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The Cordage Institute, founded in 1920, [3] is an international trade association of fiber rope manufacturers, their suppliers, and affiliated end-user organizations. The purpose of the group is to create technical standards related the safe use of rope and cordage. [4]
British Ropes Ltd was headquartered at 32 Cavendish Square. British Ropes was state-owned. From the 1960s to 1980s, British Ropes headquarters was at Warmsworth Hall at Warmsworth, off the A630 near the B6376 junction. In 1974 it became known as Bridon; Bridon was the name of one of their brands of wire rope.
[2] The Plymouth Cordage Company served as the largest employer in Plymouth for over 100 years. It went out of business in 1964 after over 140 years of continuous operation. [3] By the early-1960s, it had bought all the materials needed for production, had no debt and a lot of cash and was bought out by the Columbian Rope Company in 1965.
In stricter senses, the term wire rope refers to a diameter larger than 9.5 mm (3 ⁄ 8 in), with smaller gauges designated cable or cords. [1] Initially wrought iron wires were used, but today steel is the main material used for wire ropes. Historically, wire rope evolved from wrought iron chains, which had a record of mechanical failure.
A short fid is 1 ⁄ 3 a fid length and a long fid is 2 ⁄ 3 the overall fid length. Modern major rope manufacturers such as Yale Cordage, [1] New England Ropes, [2] and Samson Rope Technologies [3] each have full sets of published splicing directions available on their websites. Typically, all splice directions measurements use fid-length as ...
In offshore applications, huge lengths of rope are often housed on drums. The anchor winches on Saipem's Semac 1 pipe laying barge, for example, each hold 2,800 metres of 76mm (3 inch) diameter wire rope in 14 layers. Saipem's Castorone, the world's largest pipe laying vessel uses a wire rope that is 3,850m long and 152mm in diameter. It weighs ...
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