Cable Locater is Successful in the Red Dot Award 2014

With their new pipe and cable locator UT 9000, Hermann Sewerin GmbH from Guetersloh/Germany, succeeded in winning over the Red Dot jury. The 40 international design experts evaluated 4,815 entries from 53 countries in this year’s Red Dot Award: Product Design. The UT 9000 by SEWERIN received an Honourable Mention, which honours particularly well-executed aspects of design work.

On 7 July 2014, the highlight of the internationally renowned product competition was celebrated in Essen, Germany: the presentation of the acclaimed seal of quality during the traditional Red Dot Gala and subsequent Designers’ Night. On that evening, roughly 1,200 guests from around the world gathered in Essen in order to experience the awards ceremony. In the course of the party in the Red Dot Design Museum Essen, the winners’ exhibition was also opened, presenting the award-winning product UT 9000 to a wide audience for four weeks before it enters the museum’s permanent exhibition.

The UT 9000 stands out with its innovative technology. Carefully balanced, lightweight yet sturdy: these are demands the UT 9000 fulfils with ease. It also impresses with a high-resolution display that is plainly legible even in strong sunshine, and cleverly structured, easily understandable menu navigation designed for intuitive usage.

Boasting over 70 frequencies, the UT 9000 is one of the most versatile pipe location devices on the market. Offering the unique option of scanning the ambient frequencies present before energising a pipe, the UT 9000 helps users with selecting the right frequency. Undesirable interference fields are successfully suppressed, avoiding the detection of pipes which have been unintentionally energised at the same time.

Wireless communication between the receiver and generator allows the transmitting power and frequencies to be adapted for optimum detection. Equipped with one of the most powerful generators, the UT 9000 is ideal when locating very long pipe sections.

Operators of cable networks and their maintenance technicians will also quickly appreciate the benefits of the UT 9000. This device is not just designed for locating pipes but is also suitable when trying to locate cable faults.