Niehoff, the MMH technology at wire South America 2017

São Paulo, Brazil, 3 – 5 October 2017, booth 502
At the wire South America 2017 trade fair, Maschinenfabrik Niehoff and Niehoff-Herborn Máquinas Ltda. (NHM), its Brazilian subsidiary, will show an MMH 101 multiwire drawing machine for 8 wires. NHM and several sub-exhibitors will be exhibiting on a joint booth with WAFIOS (booth 502).
The NHM exhibit
The MMH 101 type multiwire drawing machine built by NHM under Niehoff license is designed for the simultaneous drawing of eight copper wires with an inlet tensile strength of 250 N/mm² and a maximum inlet diameter of 1.83 mm to a minimum finished diameter of 0.20 … 0.50 mm in 21 drafts. The machine can work with a maximum speed of 36 m/s and is operated by means of the standardized NMI (NIEHOFF Machine Interface), a network-compatible color touchscreen which features a clear task and user-oriented navigation structure and enables an easy intuitive operation.  
The MMH technology
Because of their modular design Niehoff’s MMH type multiwire drawing lines can be adapted to different customer requirements with great flexibility. Meanwhile, more than 1,500 MMH lines are working world-wide. The MMH range of multiwire drawing machines are designed for copper and aluminium wires. The wires drawn on MMH machines exceed the most demanding specifications and processing requirements in view of electrical conductivity, surface quality and mechanical properties and can be processed to multiwire bundles with outstanding characteristics.
Sub-exhibitors
At the NMH booth there will be also: Cold rolling mill manufacturer Bühler Redex, filtration systems manufacturer Reber Systematic, who will show a RESY KBF compact filter, wire welding machines manufacturer Strecker, who will show a welding machine for stranded conductors and perhaps also a cold-welding machine, and WiTechs, a manufacturer of mechanical descaling and grinding equipment.

Complete solutions from a single source
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff develops and builds with an experience of more than 60 years all machinery – with the exception of extruders – needed for the production of wires made from non-ferrous metals and the further processing into automotive, power, data and special cables. 
The Group with nearly 800 employees worldwide is comprised of its headquarters, five manufacturing subsidiaries (in Brazil, the US, the Czech Republic, India, and China) as well as sales and service centers in Japan, Singapore and Russia.
Niehoff-Herborn Máquinas Ltda. (NHM) based in Barueri near São Paolo was founded in the year 1975. The company is headed by Alex Hoster and has currently more than 80 employees. NHM builds wire processing machinery according to Niehoff standard, but adapted to the particular requirements of the customers in Brazil and neighboring countries. NHM imports other types of machines from the Niehoff headquarters to complement its product line and prepares these equipment for installation at its customers’ production sites. NHM is also responsible for customer services and has assumed representation of renowned European suppliers for the wire and cable industry.

Top right: MMH 101 type multiwire drawing machine
Below: Design of the booth which is split between the Niehoff Group and WAFIOS


Niehoff has recently launched the new issue of the NIEHOFF Magazine 2/2017, including an interesting article based on the Niehoff presentation at the most recent CRU Wire & Cable Conference demonstrating how energy, labour and material costs can be sustainably reduced by using Niehoff machinery. A further article analyzes the outlook for the wire and cable industry in South America. Read more here >>