Power and Data Cabling - Steel Wire Cable Tray
The welded steel wire cable tray is becoming very popular choice for cable management. The millions of metres of welded steel-wire cable tray installed in buildings of every type since its launch 30 years ago, is evident of the fact. Excellent air circulation, cables installed in wire tray, enabling smaller, more efficient cables to be used are some of the advantages that make this technology ahead of its competitions. With the soaring prices of steel, the lower volume of material in wire tray compared to sheet steel now provides a price advantage of 15 to 20% in all. All fittings are created rapidly and easily on site at a fraction of the cost of the pre-formed sheet-steel equivalent, providing very significant savings in both time and labour costs. Despite its undoubted popularity as a practical and cost-saving alternative to traditional perforated sheet-steel cable tray, wire ‘basket’ systems is still regarded by many people as having a lower mechanical strength.
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