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Volume 46 | Number 4 | April 2013

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Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Industry News . . . . . . . . . . . 10 The Steel Edge . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Asian Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Fiber Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Fastener Update . . . . . . . . . . 30 WAI News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Chapter Corner . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Update: Interwire 2013 . . . . . . . . . .38 This section presents the latest information about what attendees will be able to see on the show floor at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

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The industry may focus on technology, production and revenues, but success ultimately depends on a workforce getting the job done right, which makes good hiring an essential key to a company’s success.

Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Career Opportunities . . . . . . . 83 Advertisers’ Index . . . . . . . . . 87

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T ECHNICAL P APERS Editor’s note: Technical papers will return in the May issue of Wire Journal International.

May 2013 • Russia Outlook Cover: A group shot of LS Cable trainees who performed a tap dancing routine as part of their education. As one company official explained, teamwork is essential for the troupe to dance as one. “While preparing for the performance, the new employees learned about teamwork naturally.”

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE BIG HOPES FOR SMALL ADVANCE . . . . . . .11

TECH EVENT: A MULTIPLE LEVEL SUCCESS . .36

Researchers from Rice University recently announced a nanotechnology breakthrough they said was more than a decade in the making, an advance that they say offers potential beyond the laboratory. A press release said that scientists—from Rice, the Dutch firm Teijin Aramid, the U.S. Air Force and Israel’s Technion Institute—unveiled a new carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber that looks and acts like textile thread yet conducts electricity and heat like a metal wire. Reported earlier this year in Science, the researchers described an industrially scalable process for making the threadlike fibers that outperform commercially available high-performance materials in a number of ways.

The Poland Chapter once again staged a successful technical conference, with its March 7-9 event drawing 90 participants from more than 30 institutions and companies. Above, following the day’s sessions, attendees went to Biały Potok, a mountaineer-style restaurant, where they got to enjoy regional meals, folk music, dancing and unusual games.

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Hiring: there’s more than one way for the industry to dance around employment issues

Publisher | Steven J. Fetteroll Editor-in-Chief | Mark Marselli

Technology is the key for manufacturers but ultimately it is the people who deploy it that make the difference. One can buy equipment with a known floor footprint and verifiable specs, but employees don’t come with such ratings. They come in all shapes and sizes, and it’s not so simple to determine who really takes pride in what they do. All of which makes good hiring an absolutely vital element. There are conflicting reports as to how deep the pool of candidates is, but for highly skilled positions, such as engineers, there seems to be widespread agreement that five to six years out, it is going to be much harder to replace retiring baby boomers. The feature in this issue presents a few slices of hiring elements, not all of which mesh seamlessly. Bruce Tulgan, an expert on young employees, notes that this group resides worlds away from a past era where loyalty was king, when one carried out orders without questions or complaints. You can see his comments personified in the piece on Steve Jones of ASARCO, hiring for his company’s rod mill in Texas, who recognized that the young engineering students he met were largely indifferent to his 31-year career with the same company. Some companies, such as Fort Wayne Metals, report that they are quite satisfied with the new hires they get from their comprehensive hiring process, but at the other end of the spectrum, how does one reconcile the cover photo of the dance troupe of trainees? South Korea’s LS Cable & System added tap dancing to a concentrated two-week trainee program as a fun exercise that also demonstrated the importance of working as a team. The company reports that the participants enjoyed the experience. It certainly looks that way, but it’s hard to imagine any U.S. company doing this without a slew of legal actions soon following. Are South Korean employees more dedicated to an employer? And even if so, is a company better off because of it? Maybe. Maybe not. There are many companies in the U.S. and Europe that have comprehensive training plans and efficiency programs where even the lowest-level employees can contribute to optimizing production, and veteran employees are hardly scarce. I figure that there’s more than one way to achieve a goal, and ultimately, one should not make too much of cultural differences. But how can one not smile at a training class that has a show-stopping finale?

Mark Marselli Editor-in-chief

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CALENDAR April 22-25, 2013: Interwire 2013 & WAI’s 83rd Annual Convention Atlanta, Georgia, USA. WAI returns to the Georgia World Congress Center to stage its biennial trade show, technical programs and 83rd Annual Convention. The update begins on p. 38. May 8-9, 2013: The 13th Annual Electrical Wire Processing Technology Expo Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. This event will be held at the Delta Center (formerly the Frontier Airlines Center). It will co-locate with the Electrical Manufacturing & Coil Winding Expo 2013. Contact: Expo Productions, www.electricalwireshow.com, tel. 800-367-5520. June 25-28, 2013: wire Russia 2013 Moscow, Russia. This event will return to the ZAO Expocentr Exhibition Centre in Krasnaya Presnya. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312781-5180, fax 312-781-5188, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com. Sept. 17-19, 2013: wire Southeast Asia Bangkok, Thailand. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, fax 312-781-5188, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com. Sept. 19-22, 2013: Cable & Wire Turkey Istanbul, Turkey, Cable & Wire – Cable Accessories, Cable Realignment, Electrical Insulation Materials will be held at the CNR Expo Center. Contact: tel. 90-0212- 46574-74/3227, re.koc@cnr.net, www.cnrexpo.com., Oct. 1-3, 2013: wire South America 2013 São Paulo, Brazil. Messe Düsseldorf and its partner Grupo Cipa will stage this fair for the Brazilian market at the Imigrantes Exposicoes Exhibition Centre. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-7815180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

Nov. 10-13, 2013: 62nd IWCS ConferenceTM Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. To be held at the Charlotte Convention Center. Contact: Pat Hudak, IWCS, tel. 732-389-0090, phudak@iwcs.org, www.iwcs.org. April 7-11, 2014: wire Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany. This biennial event will be held at the Messe fairgrounds. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com. May 6-7, 2014: WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. This WAI event will make its first-ever appearance at the Indianapolis Convention Center, where the Association will hold its trade show, technical programs and WAI’s 84th Annual Convention. It will be co-located with AISTech. See pp. 34-35. June 16-18, 2014: 14th Guangzhou International Metal Plate, Bar, Wire, Metal Processing & Setting Equipment Exhibition Guangzhou, China. This event, to be held at the China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex, is organized by Guangzhou Julang Exhibition Design Co., Ltd. The event organizers can be contacted at tel. 86-2038621071, fax 86-20-38620781, expo@julang.com.cn, www.metalchina-gz.com. Sept. 24-27, 2014: wire China 2014 Shanghai, China. To be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC). Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com. Oct. 28-30, 2014: Wire & Cable India Mumbai, India. This event will be held at the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

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May 6-7, 2014: WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. This WAI event will make its first-ever appearance at the Indianapolis Convention Center, where the Association will hold its trade show, technical programs and WAI’s 84th Annual Convention. It will be co-located with AISTech.

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INDUSTRY NEWS Radix Wire is acquired by private investment firms, expansion likely

Update: Encore Wire Corporation aluminum plant in initial production

Radix Wire has been acquired by Hunter Valley Company and The Vitruvian Group, both private investment firms based in Cleveland, Ohio. Radix Wire, a U.S. manufacturer of electrical wire and cable for high temperature applications founded in 1944 and based near Cleveland in Euclid, Ohio, is a leading manufacturer of UL, CSA and factory-rated electrical wire and cable for high temperature applications, a press release said. The company’s product portfolio, it noted, consists of dozens of unique products with temperature ratings from 150ºC to 1,000ºC and voltage ratings from 300V to 40KV. Radix wire and cable products are used by original equipment manufacturers in a variety of consumer, commercial, and industrial products as well for MRO applications in a wide range of end-markets. “During the past 30 years, Chuck and MaryLou VerMerris have built Radix into a strong business with a notable reputation of innovation for highly engineered wire and cable products and exceptional customer service,” J.J. Scaravilli, president of The Vitruvian Group, said in the release. “The company now is positioned for significant expansion in new markets and product offerings, and we look forward to partnering with Radix’s management team to develop and execute a focused growth strategy. We are committed to the Radix legacy, adding the necessary resources for expansion.” MaryLou VerMerris, former owner of Radix, said in the release that the company had looked for a partner that could help take the business to the next level. “I am confident that the Hunter Valley and Vitruvian team will continue to develop a strategic plan focused on growth opportunities.” At its website (www.radix-wire.com), the company notes that it has two state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in northeast Ohio, “capable of manufacturing over 200,000,000 feet of high temperature wire and cable a year, using cell manufacturing to focus complete production responsibility with specific production teams.” The company’s brands include Sil-A-Blend®, DuraBlend® and DuraFlex® technologies to solve high temperature wire problems. Radix Wire invented the fist 550°C UL listed wire in response to a customer requirement, and beginning with sales to Asian appliance assembly contractors in the 1980s, Radix has established relationships with OEM appliance manufacturers worldwide. Over 15% of its total revenue comes from export sales. Per the WJI 2013 Reference Guide, the company has 74 employees.

Encore Wire Corporation reports that the company’s first aluminum wire manufacturing plant, which it announced a little more than a year ago, has seen nearly all its equipment installed, with initial production well underway and the “de-bugging” process proceeding smoothly. The company invested about $40 million in the project, which it previously noted was undertaken to support its copper wire customers that also wanted to purchase lower-priced aluminum wire. The investment includes a 202,000-sq-ft building at the company’s campus in McKinney, Texas, the equipment and start-up costs.

An overhead view of Encore Wire’s new aluminum plant (middle). Company CFO Frank Bilban said that the expansion into aluminum has been handled internally, and that production will gradually increase as orders ramp up. Once at full capacity later this year, the plant will employ as many as a hundred new employees, he said. The production is for the U.S., although some sales to distributors could see the aluminum wire going elsewhere in the Americas and abroad, he said. Bilban said that Encore Wire, which specializes in building wire and armored wire, is still a big believer in copper, but it had to take care of customers who also wanted aluminum wire. The company had procured some aluminum wire for its customers from a third party but was not pleased with delivery times, and ultimately decided that it could do a better job itself, he said. Encore Wire’s coporate headquarters and manufacturing are all located at the McKinney campus, which is approximately 35 miles north of Dallas.

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Researchers from Rice University recently announced a nanotechnology breakthrough they described as more than a decade in the making, an advance that they say offers potential beyond the laboratory. A press release said that scientists from Rice, the Dutch firm Teijin Aramid, the U.S. Air Force and Israel’s Technion Institute unveiled a new carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber that looks and acts like textile thread and conducts electricity and heat like a metal wire. Reported earlier this year in Science, the researchers describe an industrially scalable process for making the threadlike fibers that outperform commercially available high-performance materials in a number of ways. “We finally have a nanotube fiber with properties that don’t exist in any other material,” said lead researcher Matteo Pasquali, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and chemistry at Rice. “It looks like black cotton thread but behaves like both metal wires and strong carbon fibers.” The research team includes academic, government and industrial scientists from Rice; Teijin Aramid’s headquarters in Arnhem, the Netherlands; the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel; and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Dayton, Ohio. “The new CNT fibers have a thermal conductivity approaching that of the best graphite fibers but with 10 times greater electrical conductivity,” said study co-author Marcin Otto, business development manager at Teijin Aramid. “Graphite fibers are also brittle, while the new CNT fibers are as flexible and tough as a textile thread. We expect this combination of properties will lead to new products with unique capabilities for the aerospace, automotive, medical and smart-clothing markets.” The release said the hollow tubes of pure carbon, which are nearly as wide as a strand of DNA, are about 100 times stronger than steel at one-sixth the weight, and that their conductive properties, for both electricity and heat, rival the best metal conductors. They also can serve as light-activated semiconductors and even sponges to soak up oil. Research over the last decade into carbon nanotubes has found them difficult to work with, but work has continued to mine the potential, the release said. The threadlike fiber that is less than one-quarter the thickness of a human hair will contain tens of millions of nanotubes packed side by side. Ideally, these nanotubes will be perfectly aligned, like pencils in a box, and tightly packed. One method is ‘wet spinning,’ where clumps of raw nanotubes are dissolved in a liquid and squirted through tiny holes to form long strands. In 2009, researchers discovered the first true solvent for nanotubes: chlorosulfonic acid, which made it possible to improve alignment and packing of nanotubes. “Until that time, no one thought that spinning out of chlorosulfonic acid was possible because it reacts with water,” Pasquali said in the release. “A graduate student in my lab, Natnael Bahabtu, found simple ways to show that CNT fibers could be spun from chlorosulfonic acid solutions.” Other labs found that reducing atomic defects in the

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Developers: new nanotech fiber has real-world wire potential

Rice engineering professor Matteo Pasquali (seated) led a team that created a pure carbon nanotube fiber that combines the best features of metal wires, carbon fibers and textile thread. The team included (from left) Rice graduate students Colin Young and Dmitri Tsentalovich, Teijin Aramid scientist Ron ter Waarbeek and Rice graduate student Mohammed Adnan. Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University. starting materials improved the strength and conductivity of spun fibers. In 2010, Teijin Aramid set up a collaboration project with Rice. Ultimately, the Pasquali-led team created a pure carbon nanotube fiber that combines the best features of metal wires, carbon fibers and textile thread. Study coauthor Junichiro Kono, a Rice professor, said that the results showed “the highest conductivity ever reported for a macroscopic CNT fiber.” The fibers reported in Science have about 10 times the tensile strength and electrical and thermal conductivity of the best previously reported wet-spun CNT fibers, Pasquali said. The specific electrical conductivity of the new fibers is on par with copper, gold and aluminum wires, but the new material has advantages over metal wires. For example, one application where high strength and electrical conductivity could prove useful would be in data and low-power applications, Pasquali said. “Metal wires will break in rollers and other production machinery if they are too thin. In many cases, people use metal wires that are far more thick than required for the electrical needs, simply because it’s not feasible to produce a thinner wire.” WJI posed several questions to Pasquali. Asked about line speed limitations, he replied, “Once one figures out how to spin, it does not take long to spin 50 meters of fiber. We have not yet studied limitations of line speed, but likely we could have the same speedups and limitations typical of other wet spinning processes.” Regarding wire size, he said that it would be easy to increase it. “We can spin from larger holes or we can weave together many filaments. Both processes are used in industrial fiber spinning.” And as for real-world deployment for wire, he said he believes that it can be costeffective someday for products such as data cable. “I would imagine that the costs will come down with scale.” For more details, go to www.news.rice.edu and search for “new nanotech fiber.” To see the spinning process, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XDJC64tDR0. APRIL 2013 | 11

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LS Cable & System reports 1st EHV cable order from South America South Korea’s LS Cable & System reported an order for EHV submarine cables from Venezuela that it said represents its first-ever venture for such cables in South America. A press release said that it would supply 230kV extrahigh-voltage submarine cables to the state power corporation of Venezuela (CORPOELEC). These cables, it said, will connect the 40-km distance between Chacopata in the inland state of Sucre and Margarita Island, and be used to supply electric power in the region. The turnkey contract, which includes installation and tests, recognizes the capabilities of LS Cable & System as a general engineering company as well as for its production technology, it said. The overall power grid in South America is old and the demand for electric power has increased, the release observed. “Accordingly, if LS Cable & System completes this project successfully, it expects to be able to win additional orders for submarine cables from other South American countries.” The release cited other recent contracts in Europe, U.S. and Middle East. Those orders prove that the company “has firmly established itself as a world-class submarine cable maker both in name and reality,” said Jae-In Yoon, director in charge of the sales division at LS Cable and System. “We will concentrate our energies on making inroads into new markets by capitalizing our high-valueadded products like submarine and EH-voltage cables.”

Prysmian Group wins 2 power cable contracts from Jersey Electric plc The Prysmian Group reports that it has been awarded two new contracts, worth a total of approximately 45 million euros, from the U.K.’s Jersey Electricity plc, to provide cable lines to transmit electricity to Jersey in the Channel Islands from the French mainland. A press release said that this “is the third such interconnector to be installed, and forms part of a significant 10year investment program by Jersey Electricity in their transmission network infrastructure.” The project, it said, calls for it to supply and install a High Voltage Alternate Current (HVAC) 90 kV power cable connection from France to Jersey that has a 35-km submarine route and 7 km on land, as well as related network components and specialist civil works on either ends. The submarine cable, it said, will be installed in early 2014, with project completion during the summertime. It noted that the interconnector is expected to eventually form part of the Channel Islands Electricity Grid, which is co-owned by Jersey Electricity and Guernsey Electricity and will significantly increase the Islands’ importation capability. The submarine cables for the Normandie 3 link will be manufactured in the Arco Felice plant (Italy), the Group’s center of technological and manufacturing excellence, the 12 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

release said. It noted that the center has seen considerable development, 40 million euros in 2012 alone. The land cable production, it added, will be made in Gron (France). The marine cable laying will be performed by Global Marine Energy (GME), Prysmian’s recent acquisition, which has expertise in offshore wind farm connections and is currently involved in major projects under construction in the North Sea. With the acquisition of GME, the Prysmian Group has expanded its ability to offer turnkey products and services (including design, manufacture and installation) to better serve the growing markets in Northern Europe and the Normandie 3 project will be the first one to be executed by the new organization, it said.

Sawing wire cuts into Bekaert profits Belgium’s Bekaert reported that results for its 2012 fiscal year were hampered by overcapacity in most markets and that an overall slowdown in global demand led to fierce competition and persistent price and margin pressure. A press release said that one of the harshest markets for Bekaert was the sawing wire business, which it began exiting in December 2011. The company incurred a total of 202 million euros in non-recurring costs, of which 117 million euros were related directly to the restructuring and impairments in the sawing wire activities, it said. The steps taken to “rightsize the respective activities with the new business reality substantially affected Bekaert’s financial performance for the year,” it said. “Notwithstanding this difficult economic and business climate, Bekaert managed to achieve stable sales volumes and a solid cash flow from operating activities, and significantly reduced its net debt position,” the release said. It noted that gross profit fell from 651 million euros to 479 million euros, although the company continued to make a significant invest in R&D (69 million euros) and capital expenditures (127 million euros) while reducing net debt (from 856 million euros to 700 million euros). Sawing wire had enjoyed strong demand when the solar industry was thriving, but when that business slumped, so did demand for the sawing wire, which was used to slice crystalline silicon-based solar cells.

Nexans gets further order for submarine cable for wind farm Nexans reports that it has won a further order from DONG Energy, through its subsidiary, Westermost Rough, Ltd., to supply 53 km of medium-voltage submarine cables for the Westermost Rough wind farm, which is to be built eight km off the Holderness coast in Yorkshire. A press release said that the new order represents the third one from an initial deal Nexans won in 2011 to deliver DONG Energy, a Danish business, up to 900 km of medium-voltage submarine cables for wind farm proj-

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ects. Per that deal, the company can take delivery of up to 150 km of Nexans high-performance cables every year for further offshore wind farms. The two prior orders, it said, were for the West of Duddon Sands wind farm and the Borkum Riffgrund 1 wind farm. The current order, the release said, is for three-wire VPE-insulated cable with a PE sheath and armoring as well as a shield area with longitudinal and transverse waterproofing designed to withstand the challenging underwater requirements. The cable, it said, will be used for connecting individual wind turbines to each other and to the transformer platform, with a further two km of cable to be delivered for the internal platform cabling. Delivery is scheduled to begin in spring 2014. The offshore wind farm will be constructed and subsequently operated by the Westermost Rough subsidiary, the release said. “Upon completion, 35 wind turbines, each with an output of six MW, will be located north-east of the Humber estuary in the North Sea. Following commissioning, which is scheduled for 2014, Westermost Rough will generate 210 MW of clean energy over an area of 35square km, enough to supply around 160,000 households in Britain with power.”

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ABB wins $10 million HV cable order to serve Icelandic island

ABB reports that it has won an order worth approximately US$10 million, from Landsnet, an Icelandic transmission system operator, to supply a high-voltage submarine and underground power-cable system that will transport electricity from the mainland to the volcanic island of Heimaey. A press release said that ABB will deliver the entire 17.5-km HV cable system, including a 13km submarine section, a 4.5 km underground section, and an integrated fiber-optic cable for telecommunications and temperature monitoring of the power cables. As part of the turnkey solution, ABB is responsible for design, engineering, submarine cable laying, joints and terminations, testing and commissioning, it said. “ABB’s high-voltage cable system will help to serve this island community with a reliable supply of electric power from the mainland grid,” said Brice Koch, head of ABB’s Power Systems division. Heimaey, the release said, is the only inhabited island of the Vestmannaeyiar archipelago off the southern coast of Iceland. The new 72 kilovolt (kV) cable system will replace an existing cable that is approaching the 139 end of its operating life, it said.

Prysmian reports order for submarine cable for North Sea The Prysmian Group announced that it has been awarded a new contract, worth more than 50 million euros, to connect the Offshore Wind Park (OWP) Deutsche Bucht, located in the North Sea, to the mainland grid. A press release said that the order from TenneT, operator of transmission systems in Germany and the Netherlands, calls for the design, supply and installation of turn-key High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) submarine power cable systems. The order includes two 3-core 155 kV extruded cables with integrated fiber optic cable elements along a 31-km submarine route to enable the grid connection of the OWP Deutsche Bucht via converter platforms planned within the BorWin cluster, it said, adding that it includes a connection to be made from the OWP platform to the offshore

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HVDC converter platform, referred to as “BorWin beta.” The release said that Prysmian previously won the contract for the onward connection of the “BorWin beta” platform to the German mainland grid in 2010 as part of the BorWin2 project. It noted that the order “marked a technology milestone in the industry as it was the

first-ever commercial ± 300 kV DC cable project using extruded technology and the first 800 MW rated connection to offshore wind parks employing VSC technology (Voltage Sourced Converter).” Under the latest contract, Prysmian will also supply and install associated platform cables and the required shunt reactors on the OWP Deutsche

Bucht platform, as part of the full turn-key scope of the project addressed by the Group’s extended capability, the release said. Production for the order will be the company’s manufacturing site in Arco Felice (Naples, Italy), with marine cable laying by the company’s installation vessels, “Giulio Verne” and “Cable Enterprise,” with project completion expected planned for late 2015, it said. The release said that the outlook is very strong for such energy order. It cited recent data from the European Wind Energy Association, which said that “5 GW of generation capacity were installed in 2012 alone, 4.5 GW are currently under construction and 18.4 GW have already been consented to and authorized for the coming years.” Marcello Del Brenna, CEO, Prysmian Powerlink, said that the order represents the 12th such order for the Group, which has invested in the growing sector. This, he said, “further highlights Prysmian’s strategic role in supporting the realization of the important development plans in the field of renewable wind power in Germany and Northern Europe with unique technologies and expertise.”

AMSC wins HTS wire order from Nexans U.S.-based AMSC announced that it has received an order for its high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire from Nexans for use in a superconductor fault current limiter (SFCL). A press release said that the SFCL will act as a surge protector at “AmpaCity,” a project—by Nexans; the RWE Group, a leading European electricity and gas company; and KIT, a German research institute—that aims to replace inner-city high-voltage equipment with superconductor systems. It said that medium-voltage superconductor systems “uniquely provide an alternative to conventional high-voltage installations,” and that the SFCL “will provide overload protection to a superconductor cable, lowering the fault cur-

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Visit us at Interwire Booth # 1001 rent levels, and allowing for a safe and reliable interconnection to the grid.” The complete HTS system, which includes a cable and SFCL, will be manufactured by Nexans, using Amperium® superconductor wire for the SFCL, the release said. The Amperium wire, it noted, is used for high-power applications, including SFCLs, power cables, motors and generators. McCall did not disclose the amount of wire ordered but he did note that it would be delivered early this year.

Leoni wins order for cable harnesses Leoni reported that its South Korean branch has won an additional order from Ssangyong Motor Company, a leading South Korean SUV manufacturer, for cable harnesses for a new car that will enter the market in 2015. A press release said that the deal calls for Leoni to develop, produce and deliver several types of cable harnesses for one of Ssangyong’s new cars, a compact SUV that was showcased as a concept car at the Geneva motor show in 2012. The manufacturer plans to produce it in Korea for the local market as well as for Europe and other regions in the world, and the total lifetime revenues were projected at approximately 75 million euros.

A recent new model from South Korea’s Ssangyong Motor Company. Leoni’s South Korean entity, based in Busan, was established from its 2012 acquisition of Daekyeung, a local wiring harness manufacturer, the release said. Due to higher integration and start-up costs, restructuring expenses and weaker operating performance, the new operation had a loss for 2012, it said. Now, the expectations are better, said Dr. Andreas Brand, a member of Leoni AG’s Management Board, and the person in charge of the Wiring Systems Division.

CommScope: Cat. 8 copper cables are feasible for enterprise networks U.S.-based CommScope reports that it has successfully demonstrated the technical feasibility of Cat. 8 cabling for enterprise networks using copper cables. A press release said that CommScope verified a proofof-concept solution for a viable 40 Gigabit per second

Videojet reports Chinese client is very satisfied with results of its order U.S.-based Videojet Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of coding, printing and laser marking products, announced that Baosheng Group has found better efficiency from Vidoejet’s 1710 continuous ink jet printer for its high-volume production facility in Jiangsu Province, China.

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Sikora to open its 13th branch office, will serve the New England region Germany’s Sikora, which last year opened branch offices in Dubai and Brazil, announced that it plans to open its 13th branch office in New England, most likely in the Boston region. In an interview provided by the company, a global supplier of testing and measuring equipment, Sikora CEO Harry Prunk explained why there will be a second branch office in the U.S. (the other being in Georgia). “Our first U.S. branch office was opened in 1991. The American market has increased strongly since then. We question now if one single office is able to cover all the American states. In contrast, Sikora China, which also opened in 1991, now offers service from three branch offices. That is why we decided to open a new office in Northeast America, too.” Prunk observed that branch requirements have changed, and while branch openings 20 years ago strongly emphasized sales, customers today require service activities on site. “At any time, a device must be available. Thus, a perfect service network is of great importance. Delivering yearly a couple of thousand devices worldwide, we of course provide local service in the U.S.”

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(Gbps) Ethernet channel “by utilizing prototype Category 8 RJ-45 connectors and copper twisted pair cables.” All components were designed by engineers in CommScope labs, and the demonstration took place at a recent 802.3 NGBASE-T study group meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, it said. “This is a step along the path towards a viable 40GBASE-T system for data center applications,” it reported. “We believe this demonstrated solution shows the real market potential for customers to eventually take advantage of 40G transmission rates over copper twisted-pair based media with cable and connector types they are familiar with today,” said Richard Mei, director of transmission solutions, CommScope. The two aspects outlined by this proof-of-concept include commonly used RJ-45 connectors and bandwidth capability of proposed Cat. 8 cabling, the release said.

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A press release said that the Baosheng Groupc has four production lines that run 24/7 at speeds over 32 feet of cable per minute. It said that the company had been using 40 early-generation continuous ink jet printers, but was finding it difficult to clearly mark the products with all the required information. “Code legibility and ink adhesion is vital to our business when we are required to meet industry regulations” said Ju ChaoRong, Director of Technology Management for Baosheng. “We’ve found this with Videojet’s 1710 continuous

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ink jet coder. We can run any ink we need—including pigmented, high-contrast ink—in the 1710 coders without problems. ”

Fenton Group expands resources The Fenton Group, Inc., based in Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA, reports that it has aligned itself with a media group that includes Mattingly Graphics LLC and Pixeledge Studios LLC. A press release said that the alignment increase the Fenton Group’s capabilities to deliver high-impact marketing and promotional tools and plans. “We have always been a concepts-to-content resource for the wire and cable industry and suppliers to the industry, “ Vice President and Managing Director Ed Fenton said. “This alliance allows us to expand our offering of corporate promotional and technical videos, streaming content, graphic design, and web design (including in-bound and content advertising), for the industry combined with knowledge of how to deliver the right messages in this industry space.” Fenton Group, Inc., is a member of the Wire & Cable Manufacturers Alliance (WCMA). Ed Fenton is a member of Wire Association International (WAI) and a charter member of its New England Chapter. He has specialist experience in the wire, cable, fiber optic, plastics and materials industries and also serves as WCMA chairman. His company is the former co-owner of the Wire & Cable Focus Conference and Exposition (now part of IWCS). For more details, including completed project work for clients, go to www.fentongroup.com.

UL warns of cable that should not have its mark Underwriters Laboratories (UL) announced that a CMR communications cable bearing its mark was not been authorized and that the product may pose a hazard as it is missing required flame retardant elements. It said that the cable, (MONOPRICE TYPE CM 23AWG 4PR UTP CMR FT4 C(UL)US VERIFIED (UL) CATEGORY6E TIA/EIA-568-B-2.1 550 MHZ CABLE MASTER) “has not been evaluated...and is not authorized to bear the UL Mark.” Because it is missing required flame retardant elements, the cable may cause an increased risk of fire, the release said.

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Wire rod: a supply/demand outlaw In a perfect world (or, thinking smaller, a perfect steel market), demand for steel wire rod would rule price movements. If supply was steady (excluding factors like the recent glut of Chinese wire rod) and construction and manufacturing activity was improving, then U.S. domestic wire rod mills would have free reign to raise prices and customers, well, would have no choice but to pay them. However, this is clearly not a perfect world (or steel market), and supply/demand dynamics do not work in altogether logical ways, especially in the wire rod sector. Like other long steel products, wire rod prices are beholden to the monthly ebb and flow of scrap prices. But unlike other long products, wire rod price movements are influenced by another factor—mill arrogance (or delusion, depending on who you ask). Some mills react to scrap price changes in strange ways. For example, Nucor reacted to the $35/long ton price increase for shredded scrap in March with a $40/net ton wire rod increase, while other mills, such as Gerdau and Keystone, went level with a $35/net ton price increase. Nucor’s move reflected a sector-wide bullish-to-a-hyperbolic-degree attitude, and it was not limited to increases. Last fall, when shredded scrap prices saw two consecutive price decreases (Sept., Oct.), nary a peep was heard from the mills. Some larger customers were able to quietly negotiate order prices down, but no official announcements were made and smaller customers did not see any cuts in raw materials costs. However, when the scrap market reversed course in November and prices jumped $40-$60/long ton, mills wasted no time in setting a $50/net ton price increase. A few months earlier, mills had followed the same similar script as a substantial $80/long ton increase in scrap in August resulted in an immediate $80/net ton transaction price increase for wire rod. That said, actual wire rod prices in the market did not follow the mills’ intentions. After a few minor fluctuations, spot prices in December 2012 resembled the price range in August: $660-$680/net ton. By March 2013 (right before the price increase was announced), spot prices were just $10/net ton less. An anonymous wire rod mill source, asked why his and other mills followed the same bullish pricing pattern over and over when the market always pushed back, offered a few reasons. For one, China re-entering the U.S. wire rod import market in 2012 put several mills on edge, and that fear was not entirely unwarranted. U.S. traders snapped up Chinese product for bargain-basement prices in the first half of the year, but instead of reacting with “foreign fighter” deals, U.S. mills basically asked for much more than they expected, then settled for more than they would have otherwise received. Overall, the strategy worked, but it wasn’t the whole story. Mills have been following this script for years. Another source said that strong price increases are

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“confidence builders” more than anything else, there to inject some market optimism to counteract economic uncertainty over the fate of U.S. government spending and tax rates. Other sources cited the wire rod market’s relatively small size compared to the rebar market, which responds more understandably. Also, wire rod does cost a lot Katie Memmel more to produce than does rebar. While there is no consensus on exactly why mills do what they do with wire rod prices (and why their policies for wire rod differ so much than the rest of the long product mix), there is an expectation among all levels of the supply chain that once construction, manufacturing, and other key enduse sectors get back to pre-crisis levels of activity, demand for wire rod will undoubtedly become the driver of wire rod pricing, more than scrap shifts and more than mill arrogance (or delusion, whatever). As many wire product producers are only running at 50-60% capacity, moderate demand in the market means moderate availability, which means mills don’t have to take demand into account that much. But once those producers are running at 70-75% capacity to keep up with end-use demand, availability will tighten and the law of supply and demand will finally take hold. But even then, it wouldn’t be surprising if mills found some pretext to raise wire rod prices even beyond what is dictated by demand. Because once you get in the habit of setting laughably unreasonable price policies, it’s rather hard to stop.

This quarterly column is by Katie Memmel, content manager and editor-in-chief of Prime magazine, published by SteelOrbis. She can be contacted at tel. 713-589-6049, kmemmel@steelorbis.com, www.steelorbis.com. SteelOrbis provides steel news, sector analysis, trade statistics on steel, market pricing and more as well as a secure e-trade platform for steel buyers and sellers.

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ASIAN FOCUS Report: alternative energy focus aside, coal continues to be an Asia mainstay

sumer and the largest seaborne importer in the world. By 2017, China and India together represent more than onethird of global coal imports and almost two-thirds of global coal demand. With coal counting for more than 40% of electricity generation globally, and more than 30% in OECD countries, it is clear that Chinese and Indian coal market decisions, both political and commercial, will have an impact on our electricity bills.” Although the growth rate of coal slows from the breakneck pace of the last decade, global coal consumption by 2017 stands at 4.32 billion metric tons of oil equivalent (btoe), versus around 4.40 btoe for oil, based on IEA medium-term projections. “The IEA expects that coal demand

For all the focus on the increased role of alternative energy, of which China is a leader, coal’s role in the global energy mix continues to rise, and likely will top oil by 2017, according to a report that identifies China and India as representing a huge amount of the increased demand. Despite the heightened focus on climate policy and sustainability, global annualized coal use will continue to increase by more than 500,000 metric tons per annum every day for the next five years, reports the International Energy Agency (IEA), which identifies itself as an autonomous organization that works to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for its 28 member countries and beyond. In a press release about its study, “MediumTerm Coal Market Report 2012,” IEA points out that coal has seen annual increases of more than 4% in global demand, and is expected that to continue growing at that rate for at least another three years. “As a result, the share of coal continues to increase in the global primary energy mix, although it does not catch up with oil in the medium term,” the IEA reports. The growth has not been across the board as coal use has declined in the U.S. due to the advent of cheap natural gas, but that shortfall has been made up by China and India, which represents almost all the global increase in coal consumption, it said. A coal-fired power plant in China. The report made several points, one of which was that the rise in coal use is concentrated. “The second point is that neither climate policy nor a macroeconomic will increase in every region of the world except in the slowdown stops the relentless increase of coal, but cheap United States, where coal is being pushed out by natural natural gas can. We saw that, after the financial crisis and gas,” the release said. subsequent recession, coal demand never stopped growing. “Thanks to abundant supplies and insatiable demand for And coal is still growing despite aggressive climate policies power from emerging markets, coal met nearly half of the in many places. We also have run a sensitivity case in this rise in global energy demand during the first decade of the report, in which we consider Chinese growth halving over 21st Century,” said IEA Executive Director Maria van der the outlook period. And coal demand still goes up. The only Hoeven. “This report sees that trend continuing. In fact, the significant decline in coal consumption globally occurred in world will burn around 1.2 billion more tonnes of coal per United States. The reason is cheap gas, thanks to the unconyear by 2017 compared to today – equivalent to the current ventional revolution there. The impact of the coal to gas coal consumption of Russia and the United States comswitch in North America is so significant that, for the first bined. Coal’s share of the global energy mix continues to time since China’s rise, the medium-term growth rate of grow each year, and if no changes are made to current poliglobal coal consumption will fall below the growth rate of cies, coal will catch oil within a decade.” gas.” China and India will lead the growth in coal consumption Electricity prices are a major concern to many countries, over the next five years. The report projects that China will especially during a tough economic period, but higher surpass the rest of the world in coal demand during the outprices will depend increasingly on Chinese and Indian polilook period, and that India will eventually surpassing the cy and investment decisions, the release said. “Our Base United States. The report also notes that in the absence of a Case Scenario shows that China absorbs more than half of high carbon price, “only fierce competition from low-priced global demand by 2017. At the same time, India’s coal gas can effectively reduce coal demand.” demand growth accelerates, pushing up imports. For more details, go to www.iea.org. Consequently, India becomes the second-largest coal conHave news that belongs here? If so, e-mail it to editorial@wirenet.org.

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Lapp India expansion of its cable production continues per the company’s long-terms plans Lapp India, a manufacturer of cables and related products, first began operations in a facility in Bangalore in 1996. Today, the company, part of Germany’s Lapp Group, recently completed the first of four phases of its second manufacturing plant, in Bhopal, part of a four-phase plan to be completed over a five-year period, that will see it become Lapp Group’s largest facility. The new plant, in Pilukedi, Rajgrah District of Bhopal, is spread over an area of 117,000 sq m. It is designed to produce 1,000 km of single-core cables daily, catering mainly to the Building Cable Segment (BCS). In published reports, Andreas Lapp, chairman of the board, Lapp Holding AG, said that the decision was made to invest in India, “mainly due to promising growth opportunities presented by the country.” He noted that Lapp India saw 23% growth from the prior year, and that the new facility in Bhopal will help meet growing customer demand. He said that there is sizeable market for single-core wires, especially for the building segment. “We, at Lapp, have identi-

fied this opportunity in India ... and are strengthening our base accordingly.” Lapp said that in terms of the plant location, Bhopal has advantages. First, it is centrally located in the heart of India, and the facility will be well-equipped to meet the logistical requirements of the northern and eastern parts of India and cater to increased demand across India. He said that the first phase is for production of single-core cables, and that the latter phases will focus on producing multi-core cables, aluminum cables and HT/LT cables, respectively. “Further, with the state-of-the art manufacturing facility in Jigani, Bangalore, nearing its full capacity, we plan to invest in expansion of the Bangalore plant,” Lapp said. “This will help us gear up to meet India’s growing domestic needs. Further, the tier-II and III cities have been developing vigorously and we have been witnessing good demand from these regions. Hence we are focusing our efforts on exploring the market potential in these regions by educating buyers about the significance of quality products as opposed to low-priced sub-standard products.” “At Lapp India, we manufacture cables catering to all connectivity requirements for an expanse of verticals including wind, solar, automation, automobile, building connectivity, machine tool, process, solar, and even public sector.”

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PEOPLE Erik A. Macs has been named vice president of sales and marketing for Progressive Machinery, Inc. He has 23 years of experience in wire and cable machinery sales. He most recently was vice president of sales for Fine International Corp., which he joined in 2005. He previously worked in a range of key sales, production and R&D positions for Thermoplastics Engineering Corp., Entwistle Company, Dennison Manufacturing, Union Camp Corporation, Judd Wire and American Durafilm Company. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Central New England College. A longtime active member of the Wire Association International, he is Erik A. Macs a director of its New England Chapter and served as chapter president in 2000. He is this year’s recipient of the Association’s Donnellan Memorial Award and was the recipient of the President’s Award in 2004. Based in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, and partnered with TMS-Specialties

Manufacturing Co, Inc., and Electronic Drives and Controls, Inc., Progressive Machinery, Inc., supplies a wide range of wire and cable machinery. RAD-CON Inc. has named Wynn H. Kearns as director of marketing and sales. He has more than 20 years of experience and is an expert in protective atmosphere systems for metals. He will lead ferrous and nonferrous bell annealing furnace projects, He previously was responsible for NAFTA business development for CMI EFCO, and during his eight plus years there he oversaw multiple projects in North America as well as export markets in Brazil, China, Wynn H. Kearns Russia, Korea and India. Prior to entering sales, he was operations superintendent for ArcelorMittal Tubular (Copperweld) in Shelby, Ohio. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, RAD-CON Inc., specializes in hydrogen bell furnace technology.

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will join fellow sales representatives Rick Coughran and Bill Leebe. Based in St. Charles, Illinois, USA, Alps Wire Rope Corporation supplies a diverse range of wire ropes and associated products.

OBITUARIES Barney Waterman, a former owner of Radix Wire Co., died Feb. 1 at age 94. A resident of Beachwood, Ohio, USA, and a World War II veteran who served as a combat medic in the U.S. Army’s 35th division, he joined Radix Wire in 1948 as the plant manager. He worked there for many years and was the owner when he retired in 1983. He was named “Man of the Year” in the wire business by the Camden Wire Co. He held a degree in chemistry from University of Rhode Island and an advanced degree in chemistry from Virginia Tech. He is survived by a daughter, Anne (Steven) Cayne; two grandchildren,Hallie (Sean) Fisher and Brian (Daria) Cayne; and four Barney Waterman great-grandchildren: Alex and

Lindsay Fisher and Camryn and Wesley Cay. He was predeceased by his wife, Rose. David William Taylor, AMIEE, MIEE, AMA, 69, of Granger, Indiana, USA, died Jan. 24, 2013. He was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, where he earned degrees from the Institute of Electrical Engineering in London. Most recently, he worked as a senior product engineer at Coleman Cable, Inc., in Bremen, Indiana. He was a member of IEEE and WAI. He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Josephine “Jose” (Gaskell) Taylor; three children: Christopher J. (Emily) Taylor of South Bend, Indiana, Jannine Dolby of Granger, Indiana, and Helen (Bob) Teutsch of Holland, Michigan; nine grandchildren; a brother, Michael Taylor, and a sister, Barbara (Taylor) Carter, both of whom live in England.

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Alps Wire Rope Corporation announced that Abe Guerrero will join the company’s existing sales team to manage the company’s newest warehouse location in Houston, Texas, USA. Guerrero, a native of Houston,

FTTH Council wants FCC to push for all-fiber, but CDA says, ‘Not so fast’ The U.S. arm of the Fiber to the Home Council wants the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to support efforts to deploy all-fiber networks and eliminate their more costly and duplicative copper facilities once those upgrades are made, a perspective that, not surprisingly, did not go over well with the Copper Development Association (CDA) In a filing to the FCC, the FTTH Council urged the FCC “to support fiber deployments as essential to America’s economic future.” To that end, it wants telephone companies to deploy all-fiber networks and “eliminate duplicative copper facilities once those fiber upgrades are made.” Maintaining the copper networks will slow the evolution to ultra highspeed fiber, it said. The body opposed a request by a group of competitive broadband providers—which it noted under FCC “unbundling” regulations are afforded access to offer their services over legacy copper networks—that have petitioned the FCC to require telephone companies to keep those networks in service after they upgrade to fiber. “It is clear that fiber technology is superior, that consumer demand is increasing rapidly for higher-performance networks, and, as a result, wireline providers of all types are by

necessity deploying fiber plant,” the FTTH Council wrote. It noted that virtually no network provider is installing “new” copper in its access network in any meaningful way. David Brender, CDA’s national program manager, electrical applications, told WJI that the issue is not as simple or clear-cut as the FTTH portrays it. “Copper technology is constantly improving. A great many telephone companies terminate their fiber networks 2500 to 5000 feet from the home and utilize the existing copper network the rest of the way. They find the copper technology more than adequate for the majority of users, including high speed Internet and television. In fact, services such as AT&T’s U-Verse are delivered over copper. “Converting the last mile to fiber is really expensive. Who pays? If conversion is not really necessary most of the time, why spend the money for something not really needed? “A thought to consider for copper networks: copper conducts electricity. Fiber doesn’t. During Hurricane Sandy, a consultant in New York reported he was the only neighbor who had continuous phone service. If electricity goes out (likely during a storm), fiber-based technologies are useless. The cell networks at first were overloaded; then his neighbors started running out of battery power. He was the only one with working phones.”

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FASTENER UPDATE Rotem Industrial Products: 50 years of service in a narrow industry niche This year, Rotem Industrial Products (www.rotem.ca), a small Canadian distributor that serves the metalworking and wire/fastener industries, celebrates its 50th year as a family business. Founded in northwest Toronto by Roland Temple and Art Larman, who bought out Temple in 1998. Rotem, which has eight employees, represents wire processing equipment from straighteners to wiredrawing systems and related products from fluids and gauges to cutting tools, Below, Paul Anthony Larman, company vice president, discusses how the small company has fared. WJI: How has Rotem most changed over the years? Larman: The biggest changes have come with the need to adapt to our customers’ changing needs and the change in our customer base. In 1963, our largest customers were steel mills and locomotive makers. Dingy, dark, low-tech stuff. Most of the manufacturers we initially sold to are gone or completely remade. As a distributor we have had to add (and delete) lines and sales methods to adapt to this. We have evolved from doing a lot of hand-tapping of threads to circular interpolation with thread mills! WJI: What’s good or bad about being a small company? Larman: The pluses are that Art—my dad and company president—and I can make decisions, big and small, instantly. No committees or board meeting needed. We have a great, open door, family atmosphere. My dad is a father figure to all of us. Also, we have low overhead. The minuses are that many of our competitors are larger, and the economy of scale allows them to sell the same products at a lower margin, forcing us to match or walk. Also, suppliers are pressuring us to add more “feet on the street” or else, and integrated supply giants cause us grief. WJI: Are customers okay buying from a small company? Larman: We sometimes feel that we need to prove ourselves against the bigger, better known suppliers. WJI: Is it hard to get and keep good employees? Larman: Not really. Our four salesmen have been with us for 2, 8, 10 and 14 years, respectively; and our bookkeeper 14 years, office manager 18 years and shipper two years. WJI: Who exactly do you compete with? Larman: Our competitors range from multi-national giants (MSC, PTS) to tiny one-man operations. We are fairly “nichey “ in that we don’t sell ropes, chains, soap and toilet paper like some of our competitors do. WJI: How wide a range of products do you represent? Larman: We sell RMG/FELM wiredrawers, payoffs,

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From l-r, the Rotem crew: Matt Folkard, Jey Paransothy, Paul Anthony Larman, Terry O’Grady, John Somerville, Rose Guerra, Alex Balazsy, Art Larman and Gary Jamieson. Missing: Lucy Larman and Linda Larman. straighten and cut as well as AIM CNC benders, along with industrial fluids. WJI: Have you come close to not making 50 years? Larman: 1993 was very bad, early 80s too, and in 2008 we posted a six-figure loss. We survived by having zero debt and very low overhead as well as having great people! WJI: Any desire to grow your company larger? Larman: Growth is always desirable, but we try to avoid “growth for growth’s sake.” The concept of acquisitions have been “toyed with” only. WJI: Have the elements needed for success changed since your company’s inception? Larman: I think the elements have changed. “Back in the day,” if we offered great service at a reasonable price it was enough, but that’s not enough now with the “global economy” and the “information superhighway.” Everything has become a commodity, loyalty belongs to the guy with the lowest price (this week) and we have to strive daily to differentiate. WJI: How exactly do you do that? Larman: It’s the extent we’re willing to go for our customers. Our salesmen have been known to don work clothes and do machine sump cleanouts to earn new business. For a while, we were actually manufacturing a supplier’s cutting fluids in-house. We had our own mixing tanks and their chemist would come up regularly with the “secret recipe” and we would blend and package it. That service was killed by ISO and packaging regulations, but not the spirit we offer. With local support and home phone numbers on our business cards, our customers know that they can call us any time and count on us to react immediately. Our team— Jey, Rose, Matt, Gary, Terry, Alex, John, and Linda—is fantastic, and fantastic comes across to customers.

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James Goudreault Chemical Engineer New England Wire Technologies USA

Q: What does your company do? A: New England Wire Technologies designs and manufactures custom cable and Litz wire. On-site manufacturing processes include wire drawing, plating, braiding, cabling, extrusion services and testing. Q: What is your role there? A: My primary role is to qualify new materials that expand our capabilities or offer improved properties and processability compared to existing materials. I also assist in process improvements and troubleshooting, mostly in wiredrawing and plating departments. Q: What do you like best about your position? A: I get to spend a lot of time on the floor, working with operators and techs to improve processes. Q: How has the industry most changed? A: The trend seems to be that everything needs to be smaller, faster and greener. Q: How does your company remain competitive? A: New England Wire remains competitive through vertical integration of our manufacturing processes. We have a great number of in-house capabilities which set us apart from others in the industry: from drawing and plating our own conductor material to mechanical and electrical testing of our finished product, we do it all. Q: Why did you recently join WAI? A: In addition to learning more about the industry, I’m interested in the online resources provided to members…and also I don’t want to miss out on the New England Chapter’s next golf tourney at Maplewood.

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The following individuals recently joined Wire Association International. Justyna Adamczyk Ph D Student Czestochowa University of Technology Andy Blanchard President & CEO United Copper Industries Milton Burson Senior Planner Southwire Co Forte Power System Inc Ricky Capano Sr Project Engineer Alcan Cable Emmy Carnley Industrial Engineer Southwire Co Ron J Coffey Senior Project Manager General Cable Corp Timothy Colin Ermatinger Director of Sales and Marketing Sjogren Industries David Neal Davis Manufacturing Specialist Southwire Co Forte Power System Inc Michael De Sa Business Manager Axiall Corporation

Marek Gala Assistant Professor Czestochowa University of Technology Samuel Giles Process Engineer General Cable James Goudreault Chemical Engineer New England Wire Technologies Phillip Isbell Department Manager SCUPP Southwire Co Don Ledford Industrial Packaging Consultant L-S Industries Inc Industrial Packaging Solutions John C. Meyer Planner Southwire Co Forte Power System Inc William David Moore Project Manager Southwire Co. Kari Nieminen Owner KN Manufacturing Solutions Kalpesh R Patel Sr. Global Marketing Manager PolyOne Corporation

Eric J Schackmann Process Engineer General Cable Corp Noor H Shah Electrical Engineer Southwire Co Patrick Slaughter Mechanical Engineer Southwire Co Maciey Suliga Assistant Professor Czestochowa University of Technology Kevin Synan Manufacturing Director Hickory Springs Co Wire Products Jose Guadalupe Trejo Department Manager SCUPP Southwire Co Alexander Turnbull Mgr/Met Eng Davis Wire Corp QA Clinton Watkins Technical Manager Southwire Co Dongmoon Jegal Zenkoh Overseas Manager Korea Co Ltd

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Massimiliano Fantuzzi R&D Manager Tenova

Gatz Westbrook Riddell Mechanical Engineer Southwire Co

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James A Elliott Purchasing Manager New England Wire Technologies

Wilber Freeman Powers Manager Research and Product Development Southwire Co

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At Interwire 2013, the focus heightens on WAI’s 2014 event Most of the attention has rightfully been on Interwire 2013, but events require extensive planning, and so behind the scenes at Atlanta the focus will be on Indianapolis, Indiana, which next May will host the 2014 WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo. Much work has already been done for the event, to be held for the first time ever in Indiana, at the Indianapolis Convention Center. More will be presented about the tech-

nical program, trade show, plant tours, keynote speaker and other elements in future issues, but the focus here is about how the event will be co-located with AISTech, the annual event of the Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST). The AIST held its last conference in a location that should be quite familiar to the wire industry: the Georgia World Congress center in Atlanta, Georgia. The four-day

Volunteer Sp tlight This occasional section will provide readers a better idea of the activities of WAI’s committees and its board of directors.

WAI’s Education Committee The Education Committee oversees the creation and implementation of WAI’s technical and educational products and services. The 19-member group organizes courses, workshops, and other presentations for WAI’s annual convention; develops the association’s ongoing series of webinars; and publishes handbooks and instructional DVDs for sale through the WAI Store. The committee meets two or three times a year in person or by conference call. Additional work on specific projects is done by committee members working in smaller, ad hoc groups. “The world of technical training is changing, and we have to keep up with those changes,” said new Committee Chairman Brian Parsons, Southwire Co. “The technology available to us has changed so much just in the last five years, as have the needs of our members. We have to strive not just to stay on top of that, but we also need to get ahead of it.” A key component is WAI’s new schedule of webinars, which Parsons and other volunteers were instrumental in planning. The association recently launched a two-year series of webinars designed to present the fundamentals of wire and cable manufacturing in more than 30 installments in ferrous, nonferrous, and electrical tracks. The committee also organizes the Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing in-person course, a recurring program that is constantly being revised to give attendees a grounding in the principles, processes, and products of ferrous, nonferrous, and electrical wire and cable. Originally organized into a three-year rotating cycle, the course has been streamlined and adapted to match the changing face of the annual WAI conference with which it coincides. The committee also developed the Production Solutions series of exhibit-floor demonstrations at Interwire and

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Wire Expo. These practical “how-to” presentations give exhibitors another way to communicate directly with customers while helping them learn how to improve their own work processes. “Since this committee was formed amid WAI’s reorganization seven years ago, this group’s task has really Brian Parsons evolved with the industry,” said WAI Director of Education and Member Services Marc Murray, staff liaison to the committee. “So much of it used to be about staging live workshops at all points of the compass. Now, like everything else, it’s about digital delivery and innovative thinking.” Education Committee Members Peter Blackford, Cable USA Inc. Donald Dodge, Calmont Wire & Cable Joseph Domblesky, Marquette University Steve Ford, Southwire Co. Mark Garretson, Flynn Garretson Associated Companies C. Richard Gordon, Gerdau William Jarae, Charter Steel Erik Macs, Fine International Corp. Richard Medoff, Ace Metal Inc. Donald Neville, RichardsApex Europe Ltd. Ralph Noonan, Etna Products Inc. (Vice Chairman) Dale Olp, Special Metals Corp., A-1 Wire Tech Inc. Brian Parsons, Southwire Co. (Chairman) Paul Pawlikowski, Delphi Packard Electric Systems Horace Pops, Horace Pops Consulting Inc. Peter Power, Power Innovative Technology William Reichert, Champlain Cable Corp. (Executive Committee Liaison) Donald Sayenga, Cardon Management Group/WAI Historian Robert Shemenski, RMS Consulting Inc. Bhaskar Yalamanchili, Gerdau

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program saw more than 400 technical presentations as well as its AISTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trade show, plant tours, keynote presentations and more. The collective event covers advances in all phases of ironmaking, steelmaking, rolling and finishing processes, and the various engineering, equipment and process technologies involved in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s steel production. Per the AIST, the event is the largest gathering of steel industry personnel in the world. Some 5,200 attendees from 40 countries attended the 2012 show. The exhibit area, which covered 189,000 sq ft, was the largest ever for the event, with a total of 470 exhibiting companies displaying the full gamut of products, from consumables and services to major equipment builders. As one exhibitor observed, the face-to-face contact that happens at the event is irreplaceable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The steel industry cannot be promoted over a telephone conversation,â&#x20AC;? said Paul Barlow, manager, sales and engineering connection technology, for Voith. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a highly technical product with very diverse, robust applications. Showing the features and benefits of the product and the quality of engineering and application expertise, has to be done face-to-face.â&#x20AC;? At its 2012 awards breakfast, Nucor Corporationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Joseph Stratman, the 2011â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2012 AIST president, spoke to a soldout crowd of 1,100 about his companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initiative to encourage domestic manufacturing and fair trade, noting

Activity at a prior AIST event. that, â&#x20AC;&#x153;America can still be a nation that innovates, makes and builds.â&#x20AC;? He said that members of the steel industry can speed this initiative by taking advantage of opportunities in the steel industry and in AIST. There will be separate entrances for the two events in 2014. Attendees of WAIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event will be allowed entrance to the AIST show and vice versa.

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CHAPTER CORNER Poland Chapter tech conference: a meeting of academia and industry The Poland Chapter continued its streak of putting on successful technical conferences, with its March 7-9 event drawing 90 participants. Returning to the Hotel Antałówka in Zakopane for its 5th International Conference, the theme for the conference was, “Modern Technologies and Modeling of Drawing and Manufacturing Processes of Metals Products.” The event saw the presentation of 33 papers that were published in an electronic version of the Conference Proceedings as well as in a highly regarded Polish magazine, Hutnik – Wiadomosci Hutnicze. The conference topics included: steel wire and wire products (Session 1 was moderated by Prof. Janusz Łuksza and Session 2 by Prof. Zbigniew Muskalski); nonferrous wire and wire products (Session 3 was moderated by Prof. Eugeniusz Hadasik); and the poster session. The conference was opened by Professor Zbigniew Stradomski, dean of the Faculty of Materials Processing Technology and Applied Physics at Czestochowa University of Science and Technology. Associate Prof. Sylwia Wiewiórowska served as chairwoman of the organizing committee. Asked what she saw as the greatest value of the event, Wiewiórowska said that she believed it was “the consolidation of the scientific community with representatives of drawing industry.” The event has been designed to serve as a meeting place where academics, as well as industry suppliers, can meet with the companies that deploy the technology that is the subject of the conference. That focus could be seen in the breakdown of the attendees. The 90 participants came from more than 30 institutions and companies. Among them there were representatives

from technical universities and research institutes (KU Leuven from Belgium and AGH University of Science and Technology, Silesian Technical University, Lublin Technical University, Bielsko-Biala Technical-Humanistic Academia, CUT, Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy, Institute of Nonferrous Metals, from Poland). Enterprises in the ferrous and the nonferrous sector that were represented included companies such as Arcelor Mittal Poland SA, Polskie Liny, Centrum Badań i Dozoru Górnictwa Podziemnego, Gaweł Zakład Produkcji Śrub SA, Stalex, Techmat, Koelner Łańcucka Fabryka Śrub, Chemetal Polska, Metalurgia SA Radomsko, Gamma Metal, Pawlak Ltd., Staldrut, Promet SA, ATS SA, Messer Eutectic Castolin Polska, Techmet Druty Stalowe SC Polska, Tele-Fonika Kable and Legipol Ltd., Polska. The seminar also participating representatives from foreign companies that included Lubrimetal (Italy), Traxit (Germany), ZDB Dratowna a.s (Czech Republic), Heberlein GmbH – Paramount Die Europe (Germany) and Pan Chemicals Spa (Italy). Tabletops were presented by Lubrimetal, Traxit, Paramount Die and Pan Chemicals. Traditionally, the conference has a ceremony where the Schneider Memorial Award is presented to people who have made significant contributions to the development of the wiredrawing industry. The award is named for the late Prof. Schneider, who is recognized as the “father” of the Polish wire industry. This year, two professors were awarded: Prof. Paul Van Houtte from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (laudation was prepared and presented by Prof. Jan Pilarczyk) and Prof. Zbigniew Pater from Lublin Technical University, Poland (laudation was prepared and presented by Prof. Zbigniew Muskalski). The award ceremony was led by Wiewiórowska, the WAI Chapter’s vice president.

From l-r: Prof. Jan W. Pilarczyk, CUT; Prof. Janusz Łuksza, AHG University of Science and Technology; Prof. Bogdan Golis, laureate of Silver Certificate; Prof. Zbigniew Stradomski, CUT; Prof. Paul Van Houtte, laureate of Prof. M. Schneider Prize; Prof. Zbigniew Pater, laureate of Prof. M. Schneider Prize, Prof. Zbigniew Muskalski, president of conference Scientific Committee; and Associate Prof. Sylwia Wiewiórowska, president of the event Organizing Committee.

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During a break in the conference, attendees could talk to representatives at industry supplier company tabletop displays.

The technicians Networking with and new people in the suppliers I’ve industry is the met at WAI’s most valuable shows have asset of WAI helped me membership.” improve our Dick Pechie process.”

WAI helped me branch out into a new career.” Kevin Sopczak

Meeting people I’ve met many through WAI influential is the key to leaders taking you through WAI somewhere including a exciting in your U.S. President.” life and career.” Mark Spencer Lori Parent

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When you consider that wire making can be traced on one timeline from the golden threads in ancient Egyptian jewelry—through telephony, countless creature comforts, and modern infrastructure— toward yet unimagined applications, you can appreciate your vital role in the wire manufacturing continuum. WAI members represent a living history of the industry. Whatever your direction, if you earn a living with wire, cable, supplies, or equipment you’ve earned a place in WAI’s global network.

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Interwire update Interwire 2013: programs set, show floor sold out The technical programs are set and the show floor will be full, which means that attendees will find plenty to see, learn and explore during Interwire 2013. Interwire’s exhibit floor will occupy a 106,400 sq. ft. footprint in Hall A of the GWCC. It will feature 435 exhibiting companies representing 20 countries. More than 150 wire, supply and equipment categories will be shown. The exhibits will include 60 companies new to Interwire as well as international pavilions for companies from Austria and Italy. Visitors can expect running equipment and live production solutions demonstrations. The Products section that starts on p. 78 shows some of the technology that will be shown or discussed at Atlanta. “In my 25 years of managing Interwire, we have never sold out the floor plan,” said WAI Director of Sales Bob Xeller. “Attendees will be able to explore new product introductions and lots of technology upgrades and other

A.E.B. International, Inc. Tel. 212-752-4647 www.aebint.com aeb@aebint.com USA Booth 240 Exhibiting: A.E.B. is a privately owned company founded in 1979 by A. Erkan Buyuksoy. We are one of the largest wire and cable conductor manufacturers, supplying and distributing worldwide. Located in Duncan, South Carolina, we can handle immediate requirements and engineering and development of new products. We also offer engineering support and manufacturing capabilities from our European and Far East partners. Our head office is in New York City, with primary warehouse and distribution points in South Carolina, California, New England and Texas/Mexico. All products are made using equipment with the latest and highest technology available. We produce thousands of products on a continuous basis as well as many special products designed to our customers’ specifications. American Kuhne, Inc. Tel. 401-326-6200 sales@americankuhne.com USA Booth 1723 Exhibiting: American Kuhne is a

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improvements. We have plenty of new exhibitors, so there will be more options to consider, including those from what is by the far largest contingent of exhibitors from China.” The event will be held in Building A in the GWCC. The exhibits will be open from 10 am to 5 pm on Tuesday, April 23, and Wednesday, April 24, and from 10 am to 3 pm on Thursday, April 25. There will not be any shuttle buses. The technical programs have had some minor changes, so attendees are encouraged to check the most up-to-date schedule that can be found at www.wirenet.org. Below are booth listings that either came in too late for the March preview issue or have been updated. An alpha list of exhibitors starts on p. 55. The full schedule and most complete exhibits information will be presented at the event in the Official Show Program.

leading worldwide supplier of standard and customized single-screw extruders, feed screws, extrusion systems and extrusion-process controllers. The company designs extruders for a variety of wire and cable applications that include a heavy-duty, double-reduction gearbox; deep-finned, cast-barrel heaters, single- or dual-bolt heated clamps; and die hinge support arms. The control panel can be mounted on the extruder base or floor mounted. Available sizes for wire and cable applications include 3/4 in. (19 mm) to 8.0 in. (203 mm). Blachford Corporation Tel. 815-464-2100 www.blachford.com USA Booth 506 Exhibiting: Blachford Corporation is a U.S.-based producer of dry and wet lubricants that are tailored to meet our customer’s technical requirements. The Blachford “Chemdraw” trademark has been a consistent and recognizable symbol of value for nearly 60 years. Blachford will present a technical paper at Interwire that is aligned with its new technology: low-dust wiredrawing lubricants. These products have excellent application in the welding wire, spring wire, steel cord and tire bead wire markets

Personnel: Mark van der Vlist, Dan Howard, John Papierski, Matthew Messner, Art Williams. bogimac Tel. 32-2-27242-02 www.bogimac.com pvbg@bogimac.com Belgium Booth 2144 Exhibiting: bogimac manufactures test equipment for dynamic material fatigue testing of wire, cable and rope materials on bending, compression, tension, torsion and combined loads. We provide reliable and high-performance test equipment to mechanical labs of world-class material providers in the cable, wire and rope industry. “Early Warning” functionalities monitor and stop the test to enable observation of initial material degradation. Our dedication goes to “Empower Your Product Innovation and Quality.” Bongard GmbH Booth 2034 Breen Color Concentrates Tel. 866-99-breen www.breencolor.com lparent@breencolor.com USA Booth 2114 Exhibiting: Color concentrates and additives for the wire and cable indus-

try: PVC, PE, EVA, TPE/TPU and FEP/ETFE. Personnel: Tom Taylor, Lori Parent, Dave Campbell, Eric Kalis, Kurt Minnick. CEIA USA Tel. 888-532-2342 www.ceia-usa.com info@ceia-usa.com USA Booth 134 Exhibiting: CEIA is a leading manufacturer/designer of medium to highfrequency induction heating units for industries that include wire and cable. It offers a wide range of generators (Power Cube), control units (Master and Power Controllers) for the semiautomatic/automatic management of heating cycles, a full range of optical pyrometers (SH Series) with lowintensity laser aiming, wire solder dis-

pensers (WF Series) for low/high-temperature applications, and a complete line of accessories. Chase Corporation/Chase Wire & Cable Materials Tel. 781-332-0700 www.chasecorp.com drichardson@chasecorp.com USA Booth 564 Exhibiting: Since 1946, Chase Corporation has been the wire and cable industry’s reliable source for cable tapes and sealants, operating under the well-known brand names of Chase & Sons® and Chase BIH20ck®. With its acquisition of NEPTCO, Inc., Chase solidified its position as a leading manufacturer of protective materials for high-reliability applications throughout the world. Materials include a wide range of tape product

solutions used extensively in the energy and communications markets to insulate, bind and shield wire and cable assemblies. Wire and cable tapes make a material difference in protecting energy products (coated textile and strand seal compound), electronics and communication cables, and building wire products. Manufacturing facilities are located in Oxford, Massachusetts, and Taylorsville, North Carolina. Personnel: Adam Chase, Chris Wilson, Brad Gustavesen, Steve Navarette, Doug Herrick. CM Furnaces Inc. Tel. 973-338-6500 www.cmfurnaces.com info@cmfurnaces.com USA Booth 553 Exhibiting: CM will provide details about its line of continuous-strand

Floor report: Production Solutions schedule set The schedule for Production Solutions, a show floor favorite, has been finalized for Interwire 2013, with the presenters, times and locations as noted below.

Tuesday, April 23 3:00 pm: Session 1, Booth 1818 – Wire Breaks Facilitator: Horace Pops, Horace Pops Consulting Inc. How do you identify possible causes of wire breaks? Is it the process or the material? Learn to distinguish between both issues that can result in wire breaks. 4:00 pm: Session 2, Booth 235 – Care and Maintenance of Wiredrawing Lubricants Facilitator: Ralph Noonan, Etna Products, Inc. & Etna-Bechem Lubricants, Ltd. This presentation discusses the synergy of the wiredrawing process including fluid management, preventative maintenance, and the importance of technical service and documentation.

Wednesday, April 24 2:30 pm: Session 3, Booth 2131, Innovative I.T. Solutions for Wire & Cable Facilitator: Albert Groothedde, InnoVites B.V. Next-generation Cable ERP software is based on

Microsoft Dynamics AX and supports best practices in the wire and cable industry. It leverages the innovative Microsoft technology to create unique business solutions for the industry. Join us to see how our customers achieve their goals using our software solutions. 3:30 pm: Session 4, Booth 1562 – Breakthrough Innovation: Diamond Properties in a Hands-on Environment Facilitator: Joe Memmott, US Synthetic Wire Die Diamond has been used in a variety of industries such as oil and gas, aerospace, auto manufacturing, mining, and many other custom engineering applications. Due to its extreme hardness, wear resistance, and thermal conductivity, it is an ideal choice for harsh conditions and challenging applications.

Thursday, April 25 10:30 am: Session 5, Booth 164, Surface Processing Facilitators: Boockmann GmbH/The Slover Group Still a relatively new technology, Helicord® surface treatment technology in recent years has been successfully implemented for industrial use in wire and cable production lines. This demonstration will present an overview of actual applications.

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annealing furnaces for temps from 700°C to 1750°C. Wire sizes are from 0.002 in.-1.00 in. and strip from 0.100 in.-12 in. Typical materials are stainless steel, nickel alloy, titanium, brass, copper, molybdenum and tungsten. Protective atmospheres of hydrogen, nitrogen and argon. Single and multiple tube configurations are offered as are standard and custom units. Cogebi/Elinar Group Tel. 603-749-6896 www.cogebi.com chaisson@cogebi.com USA Booth 149 Exhibiting: Cogebi is a leader in flame-resistant mica tape technology. Our continued technology development is for wire/cable producers of communications, power, alarm, emergency systems and other more discrete applications. We also offer testing and design service for customers and the industry in general to help them meet required finished designs to pass tests such as IEC 331, BSI6387-W and others.

CPA Wire Technologies GmbH Tel. 43-316-4670-0 www.cpa.at office@cpa.at Austria Booth 763 Exhibiting: Austria’s CPA Wire Technologies GmbH, founded in 2001, specializes in the development and production of machinery and plants for the wire industry. The product line ranges from austenitization, patenting, diffusion, stress relieving and tempering furnaces for wires and bands to galvanic coating systems, especially brass, zinc and copper coating systems, take-up and payoff systems and wire and rope machines. CPA’s latest development is a wet drawing machine for drawing high-strength steel wire. Furthermore, turnkey projects for steel cord, hose wire, bead wire and saw wire plants are realized.

process lines. Working closely with the customer, the company identifies the range of possibilities in automating a process, then develops a package that ensures the innovative integration of proven technology into a system that meets the requirements. It also provides upgrades /rebuilding of Extrusion lines THHN, power cable and CV lines, with one advanced closed-loop control. Controls can be chosen by the customer as Allen Bradley, Siemens, Telemecanique, Mitsubishi, Omron and more. Every system comes with PLC and colortouch screen built-in control, monitoring, alarms, troubleshooting and recipe. An optional XCoupler Module can exchange data between the machine and Microsoft SQL via Ethernet. Personnel: Jack Patino.

Design & Engineering LLC Tel. 973-439-9444 www.designandengineering.com sales@designandengineering.com USA Booth 812

Etna Products, Inc./Etna-Bechem Lubricants Tel. 440-543-9845 www,etna.com etna@etna.com USA/Germany Booth 235 Exhibiting: Etna Products, Inc., will display its latest technology: EELT drawing lubricants for nonferrous wire, bar and tube as well as its complete line of Masterdraw lubricants and associated products for all types of wire, bar drawing, forming and cold heading. Etna Bechem Lubricants will display its Unopol line of copper and copper alloy wiredrawing lubricants, with a special emphasis on the new technology of water-based aluminum wiredrawing lubricants.

Collins & Jewell Company, Inc. Tel. 860-887-8813 www.collins-jewell.com cjewell@collins-jewell.com USA Booth 1860 Exhibiting: Installation services for production/process equipment, custom steel fabrication services, plant relocations. CommScope Tel. 800-982-1708 wwwcommscope.com USA Booth 400 Exhibiting: CommScope® has played a role in virtually all the world’s best communication networks. It’s a highbandwidth world. Network operators face an escalating demand for digital voice, high-speed data, and high-definition video, as well as new technologies like fiber to the home and 3D TV. CommScope provides innovative optical and RF infrastructure solutions that help operators plan, deploy, and maintain services to residential and commercial customers.

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Exhibiting: Design & Engineering develops automation packages for solving many critical problems. These total engineered solutions are complete with all of the necessary automation hardware, software and engineering to monitor and precisely control entire

Eurobend GmbH Tel. 49-911-9498980 www.eurobend.com info@eurobend.com Germany Booth 1058 Exhibiting: Eurobend GmbH will demonstrate the latest versions of MELC Straightening and Cutting machines, based on our unique hyperbolic roller rotor straightening method, invented and developed by our R&D department 25 years ago and internationally established as a state-of-the-art method. This method ensures better

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Armour Against the Elements Extreme conditions call for extreme polymers. Lubrizol’s Estane® TPUs protect and endure in some of the toughest conditions. Not only formulated for maximum abrasion- and chemicalresistance, they feature unmatched ﬂame retardant technologies. Wire and cable jacketing with an LOI greater than 50, low smoke properties, and the ability to withstand extreme temperatures – now that is A Bit More Amazing. To ﬁnd how the right knowledge and expertise can help you go beyond, visit us at Lubrizol.com/engineered-polymers.

Series, with up to six automatically interchangeable coils, processing from 4mm to 20mm (0.157”-0.787”) equipped with a PATENTED convergence guide system for automatic diameter/coil changes in less than 2 seconds. The extremely fast and automatic coil changes, enables the process of different diameters in the same batch without complicated collection systems, and the MELC POLY-LINE Series, with up to 6 independently operating lines, achieving production speeds up to 500 m/min (1650 ft/min). Personnel: Stephen Kavvadas, Don Bisplinghoff.

for annealing are also offered. Please bring your prints, specifications and special requirements to Booth 139 for us to discuss.

Exhibiting: Evolution Products will introduce the latest addition to its Reduction Reel product line: a breakdown steel processing reel. The shipping costs are typically very expensive for steel reels as they often are very bulky and extremely heavy. Evolution Products’ new reel helps controls such costs as the reel can be broken down and easily transported for consolidated shipping and storage. Companies shipping steel reels to and from customers as well as intercompany purposes will greatly benefit from this breakdown reel. The freight savings alone will pay for the reel in a very short time. The four-part heavy duty system can accommodate flange sizes of 630 mm, 760 mm, 800 mm and a packaging weight capacity of 1500 lb.

The George Evans Corporation Tel. 309-757-8300 www.george-evans.com metal61265@aol.com USA Booth 139

Exhibiting: Toroidal™ steel reels for processing and shipping wire and cable. Reels made from steel, aluminum or stainless steel to suit. structural reels, perforated reels, large reels

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Evolution Products Tel. 717-515-8591/855-728-0753 evolutionproducts.com blaubach@evolutionproducts.com USA Booth 2011

Fisk Alloy Tel. 973-427-7550 www.fiskalloy.com sales@fiskalloy.com USA Booth 2140 Exhibiting: Manufacturer of fine and ultra fine copper alloy ranging from 18g to 54g, single end, bunched, stranded, ropes, and bobbin wind. Available in silver, nickel, tin, and precious metal electroplating. Fortune Machinery Company, Inc. Tel. 203-367-5150 www.fortunemachinery.com wfortune@snet.net USA Booth 866 Exhibiting: Fortune Machinery will exhibit details and photographs of its

extensive listings and inventory of its steel related equipment: wire drawers, nail, barbed wire, mesh, fence, straighteners, pointers, welders and more. Since 1972, the company has made deals worldwide and provided service to customers. Personnel: Bill Fortune. Gateway Recovery, Inc. Tel. 704-883-8642 www.gatewayrecovery.net info@gatewayrecovery.net USA Booth 765 Exhibiting: Gateway Recovery staff will be available to discuss your wire and cable recycling opportunities. We offer custom designed scrap reclamation programs to fit the needs of the wire and cable manufacturing industry. GMP Slovakia sro Tel. 421-56-628-0211 www.gmp-slovakia.com sales@gmp-slovakia.com Slovakia Booth 558 Exhibiting: GMP Slovakia is worldwide leader in designing and manufacturing of steel reels, take apart reels for coil production and special equipment for the wire industry (lifting and tilting devices, reels for pay off, skid roll and dolly base). GMP Slovakia products conform to the quality certification ISO 9001:2008 and respect all the quality parameters requested by the European community standard. GMP Slovakia know how and experience makes the difference. Guney Celik Tel. 90-3223-945030 Turkey Booth 764 Exhibiting: We are a galvanized wire and PC strand manufacturer and construction materials supplier from Turkey. Our company was established in 1992 and now is in Turkey’s list of Top 500 industrial enterprises. Our products are in more than 70 countries, including the U.S., almost all of Europe, Africa and Middle East. We are known for our quality, delivery on time sensibility and good connections with our customers. Personnel: Hakan Cifteli, Hamza Menemencioglu.

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Hangzhou Juli Insulation Company, Ltd. Tel. 86-571-86319338 www.hzjuli.net hzjlsyz@vip.163.com China Booth 1040 Exhibiting: Hangzhou Juli Insulation Company, located in the Yuhong district in Hangzhou, is a principal manufacturer of high quality cable wrapping tapes. Its product range includes shielding tapes for communication cable, polyester cables for cable and specialty tapes such as edge insulated shielding tape and lubricated tapes. Tapes are offered in traditional pad packages and long length traverse packages. Hangzhou Juli is represented by Fine international in the North American market. Personnel: Guozhong Shen.

www.ztxg.com/index.asp sales@ztxg.com China Booth 306 Exhibiting: Hangzhou Xingguan Machinery Co., Inc., supplies a wide range of equipment, including: bunchers; drawing machines for electrical wire and cable, electroplated steel wire; rolling mills; cable accessories, and more.

Hangzhou Xingguan Machinery Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-571-64662028

Houghton International, Inc. Tel. 610-666-4000 info@houghtonintl.com

Heritage Wire Die, Inc. Tel. 260-728-9300 heritagewiredie@yahoo.com USA Booth 111 Exhibiting: Wiredrawing dies: natural diamond, single crystal synthetic diamond, PCD and tungsten carbide. We also offer consulting, conversation and answers to any and all die question and/or problems.

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Exhibiting: Houghton International is a world leader in industrial fluids, providing both high-tech fluid products and fluid management services since 1865. Use of Houghtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s metal forming fluids cool, lubricate and protect your expensive manufacturing equipment. During the wiredrawing process, Houghtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lubricants offer excellent lubrication and corrosion protection to increase tool and die life and improve your surface finish. Choose from a wide range of Houghton Cindolâ&#x201E;˘, Drawsolâ&#x201E;˘, Houghto-DrawÂŽ, Wire Drawâ&#x201E;˘ and other wiredrawing prod-

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ucts specifically formulated for steel, aluminum and copper. In addition to straight oils, Houghtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complete line includes soluble oils and synthetics, which are all water-soluble. These products provide superior cooling and cleaning over straight oils. Visit us at www.twitter.com/houghtonintl. IBA Industrial Tel. 32-10-475-892 www.iba-industrial.com industrial.eu@iba-group.com Belgium Booth 965 Exhibiting: IBA supplies electron beam accelerators particularly well fit for crosslinking wires in applications such as automotive, solar and railway. IBA has more than 250 accelerators installed worldwide and a support organization divided over three continents. Inosym, Ltd. Tel. 64-21-353-634 www.inosym.com inosym@inosym.com New Zealand Booth 1320

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Exhibiting: Inosym, a world-wide supplier of steel and plastic reels, will again be at Interwire. It will display a range of reels, including new breakdown plastic shipping reels. Inosym welcomes existing and new customers to come and discuss their reel requirements for 2013 and meet the Inosym team at stand #1320. We are sure you will find our quality, performance and price to be world class. Personnel: Philip Young Ito-Sin (Deyang) Wire & Cable Equipment Co. Ltd. Tel. 86-838-260-1060 www.ito-sin.cn xsl@ito-sin.cn China Booth 161 Exhibiting: Information on a lead extruder, an upcasting line for copper rod, a continuous casting and rolling mill for copper or aluminum rod; a breakdown machine with continuous annealer for copper wire and alu-

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minum wire; a compact take-up device for copper wire or aluminum wire; and a series of stranding/cabling machines. King Steel Corp. Tel. 800-638-2530 sales@kingsteelcorp.com www.kingsteelcorp.com USA Booth 249 Exhibiting: King Steel is a worldwide full service steel supplier with over 100 years of experience in the bar, rod, and wire industries. Our goal is to prove to you that we are a company you’ll want to partner with. We have over 20,000 tons of inventory warehoused in 18 U.S.states. We can supply carbon, alloy or stainless steel in the size and grade you require. We will deliver direct to your facility, the processor, or our warehouse in your area via road, rail, or waterway. Metalloid Corporation Tel. 800-686-3201 walloidcorp.com USA Booth 170

Exhibiting: Metalloid Corporation is a manufacturer of environmentally friendly wiredrawing lubricants. Our “green chemistry” offers bio-stable alternatives to petroleum based lubricants, powder soaps and greases. Our lubricant alternatives are formulated with American made renewable resources that eliminate hazardous ingredients while providing the ultimate in lubricity. Our strategy focuses on combining problem solving skills with new concepts that meet the needs of the market and address environmental concerns. Personnel: Richard Strapple, Terry Wiedemann, Ronny Miller. Nantong Siber Communication Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-0513-82195907 www.sab-hev.com siber_nt@126.com

China Booth 400

Exhibiting: We are an optical fiber accessory product manufacturer, offering all kinds of fittings for ADSS and OPGW/water blocking yarn/tape. Personnel: Shi Yichen, Lu Shuaifeng. NEPTCO Tel. 401-722-5500 www.neptco.com neptco@neptco.com USA Booth 564 Exhibiting: For 60 years, NEPTCO has engineered materials for commercial, industrial and military applications, including advanced polymeric coatings; laminates of films, foils, fibers, composites, papers, nonwovens and customer-formulated adhesives. Its 2012 acquisition by Chase Corporation has placed NEPTCO in an even better position to support its customers with a broader range of products and more comprehensive research and development resources. NEPTCO offers contract manufacturing and product design services, and has the in-house ability to provide product coating, lamination, extrusion, printing, slitting and weaving at its ISO 9001:2008-certified plants. Personnel: Guy Marini, Frank Conti, Mark Canrobert, Jim George, Philip Shows, Rick Copp, Pete Mikucki. OCN SpA Tel. 39-0432-571005 www.ocn.it ocn@ocn.it Italy Booth 1915 Exhibiting: Established in 1977, OCN SpA is a worldwide leader in colddrawing machinery for rod, bars, sections and tubes for the ferrous and nonferrous metal industry. It special-

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has a strong emphasis on Research and Development and collaborating with customers, focusing on borax-free ecological products that meet new international regulations, as well as offering different solutions for mechanical descaling, coating and drying units, rotating die holders and die reconditioning equipment.

izes in the design, manufacturing and commissioning of full plants and machines for: continuous casting, reheating furnaces and extrusion press services, cold drawing, finishing and packaging and product quality control machines. All are custom-designed to meet customersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; specific process and layout requirements. complete range of oils, greases and pastes for wet drawing of low and high carbon, welding wire, stainless steel and nonferrous wire; lubricant carriers (PANCOVER), phosphates and non reactive coatings; flux for galvanizing (PANFLUX), developed to improve the efficiency of the galvanizing process by a more uniform control of the reaction between the two metals, reducing operation costs and improving the quality of the zinc coating; and auxiliary products (PANCHEM), degreasing agents, pickling inhibitors, protective products, activated charcoal, wiping pads and more. The company

Pan Chemicals SpA Tel. 39-0359-77488 www.panchemicals.com info@panchemicals.com China Booth 1911 Exhibiting: Over the last 25 years, Pan Chemicals has become one of the world's leading manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech drawing lubricants and coatings for the wire industry. Its products include: dry drawing lubricants (PANLUBE S), a full range of calcium, sodium and combined products for low and high carbon steel, non ferrous and stainless steel; wet drawing lubricants (PANLUBE L), a

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Pave Automation Design Tel. 44-1733-342519 Fax 44-1733-563500 pave@enterprise.net www.pavewire.com UK Booth 1612 Exhibiting: Pave Automation Design is not only a leading manufacturer, but probably the original innovator of computer controlled bending machinery for the international wire/tube and heating element forming industries. Our state-of-the-art, user-friendly and highly competitive single- and twinhead wire forming centers are being used by an international list of clients

to make a wide variety of products in a highly diverse range of industries. Pietro Galliani SpA Tel. 39-051-6740082 www.pietrogalliani.com pietrogalliani@pietrogalliani.com Italy Booth 872 Exhibiting: Pietro Galliani is a market-maker in the exclusive European industrial field of ultra-thin precious and nonferrous metals mill products specialties, one of which is ultra-thin rolled copper foil/ultra-thin rolled copper foil + polyester (PET). From its origins in 1900, the company has followed a path of innovation and R&D that has focused on the producing the most desirable chemical and mechanical properties, which have been recognized, since 2003, by the Ministry of Education and Research of the Italian Republic. Personnel: Gianclaudio Torlizzi, Marco Zonarelli Pioneer Machinery www.pioneermachinery.us sales@pioneermachinery.us USA Booth 812

and stringing machines, 7B doubletwist buncher, 7-19B tubular, rigid and planetary machines, eccentric and concentric taping machines, capstans, single and dual take-ups, payoffs and vertical and horizontal accumulators. Personnel: Jerry Huang, Pablo Sanz.

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PolyFab Plastics & Supply Tel. 417-862-6512 www.polyfabplastics.com tmiller@polyfabplastics.com USA Booth 2018 Exhibiting: PolyFab Plastics & Supply is an ISO 9001 2008 company that has been serving the wire industry for over 35 years. Polyfab specializes in custom design and fabrication of tanks, process equipment, secondary containment and ventilation systems for all types of surface finishing requirements. Utilizing a state-of-theart, 60,000-sq-ft facility in the midwest, Polyfab is able to produce the highest quality equipment at a competitive price to our customers.

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Process Control Corporation Tel. 770-449-8810 sales@process-control.com www.process-control.com USA Booth 369

Cable Solution Exhibiting: Pioneer Machinery is a supplier of complete factory automation to the wire and cable industry. It developed one of the most advanced dual spoolers, a system that has a closed-loop, control traverse that is completely automated, with 0 to 100% torque speed control, including 1000:1 vector duty motors. Highspeed continuous spooling for extrusion lines. Automatic reel change controlled by PLC. Automatic reel load/unload. automatic carrying in/out done by handy under-plate system. Pioneer has already delivered three of these new and advanced bunchers in the market. Pioneer also manufactures: extrusion lines, telephone and power cable lines, wiredrawing machines, copper/aluminum rod breakdown machines, basket down coiler, pointing

Exhibiting: Process Control Corporation supplies processors with auxiliary equipment, including gravimetric blending, scrap recycling, material handling and extrusion control systems. We have an unending commitment to the design and engineering of advanced auxiliary machinery for the plastics processing industry. Our goal is to provide the most accurate equipment and exceptional customer service. Process Control Corporation leads the industry with advanced design and innovative solutions for the global marketplace. Progressive Machinery, Inc. Tel. 905-346-0998 www.progmach.com

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sales@progmach.com USA Booth 724 Exhibiting: Supplier of extrusion lines and components (extruders, takeups, payoffs, preheaters, water troughs, capstans, dancers/accumulators); cabling/bunching machinery (rigid, tubular, skip, planetary, double-twist, single twist, armoring); wiredrawing and forming machinery (rod breakdown, drawing, annealing, extrusion); packaging machinery (coilers, rewind lines, auto packaging); taping machinery (vertical and horizontal); and braiders (vertical and horizontal). A 630 mm double twist buncher will be on display in the booth. Personnel: Erik Macs, Lindsay Farrel, Roy Rymer.

Italy Booth 324

Promostar Srl Tel. 39-0432-975752 www.promostar.it info@promostar.it

Sanxin Wire Die, Inc. Tel. 434-220-0435 USA Booth 125 Exhibiting: PCD wiredrawing dies,

Exhibiting: Promostar is able to offer complete solutions for the realization of complete production lines, turnkey plants, machine equipment and accessories for the production of concrete reinforcing wire (cold rolling, straightening and cutting, stretching process etc., with cassettes or dies), thin steel wire (wire drawing process), and lattice girder and electro-welded mesh lines for different industrial application.

ND wiredrawing dies, enamelling tips and extrusion dies, recut services. Shangyou Longtai Plastic Products Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-0797-8520052 www.longtai168.com ancongju@longtai168.com China Booth 232 Exhibiting: Our company supplies all kinds of cable and wire filler yarns/ropes, such as PP fillers, polyester fillers and cotton fillers. Shenyang Jinggong Cable Material Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-24-89312688 www.jinggong-tapes.com sales@jinggong-tapes.com China Booth 1053 Exhibiting: Shenyang Jinggong Cable Material Co., Ltd., one of the most professional waterblocking tape manufacturers in China, has exported its

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tapes all over the world since 2004. It offers more than 10 kinds of productsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;non-conductive waterblocking tapes, semi-conductive waterblocking tapes, semi-conductive tapes, waterblocking yarns and other tapesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; that have won the highest prestige in the cable making area at home and abroad. This has made Jinggong the first choice for customers wanting to buy waterblocking tapes. Providing superior quality, competitive price is the object of Jinggong! Making friends through all over the world is the direction of Jinggong! May Jinggong Tapes connect all of us! SIMPACKS Tel. 973-402-4098 www.simpacks.com sales@simpacks.com USA Booth 812 Exhibiting: SIMPACKSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dual-head automatic coiler can coil 18 AWG up

2/4 straps on coil for wire, cable and steel applications. Controls can be chosen from companies such as Allen Bradley, Siemens, Telemecanique, Mitsubishi, Omron and more. Personnel: Hernando Blanco.

to 8 AWG building wire solid or strand as well as flat wire/cable. This coiler is capable of producing five to six coils per minute (100 m length). Our new single-head automatic coiler can process building wire cables, both round and flat. Short lengths (from 2M-100 m) at 6 to 10 coils per minute (ID = 50 mm). Our coilers can process round or flat cable, solid or stranded cable, telephone cable, battery cable, armored cable, annealed steel wire and special cable. Our new automatic coiler + strap + coil holder is available for all your packaging solutions, including

Sinoleader Industries Group Co. Tel. 86-21-64879031 www.sinoleader.com info@sinoleader.com China Booth 1918 Exhibiting: Sinoleader Industries is a professional supplier of various cable and plastic equipment and other related materials, including Cu/AL rod continuous casting line, drawing machine twister, laying-up, metal tube corrugating machine, lead extruder, sheathing line, etc. We also supply high-quality galvanized steel wire, galvanized stranded steel wire, galvanized steel tape, Al/steel composite tape, CCA/CCS.

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MANUFACTURING RANGE NEW ARRIVALS - PRE-OWNED â&#x20AC;˘ Troester - Portal traversing take-up for reels 25 tons, flange Ă¸ max. 4500 mm (177 ) Tubular stranders â&#x20AC;˘ Rosendahl - Portal traversing take-up for reels 25 tons, flange Ă¸ max. 4000 mm (157 ) Rigid stranders â&#x20AC;˘ Lesmo - Automatic single spooler for bobbins 630 mm (24,8 ), incl. accumulator Planetary stranders â&#x20AC;˘ Niehoff - double spooler for bobbins 630/760 mm (24.8 /29.9 ) Power cable drumtwisters â&#x20AC;˘ Various rewinding lines, pay-offs and take-ups, reel Ă¸ range 1250, 1600, 2200 and 3000 mm (49.2â&#x20AC;&#x153;, 63â&#x20AC;&#x153;, 86.6â&#x20AC;&#x153;, 118â&#x20AC;&#x153;) Armouring lines Bow/Skip stranders For contacts in USA: Single/Double twist bunchers Pay-offs and take-ups, all designs QMS INC. Belt-type caterpillar capstans Miami, Florida Single- and double disc capstans Rotating caterpillar capstans Tel.: +1 (305) 665-2523 Taping heads for plastic- and steel tapes Fax: +1 (305) 740-9460 Transposed wire machines info@qmsmachinery.com &* ')! #** +) . '&* " , . $ . - . #& ' (, #&* '%

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own DUST-FREE waterblocking yarn and export to more than 45 countries on four continents. Our customers are in: EHV/HV and MV cable, mining cable, offshore cable and optical fiber cable. Personnel: Paul Couvreur.

SMEETS S.A. Tel. 32-2-377-1140 www.smeets1921.com smeets@smeets1921.be Belgium Booth 349

Joe Snee Associates, Inc. (JSA) Tel. 774-991-0504 joe@jsnee.com USA Booth 1066

Exhibiting: SMEETS S.A. (since 1921) is the sole agent in North and South America for Loypos, the highquality manufacturer of semiconductive and insulating woven tapes for HV and EHV cable. We also supply our

Exhibiting: JSA is the exclusive U.S. and Canadian distributor for the Pressure Welding Machines (PWM) line of cold pressure welders, spares

and dies. It will showcase the EP500 rod welder (.197 in.- .590 in.) and HP100 powered portable welder (.039 in. - .197 in.). It will show a selection of manual welders for sizes .0039 in. .197 in., and demonstrate the cold welding technique. Visitors will be able to try the machines for themselves. JSA is also the New England representative for BETA LaserMike, a global leader in providing precision measurement and control solutions, and a supplier of wire and cable machinery. Personnel: Joe Snee, Carole Cole. Steel Cable Reels Tel. 713-851-5713 www.scrholdings.com npatel@scrholdings.com USA Booth 129 Exhibiting: Steel Cable Reels is an integrated steel reel manufacturing and distribution company. A Cabrol Group company.

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Personnel: Nick Patel, Amit Shah, Harsh Parekh. Subec AB Booth 2034 Tecnoherramental Tel. 52-444-1281818 www.tecnoherramental.com Mexico Booth 603 Exhibiting: Wheels and segments to mark. Indent and embossed. We have experience and the best engraving CNCs to make good finished indent or embossed tooling for electrical wire marking. Any kind of wheels or segments. Count on our experience (since 1980) to develop your special tooling. Customers in U.S., Central and South America, Europe and Taiwan. For more details, go to our internet site at www.tecnoherramental.com/marking. Thermcraft, Inc. Tel. 336-784-4800

USA Booth 115 Exhibiting: Thermcraft is an international leading manufacturer of thermal processing equipment. We manufacture industrial and laboratory furnaces and ovens, heating elements, and wire patenting equipment. In business for over 42 years, we can work together to find a solution that best fits your needs. At Thermcraft, customer service is our #1 priority! Personnel: Thomas Crafton.

some of the largest manufacturers of power cables in the world with this range of portable cutting tools. Our shears can cut cable up to 150 mm, even 170 mm. The wire division tooling can cut, bend and straighten wire and rod up to 50 mm in diameter. Visit us at Booth 424 to ask about easy solutions to problems in producing wire, rod and cable products. Personnel: Allan Brown, Tiberio Roda.

Tramev Srl Tel. 39-031-658-511 www.tramev.com info@tramev.com Italy Booth 424 Exhibiting: Tramev is a world renowned producer of portable hand held cutting tools for shearing, cuttingoff, bending and straightening of wire, cable, rebar, rod, bar, strip, strand, metal banding, bolts and nuts. Tramevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cable division has provided

TSM Control Systems Booth 2034 Tubular Products Company Tel. 800-9646074 mbrown@tubularproducts.com USA Booth 1550 Exhibiting: Wire carriers, stem baskets, annealing carriers, returnable and disposable packaging. Personnel: Matt Brown.

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Vision Engineering, Inc. Booth 2034 Woywod GmbH KG/Plasticolor Booth 2034 Wyrepak Industries Tel. 401-253-5500 www.wyrepak.com hfancher@wyrepak.com USA Booth 332 Exhibiting: Wyrepak will display its rotating cap and brush assembly, one of the most efficient and safe methods to control wire payoff at speeds up to 3000 fpm. When additional wire tension is needed, our line of tension capstans can provide an easy and economical method. Come see our full line of guide pulleys, with root diameters from .6 in. to 20 in. Personnel: Howard Fancher, Dave Monighetti, Steve Bettencourt.

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Zhangjiagang Shengtian Metallic Wire Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-512-58439555 www.sheng-tian.cn jscca@jscca.com China Booth 1706Q Exhibiting: Our main products include: copper-clad aluminum wire series (copper-clad aluminum wire, copper-clad aluminum and magnesium alloy wire and copper-clad aluminum strand wire), its tinned wire series (tinned copper-clad aluminum wire, tinned copper-coated steel wire and tinned copper wire) and other wires (copper-coated steel wire, copper-clad aluminum flat wire, nickel-plated copper wire). Our annual capacity is more than 10,000 metric tons.

from a to z A Appiani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .412 Ace Metal Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .620 ACIMAF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1919 ACM AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1512 Advantage Austria . . . . . . . . . . . .1050 Advaris GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1070 AEB International Inc . . . . . . . . . . .240 AEI Compounds Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . .358 AESA SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120 AIM Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1014 All Forming Machinery Inc . . . . . . .770 Amacoil Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .713 Amaral Automation Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2034 American & Effird Inc . . . . . . . . . . .606 American Kuhne . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1723 Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd . . . . . .331 Anhui Herrman Machinery Technology Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . .1706J Appleton Manufacturing . . . . . . .2146 ATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1814 AW Machinery LLC . . . . . . . . . . .1723 AXIS Computer Systems Inc . . . .1503 Axjo America Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . .1940

Aztec Lubricants LLC . . . . . . . . . . .569 B&H Tool Company . . . . . . . . . . .1916 B&Z Galvanized Wire Industry Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1602 Balloffet Die Corporation . . . . . . . .114 Bartel Machinery Systems LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .749 Baumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Castorine Co . . . . . . . . . . .2128 Beijing Orient Pengsheng Tech Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 Beijing Tongdaxinming International Trading Co Ltd . . . . .306 Bekaert Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . .423 Bergandi Machinery Co . . . . . . . . . .701 Besel Basim San Tic Ltd Sti . . . . . .457 Beta LaserMike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .631 Blachford Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .506 Bock GmbH & Co KG . . . . . . . . .1512 bogimac engineering . . . . . . . . . . .2144 Bongard Machines USA . . . . . . . .2034 Boockman GmbH/ The Slover Group . . . . . . . . . . . . .164 Bow Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1932 Boxy Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1512

Breen Color Concentrates Inc . . . .2114 Brookfield Wire Co . . . . . . . . . . . .2015 Buhler GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . .658, 740 Butt Welders USA . . . . . . . . . . . . .2148 Caballe SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212 Cable Consultants Corp . . . . . . . . .1024 Calmec Precision Ltd . . . . . . . . . .2056 Candor Sweden AB . . . . . . . . . . . . .124 Canterbury Engineering Co . . . . . . .858 Carris Reels Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1524 Cary Compounds LLC . . . . . . . . .2111 CEIA USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134 Cemanco LC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .717 Central Wire Industries Ltd . . . . . .1949 CeramTec AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .717 Changzhou Hengfeng Copper Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .850 Chase/NEPTCO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .564 Chase Wire & Cable Materials . . . .564 Chemetall US/Chemetall Oakite . .352 Chengdu Central Industrial Co . . . .970 Cimteq Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2032 Clayton Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . .1064

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Clifford Welding Systems . . . . . . .1731 Clinton Instrument Co . . . . . . . . . . .901 CM Furnaces Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .553 CMEC Int’l Exhibition Ltd . . . . .1706F CN Wire Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .624 Cogebi Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149 Collins & Jewell Company Inc . . .1860 Color Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165 Cometo Snc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .424 Cometo Snc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1351 Commission Brokers Inc . . . . . . . . .705 CommScope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .401 Condat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1650 Conductix Wampfler . . . . . . . . . . .1955 Conneaut Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . .715 Continuus Properzi SpA . . . .940, 1818 Copper-Lines.K SARL . . . . . . . . . .151 Cortinovis Machinery America . . .1739 CPA Wire Technology GmbH . . . . .763 Custom Machining & Fabrication LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .770 Dalian Tongda Equipment Tech Development Co Ltd . . . . . . . . 1706A DALOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1932 Davis-Standard LLC . . . . . . . . . . .1350 DEM Costruzioni Speciali Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1712 Design & Engineering LLC . . . . . .812 Die Quip Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1003 Domeks Makine Ltd Sti . . . . . . . .1340 Dunst GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1050 Dynamex Corporation . . . . . . . . .2124 Ebner Furnaces Inc . . . . . . . . . . . .1661 Eder Engineering GmbH . . . . . . . .1050 EJP Maschinen GmbH . . . . . . . . .1351 Electron Beam Technologies Inc . . .112 Enercon Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .453 Enkotec Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .570

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Engineered Machinery Group Inc (EMG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .702 ERA Wire Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302 Er-Bakir™ Electrolitik Bakir Mamulleri AS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .624 Estane Engineered Polymers/ Lubrizol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .618 Esteves Group USA . . . . . . . . . . . . .806 Etna Products Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235 Euroalpha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1812 Eurobend GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1058 Eurolls SpA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1739 Eurowire Magazine ............1655 George Evans Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . .139 EVG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140 Evolution Products . . . . . . . . . . . . .2011 Extreme Coatings . . . . . . . . . . . . .2160 Fabritex Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .650 Fasten Group Import & Export Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .264 FIB Belgium SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2117 Fil-Tec Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1502 Filtertech Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .863 Fine International Corp . . . . . . . . .1040 Finoptics Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .970 Fisk Alloy Wire Inc . . . . . . . . . . . .2140 Flymca & Flyro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215 FMS USA Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .616 Foerster Instruments Inc. . . . . . . . . .549 Fort Wayne Wire Die Inc . . . . . . . .1532 Fortune Machinery Corp . . . . . . . .866 OM Frigerio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1512 Frontier Composites & Castings Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2012 FSP-One Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2118 Fuhr GmbH & Co KG . . . . . . . . . .1856 Pietro Galliani SpA . . . . . . . . . . . . .872 Gateway Recovery Inc . . . . . . . . . . .765

Gauder Group Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . .1932 Gavlick Machinery Corp . . . . . . . .866 GCR Eurodraw SpA . . . . . . . . . . .1712 Gem Gravure Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . .706 GENCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .858 GH Induction Atmospheres LLC . .771 Gillies Technologies LLC . . . . . . .1832 Gimax Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1024 GMP Slovakia sro . . . . . . . . . . . . . .558 Guill Tool & Engineering Co . . . . .211 Guney Celik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .764 H Folke Sandelin AB . . . . . . . . . . . .740 Häfner & Krullmann GmbH . . . . .1959 Hall Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1314 Hangzhou Harbor Technology Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . .2019 Hangzhou JT Exhibition Co Ltd . . . . . . . . .850, 306, 232, 233 Hangzhou Juli Insulation Co Ltd .1040 Hariton Machinery Co Inc . . . . . . .1962 HC (Hsiang Chuan) Taiwan . . . . .2162 vom Hagen & Funke . . . . . . . . . .1024 Heacock Metal & Machine Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2136 Heany Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . .950 Hearl Heaton - Pentre Group . . . .2149 Heatbath Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .750 Hefei Smarter Technology Group Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1040 Henan Evernew Machinery and Equipment Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . .1706E Henkel Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .372 Henrich Maschinenfabrik GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .712 Heraeus Noblelight LLC . . . . . . . . .864 Heritage Wire Die Inc . . . . . . . . . . .111 Hindustan Inox Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . .572 Houghton International . . . . . . . . . .268 Howar Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . .1512

Hudson Color Concentrates . . . . . .2150 Huestis Industrial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .332 H端ttner Maschinenfabrik . . . . . . . .1351 IBA Industrial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .965 ICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1919 ICE Wire Line Equipment Inc . . . .1063 IDEAL Welding Systems . . . . . . .1731 IDEAL-Werk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1731 iim AG Measurement & Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1068 Inhol LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .402 InnoVites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2131 Inosym Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1320 International Wire & Machinery Association (IWMA) . . . . . . . . . . .902 International Wire Group . . . . . . . . .440 InterWire Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318 Intras Limited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1655 Ito-Sin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141 IWE Spools & Handling GmbH . .1351 IWG High Performance Conductors Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .440 Jiangsu FNC Wire & Cable Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1706N

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Jiangsu Ganghong Electric Wire & Power Cable Co Ltd . . . . . . .1706G Jiangsu Hengxin Technology Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1706W Jiangsu Huaxin Alloy Co Ltd . . . .2017 Jiangsu Qunye Electrical Co Ltd . .1040 Jiangyin Evenbetter International Trading Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . .1706T Jiangyin Kangrui Stainless Steel Products Co Ltd . . . . . . . .1706K Jiangyin Strong Metal Product Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . .1706U Joe Snee Associates, Inc. . . . . . . . .1066 Joe Tools Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2130 Jouhsen Bundgens Inc . . . . . . . . . . .250 Kalas Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . .1963 Kalmark Integrated Systems . . . . .1354 Karelia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269 NPP Katel-Electromechanika LLC 151 KEIR Manufacturing Inc . . . . . . . . .703 Keystone Steel & Wire . . . . . . . . . .370 Kieselstein GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . .1351 King Steel Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133 Kingway Heating Alloys Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1706R

Kinrei of America LLC . . . . . . . . . .124 KMK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .717 Ernst Koch GmbH & Co KG . . . . .658 KP America Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .350 Friedr Krollmann GmbH . . . . . . . . .658 Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corp .451 Kyoeisha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1660 Lamnea Bruk AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .952 Langfang Supower Diamond Technology Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . .113 LaserLinc Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1850 Leggett & Platt Wire Group . . . . . .924 Lenzing Plastics GmbH . . . . . . . . .1050 Leoni Wire Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .640 OM Lesmo Group . . . . . . . . . . . . .424 Lesmo Machinery America Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . .412, 424 Lisciani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1816 Lloyd & Bouvier Inc . . . . . . . . . . .1832 LORS Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119 Lubrimetal Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .458 The Lubrizol Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . .618 LUKAS Anlagenbau GmbH . . . . . .206 M+E Macchine+ Engineering Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .658

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MTS WIRE DRAWING MACHINES STRAIGHT-THROUGH MULTI-BLOCK MACHINES WITH SENSOR/DANCER ARM SYNCHRONIZATION For bare and galvanized carbon steel wire, stainless steel wire and alloy wire for every application. s (IGHLY EFlCIENT COOLING s 7IDE RANGE OF BLOCK SIZES AND CONlGURATIONS s #AN BE USED WITH DIES OR ROLLING CASSETTES s -AXIMUM mEXIBILITY TO SATISFY EVERY CUSTOMER NEED

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GCR EURODRAW S.p.A. 6IA #AMILLO #HIESA 0OGLIANO -ILANESE -) )TALY 4EL &AX GCR GCRGROUP COM WWW GCRGROUP COM

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Macromeric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .358 Madison Steel Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . .1862 Magnetic Technologies Ltd . . . . . . .217 Maillefer Extrusion Oy . . . . . . . . . .932 Maklada Steel Wire . . . . . . . . . . . .252 Mali GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1050 Mario Frigerio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .912 Marietta Recycling Corp . . . . . . .2152 Mathiasen Machinery Inc . . . . . . . .333 Medek & Schorner . . . . . . . . . . . .1050 Meltech Engineering Ltd . . . . . . . . .157 Messe Düsseldorf North America (MDNA) . . . . . . .1001 Metalloid Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170 Metal Resource Solutions Inc . . . . .153 Metavan NV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1512 MFL USA Service Corp Frigerio . .912 MGS Manufacturing Inc . . . . . . . .1314 The MGS Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1314 Micro Products Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . .550 Microdia USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1824 Mid-South Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .963 Mikrotek Machines Ltd . . . . . . . . . .131 Morgan-Koch Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . .658

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Mossberg Associates Inc . . . . . . . .969 Mossberg Industries Inc . . . . . . . . .2061 Naber & Wissmann GmbH . . . . . .1069 Nano-Diamond America Inc . . . . . .123 Nanjing Capatue Chemical Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2120 Nanjing Technical Electrical Equipment Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . .1706S Nantong Huaxing Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . Wire Products Co . . . . . . . . . . .1706D Nantong Silber Communications Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .400 Nantong Yonggao Tempered Wire Manufacturer Co Ltd . . . .1706L Newtech Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132 Niagara Composites International . .724 NIEHOFF Endex North America Inc (NENA) . . . . . . . . . . .740 Niehoff GmbH & Co KG . . . . . . . .740 Northampton Machinery Co (USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1314 NPP KatelElektromekhanika LLC .151 Numalliance North America . . . . .1032 OCN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1915 Oklahoma/Iowa Steel & Wire . . . .354

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WITechs W ITe h Wire Technologies

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OMA USA Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1950 OMCG North America Inc . . . . . .1756 OMCG SpA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1756 O’Tech Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165 Otomec Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .424 P&R Specialty Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . .351 P/A Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . .1956 Pan Chemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1911 Paramount Die Co . . . . . . . . . . . . .1750 Parkway-Kew Corp . . . . . . . . . . . .1057 Pave Automation Design . . . . . . .1612 Penn Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258 Petig AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .717 Phifer Wire Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .753 Pietro Galliani SpA . . . . . . . . . . . . .872 Pioneer Machinery USA . . . . . . . .812 Pittsburgh Carbide Die Co . . . . . .1065 Pittsfield Plastics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .664 Plas-Ties Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .449 Plasmait GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1512 Plymouth Wire Reels & Dies Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .705 PolyFab Plastics & Supply . . . . . .2018 PolyOne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1912 Polytec Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .602 POURTIER of America . . . . . . . . .1932 Precision Die Technologies Inc . . . .601 Precision Reel Straightening LLC . . . . . . . . . . .2126 Premier Wire Die . . . . . . . . . . . . .2134 Pressure Welding Machines Ltd (PWM) . . . . . . . . .1066 PrintSafe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1649 Process Control Corp . . . . . . . . . . . .369 Progressive Machinery, Inc . . . . . . .724 Promostar Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .324 Propagroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1512 Properzi International . . . . . . . . . . .940 Proton Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1320 Prudential Industries Inc . . . . . . . . .571 Pyromaitre Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147 QED Wire Lines Inc . . . . . . . . . . . .470 Queins Machines GmbH . . . . . . . .1506 Raajratna Stainless Wire (USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452 Radyne Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .405 Rainbow Rubber & Plastics . . . . . .2050 Rautomead Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234 Reber Systematic GmbH + Co KG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .740 REDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .740 Reel Options by Vandor Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .654 Reel-O-Matic Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1067 Refractron Technologies Corp . . . . .870

RG Attachments Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . .231 RichardsApex Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . .540 Rizzardi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1328 Rockford Manufacturing Group (RMG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2156 Rohmann LP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .964 Rosendahl Nextrom Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1050 Rosendahl Maschinen GmbH . . . .1050 Roteq Machinery Inc . . . . . . . . . . .2024 RTD Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . .217 S&E Specialty Polymers . . . . . . . . .652 Saco Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .358 SAMP SpA/SAMP USA Inc . . . . .1328 SAMPSISTEMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1328 Sanxin Wire Die Inc . . . . . . . . . . . .125 SARK Copper-Lines . . . . . . . . . . . .151 Sark-USA Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224 Sarkuysan AS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224 Schlatter North America . . . . . . . . .906 Schmidt Maschinenbau GmbH . . .740 Schnell Wire System Srl . . . . . . . . .155 SETIC of America . . . . . . . . . . . .1932 SF Diamond Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . .1924

Shanghai Hosn Machinery Technology Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . .1603 Shanghai Kechen Wire & Cable Machinery Co Ltd . . . . . . .1601 Shanghai MXW Electromechanical Technology Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . .1040 Shanghai Nanyang Electrical Equipment Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . .1040 Shanghai Pudong International Exhb . . . . . . . .1601, 1924, 1918, 2017 Shanghai Seti Enterprise International Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . .1706P Shangyou Longtai Plastic Products Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Shanxi Tianxiang Machinery Co .1922 ShaoXing KaiChen Mica Material Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . .1706H Shenyang Jinggong Cable Material Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1053 Shikaree Stainless Steel Sesien Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1706C Sictra Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1739 Sikora International Corp . . . . . . . .512 SIMPACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .812 Sinoleader Industries Group Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1918

Sirio Wire Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .658 Sivaco Wire Group . . . . . . . . . . . .1656 Sjogren Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . .958 Skaltek Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1355 SKET GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .658 Smeets SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .349 Joe Snee Associates, Inc. . . . . . . . .1066 Sonoco Reels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .432 Spirka Schnellflechter GmbH . . . . .712 SPX Precision Components FENN Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .464 STAKU-Anlagenbau GmbH . . . . .1351 Starking Wire Drawing Dies Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2021 Steel Cable Reels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129 SteelOrbis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .966 Stolberger KMB GmbH . . . . . . . . . .712 Stolberger Inc DBA Wardwell Braiding . . . . . . . . . . . . .712 Strecker USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .906 Subec AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2034 Sylvin Technologies Inc . . . . . . . . .459 T & T Marketing Inc . . . . . . . . . . . .305 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co . . . . . . .312 Taymer International Inc . . . . . . . .1556

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Tecnofil SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108 Tecnoherramental SA de CV . . . . . .603 Teknikor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .752 Teknor Apex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .406 Tensor Machinery Ltd . . . . . . . . . . .218 Thermcraft Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115 Thermoplastics Engineering Corp 2113 Tianjin Galfa/Liaoyuan Metal Product Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . .1706M Tianjin Shareglory Metal . . . . . . . . . . . Tech Development Co Ltd . . . .1706B Tianjin Zhaohong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Metal Product Co Ltd . . . . . . . .1706V Tien Chen Diamond Industry Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .812 Titan Strapping Systems LP . . . . . .670 TMS-Specialties Manufacturing Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .724 Tonar Plastics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .652 Tramev Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .412 Traxit North America LLC . . . . . . .849

Tri Star Metals LLC . . . . . . . . . . . .127 Troester GmbH & Co . . . . . . . . . . .340 TSM Control Systems . . . . . . . . . .2034 Tubular Products Co . . . . . . . . . . .1550 Tulsa Power Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1840 Ultimate Automation Ltd . . . . . . . . .258 Unisource Logistics Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2014 United Wire Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . .301 Unitek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1512 Uniwire International Ltd . . . . . . . .612 US Synthetic Wire Die . . . . . . . . .1562 VODKM/AWCMA . . . . . . . . . . . .1050 Vinston US Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158 Vision Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . .2034 Vitari Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1739 voestalpine Austria Draht GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1050 Vollmer America Inc . . . . . . . . . . . .450 vom Hagen & Funke . . . . . . . . . .1024 WAFIOS Machinery Corp. . . . . . . .906

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WCISA - Wire & Cable Industry Suppliers Association . . . . . . . . . . .136 Web Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .551 Weber & Scher Mfg Co Inc . . . . . .1320 Windak Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1940 WiTechs GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .658 Wire & Cable ASIA Magazine . . . .1655 Wire & Cable Technology International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp . . .732 wire 2014/wire D端sseldorf . . . . . .1101 Wire Association International . . . . . .Level 3 Concourse WIRE BULLETIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Level 3 Concourse Wire Forming Technology . . . . . . . .136 Wire Journal International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Level 3 Concourse Wire Lab Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .758 Wire Machine Systems Inc . . . . . .1351 Wire Rope & Sheave Gauges . . . . .270 WR Sheave Gauges Ltd . . . . . . . . . .270 Wire Technology Machinery . . . .1512 Wire World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2116 WiredinUSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1655 Witels Albert USA Ltd . . . . . . . . . .711 Woodburn Diamond Die Inc . . . . .1049 Worth Steel & Machinery Inc . . . . .454 Woywod Gmbh KG/Plasticolor . . .2034 Wuxi Hengtai Cable Machinery Manufacture Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . .2023 WWM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1913 Wyrepak Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . .332 Nordson Xaloy Inc . . . . . . . . . . . .1354 Yangzhou Hongri Machinery Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . .1920 Yangzhou Tengfei Electric Cable & Appliance Materials Co Ltd . . .143 Yield Management Corp . . . . . . .2132 Zhangjiagang Sanfeng Machinery & Electric Dev Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . .1926 Zhangjiagang Shengtian Metallic Wire Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1706Q Zhejiang Tenglong Stainless Steel Products Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . .360 Zhejiang Wolian Photoelectricity Tech Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2025 ZT Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1917 Zumbach Electronics Corp . . . . . .1540

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FEATURE

f there is a single key that separates the best wire and cable companies, it may well be their workforce quality. This feature looks at how carefully one company does its hiring, the challenges of Generation Y & Z employees, a company that started its own management school, how tap dancing fits in, and more. By Mark Marselli, WJI editor

Is there really a shortage of good manufacturing employees? There is a perception that manufacturing positions go unfilled because there is a lack of qualified candidates, but an October 2012 report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) basically says, “Not so fast,” at least for right now. In “Made in America, Again: Understanding the U.S. Manufacturing Skills Gap and How to Close It,” BCG concludes that the existing manufacturing employee skills gap that has been widely reported is “more limited than many believe.” Despite several pessimistic studies and widespread anecdotal evidence from the manufacturing sector, “BCG researchers found only limited evidence of a high-skilled manufacturing labor shortage nationwide.” The report—which defines “high-skilled” as a person who has technical training and industry certification, or an associate’s or bachelor’s degree in a manufacturing-related field—says that there are some regional areas with skills gaps in specific job categories, such as machinists, welders,

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and industrial machine mechanics. However, the actual U.S. skills gap, it notes, is between 80,000-100,000 manufacturing employees, about 8% of the nation’s high-skilled labor force of 1.4 million workers. In “Skills Don’t Pay the Bills,” a recent New York Times Magazine article on the subject, Adam Davidson asked, “Who wants to operate a highly sophisticated machine for $10 per hour? Answer: not a lot of people.’” However, BCG warns that the employment shortage is likely to get far worse in the coming years as many skilled veteran employees will be retiring. That shortage could be as many as 875,000 positions by 2020, as far fewer young people are being prepared to fill those positions, it says. The BCG suggests that while more internship programs would help, it adds that part of the problem has to do with image. Manufacturing, it insists, has to be presented to potential employees as a place that is worthwhile going to.

At Fort Wayne Metals (FWM), the Indiana company takes hiring very, very seriously. FWM specializes in wire and cable for medical applications, with other fields including automotive, industrial, military and aerospace. The common element is production of high-quality, high-end materials. Below, Director of Human Resources Dennis Rohrs discusses FWM’s hiring approach with WJI. WJI: In terms of hiring, does a relatively high unemployment rate translate to a ready pool of qualified candidates? Rohrs: It certainly provides a ready pool. We get hundreds of applications every month. It takes a bit of work to find the qualified candidates but they are out there. We are very pleased with the caliber of the people we have hired and continue to hire. WJI: Does FWM rely on any one or two venues (employee referrals, social media, classifieds, engineering schools, etc.) for seeking candidates? Rohrs: We enjoy a great reputation in our area as an employer of choice. We have exceedingly low turnover, pay very competitive wages, have great benefits and a great work environment. Because of this we have fairly significant traffic to our website where prospective candidates can apply online. We also have conducted job fairs with WorkOne, our in-state employment agency. For engineering and technical jobs we have relationships with Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne and the Indiana Institute of Technology to seed our internship program and also for direct hires of graduates. We have approximately 20 interns at any given time which gives us an opportunity to view a student’s skills in engineering and technical disciplines at FWM. We also employ STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) college students in part-time production or production support positions. We do this for two reasons; 1) we have a need for flexible, periodic, bright workers to handle some of the ebb and flow of our production output; and 2) we want

James Butler was a skilled maintenance worker for a hospital before coming to Fort Wayne Metals.

to encourage the best and the brightest to enter STEM college majors. FWM’s contribution to creating this environment is to offer this part time work to STEM students. This has been a very successful program for both the students and FWM.

FEATURE

Fort Wayne Metals: each hire is a million dollar investment

Fort Wayne Metals Dir. of Human Resources Dennis Rohrs.

WJI: Collectively, how many candidates might you get for a single position? Rohrs: Typical numbers for a production position would be to start with 150 applications of candidates who look to be a good fit. After a very careful vetting process, we usually have cut that number down to 60 strong candidates we invite in for testing that will further reduce this down to sixseven candidates. We use the Wonderlic Personnel Test, the Wiesen Test of Mechanical Aptitude and a third test written specifically for us by Dr. John Lovell, an industrial psychologist. We then conduct two interviews; an initial phone “... we believe that screen where we hiring the right lose an additional two people, folperson is just lowed by a face-toas important as face interviews with purchasing a our operations supervisors and a $1,000,000 piece human resource representative. We typi- of equipment.” cally lose two of the remaining candidates. We then conduct background and reference checks where we lose an additional candidate. This usually yields one person who is ready, able and willing to join the FWM team. The process is lengthy, but we believe that hiring the right person is just as important as purchasing a $1,000,000 piece of equipment. In fact, the mantra about hiring at FWM is that it is a million dollar decision. Wages and benefits at our company exceed $50,000 per production wiredrawer. With our very low turnover rate, we keep our employees for a long time, typically until they retire. $50,000 multiplied by 20 years equals $1,000,000 that we will spend on a person who works for us for 20 years. Hiring is a million dollar decision. WJI: What do you look for in a candidate and why? How do you determine if a candidate is right? Rohrs: We look for people who have the ability to learn complex, demanding work. We like to hire candidates who

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who have had the bad fortune to work for a company that had a downturn. The state of Indiana incents employers to hire people who have been unemployed for six months or more. While we do like to receive the incentives, we never hire a candidate solely for that reason. They still have to be a great candidate. Having said that, the folks who argue against a long-term unemployment candidate as lacking in initiative make some sense. To sum up, FWM is not at all opposed to hiring people who are unemployed.

Jamie Tayes, an environmental intern at Fort Wayne Metals, attends the University of Saint Francis. had previously been working in demanding environments. We rely on our testing process to determine the candidate’s capabilities. That gets backed up by our reference checks. When you are considering a candidate for a job that will require them to be making wire that goes into the system that carries electrical current from a pacemaker to a patient’s heart, former employers are very candid about a candidate’s capabilities, strengths and weaknesses. WJI: Is a candidate from a well-reputed college viewed differently than one from a lesser-known state college? Rohrs: We have graduates from bigger universities as well as smaller schools. We have found high-quality candidates from both ends of that spectrum. Internships matter a great deal. As I mentioned earlier, we typically have 20 interns at any given time. They accomplish significant work while at the same time they are leaning very valuable skills they can apply here at FWM or with some other employer. WJI: How many people might you hire in a given year? Will you consider a candidate who is unemployed? Rohrs: We typically hire 60-70 people per year with gusts up to 100 in a high growth year. We also routinely hire unemployed people. There are great candidates out there

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WJI: Are there any “poisoned well” responses that could rule out what might be an otherwise good candidate? Rohrs: Sure. The list is long. WJI: Has the hiring process at Fort Wayne Metals process evolved much over the years? How has it most changed? Rohrs: We are currently doing a value stream mapping exercise of our hiring process to make it better, faster, more responsive. We did a similar exercise several years ago. I intend to do it again in the not too distant future. We believe that all processes at FWM need to get better, faster, more effective. So yes, we have evolved dramatically in the last decade. The way it has changed most is the use of the testing process to objectively assess our candidates. Building that process took a considerable amount of time, some expense, and a dogged determination to find a better way to select the best candidates. We still work closely with Dr. Lovell to continue to improve our process. We are engaged with him right now to overhaul our process again, not because we are not happy with the results, we are very happy with the results, but because we believe we need to be hiring for the future, not for today’s skill requirements. WJI: When it comes to hiring, what advice can you offer other companies? Rohrs: Treat hiring like the million dollar decision that it is. Use objective tools. Dr. Lovell, the industrial psychologist that we work with, often coaches with this saying, “Hire easy, manage tough, hire tough, manage easy.”

LS Cable: employees must be in step...on taps and at work FEATURE

If you’re wondering about the group photo of performers on the cover, it has everything to do with training employees. At least it does for South Korea’s LS Cable & System, one of the world’s largest cable companies, and certainly one of the most ambitious. A company spokesman told WJI that the LS Cable & System’s Human Resources Department (HRD) had never used tap dancing as a training element before, but that earlier this year it was used as part of its new employee program. Some 50 new staffers who had completed the twoweek training program took to their dancing shoes for a ceremony entitled, ‘It’s Time to Open,’ that was put on in the LS Tower in Anyang, Gyeonggi-do. “The highlight of the event was by far the tap-dance performance put on by new employees,” a press release said. “Having passionately prepared for Enthusiastic LS Cable & System trainees. the performance by staying up nights despite their busy schedule during the two-week period, the new employees received enthusiastic applause from the audience.” The release said that there was sound reason behind the dance performance. “Rhythm and beat are very important in tap dancing. A great tap dancing performance is possible only when every member of the group dances as one, While preparing for the performance, the new employees learned about teamwork naturally.” Following the performance, President & CEO Ja-Eun Koo gave words of encouragement. “With passion and the spirit of challenge you have shown in today’s performance, I hope we will open up the next 50 years of LS Cable & System together. I urge you to become creative people who provide differentiated values ahead of your competitors.” LS Cable & System provides its New-Entry training program for 15 days, followed by a mentoring program for three months, a summer camp in August and a training program for setting one’s “own vision” in December. The company’s strategy, vision and history are part of the process. For key role members, the company has a long-term training program where they get to take part in programs for leadership, global competitiveness, and more. The tap dancing module, the release said, got the highest satisfaction score from the new employees.

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Young employees: a frustrating generational necessity Younger employees may be the future of any business, but employers that try to control them likely will find the experience very frustrating, observes Bruce Tulgan, a leading expert on young people in the workplace. The author of “Managing Generation X” has advised organizations—from Aetna and Wal-Mart to the U.S. Army and the YMCA—on leadership and management issues. Below are excerpts from a presentation he made to the WAI’s New England Chapter. For more on Tulgan, go to www.rainmakerthinking.com. Based on 19 years of research, the biggest problem companies have today is managing people. That happens for two reasons: one, there’s a lot more pressure because of the need to get more work done by fewer people; and two, because there’s a lot more high-maintenance employees. One of the key challenges has to do with the changing workforce. There are five distinct generations today: people born before 1946, the silent generation, which represents about 2% of employees; those born from 1946 to 1964, the Baby Boomers, about 35% of the workforce; those born between 1965 and 1977, Generation X, about 28% of the workforce; and those born from 1997 on, about 35% of the workforce, call them Generation Y (1978 to 1989) and Generation Z (1990 forward). Part of the problem stems from the interaction of the different generations. The employer/employee dynamic used to be simple: the older people were in charge, and it was understood that new employees had to keep their nose to the grindstone. If you put your head down, did what you were told and did not make demands of your boss, there was the hope that in the years to come you could progress through the ranks and possibly hold the job your boss now has. That dynamic has broken down for two reason. Today, more than ever, productivity and quality rule. It matters less what someone has done than what they can do, and there is far less trust in general by employees that “the system” will take care of them. That change in perception started with Generation X, but Generations Y & Z have taken that inner focus mindset to a whole new level. They do not buy into the myth of “job security,” and are not inclined to patiently wait to see rewards for their contributions. Younger employees want to make change, and they want to do it now. They do not care about time-honored procedures and committee reviews. They want to find problems and solve them, and they are ready to deploy the latest electronic technology like a high-powered race car. They don’t mind working hard, but they want their efforts to be scored, and they want to be rewarded. It’s about money but it’s more than that: they want recognition of their value. And they are not going to wait long to see results, they will be gone. There is no new-fangled strategy to managing young employees with such a mindset. Further, if a young person who comes in for an interview seems to be part of the

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“keeping their heads down and their mouths shut” mode, you’ve probably got the wrong person because he or she is likely a “way station employee,” someone who is willing to take a job while they figure out what it is that they Bruce Tulgan speaking at the actually want to do. And when they do, they New England Chapter’s annual meeting earlier this year. will leave as soon as they can without a second thought. You are far better off hiring a bright, ambitious person who is bursting with energy and ideas. Telling someone like that to pay their dues and slowly climb the corporate ladder will not work. They aren’t buying that dream. They’ve got an incredible spark and drive, but despite all that potential they are still on a learning curve and they cannot do it all on their own. What they need is management, and a company has to be able to provide sound direction without dousing that spark with either water or gasoline. The solution is decidedly old fashioned. These These employees employees do not do not need to have need to have their self-esteem built and their self-esteem they don’t really built and they don’t need you to be their friend. What they do really need you to want is to be set up be their friend. for success, to have the tools and support to conquer, and they want to do it their way.This can mean allowing far more flexibility in terms of work practices than you are used to. Yet untraditional work conditions are far less important than a person who has all the tools and drive. Do not feel shackled by what is standard procedure and how other employees may perceive such treatment. Further, even if you can provide the perfect setting and direction and the employee flourishes, the success story may end far sooner than hoped for. These younger employees may ultimately decide to move on to another challenge. They consider themselves loyal, but they just do not place a high value on the long-term work experience. Think of it as “Just-in-Time” loyalty. Your challenge, as employers, is to achieve the most you can from the potential of these bright younger employees while understanding that your view and their view of longterm career goals are unlikely to be the same. Welcome to the new dynamic.

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The Prysmian Group redesigned its personnel management and development strategy during 2011, the year it acquired Draka. Today, with subsidiaries in 50 countries, 91 plants, 17 R&D centers and about 20,000 employees, the Group has placed a high priority on strong management, enough so that it has even started its own management school for preparing its future leaders. “Our people are the most valuable capital we have,” said Fabrizio Rutschmann, Human Resources and Organization Director, Prysmian Group. “To invest in managerial and technical trainings, in recruiting young talented people is key for the company’s future” added Luigi Bellopede, People Development Manager, Prysmian Group. To that end, the company has launched the two following initiatives: • Prysmian Group Academy. Prysmian collaborated with the SDA Bocconi School of Management to create this academy, an international school for management and professional training and education. Its mission is to strengthen leadership and management skills, and it serves as a first step towards obtaining an MBA. It includes: a post graduate program for recent graduates that includes at least two years of working abroad; an international leadership program for employees being groomed for leadership positions; and an advanced leadership program for middle and senior managers to develop and position them for career progression. • Build the Future. This international young graduate recruitment program seeks to recruit 50 new young graduates in engineering and economics for future manager positions. By mid-year, they should be placed in R&D, manufacturing and sales/marketing functions. Training will begin in Milan headquarters followed by a 12-month job rotation in their country of origin to allow them to get first-hand experience of production activities and effectively understand the processes, followed by 24 months of experience abroad within a specific function. After three years, they will be assigned junior management roles. They will be mentored by senior manages who will follow their entire training path.

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Hiring for the top: good timing can be years in coming “David Ely has been named president of Fluoropolymer Resources, LLC, the world leader in high volume, highquality reprocessed melt fluoropolymers.” That first sentence of a March 17 press release from Kevin Buchanan represents one of the three biggest events ever to happen to his U.S.-based company, FRL, the other two being when he first started the business in 1991 and when he took on equity investors. In all three cases, he said, each action was years in the making. “This was a huge move for us,” said Buchanan, whose company, based in Willimantic, Connecticut, has grown from fewer than 17 employees three years ago to more than 40 today. Further, the goal is not to settle into a comfort zone but to pick up the pace even more. “We’re in an aggressive growth stage. In the next two to three years, we will establish footprints in Europe and Asia. I see us growing again dramatically.” To make that happen, Buchanan wanted to hire a company president, but not just anyone from the ranks of experienced executives. “I knew I needed someone who was very well versed in the industry and in fluoropolymers. I also wanted someone who had a track record of growing a small company in a stable and sustained fashion. The individual

Fluoropolymer Resources, LLC, CEO Kevin Buchanan, r, with David Ely, the new company president. had to have a proven customer first mentality, and an uncompromised commitment to best practices and product quality. I can assure you, there are not a lot of people out there with that resume.”

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investors, filling the top position could well require a process that could force consideration of candidates from across the country, and possibly from other fields that may or may not be related. One advantage of being in the wire and cable industry is that networking makes it possible to meet and/or know of many individuals. Reputations are set and track records can be seen. Buchanan described David Ely as a unique candidate. He had served as president of Chromatics, Inc., since 2000, and prior to that he had worked in fluoropolymer operations, sales and market development with ICI and DuPont. He is active in leadership roles on important industry committees of SPI and is a 2013 recipient of the WCMA’s Charles D. Scott Distinguished Career Award. “He was number one on my list,” he said. The partners were fully behind his choice, said Buchanan, who did not discuss the hiring process itself other than to say that the fit and timing were good for both parties. Now that Ely has started, he said that he is absolutely ready to back off some of the day-to-day management responsibilities and focus more on the customers, products, and the strategic aspects of the business plan. “This was a big decision, but I feel good, very good, that it was the right one for the company’s future,” he said.

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Buchanan said that he has known Ely for years, but that as with many things in life, it was a matter of timing: for himself, his company and for Ely. It was worth the wait, as noted in his press release: “FRL is excited to add the caliber of leadership that Dave brings as we aggressively pursue strategic growth initiatives that leverage our technical innovations, market vision and strategic alliances. Dave’s successful track record and 30-plus years of fluoropolymer industry experience uniquely qualify him to lead us through the coming years and to continue the best practices growth of FRL.” Buchanan, who started out as an extruder operator at Times Wire and Cable, (now Times Microwave), and later served as an engineering manager at Belden in Vermont and Indiana, said that he recognized his own strengths and limitations. He acknowledged that he did not have much formal schooling, and was relatively weak in the management skills and methods required to grow the company. Now that the investments were getting more and more substantial and the business model more complex, it was becoming essential to develop greater management infrastructure and human capital. He wanted someone “who actually knows how to do these things.” That basis, he explained, helped him formulate his search in terms of priorities. At many companies, especially those that have significant

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Filling positions takes more than the latest social media The below piece is by Peter Carino, co-principal of Wire Resources, Inc., a U.S. wire and cable industry placement firm based in Connecticut, pcarino@wireresources.com, www.wireresources.com, www.linkedin.com/in/ petercarino1/. There was a time for our office when wire and cable manufacturers were concentrated in certain areas, such as New Jersey, Connecticut and especially Massachusetts. Candidates could make several changes in employers over their career and never have to relocate. However, hiring the best qualified talent has never been that easy, which is why we have been in business 40 years. It’s always been difficult to find a good candidate for an engineering post, and it’s gotten tougher in recent years. The law of supply and demand is in a candidate’s favor. It is not unusual for a cable company to go months not being able to fill an engineering opening. The cable industry just does not attract young degreed engineers in any great quantity. It’s competing against sexier/higher tech industries, such as medical, that have a greater capacity to grow and sustain U.S.-based manufacturing. In some respects, our company has not changed much in

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Peter Carino, co-principal, Wire Resources, Inc. terms of how it finds a good candidates. We embrace technology and media, but first and foremost we believe that trust and confidence is what matters, and that it is still best developed with a voice or a face-to-face relationship. We are always cultivating new partnerships with industry professionals. We have relationships that span decades and entire careers. We have a database that chronicles thousands of cable professionals throughout their careers.

NCMM outlook for hiring A recent survey of 1,000 executives by the National Center for the Middle Market (NCMM) at The Ohio University found a lack of confidence in the global economy yet optimistic for growth opportunities in manufacturing. What was noteworthy in the survey of companies (revenues of $10 million to $1 billion) was that the “skills gap” was not among the top concerns cited. It ranked far below the top three—“uncertainty” about actions in Washington, DC (53%); the impact of healthcare reform (52%); and the cost of doing business (32%). “In fact, they listed it as 10th (23%) on a list of 22,” the MCMM reported. One problem, the report said, is that more baby boomers are retiring, and companies have not been grooming their replacements. Further, jobseekers are seeking more job security and “attitudes have changed.” It pointed out that if there was a serious shortage of job candidates, then wages would increase, and that has not happened outside of some highly skilled positions. “Research showed the average wages of machinists at all skill levels declined slightly,” and it may be that “employers are just “being more careful about who they are hiring,” it said.

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There are current industry presidents and vice presidents who we placed early in their cable careers. We have built levels of trust and confidence over decades that can’t be equaled by friending them on Facebook or sending them a tweet. Yes, we do use multi-media, but it is a supporting tool for what we do. From what our experience has shown, companies like our approach. Most companies want to see the entire talent pool, not just the active job seeking candidates that are very high visibility. We reach a person who is well entrenched in what they do but is interested in a particular type of opportunity. This person is not surfing social media and job boards. Don’t get me wrong, thousands of jobs are filled that way, but that’s just not the kind of job search request we typically get. Looking forward, we expect that in the next five to six years there will be many cable producers who will see a large percentage of its top management retiring. Many of these firms do not have the personnel internally to fill those voids, and small- to medium-size cable firms are probably the most vulnerable. We are currently engaged in two searches with companies looking to make hires that will ultimately replace a president and a vice president of sales in four to five years.

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Candidate search: fishing in a familiar pool of engineering Ironically, it was hard to get in touch with Steven Jones, general manager of ASARCO ’s copper refinery in Amarillo, Texas, to interview him for this story because, as he later explained, he has been so busy interviewing prospective candidates. In recent years, one source he has turned to is his former alma mater, the Colorado School of Mines (CSM), to find engineering students who would make a good fit for the company. Below, he discussed the experience. WJI: What was your experience like when you were a student at CSM and how easy was it for you to get a job when you graduated? Jones: I was an A student in high school, and when I went to CSM in 1977, it was extremely demanding. CSM taught me how to study. They know how to prepare students. The placement rate for graduates was more than 98 percent. My own job search story is a bit different because I got a scholarship from ASARCO for my last two years of schooling. When I finished school in 1981, I started working for ASARCO and have been with the company ever since. WJI: How is it that you are now going back there? Jones: ASARCO’s operations start from the mining end to production of wire rod, so for that last step we need technical people, such as metallurgical and electrical engineers. ASARCO pays well and has good benefits. We don’t have a problem filling most positions, but that’s not the case for the highly technical tasks, such as controlling rod chemistries. When I became general manager of the Amarillo plant a few years ago, I became responsible for part of the hiring process. I know how CSM prepared me for my career, and it continues to have an excellent reputation, so in 2010, I contacted the alumni office and set up our interviews. WJI: What was your impression of the students? Jones: We met more than 50 students at the first Career Fair I attended and set up interviews with about a dozen students the next day. It was an impressive experience and to be honest, a bit intimidating. These kids were really smart and

focused. They knew what wanted and were very articulate. When I was in school, we did all our calculations by hand; now they are so versed in the computer science field and softwarebased problem solving, they can do what I did in a fraction of the time. The school itself was also amazing. The Student Recreation Center had a great lounge and the gym was fantastic. There is even a rock climbing wall.

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WJI: Did it help that you were a CSM grad? Jones: I think it did. They wanted to know what I had done, what my options were and how my career path developed. WJI: If you interviewed a dozen students, does that mean any of them would do? Jones: Yes and no. Each one I believe was capable, but each student has different skills sets, qualifications and experiences. Also, it’s not as if you want them, you can get them, because the employer competition is quite stiff. The last class had about 38 metallurgical engineering grads, and there were more than 70 companies at the Career Fair, recruiting for the same engineering disciplines. WJI: Does it all come down to starting pay? Jones: First, the starting pay does matter a lot, and the students know what that should be. You are not going to come here and find someone willing to accept an offer that is below a certain figure. Some companies come looking for engineers, and it's not unusual to hear about starting pay offers of over $100,000. The challenge is that you need to have a good fit. What do they want to do now and what do they want to be doing three years from now? Also, lifestyle matters. For instance, if snowboarding or kayaking means a lot to someone, they’re not going to find that in the Texas Panhandle. At the same time, the students have had a certain

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lifestyle in Colorado that they may want to continue, but the reality is that the vast majority of them are not going to stay in Colorado, so it’s a matter of what’s most important to them. If someone gets past the initial interview, we try to match up a new graduate whose goals, dreams and desires match what we can offer, and then set up a plant visit. WJI: How have you fared hiring at CSM? Jones: In the last two years we’ve made several offers and hired one person. From what I’ve seen, the CSM students are very focused; they want to get their foot in the door. Most of them wanted to get into management, and they see themselves 10 years down the road in an advanced management position.

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WJI: How has the experience been for you personally? Jones: It’s been a good experience for me, and I’ve also learned from it in a way that I didn’t expect. I’m 53, hardly a dinosaur, but I noticed that many company representatives manning the booths at the Career Fair were much younger, maybe 25 to 28 years old. Our own engineering staff is young. This spring, I sent a recent grad to help man our booth. It adds credibility for the students to see someone

they can relate to. I’m finding that most students expect to be at a company for three to five years and then move on to other companies, which is nothing like what I envisioned when I was school. It is difficult for the students to relate to someone like me who has been with the same company for 31 years. I still find it hard when someone leaves ASARCO because it’s as if they were part of our family.

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INTERWIRE PRODUCTS PRODUCTS Enkotec A/S—Enkotec Co., Inc. At Booth 570 at Interwire, Enkotec will launch an upgrade of the company’s complete ENKOnail+ highcapacity nail machine series. The upgrade includes many advantages, including: the highest output-per-minute rate in the market; widened nail dimension range, including smaller nails; new drive platform based on belt drives or maintenance-free servomotor drive; even more user-friendly software; new improved system for insertion timing with easy and quick adjustment; larger eight-groove feed rollers with improved lifetime; user-friendly pedal for manual drive of machine; exhaust air connections allowing to efficiently evacuate dust; improved cooling of machine due to powerful extraction of air; electrical cabinet rubber damping supports to reduce vibration; and box for nibs inside the machine. Enkotec’s nail machines are unique by being based on a rotary forming principle that allows wire feeding, wire cutting and head forming to take place in one continuous process of rotating movements and offering the possibility of unmanned production. The machines incorporate a compact, space-saving design and a user-friendly PLC control system and touch screen operator interface. Tooling changeovers and maintenance routines are easy to carry out owing to the user-friendly open-door machine design. Enkotec’s machine concept allows implementation of an environmentally friendly production with a low noise level, small energy consumption and an oil-free manufacturing process, eliminating the need for subsequent nail tumbling. Contact: Enkotec Co., Inc., tel. 440-349-2800, enkotec@enkotec.com, www.enkotec.com.

FUHR GmbH & Co. Kg At Booth 1856 at Interwire, FUHR GmbH & Co. KG, which has a long tradition in designing and building wire rolling machines, will highlight its layer-winding technology. When it comes to delivery, a customer’s first impression is the optical appearance of the winding quality. A perfect layer-wise winding is associated with a perfect product.

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Hence, in today’s wire production the winding quality enjoys a high level of importance. Furthermore, bad layer-winding can also be of major impact on the product quality. Wire that is confusedly wound on reels also has a bad influence on quality aspects such as straightness, torsion and surface. As a producer of wire rolling mills, the German company FUHR also has a long tradition in designing and building layer-winding machines. FUHR offers a wide range of spoolers in cantilever and pintle design for gross weights of up to 10 tons. The machines are prepared to either be used with reels made of plastic, wood and steel, or to create coreless coils by the use of collapsible reels. The common design concept of these spoolers is a traversing spool and a fixed wire line. The traversing is computer controlled and provides special features to optimize the laying especially in the reversing points such as edge stop, angle offset and spike. In addition, FUHR has developed precise wire-guiding devices to support the spoolers in delivering outstanding winding quality for strips, rectangular wire and special shapes equally. Contact: FUHR GmbH & Co. Kg, tel. 49-5234-84980, office@fuhr-wire.com, www.fuhr-wire.com.

Huestis Industrial At Booth 332 at Interwire, Huestis Industrial will highlight the company’s Down Drafter air wiper, which as created to answer a variety of issues within the manufacturing realm. Our first application was to address the medical tubing extrusion business, where avoiding blow back or disturbances of the water field or trough as it is dried is crucial for the clean room environment and must be minimized. Thus, we started with a rear- exiting 45 degree angle down drain with a threaded reversible 3/8 in. opening. Further testing led to another need and another discovery in other extrusion businesses, where today’s higher process speeds require ganging multiple air wipers together in an enclosure or mounting to obtain effective drying. Because most air wipers blow liquid to the rear from a

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90-degree opening or drain/exhaust, they blow water back onto moving product as it exits from the previous air wipers in line, diminishing the drying effect. This led to the development of the Huestis Industrialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Down Drafterâ&#x20AC;? air wiper. It has a Âž in. threaded bottom center drain that allows a customer to use a fitting and attach a hose or pipe to return the liquid back to process without an enclosure, if so desired. It also has our patented nozzle jets both in the front and rear of the air wiper to minimize blowback, increasing performance and keeping product much drier than standard air wipers. We also found in field testing that it has much better performance at high speeds over the standard designs and still offers greatly reduced air consumption. There is a metering air valve that allows the customer to tune and balance the air flow between the front and rear jets for the best results of each product. Contact: Howie Fancher, Huestis Industrial, tel. 401253-5500, hfancher@huestis.com, huestisindustrial.com.

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Robomac line as well as for the FRX, Numalliance used proven technology for this specific application. From the decoiling to the bending operation, Numalliance adapted current techniques to enhance capabilities. Both of these 100% electric wire bending machine will rock the industry with their speed, bending capabilities and flexibility. Come and see for yourself at Booth 1032. Contact: Numamerica, tel. 847-439-4500, www.numalliance.com, lvallet@numamerica.com.

Plasmait GmbH/Howar Equipment At Booth 1512 at Interwire, Austria’s Plasmait GmbH, represented in North America by Howar Equipment, will launch PlasmaAnnealer, a new generation annealer designed for fine and small diameter wires made of stainless steel and nickel alloys that is also able to be used for small cross-section flat and shaped wire and fine ropes and tubes made of stainless steel and nickel alloys. This new concept allows for a radical increase of continuous annealing speeds, able to even surpass 15m/s for fine wire sizes of austenitic stainless steels. With such speeds, annealing can be performed in-line with drawing or rolling, substituting multiple lines of a traditional tube furnace. The annealer, which has a compact design, offers high-energy conversion efficiency, very low gas consumption and allows the operator to target mechanical properties with a great degree of accuracy. Rapid heating and reduced time of recrystallization results in fine grain size with uniform crystal structure. The PlasmaAnnealer can cold start production in few minutes and can be stopped immediately. This avoids the lengthy heating-up and cooling-down times and associated energy costs that are symptomatic for a conventional furnace. Ion sputtering on the material surface results in fine dry surface cleaning and surface oxide removal, which have proved beneficial to applications with demanding surface requirements in sectors such as medical, electronics, jewelry, welding, aerospace to mention a few. Contact: Plasmait GmbH, tel. 44-161-980-7485, www.plasmait.com, info@plasmait.com; Howar Equipment, tel. 905-265-8912, www.howarequipment. com, sales@howarequipment.com.

PolyOne At booth 1912 at Interwire, PolyOne will showcase Syncure™ Solar, a photovoltaic (PV) wire and cable system. Introduced at NPE 2012, this UV-resistant, crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) system provides high-performance, UL 4703 and VW 1 compliance in one materi-

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al, eliminating the need to use two separate insulation and jacketing formulations. Syncure Solar provides multiple environmental benefits. It promotes the use of alternative energy by simplifying the wiring of PV systems. Because Syncure Solar complies with the stringent UL 4703 standard for PV wire as well as the UL 44 standard for interior wiring, it can be used seamlessly from the outside to the inside of a building in USE-2 (Underground Service Entrance) applications. Syncure Solar, as a one-material solution, requires only one pass through the extruder for simplified logistics, reduced cycle time, and overall systems cost reduction. Combining insulation and jacketing also allows for a thinner coating (60 mil versus the typical 75 mil). An added benefit is the availability of Syncure Solar in two colors, natural and black, with comparable performance. Color concentrates from PolyOne can also provide a range of color options, allowing for easy, visual differentiation of wire and cable. Contact: PolyOne, www.polyone.com.

POURTIER of America At Booth 1932 at Interwire, POURTIER of America, a member of the Gauder Group, will highlight the company’s new rigid standing lines, type RFS 630-TZ and RFS 800-TZ, both equipped with the innovative “TZ” heads and designed to meet the needs of cablemakers trying to cope with the increasing demand for overhead conductors made of trapezoidal wires. This new generation of conductors is frequently seeing greater use to increase the transmission capacity of existing lines, thus avoiding costly and time consuming projects for completely new lines. To properly handle this challenging product, the POURTIER rigid strander employs several special features: a fine tension control; a straight and smooth passage for the trapezoidal wires all along the line to avoid any deformation of wires; the exclusive use of rollers, instead of eyelets, to avoid friction on the wires; and larger cage bearings for straight passage of wires. The “TZ-C” head, enabling guiding on the trap wires without friction up to the cabling block and guaranteeing the perfect position of trap wires in the conductor layers, will be displayed at Interwire booth 1932. POURTIER has already supplied numerous lines to major cable makers throughout the world, to produce ACSS/TW and ACSR/TW (using central core made of steel) and ACCC™ (made of composite centre and soft aluminum

Proton Products International, Ltd. At Booth 1320 at Interwire, Proton Products International, Ltd., will showcase the company’s InteliSENS range of measurement gauges, which are “Super Fast” and packed with connectivity. In recent years, Proton Products has emerged as a leading supplier of gauges and control systems to the wire, cable and tube industries, and the InteliSENS line is at the heart of such success. The product line name, which means “Intelligent Sensors,” was chosen because it refers to all the “intelligence” or processing that is done in the SENSOR head so that there is no need for a separate box. The InteliSENS gauges are built around a common processor architecture and use a common communication design. For customers, that means that the circuits, components and boards that are used are shared, which increases reliability, reduces costs and simplifies everything.

Visit us at Interwire Booth # 650

The Super FAST DG-K Series provides diameter measurements up to 10,000 times per second, per axis. At these speeds, lump and neck detection in the same gauge head is finally a reality. On top of that, the gauge is available with a self calculating “PI” feedback control loop and all the I/O right on the gauge head. Ethernet TCP is standard, and Profibus, Industrial Protocol IP and Devicenet are optional items that can be easily added. There are no moving parts in the DG-K series as the gauges uses state-of-the art CCD technology. Contact: Grant Latimer, Proton Products International, Ltd., Tel. 44-1494-670-606, www. protonproducts.com, g.latimer@protonproducts.com.

RichardsApex, Inc. At Booth 540 at Interwire, U.S.-based RichardsApex will showcase the company’s next generation of synthetic

Visit us at Interwire Booth # 717

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wire with trapezoidal shape) overhead conductors. Contact: POURTIER of America, tel. 336-856-8176, www.gaudergroup.com, pourtier.setic.america@gaudergroup.com.

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tional lubricants that have become industry standards the world over. You do not get to be 111 years old without learning a few things along the way. At RichardsApex we put our knowledge and history to work for you. We have been working hard so you will not have to. In today’s challenging markets, time is of the essence; time is money. With our clean-running, low-foam and low-maintenance products, your machines will be more efficient, which saves you money. We are constantly developing new technologies that will benefit our industry and our customers. This passion and dedication are some of the reasons we have enjoyed over 111 years as a leader in the wire and cable industry. Whether you are talking about rod breakdown, intermediate, multiwire, fine wire or ultra fine wire down to 52ga, we have you covered at RichardsApex. From traditional metals like copper and aluminum to tin, nickel, and silver plate, our products are proven performers. To support our growing network we have manufacturing locations in the U.S., U.K., Mexico and Australia. This, combined with our worldwide network of experienced sales professionals, representatives and stocking distributors is what makes RichardsApex the best value for your dollar. Contact: Andrew Helffrich, RichardsApex, Inc., tel. 215-487-1100, andrewhelffrich@richardsapex.com, www.richardsapex.com.

Rosendahl Maschinen GmbH At Booth 1050 at Interwire, Austria’s Rosendahl Maschinen GmbH will highlight the company’s new FOC multipass cooling trough for loose-tube lines, which represents a further advance in the fiber optic cable manufacturing process. Rosendahl has made significant advances in loose tube production equipment: improved high speed fiber payoff design with reduced footprint for space saving; a special feeding section of the ROEX extruder to optimize the processability of the typical material used for loose tube production; new RX crosshead series technology for optimized material flow in the melt distributer in conjunction with a linear jelly needle guiding system for easier handling; multipass cooling with integrated midspan and exit capstan; and a new generation pulley clenching capstan, SCC100, for accurate post shrinkage and EFL control, especially for dry tubes. At Interwire, the company will focus on the elements of its recently introduced new cooling trough, which consists

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of: the telescopic section, the straight section with a shrinkage control capstan SCC 100 and the multipass section, The new design has a shorter total line length with results in no limitation in cooling capacity at higher production speeds. Contact: Rosendahl Maschinen GmbH, Tel. 43-31135100-0, www.rosendahlaustria.com, office@ rosendahlaustria.com.

SETIC of America At Booth 1932 at Interwire, SETIC of America, a member of the Gauder Group, will showcase its energy-saving, single-bow machine. SETIC designs and manufactures very low power consumption models thanks to use of a single bow machine, instead of double bow – coupled with the company’s patented GreenBow technology, instead of standard eyelet bow. Compared to a regular double-bow machine, the use of the GreenBow design can generate between 2,000 up to 3,000 euros in savings per buncher a year. With a rich 60 years of experience in double-twist technology, SETIC is a major partner in the delivery of advanced bunchers for automotive wires: 7, 19, 37 wires (unilay construction) or multiwires. More than a hundred machines adopted GreenBow in 2012, so stop by at Interwire to discuss implementing your energy-saving project. The SETIC range includes high-speed, double-twist bunching/stranding machines, 630 mm and 800 mm, with changed gear or motorized driven capstan (TD versus TC model). Other advantages include use of full AC motors and reduced maintenance (no encoder, Bluetooth system to reduce slipring). In addition to saving money, the bunchers reduce the temperature inside the sound-proof cabinet, the noise level, and the load on the bow gearing/driving system. Contact: SETIC of America, tel. 336-856-8176, www.gaudergroup.com, pourtier.setic.america@ gaudergroup.com. BOW TECHNOLOGY, a Gauder Group company, tel. 33-4-77-23-25-55, www.bowtechnology.com, bowtechnology@ gaudergroup.com.

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Visit us at Interwire Booth # 333 CAREER OPPORTUNITY REBUILDING PLANT/SHOP MANAGER: Major wire and cable machinery dealer is looking for a dynamic self-starter for its Bristol, CT facility. Responsibilities include overseeing all machinery rebuilding projects, managing shop personnel and work-flow, Ordering parts, developing vendor relationships and scheduling customer inspections. Knowledge of non-ferrous wire, cable and optical fiber manufacturing machinery is required. Minimum 10 years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment or with an Original Equipment Manufacturer. Please send your cover letter and resume to: info@wireandplastic.com. All enquiries will be treated with strict confidence. AGENTS WANTED. Agents are required for open areas for Delisi Srl, a leading Italian manufacturer of wireworking machines. Delisi sells worldwide and is looking for qualified sales representatives for the company's automatic straightening and cutting machines and automatic stirrup-bending machines. For information, please contact delisi@delisisrl.com or visit us at www.delisisrl.com. I N D U S T R Y C O N S U LTA N T WANTED. Consultant is needed by a small company to help obtain, set up, and run a Straightening machine for small diameter Wire. Call 800-5213060 or Fax 800-691-5608.

Serving the non-ferrous and ferrous industries since 1983

Visit us at Interwire Booth # 705

COMMISSION BROKERS, INC. EQUIPMENT SPECIALISTS TO THE ELECTRICAL WIRE & CABLE INDUSTRY APPRAISERS • COMMISSION BROKERS • INDIVIDUAL PIECES OR ENTIRE PLANTS

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CEECO 37-Wire 31” Rigid Strander Line CEECO 48” Rotating Cabler WARDWELL 24-C Braiders NEB 72-C #2 Braiders, Long Legs, Motors NEB 48-C #2 Harness Braiders, Long Legs, Motors NEB 16-C #2 Harness Braider, Long Legs, Motor NEB 12-C #2 Braider, Long Legs, Motor TMW 24-Carrier Cable Braiders, 6” Horn Gears REEL-O-MATIC 24” Caterpuller Capstan w/Cutter ENTWISTLE 30” Closer, Model STC-30 EDMANDS 18-Wire, 6+12, 16” Planetary Cabler Line NEB Model C62-2 12-Wire 8” Vertical Planetary Cablers, 1987 SICTRA Rod Breakdown Line DAVIS STANDARD 2.5” 24:1 L/D Hi-Temp Extruder DAVIS STANDARD 1.5” 24:1 L/D Extruder HALL 40” Motorized Payoff w/Dancer DYNAMEX Tape Payoff, Model TPB30-2-D ROSENDAHL 630mm Parallel Axis Dual Reel Take-up, never used SPHEREX 18” Dual Reel Take-up, refurbished

1 - NOKIA Model EKP50 Parallel Axis Dual Reel Take-up, 1997 1 - CLIPPER Model SP16 Dual Spooler 2 - AL-BE Model MS12 Respoolers, 12” Reels 1 - WEMCO 84” Take-up, Model 8284B, w/Mobility Package 1 - REEL-O-MATIC Model SP-HJ/K5 Take-up 1 - REEL-O-MATIC Model ILB12X Dual Respooler 1 - TEC Model DTC630 D.T. Twister 2 - ENTWISTLE 4-Wire 24” D.T. Twisters, Model 4WDT24 1 - KENRAKE Model TWD101 Twister 1 - FORMULABS ‘Codemaster 5’ Spiral Striper, w/5’ Oven 1 - FARRELL Banbury Mixer, 7.5HP Motor 1 - METRONIC AlphaJet C Inkjet Printer, 2005 3 - PWM Model EP500 Rod Welders 1 - EUBANKS Model 4000-04 Cut and Strip Machine 1 - SCHLEUNIGER Model UC3750 Cutter 1 - SCHLEUNIGER Model EC3200 EcoCut, 2007 1 - SCHLEUNIGER Model PF2000 PreFeed 1 - SCHLEUNIGER StripCrimp750, Stripping/Crimping Machine 1 - IDEAL Model STP Stripper, Part #45-930

Contact: Martin Kenner

COMMISSION BROKERS, INC. P.O. Box 8456 • Cranston, RI 02920-0456 • Tel. (401) 943-3777 • Fax: (401) 943-3670 WEB: www.commissionbrokers.com • E-MAIL: marty137@aol.com

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PERSONNEL SERVICES “LET OUR SUCCESS BE YOUR SUCCESS” Wire Resources is the foremost recruiting firm in the Wire & Cable Industry. Since 1967 we have partnered with industry manufacturers to secure the services of thousands of key individual contributors and managers.

Contacts: Peter Carino, pcarino@ wireresources.com or at www. linked in.com/in/petercarino1, or Jack Cutler, jcutler@wireresources.com. Wire Resources Inc, 522 E Putnam Ave, Greenwich, CT 06830, tel. (203) 622-3000 or (800) 394-WIRE. Visit our website at www.wireresources. com.

Please e-mail the requested information to: WAI’s Cindy Kirmss at ckirmss@wirenet.org. For more details, you can call her at 203-453-2777, ext. 116.

DIES APOLLO DIA-CARB COMPANY Sells Natural/PCD diamond dies. Fair prices/excellent lead times. Contact Paulette, Owner/Sales Tel. # 1 (508) 226-1508 or 1 (508) 226-0946 E-mail: apollodie@comcast.net

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MANUFACTURING ENGINEER Sandvik Materials Technology, a world leading producer of high technology alloys has an excellent career opportunity for a Manufacturing Engineer in Bethel, CT.

The Role In this key role, the Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for performing continuous process improvement, equipment upgrades and trouble shooting of quality issues to achieve a high level of manufacturing effectiveness. This individual will engineer projects in order to reduce costs or increase efficiency, working with both round wire and flat products.

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How to Apply For immediate consideration, please apply online at www.sandvik.com/careers to the Manufacturing Engineer position, Job Opening #321136. Due to the expected volume of responses to this ad, only those under consideration for this position will be contacted.

• Minimum of two years of hands-on experience working in a wire and or strip mill. Similar metals manufacturing background may be considered. Knowledge of equipment upgrading, automation and process development is required. • Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, in a related engineering field. • Background/knowledge of lean manufacturing techniques and 5S concepts. • Ability to work in a manufacturing environment with operators, individually and in a team environment. • Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite • Knowledge of Federal and state environmental regulations is a benefit.

Benefits We offer a competitive package, including: • life, health, and dental insurance • paid vacation and holidays • 401(k) retirement savings plan.

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WWW.URBANOASSOCIATES. COM. For New (Hakusan Heat Pressure Welders, Ferrous & NonFerrous; Marldon Rolling Ring Traverses) & Used Wire & Cable Equipment (buttwelders, coldwelders, color-o-meters and pointers). Tel: 727863-4700 or by e-mail, please send to urbassoc@verizon.net.

MEDIA THE SMALL SHOP. This book, 327 pages, by Gary Conner, the author of Lean Manufacturing for the Small Shop, describes Six Sigma and how it is used bysmaller companies. Published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, it shows the relationship between continuous improvement, lean, and quality, and focuses on implementation for operators, managers, and owners. It includes a supplementary CD-ROM. Price, $95, $75 for WAI members, plus shipping. To purchase, go to wirenet.org and click on The WAI Store.

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CALL FOR PAPERS — D E A D L I N E S — Abstract Deadline: 15 May 2013 Acceptance Notification: 12 June 2013 Manuscript Deadline: 3 September 2013 CabWire World Conference 2013 organizers invite authors to submit an abstract to help define its 2013 conference program. Technical and practical topics welcome. This one and a half day wire and cable conference in Italy, 4-5 November 2013, will provide an international platform for trade industry information exchange on innovations driving the worldwide wire and cable markets. Accepted authors receive: • complimentary meeting registration; • a copy of the Conference Proceedings materials; • access to the conference sessions, tabletop exhibits, and reception; and • industry exposure. Why not share your expertise, your current research findings, and your viewpoint with your industry colleagues at CabWire World Conference 2013?

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A B S T R A C T S U B M I S S I O N & P A P E R S In order for the CabWire World Conference 2013 organizers to properly assess the scope and content of your proposed technical article, please submit a 75 word abstract. Accepted speakers will receive an Author’s Guide with details about manuscript and presentation preparation via e-mail. Only original papers not previously published will be eligible for paper awards presented by Wire Association International and the International Wire & Machinery Association, or possible publication in Wire Journal International or Wire & Cable News.

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Ace Metal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 ADVARIS Informationssysteme GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 Amaral Automation Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 Beta LaserMike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Carris Reels Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cover 4 Cemanco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64, 81 Commission Brokers Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 Conneaut Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 DeWal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 . Fabritex Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81 GCR Eurodraw SpA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60-61 George Evans Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Howar/Bock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 Howar/Unitek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 Howar/Boxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Howar Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56 Huestis Industrial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28, 75 Ideal Welding/Ideal-Werk/Clifford Welding Systems . . .69, 71 Inosym Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

Italian Trade Commission . . . . . .Insert, between pages 64-65 Keir Manufacturing Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19, 62 Kinrei of America LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 Lesmo Machinery America Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Lubrizol Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 Mathiasen Machinery Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 Messe Dusseldorf Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 MGS Manufacturing Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Micro Products Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52 Morgan-Koch Corp/WiTechs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 Nano-Diamond America Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Paramount Die Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 Parkway-Kew Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Pressure Welding Machines Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 Properzi International Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cover 2 PRO-pHx Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 Proton Products Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25, 27 Queins Machines GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 REELEX Packaging Solutions Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Reel-O-Matic Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

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ADVERTISER . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PAGE Refractron Technologies Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Rockford Manufacturing Group FELM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Sanxin Wire Die Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Sheaves Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76 SIKORA AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 SIMPACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 Sjogren Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48 Joe Snee Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 August Strecker GmbH & Co KG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 TMS Specialties Mftg Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Tubular Products Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 Tulsa Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 United Wire Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 US Synthetic Wire Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Vandor Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 WAFIOS Machinery Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cover 3 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87 Witels Albert USA Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 Woodburn Diamond Die Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 WT Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 Wyrepak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35, 45 Zumbach Electronics Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

June 2013 WJI • Testing & Measuring Advertising Deadline: May 1, 2013

WIRE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL ADS WAI Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Interwire Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 Interwire 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

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U.K., France, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Denmark & Scandinavia Jennie Franks David Franks & Co. 63 St. Andrew’s Road Cambridge CB4 1DH, England Tel/fax: 44-1223-360472 franksco@btopenworld.com

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SALES OFFICES ASIA/WAI INDIA OFFICE Germany, Austria, & Switzerland Dagmar Melcher Media Service International Spitzwegstraße 4 82402 Seeshaupt Germany Tel: 49-8801-914682 Fax: 49-8801-914683 dmelcher@t-online.de

India Wire & Cable Services Pvt. Ltd. (WCS) 501, Rainbow Plaza, S. No. 7 Pimple-Saudeagar Vil. Rahatani, Pune - 411017, India Huned Contractor mobile - +91 988 1084 202 hcontractor@wirenet.org

R Series Precision Wire Straightening and Cutting Technology

Reinforcing Steel Working Range RB 45 4.00 - 10.00 mm ø .157 - .394 in ø

RB 63

RB 53 6.00 - 14.00 mm ø .236 - .551 in ø

8.00 - 16.00 mm ø .315 - .630 in ø

Round Wire Working Range R 13

R 23

R 33

0.65 - 2.50 mm ø .026 - .098 in ø

1.00 - 4.00 mm ø .039 - .157 in ø

1.50 - 8.00 mm ø .059 - .315 in ø

R 45

R 53

3.00 - 12.00 mm ø 5.60 - 15.00 mm ø .118 - .472 in ø .220 - .591 in ø

Working range and output dependent upon wire properties and machine execution

Basic execution includes 4 CNC axes

Fixed stop for short lengths

Push and pull rollers for efficient wire feeding High-performance CNC cutting system engineered for reduced noise and wear

Compact straightening system for intermittent or continuous operation 120 years of WAFIOS quality assures the highest output and longest service life

Intuitive and convenient user interface

Spring Coiling & Forming Machines

Wire Bending & Forming Machines

Wire Straightening, Cutting & End Working Machines

Tube Bending & Forming Machines

Nail, Chain & Fence Machines

Visit us at Interwire Booth # 1524