Wooden cable drums

The cable industry does not stand still and is constantly developing. New materials, new types of cables and cable products, new methods of design and calculation are emerging. However, some things in the cable industry remain unchanged from year to year – we are talking about cable drums (reels). All over the world, in the cable industry, it is hard to do without wooden cable drums for the delivery and storage of cables. Although it is the 21st century, cable drums for low-voltage and medium-voltage cables are made of wood, in many cases.

Wooden drums are inexpensive, lightweight, environmentally friendly, and reusable. How can we not draw an analogy with wine barrels? Wine barrels and cable drums – there are certain similarities between them. Made of wood, both are used to store and transport quite expensive products that have passed numerous stages of quality control for compliance with international standards and industry regulatory documents.

If there is anything truly GREEN about cable lines, it is the wooden cable drums and wooden barrels from which wine is poured at the completion of every new project.

I would like to thank Patricia Rebelo for the warm welcome and a nice tour across two cable factories located in the Great Porto agglomeration. It turns out that Portugal is not only a country with a deep tradition of winemaking, but also a country with a long tradition of cable production.