Cable grips are also knows as cable socks, stockings, snakes, chinese fingers, catenaries and stoppers.

Albion Manufacturing manufacture a highly successful range of cable grips known as Albi-Grips from 4.0mm to 900mm.

Albi-Grips are manufactured in three main designs - Single eyes, Double eye and open ended. Albi-Grips cn be used as pulling grips, support grips, connecting grips etc.
Albi-Grips can also be manufactured in a split design to enable the grip to be fitted at a point some way down the cable or under a large termination, for instance.
Albi-Grips can also be manufactuered in non-conductive and/or anti-magnetic materials - such as for use on power cables.
Albi-Grips are widely used for installation and maintance work on wire rope, wire cable, electrical and power cables, overhead lines, hydraulic pipes, telephone and fibre optic cables.
Albion offer a design, development and test service for special cable grips designed to specific customer requirements.