Abstract: A wire taping installation provided with a device supplying the wire, a device for receiving the taped wire, a taping device fed with tape, as well as two pulleys round which the wire to be taped passes, the tape being applied against said wire between the two pulleys round which said wire passes and each pulley being connected to an apparatus for measuring the force, an installation in which there are electrical pick-ups respectively associated with said pulleys (2, 3), said pick-ups supplying T'am, T'av signals proportional to the Tam and Tav tensions of the wire round said pulleys (2, 3) and a substractor receiving said T'am, T'av signals so as to form a difference signal, said difference signal being compared in a substractor S2 with a theoretical value quantity (TrO cos .alpha.) and said difference signal is applied to an amplifier supplying a control signal SC of a device regulating the tension of the tape.