Steel & Metallurgy

Steel plants add radiant heat and mill scale to the usual mechanical duty. Cable runs on cranes, transfer cars and process lines are exposed to high ambient temperature, sparks and metal dust, while still being wound or festooned thousands of times a year. We build these cables with heat-resistant compounds where required and mechanical protection matched to the run, rather than relying on the standard PUR construction to survive conditions it was not designed for.

What usually governs cable life here

The requirement that decides how long the cable lasts in this installation — and therefore what we change in the construction.

• Elevated-temperature compounds where the ambient demands it
• Mechanical protection against scale and sparks
• Reel-rated constructions for transfer cars and cranes
• Screened cores for drives and position feedback

How to specify