Electrical Contracting News (ECN) November 2016 | Page 63
CABLE MANAGEMENT
FEATURE
ON THE FRONT FOOT
The UK’s cable management sector is highly competitive, with a number of key players
vying to maintain a competitive edge and market share. It is against this backdrop that
product and service innovation is vital to stay ahead of the game. Here, Jeremy Dodge
reveals what Marshall-Tufflex is doing to ensure its customers have the most modern
systems at their fingertips.
P
roduct innovation
is as important to
Marshall-Tufflex
now as it was when
we first began
manufacturing PVC-U
systems more than 70
years ago. However,
what started out as producing quite
simple trunking for power distribution
has transformed into innovating cable
management solutions capable of
handling increasing levels of power and
sophisticated data cabling.
The changing installation demands
driven by advances in data cabling and
higher user expectations have had
a huge impact on how we’ve viewed
product development in recent years,
with both functionality and compliance
of major importance. There’s been
a steady shift from power, voice and
basic data cables going into three
compartment trunking to just power
and higher performing data cabling
going into two and three compartment
systems; the distribution of data cables
(and the cables themselves) has altered
There is demand
for trunking to do
more than just carry
cables.
dramatically, with greater speeds and
greater call for inbuilt screening.
The Marshall-Tufflex research and
development team at our manufacturing
base in Hastings, East Sussex, has worked
closely with the industry to innovate
solutions to meet these shifting demands.
Cable management now comes in a
wide array of styles, sizes, colours, materials
and finishes. Larger capacity trunking has
been developed to handle the more advanced
data cabling requirements, with many
installations making use of solutions with a
50/50 power/data split in twin compartments.
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