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Brush wire (airport sweepers)

Advantages

  • Good fatigue resistance and longer lifetime
  • High hardness and fatigue properties to avoid breaks
  • High corrosion resistance to last the entire season

Product description

Airport sweeper
© Bekaert

Modern mechanical snow and ice removal systems consist of a vehicle equipped with a plow (to first remove the snow) followed by the brush sweeper system and an air jet blower.

Crimped electro galvanized steel wire (0.45mm or 0.60 mm) assembled in wafers or cassettes.

 

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Technological features

  • Shape
  • Wire
  • Bulk Material
  • C-steel
  • Coating
  • None
  • Zinc

Applications

  • Brush wires
  • Remove snow and ice from runways and taxiways
  • Remove rubber from runways to guarantee the needed friction levels

better together

Utilities

Situation

Growing demand for transmission capacity, requiring resistance to increasing operating temperatures.

Solution

A steel core based conductor concept based on Bekaert wires with increased strength and an alternative coating

Result

Increased power grid capacity within the existing high voltage power lines network.