Crimping cables
Metallic cables
Cable crimping is a technique for joining cables by cold forming a ductile material. Crimping is often used to attach metal cables, such as the buckles on a car's seat belts, to a cold-formed or stamped fastener. Finished products can be painted by cataphoresis, epoxy powder coating or metallised, in particular by zinc plating. They can also be protected by a heat-shrinkable sheath.
Fastening seat belts
Zero defect production
Cable crimping is used in several CGR plants around the world. We have developed our own automated crimping systems that guarantee:
- Precision crimping by 100% mechanical adjustment.
- Zero-defect production thanks to optical quality control of crimping, cable geometry, multiple in-line checks and static destructive spot checks including cycling, torsion and hardness tests.
Reaching zero slip
Biomimetics and crimping
Biomimicry enables certain biological properties observed in fauna and flora to be reproduced on an industrial scale. Microscopic analysis of burdock fruit hooks inspired CGR's R&D teams to develop crimps with microscopic surface structures. These structures increase the friction between the components, reducing or even eliminating slippage in crimped cables.
