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WAI’s new forum raises the bar on copper continuous casting May 2-5, 2011 | Atlanta, Georgia, USA Information will flow. It’s hot. Molten hot. It’s pervasive. And it’s a new forum for copper continuous casting practitioners in which every major process is well represented: SCR | Contirod | Properzi | Upcast | ESSEX It’s a total immersion in a think tank where industry gurus will greet you.

Experts will enlighten you. Legends will lead you. It’s high-viscosity learning that’ll stick with you because you have to be present to access it.

Given its fluid format, no matter your level, you’ll leave with a rock solid understanding of what’s new and innovative in continuous casting today.

Here. There. And everywhere copper bar and rod is processed—worldwide.

It’s a big idea that’s much more than theory. One forum—over four days— at Interwire 2011. It’s convenient. Comprehensive. Compulsory.

It’s engineered for you. Go with the flow and learn more at: www.wirenet.org The Wire Association International, Inc. 1570 Boston Post Road | P.O. Box 578 | Guilford, CT 06437-0578 USA | Telephone: (001) 203-453-2777 | Fax: (001) 203-453-8384 | www.wirenet.org

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May 2-5, 2011 | Atlanta, Georgia, USA

From the desk of Gary L. Spence

WAI Conference Programming Committee

It is exciting to announce the first-ever WAI “Global Continuous Casting Forum.”

As an industry veteran of 40 years, I can assure you that these four days will change how much you already know about copper continuous casting—whether you are a competent practitioner, a supplier, or are new to the industry—because there’s a lot of new information to share.

I can guarantee that you will get your money’s worth, too. This user’s forum is the most complete program ever designed specifically for copper continuous casting personnel. It is international. It will be intense.

Technical and operational presentations, expert discussion panels, and workshops will be just as valuable as the contacts you’ll gain. This may be the ultimate in social networking for the continuous casting community.

So you’ll have to be there to benefit.

Here is the program preview: History of copper and wiredrawing | History of the copper vertical shaft furnace | Process overviews

by Properzi, SCR, Contirod®, Upcast OY® | Innovation and process improvement discussion panel | Modern refractory design for copper shaft furnaces | La Farga-Properzi scrap melting technology | Furnace emission control technologies-baghouse design workshop | Investigation into baghouse fires | Maerz FRHC Direct-to-Wire technology | Cathode impurities and rod quality | Latest continuous casting process innovations | Furnace burner combustion and dissolved oxygen | Molten metal de-gassing and filtration | High pressure descaling system design | Innovation of rolling lubricants | Rolling mill and caster water filtration workshop | Electronic preventative maintenance | New improvements for surface oxide testing | Eddy current testing techniques | Analysis of rod defects and copper fines workshop | Quality requirements for modern wiredrawing discussion panel

All the best in continuous casting,

ZtÜç P.S. Plan now for next May. Find details at www.wirenet.org and in future issues of Wire Journal International.