight package. A highly effective foil / braid combination gives Speedfoam excellent screening effectiveness for use in a wide range of applications such as vehicle interconnection, land mobile radio systems, wireless LAN (local area network) and low end radar applications .
 
This cable typically has a solid centre conductor, foamed PE dielectric, bonded foil and braided screen.
 
It offers a cost effective alternative to the Times Microwave LMR low loss, halogen free coaxial cable range.
 
Key Features: 
·        Bonded foil screen gives high shielding effectiveness hence low losses
·        Use of foamed PE dielectric reduces losses for same OD of cable
·        Cables are flexible for ease of installation
·        Cost effective
·        Basic design can be configured to meet a variety of different needs eg stranded centre for greater flexibility. 

Typical applications for our Speedfoam Cables are: 
·        Wireless LAN – Cables used to connect WIFI antennas in public buildings etc
·        Data centres – although this application has been largely superceded by twisted pair databus cables
·        Land Mobile Radio – Private Mobile Radio Networks etc to connect radios to antennas
·        Flexible Jumper Cables for Cellular antenna masts
·        Commercial communications intstallations 
·        Vehicle communications systems – military, government and commercial
·        Shipborne radio and electronics systems (please note we can make a waterblocked version)
·        Radar systems operating up to 8 GHz –military, marine and civil.
·        Rail and underground communications and CCTV
·        Used to connect mini base stations used to give ‘fill in’ coverage in large commectial buildings

The multicore cable factory opened last year and is part of Habia Cable’s planned development in China.

About the Company:
Habia Cable is a Swedish wire, special cable and cable systems manufacturer with a global presence and is part of the Beijer Alma Group of companies, which is an internationally active group. Habia Cable is a global innovator, specialising in developing, manufacturing and marketing custom designed cables and cable systems for demanding market areas such as telecom, defence, nuclear power and industrial applications. Custom design products and special cables are the major part of the cable production, of which 90% of the sales are for export. The largest markets for Habia are Germany, China, South Korea, UK, France and Sweden.

The company has a global focus with manufacturing and research and development facilities in Sweden together with manufacturing facilities in Sweden, Germany and China. Habia Cable also has an assembly and harnessing production facility in Poland.

The net revenue for 2009 was 522.6 million SEK and the number of employees 455.

Habia Cable production facilities and sales offices are ISO9001 and ISO1400 approved.

Source: Habia Cable