Within Webro’s modern warehouse and office facility one of the busiest departments is the winding room. Within it’s walls are 5 winding lines catering for the different types of cables that need to be wound to both standard and customer specific lengths.

Why have a winding department?

Webro stock and sell hundreds of different cables and although many are bought on pre wound lengths and stocked on customer friendly reels ready for immediate use. Many of the lines are brought in on bulk reels in order to be able to respond to customer specific lengths. This helps the customer with managing their costs and their waste, which in this age of recycling and waste management is critical to all concerned.

The different machines are used depending upon what type of cable

Warehouse manager Wayne Saunders explains the reasoning behind the different winding machines. “It all depends upon the size of cable and also what type of cable it is” explains Wayne, “basically the larger the cable the bigger the machine that is required to re-wind it”.

“We have a total of five lines for rewinding, two of which are high-speed semi automatic lines that we use for rewinding bulk reels of the WF digital ready range of cables”. “Then we have one machine that is suited to fibre optic cables, which as you can imagine due to the glass cores, have to be handled carefully. The last two machines are basically hand-winding machines for smaller types of cable with an OD of 7mm or less. All in all we can accommodate pretty much any none standard customer length. We aim to rewind as fast as we can and accommodate all customer requests. Occasionally though, due to the nature of the department and especially on a quick turn around, we are unable to meet customer requirements, but most of the time we are able to move jobs around and help to keep our customers satisfied”.