Bengaluru, January 21, 2021- LAPP, the world market leader for integrated cable and connection solutions is the first manufacturer in the world to offer cable glands in a lead-free brass version under SKINTOP® and SKINDICHT® cable gland ranges.
LAPP firmly believes that to be successful in the future, companies need to place their focus on sustainability. At LAPP, we are developing sustainable products, even before being obliged to do so by laws and regulations. We see this not as a constraint but as an integral part of our corporate responsibility.
The popular LAPP cable glands are now available in the new lead-free version. The first products include the popular SKINTOP® MS-M and MS-SC-M models, as well as the counter nut SKINDICHT® SM-M.
SKINTOP® MS-M: It is the first choice for a wide range of applications in machine and plant construction, measurement, control and regulation technology, and where there are tough demands in terms of mechanical and chemical stability. These glands offer optimum strain relief, wide clamping ranges, numerous approvals and a high protection class.
SKINTOP® MS-SC-M: The EMC gland features a highly conductive, flexible EMC contact spring and a low-resistance shield contact for EMC earthing of the shielding braid.
SKINDICHT® SM-M: The perfect locknut for SKINTOP® cable glands.
All of the above versions are available immediately in metric sizes M12 to M63. The acronym LF at the end of the article number indicates that a product is lead-free. Further product groups are being supplemented with lead-free versions.
The cable glands made of lead-free brass deliver the same reliable LAPP quality as the existing versions in terms of their mechanical properties, corrosion resistance and EMC properties. The lead-free version also comply with protection class IP 68.
With the lead-free SKINTOP® and SKINDICHT® cable glands, LAPP is taking a pioneering role in sustainable products. In the near future with the possibility of ban on lead as a metal, we are giving our customers the certainty that they will be prepared for the challenges of the future especially for machines with a long service life.
About LAPP India
LAPP India is a 100 per cent subsidiary of the LAPP Group. Having started its operations in 1996, LAPP India provides about 150,000 km per year of power, control, instrumentation and data cables along with connectors, accessories and end-to-end systems to over 5000 customers pan India. Our customers are spread across different industry segments, such as automation, textile, automotive, machine tools, oil and gas, renewable energy, process industries, as well as in the infrastructure and building sectors.
- Two manufacturing units – Bengaluru and Bhopal
- Five warehouses
- State-of-the-art laboratory
- Full-fledged innovation and engineering centre
- 23 sales offices close to customers all over India and five service points
- 300 employees committed to best serve customers
- A strong network of 150 dealers
In 2012, LAPP India completed phase one of its second manufacturing plant in Pilukedi, Bhopal, which produces more than 216,000 km of single-core cables per annum, catering mainly to the building cable segment. The production area at Jigani was also doubled in 2014, and a new multi-core line was commissioned in Bhopal with a total investment of over five million euros.
LAPP brands – ÖLFLEX®, UNITRONIC®, ETHERLINE®, HITRONIC®, EPIC®, SKINTOP®, SILVYN®, FLEXIMARK® – are some of the best-known in the cable technology field and have earned an outstanding reputation as premium products. All over the world, they stand for the values, which LAPP and its customers consider paramount: quality, precision and reliability.
