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Brush wires (street sweepers)

Advantages

  • Good fatigue resistance and longer lifetime
  • High hardness and fatigue properties to avoid brakes
  • High corrosion resistance

Product description

Street sweeper
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Street sweepers consist of a vehicle equipped with a circular brush system in the center and a gutter broom at the driver’s side.

Brushes are constructed with crimped or uncrimped electrogalvanized steel.

Circular brushes are always manufactured with crimped round filaments.

Gutter brooms are always made with flat (hard drawn or oil tempered) filaments because they are more aggressive than round filaments.

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Technological features

  • Alloy
  • High carbon
  • Coating
  • Galvanized
  • Hard drawn P
  • Wires
  • Flat
  • Round
  • Corrosion resistance
  • Standard
  • White rust
  • Mechanical
  • Resilience
  • Toughness
  • Fatigue resistance

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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.

Bekaert events

First upcoming event

12-Apr-2010 to 16-Apr-2010