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Preview: WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo 2016 . . . . . . . . . . 40 WAI takes its biennial traveling event and annual convention to a new location: the Mohegan Sun Resort Casino, in Uncasville, Connecticut. Founded in 1996 by the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut, the casino offers some of New England’s finest dining, hotel accommodations, retail shopping, live entertainment and sporting events as well as a convention center that will host this WAI event. A destination unto itself, the backdrop should provide for one of most memorable events the Association has ever staged.

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Cover: The Association will visit the Mohegan Sun for the WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo 2016.

Complete coverage of the event begins on p. 40.

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This may be the Wire Expo preshow issue, but it’s also time for Interwire 2017. The Points Meeting for the event was recently held, with WAI Volunteers Joe Snee and Tom Seidlarz (far left) joining WAI staff to help out at the Points Meeting process at WAI’s headquarters.

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Team effort a key for both wire and trade shows The arrival of this Wire Journal means that the 2016 staging of the WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo is right around the corner. If anyone is still contemplating whether or not to attend, this month’s issue will make that decision easier. The following pages, with a special first-ever “sticky” approach, detail the value that can be found on the exhibit floor, in the educational sessions, and through many networking opportunities. I’m convinced that you’ll be motivated to make the trip and take advantage of this great series of events.

I have to be honest: for many years I thought of the “non InterWire show” as the “off-year wire show” or the “table-top show,” thinking that it was just a smaller show because it was too costly to stage an Atlanta-sized event every year. Well, I would like to dispel that mistaken notion for anyone else who may have thought the same.

The WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo is a specifically formatted, two-day program that is filled with strong content on a variety of Operational Excellence topics such as: safety and OSHA compliance, shop floor management software, capital expansion project planning, workforce management, managing operational change, etc. Further, two excellent keynote speakers will address the manufacturing economy and management excellence. To the credit of the Conference Programming Committee, this first-ever Connecticut event is loaded with opportunities for collaboration, learning, and employee development as well as plant visits and visits to key manufacturers and suppliers exhibits.

Congratulations to the 11 award winners who we will be celebrating at this event. Eight are authors who delivered award-winning papers in 2015, and three are recipients of time-honored Association awards: the Mordica Memorial Award, won by Daniel L. Jones, Encore Wire; the Donnellan Memorial Award, won by Nick Nickoletopoulos of Urecon (formely with Ivaco); and the President’s Award winner, Tom Maxwell, Jr., of Die Quip.

As WAI president, I have a unique perspective on the production of this comprehensive event. I started out on the sidelines, so I understand what an attendee wants. I have also been a volunteer now for years, as well as an exhibitor and presenter. I’ve seen how the many volunteer committee members and WAI staff work to produce this highly valued event. My hope is that you, like myself, will see that Wire Expo is much more than an “off-year” or “table-top” show: it is an intense two-day session that can give us some vital information and motivation that we need in this challenging year!

Andy Talbot WAI President Vice President & General Manager Mid-South Wire Company

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CALENDAR May 11-12, 2016: Electrical Wire Processing Technology Expo Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. To be held at the Wisconsin Center. Contact: Expo Productions, tel. 800-367-5520, www.electricalwireshow.com.

Oct. 2-5, 2016: 65th International Cable & Connectivity SymposiumM Providence, Rhode Island, USA. To be held at the Rhode Island Convention Center. Contact: Pat Hudak, IWCS, tel. 717-993-9500, phudak@iwcs.org, www.iwcs.org.

June 7-9, 2016: WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo Uncasville, Connecticut, USA. This WAI event, to be held at the Mohegan Sun, will include its trade show, operational programs and WAI’s 86th Annual Convention. See preview inside.

Oct. 5-7, 2016: Spring World 2016 Rosemont, Illinois, USA. To be held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. Contact: CASMI Office, tel. 630-359-4273, info@casmi-springworld.org.

June 6-8, 2016: Wire & Cable Guangzhou 2016 Guangzhou, China. To be held at the China Import and Export Fair Complex, this event is organised

by Guangzhou Guangya Messe Frankfurt Co., and Guangzhou BoYou Exhibition Service Co. Contact: Ivy Wong, ivy.wong@hongkong.messefrankfurt.com.

June 12-14, 2016: 17th Guangzhou International Platemetal, Bar, Wire, Metal Processing & Setting Equipment Exhibition Guangzhou, China. To be held at the China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex, Guangzhou. Contact: Julang Exhibition Co., Ltd., tel. 86-20-3862 0771, expo@julang.com.cn.

Sept. 26-29, 2016: wire China 2016 Shanghai, China. The 7th All China International Wire & Cable Industry Trade Fair will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC). Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@ mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

Oct. 5-7, 2016: Wire & Cable India Mumbai, India. This event will be held at the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Center. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

May 9-11, 2017: Interwire 2017 Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This WAI event, which will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center, includes its trade show, technical programs and 87th Annual Convention, www.wirenet.org.

Oct. 3-5, 2017: Wire South America, São Paulo, Brazil. To be held at the Imigrantes Exhibition & Convention Center. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

Oct. 8-11, 2017: 66th IWCS International Cable & Connectivity Symposium Orlando, Florida, USA. Contact: Pat Hudak, IWCS, tel. 717-993-9500, phudak@iwcs.org, www.iwcs.org.

WIRE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL EVENTS June 7-9, 2016: WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo Uncasville, Connecticut, USA. See preview inside.

June 17, 2016: Midwest Chapter 14th Annual Golf Tournament West Chicago, Illinois, USA. To be held at St. Andrews Golf & Country Club. Contact: Steve Fetteroll, tel.

203-453-2777, ext. 115, sfetteroll@wirenet.org.

Sept. 13, 2016: New England Chapter 22nd Annual Golf Tournament Avon, Connecticut, USA. To be held at Golf Club of Avon. Contact: Steve Fetteroll, tel. 203-453-2777, ext.

115, sfetteroll@wirenet.org.

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Sept. 29, 2016: Southeast Chapter 15th Annual Golf Tournament Conover, North Carolina, USA. To be held at the Rock Barn Golf and Spa, Conover, North Carolina. Contact Art Deming, tel. 252-955-9451, art.deming@nexans.com.

Oct. 18-20, 2016: ITC Monterrey Monterrey, Mexico. See pp. 36—38.

May 9-11, 2017: Interwire 2017 Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This WAI event, which will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center, includes its trade show, technical programs and 87th Annual Convention, www.wirenet.org.

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INDUSTRY NEWS WireCo WorldGroup reports plans to close/sell its St. Joseph wire rope plant Citing harsh market conditions, WireCo WorldGroup (WireCo) announced that it plans to close and sell its steel wire rope manufacturing facility in St. Joseph, Missouri.

A press release said that the plant, which has 49 employees, is being sold to Hillyard Industries, and that during the transition WireCo’s “strong cross-facility support, production of WireCo’s steel wire rope products will continue to meet the requirements of its customers during the phased shutdown period.”

“It is difficult to close any manufacturing plant, because of the impact to good people, their families and the community,” said WireCo President and CEO Chris Ayers. “The harsh reality is the global oil, gas, and crane rope markets are facing economic challenges, and every company in these industries is being affected. This sale and consolidation of our production facilities enables us to continue to service our customers at the highest quality level despite an increasingly challenging market for WireCo and our customers.

We continue to focus on developing innovative products and building upon the strong WireCo brands.”

WireCo will continue to operate its St. Joseph Fabricated Products facility at the existing site, the release said. Those operations, it noted, will not be affected by the wire rope facility sale. WireCo, based in Prairie Village, Kansas, has some 4,000 employees in manufacturing plants, distribution facilities and research and development centers around the world. At its website, the company cites some two dozen operations in 11 countries.

Per a report in the St. Joseph News Press, during a conference call with investors, Ayers said that the plant will be closed over the next 12 months. Equipment will be relocated to other WireCo facilities, but about 14 employees will remain at a fabricated products division on Main Street. Falling oil prices hit WireCo hard in recent years, with net sales plummeting $172 million in 2015 while adjusted earnings dropped 18% on a yearover-year basis. The company laid off 21 employees in September 2013 and 30 more in 2015.

WireCo’s wire rope products are used in energy exploration, bridge construction, industrial fishing, mining and other industries that can experience cyclical downturns. Once known as Wire Rope Corporation of America, the company became one of the largest

employers in St. Joseph after relocating from New Haven, Connecticut, in 1948. Wire Rope’s work force surged to 1,500 in its heyday, but cheaper foreign competition began to take its toll beginning in the 1980s, said the report in the St. Joseph News Press.

A WireCo spokesperson declined to respond to a WJI question as to whether any of its other operations are in jeopardy.

Nexans business wins major power cable contract for project in Qatar Samsung C&T has awarded a Nexans business the contract to supply 575 km of power cables for the Umm Al Houl Water and Power Project in Qatar, a $2.75 billion project that will increase power generation in the country by 23%.

Foundation of the Umm Al Houl water and power plant being built in Qatar. Photo constructionweekonline.com.

A press release said that QICC, a Nexans business, which will supply medium voltage and low voltage power cables, has already delivered the first batch of cables from its plant in Qatar. Operation of the plant is due to begin in June 2018. The plant, 20 km south of Doha, will be the largest integrated power and water plant ever constructed in Qatar, in a project worth 2.9 billion euros, it said. The integrated power and desalination plant will have a capacity of 2.5 GW and will produce 136.5 million imperial gallons per day (MIGD) of potable water, enough to supply 2.5 million homes in the region. Once completed, the facility will increase the power generation in Qatar to 11 GW, and water desalination to 535 MIGD to service the growing power and water needs.

The cables will be manufactured at QICC plant in Mesaieed, Qatar. Samsung C&T was awarded the contract by a consortium made up of Qatar Electricity and Water Corp (QEWC), Mitsubishi, Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Foundation.

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Luvata has acquired Accurate Wire, Inc., an electronics wire manufacturer based in Branford, Connecticut, that has been a supplier to one of its U.S. operations for the last decade.

In 2012, Accurate Wire President Doug Milheim, r, with partner Matthew Smith, at their recently expanded plant.

A press release said that Accurate Wire—owned by co-founders Douglas Milheim, president/CEO, and Matthew Smith, who recently retired as vice president —manufactures custom shaped wires commonly used in electronic connector applications. The deal includes Accurate Wire’s rolling, wire drawing, annealing and in-line eddy current and laser inspection equipment.

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expanding its specialty wire product offering to customers worldwide, it said.

Per the release, the company, founded in 1988, has 25 employees and had 2015 sales of $12 million.

Luvata will also lease the 60,000+ sq ft facility from a separate business owned by Milheim and Smith.

Originally founded to manufacture square and round wire for electronic connector applications, Accurate Wire expanded into production of flat and special shaped wire, and is known for its channel wire. That

Still unclear what kind of ‘Tasmanian devil’ caused Basslink cable woes Forget logic, because it seems as if there has to be at least one or two vile gremlins behind one of the more perplexing power outages to ever bedevil a power cable system, an ongoing saga with all sorts of woes and finger-pointing.

On Dec. 20, 2015, an outage some 98 km offshore Tasmania was reported for the 370-km Basslink Interconnector, an 500 MW HVDC cable link that crosses the Bass Strait, connecting the Loy Yang Power Station, Victoria on the Australian mainland to the George Town substation in northern Tasmania. It also provides telecom service via fiber-optic assets.

Initial expectations were that the buried cable would be back in service in March, but the latest reports now peg that time frame to at least June.

There has been controversy as to what exactly caused the outage and just how extensive the damage is.

Per a report in The Mercury, there

initially were concerns that the cable had “fried” and could never be fixed because too much voltage may have been sent over the cable.

The BASSLINK owners, the Keppel Infrastructure Trust, countered

A photo of the damaged Basslink cable, which has been out since Dec. 20. that sophisticated system controls do not allow the underwater cable to be ‘‘overused.’’ However, whatever the cause, the outage is very expensive in terms of lost revenue and high repair costs. The latest report said

that the fault area has been removed.

The search had been done by collating over 500 hours’ worth of images and data from 20 remote-operated vehicle dives.

The damaged cable showed that water had leaked inside, which means that a section of it will have to be replaced, a difficult procedure, said a report in newscom.au. “Following those cuts, the cable ends will be recovered to the ship, tested and capped, which could take another two weeks.”

The outage has been an even bigger concern because the water level for the state’s dams of Hyrdo Tasmania was down to under 14%, forcing other power sources to be used. Energy Minister Matthew Groom said in the newscom.au report that “diesel generators, commercial load reductions and the recommissioned Tamar Valley Power Station will keep Tasmania’s lights on until dam levels rise and the cable is repaired.”

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combination makes it a good fit for Luvata, which manufactures many highly specialized, niche products, including battery wire, photovoltaic ribbon, welding wire and superconducting wire and cables, it said. “Combined with the manufacturing know-how and capacity of our long-term partner, Accurate Wire, Luvata is well prepared in meeting the expanding needs of our combined wire customers worldwide,” said Jussi Helavirta, president of Luvata’s Special Products Division.

“This is good news for Accurate Wire, Luvata, and our customers,” said Milheim, who noted that his company has been on an upswing for some time. He said that he has seen demand increase, especially for the company’s channel wire, which is made on proprietary equipment that the company made. He expects to continue for at least a year at Accurate Wire, which will maintain its name, and has high expectations for the future. “We have had a good, long-standing relationship with Luvata for 10 years.

Now as part of the Luvata Group, a more vertically integrated business with a much larger global footprint, we will thrive.”

Luvata, a global supplier of metal solutions manufacturing and related engineering services, serves industries such as renewable energy, power generation, automotive, medicine, air-conditioning, industrial refrigeration, and consumer products. Its collective operations have some 6,400 employees in 18 countries and is owned by Nordic Capital.

QED to supply equipment to Chinese company for valve spring wire line Canada’s QED Wire Lines reports that it has been awarded a contract to supply and commission an oil-tempering heat treatment line to Baosteel Group Nantong Wire Products Co., Ltd., that meets the specifications.of Shanghai Baohua International Tendering Co. Ltd. A press release said that the company’s bid “combined the best price, technology and service into a winning package” for the line, which will produce automotive valve spring wire. This represents the first project the company has had with the customer. It said that the key to winning the award was QED’s environmentally friendly fluidbed tempering furnace, which it described as “a major improvement over outdated lead furnaces.”

The release noted that QED’s technology—which combines robust construction with advanced controls— employs a special pulse-fired combustion system developed by company engineers that offers excellent temperature uniformity to the muffle tube austinitizing furnace.

Delivery is scheduled for mid-October.

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AMSC and BASF to jointly develop a new lower cost superconductor wire AMSC and BASF Corporation/BASF GmbH plan to jointly develop an advanced low cost manufacturing process for second generation high temperature superconductor wire.

A press release said that the two companies have agreed to “a royalty-bearing, non-exclusive license under which AMSC will provide BASF a specified portion of AMSC’s second generation (2G) high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire manufacturing technology.” The agreement seeks to take advantage of AMSC’s manufacturing know® how for its Amperium superconductor wire and BASF’s chemical solution deposition production technology.

AMSC, it said, “intends to continue its focus on HTS system-based solutions, such as its Resilient Electric Grid and Ship Protection Systems and to provide wire for those solutions as well as to AMSC’s strategic partners.”

“BASF is committed to produce and commercialize HTS wire for standard applications,” said Dr. Guido Voit, managing director of BASF New Business GmbH. “We expect to utilize our existing relationships to engage large, global organizations in the energy segment to support adoption and development of HTS applications. By combining BASF’s strength, experience and global reach with

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AMSC President and CEO Daniel McGahn observed that this agreement this relationship validates his company’s technology and patent position. “We will potentially have two ways to source wire for superconductor applications. BASF’s manufacturing approach, which leverages our technology, is an attempt to dramatically change the economics of superconductors.”

The parties expect these agreements to result in the development of a potentially low cost manufacturing process at BASF and to enable AMSC to cut total system cost, the release said. One this goal is complete and successful, AMSC may use wire produced by this advanced manufacturing process for its systems business, it noted.

$10 million into its Pennsylvania facility to bolster its capacity, expand its steel wire product portfolio and further satisfy its customers’ technological requirements.

A press release said that the investment by JWT— which notes that it is the largest independent producer of cold headed quality (CHQ) and value-added wire, in North America—significantly increases its capacity for both those CHW and spring wire products. Further, “this comprehensive capital program includes one of the largest automated clean and coat lines in North America, numerous multi-hole wire drawing machines, and technology that enables larger diameters.”

These new capabilities, the release said, enables JWT to enhance its drawing of both high- and low-carbon steel wire, offering superior cooling, consistency and packaging. The majority of the capital investments are now fully operational, with the balance coming online by early third quarter 2016, it said.

Based in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, JWT is owned by an affiliate of Aterian Investment Partners.

JDR wins umbilical and power cable contracts for UAE and Qatar projects U.K.-based JDR, a supplier of subsea umbilicals and power cables to the offshore energy industry, reports that it has been awarded two umbilical contracts by McDermott Middle East Inc., for undisclosed operators.

A press release, which said that the umbilicals will be delivered to two projects in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, noted the following. The first project includes three umbilicals with a total combined length of 9 km.

The second project includes seven umbilicals with a

Johnstown Wire Technologies nearing completion of major plant investment Johnstown Wire Technologies (JWT) reports that it is nearing completion of its multi-year investment of some

JDR will supply projects in the UAE and Qatar.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, r, tours Johnstown Wire Technologies plant, which has been cited for its contribution to manufacturing in the state. Photo by bxjmag.com.

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total combined length of 3.5 km. All of the umbilicals incorporate both thermoplastic hoses and electrical cables, providing hydraulic control and electrical signal to subsea isolation valves. These are critical umbilical cables to operate isolation valves in flowlines containing hydrocarbons, in the event of an emergency within an offshore production system, and to monitor and verify valve closure.

“These project awards confirm our leadership position in the supply of subsea umbilicals to the oil and gas industry. We are delighted to partner with McDermott on these key projects,” said JDR CEO David Currie.

Spain’s Telefónica, a broadband and telecommunications provider with operations in Europe, Asia and the Americas, plans to deploy some 11,000 km of submarine cable that will link Brazil and the U.S. A press release said that the project, called BRUSA, will link Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza in Brazil, with San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Virginia Beach in the U.S., to “provide one of the lowest latency communication links between the two countries.” The new infrastructure, it said in a statement, will improve communication reliability and deliver enhanced

that had formed a coalition to address the problem of the evasion of antidumping and countervailing duty orders.

At its website, AWPA notes that the Act was very actively lobbied in Congress and promoted the legislation, along with others in the steel industry and other industries. The legislation will strengthen trade enforcement at U.S. ports and borders, and update management of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

“Thank you to all who have worked to advocate for this important legislation.”

The 11,000-km BRUSA cable system will link the U.S. and Brazil. resilience by increasing the number of U.S. landing points, overall network performance and end-to-end security.” The subsea cable “will reinforce its Americas infrastructure leadership in the wholesale market and addresses the exponential growth of data transmission generated by its B2B customers, telecom operators, OTT players and end-consumers.”

BRUSA will become part of Telefónica’s recently created infrastructure company, Telxius, the release said.

ENFORCE Act is now the law The ENFORCE Act that had long been sought by the American Wire Producers Association (AWPA) was signed into law on Feb. 24 by President Barack Obama.

Officially called the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, but referred to as Customs Reauthorization bill, the bill includes the language of the ENFORCE Act, which was written by a number of AWPA member companies

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Telefónica plans to launch 11,000 km submarine cable to link Brazil and U.S.

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Caballé S.A.like hastoallowed thebig group to you’ incorporate thevisited long-standing OM Lesmo, ‘thank to all who (us) at Interwire 2015.

Caballé and Eurodraw Energy brands. Frigeco USA General Manager Anthony DeRosa said that their operation will be bolstered by Technical Marketing Systems (TMS) based in Granby, Connecticut, and AITMAC, Inc., based in Ontario, Canada.

TMS will handle specific accounts as a technical sales, service and spare parts representative for the North American market, while AITMAC will serve as a spare parts distributor for customers with existing OM Lesmo and Eurodraw Energy products. In addition to coordinating the sales activity of the representatives, Frigeco USA will also work directly with key accounts and multinationals that have traditionally been MFL customers.

Instron celebrates 70th anniversary U.S.-based Instron, a leading Grant Latimer, Proton Products.provider of testing equipment for evaluating mechanical properties of materials and components, last month celebrated thefull It was without doubt our busiest exhibition and our company’s 70th anniversary. team of agents and employees were on hand to take care Aofpress release saidGrant that the company was founded our customers.”

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In the decades that followed, the company has continued to be successful by providing customers with the highest quality products, expert support, and world-class service, the release said. It noted that Instron has continuously been at the forefront of the industry, earning recognition as one of the first companies to use video strain measurement and as the first in its industry to offer automatic transducers and reverse stress loading, among many other accomplishments.

In 2005, Instron was acquired by ITW as the first company in their Test and Measurement platform, where it continues to thrive. “ITW arrived at a crucial time in Instron’s seventy-year history,” the release said. “As we made the transition from a largely family-owned business, ITW’s philosophy (80/20, PLS, USa) guided us to maintain the high standards envisioned by the original owners and at the same time taught us to run a more responsive organization to best serve our customers. I see our management’s role as custodians to our innovative culture,” said Yahya Gharagozlou, group president, ITW Test and Measurement.

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2 brothers on a steel wire mission GRANITE FALLS NORTH CAROLINA

Dave and Matthew Duncan principals Granite Falls Furnance Co. (GFF)

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Granite Falls Furnace Co. (GFF) Principals: Dave and Matthew Duncan tel. 828-324-4394

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FOCUS Founded in 2003 by David L. Duncan, Sr., GFF initially was a supplier of products for the recycling and construction industries.

It also had furnace technology. In 2011, it acquired wiredrawing equipment, and the brothers, now also principals, evolved to full-time suppliers of drawn steel wire and annealed wire products.

OF NOTE David Jr. (President) and Matthew Duncan (V.P. Sales & Purchasing) note that family ties do not assure a stronger operation, but for them it has been a major plus. The combination of David’s prior 24 years working for a large manufacturer in executive level sales & operational positions coupled with Matthew’s 17 years experience working in their family business has proved to be a strong combination.

WJI: We’ve got to start with your company name: does it cause any confusion?

Brothers Duncan: Ha-Ha, this one gets a good laugh because that is the first thing David Jr. said when he joined GFF two years ago. At our first trade show we said, “Don’t let the name fool you…we do steel wire!” We do get calls to service heating units periodically, but we never planned on going to market with GFF when we bought the furnaces in 2004. It was supposed to be a background company. Now that we are fully in the wire market as manufacturers, instead of sales reps, we may someday make a DBA name.

WJI: How has your company evolved since it began manufacturing steel wire?

Brothers Duncan: We began with zero suppliers, just a handful of customers, and only five people on the payroll four years ago. Today, we have assembled a great group of people within GFF, and we have developed partnerships on both sides of the business equation. GFF continues to expand our product mix and the markets we serve.

The recent addition of Donnie Hitt as vice president of operations and a manufacturing superintendent (with 28 years and 16 years experience in wiredrawing, respectively) has given us the manufacturing experience and knowledge needed to better serve our existing customers and expand into new markets with confidence.

WJI: This has not been an easy time for the steel wire industry: how has your company fared?

Brothers Duncan: The market has been tough over the past year, but we weather

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the storm and continue to make decisions and adjustments to keep our company growing. One plus from being a family-operated business is that decisions and agreements can be made immediately.

We don’t have to sift through multiple management layers before rendering a decision. This allows us to develop stronger relationships with both customers and suppliers alike, and in this business both are needed for success! Also, to remain competitive, we continue to improve our manufacturing efficiencies and reduce waste in the plant. Our focus always has been and always will be to react faster than the next guy to meet the customer’s requirements.

WJI: You exhibited at Interwire for the first time in 2015: what was that like?

Brothers Duncan: We enjoyed the show and found it very beneficial to GFF. We were excited to discover that manufacturers from the cable and fiber optic markets attended Interwire 2015. Our other business, R&D Plastics of Hickory, is a manufacturer of extruded plastics and polyethylene foam that services these markets currently. Our intent is to make the next Interwire show a combined effort showcasing GFF and R&D Plastics.

WJI: Do you have specific long-term goals you are pursuing?

Brothers Boyle: Certainly. We want to provide a future for our families, which includes every family represented at GFF!

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Patent REPORT Technical advances are a necessity for any industry, and to that end, companies invest considerable resources in R&D. This monthly section will list the abstracts of recently approved U.S. patents. Most are direct to wire and cable while a few may be more indirect/downstream.

Electric power cable for medium or high voltage U.S. Patent No.: 9,281,102 Patent date: March 8, 2016 Filed: Nov. 3, 2010 Assignee: Nexans, France Inventors: Liv Molvig-Lundegaard, Georg Balog, Knut Furuheim An electric power cable for medium or high voltage without lead sheath is provided having at least one diffusion barrier (7) based on a metallized layer or a layer of polymer (HDPE). In addition there is a polymer (PUR) layer (6) for absorbing limited amounts of water that might after all pass through the diffusion barrier layer.

housed within the retaining element and a water swellable yarn housed within the retaining element. The water swellable yarn is selected according to the following equation: ##EQU00001## in which V.sub.w is the volume of the water swellable yarn after swelling upon contact with water; V.sub.TF is the total free volume in the retaining element; k is a constant.gtoreq.180; R is a constant.gtoreq.1.4; and V.sub.t is the free volume per each transmission element. Advantageously, the optical cable is water-blocked and the water swellable yarn does not induce microbending effects on the transmission elements.

Method and apparatus for testing a cable U.S. Patent No.: 9,279,754 Patent date: March 8, 2016 Filed: Sept. 16, 2014 Assignee: EMC Corporation, U.S. Inventors: Michael Arsenault, Jr., Mickey Felton Method and apparatus for testing a cable call for extending the cable along a route having at least one curved portion, applying tension in an axial direction to the sheath of the extended cable so as to elongate the sheath, perturbing the tensioned cable in an axial direction and determining whether the perturbations to the tensioned cable have caused any structural distortions in the cable.

Water-blocked optical cable and process for the production thereof U.S. Patent No.: 9,279,952 Patent date: March 8, 2016 Filed: Nov. 16, 2010 Assignee: Prysmian Cavi e Sistemi Energia Srl Italy Inventors: Alessandro Ginocchio, Enrico Consonni, Paolo Arturo Presa, Massimo Pizzorno, Mauro Maritano An optical cable for communication includes at least one retaining element blocked with respect to the water propagation as well as a process for manufacturing such an optical cable. The optical cable includes, in addition to the retaining element, at least two transmission elements

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Method, transport apparatus, and system for detecting submarine optical cable line U.S. Patent No.: 9,276,672 Patent date: March 1, 2016 Filed: Aug 28, 2012 Assignee: Huawei Marine Networks Co., Ltd., China Inventors: Wendou Zhang, Lipong Ma A method for detecting a submarine optical cable line includes: splitting a detection signal input to a first optical functional unit in an optical functional module of an optical cable line into a first detection signal and a second detection signal; directly coupling and looping back the first detection signal to an output end of a second optical functional unit in a direction opposite to the first optical functional unit to constitute a first loopback path, and out-

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Deformed steel wire for protection tube of submarine cable, method for manufacturing same, and pressure-resistant layer U.S. Patent No.: 9,274,298 Patent date: March 1, 2016 Filed: Oct. 3, 2013 Assignee: Nippon Steel, Sumitomo Metal Corp, Namitei Co., Ltd., all of Japan Inventors: M. Kosaka, S. Ohashi, S. Nishida, M. Murao, K. Murao, J.P. Kouichi, H. Oyamadsa, S Ikebata There is provided a deformed steel wire includes, as a chemical component, by mass %; C: 0.30% to 1.10%, Si: 0.10% to 1.50%, and Mn: 0.20% to 1.50%, and the balance consists of Fe and unavoidable impurities, in which a metallographic structure is a ferrite-pearlite structure or a pearlite structure, integration degrees of a crystal orientation <110> in a longitudinal direction of a thickness center area and a surface area are in a range of 2.0 to 4.0, an absolute value of a difference in the integration degree between an inner surface and an outer surface of the surface area is 0.3 or less, an integration degree of a crystal orientation <100> in a thickness direction of the thickness center area is in a range of 1.2 to 3.8, and a dimensional accuracy index is in a range of 0.5 to 2.0.

Patent Fact Below is a single item that is a titch spacey.

NASA patent for a new approach to future space exploration calls for cannibalism Well, the headline may be a bit strong, but it’s actually kinda accurate. Last October, NASA was granted a patent (#9,171,266) for what could be likened to a “Star Wars” shift in strategy.

Entitled “Power provision based on self-sacrificing craft,” the concept is for a “biologically-inspired system and method” for “self-adapting behavior of swarm-based exploration missions, whereby individual components, for example, spacecraft, sacrifice themselves for the greater good of the entire system. ... (Their sacrifice) can result in resources or assets...being used by the other swarm members. ”

The patent outlines a wave of future space exploration undertaken not by a large spacecraft but by swarming formations of much smaller, cheaper ones. When certain failure modes are sensed, the craft must self-sacrifice voluntarily by transformation or self-destruction. It is akin to the way bee colonies operate, with the workers willing to forfeit their lives so that the goal, the queen’s ability to reproduce, succeeds.

For instance: a space mission is returning to Earth, and reaches Saturn as the sun’s solar flare flashes their way. A space craft designed to detect such threats may autonomously decide to shield other space crafts using its solar sail. If in the process its solar sail is destroyed, the surrounding space crafts could turn cannibalistic, automatically salvaging any usable parts. The concept, it said, also applies to other systems and components, from robots to underwater craft.

If this notion ever enters the world of exploration, propsective space explorers may want to be especially vigilent in checking the fine print describing their ship’s mission and status.

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System for marking a cable with a curved marking area U.S. Patent No.: 9,272,366 Patent date: March 1, 2016 Filed: Feb. 20, 2014 Assignee: LASELEC, Inc., France Inventors: Fabien Reversat, Stephanie Rougier, Pierre Bouvet The invention relates to a cable marking system comprising: -at least one marking area for marking a portion of cable by means of at least one laser device; -at least one laser device; -at least one cable-driving device designed to pass said cable through said at least one marking area.

Method for imparting improved fatigue strength to wire made of shape memory alloys, and medical devices made from such wire U.S. Patent No.: 9,272,323 Patent date: March 1, 2016 Filed: Feb. 28, 2013 Assignee: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., U.S. Inventors: Jeremy Schaffer Wire products, such as round and flat wire, strands, cables, and tubing, are made from a shape memory material in which inherent defects within the material are isolated from the bulk material phase of the material within one or more stabilized material phases, such that the wire product demonstrates improved fatigue resistance. In one application, a method of mechanical conditioning in accordance with the present disclosure isolates inherent defects in nickel-titanium or NiTi materials in fields of a secondary material phase that are resistant to crack initiation and/or propagation, such as a martensite phase, while the remainder of the surrounding defect-free material remains in a primary or parent material phase, such as an austenite phase, whereby the overall superelastic nature of the material is preserved.

Bone fastener and methods of use U.S. Patent No.: 9,271,758 Patent date: March 1, 2016 Filed: Aug 28, 2012 Assignee: Orthopedic, Inc., U.S. Inventors: Gregory Marik, Trevor Seck A bone fastener includes a proximal member having an inner surface that defines an implant cavity and an outer surface including a first threaded portion configured for penetrating fixation with tissue and a second portion.

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Cutting tool for cable with a metal shield U.S. Patent No.: 9,270,095 Patent date: Feb. 23, 2016 Filed: Aug. 18, 2015 Assignee: Molex, LLC, U.S. Inventors: Christopher Wanha, Brian Lloyd, Ebrahim Abunasrah, Rehan Khan, Javier Resendez, Michael Rost A cable bypass assembly is disclosed for use in providing a high speed transmission line for connecting a chip, processor or circuitry mounted on a circuit board to other similar components. The bypass cable assembly has a structure that maintains the geometry of the cable in place from the chip to the connector and then through the connector. The connector includes a plurality of conductive terminals and shield members arranged within an insulative support frame in a manner that approximates the structure of the cable so that the impedance and other electrical characteristics of the cable may be maintained as best is possible through the cable termination and the connector.

Methods of manufacturing a communication cable U.S. Patent No.: 9,269,479 Patent date: Feb. 23, 2016 Filed: Oct. 1, 2013 Assignee: Panduit Corp., U.S. Inventors: Royal Jenner, Timothy Houghton II, Masud Bolouri-Saransar, Ronald Nordin Cable foil tape having random or pseudo-random patterns or long pattern lengths of discontinuous metallic shapes and a method for manufacturing such patterned foil tape are provided. In some embodiments, a laser ablation system is used to selectively remove regions or paths in a metallic layer of a foil tape to produce random distributions of randomized shapes, or pseudo-random patterns or long (section contâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. on p. 137)

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third of Indians don’t have access to the grid – that’s 330 million people.”

Vikas Dawra, managing director of Yes Bank, India’s fifth largest private sector bank, stressed the urgency of Of all the BRICS nations, India may offer the greatest a renewables rollout: “One third of Indians don’t have realizeable potential in the coming years for deployment access to the grid – that’s 330 million people.” of renewable energy, with support coming from both The investment required to make all this happen is inside and outside of the country. extensive, but support may come from a new player in Per a story in Power Engineering International, India the field: the BRICS. In 2014, the five BRICS countries has “mind boggling” potential for renewable ener(Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) bank gy. “The potential is huge, the number of gigawatts announced the creation of the New Development Bank is mind-boggling,” said Amit De, senior strategist (NDB): in early March, it announced that it plans to at Canada-headquartered solar developer SkyPower lend up to $2 billion in 2016, with the first likely project Global. De said that SkyPower has committed to build being a solar project in India.

18 GW of solar projects in India by 2022.

Per an on-line Speaking at a report in EQ panel discussion at International, NDB the World Future President K.V. Energy Summit Kamath said that in Abu Dhabi, De the goal was to said that he sees focus on “green” India as a very projects. “For this competitive maryear, if we can ket, with fantastic approve one-and-aopportunities. half to two billion “There are chaldollars I will be lenges in terms happy. We are six of the grid, some months into setting states are not so up the bank. We easy to do business do not want to take in, and it would be A solar farm in India. An NDB loan may support more such efforts. steps which are too nice if regulation fast,” he said. He was more streamlined, but renewables will change the explained that the bank is finalizing its set of loans to face of power generation in India.” green projects from each of the BRICS countries, and Pranav Mehta, chairman of the National Solar Energy that the first one could be a solar project in India.

Federation of India, said there was “exponential growth “The projects we are looking at are all green projects... in India” for renewables, and added that there are four primarily in solar,” Kamath said. He explained that a pillars to the growth. variety of initiatives were placed before NDB by the “Firstly, volume: if the volume is there the busigovernment. The green focus can include water projects ness will come; second, spread: spreading renewables as well as road projects, he said. “These are primary throughout the country is needed; the third is techsteps for us. We will understand what is the larger connology; and the fourth is infrastructure,” Mehta said. text that is playing out in India and follow that strategy.

He noted that India had gone from zero renewables to We have no pre-set mind,” he said.

5000 MW in just a few years and “we are going to have Asked about NDB’s role in supporting the “Make in 20-times as much.”

India” campaign, Kamath described his organization’s In the report, Ashish Sethia of Bloomberg New Energy role as that of a catalyst. “Multilateral bank can not meet Finance said that for India to fulfill its renewable energy the entire development effort. It is how you innovate and targets, $20 billion of capital will need to come into the add value and bring together markets and other players market each year. “Last year it was $11 billion, so we in the baking in system make a difference. We will work need to double that number.” He added that India was with the country and what they think is priority,” he “the only major economy in the world that has power said, adding that the signals suggest that the members market growth of between 4-5%. Not even China, he states are articulating green projects. said, could compete with that. Vikas Dawra, managing The NDB recently became fully-operational after it director of Yes Bank, India’s fifth largest private sector signed an agreement with China to place its headquarbank, stressed the urgency of a renewables rollout: “One ters in Shanghai, according the bank a legal status under 24 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

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Rajan was in Shanghai to attend the meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors. India, expected to grow at 7% or 7.5 per cent this year, is the only BRICS member that posted a better economic growth than other members, including China.

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Chinese regulations. Established with an initial subscribed capital of US$50 billion, the NDB has a total paid-in capital of US$10 billion. Its founding members have already brought-in a capital of US$1 billion as initial contribution. Reserver Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan, who witnessed the signing of the headquarters agreement, termed the bank a “worthwhile venture” by the five-member bloc. “It is a co-operative effort between all the BRICS countries.

Let us see how it develops. Lots of hopes embedded in it for greater cooperation among BRICS countries,” he said.

Rajan was in Shanghai to attend the meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors. India, expected to grow at 7% or 7.5 per cent this year, is the only BRICS member that posted a better economic growth than other members, including China.

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PEOPLE Dustin Greiner has become a sales and applications engineer at BECHEM Lubrication Technology, LLC. He is joining the company’s specialty lubricants team, with a focus in new market application segments. Over the last decade, he has worked in an array of positions at Freundenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies and Dichtomatik Americas L.P., including quality, Greiner supplier development, commodity management and sales engineering.

He holds a B.S. degree in elastomer engineering from Ferris State University. Based in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, USA, BECHEM Lubrication Technology, LLC, supplies special lubricants and anti-friction coatings for sectors that include wire and cable.

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president of sales & marketing.

He began his career at Data Guide Cable and moved into sales and sales management at AlphaGary Corporation. He holds a B.S. degree in biology/chemistry from Allegheny College. Kevin Slusarz has been named compounding manufacturing & development manager, responsible for the company’s installation of compounding Slusarz equipment and the development of new fire retardant halogenated, as well as non-halogenated polymers and foamable products for wire and cable and other applications. He is returning to CCG after spending 4½ years with American Kuhne as vice president, process technology.

Prior to that, he spent 17 years at Davis-Standard and three years at Allied Signal, Inc. He holds B.S. and Master’s degrees in chemical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. Nick Rosa has been Rosa promoted to product engineering supervisor, where his duties will include spearheading the key developmental products for CCG where he will have the role of new product development and introduction. He joined CCG in 2012 as a project engineer.

He holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia. Based in Pawcatuck, Connecticut, USA, Cable Components Group supplies high-performance plastic extruded products for sectors that include wire and cable.

Southwire Company announced that Jack Carlson, the company’s president of North America, has decided to retire, although he will continue to serve in an advisory role through the end of May. He began his career at Southwire in 2001 as president of the Electrical Division after more than 20 years of industry experience with leading companies such as Square D and Yale Security Group. He served as a leader in all areas of the business including sales, marketing, product development, divisional growth and research. “I am extremely proud of the accomplishments we’ve been able Carlson to share over the last 15 years,” he said. “We’ve built incredibly strong relationships with our distributors, agents and contractors and innovated safe and productive solutions that have

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Per the Institute of Directors (IoD), the U.K. was once a world leader in the internet economy, with Britons enthusiastically taking to online shopping and the sharing economy.

However, it is lagging behind many European nations when it came to installing the fiber optic cables that support ultrafast broadband connections.

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and its Openreach operation, which runs its cables, fiber and network infrastructure. Some companies that pay to use the network claimed that BT underinvested in Openreach, leading to poor service.

A government spokesperson said most U.K. homes can get “superfast” broadband. “Almost nine out of ten UK properties has access to superfast speeds and 95% of the UK will be reached by 2017.” The IoD, however, counters that the target should be much higher, thus its calling for speeds of 10 Gb/s by 2030.

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ZF TRW reports sale of fastener business to Illinois Tools Works ZF TRW, the Active and Passive Safety Division of ZF Friedrichshafen AG, announced it has entered into a sale agreement for its global Engineered Fasteners and Components business to Illinois Tool Works (ITW) for approximately $450 million.

A press release said that the sale of the business to Illinois Tools Works (ITW), “a significant manufacturer of fasteners and components,” is expected to be completed in the first half of 2016 Per the release, ITW intends to run the Engineered Fasteners and Components business as a standalone division business within their automotive OEM segment.

The business unit, based in Germany, has 13 locations with a global manufacturing and engineering footprint that serves its customers in Europe, Asia, and North America with 3,500 employees located in nine countries.

“ZF TRW’s Engineered Fasteners and Components business is a well known and respected manufacturer of highly-engineered fasteners and components serving leading automotive manufacturers in all major regions,” said Franz Kleiner, CEO of ZF TRW and a member of the ZF Board of Management. The Engineered Fasteners and Components business has been successful and profitable, but the sale was made because ZF is primarily concentrating on the growth of its core businesses in advanced safety, efficiency, electrification and the further development of automated driving, it said.

Report: global industrial fastener field should reach US$105 billion by 2020 A report from Zion Research projects that the global industrial fastener field should fare quite well, growing from US$76.5 billion in 2004 to US$105 billion in 2020.

A press release said that the report—“Industrial Fasteners (Externally Threaded, Aerospace Grade, Standard and Others) Market for Automotive OEM, Machinery OEM, MRO and Construction, Other OEM Applications - Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Segment, Trends and Forecast, 2014-2020”—should see compound annual growth of about 5.4%.

The release said that the rapidly expanding construction industry is driving demand for industrial fasteners, including industries such as oilfields, turbine and power generation, chemical refining, marine and replacement parts.

“Improvisation and restructuring activities in matured markets of Europe and North America is anticipated to augment demand for industrial fasteners. Due to rising disposable income of consumers in emerging economies, demand increases from automotive OEMs increases for fasteners. However, high anti-dumping duties are expected to be a major restraining factor for the industrial fasteners market growth.”

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The industrial fasteners market can be segmented as externally threaded, aerospace grade, standard and others, the release said. The externally threaded fastener segment dominated the global industrial fasteners market in 2014 and accounted for around 45% market share.

Aerospace grade and standard fasteners segments are also expected to exhibit significant growth during the forecast period.”

The industrial fastener market was dominated by Asia Pacific, with a roughly 32% market share in 2014 due to rapid industrialization in the region, followed by Europe, the release said. It added that the Middle East and Africa are expected to be one of the most lucrative regional markets in coming years due to the increasing construction activities.

Key players operating in this market, the report said, includes Standard Fasteners Ltd., Acument Global Technologies, Kova Fasteners Pvt. Ltd., Precision Castparts Corp., Nifco, LISI Group, ITW, Alcoa, Stanley Black & Decker, Hilti, ATF Inc. and MW Industries Inc. Key application areas for industrial fasteners include automotive OEM, machinery OEM, MRO & construction and other OEM applications. Fasteners used in other OEM application were the largest application segment for industrial fasteners market in 2014, which accounted for about 30% share of overall market. Electrical and electronics, aerospace & defense are the main sectors involved in OEM applications. Automotive OEM and construction is expected to be the major application over the forecast period due to growing population in emerging countries.

The report includes 29 market tables and 23 figures spread through 70 Pages, and an in-depth TOC, the release said. For more details, go to the company’s website at marketresearchstore.com, and reference z48042.

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MEMBERSHIP

SPOTLIGHT This section introduces a new WAI member each issue.

President L&P Wire Group Leggett & Platt Corp. (L&P)

Q: What does your company do?

A: L&P is a 133-year-old diversified manufacturer that designs and produces engineered products found in most homes and automobiles. We have 17 business units, 20,000 employee-partners, and 130 manufacturing facilities in 19 countries.

Q: What is your role there?

A: As of Jan. 1, I became president of the L&P Wire Group, responsible for our four wire mills.

Q: What do you like best about your position?

A: I have been with L&P for over 20 years now, many of those in HR and Operations Services. I enjoy visiting our wire mills and talking to our partner-employees. Their efforts and input have always been an important part of our success, and it’s impressive how very well they work together. As I get my arms around the sales side of the business, I really enjoy having a very competent team working with me.

Q: How does your company remain competitive?

A: We continue to replace older equipment with newer machines that improve productivity and quality. We do that by a “team approach” to make sure that we are investing in the right technology and equipment. We also focus on employee development: we challenge them to continuously improve in areas such as safety, quality, productivity and customer service. Part of my job is to keep that competitive spirit very strong throughout the workforce.

Q: Why did you recently join WAI? A: In my new role, I find value in WAI’s resources.

Access to the technical paper library, monthly publication and attending meetings and networking at WAI events will help me in my job and in getting to know more people in our industry. Our company has quite a few WAI members, and they recommended I become a participating member as soon as possible, and as I value their advice, here I am.

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The following individuals either recently joined WAI or became Platinum Members through their companies.

Paul Anselmo Account Representative T & T Marketing Inc.

Guillermo Garcia Process Engineer Freeport-McMoRan

Kelly Benjamin, Administrative Assistant Performance Wire

Carl Gardner Automation Engineer Fort Wayne Metals Research Products Corp

Robert Conway Sales Director Cable Components Group Albert Gasser Account Manager Chromatics Inc

Donald Gaynor Industrial Sales Manager Arkema Inc Fluoropolymers Division

Jon Isch Mechanical Engineer Fort Wayne Metals Research Products Corp Robert McKinzie President L&P Wire Group Juliusz Poltz CEO OptEM Engineering Inc

William Remus Sales Autac Inc Marty Schon Mechanical Engineer Fort Wayne Metals Research Products Corp Richard Tereba President Metal Resource Solutions, Inc.

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The answer to this question, and other information can be found in the WAI/RMS Consulting webinar at www.wirenet.org.

Willing to share your expertise with the industry?

If so, consider doing a webinar with WAI. It’s easy to do from your office, and Association staff can guide you through the process. Contact WAI Dir. of Education & Member Services Marc Murray at tel. 203-453-2777, ext. 121, mmurray@wirenet.org, and let him know the topic you’d like to discuss.

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WAI to return to Mexico this October The WAI will return to Monterrey, Mexico, Oct. 1820, to stage its third International Technical Conference (ITC) in the city, the prior events being held there in 2008 and 2010.

More details will be available in future issues, but the event is expected to follow the template that proved so popular before. This included the technical presentations, a keynote speaker, a plant tour, tabletop displays, a social event and more. For more details, see pp. 37-38.

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Interwire Points Meeting sees healthy results for the initial booth allocations At the 2010 ITC in Monterrey, Mexico, keynote speaker Geoffrey Bogart spoke to attendees about the importance of the U.S. and Mexico relationship.

At the 2010 staging, which was organized by Antonio Ayala, more than 200 people attended. “I am happy that we had so many visitors to the ITC in Monterrey from many countries,” said Ayala, who also led the organizing efforts in 2008.

The 2010 ITC, co-sponsored by Mexican wire association Asociación Nacional de Transformadores de Acero A.C. (ANTAAC), featured some 20 technical paper presentations, the tabletop exhibits (Suppliers Market), a reception and a plant tour of Delphi Guadalupe III facility.

The technical presentations, both ferrous and nonferrous, were made over two days, with attendees able to visit the Suppliers Market during breaks as well as during a reception held the first night in the tabletop area.

Event Organizer Antonio Ayala, Sales Antonio Ayala speaks at the 2010Latin ITC America in Monterrey, Manager, Canterbury/Genca (CanGen), welcomes attendees to the conference.

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The March 17 Points Meeting at WAI headquarters saw nearly 70,000 sq ft of booth space contracted for Interwire 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. “We’re pretty pleased with the results,” said WAI Sales Director Bob Xeller, who along with WAI volunteers Joe Snee and Tom Seidlarz, WAI Sales Manager Anna Bzowski, and other Association staff oversaw the distribution of the booths at the Georgia World Congress Center. It was a lengthy meeting, a combination of many phones calls and electronic interaction.

Xeller said that most of the larger booths have been taken, but many good locations remain. “It’s always a good time to contact us for a booth,” he quipped.

WAI Volunteers Joe Snee and and Tom Seidlarz help out at the Points Meeting process at WAI’s headquarters.

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CALL FOR PAPERS You are invited to share your technical expertise at WAI’s 2016 International Technical Conference for wire and cable manufacturers. Ferrous and nonferrous wire topics are welcome.

Suggested subjects include: • data cable manufacturing • medium carbon steel • flame retardant jacket compounds • annealability • aluminum alloys Questions or to participate, contact WAI’s Director of Education & Member Services at mmurray@wirenet.org or Tel.: (001) 203-453-2777, ext. 121.

Abstract Deadline: May 2, 2016

Acceptance Notification: June 6, 2016

Manuscript Deadline: August 1, 2016

Use the form on the reverse side to submit your abstract today!

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It’s that time again: golf tourneys!

Spring beckons and is warmly welcome by WAI chapter members because it means that it soon will be time to vie for bragging rights (or to just enjoy a well-deserved day of camaraderie. At this point, firm dates have been set for three WAI chapter golf tournaments.

First up, on Friday, June 17, is the Midwest Chapter, which will hold its 14th Annual Golf Tournament at the St. Andrews Golf & Country Club in West Chicago, Illinois, USA. Contact: Steve Fetteroll, tel. 203-453-2777, ext. 115, sfetteroll@wirenet.org.

Next will be the New England Chapter will hold its 22nd Annual Golf tournament on Tuesday, September 13, at a new location: the Golf Club of Avon. More details will be provided in a future issue.

The Southeast Chapter will hold its 15th Annual Golf Tournament on Thursday. September 29, at the Rock

2015 Southeast Chapter scholarships Editor’s note: The February issue presented pictures and some details on the scholarship winners from the New England, Midwest and Southeast chapters. The details for the Southeast Chapter were inadvertently left out. Below are the photos and details.

In 2015, the WAI’s Southeast Chapter awarded three scholarships. The first recipient was Blake Connell, the son of Brian Connell, director of plastics operations, Carris Reels Inc. He attends the University of Virginia, studying psychology. The second recipient was Elizabeth Hammontree, the daughter of Joe Hammontree, vice president, Temple Terrace Industries, Inc. She attends Florida College, studying pre-occupational therapy.

The third recipient was Sydney Nuckles, the daughter of Kim Nuckles, senior product engineer, Southwire. She attends the University of Georgia, studying biochemical engineering. 

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A twilight view of the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, which will host the WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo 2016.

Opportunity awaits at WAI's new northeast location The WAI will have the home-field advantage when it stages its first-ever Association event in Connecticut at the Mohegan Sun Casino Resort in Uncasville, a location that can draw upon the strong wire and cable industry presence in New England. The WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo 2016, to be held June 7-9, will offer a memorable blend of practical industry information, exhibits, networking opportunities and entertainment.

The official programs begin on Tuesday, June 7, starting with the Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing program that runs from 8:30 am to 5:00, including a Q&A session the last 45 minutes. A total of 12 sessions will be present-

ed by 10 industry veterans. At Interwire 2015, this popular program had more than 130 attendees.

The event shifts into high gear Wednesday, June 8. More than 220 suppliers of technology and service are to be represented on the show floor. Those ranks will include at least a dozen exhibitors that are either new to WAI or companies that have not exhibited in a long time.

Wednesday will also see a slew of operation presentations that cover topics from transforming/managing talent for an operator-led culture and a panel on capital expansion projects to a trifecta of workplace organization presentations and a panel on health and safety.

At the 2014 event in Indianapolis, happiness abounded at the Taubensee booth...especially Tuesday from 3 to 5 pm.

Tom Maxwell, Die Quip, explains the fine points of dies during his Production Solutions session on the show floor.

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A must for Wednesday is the Mordica Lecture by Encore Wire Corporation's Daniel L. Jones, whose success story is one that should both impress and inspire. His lunchtime presentation will be made during the WAI Member Rewards program and the Annual Meeting, which also honors the authors of the best technical papers presented in 2015. That night, however, it will be time for the industry to relax and raise the camaraderie barometer at the Opening Reception at Margaritaville.

Plant Tours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Mohegan Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 WAI Awards/Annual Meeting . . . . . . . 54 Mordica Memorial Award . . . . . . . . . . 56 Donnellan Memorial Award . . . . . . . . . 57 Education Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 WAI Life/25-Year Members . . . . . . . . . . 62 Sessions at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Fundamentals of Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Keynote Speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 President’s Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Keynote Speaker Philip Cornwell spoke about the need to prepare students for the skills needed for the future.

Thursday, June 9, will see the final day of exhibits (10 am to 3 pm) and Production Solutions on the show floor as well as a second round of practical operational presentations. Keynote Speaker Mark Horstman will be doing double-duty: Following his lecture, the highly regarded host of the “Manager Tools” podcast will present a two hour seminar on manufacturing management.

Two tours are offered: for early arrivers, there is a tour on Tuesday of Freeport McMorRan’s Norwich rod and wire plant, and on Thursday there is a “mobile classroom” tour of Davis-Standard LLC. As for the location, it is a city unto itself, one that offers multiple opportunity, and while there’s no guarantees how someone may fare at the gaming tables or slot machines, the show floor and presentations will be clear winners.

WAI Operations Summit/ Conference Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Production Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Floor Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Alpha/Numerical List of Exhibitors . . . 82 Preview of Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Exhibitors’ Product Directory . . . . . . . 126

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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SCHEDULE GENERAL PROGRAM For WAI committee meeting times/places, go to wireexpo16.com.

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Tuesday, June 7 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Registration

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Exhibitor Move-In Fundamentals Of Wire Manufacturing

8:30 am - 5:00 pm 8:30 am - 11:45 am 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

General Topics Fundamentals Luncheon

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Freeport McMoRan Plant Tour

1:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Ferrous Topics

1:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Nonferrous Topics Fundamentals Q&A

4:15 pm - 5:00 pm

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Thursday, June 9 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Manufacturing Management Seminar: How to Do One on Ones

10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Mobile Classroom Davis-Standard

10:30 am - 11:45 am

Health And Safety Panel

10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Exhibits Open

10:30 am - 10:55 am

MRO Vending Machines In A Manufacturing Environment Incremental Improvement To Maintenance Operations Productivity Management 2016 Mordica Luncheon & Lecture: The Encore Wire Formulaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A Culture of Innovation and Collaboration

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Products Solutions

Wednesday, June 8 8:00 am - 5:00 pm 9:30 am - 10:15 am

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2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Capital Expansion Projects Panel

2:00 pm - 2:35 pm

Wildly Important Focus Managing Operational Change â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cleaning Technology Case Study Understanding The Value Expectations Of The Various Wire And Cable Market Channels Transforming And Managing Talent For An Operator-Led Culture WAI Awards Celebration Opening Reception

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4:00 pm - 4:30 pm 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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Moisture-Crosslinkable Materials For Higher Temperatures

11:00 am

Marking, Printing, And Guiding Insulated Wire

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Wire Breaks

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Registration Membership Breakfast Keynote Address: The Most Important Management Tool: One on One

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For the most up-to-date details, from finding a company on the show floor to finding a committee meeting, go to the WAI Bookstore to access a kiosk.

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NEW W & NOTEWORTHY And now for something completely different So, how did WAI end up at a casino?

For those who have not been to the destination before, WAI Executive Director Steve Fetteroll wanted to discuss how it came to be that WAI’s Operations Summit and Wire Expo 2016 came to be held in the Mohegan Sun Resort Casino.

“We’ve been thinking about this for some time,” Fetteroll said. “New England is a strong region for the wire and cable industry, and we’ve held our event in Boston before (2006), but we’ve long believed that Connecticut would be a good location. Our New England Chapter has been holding its annual meeting there for a long time, and everyone seems to like the location. Once you here, you don’t have to go anywhere, and it’s a great place to make new contacts and talk to customers at the show floor or over dinner.”

The casino itself is an attraction, but the biggest draw is that it’s a great location for a strong wire and cable region,” Feteroll said. “And yes, it’s a plus for the WAI because this is in our backyard, but out primary focus was on staging this at a site where there was lots of potential for drive-in traffic as well as one where are volunteers could help us put on all the programs. We think that attendees are really going to like this place.”

Mordica Lecture: a continuing story of both innovation and collaboration

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Innovation has always been a major key in the wire and cable industry, but for a company to be successful requires more than just that. It takes vision and leadership to develop and support a company’s mission, which is why it is fitting that the Mordica Lecture by Daniel Jones, president and CEO of Encore Wire Corporation, will be a presentation, “The Encore Wire Formula—A Culture of Innovation and Collaboration,” that covers this incredible journey.

The fundamentals still matter There has got to be something fundamentally solid about this session, as last year more than 140 attendees sat in on the Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing. This year, there will be a total of 12 sessions on Tuesday, June 7, again taught by industry experts who collectively cover a wide range of industry disciplines. The program includes sessions on wiredrawing, dies, lubricants, ferrous,

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Industry guru Horace Pops will talk about wire breaks and surface damage at his Fundamentals session. ferrous testing, heat treatment, cleaning and coating of rod and wire; annealing of electrical conductors, extrusion and more. See p. 70.

Production Solutions returns to the show floor with practical information

WAI returns to the show floor on Thursday, June 9, to present Production Solutions, with an industry trifecta. The program will include three half-hour sessions from 10:30 am to noon. These include, in order, “Moisture-crosslinkable materials for higher temperatures,” presented by Barbara Latta and Steve Pinnix, T & T

Etna’s Bill Coode and Troy Carr talked lubricants during their Production Solutions session on the show foor.

Marketing Inc.; “Marking, Printing, and Guiding of Insulated Wire,” by Mark Spencer, W. Gillies Technologies LLC; and “Wire Breaks,” presented by Horace Pops, Horace Pops Consulting, Inc. The location will be listed in the Show Program. See p. 78.

Nicholas Nickoletopoulos, a WAI past president (2012) and an avid Association volunteer, is the winner of the 2016 Donnellan Memorial Award, which honors a person for contributions to the Association. See p. 57.

A reception to sing up about

Bob Flower, Witels Albert, had “straight” talk for attendees at Wire Expo 2014.

The show floor beckons!

If you’re looking for new ideas, new technology and, new suppliers, the show floor at Wire Expo 2016 is a good place to be. Representatives of more than 220 companies will be there waiting to hear what you need. From equipment to accessories and raw materials to spare parts, you’ll find solutions.

Conference Sessions Beyond the Production Solutions and Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing and Mordica Lecture cited in this section, the conference program of the Operations Summit has other key elements worth noting. Those include the opening presentation by Frank McGrew, “USA Manufacturing: Open for Business,” followed by sessions on maintenance, health & safety, workplace organization and capital expansion projects. See p. 70.

2 plant tours offered for attendees Attendees have the opportunity with two tours: the Freeport-McMoRan Norwich rod and wire plant on Tuesday, June 7, and Davis-Standard’s Pawcatuck extrusion facility on Thursday, June 9. The tour is limited to 40 individuals. The Davis-Standard tour combines a tour with a classroom discussion of screw technology for wire and cable applications. Both companies reserves the right to approve tour attendees.

See p. 50.

Jimmy Buffet may not be there to sing about Margaritaville, but how could attendees at the Opening Reception not have a memorable time? Per Jimmy, “The tropical location will transport attendees to the exotic destination of their dreams. From a whale suspended overhead to a nor’easter blowing margaritas into a giant blender, the island setting has a boat load of character ...to create your favorite island atmosphere. Upstairs, the Porch of Indecision, with the only waterfront view at Mohegan Sun, overlooks the Thames River with a wall of windows to catch the breeze when the weather is nice. ... Every day is Margarita Day at Margaritaville.”

Whoa! Sign us up!

President’s Award: Tom Maxwell Tom Maxwell might have been a standout WAI president, but he decided long ago that he had to focus on Die Quip Corporation, the family business. That he did, but he also served in just about every other way there was, from committees to chapters to being the ultimate Association supporter. All of which, WAI President Andy Talbot said, makes him a worthy recipient of the President’s Award. See p. 69.

Maxwell

Golf alert! Golf alert! Golf Alert!

If you're schedule is flexible and you are a true-blue golf enthusiast, the golfing gods—with some help from the Wire & Cable Manufacturers Alliance—may be smiling upon you.

The WCMA is holding a charity golf tournament on Monday, June 6, at the Wethersfield Country Club, which has been dubbed the “Club of Champions,” has seen its share of golfing greats. It was a long-time host to the Greater Hartford Open, which was won by Sam Snead in 1955. Arnold Palmer won his first PGA Tour event in the United States at Wethersfield in 1956. Other winners included Tommy Bolt, Billy Casper, Ken Venturi, Dave Stockton, Lee Trevino, and Curtis Strange. For details about playing, contact WCMA Dem Mathiasen at tel. 860-873-2311, deb@wcmainc.org.

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PLANT TOURS Freeport McMoRan tour:â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;a focus on continuous casting Registration is limited, so full registrants of the WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo will get preference for the tour at the Freeport-McMoRan Norwich rod and wire plant on Tuesday, June 7.

The bus will leave the Mohegan Sun at 1 pm and return at 3 pm. The tour is limited to 40 individuals in two groups.

The primary product of the continuous casting facility, which has been in operation since 1981, is a 0.312 in.-diameter ETP copper rod made from a Hazelett caster that feeds a 14-strand SMS Meers Krupp hot-rolling mill.

The company also produces oxygen-free copper rod and electrode wire at the Norwich Plant. The copper rod products are sold to wiredrawing companies for use in the power cable, communication and building wire

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The tour is $50 for WAI members, $75 for non-members. The company reserves the right to approve tour attendees.

Davis-Standard tour: a mobile experience WAI will bring back its Mobile Classroom, introduced in 2014, to bridge the classroom learning of conference sessions with a visit to tour of Davis-Standard.

The tour, to be held from 10 am to 1 pm on Thursday, June 9, combines an on-site tour of Davis-Standardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pawcatuck, Connecticut, facility and classroom discussion of screw technology for wire and cable applications. Topics will include screw design (materials and coatings, barrier/metering, distribu-

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tive mixing, and dispersive mixing), groove feed technology (types, benefits, and tradeoffs), and applications (high temperature, foam, HFFR/LS0H, crosslinked materials, and rubber).

This program extends the learning experience begun during the summit for an up-close view of conference topics in action. The cost for the tour is included in full registration.

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A host site that offers glitz (and dreams) aplenty Typically, there’d be a profile of the host city here, but as the Mohegan Sun is essentially a city unto itself—the ultimate one-stop location—there’s no need to go beyond its borders. The Mohegan Sun is one of the largest casinos in the U.S., with 364,000 sq ft of gaming space.

Located on 240 acres along the banks of the Thames River in Uncasville, Connecticut, it is a jewel in the foothills of southeastern section of the state, where 60% of the state's tourism is concentrated. It features the 12,000-seat capacity Mohegan Sun Arena, home of the New England Black Wolves of the National Lacrosse League and the Women's National Basketball Association’s Connecticut Sun. It houses a 350-seat Cabaret Theatre, the 300-seat Wolf Den, and 100,000 sq ft of meeting and function room space, including the Northeast’s largest ballroom and 130,000 sq. ft of retail shopping. And now, WAI’s Operation Summit and Wire Expo 2016.

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Nobody driving in needs outside help for directions to the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, but if you are planning to fly in to either Hartford or Providence—both about 60 miles away—we do have some advice: either rent a car or “buddy up” so your event experience does not start with a hefty single-rider fare.

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AWARDS CELEBRATION Donnellan Award and top technical papers At 5 pm on Wednesday, June 8, the WAI will hold its Awards Celebration, which will recognize the best technical papers presented in 2015 and the bestowing of the Donnellan Memorial Award.

For details on Nick Nickletopolous, the winner of the Donnellan Memorial Award, see p. 57. The Mordica Award will be presented earlier that day to Daniel L. Jones, Encore Wire Corporation, at lunch, where he will deliver the Mordica Lecture.

The winning papers were chosen from 2015 presentations at Interwire and at the Global Continuous Casting Forum, colocated in Atlanta, and the CabWire World Conference that was held in Germany.

Awards celebration sponsored

by Lloyd & Bouvier The winning paper in the ferrous sector was “Heat-resistant colour coatings for a new generation of spring wires,” by Filip Verhoeve, Vincent Vermeersch, Peter Persoone, and Walther Van Raemdonck, NV Bekaert SA, Belgium. Second place was “Meeting the customer demand for improved rod qualities through improvements in operating practices and rod mill equipment,” by Bruce V. Kiefer and Wade P. Krejdovsky, Primetals Technologies USA LLC; and Bhaskar Yalamanchili, Peter Power, Richard Gordon, Thad Boudreaux, and Leonardo Cunha, Gerdau Long Steel North America, USA. The winning paper in the nonferrous sector was “Multipass wiredrawing of Mg alloys in a heated die with controlled recrystallization,” by Andrij Milenin, Piotr Kustra, and Maciej Pietrzyk, AGH University of Science and Tech-

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nology, Poland. Second place was “Monolithic Refractories Used In Transfer and Process Equipment Downstream of the Copper Melting Furnace,” by Bryan Nelson, Allied Mineral Products Inc., USA. The winning paper in the electrical sector was “Understanding flaws in communication cable production thanks to balunless single-ended measurements,” by Peter Fischer, AESA SA, Switzerland. Second place was “Authentication and traceability in wire and cable,” by Sean Bernhardt and Craig L. Shoemaker, PolyOne Corporation, USA. The winning paper in the general sector was “Comparative study of two scheduling approaches to resolve scheduling problem for a wire and cable manufacturing process,” by Parminder Singh Kang, De Montfort University, UK; Alexandre Erhart and Victor Todeschini, NEO Industrial Engineering, Brazil; and Alistair Duffy, De Montfort University, UK. Second place was “The Two-Roll Rolling Process for Long Products,” by Bruce V. Kiefer, Primetals Technologies USA LLC, USA. From l-r at the 2015 awards ceremony were: Gary Spence, President’s Award; Gareth Penn, A total of 53 papers Wire Link Scholar; Andy Talbot, WAI First Vice President; Prof. Tadeusz Knych, Mordica from those presented in Memorial Award; Bill Reichert, WAI President; Dominque Perroud, Donnellan Award; and 2015 were rated to be Dave Hawker, WAI Second Vice President. eligible for an award.

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AWARDS MORDICA MEMORIAL AWARD Daniel L. Jones

from 200,000 to 450,000 sq ft. Along the way, the company and Jones have also garnered key honors, including a notable 2012 trifecta: being named

by Forbes as one of the “100 most trustworthy companies in America,” winning the “Texas Manufacturing Star Award,” and being named an “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year National Finalist.”

Beyond those accolades, Jones was lauded for his style of leadership, fostering product innovation and encouraging staff. Wrote one nominator, “He has grown Encore bigger than the (founders) could have imagined. The company is built on the reverse idea of most of its big competitors, who have multiple plants and distribution centers all over America. Encore (has) one big campus in McKinney, where (it produces and distributes) over 90% of the shipments.” Added another, “Dan

Daniel L. Jones, the president, CEO and chairman of the board of Encore Wire, Inc., is the winner of the WAI’s Mordica Memorial Award, which honors an individual for contributions to the wire and cable industry.

Jones was one of the first people hired when Encore Wire was formed in 1989 to manufacture building wire. He served as director of sales (1989-92), v.p. of sales and marketing (1992-97), executive v.p. (1997), COO (1997-98), president and COO (1998-2006) and since then as president, CEO and chairman of the board. Over that period, the company has seen incredible growth. With a workforce now topping 1,200, it has expanded into new products (tray cable and aluminum wire), and seen its campus in McKinney, Texas, undergo much growth, most recently the 2014 expansion of its aluminum wire plant Micro-WJI-Ad-Sept-2014

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Jones has shown considerable vision by encouraging employees to submit out-of-the-box Jones ideas and giving them the opportunity to start new projects.” That spirit, the nominator wrote, was a big factor in the WAI’s staging of the Global Continuous Casting Forum in 2011 and 2015. “Without (Dan’s) encouragement, backing and support…this event would probably not have been possible.” Another supporter praised his establishing an on-site medical facility for employees and investing in the company’s UL-certified research lab.

Jones will be honored at the 2016 WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo.

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Nicholas Nickoletopoulos Nicholas Nickoletopoulos, a WAI past president and an avid supporter of the Association, is the winner of the 2016 Donnellan Memorial Award, which honors a person for contributions to the Association.

The president and CEO of Urecon, a Canadian producer of factory-insulated pipe, Nickoletopoulos served as WAI president in 2012. He was also a member of the Board of Directors (2007-13), the Conference Programming Committee (2006-11) and the Technical Council (200305). He was an author or co-author of nine papers presented at WAI events from 1998 to 2007, including a 2007 paper, “The mobile impact tester for cold heading,” that won the Allan B. Dove Memorial Medal Award for best ferrous paper. He also served as a moderator at WAI technical events.

for many years to come. Added another, “Throughout his entire period, I gained admiration Nickoletopoulos and respect for his technical, administrative and leadership skills while he was contributing significantly to WAI and the wire and cable industry in general.” Declared a third nominator, “Nick wanted to make sure strong technical programs were implemented, and went on beyond his term on the Executive Committee and as President. He believed and acted to have continuity and long-term goals.”

Nickoletopoulos will be honored at the 2016 WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo.

Nickoletopoulos served as Director Marketing, Quality and Technical Services for Ivaco Rolling Mills from 1995 to 2009, and then as General Manager for the Sivaco Wire Group and Ifastgroupe through 2013, at which time he joined Urecon. A Registered Professional Engineer in Canada since 1997, he holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. degree in engineering from McGill University.

Several letters cited Nickoletopoulos for his willingness to address difficult issues as WAI president and his positive influence on the WAI’s technical programs and long-term strategies. Wrote one person, “He made some challenging decisions that took courage and foresight without concern for his own popularity or benefit. For all that, the WAI is a better organization today and his contributions will be evident

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LEADERS EDUCATION COMMITTEE

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Chairman: Brian Parsons, Dekoron Wire & Cable Eric Bieberich Fort Wayne Wire Die Inc.

William Jarae Charter Steel

Peter Blackford Cable USA Inc.

Erik Macs Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp.

Donald Dodge Calmont Wire & Cable Joseph Domblesky Marquette University

Richard Medoff Ace Metal Inc.

Steven Ford Southwire Co.

Donald Neville RichardsApex Europe Ltd.

Jason Giebfried Johnstown Wire Technologies Inc.

Dale Olp Special Metals Corp., A-1 Wire Tech Inc.

C. Richard Gordon Gerdau Long Steel North America

Paul Pawlikowski Delphi Packard Electric Systems

Douglas Grover Chemetall US

Horace Pops Horace Pops Consulting Inc. 

Peter Power Power Innovative Technology

Bhaskar Yalamanchili Gerdau Long Steel North America

Christopher Reeve Insteel Wire Products

WAI Historian Don Sayenga Cardon Management Group

Robert Shemenski RMS Consulting Inc.

Committee Liaison Richard Wagner

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RECEPTION “Despite economic recession and depressions, World Wars, and fierce global competition, our customers see the value in our products and continue to support us. We look forward to many more years of continued growth and success.”

Sommers thanked Fenn staff for their dedication, commitment and loyalty. “It makes me very optimistic about our success for the next 115 years.”

Alcatel-Lucent unit chosen for SOOC undersea network project

Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), the undersea cables subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded the development of the Sonangol Offshore Optical Cable (SOOC), a critical infrastructure project designed to reduce the cost-per-bit associated with the delivery of data traffic to Angola, including its offshore oil and gas production facilities.

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the actual news is that SSCC, at a cost of $49 million, is getting a cable that “will span 1,300 km and link Samoa’s largest islands of Upolu and Savai’i to the Southern Cross cable network in Suva, Fiji.”

Multiple media reports noted that Tuisugaletaua Sofara Aveau, Samoa’s minister of communication and IT, said that the project will mean improved internet for Samoans, while the new cable will also allow existing carriers to reduce internet costs substantially. He says the project will take 18 months to build and come into service.

Per the reports, the business is the result of the partnership between Samoan operators Bluesky and Digicel, the Computer Service, and financial investors the Samoa National Provident Fund, the Unit Trust of Samoa and Samoa Life Assurance. The project has been established with financial assistance from the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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“The project by Midal Cables will create employment opportunities for 350 people,” the report said.

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LIFE E & 25 YEAR MEMBERS RECOGNIZED MEMBERS In conjunction with the Association’s Annual Meeting, the newest group of Life Members will be recognized along with those members attaining 25-year status as a member of WAI. A total of 11 people have been designated as new Life Members, qualifying because their age plus number of continuous years of WAI membership equals 90.

Another 41 people will be recognized for attaining 25-year member status. Below is the latest list.

Life Members Charles E Dobbel Nehring Electrical Works Inc Dekalb, IL, USA

John A Manning, Jr Penn Machinery Co Flourtown, PA, USA

Donald D Schollin Q-S Technologies Inc Meriden, CT, USA

George Downing Elektrisola Inc Concord, NH, USA

Byron R Nelson Leland Industries Inc Scarborough, ON, Canada

Michael Shaffer Condat Corp Hanover, PA, USA

Bill Ito Spoolon Manufacturing Ltd Cobourg, ON, Canada

Ralph Noonan Etna-Bechem Lubricants Salem, SC,

Alan D Keenan Alan Wire Co Sikeston, MO, USA

Steve Riley Leggett & Platt Inc Nicholasville, KY, USA

Carmine A Spatola Standard Technical Applied Resources Inc Doylestown, OH, USA

25-Year Members Jeffrey Almendinger Trans Cable International Bonham, TX, USA Dane G Armendariz Chemetall North America Land O’Lakes, FL, USA William Bernard Surface Combustion Inc Maumee, OH, USA Arnold N Bernstein Utica, MI, USA Brian A Bouvier Lloyd & Bouvier Inc Clinton, MA, USA Larry L Boyd Boyd Machine & Repair Co Inc Wolflake, IN, USA Jose F Bucci Morlan SA Sao Paulo, Brazil Liborio Campo Specialty Wire & Cord Sets Inc Hamden, CT, USA

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Michael Chiu Mar-Con Wire Belt Richmond, BC, Canada Dan Cole Accel International Avilla, IN, USA Cary Corcoran H E Danby Co Inc Zionsville, IN, USA

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Larry J Geiswite General Cable Williamsport, PA, USA Tapan Ghosh ICE Wire Line Equipment Inc Montreal, QC, Canada Jeff Henry Intl Staple Nail & Tool Association La Grange, IL, USA Keith Jefferts Northwest Marine Technology Shaw Island, WA, USA Donny R Jones Shaped Wire, a Leggett & Platt Co Bessemer, AL, USA

Allen D Keenan Alan Wire Co Sikeston, MO, USA James M Knott Knott & Co Inc Northbridge, MA, USA Mario Koenig Materias Primas CXA Miami, FL, USA Mark L Kristoff Gem Gravure Co Inc Hanover, MA, USA

Hal R McConnell Torpedo Specialty Wire Inc Rocky Mount, NC, USA

Steve Riley Adcom Wire Co Nicholasville, KY, USA

Dale E Longsworth RichardsApex Inc Seneca, SC, USA

Mark Michael Fort Wayne Metals Research Products Fort Wayne, IN, USA

Hiroharu Sawada Kobe Technologies Proprietary Inc Lorain, OH, USA

Peter B Mann Mantec Danielson, CT, USA

Jeffrey Allen Miller Belden Richmond, IN, USA

Robert W Sears North America OMCG Inc Bensenville, IL, USA

John A Manning Penn Machinery Co Flourtown, PA, USA

William R Miller Windmill Associates Inc Warwick, RI, USA

Michael Shaffer Condat Corp Hanover, PA, USA

John W Martin Mar-Mac Wire Inc McBee, SC, USA

Byron R Nelson Leland Industries Inc Scarborough, ON, Canada

Richard L Slover The Slover Group Houston, TX, USA

Raymond L Martin AMS Specialty Steel Cary, NC, USA

David R Nelson Nelson Steel Products Inc Hatfield, PA, USA

Carmine A Spatola Standard Technical Applied Resources Middlesex, NJ, USA

Mark C Matthews Plasti-Clad Metal Products Inc Allenwood, NJ, USA

Douglas Nicholson SUPERIOR ESSEX Fort Wayne IN, USA

Morris Williams Southwire Co Carrollton, GA, USA

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OVERVIEW R RVIEW EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT A GLANCE Wednesday, June 8 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Registration

9:30 am - 10:15 am

USA Manufacturing: Open for Business!

10:30 am - 10:55 am

Health and Safety Panel

10:30 am - 10:55 am

MRO Vending Machines in a Manufacturing Environment

10:55 am - 11:20 am

Incremental Improvement To Maintenance Operations

11:20 am - 11:45 am

Productivity Management

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

2016 Mordica Luncheon & Lecture: The Encore Wire Formula— A Culture of Innovation and Collaboration

2:00 pm - 2:35 pm

Wildly Important Focus

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Capital Expansion Projects Panel

2:35 pm - 3:15 pm

Managing Operational Change – Cleaning Technology Case Study

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Understanding The Value Expectations of the Various Wire And Cable Market Channels

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Transforming And Managing Talent for an Operator-Led Culture

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Registration

9:00 am - 9:45 am

Membership Breakfast Keynote Address: The Most Important Management Tool: One-on-Ones

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Manufacturing Management Seminar: How to do One On Ones

10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Mobile Classroom

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Production Solutions Demonstrations

10:30 am - 11:00 am

Moisture-Crosslinkable Materials For Higher Temperatures

11:00 am - 11:30 am

Marking, Printing, And Guiding of Insulated Wire

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Wire Breaks WAI President Andy Talbot with 2015 Mordica Memorial Award winner Prof. Tadeusz Knych.

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THE BA BASICS ASICS FUNDAMENTALS OF WIRE & CABLE MANUFACTURING Tuesday, June 7, 2016 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

FUNDAMENTALS OF WIRE MANUFACTURING The popular Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing is a one-day, pre-conference course designed to give attendees a solid grounding in the essentials of wire and cable manufacturing. It includes four general topics in the morning, and four each in a ferrous and nonferrous/electrical track during the afternoon. Lunch is included.

It is valuable to those new to the industry, as well as a refresher for seasoned professionals. The course includes a 45-minute question-and-answer session following the end of the last class. For bios of the presenters, go to www.wireexpo2016.com, click on “education” then “speakers,” and click on the photo of the individuals.

8:30 am - 9:15 am

9:15 am - 10:00 am

MECHANICS OF WIREDRAWING

DRAWING DIES

by Frank F. Kraft, Ohio University, USA

by Thomas Maxwell Jr., Die Quip Corp., USA

This course presents fundamental engineering principles and process calculations that are used to design, analyze, and improve metal rod and wiredrawing operations. Topics include a basic overview of wiredrawing mechanics with respect to material behavior and process parameters. Die angle and reduction will be addressed in light of the ∆-parameter and its practical application. Drawing limits, friction and lubrication, work-piece heating, and temperature effects are also discussed.

This presentation focuses on the die, the most important part of the drawing process. Without it, the best drawing machines, lubricant, and treatment systems cannot reduce the wire diameter. However, with a die, vice pliers, and a hammer, wire can be drawn, albeit slowly, as it has been for over 2,000 years. The intention of this course is to provide an understanding of what makes a die work, how it is designed, causes of failure, and problems with drawing larger sizes.

10:15 am-11:00 am

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by David Gzesh, Blachford Corporation, USA

The wiredrawing process generates significant heat.

This heat affects the lubricants’ ability to ensure quality wire production. The amount of generated heat is influenced by the interaction of factors that include the metal composition, surface preparation, and production equipment. This presentation will review basic wiredrawing lubrication principles and the lubricants’ chemistry. A review of basic issues will demonstrate the importance of understanding how the lubricant chemistry and physical properties interact with the drawing process.

11:00 am-11:45 am

WIRE BREAKS & SURFACE DAMAGE

by Horace Pops, Horace Pops Consulting Inc., USA

This course presents a classification of wire breaks from a perspective that compares material defects to process-related problems. Rod defects will include both casting and rolling issues such as internal voids, foreign contaminants, rolled-in scale, hot cracks, and surface porosity.

The effects of wiredrawing speed and lubrication will be discussed with respect to generation of fines, shaving, galling, and other surface defects.

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1:00 pm-1:45 pm

FUNDAMENTALS OF FERROUS METALLURGY

by Anand Bhagwat, Minova USA Inc., USA

This introductory course is designed to provide a general understanding of ferrous metallurgical concepts, including phase equilibrium, transformation, strengthening mechanisms, heat treatment, and an overview of steelmaking, and their relevance to the wire technology.

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1:45 pm-2:30 pm

CLEANING AND COATING OF ROD AND WIRE

by Jack McAfee and Rudy Vey, Chemetall US, USA

This course presents the fundamentals of cleaning, pickling, and coating of ferrous wire and rod in preparation for drawing and processing. Proper control and handling in these areas ensures quality of the finished product. The design of these processes impacts the economics of the operation. The course deals with zinc phosphate processes and the advantages and limitations as well as specialty coatings such as salt carriers, lubricants, dry film polymers, and new technologies on the horizon.

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FERROUS TESTING AND PROPERTIES

by C. Richard Gordon, Gerdau Long Steel North America

This course discusses tensile, coiling, wrap, reverse bend, torsion, fatigue, and hardness testing procedures. It illustrates interpretation of test results in terms of sample properties.

3:30 pm-4:15 pm

FERROUS HEAT TREATMENT

by C. Richard Gordon, Gerdau Long Steel North America

This course focuses on heat treatment of ferrous metals.

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FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL TESTING

by Peter M. Blackford, Cable USA LLC, USA

This fundamentals course is geared to providing a general overview of electrical testing. The course highlights key terms, standards, and tests that are common to the wire and cable industry for conductors, insulations and, various product types.

1:45 pm-2:30 pm

EXTRUSION, PART 1

by Erik A. Macs, Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp., USA

Part 1 starts with a review of the basic polymers typically used in the wire and cable process and is followed by explanation of the basic design of a thermoplastic extruder—barrel and liners, feed section, drive system, gearbox and thrust bearing, heating/cooling system, and pellet feeding. Special emphasis is placed on the varieties of screw design.

2:45 pm-3:30 pm

EXTRUSION, PART 2

by Erik A. Macs, Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp., USA

Part 2 covers the design considerations of the remaining components of extrusion lines. Items discussed include payoffs, dancers and accumulators, preheaters, crossheads, cooling troughs, capstans, online measurement and testing, printing, take-ups, and control systems. A brief review of typical troubleshooting tips is included if time permits.

3:30 pm-4:15 pm

STRANDING This presentation documents the stranding process of nonferrous materials, specifically bare copper and tinned wire. Different processes that are addressed include high-speed bunch, heavy bunch and cable constructions, silicone block stranding, and smooth bunch.

Specific applications include industrial and energy sectors, electronics and data communications, the automotive industry, consumer products, and appliances.

4:15 pm-5:00 pm

Q&A All the instructors for the Fundamentals courses get together at the end of the program for an open session of questions and answers with the audience. The 45-minute session immediately follows the end of the last class.

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KEYNOTE/WAI AWARD WIRE EXPO 2016

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2016

Double-duty for keynote speaker Mark Horstman, the host of the popular award-winning podcast “Manager Tools,” will not only deliver the keynote address from 9:30 am to 11 am on Wednesday, June 8, he will follow it up with a two-hour seminar that offers widespread appeal to any company that has had management issues.

Manager Tools is a management consulting and training firm co-owned

by Horstman and Michael Auzenne.

The company regularly consults and trains Fortune 1,000 companies.

Clients served by the owners include AT&T; MCI; Apple; Procter & Gamble; General Electric; Spacex; the U.S. Departments of Defense, Justice, and Commerce; Royal Dutch Shell; Expedia.com; General Motors; Daimler Mexico & NA Trucks; Cisco; and Salesforce.com.

Manager Tools also produces one of the most successful business/management podcasts in the world. It won Best Business Podcast in 2006, 2007, 2008, and in 2012 as well as winning 2008 Best Podcast (overall, in all categories).

McGrew brings extensive recruiting and behavioral interviewing skills and expertise, and has experience interviewing and placing thousands of candidates for a well-reputed firm specializing in corporate hiring and placement.

President's Award: Tom Maxwell, Jr. WAI President Andy Talbot has named Tom Maxwell, Jr., the president of Die Quip Corporation, as the recipient of the President’s Award, which is bestowed for an individual's contributions to the Association.

“Tom has been a mainstay for the Association for many years,” Talbot said. “We appreciate his efforts on our behalf, and they have been considerable.”

A member of WAI’s Board of Directors for six years, Maxwell chaired the Exhibition Planning Committee for multiple years, chaired the Conference Programming Committee in 2012 and was a member of the Executive Committee for two years.

Maxwell chose not to seek a WAI executive board position of business demands, but he has been a presenter and/or moderator numerous times, and was among those who were instrumental in changing the focus for Wire Expo to include the Operations Summit. A WAI member since 1989, he was a founding member of the Ohio Valley Chapter.

Maxwell will be honored at the WAI Annual Meeting on Wednesday, June 8, at the Awards Celebration.

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CONFERENCE ENCE SESSIONS Operations Summit returns with new elements WAI’s Operations Summit and Wire Expo will once again feature Operational Excellence sessions to highlight individual success stories in the wire and cable industry.

This year features a total of 11 presentations on Wednesday, June 8, and Thursday, June 9. They cover operational topics from capital expansions and maintenance to under-

Scheduled presentations Below are the indiviudal elements presented in the following pages. Room locations will be in the Show Program.

Wednesday, June 8 • 9:30 am to 10:15 am—USA Manufacturing: Open for Business! Frank A. McGrew IV, Raymond James & Associates Inc. • 10:30 am to 10:55 am—Health and Safety Panel, Portia Groff, Bart Persoone, Terry D. Carroll.

• 10:30 am to 10:55 am—MRO Vending Machines in a Manufacturing Environment, Mike Crouchley, Champlain Cable Corp.

• 10:55 am to 11:45 am—Incremental Improvement to Maintenance Operations, Clay Li, CalemEam Inc. • 11:20 am to 11:45 am—Productivity Management, Daron Whitehead, Nashville Wire Products; Nick Marchioli, Shoplogix, Inc.

standing wire and cable markets to health and safety.

The sessions are part of the general conference program and are open to all participants with full registration.

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Bill Barrett, Nexans Energy USA. • 3:30 pm to 4 pm—Transforming and Managing Talent for an Operator-led Culture, Avas Pogue, General Cable.

EDUCATION CENTER Thursday, June 9 2016 Mordica Lecture: 1 pm to 1:30 pm The Encore Wire Formula—A Culture of Innovation and Collaboration, Encore Wire President & CEO Daniel L. Jones.

• 2 pm to 3:15 pm—Capital Expansion Projects Panel John T. Johnson, Bill Reichert, David Fisher.

• 2 pm to 2:35 pm—Wildly Important Focus, Jeremy Couey, General Cable Corporation.

• 2:35 pm to 3:15 pm—Managing Operational Change – Cleaning Technology Case Study, Dane Armendariz, Douglas Grover, Chemtall US. • 3:30 pm to 4 pm—Understanding the Value Expectations of the Various Wire and Cable Market Channels,

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Keynote Adress: 9 am to 9:45 am Mark Horstman, Manager Tools, The Most Important Manager Tool: One on Ones

• 10 am to noon—Manufacturing Management Seminar: How to Do One on Ones, Mark Horstman, Manager Tools.

• 10 am to 1 pm—Mobile Classroom. (See p. 50.)

• 10:30 am to noon—Production Solutions (See p. 78.)

Moisture-crosslinkable materials for higher temperatures, Barbara Latta, Steve Pinnix, T&T Marketing, Inc. Marking, Printing, and Guiding of Insulated Wire, by Mark Spencer, W. Gillies Technologies LLC, USA Wire Breaks, by Horace Pops, Horace Pops Consulting Inc., USA.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2016 9:30 am-10:15 am

USA MANUFACTURING: OPEN FOR BUSINESS!

by Frank A. McGrew IV, Raymond James & Associates

McGrew

This presentation provides a macro-economic overview and outlook.

It looks at why “middle America” is the new favorite emerging market and the key variables that together will start the fourth industrial revolution. McGew looks at factors from inflation rates and employment to consumer confidence and sector performance, and while challenges remain, he sees better days ahead.

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10:30 am-11:45 am

menting the vending machine program, the process for selecting the supplier that best met Champlain’s needs, the logistics of how the program works, and the potential caution areas that could impact the effectiveness of utilizing this type of program.

10:30 am-10:55 am

10:55 am-11:20 am

WPO VENDING MACHINES IN A MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT

INCREMENTAL IMPROVEMENT TO MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS

WORKPLACE ORGANIZATION (WPO): MAINTENANCE TOOLS

by Mike Crouchley, Champlain Cable Corp., USA

by Clay Li, CalemEAM Inc., USA

This presentation focuses on the reasons Champlain Cable Corp. decided to implement supplier-managed, in-house vending machines for MRO-type (maintenance, repair, and operations) purchased items. The discussion centers on the thought process and research for imple-

The presentation includes steps to streamline maintenance operations using CalemEAM, out-of-box procedures for incremental improvement, and performance indicators to measure operations and their improvement.

Implementation strategies are also discussed includ-

1:00 pm-1:30 pm

2016 MORDICA LECTURE:

THE ENCORE WIRE FORMULA —A CULTURE OF INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION

by Daniel L. Jones, Encore Wire Corporation, USA

Innovation has always been a major key in the wire and cable industry, but for a company to be successful requires more than just that. It takes vision and leadership to develop and support a company’s mission, which is why it is fitting that Daniel Jones, president and CEO of Encore Wire Corporation, will present the Mordica Lecture, an accolade granted an individual for contributions that have furthered the industry. Jones’ presentation will be a blend of two

worlds: innovation and the evolution of a company that enables those advances to become commercial realities.

Jones has held the office of president and CEO of Encore Wire Corporation, McKinney, Texas, USA, since 2006. He performed the duties of CEO in an interim capacity from May 2005 to February 2006. From 1998 until 2006, he was president and COO. He previously held the positions of COO from 1997 until 1998, executive vice president from

Daniel L. Jones May to October 1997, vice president-sales and marketing from 1992 to 1997, after serving as director of sales since joining the Company in 1989. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors since May 1994. He received his BBA degree from East Texas University in 1988.

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11:20 am-11:45 am

PRODUCTIVITY MANAGEMENT

by Daron Whitehead, Mid-South Wire, and Nick Marchioli, Shoplogix, Inc.

With the advent of Cloud computing, and standard outputs from most manufacturing equipment, the cost to implement effective shop floor management systems has become more attractive. Daron Whitehead of Mid-South Wire, will co-presenting with Nick Marchioli of Shoplogix, Inc. Topics will include: the criteria for selecting and implementing a shop floor management system, the expected benefits with regard to machine uptime, efficiency, and the monitoring of critical process parameters.

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2:35 pm-3:15 pm

by Daniel L. Jones, Encore Wire Corporation, USA

by Dane Armendariz and Douglas Grover, Chemetall US

See page 56 and page 71.

HEALTH & SAFETY 10:30 am-11:45 am

HEALTH AND SAFETY PANEL Panelists: Portia Groff, Nexans, USA; Bart Persoone, Bekaert Engineering, Belgium; Terry Carroll, consultant, USA

Join these wire and cable manufacturers and safety professionals as they share their experiences on important safety topics. A Q&A session and general discussion follows.

WORKPLACE ORGANIZATION (WPO): PROCESSES

MANAGING OPERATIONAL CHANGE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; CLEANING TECHNOLOGY CASE STUDY This session highlights Management of Change (MOC) Procedures, in the context of Cleaning Technologies, to assure that the following considerations are addressed before any change is implemented: 1) The technical basis for the proposed change; 2) Impact of the change on safety and health; 3) Modifications to operating procedures; 4) Necessary period for the change (temporary changes); 5) Authorization requirements for the proposed change; 6) Training of any operations, maintenance, and personnel whose job tasks are affected by the change prior to implementation of the change; and 7) Modifications to process safety information and performance requirements.

The purpose of this procedure is to define the practices and other procedures that ensure all process changes are accomplished in an effective, controlled, and managed fashion after careful review and approval from the management team.

2:00 pm-3:15 pm 2:00 pm-2:35 pm

WILDLY IMPORTANT FOCUS

CAPITAL EXPANSION PROJECTS 2:00 pm-3:15 pm

by Jeremy Couey, General Cable Corporation, USA

CAPITAL EXPANSION PROJECTS PANEL

Manufacturing facilities are fast paced, ever evolving, and never short on challenges. Despite the advancement of technology to help us manage through the endless barrage of work it can oftentimes be difficult for a team to focus on priorities and dedicate the necessary amount of time to improve them. In this session you will learn how a manufacturing plant adopted The Four Disciplines of Execution

Panelists: David Fisher, James Monroe Wire & Cable Corporation, USA; John T. Johnson, Mid-South Wire Co. Inc., USA; and Bill Reichert, Champlain Cable Corp., USA

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Three industry executives describe major facility expansion projects, including steps taken, in an open discussion to include questions from the audience.

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Spacex; the ity, increased and reduced USA, WAGO spring pressure connection U.S. Departments of Defense, and Commerce; The line offers suppliers increased energyJustice, efficiency and with aas well as interconnect, interface and automation solutions Royalfactor Dutch≥ Shell; Expedia.com; and General Motors. power .95 enables the drawing line to have lower technology.

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FEATURE

This timely innovation will benefi t customEuropean household care busiers who make high volume complex parts, as he ness in and Switzerland.

In 2002 NUMALLIANCE is was the sole CNC wire bending Director Internal Audit of machine manufacturer ableand to was offerappointed a complete range of P&G Director equipment from simple 2D feed and form and hard OPERATIONAL TreasuryEXCELLENCE (Europe, Middle East, tool bending solution for wire, tube, spring flat-stock.

Heand joined Bekaert 3:30 pm-4:30 pm Africa) in 2004.

There is no need to produce high volume and simple as Chief Financial Officer and memshape parts at exotic ber destination.

Jobs are coming back, of the Bekaert Group Executive 3:30 pm-4:00 pm and multi-slide benders are the preferred solution. in 2006, and took on additional UNDERSTANDING THE VALUE Until now, Italy hadresponsibility OMCG, America Nilson, forEXPECTATIONS thehad Specialized OF THE WIRE AND CABLE MARKET Germany hadVARIOUS Biehlerfilms and France had Latour. those activity platform. AsAll of 2013, Humblet CHANNELS cam-driven mechanical multi-slide come with a major he combines his responsibilities as

by Bill set Barrett, Nexans drawback: upoftime.

ThatEnergy is whyUSA NUMALLIANCE CFO with those Regional Operations Management came with a concept of servo driven camlesscustomer multislide, The Latin electrical wire and cable historical of Bekaert America.

He holds a commercial engi- base able to harbor most of existing tooling in an all-electric has evolved into various segments with distinct product neering degree from the Solvay Business School of the and value-added service requirements.

This presenenvironment.

The NUMASLIDE is yours to discover.

Brussels University. The Bridon Bekaert Ropes Group is tation describes a few of theand more common market www.nummalliance.com. a joint venture between Bekaert Ontario Teachers’ channels’ value expectations, comparing the similarity, Pension Plan that combines the ropes and advanced differences, and challenges each channel presents to the cords businesses of Bekaert and Bridon.

OMCG North America U.S.

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10:00 am-12:00 pm

MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT SEMINAR Mark Horstman, Manager Tools

Immediately following his keynote address, Horstman leads a two-hour manufacturing management seminar to explore more deeply the core of the Manager Tools Effective Manager toolset: the One on One. All highly effective managers are known for having exceptional relationships with their direct reports, but few managers know how to achieve this or believe that simply “managing by walking around” does so.

One on Ones are a pre-scheduled, 30-minute weekly meeting between every manager and each direct, with the focus being on the direct. During the training, Horstman describes how to 1. brief directs on the use of the One on One (including providing the text of the e-mail to send to all directs announcing them), 2. provide an agenda—a simple one-page note-taking form, and 3. describe where, when, why, and how to conduct these meetings for each manager. Seminar recommendations are actionable, very prescriptive, and systematic. Manager Tools has created “teachable equivalents” to create and improve relationships, especially for managers who are not inclined to be

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“people-oriented.” Technical professionals gravitate easily to this material as it provides step-by-step and very detailed guidance (a system with process and models) for managing people.

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From concept to completion.

Now with our Industrial Division we can offer our customers a total concept-to-completion business model.

Teknikor was always known for offering turnkey solutions for the majority of manufacturing equipment and facility needs, including plant relocation, contracting, and automation & controls, just to name a few. But now, with custom engineering, process improvement technology, plant layout and design using Lean Tools, and even ROI assessment, Teknikor can handle it all. Obviously, with only one supplier, contractor and consultant, the efficiencies and quality control that we offer is unsurpassed. So whether you have a small job, or, if you have an entire plant to design and build, there is literally only one company to call – Teknikor.

Complex problems simplified www.teknikor.com

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PRODUCTION CTION SOLUTIONS

In 2015, Troy Carr, Bechem Lubrication Technology, makes his Production Solutions presentation.

Solutions (literally) to be found on the show floor Production Solutions returns to the show floor at Wire Expo from 10:30 am to noon on Tuesday, May 6, when Production Solutions returns to the show floor, where three exhibitors will make presentations on moisture-crosslinkable materials, how to mark insulated wire; and why wire breaks. The program, which has continued to draw good crowds in past years, will be held in a designated section listed in the Show Program.

10:30 am-11:00 am

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uction ow floor Prod sh a t ou b a How arts? of industry sm ta ec if tr s on Soluti ol at T (keeping co It's led by T& W. ), followed by ty ci a p ca V C high er and printing prim g/ in rk a m s s' Gillie imate ace Pops's ult or H y b ed or anch topic. k it" industry a re b or it e k "ma

Are you running out of CV capacity? You know what happens when you are running peroxide crosslinked materials—you have to keep temperatures low in the extruder to keep material from scorching. The peroxide can decompose when it gets too hot and can yield a horrible cable surface or even shut down your line if it crosslinks at the wrong time and requires frequent extruder cleanouts.

Visico™ FR4450 from Borealis allows you to run higher temperatures typical of thermoplastic materials. That can mean line speeds that are two to three times faster.

It includes flexible turn-key designs suitable for a variety of applications on a product range from 28 gauge up to a 6-in. diameter. Equipment can be located in-line during extrusion, off-line during take-up and payoff, barrel-fed for wire and harness processing, and used for short runs for wire and cable distribution. Many of the parts used in the construction of this equipment are modular: components are used for guiding and positioning are often interchangeable with those used for printing and marking. This reduces inventory of spare parts and allows the product to be repurposed should the end users’ requirements change. Universal bracket mounts allow a variety of CIJ ink jet markers to be incorporated directly into this equipment.

11:00 am-11:30 am

11:30 am-12:00 pm

MOISTURE-CROSSLINKABLE MATERIALS FOR HIGHER TEMPERATURES.”

by Barbara Latta and Steve Pinnix,T & T Marketing Inc., USA

MARKING, PRINTING, AND GUIDING OF INSULATED WIRE

by Mark Spencer, W. Gillies Technologies LLC, USA

This presentation and hands-on demonstration features equipment for marking, printing, and guiding insulated wire and cable in addition to precise positioning of wire and cable relative to processing and gauging equipment.

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WIRE BREAKS

by Horace Pops, Horace Pops Consulting Inc., USA

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. A detailed analysis of central bursting (cuppy wire) will include both causes, prevention, and correction.

WIRE EXPO 2016

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Alphabetical Amaral Automation. . . . . . . . . . . 100 A. Appiani Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002 Ace Metal Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 ACM AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 AIM Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702 AITMAC Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002 Amacoil Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705 American Kuhne Inc . . . . . . . . . . 818 Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd . . . 207 ARM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 AW Machinery LLC . . . . . . . . . . 104 AWT Machinery Inc . . . . . . . . . . 805 Axjo America Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Aztech Lubricants LLC. . . . . . . . 409 B & H Tool Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 802 B & Z Galvanized Wire Ind . . . . 227 Balloffet Die Corp . . . . . . . . . . . 1001 Bechem Lubrication Technology. 723 Bekaert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809 Inc . . . . . 624 Black Sea Technology Inc. Bow Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 SpA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Boxy SpA. Inc . . 909 Breen Color Concentrates Inc. Buhler-Wurz Kaltwalztechnik . . 717 BWE Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Caballe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 Cable Consultants Corp . . . . . . . 711 Candor Sweden AB. . . . . . . . . . . 406 Canterbury Engineering Co Inc . 517 Carris Reels Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916 Cavallero Plastics . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Ceeco Bartell Products, Bartell Machinery Systems. . . . . . . . . . 812 Cemanco LC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Ceramtech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Cerrini Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002 Chemetall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808 Clayton Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Clinton Instrument Co. . . . . . . . . 609 Collins&Jewell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806 Cometo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002 Commission Brokers Inc. . . . . . . 112 Condat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Condat Lubricants . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Conneaut Industries Inc . . . . . . . 610

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Continuus-Properzi SpA . . . . . . . 915 Daloo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Davis-Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 Die Quip Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 Direct Wire & Cable, Inc. . . . . . . 319 Eddytech Systems a division of Pruftechnik . . . . . 807 Effegidi International. . . . . . . . . . 210 EJP Maschinen GmbH . . . . . . . . 521 ERA Wire Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903 Esteves Group USA . . . . . . . . . . 513 Etna Products Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 Eurobend GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005 Eurowire Magazine . . . . . . . . . . 1009 Fabritex Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704

Facts Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721 Fastener Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Fenn LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901 FIB BELGIUM SA . . . . . . . . . . . 617 Filtertech Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506 Fisk Alloy Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019 Flymca & Flyro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 FMS USA Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719 Foerster Instruments Inc.. . . . . . . 605 Fort Wayne Wire Die Inc . . . . . . 402 Gauder Group Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Gem Gravure Co Inc. . . . . . . . . . 411 Genca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517 George Evans Corp . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Gimax Srl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711 APRIL 2016 | 81

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W Gillies Technologies LLC . . . 309 Guill Tool & Engineering Co . . . 302 Hall Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616 Hangzhou JR Exhibition Co Ltd . . . . . . . . 520, 522, 524, 526 Heany Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . 317 Heatbath Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900 Henrich Maschinenfabrik GmbH 209 HFSAB H Folke Sandelin AB . . 717 Houghton International Inc . . . . . 622 Howar Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . 210 Huestis Industrial Industrial. . . . . . . . . . . . . 408 Huttner Maschinenfabrik . . . . . . 521 IDEAL Welding Systems . . . . . . 421 Inosym Ltd Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703 Integrated Control Technologies Technologies. 902 International Wire & Cable Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006 INTRAS Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009 IWE Spools & Handling GmbH. 521 Joe-Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Kalmark Intergrated Systems . . . 208 KEIR Manufacturing Inc . . . . . . 804 Kieselstein GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 

King Steel Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820 KMB Maschinenfabrik Gmbh . . 617 KMK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Ernst Koch GmbH & Co KG . . . 617 Albert Kren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 Lamnea Bruk AB. . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 LaserLinc Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Leggett & Platt Wire Group . . . 1010 Leoni Wire Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706 Lewis Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Lloyd & Bouvier Inc. . . . . . . . . . 110 Loos & Co Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 M+E Macchine+Engineering Srl 617 Magnetic Technologies Ltd. . . . . 303 Mapre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Mathiasen Machinery Inc . . . . . 1016 Metalloid Corporation. . . . . . . . . 907 Metavan nv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 MFL Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 MGS Manufacturing Inc . . . . . . . 616 Micro Products Co . . . . . . . . . . . 911 Microdia USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Milacron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517 Morgan-Koch Corp . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Mossberg Associates Inc. . . . . . 1021 NDC Technologies/ Beta Products . . . . . . . . . . .403/502 Niehoff Endex North America Inc . . . . . . . . . . 717 Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH & Co KG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717 Northhampton Machinery . . . . . 616 OM Frigerio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 OM Lesmo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 OMCG North America Inc . . . . . 519 Otomec Srl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002 P & R Specialty Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 306 P/A Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Paramount Die Co. . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Parkway-Kew Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 216 Pave Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Petig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Phifer Wire Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 Pioneer Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Pittsfield Plastics Eng Inc . . . . . . 708 Plasmait GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Pourtier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Precision Die Technologies Inc . 307

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SAMPSISTEMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612 Schlatter North America . . . . . . . 720 Schmidt Maschinenbau GmbH. . 717 Setic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Shanghai Hosn Machinery Technology Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 Shuster-Mettler Corp. . . . . . . . . 1008 Sikora International Corp . . . . . 1015 Simpacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Sirio Wire Srl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 Sivaco Wire Group . . . . . . . . . . 1004 Sjogren Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . 707 SKET Verseilmaschinenbau . . . . 511 Snee Associates/PWM . . . . . . . . 403 Sonoco Reels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 Southeastern Felt & Supply Corp 423 Spirka Schnellflechter GmbH . . . 511 STAKU- Anlagenbau . . . . . . . . . 521 Stolberger Inc DBA Wardwell Braiding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511 Stolberger KMB . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 August Strecker GmbH & Co KG 503 T & T Marketing Inc. . . . . . . . . . 709 Takikawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

Taubensee Steel & Wire Co . . . . 418 Teknikor.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Thermoplastics Engineering Corp .426 Toner Plastics.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821 Tramev.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002 Tubular Products Co . . . . . . . . . . 507 Ultimate Automation Ltd . . . . . . 111 United Wire Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 905 Unitek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Vandor Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618 Vinston US Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904 Vision Engineering Inc . . . . . . . . 320 Vollmer America Inc . . . . . . . . . 1003 vom Hagen & Funke. . . . . . . . . . 711 WAFIOS Machinery Corp. . . . . . 503 WCISA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Weber & Scher Mfg Co Inc . . . . 703 Windak Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Wire Association International . . . . . . . . . .WAI Store Wire Forming Technology International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Wire & Cable Technology International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp . 410

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Precision Process Inc. . . . . . . . . . 321 Premier Wire Die. . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 PrintSafe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621 Properzi International Inc . . . . . . 915 ProSystems Intergration . . . . . . . 822 Proton Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703 Q8Oils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 QED Wire Lines Inc . . . . . . . . . . 407 Queins Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602 QuickLabel Systems . . . . . . . . . . 919 Raajratna Stainless Wire Inc . . . . 620 Radcliff Wire Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 1026 Rainbow Rubber & Plastics . . . . 106 REDEX SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717 Refractron Technologies Corp . 1011 RichardsApex Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 816 Rockford Manufacturing Group FELM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Rosendahl Nextrom. . . . . . . . . . . 603 Roteq Machinery Inc. . . . . . . . . . 217 RSD Group USA. . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 RTD Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . 303 S&E Specialty Polymers. . . . . . . 917 SAMP USA Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

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WIRE BULLETIN . . . . . . .WAI Store Wire Lab Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504 Wire Machine Systems Inc . . . . . 521 Wire World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025 Wire & Cable Manufacturers Alliance Inc (WCMA) . . . . . . . 918 WiTechs GmbH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 Wire Journal International . . . . . . . . . .WAI Store Witels Albert USA Ltd . . . . . . . 503 Woodburn Diamond Die Inc. . . . 713 Zumbach Electronics Corp . .100/416

Numerical 100 . . . . . . . . . . . Amaral Automation 100 . . . . . . Zumbach Electronics Corp 102 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BWE Ltd 103 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bow Technology 103 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daloo 103 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gauder Group Inc 103 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mapre 103 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pourtier 103 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Setic 104 . . . . . . . . . . . AW Machinery LLC 105 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Microdia USA 106 . . . . . Rainbow Rubber & Plastics 107 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Loos & Co Inc 109 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Premier Wire Die 110 . . . . . . . . . . .Lloyd & Bouvier Inc 111 . . . . . . . Ultimate Automation Ltd 112 . . . . . . . Commission Brokers Inc 113 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WCISA 113 . . .Wire Forming Technology Int'l 113 . . . . . . .Wire & Cable Technology International 114 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LaserLinc Inc 117 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Condat 117 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Condat Lubricants 118 . . . . . . . . . . . . Fastener Engineers 118 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lewis Machine 118 . . . . . . . . Rockford Manufacturing Group FELM 119 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cavallero Plastics 202 . . . . . . . . . . . George Evans Corp 203 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ARM 203 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cemanco LC 84 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

203 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ceramtech 203 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KMK 203 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Petig 204 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Axjo America Inc 204 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Windak Inc 205 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P/A Industries 207 . . . . Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd 208 . Kalmark Intergrated Systems Ltd 209 . . . . HENRICH Maschinenfabrik 210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ACM AB 210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Boxy SpA 210 . . . . . . . . . . Effegidi International 210 . . . . . . . . . .Howar Equipment Inc 210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Metavan nv 210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OM Frigerio 210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pave Automation 210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Plasmait GmbH 210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unitek 212 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Paramount Die Co 216 . . . . . . . . . . . .Parkway-Kew Corp 217 . . . . . . . . . . Roteq Machinery Inc 218 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joe-Tools 220 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clayton Industries 227 . . . . . B & Z Galvanized Wire Ind 302 . . . . Guill Tool & Engineering Co 303 . . . . . Magnetic Technologies Ltd 303 . . . . . . . . . . . RTD Manufacturing 304 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ace Metal Inc 306 . . . . . . . . . . . P & R Specialty Inc 307 . . Precision Die Technologies Inc 309 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .RSD Group USA 309 . . . . W Gillies Technologies LLC 311 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Teknikor 317 . . . . . . . . . . . Heany Industries Inc 319 . . . . . . .Direct Wire & Cable, Inc. 320 . . . . . . . . . Vision Engineering Inc 321 . . . . . . . . . . Precision Process Inc 402 . . . . . . . Fort Wayne Wire Die Inc 403 . NDC Technologies/Beta Products 403 . . . . . . . . . Snee Associates/PWM 405 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Etna Products Inc 406 . . . . . . . . . . . .Candor Sweden AB 406 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lamnea Bruk AB 407 . . . . . . . . . . . QED Wire Lines Inc 408 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Huestis Industrial 409 . . . . . . . . Aztech Lubricants LLC

410 . .Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp 411 . . . . . . . . . . .Gem Gravure Co Inc 416 . . . . . . Zumbach Electronics Corp 417 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sonoco Reels 418 . . . . . Taubensee Steel & Wire Co 420 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Flymca&Flyro 421 . . . . . . . IDEAL Welding Systems 422 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Q8Oils 423 . Southeastern Felt & Supply Corp 425 . . . . . . . . . . . . Pioneer Machinery 425 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Simpacks 426 Thermoplastics Engineering Corp 502 . NDC Technologies/ Beta Products 503 August Strecker GmbH & Co KG 503 . . . . . .WAFIOS Machinery Corp.

503 . . . . . . . . . Witels Albert USA Ltd 504 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wire Lab Co 506 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Filtertech Inc 507 . . . . . . . . . . . Tubular Products Co 511 . . . . . SKET Verseilmaschinenbau 511 . . . .Spirka Schnellflechter GmbH 511 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stolberger Inc DBA Wardwell Braiding 513 . . . . . . . . . . . Esteves Group USA 517 . . Canterbury Engineering Co Inc 517 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Genca 517 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Milacron 519 . . . . . . OMCG North America Inc 520 . Hangzhou JR Exhibition Co Ltd 521 . . . . . . . . . EJP Maschinen GmbH 521 . . . . . . . Huttner Maschinenfabrik 521 . IWE Spools & Handling GmbH 521 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kieselstein GmbH 521 . . . . . . . . . . STAKU- Anlagenbau 521 . . . . . .Wire Machine Systems Inc 522 . Hangzhou JR Exhibition Co Ltd 523 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Davis-Standard 524 . Hangzhou JR Exhibition Co Ltd 526 . Hangzhou JR Exhibition Co Ltd 602 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Queins Machines 603 . . . . . . . . . . . Rosendahl Nextrom 605 . . . . . . . Foerster Instruments Inc. 606 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Phifer Wire Inc 608 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Caballe 608 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MFL Group 608 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OM Lesmo

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722 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Takikawa 723 . Bechem Lubrication Technology 802 . . . . . . . . . . . . B & H Tool Co Inc 803 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Albert Kren 803 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Die Quip Corp 804 . . . . . . . KEIR Manufacturing Inc 805 . . . . . . . . . . . AWT Machinery Inc 806 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Collins&Jewell 807 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eddytech Systems a division of Pruftechnik 808 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chemetall 809 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bekaert 812 . . Ceeco Bartell Products, Bartell Machinery Systems 816 . . . . . . . . . . . . . RichardsApex Inc 818 . . . . . . . . . . .American Kuhne Inc 820 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .King Steel Corp 821 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Toner Plastics 822 . . . . . . . . ProSystems Intergration 900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heatbath Corp 901 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fenn LLC 902 . .Integrated Control Technologies 903 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ERA Wire Inc 904 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vinston US Corp 905 . . . . . . . . . . . .United Wire Co Inc 907 . . . . . . . . . .Metalloid Corporation 909 . . . Breen Color Concentrates Inc 911 . . . . . . . . . . . . Micro Products Co 915 . . . . . . . . Continuus-Properzi SpA 915 . . . . . . . Properzi International Inc 916 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carris Reels Inc

917 . . . . . . . .S&E Specialty Polymers 918 . . . . Wire & Cable Manufacturers Alliance Inc (WCMA) 919 . . . . . . . . . . . QuickLabel Systems 1001 . . . . . . . . . . . .Balloffet Die Corp 1002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. Appiani Srl 1002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .AITMAC Inc 1002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cerrini Srl 1002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cometo 1002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Otomec Srl 1002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tramev 1003 . . . . . . . . . .Vollmer America Inc 1004 . . . . . . . . . . . Sivaco Wire Group 1005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eurobend GmbH 1006 . . . . .International Wire & Cable Symposium 1008 . . . . . . . . . .Shuster-Mettler Corp 1009 . . . . . . . . . . .Eurowire Magazine 1009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . INTRAS Ltd 1010 . . . . Leggett & Platt Wire Group 1011 . . Refractron Technologies Corp 1015 . . . . . . Sikora International Corp 1016 . . . . . . Mathiasen Machinery Inc 1019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fisk Alloy Inc 1021 . . . . . . .Mossberg Associates Inc 1025 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wire World 1026 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Radcliff Wire Inc Store. . . . . . . . . . . . . Wire Association International Store. . . . . . . . . . . . .The Wire Bulletin Store. . . . . . . . . . . . . Wire Journal Int'l APRIL 2016 | 85

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609 . . . . . . . . . Clinton Instrument Co 610 . . . . . . . . Conneaut Industries Inc 612 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SAMP USA Inc 612 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SAMPSISTEMI 616 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hall Industries 616 . . . . . . . .MGS Manufacturing Inc 616 . . . . . . Northhampton Machinery 617 . . . . Ernst Koch GmbH & Co KG 617 . . . . . . . . . . . .FIB BELGIUM SA 617 . . . KMB Maschinenfabrik Gmbh 617 . M+E Macchine+Engineering Srl 617 . . . . . . . . . . . .Morgan-Koch Corp 617 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sirio Wire Srl 617 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stolberger KMB 617 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WiTechs GmbH 618 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vandor Corp 620 . . . . .Raajratna Stainless Wire Inc 621 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PrintSafe 622 . . . . . .Houghton International Inc 624 . . . . . . Black Sea Technology Inc 624 . . . . . . Shanghai Hosn Machinery Technology Co 702 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .AIM Inc 703 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Inosym 703 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Proton Products 703 . . . . . Weber & Scher Mfg Co Inc 704 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fabritex Inc 705 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Amacoil Inc 706 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leoni Wire Inc 707 . . . . . . . . . . Sjogren Industries Inc 708 . . . . . . . Pittsfield Plastics Eng Inc 709 . . . . . . . . . . .T & T Marketing Inc 711 . . . . . . . . Cable Consultants Corp 711 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gimax Srl 711 . . . . . . . . . . .vom Hagen & Funke 713 . . . . Woodburn Diamond Die Inc 717 . . . Buhler-Wurz Kaltwalztechnik 717 . . . HFSAB H Folke Sandelin AB 717 . . . . . Maschinenfabrik NIEHOFF GmbH & Co KG 717. .Niehoff Endex North America Inc 717 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REDEX SA 717 . . Schmidt Maschinenbau GmbH 719 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FMS USA Inc 720 . . . . . . . . Schlatter North America 721 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facts Inc

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PREVIEW IEW OF EXHIBITS Exhibitor Listings Exhibitors: should your company have been listed?

A. Appiani Srl/AITMAC Tel. 905-761-6165 www.aitmac-ca.com sales.aitmnac.ca@gmail.com Italy/USA Stand 1002 Exhibiting: Appiani has a worldwide presence in the manufacture of standard and custom build steel reels according to DIN specifications or to customer requirements. A leading manufacturer of shipping and process reels since 1962, A. Appiani will demonstrate their engineering capabilities by presenting a comprehensive selection of pressed steel reels and plastic and steel composite reels together with reel handling equipment.

Personnel: Allan Brown, Edwin Pasterk.

Ace Metal Inc. Tel. 610-623-2204 www.acemetalinc.com sales@acemetalinc.com USA Stand 304 Exhibiting: Ace Metal will display its full product line, including its latest line of heavy duty 12 in. spools. We supply metal spools for the ferrous, nonferrous, tire cord and fiber optic industries with flange diameters from 6 in. to 14 in., tire cord spools (B-40, B-60, B-80) and tapered flanged spools. We also offer tubular wire carriers.

Personnel: Richard Medoff, Gerri Medoff, Ted Szanajda.

ACM AB Tel. 905-669-4010 www.acmab.com sales@howarequipment.com Sweden/Canada Stand 210 Exhibiting: Represented in North America by Howar Equipment, ACM AB suplies tools designed to save insulation compound usage and $$$s by means of controlling wall thicknesses. Cable cross-section measurement and data acquisition equipment from ACM will be displayed and operated for all to see the extremely precise and quick method of performing all two-dimensional cable

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If so, to get in the Show Program send your listing in to mmarselli@wirenet.org by April 29.

measurements. The KSM model also allows quality control departments to track the efficiency of products or equipment with its sophisticated database and graphing + trending capabilities and analysis of data.

Personnel: Willy Hauer, Chris Hauer, Gordon Murray. .

AITMAC, Inc. Tel. 905-761-6165 allan.aitmac.ca@gmail.com sales.aitma.ca@gmail.com Canada Stand 1002 Exhibiting: AITMAC Inc. (Advanced Industrial Technologies and Machines, Incorporated) has been formed to continue the already inplace product supplies from Cometo (wire straightening, guiding and feeding equipment); Tramev (wire, rod and cable cutters) and Appiani (steel reels). AITMAC will display technology from the above-cited manufacturers, companies that drive their businesses by being at the leading edge of technology. AITMAC also continues the providing of spare parts and service related to OM Lesmo and Eurodraw Energy machines.

Personnel: Allan Brown.

Albert Kren Stand 803 Amacoil Inc Tel. 610-485-8300 www.amacoil.com amacoil@amacoil.com USA Stand 705

Exhibiting: Amacoil will display

Uhing rolling ring traverse winding drives and accessories. Uhing traverses are designed for level winding a wide range of materials from hair-thin fiber to heavy-gauge wire, cable, rope and chain. The traverse reverses automatically without clutches, cams or gears.

The threadless shaft will not clog or jam. Custom designs include moving spool assemblies, optical flange sensing and slowdown/dwell.

Accessories on display include shaft collars to hold spools secure and wire guides.

Personnel: Bob Eisele.

Amaral Automation Machinery Tel 401-405-0755 www.amaralautomation.com rick@amaralautomation.com tom@amaralautomation.com USA Stand 100 Exhibiting: Amaral Automation is an industry leader in wire, cable and plastic equipment, variable speed drives, servos, and process controls.

The company has over 40 years in the industry and provides full service and support for all of our customers. This vast and diversified experience has also proven successful in a consultant capacity to provide application solutions for customersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; unique requirements.

Products include: Davis-Standard extrusion lines, Subec wire-handling accessories, Zumbach diameter gauges and wall measurement, B&H crossheads, RSD/Gillies printers, Wittman/Battenfeld Plastics Processing equipment, Accurate Thermal tool cleaners, Angle Systems cable/wall detection, Balloffet drawing dies, Bongard used machinery, RS Schlicht talc machines, Bardac AC/DC drives & Drive Web control systems, Gnuess Pressure and Eurotherm process systems, Cold Welders, Yield Management

American Kuhne, Inc. Tel. 401-326-6200 www.americankuhne.com sales@americankuhne.com USA Stand 818

Exhibiting: American Kuhne will exhibit examples of market-driven innovation. The American Kuhne FlipOpen™ feed section for rubber and silicone extrusion provides quick and complete access to all feed section components for easy cleaning, adjustment, and maintenance. American Kuhne SMED Quick-Change™ design options minimize change-over time and maximize production availability. These include: rapid screw change via quick-mount pusher; fast material change via rotary hopper design; and instant tooling change via dual-hinge design. Stop by to find out how we can help your company.

Personnel: Larry Fitzgerald.

Anbao (Qinhuangdao) Wire & Mesh Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-335-3893600 www.anbao.net anbao@anbao.net China Stand 207

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stainless steel wire and ultra-fine stainless steel wire. Also, wires for cable armoring, ACSR wire and strand, wires for scourers, hook and eye wire, stitching wire, baling wire, spring wire, duct wire, vineyard wire, barbed wire, razor wire, shaped metal wire and bars, etc. We also provide steel wire mesh products as architecture mesh, gabion box, conveyor wire belt, knitted mesh and demister and fillings.

Personnel: B.J. Hur. ARM Stand 203 Automated Industrial Machinery Tel. 630-458-0008 www.aimmachines.com aim@aimmachines.com USA Stand 702

Automated Industrial Machinery

Exhibiting: We specialize in exporting various kinds of wire and wire mesh products: steel wire, galvanized wire, Galfan wire, PVC coated wire,

Exhibiting: Automated Industrial Machinery, Inc., d.b.a. AIM, Inc., manufactures two-dimensional and three-dimensional CNC bending machinery. These completely automated work cell solutions take wire from coil, form, weld and systematically arrange the finished parts. AIM also offers full industrial automation services for any type and any brand of machine.

Personnel: Matt Lisnich.

AW Machinery LLC Stand 104 AWT Machinery, Inc. Tel. 815 315 4260 awtmach.com sales@awtmach.com USA Stand 805

Exhibiting: AWT Machinery has been in operation for over a year now.

It represents the following world-class machinery builders: Clifford Machines & Technology, www.cliffeng. com, which offers resistance welding equipment for wire mesh products and grating products that cover construction, agriculture and reinforcement; EUROLLS, www.eurolls.com, which offers drawing lines and cold rolling lines for the wire industry; Vitari, www.vitari.com, which offers straightening and cutting, barbed wire and chain machinery; Elspec, www. elspec-ltd.com, which offers electrical solutions for Real Time Power Factor Correction (RTPFC) equipment; and Johnson Thermal Systems, www. johnsonthermal.com, which offers water chilling and cooling technology.

We also cover service and spare parts in the U.S. Personnel: Scott Liebenberg, Clive White.

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Wire break detection devices and WTM tape systems.

Personnel: Rick Amaral, Tom Shoup.

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Axjo America, Inc. Tel. 828-322-6046 www.axjoamerica.com info@axjoamerica.com USA Stand 204 Exhibiting: With a wide range of products of spools, reels and drums Axjo America provides the cable market with packaging solutions for all types of cable.

Aztech Lubricants LLC Tel. 405-310-0034 www.aztechlube.com info@aztechlube.com USA Stand 409 Exhibiting: Aztech Lubricants is a global provider of wire drawing and lubricant solutions. With 11 years of continuous growth and 125 years of cumulative expertise, we excel at providing a full line of calcium, sodium and potassium stearate -based drawing powders, RP oil, drawing oils, vanishing oils and precoats. Our key name brands to be showcased at this year’s show include: EZDraw, EZClean, EZCoat and EZFeed.

Additionally, we offer a complete line of AZWipe spiral brushes. We have manufacturing and distribution capabilities in the U.S., South America and Asia. For more information, please visit our booth.

Personnel: Michael Colvin, Jonathan Anderson, Jack Hall.

B & H Tool Company LLC Tel. 760-471-8984 www.bhtool.com pneville@bhtool.com USA Stand 802 Exhibiting: B&H Tool engineers, designs and manufactures “round” plastic extrusion tooling for low and high-temperature polymer, FEP, silicone and rubber applications.

We use flow simulation analysis software to design all of our head assemblies. Sectors served wire and cable, fiber optics, fine insulated wire and medical devices. Our capabilities include single-layer, multiple layer (up to five layers), striping (embedded and laid down), multi-lumen, multi-cores, etc. Our head assembly platforms include adjustable and fixed center crossheads and in-line dies. We design 88 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

and manufacture all related tooling including tips and dies, fittings and tooling to adapt the head assemblies to the extruder(s).

Personnel: Peter M. Neville.

B & Z Galvanized Wire Industry Tel. 626-966-6296 bz_galvanized@yahoo.com USA Stand 227 Exhibiting: B & Z manufactures electro-galvanized wire, black-annealed wire, redrawn wire and copper-coated wire. It specializes in fine wire up to 36 gauge.

Balloffet Die Corporation Tel. 915-592-5252 www.balloffetdie.com www.balloffetdie@sbcglobal.net USA/France Booth 1001 Exhibiting: Since 1870, Balloffet Corporation has manufactured high precision tools for industrial, medical, electronics, automotive and energy applications. It supplies natural and synthetic diamond dies, polycrystalline dies, tungsten carbide dies, compacting and bunching dies, shaped dies for various profiles, extrusion tips and guides and a full range of equipment for the die shop.

Bechem Lubrication Technology, LLC Tel. 440-561-6001 www.bechem.com USA Stand 723

Exhibiting: Bechem will present the wire drawing lubricants of the Bechem Unopol and Berudraw series and Beruforge products as a part of the globally recognized brands in wiredrawing lubricants.

Their excellent drawing performance and service life are a trademark recognized by customers around the world. Bechem Unopol products cover emulsions and synthetics for copper wire drawing

as well as emulsions for aluminum wire drawing. Products like the Bechem Unopol G 600 and Bechem Unopol F-812 are high performance emulsions for rod breakdown and multi-wire applications. Bechem Unopol S 643 is a synthetic that is recognized for its ability to extend die life significantly. Bechem Unopol AL 560 is an emulsion becoming very popular because of its ability to perform as a rod breakdown lubricant. Berudraw products cover the traditional straight oil products for aluminum, steel and stainless steel wire. The Berudraw AL products offer a variety of viscosities to meet the needs in any aluminum or aluminum alloy drawing application while the rest of the Berudraw line focuses on chlorinated and non-chlorinated products for steel and stainless steel wire. The exciting new comer to the wire drawing market is the Beruforge products.

The initial formulations started, as the name suggests, in the forging industry. Beruforge now finds itself being utilized as a replacement for phosphate and soap on inline drawing process.

Personnel: Troy Carr.

Bekaert Corporation Tel. 770-514-2200 www.bekaert.com USA Booth 809

Exhibiting: Transforming steel wire and applying coating technologies is our core business. Strengthening our technological leadership drives our innovation process. The combination of the two core competencies results in a broad range of high technological products. Through steel wire transformation we influence the properties of steel such as strength, ductility, fatigue and shape.

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Black Sea Technology, Inc. Stand 624 BOW TECHNOLOGY by Gauder Group Tel. 336-856-8176 bowtechnology@gaudergroup.com www.bowtechnology.com USA/Belgium Stand 103

Exhibiting: BOW TECHNOLOGY is the answer to cable makers concerned by quality and long-life reliable bows for all brands of double twist machines from 560 to 2500 mm. With a comprehensive range of 500+ all sizes designs including the new generation multi-use “GreenBow2” (one bow fiber, three wire paths, 30% energy savings), the division offers a global service from conception to production. The team is ready to discuss any particular model matching the customer production needs.

BOXY Srl Tel. 905-669-4010 www.howarequipment.com

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www.boxy.com sales@howarequipment.com Italy/Canada Stand 210 Exhibiting: Represented in North America by Howar Equipment, Boxy Srl offers a wide range of steel reels and reel handling equipment of the largest array that will be displayed. The line up includes machined reels for wire drawing, pressed steel reels for bunching and extrusion lines, corrugated and structural steel reels for production and shipping, wire carriers and stem packs. Take-apart reels are available in a specialized assortment which includes the collapsible reels for packaging of reel-less wire coils with and without cardboard cores.

A complementary line of handling equipment such as reel tilters, lifters pallets and coil lifters is available to help manage wire packages. A working display of handling equipment and reels to be on hand at the booth.

Personnel: Chris Hauer.

Breen Color Concentrates Tel. 866-99-breen www.breencolor.com lparent@breencolor.com USA Stand 909 Exhibiting: Color concentrates and additives for the wire and cable industry: PVC, PE, EVA, TPE/TPU and FEP/ETFE.

BWE Ltd. Tel. 44-1233-627736 www.bwe.co.uk mail@bwe.co.uk U.K. Stand 102 Exhibiting: Full information and details of the company’s complete range of BWE ConformTM and ConkladTM extrusion technology for the wire and cable industry. Also, details on BWE’s complete range of cold pressure welding equipment.

Cable Services & Systems (C2S)

by Gauder Group Tel. 336-856-8176 www.bowtechnology.com USA/Belgium Stand 103

Exhibiting: The C2S division of the Gauder Group takes care of all wire and cable production lines, whatever the brand of the rotating equipment. C2S recently reinforced its engineering & commissioning team with ex-Lesmo and ex-Cortinovis engineers. 70,000 identified spare partsreferences are distributed worldwide through four logistic platforms, including high technology bows. A team of 55+ technicians is continuously trained to handle troubleshooting and urgent repairs and the division also offers dedicated services such as periodical visit contracts, transfer and restart operations of complete lines, training and consulting possibilities. C2S is being assigned upgrading projects for all brands as well, either mechanical/ electrical interventions or process improvements with transfer of know-how.

Cable Consultants Corp.

Tel. 914-834-8865 www.cableconsultantscorp.com fhardy@cableconsultantscorp.com USA Stand 711

es all types of exotic metal selections. We offer total refurbishing/ rebuilding of screws and barrels.

We serve all plastic market segments including, wire and cable, medical, extrusion, injection, rubber/tire and specialty markets.

Exhibiting: Cable Consultants Corp.

Carris Reels, Inc. (CCC) represents well-known EuroCanterbury Engineering Company Tel. 802-773-9111 pean companies producing a range of Tel. 800-241-7650 www.carris.com cabling, stranding, spooling/re-spoolwww.canterburyengineering.com sales@carris.net ing, extrusion and wire cleaning lines contact.us@cec75.com USA Stand 916 for the production of wire, wire rope, USA Stand 517 electrical and fiber conductors. CCC Exhibiting: Canterbury Engineering will exhibit a primary wire wipe for Company has a full line of screws the cleaning of wire and rope strand and barrels for all types of plastic p to a diameter of 2 mm (.80 in.) processing. The company has an Personnel: Personnel Fred Hardy.

A total of 22 presentations were made in two tracks.

80,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility employee-owned â&#x20AC;˘ customer-driven the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success. in Atlanta, Georgia, that is capable Candor Sweden AB Exhibiting: The names Carris Probst reported that electrical systemsof formanufacturing vehicles screws over 300 Tel. 46-1121-7500 Reels and J. Hamelin Industries have evolved to support new features demanded inches inby length. We offer custom www.candorsweden.com have become synonymous with customers. Today, the wiring system fordesigns the average and engineering services for info@candorsweden.com excellence in providing reel vehicle includes 3,000 meters, with 1,500 single cables extrusion, injection molding, and Sweden Stand 406 Those products, he said, represent a solutions for the wire and cable and 3,000 contacts. the rubber industry. In addition to Exhibiting: Suppliers of wire labor-intensive assembly business, and ashigh result, they now and highly corroindustry. Our nine manufacturing temperature cleaning and plating equipment CabWire offered a combination of assembly/wareeducation and markethave 70,000 employees in 82 plants worldwide. plants and 11 sive applications, Canterbury utilizincluding: Candojet hot water/steam ing opportunities in a congenial setting.

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cleaning systems; ultrasonic and electrolytic; electroplating plants for Sn, Ag, Ni and Zn on copper alloy wire, Ni and Cu on stainless steel wire and Ni, Cu, Sn and Zn for steel wire; Copperjet high-speed copper coating plant for welding wire; and Candojet patented jet pickling.

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located throughout North America to provide you with the best service in the industry. Our customers have relied on us for over 60 years as the reel experts to provide cost effective packages that meet their exacting and dynamic requirements. Stop by to meet our friendly, knowledgeable sales team who are ready to help provide you with creative and timely solutions for your packaging needs.

Personnel:: Dave Ferraro, Brian Holden, Leann Sexton, Jessica Oberg.

Cavallero Plastics, Inc. Tel. 413-443-0925 www.cplas.com sales@cplas.com USA Stand 119 Exhibiting: Cavallero Plastics produces plastic bobbins, braider bobbins, braider equipment accessories, small spools, custom plastic molds and does custom plastic molding. All types of materials can be engineered to produce extremely durable long lasting products. Located in Western Massachusetts, for over 50 years, it provides ISO 9000 registered quality, engineering and service. See us for projects large and small! Bill Miller from Windmill Associates will also be in the booth with parts on display.

Personnel: Tom Ehmann, Mark Cavavant, Mike Tucker.

Ceeco Bartell Products, Bartell Machinery Systems LLC Stand 812 Cemanco LC Tel. 954-970-3099 www.cemanco.com sales@cemanco.com USA Stand 203 Exhibiting: Sample parts of ceramic eyelets, guides and rods; pulleys; wire straighteners and guides; tungsten carbide; linear drives.

Personnel: Troy Holdsworth.

CeramTec AG Tel: 260-483-9269 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com

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Germany/USA Stand 521 Exhibiting: Based in Germany and represented in North America by Wire Machine Systems, Inc., CeramTec AG is an international manufacturer and supplier of technical ceramics. It supplies more than 10,000 different products, components and parts made of engineered ceramic materials, including blocks, capstan rings, stepcones, guides and more for the wire and cable industry.

Personnel: Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith.

Chemetall North America Tel. 800-526-4473 www.chemetallna.com ed.davis@chemetall.com USA Stand 808 Exhibiting: Chemetall North America manufactures chemical products and processes for the wire drawing and cold heading industry. Processes include conversion coatings for drawing and heading and a complete line of lubricants for drawing, forming, heading and extrusion.

Personnel: Ed Davis, Doug Grover, Dane Armendariz, Jack McAfee, Jr., Martin Orben, Rudy Vey. Clayton Industries Tel. 732-421-3040 www.claytonindustries.com tim.wyatt@claytonindustries.com USA Stand 220 Exhibiting: Clayton Industries is a world leader for steam generators in the wire industry. The unique controlled circulation counter flow design of the Clayton steam generator offers many operational benefits to a steam operator: low space and weight requirements; high fuel-tosteam efficiencies; rapid startup capability; rapid response to load swings; reduced blowdown and lower water waste; consistent steam output; and a high level of operator safety.

Clifford Machines & Technology Tel. 815-315-4260 www.cliffeng.com salesna@cliffeng.com USA Stand 805

Exhibiting: Clifford Machines & Technology supplies resistance wire welding machinery for the construction, agriculture, reinforcing industries as well as electro forge resistance welding machinery for the grating industry.

Personnel: Clive White, Scott Liebenberg.

Clinton Instrument Company Tel. 860-669-7548 www.clintoninstrument.com klangley@clintoninstrument.com USA Booth 609 Exhibiting: Clinton Instrument Company offers top-end equipment, including its Model HF-15B series of high-frequency AC spark testers. The system features DSPbased voltage regulation and fault detection; differentiation between metal-to-metal contact and gross bare wire; large alphanumeric display with multiple views; four relay outputs with selectable functions; an easy connection to most PLCs with Modbus RTU via RS-485 full duplex; optional Ethernet/IP, PROFINET, PROFIBUS, Modbus TCP and analog communications; and auto calibration of voltage and sensitivity to international standards with the Clinton Instrument STCAL system.

It also would like to talk to attendees about its STCAL calibration system and FL20A cable fault locator.

Personnel: Woody Holland, Kristy Langley, David Carroll, Rick Langley.

Collins and Jewell Co., Inc. Tel. 860-887-8813 www.collins-jewell.com pponichtera@collins-jewell.com USA Booth 806 Exhibiting: Written and video displays of Collins & Jewellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history and examples of its capabilities.

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: in the U.S., Cometo has two distributors: AITMAC and Wire Machine Systems, each of which provided the following listings.

Cometo Srl Tel. 260-483-9269 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com Italy/N. America Stand 521 Exhibiting: Cometo, whose U.S. distributors include Wire Machine Systems, supplies wire straightening, guiding and feeding equipment for all types of wire and cable applications. Precision cut and straighten, with high levels of flexibility, are also available for welding wire, ferrous and nonferrous applications.

Cut lengths are precision controlled by an encoder and fitted with electronic, hydraulic or pneumatic cutting units, along with a modular collector tray for flexibility in the cut material lengths.

Personnel: Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith, Larry Hughbanks.

Commission Brokers, Inc. Tel. 401-943-3777 www.commissionbrokers.com marty137@aol.com USA Stand 112 Commission

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VISION ENGINEERING INC., USA Booth #320 / www.visioneng.com Representatives: Gary Elm, District Manager

Vision Engineering District Mgr. Gary Elm.

Description: With 50+ years of manufacturing excellence, Vision Engineering’s ergonomic technology has revolutionized stereo microscopes and non-contact measuring systems. Our products offer superior optics for inspecting critical components and are used worldwide for accurate inspection and measurement. As pioneers in designing eyepiece-less microscopes, our ergonomics offers unrivaled operator benefits, increased productivity and reduced costs.

WJI: Why will you be exhibiting at Wire Expo for the first time in 2016?

Vision Engineering’s inspection microscopes and non-contact measuring systems are used in a range of industries where high performance magnification, or precision measurement is required. With many of our wire manufacturing customers experiencing improved accuracy and productivity through use of our non-contact measurement solutions, it seems logical to demonstrate how our non-contact measurement and inspection systems can benefit other wire companies.

WJI: What type(s) of innovation do you plan to present at the event?

We will be presenting our patented Dynascope™ technology which is built into our Swift Duo non-contact measurement system and stereo inspection microscopes. Dynascope™ optics offers users superior imaging, unprocessed high resolution, true color optical images through an ergonomic eyepiece-less viewing head. Using both video and optical measurement, Swift-Duo provides the best of both technologies in an easy to use, single system.

WJI: Why should attendees want to stop by your booth?

Attendees looking for the latest innovations in inspection and precision metrology solutions need to stop by our booth. Superb image quality and a comfortable working position are not luxury features - they are the key to increased productivity and quality. So if you want to magnify, inspect and measure, in complete comfort, we look forward to seeing you.

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Cometo Srl/AITMAC Tel. 905-761-6165 www.aitmac-ca.com sales.aitmnac.ca@gmail.com Italy/USA Stand 1002 Exhibiting: Cometo, with its North American business, AITMAC, Inc., will display its line of wire processing equipment including wire straightening, guiding and feeding equipment. Measure, feed and cut systems for wire, rod, cable and wire mesh products will be presented together with its new modular structured machine design for the processing of different material profiles including the processing and hard stamp marking of welding wire. These wire processing machines have optional wire and rod binding capabilities.

Personnel: Allan Brown, Edwin Pasterk.

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Personnel: Martin Kenner.

CONDAT SA/Condat Corporation Tel. 734-944-4994 www.condatcorp.com inquiries@condatcorp.com USA/France Booth 117 Exhibiting: Wiredrawing surface coatings and lubricants, and cold-rolling lubricants are the core business of our company. CONDAT’s lubricant and surface technology range covers all metal forming applications, and our commercial network services this industry worldwide. With more than 160 years of expertise in the lubricant business, CONDAT is continuously improving and upgrading its formulations for better value and to match the most advanced environmental regulations. Condat Corporation, the company's U.S.-based division, has extensive production capabilities and offers the flexibility and reactivity to fully serve the North American market.

Conneaut Industries, Inc. Tel. 800-955-9276 www.conneaut.com info@conneaut.com USA Stand 610 Exhibiting: Conneaut Industries is a global supplier of specialty highperformance insulating yarns used in braiding, serving and cabling appli94 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

cations. The fibers include S2 glass, E-glass, Kevlar and polyglass. It also produces ignition wire (conductive) rovings/substrates for the automotive industry. Conneaut, an ISO 9001: 2000 certified company, produces a full line-up of polyglass insulating materials used in magnet wire applications as well as aramid materials for fiber optics products.

DALOO A member of the Gauder Group Tel. 336-856-8176 www.daloo-machines.com sales@daloo-machines.com China/USA Stand 103 Exhibiting: As a member of the Gauder Group, DALOO is the obvious choice for cable producers wanting simple and reliable machines at an affordable price. The design as well as the manufacturing (in Changzhou) are based on European experience (proven Gauder Group methods) following strict quality criteria. Its complete stranding lines and accessories for the production of power and communication cables are delivered worldwide: rigid cage stranders, taping lines, rewinding lines, take-ups and payoffs, pulling caterpillars.

Davis-Standard, LLC Tel. 860-599-1010 www.davis-standard.com info@davis-standard.com USA Stand 523

Exhibiting: Davis-Standard engineers and manufactures innovative extrusion equipment and systems to provide processors with rugged, reliable, yet cost effective solutions in the wire and cable industries. Davis-Standard manufactures complete wire and cable systems for building and communication wire, construction wire, coaxial cable, automotive wire, high temperature wire, and specialty wire applications. Systems are available with a wide range of extruders, payoffs and tension brakes, take-ups, and auxiliary equipment including cooling troughs, capstans, caterpillars, and accumulator systems. All are engineered and manufactured to meet the most demanding applications.

The superior quality, durability and flexibility are offered throughout the company’s product line.

Personnel: John Zachow.

Die Quip Corp.

Tel. 4128331662 www.diequip.com smaxwell@diequip.com USA Stand 803 Exhibiting: Die Quip will presenting its quality, heavy duty and unique application cutter lines from Krenn and Knipex. These specialty cutters offer multiple benefits for hard-tocut applications and last longer than generic brands. With a variety of cutter choices, we can handle almost any cutting requirements and feature ergonomic solutions. Safety concerns can be reduced with longer length tools keeping operator away from dangerous cutting situations. Power cutters reduce the possibility of joint stress injuries received from overexertion and repeated use of manual tools. Our motto sums up our focus: “Get more than a machine with Die Quip.” As a leading manufacturer of die finishing equipment, we provide custom solutions through American-made tooling

and help our customers to improve their product quality through process monitoring and control. Our latest design in rotary inspection system is the RS20, which features a rugged, compact design. The use of probe disks instead of complex moving parts to adjust probes arms to correct diameters makes the RS20 affordable.

Personnel: Marco Miduri.

Effigidi SpA Tel. 905-669-4010 www.howarequipment.com www.boxy.com sales@howarequipment.com Italy/Canada Stand 210 Exhibiting: Laminated shielding tapes from Effegidi International Spa, represented in North America

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Direct Wire & Cable, Inc. Tel. 800-233-3848 www.directwireusa.com sales@directwireusa.com USA Stand 319 Exhibiting: Direct Wire & Cable, a family-owned wire manufacturer located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has been serving the welding and power rental industries with high quality cable products and service since 1977. Our state-of-theart wire factory uses state-of-the-art technology and is operated by an experienced team of specialized operators. Direct Wire’s past, present, and future success evolves around strong relationships with our employees, customer, and our vendors.

EddyTech Systems Inc. a divison of Pruftechnik Tel. 440-234-4809 www.eddytech.com mmiduri@eddytech.com USA Stand 807

Exhibiting: EddyTech Systems provides non-destructive inspection solutions for manufacturers of semi-finished products, such as wire, bar, tube and other related materials. As a division of the Prüftechnik-Group, a world-class producer of high-quality non-destructive test (NDT) equipment, our engineers have decades of experience in the eddy current field

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supplies, measuring tools, machine systems and training packages. Our new line of machines brings many versatile, customizing options to your die shop while keeping the trademark accuracy and speed of a traditional Die Quip machine. The Die Savers can grind or polish on the same machine and the Die Flex can polish the angle or size the bearing with the option of full automation for continuous production. Visit us at the show or our website.

Personnel: Tom Maxwell, Jr., Scott Maxwell.

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showcased at the booth. Effegidi is specialized in the manufacturing of foil laminated tapes such as aluminum/polyester, copper/polyester, PVC, PE, annealed copper, annealed aluminum, aluminum/PE, copper/ PE. The tapes are supplied in multiple thickness arrays depending on customer application requirements, and may be laminated in various layer configurations. Packages are available as pads, or traverse wound spools in customizable sizes. Customized packaging includes itemized identification and material description labels which clearly note all product parameters and manufacturing date for complete traceability. For over 40 years, Effegidi has maintained a focus on repeatable high quality and consistency while also ensuring environmentally conscious manufacturing techniques. Effegidi is a proud supplier to many multi-national cable manufacturers, and welcomes all North American visitors to the booth.

Personnel: Chris Hauer.

EJP Maschinen Tel. 260-483-9269 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com Germany/USA Stand 521 Exhibiting: Based in Germany and represented in North America by Wire Machine Systems, EJP will exhibit a state-of-the-art two-roll straightener for cold finished bar that provides industry-leading straightness quality. It offers the most innovative drawing technology for all ferrous and nonferrous cold-finished bar applications, including combined drawing systems, shotblasting, straighteners, payoffs, hydraulic impact shears and bundling and packaging systems. EJPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s processing and handling equipment is designed to maintain superior straightness and surface finish. Its bar-peeling systems produce the highest quality bar surface finish on the market.

Personnel: Terry Paraskavas, Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith.

ERA Wire Inc. Tel. 203-933-0480 www.erawire.com rich@erawire.com USA Stand 903 Exhibiting: Wire straightening and cutting services for all alloys (ferrous and nonferrous, round, flat or shaped), torsion straightening, used or rebuilt wire straighten-and-cut equipment, replacement parts and tooling, on-site technical assistance.

ESTEVES Group Tel. 800-325-7989 www.estevesgroup.com sales@estevesgroup.us.com USA Stand 513

Exhibiting: Interested in maximizing wire throughput and quality? Then meet with the solution experts at the Esteves Group booth who design wire manufacturing tools specifically for

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TAKIKAWA ENGINEERING, USA/JAPAN Booth #722 / sales@takikawaamerica.com Representative: Rob Findlay, VP of Operations Description: Established in 1978, Takikawa Engineering is a manufacturer of advanced devices and measurement instrumentation that utilize optical, electrical and mechanical technology. Our product lineups are able to measure, control and automate production lines, factory automation systems and mechanical control systems. We provide unparalleled technology, service and quality in continuous process lines, such as producing cable/wire/fiber/pipe/rod/hose/steel.

WJI: Why will you be exhibiting at Wire Expo for the first time in 2016?

Findlay: Takikawa Engineering would like to introduce its wide range of quality control measuring devices to the wire industry in the U.S. Our office, which is based in Woodale, Illinois, is just getting up to speed, and we will be able to offer technical and repair support. Our goal is to let wire and cable manufacturers know that we are here, and that while our office is relatively new, we represent and are 96 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

supported by the impressive experience of our parent company.

WJI: What type(s) of innovation do you plan to present at the event?

Findlay: We will be showcasing a variety of Takikawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s innovative measuring devices that include three different types of laser micrometers, such as scanning units for single-axis measuring, orthogonal dual axes measuring and swing-type, all-circumference measuring.

WJI: Why should attendees want to stop by your booth?

Findlay: Attendees looking for the latest innovations in inspection and precision metrology solutions need to stop by our booth. Superb image quality and a comfortable working position are not luxury features - they are the key to increased productivity and quality. So if you want to magnify, inspect and measure, in complete comfort, we look forward to seeing you.

Etna Products Tel. 440-543-9845 www.etna.com gardnertripp@etna.com USA Stand 405

Exhibiting: Etna Products will display process lubricants for nonferrous and ferrous wiredrawing operations and for cold-forming operations. The product line includes products used from rod breakdown to ultra-fine wire drawing lubricants and lubricants for roll forming and cold forming.

The company’s product line includes aqueous cleaners, quenching compounds and corrosion preventives.

The products outlined above are designed for use on aluminum, copper, brass, carbon steel, stainless steel and other exotic alloys.

Personnel: Gardner Tripp, Bill Coode.

Eurobend GmbH Stand 1005 Eurolls Tel. 815-315-4260 www.eurolls.com sales@awtmach.com Italy/USA Stand 805 Exhibiting: Eurolls builds machinery for wiredrawing lines (multipass) and wire cold rolling and wire forming rolls.

Personnel: Clive White, Scott Liebenberg.

EuroWire Tel. 44-1926-834684 www.intras.co.uk jason@intras.co.uk U.K. Stand 1009 Exhibiting: Published by Intras and available in print, CD and online, EuroWire/www.read-eurowire.com is a leading international trade magazine for the wire and cable industries. Published in six languages and distributed to a closely controlled global circulation across Europe and the Americas, it reports the latest international wire and cable industry news, technological developments and more. Other Intras publications include Wire & Cable ASIA/www.read-wca.com, published six times per year in both English and Chinese, available in both print and digital versions; and wiredInUSA/ www.wiredinusa.com, a digital source of news and information, read every month by thousands of wire and cable professionals across America.

Personnel: Jason Smith.

USA Stand 704 Exhibiting: Fabritex supplies tubular wire carriers, stem packs and accessory items.

George Evans Corporation Tel. 800-733-5872 www.george-evans.com sales@george-evans.com USA Stand 202 Exhibiting: Celebrating our 101st year as a metal fabricator, we have the skills and machinery necessary to create the unusual or non-standard feature that your firm may require for its next cable reel project. Our firm has a library of production tools and dies that have been accumulated over the past 75+ years of making TOROIDAL® reels that are refreshed, renewed and maintained in ready condition. Chances are good that, with modification, we already have the tooling required to do the special or standard job you require.

We are using our new programmable machine tools to create sizes that were not possible a few years ago... without additional tooling costs!

Bring your prints in for a quote.

Personnel: Dave Evans, Brad Gabbert.

FENN www.fenn-torin.com sales@fenn-torin.com USA Stand 901

Fabritex, Inc. Tel. 706-376-6584 www.fabritex.com dantrier@fabritex.com

FACTS, Inc. Tel. 330-928-2332 www.facts-inc.com sales@facts-inc.com USA Stand 721 Exhibiting: FACTS offers a wide range of equipment and services to the wire and cable industry, including: extruder control systems and Integrated line control system upgrades for all wire and cable lines, including primary, jacketing, co-ax and continuous vulcanization lines; heater power panels and drive systems; and extruders and downstream equipment. Celebrating 25 years, with 1,000 systems in 14 countries, all backed by 24/7 technical support.

Personnel: Scott Hall, Wendell Watson, Tim Fisher.

Exhibiting: FENN is a global supplier of state-of-the-art metal forming machinery, custom engineered and precisely manufactured for your unique application. This year, FENN will display its updated design for its FSL Series of wire flattening and shaping equipment as well as highlighting the updated 2016 FZ Series Spring Coiler. With 116 years of experience, FENN’s experts can help make your complex metal forming processes easy.

FENN offers a variety of metal forming equipment including: wire flattening and shaping lines, rolling mills, Turks Heads, spring coilers, drawbenches and swagers, in addition to its upgrade and rebuild services. FENN invites those interested in learning more about its

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your process. They will take your finished wire properties and manufacturing method into account to achieve your goals. To maximize your profits, our engineers use proprietary software and successful experience to manufacture the following high performance tools: PCD, single-crystal diamond and tungsten carbide wire dies, wire die recuts, multi-wire elongation sets, diamond-coated stranding dies, split dies, shaped dies, and extrusion tools.

Esteves Group is a global wire die company.

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FIB Belgium SA Tel. 32-2-332-17-17 www.fib.be info@fib.be Belguim Stand 617 Exhibiting: FIB designs complete solutions for thermal treatment of metallic wires. These solutions are optimized in terms of process of wire production, of energetic and environmental matters and in correspondence with the most demanding international standards, in particular regarding the quality of the treated products and safety of the equipment. In that frame, FIB also masters the direct heating gas solutions specific to the control of the atmosphere and usable in other areas than in her core business. In this context, FIB’s mission is to be the heating solution provider for furnace constructors of other sectors.

Filtertech, Inc. Tel. 315-682-8815 www.filtertech.com info@filtertech.com USA Stand 506

Exhibiting: Since 1969, Filtertech

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has serviced the wire industry by providing complete coolant and water filtration and waste disposal systems. These systems are custom designed for drawing coolant, aluminum rod drawing oil, annealer quench, caster roll coolant, caster water, CV water and other associated process coolant and water applications. Filtertech strives to exceed our customers’ expectations by supplying quality equipment and servicing that equipment for the life of the process.

Personnel: Tom Horn, Mohammed Albedour, Cary Corcoran.

Fisk Alloy, Inc. Tel. 973-825-8500 info@fiskalloy.com www.fiskalloy.com USA Stand 1019 Exhibiting: Fisk manufacturers high-quality copper alloy wire for conductor and connector products.

FLYMCA & FLYRO Tel. 34-942-55-98-55 flymca@flymca.com flyro@flyro.es www.flymca.com, www.flyro.es Spain Stand 420

Exhibiting: FLYMCA offers its customers all types of customized solutions to their stranding and cabling requirements. The company has invested heavily in the best technology, including new manufacturing facilities three years ago, to be able to deploy advanced methods such as 3D design and finite elements analysis of parts and frames. Our sister company, FLYRO, provides all types of used machinery for production of electric wires and cables as well as steel wires and ropes, thus giving our customers more possible solutions to their requirement or projects. Thanks to a skilled and experienced team as well as having modern and huge facilities, FLYMCA and FLYRO are giving customized and reliable technical replies to match your stranding and cabling needs as well as budget.

FMS USA, Inc. Tel. 847-519-4400 www.fms-technology.com fmsusa@fms-technology.com USA Stand 719 Exhibiting: Ask FMS about the company’s RTM X42.BC System that provides a practical solution, using the existing payoff brake arrangement, to add closed loop tension control to wire and cable machinery. The RTM X42 wireless tension monitoring & control systems are modular to provide real time tension monitoring and/or control for any quantity of wire strands on rotating production machinery. The tension data is wirelessly transmitted to the operator station to be integrated into a PC or PLC (via gateway). Possibilities include data logging, graphing, tension limit alarms, core tension, and running length input. The cost-effective systems are ideal for both OEM and upgrade applications. FMS will also display a selection of tension measurement products, including force sensors and amplifiers (including EtherNet/IP and Profibus interfaces).

Foerster Instruments, Inc. Tel. 412-788-8976 www.foerstergroup.com lints.kelly@foerstergroup.com USA Stand 605 Exhibiting: For non-destructive test-

Fort Wayne Wire Die, Inc. Tel. 260-747-1681 www.fwwd.com sales@fwwd.com USA Stand 402 Exhibiting: Fort Wayne Wire Die’s complete product line will be on display. That includes single-crystal diamond, Poly-Di™ polycrystalline

and Dual-Draw™ wiredrawing dies as well as shaped profile dies, extrusion tips and dies, tungsten carbide round hole and shaped profile dies, Poly-Strand™ compacting, bunching and stranding dies, Di-Pro™ diamond powder and compound, and miscellaneous wear parts for the wire, cable and tube industries.

The company also offers a full line of equipment for die maintenance, measuring and inspection

like rods, wires, conductors, cables, strands, ropes, bars and meshes. The Belgian-based supplier has more than 1000 machines in stock ready to manufacture wires, conductors, cables, ropes or steel products. See our large stock of equipment and any new entries in real time at www. gauderonline.com. Also, new Mapré extruders, ranging from 38–150 mm as well as accessories.

Frigeco USA, Inc./MFL USA Service Group (See MFL Group.)

Gauder Group, Inc. Tel. 336-856-8176 www.gaudergroup.com ggi@gaudergroup.com USA/Belgium Stand 103 Exhibiting: For more than two decades, Gauder Group, Inc.—based in Greensboro, North Carolina, and the North American representative of the Gauder Group—has been serving the wire and cable industry to locally support the group’s machine and services range. For easy customer access and to enable the exhibition of a multipur-

Gauder Tel. 336-856-8176 www.gaudergroup.com ggi@gaudergroup.com USA/Belgium Stand 103 Exhibiting: Gauder, a member of the Gauder Group, earned a leadership position providing reliable and economical solutions ready to manufacture nonferrous and ferrous products

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ing, metal detection and magnetics, FOERSTER stands for the highest quality standards: no ifs, ands or buts. For precision and performance.

For commitment and dependability.

For the best and technologically most advanced range of products.

Our highest goal is the satisfaction of our customers, worldwide.

With our own 10 subsidiaries and a multitude of representatives, we are ever-present within our customers’ proximity in over 60 countries and are doing our utmost to live up to and offer the highest possible standards of quality, value, service, innovation and trust.

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pose single-twist machine for the production of special and power cables, all members and brands are gathered on the same enlarged stand (area more than doubled). See individual listings for these group members: POURTIER of America (rotating machines) and SETIC of America (rotating machines); GAUDER (second-hand machines); DALOO (medium-cost rotating machines); C2S (cable services and systems for all brands); and Bow Technology (bows for all brands).

Gem Gravure Co. Inc. Tel. 781-878-0456 www.gemgravure.com info@gemgravure.com USA Stand 411 Exhibiting: You’re searching for the best way to mark your wire and cable.

You need a company that will focus on your needs. Since 1952, Gem Gravure has been providing superior printing technology for jacketed wire and cable. It started with Gem’s original patented process for Gravure marking wheels then expanded to continuous ink jet. Gem is the exclusive representative for KBA-Metronic

in the U.S., Canada and portions of Mexico. KBA-Metronic’s alphaJET® printer is the most reliable, eco-friendly ink jet printer available. GEM ink jet inks range from pigmented opaque to soft pigmented to dye based inks. You can select bright opaque codes, codes resistant to solvents or dye-based codes that resist transfer.

A full line of low VOC and VOC exempt inks is available. Gem is a family-owned and operated company based in Hanover, Massachusetts. Service and sales are available across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. We Code.

Personnel: David Gemelli, Paul Gemelli, Mark Kristoff, Derek Olson.

GENCA/Canterbury Engineering A Division of Milacron Tel. 800-237-5448 www.genca.com sales@genca.com USA Stand 517 Exhibiting: A Milacron product brand, GENCA will display a variety of extrusion technologies, including a complete line of crossheads capable of single or dual-layer extrusion with multiple stripes for

the entire wire and cable industry.

In addition to tooling and breaker plates, the exhibit will include color change components and crossheads (both fixed and adjustable). The micro adjustable BAT head (Ball Adjustable Tip) will also be displayed along with loose tube and tight-buffered, fixed-center crossheads.

Personnel: Paul Cusolito, Jasmin Sehovic.

W. Gillies Technologies, LLC Tel. 508-852-2502 www.wgillies.com sales@wgillies.com USA Booth 309

Exhibiting: A member of the RSD Group, W. Gillies Technologies manufactures equipment for printing, marking, guiding and positioning.

Personnel: Mark Spencer.

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LOOS & CO., INC. USA Booth #107 / www.loosco.com Representatives: Mike Fredrickson, Wire Sales Manager Description: For half a century, Loos and Company has pioneered and thrived in the highly critical profession of wire drawing for use in commercial, military, aerospace, and specialty industries. Refer to our website (www.loosco.com) for a complete listing of capabilities, including: Stainless Steel and Specialty Alloy Wire and Wire Products, Aircraft Cable, Wire Rope, and Military and Commercial Cable Assemblies.

WJI: Why will you be returning at Wire Expo for the first time in 2015 Loos and Company is excited to exhibit at WAI because this is a show that represents how large and diverse the wire market is. We are excited to see new Fredrickson innovations and show off what we have been working on.

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WJI: What type(s) of innovation do you plan to present at the event?

Some of our newest wire manufacturing capabilities include large capacity down coilers, drawing wire down to as fine as .001”, and increased stocking capacity. Loos and Company has been in the wire business for almost 60 years now and we continue to improve our offering regularly.

WJI: Why should attendees want to stop by your booth?

We will have experts from every department on hand to answer any questions you may have. Loos and Company has the knowledge and experience you rely on for your critical applications. Stop by our booth to learn more!

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Guill Tool & Engineering Co. Tel. 401-828-7600 www.guill.com bconley@guill.com USA Stand 302 Exhibiting: Guill Tool & Engineering, a leading manufacturer of extrusion tooling, will introduce its Bullet series of crossheads to the wire and cable industry. These new crossheads are fixed center, have no hardware, and include our patented cam lock feature that facilitate lightning fast tooling changes and crosshead cleaning. Additional designs on display include our multi layer nylon /PVC and multi-layer CV crossheads, as well as our conventional single layer adjustable center applications that include our FlexiSpiral design. Our FlexiSpiral design offers a unique package of features that include our multi-port spiral flow deflector, our unique two stage concentricity adjustment, and our seal right system to eliminate leaking Personnel: Bill Conley, R.J. Masse, Tom Baldock, Steve Chemel.

Hangzhou JR Exhibition Co. Ltd. Stands 520/522/524/526 Heany Industries, Inc. Tel. 585-889-2700 www.heany.com cliffr@heany.com USA Stand 317 102 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Exhibiting: Heany Industries manufactures high purity alumina and zirconia guides, bushings, pulleys—and more—for the wire and cable industry to extend the life of machinery components. We also provide thermal spray coatings to custom fabricated parts to increase wear and corrosion resistance. In addition, we offer thermally insulating ceramics and coatings.

Personnel: Cliff Rabidoux, Kathie Carl.

Heatbath Corporation Tel. 413-452-2000 www.heatbath.com info@heatbath.com USA Stand 900 Exhibiting: Heatbath Corporation supplies a diverse line of cleaning and coating chemistry for the ferrous wire industry. Our product offerings include alkaline cleaners, acid pickling additives, scale conditioners, zinc phosphate conversion coatings, neutralizers and a complete line of reactive and non-reactive lubricants. Heatbath is pleased to introduce Drylube Polydip, a new and innovative polymer topcoat specifically formulated for the most difficult cold heading applications. Visit us to discuss your cleaning house challenges with one of our technical specialists. ISO 9001 certified, Heatbath Corporation is now a proud member of the DuBois chemicals family.

Personnel: Dennis Breton, Cheryl Hickman, Jim Reed, Mark Byrnett.

Heinrich Müller Maschinenfabrik Booth 209 Houghton International Tel. 610-666-4000 www.houghtonintl.com sales@houghtonintl.com USA Stand 622 Exhibiting: Your global fluid technology partner. We offer your operation a global network of fluids experts delivering innovative technologies, chemistries, products and services with a single focus on solving your toughest challenges.

With over 2000 employees in 31 countries, Houghton helps customers around the world save on overall process chemical and disposal costs while improving production and part quality.

HOWAR Equipment Inc. Tel. 905-669-4010 www.howarequipment.com sales@howarequipment.com Canada Stand 210 Exhibiting: HOWAR Equipment will showcase wire and cable manufacturing accessories manufactured by its European represented manufacturers. Displayed products will include: steel reels, spools, carriers and reel handling equipment; mechanical wire descalers, rotating dies, and scrap wire coilers; plasma wire surface and heat treatment; payoffs, take-ups and tension control equipment; extrusion crossheads, automatic color change systems, extrusion tooling; automatic cable cross-section measurement; and cable wrapping/packaging. HOWAR has over 35 years of industry experience, and is interested in discussing any machinery and application inquiries to provide solutions to practical requirements.

Personnel: Willy Hauer, Chris Hauer, Michael Gromko.

Huestis Industrial Tel. 401-253-5500 www.huestis.com sales@huestis.com USA Stand 408 Exhibiting: Showcasing and

Hüttner Maschinenfabrik Tel. 260-483-9269 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com Germany/USA Stand 521 Exhibiting: Based in Germany and represented in North America by Wire Machine Systems, Hüttner suppliers coiling and packaging equipment as well as rolling mills.

Personnel: Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith, Larry Hughbanks.

IDEAL Welding Systems, L.P. Tel. 815-874-4349 www.idealweld.com ideal@idealweld.com USA Stand 421 Exhibiting: Since 1923, IDEAL has specialized in the manufacturing resistance welding machinery for the wire and sheet metal industries. Our products cover a wide range of applications, such as industrial meshwelders, grating welders, CNC robotic welders, coil joining butt welders, band saw blade welders and automated customized welding solutions.

Personnel: Christian Kloeckner, Kevin Davis, Mike Horn.

Inosym Reels Tel. 908-797-0329 www.inosym.com inosym@inosym.com USA Stand 703 Exhibiting: Information and literature will be available covering the full range of reels available from Inosym Reels. Inosym is a leading worldwide supplier of plastic and steel reels. For steel reels, Inosym offers semi-machined, dynamically balanced reels; fully machined, dynamically balanced reels; process reels; steel drums; steel shipping drums; etc. For plastic reels, Inosym supplies processing reels, copper wire reels, magnet wire reels, etc.

A large range of reel sizes is available.

Personnel: Gregory Scher.

Integrated Control Technologies Tel. 972-906-7445 www.integratedcontroltech.com contact@integratedcontroltech.com USA Stand 902 Exhibiting: Integrated Control Technologies is an aftermarket leader of drive and control upgrades for extruders. We are introducing the REVISOR, which is the first “off-

the-shelf” extruder control system. It is completely customer configurable and costs less than $20,000!

Personnel:: Scott Barlow, Dustin Barlow.

International Wire & Cable Symposium (IWCS, Inc.) Tel. 203-794-0444 www.iwcs.org

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demonstrating the latest technology and products from Huestis Industrial and Wyrepak Industries. Multiple machines and additional ancillary equipment will be on site. We will be happy to assist and answer all of our visitors’ questions and inquiries.

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dzirkle@bzsales.com USA Stand 1006 Exhibiting: IWCS is a non-profit corporation that provides an international forum for the exchange of information among suppliers, manufactures, and users of technological developments in wires, cables and inter-connects for voice, data, and video signal transmission. Through a conference venue, IWCS, Inc. is responsible for assembling a program covering materials, processes, products and applications.

Personnel: Douglas Zirkle Dave Kiddoo.

Intras Ltd. (See Eurowire) IWE Spools & Handling Tel: 260-483-9269 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com Germany/USA Stand 521 Exhibiting: Based in Germany and represented in North America

by Wire Machine Systems Inc., IWE offers a full line of metal reels/spools for all wire and cable applications. Superior quality reels for bunching, stranding, drawing, annealing, cabling and extrusion applications. Reel sizes are up to 3200 mm diameter in standard sizes or customized to a customer’s specific needs. IWE also supplies reel/ spool handling equipment to lift or lift-and-tilt reels.

Personnel: Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith.

JoeTools Tel. 770-832-7866 www.joe-tools.com sales@joe-tools.com USA Stand 218 Exhibiting: JoeTools will exhibit a selection of extrusion crossheads designed to increase productivity, along with extrusion tooling and parts. A video will show our latest crossheads, and knowledgeable personnel to answer all questions, including our president and sales engineers, will be ready to answeer your questions. Our display will show some of our three-dimension-

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al heads, applications and a brief description of our company.

Personnel:: Vijay Anand, Peter Anand, Joe Dixon, Tim Brown.

Joe Snee Associates, Inc. Tel. 774-991-0504 www.pwmltd.co.uk joe@jsnee.com USA Stand 403

Exhibiting: Exclusive U.S. and Canadian distributor for Pressure Welding Machines (PWM), a world leader in cold pressure welding.

Joe Snee Associates is also the New England representative for NDC Technologies (and its line of BETA LaserMike products) and AW Machinery. PWM manufactures various cold pressure welders covering a range of 0.100 mm – 30.0 mm. All models, from the M10 hand-held unit to the EP00 rod welder, will be working in the booth. NDC/Beta supplies SRL/FFT systems and diameter measurement. The new AccuScan 6012 is the industry’s first four-axis diameter and ovality gauge. Beta also offers lump/neck down, LayScan lay length gauge, eccentricity gauges, LaserSpeed length and speed encoder, Pre-Heaters, capacitance gauges and off-line inspection system. AW Machinery offers complete extrusion lines as well as all the discrete components.

Personnel: Joe Snee, Ginny Ruckel.

KALMARK Integrated Systems Ltd. Tel. 519-426-7878 kalmarkltd.com/ sales@kalmarkltd.com Canada Stand 208 Exhibiting: KALMARK Integrated Systems is an industry leader in the manufacture of rotating equipment for wire and cable, steel rope, conduit and flexible pipe industries.

The products include single- and double-twist roll form stranding lines and interlock amoring lines.

KALMARK also provides customized solutions for cable manufacturers, such as upgrading of individual components, reconditioning or integration into existing lines.

It produces a family of interlock armoring lines for a range of 8 to 500 mm diameter with a single pass and up to eight set multi-pass roll forming. All lines are of the continuous type producing nonrotating finished product that may be wound into reel less coils or onto reels up to 4.0 m diameter. Made in Canada.

Personnel: Nick Hogewoning, Alex Kalmar, Louis Kalmar, Pamela Carlson.

KEIR Manufacturing, Inc Tel. 828-885-8444 www.keirmfg.com sales@keirmfg.com USA Stand 804

Exhibiting: KEIR Manufacturing is a North Carolina based manufacturer of high-purity 99.8% alumina ceramic guides, the Frontiersman™ line of air wipes and Composite Standard and BackBone™ Flyer Bows serving the global wire and cable industry.

We are dedicated to making products that enable manufacturing processes to run more efficiently and productively through the application of leading edge materials. Our solutions are focused on continuous process improvement, energy savings, and longer operating life.

Personnel: Mike Walters.

Kieselstein International GmbH Tel. 260-483-9269 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com USA/Germany Stand 521 Exhibiting: Kieselstein, represent-

King Steel Corp.

Tel. 800-638-2530 sales@kingsteelcorp.com www.kingsteelcorp.com USA Stand 820 Exhibiting: We are a major distributor of hot-rolled wire rod. With inventory of wire rod strategically placed around the country, we are able to deliver wire rod to you when you need it. We also offer many value-added options, such as cleanand-coat, annealing, galvanizing and cut-to-length wire. Please contact King Steel Corporation for any of your wire rod and wire needs in any carbon, alloy, or stainless grades.

We are your one-stop shop. To learn more about us, please visit our website or contact our sales team at tel.

800-638-2530.

Albert Kren Stand 809 Krollmann GmbH & Co. KG Tel. 49-2352-9559-0 www.krollmann.de info@krollmann.de Germany/USA Stand 617 Exhibiting: Represented in the U.S. by Morgan Koch Corporation, Krollmann GmbH is a leading manufacturer of pointing machines and handling equipment of all types and sizes for wire, bars, rods, profiles and

tubes. The production program covers roll pointing machines, threading and pointing machines, point milling machines, swaging machines, hydraulic tube-pointing-presses, scrap bundling machines, special purpose machines. Krollmann is able to deliver complete equipment and solutions to customer’s requests.

Lamnea Bruk AB Tel. 46-1222-3200 www.lamnea.se/ info@lamnea.se Sweden Stand 406 Exhibiting: Lamneå Bruk AB specializes in the design and manufacture of machines for the ferrous and stainless steel wire industry.

Our journey in the wire drawing industry started over a century ago, which has given us a tremendous amount of experience that we incorporate in the design of our machines and equipment. This long experience has also taught us how important service and support is in the business. We have developed a first-class passion for service, for our customers.

In order to meet every need we supply payoff systems, mechanical cleaning equipment drawing machines and take-up units for stainless, welding and low/high carbon wire industries.

For tubular wire or flux core wire, we supply strip rewind lines and strip payoffs.

LaserLinc Tel. 318-2440 www.laserlinc.com info@laserlinc.com USA Stand 114 Exhibiting: LaserLinc is a manufacturer of non-contact laser and ultrasonic gauges for OD, ID, wall thickness, eccentricity, and concentricity for wire, cable, and extruded prodcuts. Reduce scrap, increase production efficiency, save material, and improve and document quality.

Total Vu™ HMI and our gauges offer unmatched flexibility in satisfying application, customer, user, installation, and other requirements.

Flexibility assures optimal solutions at minimal cost, while offering an upgrade path to meet future needs.

Leggett & Platt Wire Group Tel. 417-358-8131 www.leggett.com lucretia.burt@leggett.com.

USA Stand 1010 Exhibiting: Leggett & Platt is a leading North American producer of drawn steel wire. L&P consists of wire production mills and several other operations that produce specialty wire products, not limited to rolled, flattened and shaped wire; proprietary bale ties; and components for automatic baling.

Leoni Wire, Inc. Tel. 413-593-6618 www.leoni.com info@leoniwire.com USA Stand 706 Exhibiting: Leoni Wire, a fine wire manufacturer, supplies stranded conductors, solid conductors, braider bobbins, ropes, braided constructions, and copper alloys that are available in standard and heavy silver-, nickel-, and tin-plated copper ETP and OFHC. We service the aerospace and defense, highspeed data, industrial cable, communications cable, copper flexibles, wind power, and solar markets, etc.

Since 1990, all of our products have been produced in our AS9100/ISO 9001-certified facility in Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Personnel: Scott Wordsworth, Andy Zinner, Jeanne Lavallee.

Lloyd & Bouvier Tel. 978-365-5700 www.lloydbouvier.com sales@lloydbouvier.com USA Stand 110

Exhibiting: Lloyd & Bouvier is a leading equipment supplier to the wire and cable industry for over 25 years. We provides new, rebuilt and used equipment which includes payoffs, take-ups, capstans, cablers, stripers, dancers/accumulators, braiders and complete lines for extrusion, cabling, respooling and taping. Each

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ed in the U.S. by Wire Machine Systems, is a major manufacturer of modern wire drawing and shaving plants, supplying more than 600 customers in 50 countries to date. We are focused on offering tailor-made solutions individually engineered according to our customers’ requests.

As a worldwide leader in shaving technology, our substantial knowhow in this technology results from the comprehensive R+D activities carried out on our own testing machine located in Chemnitz. The successor to former German brands Herborn+Breitenbach, SKET Gruena and others, we are able to supply spare parts and modernization services for these machine, as well as the complete line of Kieselstein equipment.

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machine is designed to the customer’s specific requirement and tested in house before shipment. Complete rebuilding service is available for Wardwell 16 and 24 carrier braiders, with an inventory of quality parts on hand. L&B is the North American agent for Cortinovis Sictra, a division of Trafco of Italy offering wire drawing and rotating machines. Stop by and discuss your needs with us.

Personnel: Ron Reed, Harish Panchal, Brian Bouvier Loos & Co., Inc. Tel. 800-533-5667 www.loosco.com sales@loosco.com USA Stand 107

Exhibiting: For half a century, Loos & Co. has pioneered and thrived in the highly critical profession of wiredrawing for use in commercial, military, aerospace, and specialty industries. This valuable experience has made us the preeminent wire manufacturer in service, quality, and reliability. Refer to our website for a complete listing of capabilities, including: stainless steel and specialty alloy wire and wire products, aircraft cable, wire rope, and military and commercial cable assemblies.

Personnel: Robert Davis, Mike Fredrickson, Meghan Brennan.

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Magnetic Technologies Ltd Tel. 508-987-3303 www.magnetictech.com sales@magnetictech.com USA Stand 303

Exhibiting: Since 1984 we have been designing and manufacturing high quality permanent magnet brakes, clutches and couplings.

In 2010 we added electric hysteresis brakes, allowing electronic brake control. This year we are introducing our programmable power supply allowing real time constant tension control. The controller’s built in LCD display allows on the fly change of tension. Setup is as easy as entering brake size, spool diameter and tension. Control signal can be provided by Ultrasonic probe or load cell. The controller is available in NEMA 4 or DIN Rail enclosures.

A working display of this new control will be featured in the booth.

Personnel: Howard Schwerdlin, Michael Waterman.

Mapre Stand 103 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc. Tel. 860-873-1423 www.mathiasen-machinery.com mmi@mathiasen-machinery.com USA Stand 1016

Exhibiting: Mathiasen Machinery buys and sells used wire and cable machinery internationally. Machinery is purchased for inventory or it can be sold on an exclusive basis. MMI has interest in locating individual machines, complete lines or entire plants. Consignments, warehousing, appraisals and liquidation services are also offered. MMI has buyers seeking all types of good quality used wire and cable machinery. Serving the domestic and international ferrous and nonferrous wire machinery markets. The stand will display photos of a wide variety of second hand machinery. Customers are encouraged to bring their surplus machinery list and photos for evaluation.

Personnel: Mark Mathiasen, Mike Mathiasen.

Metalloid Corporation Tel. 269-503-7300 www.metalloidcorp.com sales@metalloidcorp.com USA Stand 907 Exhibiting: Metalloid Corporation is a manufacturer of environmentally friendly wiredrawing lubricants.

Our goal is to revolutionize the wiredrawing process to address the environmental concerns of our planet. Metalloid’s “green chemistry” offers alternatives to petroleum-based lubricants, powder soaps and greases. Our wiredrawing lubricants 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 wiredrawing market and address environmental concerns. Metalloid Corporation: One Source … One Solution … One World!

Personnel: Richard Strapple, John Reading, Sean Ream.

Metavan NV/HOWAR Eqpt.

Tel. 905-669-4010 www.metavan.com sales@howarequipment.com Belgium/Canada Stand 210

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Exhibiting: Represented by Howar Equipment in North America, steel reels (12 in.- 49 in.) from Metavan are made to the highest quality and consistency. Metavan has had a longstanding philosophy of offering a specialized product mix of pressed steel reels using highly advanced machinery to provide only the highest quality reels and spools for stranding, bunching and cabling. Using automatic machinery, all reels are able to be produced to the strictest standards at valuable costs. All products are then powder coated in any RAL color, providing the customer with a highly wear-resistant finish.

Reels are available in extremely fast manufacturing times due to the specialized equipment employed.

Personnel: Chris Hauer.

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MFL Group Tel. 908-894-5801 www.mflgroup.com t.derosa@mflgroup.com USA/Italy Stand 608

Exhibiting: The MFL GROUP is not just a machine supplier. We continue to diversify with the goal of enhancing our knowledge base in order to assist our customers pertaining to product, technology: and customer service. Our technical and commercial representatives will be on hand to provide customers with complete innovative solutions with products represented by two historic brands: MARIO FRIGERIO steel wire and rope machinery and FRIGECO machinery for the non-ferrous wire and cable industry.

In addition this year we will include the latest of the CABALLE and OM LESMO brands.

Personnel: Tony De Rosa MGS Manufacturing, Inc. Tel. 315-337-3350 www.themgsgroup.com jdudus@mgshall.com USA Stand 616

Exhibiting:: Photos and videos at our stand will include: our fully automatic dual takeup with the unique robot handling system for depalletizing and palletizing, various dual reel takeups from fiber to

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1000 mcm cable; the Northampton Triple Twist Twinner; the latest design in slip ring brushes and holders; plus our standard product range, which includes payoffs, take-ups, rewinders, dancers, accumulators, capstans, length counters, air wipes, swage tools, electric brazers, double twist bunchers, twinners, tape heads and single twist cablers. Feel free to visit with us to discuss your next project!

Personnel: John Dudus, Jim Zampogna.

our Ecomex series on the stand.

Personnel: Alban Adams.

Micro Products Company Tel. 630-406-9550 www.micro-weld.com info@micro-weld.com USA Stand 911

Exhibiting: Since 1988, Morgan-Koch Corporation has provided technical support, service and sales for the finest in E.U.-manufactured wire processing equipment. We proudly represent Ernst Koch, FIB, Krollmann, Lisciani, M+E, Sirio Wire, SKET and WiTechs. We also provide parts and factory trained service for each of these brands as well as Morgan and Vaughn machinery.

Literature and expert consultation for all products and companies will be at our booth.

Personnel: Jay Diman.

Exhibiting: Micro Products Comany supplies a wide range of high-performance Micro-Weld butt welders for welding steel, copper, aluminum, alloys - wire, rod, cable. It supplies welders for size ranges from fine wire to very large diameter material, and ceramic fusion welders for clean burr-less welds. Staff will be available to answer questions on butt welding applications. We offer customers genuine Micro-Weld parts, in-plant service for better productivity and expert technical assistance as well as sample weld evaluation in our plant in Peoria, Illinois, where we have made our butt welders the last 86 years.

Microdia SA Tel. 860-495-5788 www.microdia.ch alban.adams@microdia.ch Switzerland Stand 105 Exhibiting: Microdia, a wholly owned Swiss company, has been manufacturing cross heads, inline heads and associated tooling for the wire and cable, fiber, tubing and medical industries for over 35 years, with all production and quality control in Switzerland. We will have detailed information, catalogs and an interactive demo cross head showing 108 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Morgan-Koch Corporation Tel. 508-793-1945 www.morgan-koch.com mail@morgan-koch.com USA Stand 617

diameter and ovality gauges with ultra-fast scan rate (9600 scans/ sec), highest ovality accuracy (up to 100%), and highest flaw-detection accuracy (25% improvement over 3-axis gauges). Also introducing the new DCM Model SCS-700 LAN automated cable testing system with high- and low-frequency measurement capabilities.

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Mossberg Associates, Inc. Tel. 401-334-2255 www.mossberg-reel.com info@mossberg-reel.com USA Stand 1021 Exhibiting: Information on metal reels used in every wire and cable manufacturing process.

Personnel: Rene Mayer, John Henschel.

NDC Technologies (Beta LaserMike Products) Tel. 937-233-9935 www.ndc.com/betalasermike sales@betalasermike.com USA Stand 502 Exhibiting: NDC Technologies will be exhibiting its line of Beta LaserMike precision measurement and control solutions for diameter and ovality, eccentricity, length and speed, lay length, capacitance, preheating, fault detection, structural return loss prediction, excess fiber length, part/sample inspection and automated cable testing. New solutions for 2016 include the industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only AccuScan 6000 Series four-axis

Niehoff Endex North America Inc. Tel. 856-803-4884 www.niehoff-usa.com USA Booth 717

Exhibiting: The Niehoff Group offers a broad range of wire processing equipment for the nonferrous wire and cable industry. The product line includes: rod breakdown machinery (geared and minimum slip), static and dynamic payoffs, single and multiwire drawing lines, tandem wiredrawing lines for data cable, conductive and inductive annealers, static and dynamic take-ups (spoolers and coilers), double-twist bunchers, data and special cables double-twist twinners and cablers with backtwist payoffs, electroplating machines, cable packaging systems, ultra-fine wire drawing machines, bobbin winders and braiders. Niehoff Endex is responsible for the North American sale and support for the complete range of the Niehoff equipment and services portfolio. NENA also represents Buehler REDEX, Schmidt & RESY Filtration systems.

Personnel: Edmond Torbey, Mike Dalal, Robert Wild.

OM Frigerio Srl Tel. 905-669-4010 www.howarequipment.com www.boxy.com sales@howarequipment.com Italy/Canada Stand 210

capacities of 20, 30, 40, 60 tons. Stop by our booth to find out more.

Personnel: Bob Sears.

P&R Specialty, Inc Tel. 937 773 0263 prspecialty.com sales@prspecialty.com USA Stand 306

Exhibiting: The P&R Specialty team will be available to discuss your wire and cable packaging requirements and review their full suite of solu-

OMCG North America Inc. Tel. 630-860-1016 www.omcg.com b.sears@omcg.com USA Stand 519 Exhibiting: OMCG NA, the North American business of Italyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OMCG SpA, supplies cutting-edge bending technology. One example is the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MINI CNC wire forming machine, integrated with a robot. It features simple tooling and threeto-six bend radii capability plus generation for rings and large radii.

Wire sizes can range from 1 to 6 mm, and other models handle wire up to .625 in. Machines have off-site diagnostic modems. Programming is very easy: the EZ program, which writes the program to make the part, draws it on screen, simulates the forming on screen prior to production and estimates the time to complete production. Design the part on CAD and download the DXF or STEP file and the EZ program will convert to the program and you can make the part. Another program method allows part coordinates to be entered as length, bend angle and orientation of angle of the part, then the program creates the bending program that controls the machine production.

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Exhibiting: Wire drawing accessories designed to increase the wire drawing production parameters are available through the vast array of rotating die holders which feature special lubrication boxes and cooling mechanisms to increase die life by reducing friction and temperatures thus increasing drawing output. Additionally, OMF provides a line of in-line mechanical descalers which incorporate special wire brushing heads to descale and clean wire prior to entering the drawing machine. Scrap wire coilers finish off the product line in order to bundle and recycle scrapwire.

Personnel: Chris Hauer.

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tions to meet your needs. On display will be samples of our plastic spools, fiberboard spools and plywood reels for your review. Our in-house tool room and flexible manufacturing capabilities allows P&R to manufacture spools and reels to your specifications, on time and to the highest quality standards. Please stop by to discuss how we can meet your packaging needs.

Personnel: David Ziegler, Craig Stiefel, Alissa Blankenship,Greg Blankenship.

P/A Industries, Inc. Tel. 860-243-8306 www.pa.com sales@pa.com USA Stand 205 Exhibiting: For nearly 60 years, P/A has delivered innovative machines that bring proven efficiencies to the metal stamping, wire forming and fabrication industries.

Personnel: Edward Morris, Tim Qualls, Mitch Pecevich, Ken Jansen, John Bellingham.

Paramount Die Company, Inc. Tel. 410-272-4600 www.paradie.com sales@paradie.com USA Booth 212 Exhibiting: Paramount Die was founded in 1968 by brothers Douglas and Gil Sarver. Today, Paramount Die is a leading designer and manu-

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facturer of wire drawing die inserts and tooling systems for the wire drawing industry. For more than 45 years, Paramount Die has delivered dies and wire drawing solutions that optimize wire drawing operations.

Paramount Die has helped hundreds of wire drawers improve productivity and increase efficiency of their wire drawing processes by providing premium die inserts and holders.

Parkway-Kew Corporation Tel. 732-398-2100 www.parkwaykew.com sales@parkwaykew.com USA Stand 216

Exhibiting: Custom coatings for extreme wear applications including: capstans, draw rings, pulleys, step cones, deflector wheels, tuner and guide rolls. Capabilities include: manufacturing, CNC machining, grinding, polishing, hard-surfacing, plasma spray, metallizing, welding and shaft, roll and journal restoration.

Manufacture and re-contouring solid tungsten carbide for forming, feeding and descaling roll applications.

Personnel: Gene Klein, Sr., Joe Stroebele, Mike Hoffarth.

Phifer Incorporated Tel. 205-345-2120 www.phifer.com info@phifer.com USA Stand 606 Exhibiting: With 60+ years of wire drawing experience, Phifer Incorporated is a leading U.S. manufacturer of aluminum round wire for a wide variety of applications. With some of the most diverse capabilities in the industry, Phifer produces custom aluminum round wire from numerous alloys in diameters .11 mm to 11.1 mm, and offers a vast range of reel and spool options. Applications include: coaxial cable braid shielding, shipboard cable armoring, hose braiding, rivets, weaving wire, industrial knitting, wire forms, tea bag staples, semiconductor bonding, medical devices, stranded power cables, fencing, hinge pins and food packaging clips. Phifer also offers precision-winding capabilities for aluminum thermal spray and metallizing applications.

Personnel: Terry White, Cedric Patton.

Pioneer Machinery Tel. 973-285-3211 www.pioneermachinery.us sales@pioneermachinery.us USA Booth 425

Exhibiting: A leading supplier of complete factory automation to the wire and cable industry, we keep improving our #1 seller, an automatic dual spooler with closed-loop control traverse completed automated and 0 to 100% torque speed control including 2000:1 vector duty motors. High-speed continuous spooling for extrusion and drawing lines. Automatic reel change controlled by PLC. Automatic reel load/unload. automatic carrying in/ out is done by handy under-plate system. New machines from Pioneer includes: a multi-wire drawing

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Pittsfield Plastics Engineering, Inc. Tel. 413-442-0067 www.pittsplas.com nick@pittsplas.com USA Stand 708 Exhibiting: We offer a full line of plastic spools for all sorts of wire and cable.

Personnel: Nick Roth.

Plasmait GmbH Tel. 905-669-4010 www.howarequipment.com sales@howarequipment.com Austria/Canada Stand 210 Exhibiting: Represented by Howar Equipment in North America, Plasmait will exhibiting the latest technology in plasma surface treatment for the wire, cable, tube and strip industry that will transform the economics of in-line wire processing. The plasma system provides advantages by allowing annealing and cleaning processes to be conducted in-line with wire drawing of stainless steel, carbon steel, and copper wires at process speeds. Our solutions are built around a plasma treatment process that offers great advances in wire production efficiency, wire surface quality and process ecology and is designed for applications with demanding mechanical and surface requirements. Plasma treatment is conducted in controlled atmosphere to ensure distinct surface cleanliness and un-compromised surface quality.

PV Ribbon wire applications are a great application with Plasma cleaning prior to plating being on the forefront of technical achievement. Medical tubing and wire applications are a specialty for the plasma processing equipment.

Personnel: Willy Hauer. Phone: Pourtier & Setic of America Tel. 336-856-8176 www.pourtier-setic.com pourtier.setic.america@ gaudergroup.com Belgium Stand 103 Exhibiting: For more than two decades, Gauder Group, Inc., the North American representative of the Gauder Group, based in Greensboro, North Carolina, has been serving the wire and cable industry to local-

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machine, a silicone rubber extruder, a multimotor rod breakdown and a catenary contact wire drawing machine. Pioneer also manufactures: extrusion lines, telephone and power cable lines, wire drawing machines, copper/aluminum rod breakdown machines, basket down coiler, pointing and stringing machines, 7B double-twist buncher, 7-19B tubular, rigid and planetary machines, eccentric and concentric tapping machines, capstans, single and dual take-up, payoffs, vertical and horizontal accumulators.

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ly support the group's machine and services range. For easy customer access and to enable the exhibition of a multipurpose single-twist machine for the production of special and power cables, all members and brands are gathered on the same enlarged stand (area more than doubled). Group members include: POURTIER of America (rotating machines); SETIC of America (rotating machines); GAUDER (second-hand machines); DALOO (medium-cost rotating machines); C2S (cable services and systems for all brands); and Bow Technology (bows for all brand).

Personnel: Roger L. Brown.

als usage and operates dependably in production environments. PPE provides complete tailored solutions: cleaning and plating, material handling and chemical process development.

Personnel: Dave Miller.

Precision Die Technologies Tel. 260-482-5001 www.pdtinc.com www.sales@pdtinc.com USA Booth 307 Exhibiting: PDT specializes in new, used, and recut die services for natural diamond, PCD, and monocrystalline dies. We provide shaped, stranding, enameling and other specialty dies.

Our broad range of services includes the Inventory Management Program and 100% satisfaction guaranteed products. We are passionate about providing the fastest turnaround time possible. Our extensive inventory, streamlined production processes and committed team environment provides quick delivery, and allows for more focus on reducing your costs. At PDT, superior wire drawing dies are ensured by strict international standards, continuous monitoring, and proven systems processing. Our ISO 9001:2000 certification brings consistent quality and outstanding service.

Personnel: John Freiburger, Brad Freiburger, Josef Geisler.

Exhibiting: Premier Wire Die will display literature and diamond dies.

Personnel: Vincent Griffin, David Rascati, Sokhom Khea, Josh Young.

Precision Process Inc Tel. 716-731-1587 www.precisionprocess.com sales@precisionprocess.com USA Stand 321 Exhibiting: Precision Process Equipment is a leading U.S. supplier of wire electroplating machinery. Our equipment maximizes production efficiently, minimizes precious met-

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Premier Wire Die Tel. 260-496-9300 www.premierwiredie.com info@premierwiredie.com USA Stand 109

Pressure Welding Machines (See Joe Snee Associates, Inc.) PrintSafe Booth 621 Properzi International, Inc. Tel. 443-212-4320 www.properzi.com g.marcantoni@properzi.us USA Stand 915 Exhibiting: Continuus-Properzi invented the process of continuously casting and rolling nonferrous rod in the 1940s. Today, it is a global leader of CCR lines for nonferrous wire rod production offering a complete line of furnaces, casting equipment, rolling equipment and double spoolers. The Properzi organization provides unparalleled technology for the production of aluminium and copper wire rod. Our Wire Machinery Division includes newly designed drawing lines for high carbon, stainless steel, AS wire and PC strand lines, PC wire lines, and steel rope lines. We have added continuous extrusion machinery to our product offering. It will be marketed as “Pro-Form” which stands for Properzi forming. Visit us at www.properzi.com or contact hq@properzi.it for more detailed information regarding our complete product offering.

Proton Products International Tel. 908-797-0329 protonproducts.com greg.scher@webscher.com USA Stand 703 Exhibiting: Proton Products will display the full array of instrumentation equipment offered from its production range for the wire and cable industry. This includes laser Doppler speed and length gauges, single and dual-axis laser scanners for measuring and monitoring wire diameter, dualand triple-axis solid state diameter gauges with lump and neck detection capability, high frequency induction preheating systems for wire and cable conductor applications, high frequency spark testers, capacitance gauges, and process control systems. With over 35 years of experience designing and manufacturing instrumentation and process control products, the Proton Products team provides the most advanced technology at affordable prices.

Personnel: Gregory Scher.

Q8Oils Tel. 212-880-3737 www.q8oils.com infoamericas@q8oils.com USA Stand 422

Exhibiting: Q8Oils, one of the largest worldwide suppliers of lubricants to the wire, cable and tube sectors, will present lubricants for the drawing and rolling of rod, bar, wire, strip, tube and profile. We manufacture and supply high-quality products for many applications, including: drawing emulsions for copper, copper alloys, rod to superfine wire; drawing oils and emulsions for aluminum, aluminum alloys, rod to fine wire; full synthetic drawing solutions for precious metals and exotic alloys; and special “waxcoat” yellow metal protectives for copper rod, whether rolled, dipformed or Upcast rod. We provide technical support services and expertise for all drawing and rolling lubricants.

Personnel: Andrew Turner, Stuart Duff.

Exhibiting: QED specializes in equipment for heat-treating, cleaning and coating of steel wire.

Custom designed and built, our high-speed lines are for galvanizing, Galfan®, patenting, annealing and oil-tempering processes. Combining innovative design concepts with 30 years of practical experience, we have developed a range of products and equipment that is both technologically advanced and ruggedly dependable. The company also supplies the latest development in HighTurbulence® pickling and galvanizing technology. Our mul-

tiple stage cleaning systems have high-turbulence acid that greatly accelerates the pickling process. Now with computer control and nitrogen wiping in galvanizing, Galfan offers significant savings and accurate coating weights.

Queins Machines Tel. 49-2472-8080 www.queins.com info@queins.com Germany Stand 602

Exhibiting: Queins Machines and Stolberger-KMB, both Germany based companies, have been successful for many years as manufacturer of first-class machinery. Queins Machines and Stolberger will show pictures and videos of machines that have been delivered to the rope and cable industry. The main products

are all kind of high-speed stranding machines, machines for CTC conductors, payoffs/take-ups, taping heads, disc- and belt-type caterpillars/capstans. Further information about the range of different manufactured lines for special applications— such as power transmission, steel rope applications, subsea cables and other fields—can be given during the exhibition. The second-hand department offers a full choice of machines and equipment for the wire and cable industry. Stop by for further information or visit our websites (www. stolberger.com and www.queins.com) or e-mail us at email info@queins. com and info@stolberger.com.

Personnel: Barry Mosemann.

QuickLabel Systems Tel. 877-757-7978 www.quicklabel.com sales@quicklabel.com USA Stand 919

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Exhibiting: QuickLabel Systems is a leading manufacturer of production-capacity, full-color digital label printers, barcode printers, and labeling software that allow businesses to “print your own labels” on-demand, just in time. We introduced the first in-house digital color label printer in 1994, and we continue to innovate labeling solutions specifically for manufacturers and processors who want to print product labels in-house.

Our label and ink supplies are integral components of our label printing systems, and we take great pride in manufacturing the best media products on the market, including inkjet inks, toner, thermal transfer ribbons, and blank labels.

Personnel: Chris Pizzuti.

Raajratna Stainless Wire (USA) Inc. Tel. 847-923-8000 www.raajratna.com jaimirraj@raajratna.com USA/India Stand 620 Exhibiting: Raajratna Metal Industries Limited is an ISO 9001: 2008 accredited stainless steel (ss) wire manufacturer. It has become one of the most reliable source of SS wires, SS bright bars, SS welding wire, SS spring wire and cold-heading wires.

Our SS wire includes industrial wire, Tig-Mig wires, redrawing wires, spring wires, nail wires, spoke wires,

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wires for constructions, etc. Being one of the largest stainless steel wire manufacturers, having a huge capacity and continuous product innovation with regular upgrades of our stainless steel wire production process, Raajratna is able to serve customers having highly diversified requirements.

Radcliffe Wire, Inc. Tel. 860-583-1305 www.radcliffwire.com sales@radcliffwire.com USA Stand 1026 Exhibiting: Radcliff Wire, Inc. produces flat wire, square wire and special shaped wire in 40 different metals and alloys. This wire is precision made to customer specifications and prints, as well as government and non-government specifications. The company is known world over as a major wire supplier to industries such as telecommunications, aerospace, electronics, automotive, computer and consumer products, to name a few.

Rainbow Rubber & Plastics, Inc. Tel. 610-685-2800 www.rainbowbelts.com sales@rainbowbelts.com USA Stand 106 Exhibiting: Rainbow Rubber & Plastics is a leading supplier of caterpuller and capstan belts for OEMs and wire and cable producers in North America. Our Truly

Endless construction eliminates cover separation, wear and tracking issues. With no seam or splice to fail, we have eliminated the cause of most failures. Our technical staff is available for in-plant visits to help eliminate belting issues.

Personnel: Mark MacKimm, Jonathan Rufe.

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by Vandor Corporation Tel. 765-966-7676 www.reeloptions.com sales@reeloptions.com USA Stand 618 Exhibiting: Reel Options, by Vandor Corporation, is a leading manufacturer of plastic reels and flanges.

Industry applications include wire, communications cable, tube and hose, rope, boxed reels, electrical connectors and fiber optics. Our manufacturing capabilities include plastic injection molding, CNC plywood cutting, plastic extruded cores, precision core cutting and precision die cutting. Our assembly capabilities include STAPLE, DEAD~BOLT®, SPIN~WELD and DUO~SOLVE. We also design reels to customer specifications.

Personnel: Rick Brown, Mark Elder.

Refractron Tel. 315-331-6222 www.refractron.com sales@refractron.com USA Stand 1011 Exhibiting: Are you making as much wire as possible? Izory® is designed to keep you running and demanded by the most recognizable names in wire manufacturing. Our U.S. factory is ISO 9001:2008 certified. Refractron’s powder processing expertise and proprietary firing cycle allows our engineers and scientists to ensure Izory® has the best material properties including surface finish specifications and critical dimensions that are necessary to make the best wire at the lowest cost. Please visit us at Stand 1011, where we will feature Izory products such as rod rings, step cones, multi-wire rolls, spooler guides, enameling dies, annealer pulleys, air wipes and eyelets.

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Personnel:: Jennifer Catone, Anthony Natale.

RichardsApex, Inc Tel. 215-487-1100 www.richardsapex.com raincorders@richardsapex.com USA Stand 816 Exhibiting: RichardsApex, a leading global manufacturer of wet lubricants for wiredrawing and hot-rolling applications, provides semi-synthetic and synthetic compounds for wet drawing of nonferrous and ferrous wire as well as protective coatings, cleaners, corrosion inhibitors and oil-form lubricants for all nonferrous and ferrous alloys for both wire and tube applications.

Its core products can be made at all of the company’s manufacturing locations in the U.S., Europe, Australia and Mexico. With over 114 years of history, RichardsApex has an established global sales network to service customers throughout the world, including on-site support and technical sales assistance. The company has subsidiaries located in both the U.K. (RichardsApex Europe) and in Australia (RichardsApex AustralAsia), and representatives in Canada, China, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Venezuela and Vietnam, with many other countries serviced by the subsidiaries and representatives.

Please stop by and see how partnering with RichardsApex can help your company achieve your goals for production and cost savings.

Personnel: Andrew Helffrich, Ralph Creneti, Drew Richards.

Rockford Manufacturing Group Inc. Tel. 815-624-2500 www.rmgfelm.com/ rmgfelm@rmgfelm.com USA Stand 118

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Exhibiting: Rockford Manufacturing Group (RMG), Fastener Engineers and Lewis Machine are innovative leaders in the wire industry. Our integrated in-line wire processing solutions are the epitome of lean manufacturing.

Customers quickly realize reduced inventory, improved productivity, greater flexibility and most importantly, reduced total cost.

RMG’s straighten and cut machines have introduced many revolutionary concepts including VF AC drives, 3 die arbors and our patented “CLUTCHLESS” cutting technology. Please stop by to discuss your wire processing application and requirements. The Lewis 3SV8 straighten & cut machine has recently been re-designed to include many updated features, including variable frequency drive technology and “CLUTCHLESS” cutter, and we’ve introduced our Micro-Fine Adjustable Release mechanism for accurate length control. The Micro-Fine release allows for precise cut length adjustments while the machine is operating.

Lewis straighten & cut machines offer completely independent control of feed speed – arbor speed – cutter speed, to maximize productivity. Our In-Line wire processing equipment is being used by many manufacturing processes including fastener production, nail making, wire bending, concrete products, steel bar processing, welded wire products, screw machine parts and wire straighten and cutting. RMG provides integrated systems for the processing of hot-rolled rod into descaled and drawn wire that is regularly used in a variety of production machines and processes to reduce material cost. RMG is the only OEM for Fastener Engineers, Lewis Machine and G.C. Patterson equipment and your best source for all of your tooling, spare parts and technical service requirements. Tour our state of the art manufacturing facility at www.rmgfelm.com and contact us at rmgfelm@rmgfelm. com if you have questions.

Personnel: Kirk Prosser

Rosendahl Nextrom Tel. 828-464-2543 www.rosendahlnextrom.com office.usa@rosendahlnextrom.com USA Stand 603

Exhibiting: Rosendahl and Nextrom, leading global suppliers of production technologies for cable, wire and optical fiber, invite you to visit their stand. Our core competencies include extrusion, SZ-stranding, corrugation, optical glass making, fiber drawing, fiber coating, ribbon making and proof testing. From first contact onwards, we provide customized high quality solutions and personal support to ensure total customer satisfaction. Of note: as Industry 4.0, the “Smart Factory,” becomes more of a reality, opening new doors, Rosendahl and Nextrom take this revolution seriously and are proud to show you opportunities that are possible with our technology.

Personnel: Harri Turunen, Anita Hennessee Roteq Machinery Inc. Tel. 905-660-8800 www.roteqmachinery.com inquiries@roteqmachinery.com Canada Stand 217

Exhibiting: Roteq is synonymous with rotating equipment. We conceive, design and manufacture rotating equipment for the wire and cable, steel rope, umbilical and flexible pipe industries. Roteq will exhibit its capabilities and developments in stranding technology for copper and aluminum conductors with single-twist, double-twist, concentric, roll forming and SIW conductors. Double twist shielding

S & E Specialty Polymers Tel. 978-537-8261 www.sespoly.com sales@sespoly.com USA Booth 917

Exhibiting: S & E Specialty Polymers, a premier U.S. plastic and polymer manufacturer, develops advanced polymers and custom plastics for a variety of industries. Our custom compounds and concentrates are developed by professional R&D staff and are used in the automotive, wire & cable, battery, and footwear industries as well as in consumer, industrial, and general purpose applications. In addition to S & E’s vast library of PVC, TPR, TPE, and TPO formulations, we specialize in flame retardant polyolefins, high flame-retardant, low-smoke PVC plenum, and zero-halogen, high-flame retardant plastic compounds.

SAMP USA, Inc. Tel. 301-223-8584 www.sampinc.com info@sampinc.com USA Stand 612 Exhibiting: SAMP USA, the U.S. operation of SAMPSISTEMI® is the supplier of a full range of equipment for nonferrous wire drawing, bunching and extrusion. We offer systems and services for the wire and cable industry throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico. We offer SAMP’s latest rod breakdown and multiwire developments, bunching solutions and brand new extrusion technology. The latest SAMP products pay particular attention to energy savings by minimizing the machine energy consumption and the Total Cost of Ownership. This new technology anticipates future trends in the wire and cable manufacturing world. SAMP USA, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAMP SpA, Italy.

Personnel: Marco Gerardo, Keith Sasso, David Graff.

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for instrumentation cable. Drum twisters, planetary, single and double twist, and S/Z for cabling. Strip armoring, 50 mm/125 mm, including in-line cabling and packaging. Auxiliary equipment including payoffs, take-ups, taping, binders, yarn servers, capstans, caterpullers in custom engineered solutions for your unique product challenges.

Personnel: Martin Boyne, Kevin Dancy, Mike Marshall.

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USA Stand 803 Exhibiting: Schlatter is a world leader in manufacturing and supplying comprehensive solutions involving resistance welding and weaving. It provides sales, service and technical support to the industrial and reinforcing markets.

In addition, we offer training, inhouse machine demonstrations and plant layout technical consulting.

Stock equipment is available for convenience and quick delivery.

Personnel: Ronnie Meiers.

SETIC of America Tel. 336-856-8176 ggi@gaudergroup.com www.gaudergroup.com USA/Belgium Stand 103 Exhibiting: The Gauder Group, Inc., markets its SETIC product line as “SETIC of America.” The range includes double-twist bunchers/ cablers for low- and medium-voltage power cable and automotive industry as well as a complete range of machines for producing all types of data and special cable with enhanced performances. SETIC is now offers small single-twist cablers/ stranders and large double-twist stranders/cablers. SETIC combined with POURTIER (also a member of the Gauder Group), as worldwide leader in rotating machines for non ferrous cable, are offering the widest range of twisting/stranding solutions to cable makers.

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Shuster-Mettler Corp Tel. 203-562-3178 shustermettler.com shusterinfo@att.net USA Stand 1008 Exhibiting: Shuster wire straightening and cutting machines for wire from .010” to .750” diameter. Roll type and rotary type wire straighteners for wire diameters up to 1” and tubing straighteners are also available for thin wall tubing up to 3” outside diameter. Shaped stock straightening and cutting machines are also a Shuster product. Powered and non-powered payoffs are another product with capacities from 100 lbs. to 7000 lbs.

Personnel: Dennis Polio, Gary Silvestrini, Dennis Polio, Jr. Sikora International Corporation Tel. 770-486-1233 www.sikora.net sales@sikora-usa.com USA Stand 1015

Exhibiting: SIKORA will showcase the WIRE-TEMP 6000, a non-contact conductor temperature mea-

surement system that is now also available for diameters up to 50mm and thus suitable for installation in CV-lines. Another highlight will be the X-RAY 6000 PRO for online measurement of wall thickness, concentricity and diameter of up to 3 layers of different material for increased process stability, quality and cost saving at the production of cables. In addition, SIKORA presents its broad product range of devices for classic and high-end diameter measurement with the LASER Series 2000/ 6000. The equally precise and reliable LUMP 2000 devices with double sensor technology for lump detection on the product surface will also be shown.

Personnel: John Dognazzi, Sue Lynch, Margie Blossom.

SIMPACKS Tel. 973-402-4098 www.simpacks.com sales@simpacks.com USA Stand 425

Exhibiting: Our newly re-designed dual head automatic coiler can coil 18 AWG up to 8 AWG building wire, solid or strand. It can also make coil flat wire/cable. This coiler is capable of producing 4 ~ 6 coils per minute of 100 M length.

Change time less than two seconds. Our new Automatic COILER + STRAP + COIL HOLDER are available for all your steel wire packaging 22 ~ 34 Kg Coil. Including 2/4 straps option. Also, our new automatic COILER + STRAP is available for all your hose/ armor cable packaging solutions.Including 2/4 straps on coil.

Sivaco Quebec Tel. 514-473-3313 www.sivaco.com sivacovente@sivaco.com Canada Stand 1004

Sjogren Industries Tel. 508-987-3206 www.sjogren.com sales@sjogren.com USA Booth 707 Exhibiting: Sjogren Industries has been providing high quality machinery, tooling and accessories to the

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Sonoco Tel. 800-633-3962 www.sonoco.com/reels wcr.sales@sonoco.com USA Stand 417 Exhibiting: Engineered for your efficiency—with strength right where it’s needed—Sonoco reels and spools of plastic, steel, wood, plywood or composite materials are built for your common or specific

applications: processing, packaging and shipping of wire and cable, hoses, rope, flexible pipe and more.

Precision spools for 56 AWG to steel reels with flanges to 288 in.

Twist-Lok® 3-piece spool cuts shipping and storage space up to 70%.

EcoReel® recycling program— within a network of service centers across North America—offers truckload or LTL pickup of viable used wood, polyfiber and steel CIC reels then refurbishes them to like-new condition. Sonoco design and development resources around the globe offer you a wide range of innovations, sizes and materials.

Staku Surface Treatment Tel. 260-403-0634 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com Germany/USA Booth 521 Exhibiting: E-Systems, represented in the U.S. by Wire Machine Systems, offers state-of-the-art surface

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Exhibiting: At the forefront of wire production in North America, Sivaco designs, manufactures, and delivers the highest quality wire products for a wide range of applications. Our reputation for innovation was recently bolstered with the introduction of our Sivaco Subsea Steel Wire Products division, which produces specific wires for the offshore oil and gas exploration markets.

wire and cable industry for more than 75 years. Our product lines include wire straighteners and replacement grooved rolls of all shapes and configurations, wedge grips, wire guides, and magnetic brakes and clutches to be used in a variety of ferrous and nonferrous applications.

With our machining services we can offer replacement and wear parts for all types of wire equipment. Sjogren is constantly upgrading our machinery to provide the highest quality there is to offer.

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cleaning, pickeling and coating.

The line includes E-clean, Ephos, E-copp, E-bead, E-galv models that provide for superior cleaning and coating while significantly reducing your day-to-day operating cost.

Personnel: Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith, Larry Hughbanks.

Southeastern Felt & Supply Corporation Tel. 704-782-7952 www.sefelt.com info@sefelt.com USA Booth 429 Exhibiting: Southeastern Felt is a supplier of industrial felts and fabrics and a manufacturer of textile components for a variety of industries.

Stolberger Inc. DBA Wardwell Braiding Co. Tel. 401-724-8800 www.wardwell.com sales@wardwell.com USA/Germany Stand 511

Exhibiting: Wardwell and Spirka are world leaders in braiding machine technology and manufacturing. Our equipment program includes the traditional deflector braider invented by Simon Wardwell, which is renowned throughout the industry; the Dratex and DF model developed by Spirka; and a full complement of maypole braiders. We have added a complete line of spiraling machines, winders and payoffs for every bobbin size and wire application and a line of remote payoffs and take-up for reels up to 1,250 mm in diameter. One system of interest is our upgraded Rapid Braider, which is equipped with a four-spindle automatic winder with static payoff. Combined, the Wardwell group has nearly 500 years of experience in manufacturing and problem solving.

Personnel: John Tomaz.

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August Strecker GmbH Tel. 203-481-5555 www.streckerusa.com sales@strecker-limburg.de Germany Stand 503 Exhibiting: For over 75 years, August Strecker KG has been a specialist in the development and production of butt welding machines for almost any application in the wire and cable industry. Our product range includes machines for butt welding solid wires, flat conductors, rings, chain links, stranded wires and conductors as well as special parts: mechanical butt welding machines for the wire industry; pneumatic butt welding machines for the wire and cable industry in the areas of individual part manufacturing and of series production of special parts; hydraulic butt welding machines with automatic deflashing for the wire and cable industry as well as for special applications which make very high demands on weld quality and reproducibility; stranded wire welding machines and tongs for the cable industry; steel cable welding machines for the steel cable production or processing industries; steel cord welding machines and tongs for automotive tire manufacturers; cold welding machines for the wire industry; and special machines as well as customer-specific solutions Personnel: Michael Stock.

T & T Marketing, Inc. Tel. 800-608-1577 www.ttmarketinginc.com info@ttmarketinginc.com USA Stand 709 Exhibiting: T & T Marketing is a single source distributor to wire and cable manufacturers. Besides exhibiting, the company will presenting a Production Solutions demonstration on Visicoâ&#x201E;˘ FR4450 from Borealis, the first UL "bulletined" LSZH moisture cure compound for horizontal burn that allows you to run at higher temperatures typical of thermoplastic materials. It will showcase CableArmor 1750, a new thermoplastic, non-halogenated, flame resistant, polyolefin jacketing compound from ECC, and cables

jacketed with this LSZH compound are recognized for excellent balance of toughness, flame resistance and processability. Also, UNLITE filling, from UNIGEL, a water-blocking gel that offers enhanced electrical performance for OSP and I/O copper cables, as well as fiber optic cables. T & T's product range also includes PVC, Polyethylene, TPU, TPE, Santopreneâ&#x201E;˘, fluoropolymers, EVA, CPE, flooding and filling water-blocking compounds, EPDM, tapes, copper conductors, LSZH compounds, and nylon. It repesents 13 suppliers: AGC, Axiall, Borealis, Electric Cable Compounds, Firestone, Hanwha, Huaxia, Huntsman, Lake Copper Conductors, Santoprene, S&E Specialty Polymers, T & T Compounding, Unigel and Unitape.

Pesonnel: Barbara Latta, Steve Pinnix, Thorne Bartlett, Tom Jordan, Paul Anselmo, John Accorsi, Mike Roussel, Jess Hoogendoorn.

Takikawa Engineering Tel. 847-439-3500 www.takikawaamerica.com (Pending) sales@takikawaamerica.com (Pending) USA Stand 722

Exhibiting: Takikawa Engineering is a manufacturer of advanced devices and measurement instrumentation, which utilize optical, electrical and mechanical technology. Our product lineups are available for measuring, controlling and automating for product line, factory automation and mechanical control. We can especially provide unparalleled technology, service and quality in a continuous process line, such as producing cable/wire/fiber/pipe/rod/hose/steel and so on. Three different types of laser micrometers are ofered as standard type, such as scanning units

Taubensee Steel & Wire Company Tel. 847-459-5100 www.taubensee.com contact@taubensee.com USA Stand 418

USA Booth 418 Exhibiting: Taubensee Steel & Wire is a leader in the steel wire and cold drawn bar industry, built on family values and exceeding customer expectations for more than 66 years.

Taubensee’s best-in-class sales team has 100+ years of combined industry experience. Our quality, service, reliability and trust puts us ahead of the pack as your go-to manufacturer for all low- and high-carbon wire, straightened-and-cut wire, and cold-drawn bar needs. Come visit our booth to find out more.

Teknikor Tel. 508-672-0811 www.teknikor.com info@teknikor.com USA Stand 311

Exhibiting: Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, Teknikor and its full suite of services is all that’s needed to help maximize your production and profitability. It provides: machine rebuilding, installation, and relocation; mechanical and electrical engineering/contracting; automation and controls; plant layouts using lean methodology; and process improvement through Six Sigma tools. All services cater to our regional, national and global customers.

Personnel: Phil Pelletier, Craig DiSano, Ken Potvin, Pete Paindiris, Tim Tanner.

Thermoplastics Engineering Corp.

Stand 426 Toner Plastics Stand 821 Tramev srl - AITMAC Tel. 905-761-6165 www.aitmac-ca.com sales.aitmnac.ca@gmail.com Italy/USA Stand 1002 Exhibiting: Tramev is a world renowned producer of portable hand held cutting tools for shearing, cutting-off, bending and straightening of wire, cable, rod, bar, strip, strand, metal banding, bolts and nuts. On display will be various tooling including electro-hydraulic shears, battery rod cutters and rod straighteners. Tramev’s cable division has provided some of the largest manufacturers of power cables in the world, shearing cable up to diameters of up to 170 mm. The wire division tooling can cut, bend and straighten steel rod up to 50 mm in diameter.

Personnel: Allan Brown, Edwin Pasterk.

Tubular Products, Co. Stand 507 Ultimate Automation Ltd Tel. 44-1403710043 www.ultimat.com martin@ultimat.com U.K. Stand 111 Exhibiting: Personnel will be available to discuss the ULTIMAT range of two-axis wire forming and welding machines that suitable for the manufacture of supermarket shelving, and point of purchase displays, etc. Plus, the company’s range of ring forming and welding machines. All ULTIMAT models feature a “closed die” forming and cutting system, giving a high quality square, burr free cut and butt weld. Options include a secondary bend head for high-speed production of complex wire forms and automatic part unloading systems. With models

available for a wire range from 2.00 – 16.00 mm, Ultimation has a machine to suit everyone’s requirements.

Personnel: Martin Smith, John Personnel Manning.

United Wire Co., Inc. Tel. 800-840-9481 www.unitedwirecompany.com bob@unitedwirecompany.com USA Stand 905 Exhibiting: A 3rd generation family business located in North Haven, Connecticut, United Wire is a leading specialist in manufacturing flat wire, square wire and shaped wire wire in copper alloys, stainless steels, nickel bases, aluminum, and carbon steel.

Personnel: Bob Swanson, Jr., Justin Swanson, David Hitchcock, Bryan Hitchcock, Steve Meyer, Terry McClaughlin, Casey McClaughlin.

Unitek Crossheads Inc. Tel. 905-669-4010 www.howarequipment.com sales@howarequipment.com Austria/Canada Stand 210 Exhibiting: Represented by Howar Equipment in North America, Unitek will exhibit its high precision/high concentricity fixed center single and multi-layer crossheads for thermoplastic and Fluoro-polymer thermoplastic materials. The high precison designs can achieve the highest concentricities and hold them for extended service life. PVC heads are documented to last up to 50,000 hrs.

Unitek manufactures a complete line of fixed center crossheads capable of producing up to 120 mm (4.75”) over-insulation cable diameters.

With special tool designs, a variety of materials and applications can be handled. In addition to the crossheads, peripheral equipment such as bypass valves are offered efficient purging of material and changing of product. This keeps the head clean during tool changes. Unitek is also a leader in automatic color change technology, which allows production lines to change colors within 50-100 feet while at full line speed. More than sixteen systems are available for various applications in automotive, building wire and

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for single axis measuring, orthogonal dual axes measuring and swing type all circumference measuring. For measuring large diameter work pieces of more than 300 mm, it can be measured by combination of 2 units of single axis scanningunit. Stop by for more details.

Personnel: Takeshi Kusumoto, Sunny Kobayashi, Rob Findlay.

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communication cables. Information for these systems will be available.

Personnel: Gordon Murray, Chris Hauer.

Vandor Corporation Tel. 765-966-7676 www.reeloptions.com sales@reeloptions.com USA Stand 618 Exhibiting: Reel Options, by Vandor Corporation, is a leading U.S. manufacturer of plastic reels and flanges. Industry applications include wire, communications cable, tube and hose, rope, boxed reels, electrical connectors and fiber optics. Our manufacturing capabilities include plastic injection molding, CNC plywood cutting, plastic extruded cores, precision core cutting and precision die cutting. Our assembly capabilities include STAPLE, DEAD~BOLT®, SPIN~WELD and DUO~SOLVE. We also custom design reels to customer specifications.

Personnel: Rick Brown, Mark Elder.

Vinston US Corp.

Tel. 847-947-2241 www.vinstonus.com info@vinstonus.com USA Stand 904 Exhibiting: Vinston is committed to provide a high quality product at competitive prices. It is now able provide superior customer service from the heart of America as well.

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As part of our commitment to quality service, our new service center in Wheeling will now house even more inventory in parts and machines.

We will have larger inventories to accommodate a larger variety of tooling and machines for those time sensitive projects. Its mission is to provide total custom satisfaction by providing a quality product at competitive prices while offering superior customer service. Vinston is constantly striving to improve its products through valued customer feedback and a constant drive to innovate.

Personnel: Billy Z Lin, Jian Hui Ye, Ron Paliotta.

Vision Engineering www.visioneng.com USA/U.K. Stand 320 Exhibiting: With 50+ years of manufacturing excellence, Vision Engineering’s ergonomic technology has revolutionized stereo microscopes and non-contact measuring systems.

We will present our patented Dynascope™ technology, which is built into our Swift Duo noncontact measurement system and stereo inspection microscopes.

Dynascope™ optics offers users superior imaging, unprocessed high resolution, true color optical images through an ergonomic eyepieceless viewing head. Using both video and optical measurement, Swift-Duo provides the best of

both technologies in an easy to use, single system.

Personnel: Gary Elm. Vitari Tel. 815-315-4260 www.vitari.com sales@awtmach.com USA Stand 805

Exhibiting: Vitari manufactures machinery for wire straightening and cutting, barbed wire, chain loop, chain link, nails and hexagonal wire netting for gabions.

Personnel: Clive White, Scott Liebenberg.

Vollmer America inc Tel. 860-824-5157 www.vollmeramerica.com john@vollmeramerica.com USA Stand 1003 Exhibiting: Volmer America provides the sales and service for the complete line of Vollmer GmbH measurement and control equipment for the wire industry. We are providers of continuous, on line thickness and width gauges for use on flat and shaped wire. The systems are fully digital and capable of measurement on lines running more than 5000 fpm. Our products also include single and dual mode feedback controllers for thickness and width as well as data acquisition and SPC systems. We have an on line FFT analyzer to monitor critical frequency or wavelength issues on products for the communication industry.

Staff will be on-site and able to review your projects and applications and describe how we can provide answers that bolster your operations.

Personnel: John Wallace.

WAFIOS Machinery Corporation Tel. 203-481-5555 www.wafios.us sales@wafios.us USA/Germany Stand 503 Exhibiting: WAFIOS was established in 1893 and is today the

Stolberger Inc. DBA Wardwell Braiding Co. Tel. 401-7248800 www.wardwell.com sales@wardwell.com USA Stand 511 Exhibiting: Wardwell and Spirka are world leaders in braiding machine technology and manufacturing. Our equipment program includes the traditional deflector braider invented by Simon Wardwell and re-known throughout the industry, the Dratex and DF model developed by Spirka, and a full compliment of maypole braiders.

We have added a complete line of spiraling machines, winders and payoffs for every bobbin size and wire application and a line of remote payoffs and take-up for reels up to 1,250 mm in diameter. Combined,

the Wardwell group has nearly 500 years of experience in manufacturing and manufacturing and problem solving.

Personnel: John Tomaz.

Weber & Scher Mfg. Co., Inc. Tel. 908-236-8484 www.webscher.com webscher@webscher.com USA Stand 703 Exhibiting: Weber & Scher, founded in 1915, has specialized for more than 80 years in providing equipment and technology specifically to the global wire and cable industry.

It will display information and literature for the following. Metal tape handling and splicing equipment and longitudinal forming equipment for smooth and corrugated metal tape; core wrap tape handling and applicating equipment; concentric and eccentric binding machines; concentric and tangential taping heads; Kevlar serving equipment; cable core pressure filling and flooding equipment for optical fiber cables and copper telephone cables; metal tape overlap seam bonding systems; multi-position tension controlled supply equipment; high speed rewind/repair equipment; belt wrap type capstans; linear belt type caterpillar capstans; vertical and horizontal cable accumulators; and cable pay-offs/take-ups. Finally, detailed information and video on our unique INDUCTOWELD and GATWELD continuous seam welded metal tape sheathing systems for coaxial cables, RF cables, optical fiber cables and power cables. The INDUCTOWELD system features the use of high frequency induction welding technology while the GATWELD system uses a TIG (GTAW) welding process to produce longitudinally seam welded metal tape sheath constructions. Corrugating systems are available to impart either helical or annular corrugations in the metal sheath of power cables and RF coaxial cables in tandem with the welding operation.

Personnel: Gregory Scher.

Windak Inc./Windak Group Tel. 828-322-2292 www.windakgroup.com infoamericas@windakgroup.com USA/Sweden Booth 204

Exhibiting: The Windak Group and Axjo America welcomes visitors to its booth, where you will have the opportunity to meet our team and get acquainted with our latest packaging solutions and innovations.

Windak continues to create innovative and high quality cable packing machines which are recognized as world class, industry leading solutions.

Wire & Cable Manufacturers Alliance Inc. (WCMA) Tel. 860-873-2311 www.wcmainc.org info@wcmainc.org USA Booth 918 Exhibiting: The Wire & Cable Manufacturersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Alliance (WCMA) is a non-profit business association serving the manufacturers of low to high voltage electrical, electronic and fiber optic wire and cable with an established manufacturing base located in North America, including the producers of signal and current-carrying wire and fiber, the producers of bulk cables, and wire and cable processors. Corporate membership includes manufacturing companies as described above, as well as, industry suppliers, service providers, affiliated companies and organizations serving the cable manufacturing and processing industry.

Personnel: Deb Mathiasen.

Wire & Cable Technology International Tel. 330-864-2122 www.wiretech.com mcnulty@wiretech.com USA Stand 113

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world's largest supplier of precision machinery for wire, tube and formed parts. Its range of machine types include spring coiling and forming, wire bending and forming, tube bending and forming, wire straightening, cutting and end-working, as well as precision machines used to produce fasteners, chains and chain link fence and other types of fencing. WAFIOS machines are operating and supported around the world, producing a remarkable range of wire and tube applications, from tiny tungsten lamp filaments and surgical coils to automotive suspension springs, automotive brake lines, heat exchanger coils, Nails, roofing screws and high tensile chains - to name a few. The WAFIOS North American headquarters is located in Branford, Connecticut, with spare parts stock, service resources and machines available for demonstration. The Chicago-area Midwest Technical Center in Mokena, Illinois, provides additional resources as a service center, with machines available for demonstration. Both facilities are structured to support application development, and provide customers with hands-on training programs.

Personnel: David Purcell, Brian Davi, Thomas Madelung.

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Exhibiting: Publisher of a print and digital technical magazine for manufacturers, processors and users of all types of wire, cable and wire harnesses; the OVERVIEW business and market newsletter; and an annual Buyers’ Guide. Subscribers are located in more than 100 countries.

Personnel: Mike Dies, Tom Hutchinson, Mike McNulty.

Wire & Plastic Machinery Tel. 860-583-4646 wireandplastic.com info@wireandplastic.com USA Stand 410

Exhibiting: Wire & Plastic machinery is the largest reseller of high quality secondhand wire, cable and optical fiber manufacturing equipment. With over 30,000 machines is stock, items can be delivered immediately from eight U.S. locations. Machinery is sold on an as is basis for quick delivery; cleaned, painted and checked operational in good running order; or completely reconditioned with state-of-the-art electronics upgrade. WPM will showcase pictures of machinery

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Wire Bulletin Tel. 203-453-2777 www.wirebulletin.net info@wirebulletin.net India Stand Store Exhibiting: A tabloid-sized publication, WIRE BULLETIN was introduced in 2009 as a news medium to cover Asia’s growing wire and cable sector. Its editorial mission is to introduce its growing readership to the people—not only the machines or processes—who bring energy, experience, and achievement to the wire and cable industry in Asia and around the globe. By presenting news in both topical and in-depth styles, WIRE BULLETIN encompasses subjects to interest readers from technical specialists to CEOs. Personnel: Janice Swindells, Samantha Szymaszek.

highlights and our online inventory on web-enabled hand held tablets.

Experienced sales personnel will assist visitors in selecting the most suitable equipment for their process and application.

Personnel: Rick Narang, Rahul Sachdev, Greg Malcervelli, Erik Macs, Rishi Narang.

Wire Journal International Tel. 203-453-2777 www.wirenet.org info@wirenet.org USA Stand Store

Wire Association International Tel. 203-453-2777 www.wirenet.org info@wirenet.org USA Stand Store

Exhibiting: Wire Journal International (WJI) is a leading technical publication for the wire and cable industry. Published monthly, WJI is written for executives, engineers, technical and sales professionals, and purchasing agents engaged in the manufacture of ferrous and nonferrous wire and cable; electrical wire and cable; fiber optic cable; and formed and fabricated wire products.

Personnel: Janice Swindells, Samantha Szymaszek

Exhibiting: The Wire Association International, founded in 1930, is a worldwide technical society for wire and cable industry professionals that is governed by volunteers from around the world. Based in Madison, Connecticut, USA, WAI promotes, collects, and disseminates technical, manufacturing, and general business information to the ferrous, nonferrous, electrical, fiber optic, and fastener segments of the wire and cable industry.

Personnel: Janice Swindells, Samantha Szymaszek

Wire Lab Company Tel. 216-362-0800 www.wirelab.com e-mail@wirelab.com USA Stand 506 Exhibiting: Wire Lab Company manufactures the most comprehensive and complementary line of mechanical descaling systems available to steel wire manufacturers today. Currently, six standard mod-

Wire Machine Systems, Inc. Tel. 260-483-9269 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com USA Stand 521 Exhibiting: WMS is a leading supplier of equipment and supplies to the wire, cable, bar and tube industry. We will highlight state-of-the-art surface treatment, wire and bar drawing, peeling and shaving technology, coiling for bare and insulated cable, shot blasting, straighteners and guides, steel reels and reel handling equipment, buncher bows, wire cutters and welders, as well as a wide array of spare parts for European and Asian machines.

Wire World Tel. 519-754-0998 www.wireworld.com info@wireworld.com

Canada Booth 1025 Exhibiting: Wire World is a global resource for the wire and cable industry. With weekly news, events, information and company information, users can stay in touch with the industry by visiting one website.

You can submit your press releases, product releases to the site for more brand awareness. Now, www. wirelinks.com has been developed for makers of wire and cable.

Personnel: Paul Douwes.

Witels Albert USA Tel. 410-228-8383 www.witels-albert-usa.com info@witels-albert-usa.com USA Stand 503

products have been exported to Europe and the Americas, Southeast Asia, Middle East and Africa countries. We insist on providing better quality, better price and better service to our customers in the worldside. We insist on the customers’ profit first.

Personnel: Wang Weiwei (Vivian).

Zhejiang Baichuan Conductor Technology Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-579-84311389 2000bc@163.com www.baichuanchina.com China Stand 520 Exhibiting: We produce copper-clad steel wire, copper-clad aluminum and aluminum magnesium wire, silver-plated wire, tin-plated wire, galvanized steel wire, stranded wire and earth rod.

Personnel: Zhang Shu. Zumbach Electronics Tel. 914-241-7080 sales@zumbach.com USA Stand 416

Exhibiting: Witels Albert USA will be displaying wire straighteners, roller guides, feed units and preform heads. Also, a new revolutionary model straightener.

Personnel: Bob Flower.

Woodburn Diamond Die, Inc. Tel. 260-632-4217 info@woodburndd.com USA Booth 713 Exhibiting: The company’s wide range of dies and related products and related products.

Yangzhou Havet Machinery Co., Ltd. (YHM) Text 86-514-87658305 havet_china@163.com www.havet-china.com China Stand 522 Exhibiting: YHM manufactures reels for the cable and wire industry.

Based in Yangzhou City, the company fabricates reels to either DIN standards or a customer’s requirements. We also can offer our design for your specific requirements. Our

Exhibiting: Zumbach Electronics, a leading worldwide manufacturer of precision dimensional measurement equipment, will showcase measurement equipment, flaw detection, process control, and data acquisition systems. Products geared for the wire and cable market will include solutions to measure outer diameter, wall thickness and concentricity (ultrasonic, x-ray or eddy current principle), dimension and profile of shaped wires (Camera/Laser), product temperature (Infrared), and the capacitance of data and coaxial wires/cables. Additional sensors/ systems to preheat wire (WST), to detect Lumps; Neckdowns and surface defects, detect pin holes and thin-wall spots (spark testers) will also be shown along with our highly advanced Process Controllers (USYS).

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els are available, from the most basic and economical WILCO Model 920 Air Jet Descaling System to the complete WILCO Model 1250DB Automatic Brush Descaling System with dual-brushing heads.

By offering many configurations of mechanical descaling systems, customers may use the WILCO system which best matches their specific wiredrawing needs. The system WILCO model 1250-DB automatic brush descaling system with dual-brushing heads will be displayed. Customers benefitting from the 1250-DB in their wiredrawing operation now have a mechanical descaling system that can process 7/32 in. through ½ in. diameter rod and convert lesser-quality green rod into higher quality, and higher value wire products. The aggressive cleaning action of the dual WILCO Automatic Rod Brushing Machine heads will produce a descaled rod free from patches of adherent scale and surface rust. Many manufacturers rely on WILCO lubricant applicators and double-die pressure die holders to maximize and maintain lubrication levels throughout the drawing operation.

Personnel: Robert Fulop.

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PRODUCT CT DIRECTORY Air Wipes Amaral Automation Associates . . . . . . . . 100 Cable Consultants Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711 Cemanco LC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Clinton Instrument Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609 Davis-Standard, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 Heany Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 KEIR Manufacturing, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804 MGS Manufacturing, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 616 Rainbow Rubber & Plastics, Inc . . . . . . . 106 Refractron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011

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Aluminum and Al Alloys Phifer Incorporated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 Q8Oils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 Aluminum Wire Mfg BWE Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Chemetall North America . . . . . . . . . . . . 808 Phifer Incorporated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 United Wire Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905

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Annealing Equipment

Clifford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805

Braiding & Weaving

FIB Belgium SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 Filtertech, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Eurolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805

Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . 207

Integrated Control Technologies . . . . . . 902

Commission Brokers Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

MFL Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 MGS Manufacturing, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Lloyd & Bouvier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

NDC Technologies (Beta LaserMike Products) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Stolberger Inc. DBA Wardwell Braiding Co. . 511

Mathiasen Machinery, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 1016 MFL Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 Morgan-Koch Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 NIEHOFF ENDEX North America Inc. . . 717 QED Wire Lines Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 Queins Machines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

OMCG North America Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

SAMP USA, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

Pioneer Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Precision Process Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Wire & Plastic Machinery Corporation . . 410 Associations International Wire & Cable Symposium (IWCS, Inc.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006 WCISA Wire and Cable Industry Suppliers Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Wire Association International. . . . . . . .Store Automation Equipment AIM Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702 American Kuhne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818

P/A Industries, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Rosendahl Nextrom Technologies . . . . . 603 SIMPACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Schlatter North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720 SIMPACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Teknikor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Windak Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Belting for Machinery Kieselstein GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Rainbow Rubber & Plastics, Inc . . . . . . . 106

Niehoff Endex North America Inc. . . . . . . 717

Bunchers - Bows AITMAC Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bow Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Cemanco LC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Gauder Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 KEIR Manufacturing, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804 MGS Manufacturing Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616 POURTIER & SETIC of America . . . . . . 103 Wire Machine Systems Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Bunchers - Machinery AITMAC Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002 Ceeco Bartell Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812 Commission Brokers Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

AWT Machinery, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805

Blank & Part Feeders

Flymca & Flyro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 Gauder Group Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

B & H Tool Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802 Beta LaserMike Products (NDC Technologies). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .502

AITMAC Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002

Hall Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Cable Consultants Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

WAFIOS Machinery Corporation . . . . . . . 503 Mathiasen Machinery Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 1016

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Lloyd & Bouvier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Magnetic Technologies Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . 303 MFL Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Niehoff Endex North America Inc. . . . . . . 717

SAS Engineering Srl Pioneer Machinery . . . and . . . . .Planning . . . . . . . . . 425 Tel. 39-031-655593 POURTIER & SETIC of America . . . . . . 103

www.sas.it info@sas.it Roteq Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 ItalyMachinery Booth 1962 Stolberger Inc DBA Wardwell Braiding& . . 511 Exhibiting: SAS Engineering Planning’s combined Thermoplastics Engineeringdrawing Corp . . . .lines . . 426 and Machine peelingSystems lines mean Wire . . . . . technolog............ ical value, reliability and ease of Accessories use. TheCable SAS combined drawing machine can be supplied Cable Consultants Corp. . . . . . .with . . . . .the . . 711 most advanced accessories Sonoco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .in . . .order . . 417 to obtain a totally automated line: payoff group, pre-straightening Cable Color Concentrates device, draw bench, chamfering Breen Color Concentrates Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . machine, bundle strapping, weighing and handling, etc.Strippers Everything is Cable Jacket managed automatically. The comCable Consultants Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711 pany takes customers through each Witels USA Ltd.. . . .while . . . . . .technical . . . . . 503 stageAlbert of the process, staff can provide instructions and Chain Making Machinery solve problems worldwide. Thanks AWT Inc. of . . . experience, . . . . . . . . . . . .SAS . 805 to itsMachinery, long years Eurolls . . . . . . . . . . .partner . . . . . . . for . . . .reaching . . . . . 805 is an important top manufacturing Vitari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .targets . . . . . . .in . . the . . . . 805 Queins Machines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

WAFIOS Machinery Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Chemicals & Coatings processing of ferrous and nonferrous materials.

Aztech Lubricants LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 Bechem Lubrication Technology LLC . . . 723

Schmale Machinery USA, LLC

Cable Consultants Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711 Telephone: 904 501 - 28 24 Chemetall North America . . . . . . . . . . . . 808

www.schmale-machinery.com

Condat .............................. walter.wieser@ FIB Belgium SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 schmale-machinery.com Gem USAGravure BoothCo. 52Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

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Heatbath Corporation . . . . . Get . . . . an . . . update . . . 900 on the latest developments for swag-

Metalloid Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ing, pressing, threading and bending Morgan-Koch Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

RichardsApex, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816 Wire Machine Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Exhibiting: Reinforcement processCold Headersstirrup ing machinery: automatic benders, cutting/shaping machines, Automated Industrial Machinery . . . . . . . 702 cage making/assembling machines, Chemetall North America . . . . . . . . . . . . 808 straighteners, wire processing plants, Micro Products Co . . . . .systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 innovative software WAFIOS Machinery Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Personnel: Simone Bruscia.

Cold Pressure Welding Shanghai Kaibo Compounds Huestis Industrial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408 Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-21-59122219 Joe Snee Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 www.sh-kaibo.com PWM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 xs@sh-kaibo.com STRECKER GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 China Booth 1512/15-17 Commmunications Eqpt

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CleaningWalter & Plating Chem/Sys Personnel: Wieser.

FIB Belgium SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 Heatbath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900 Schnell Corporation SpA

Tel. 39-0721-878711 Metalloid Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.schnell.it Morgan-Koch Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 sales@schnell.it Italy Booth 2152

QED Wire Lines Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Teknikor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Compounds

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Cont Casting Mchry & Aux Eqpt Properzi International, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 915 Copper and Copper Alloys BWE Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 Fisk Alloys Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019 Leoni Wire Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Die Quip Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 Metalloid Coporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907 QED Wire Lines Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 Rockford Manufacturing Group Inc. . . . . 118 Wire Lab Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Ernst Koch GmbH & Co KG. . . . . . . . . . . 617 Eurolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805 Fenn LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901 Filtertech, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506 Flymca & Flyro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 Howar Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Kieselstein International GmbH . . . . . . . . 521 Lamnea Bruk AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 Loos & Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 1016 MFL Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 Morgan-Koch Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 Niehoff Endex North America . . . . . . . . . 717 Properzi International Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 915 Rockford Manufacturing Group . . . . . . . . 118 SAMP USA Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612 Teknikor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp . . . . . . . . 410 Wire Machine Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Drives & Controls Amacoil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705

Wire Machine Systems Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Amaral Automation Associates . . . . . . . . 100 AW Machinery, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805

Die Grinding & Finishing Eqpt

Cemanco LC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Balloffet Die Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001 Die Quip Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803

Davis-Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Zhejiang Baichuan Conductor Technology Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

ESTEVES GROUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

FMS USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719 Integrated Control Technologies . . . . . . . 902

Copper Wire Processing

Die Quip Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803

Clayton Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Esteves Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Leoni Wire Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Fort Waye Wire Die Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412 Heany Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Q8Oils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 T&T Marketing Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

United Wire Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905

Refractron Technologioes Corp . . . . . . 1011 Southeastern Felt & Supply Corp . . . . . . 423 Zhejiang Baichuan Conductor Technology Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520 Crossheads & Extrusion Tooling Amaral Automation Associates . . . . . . . . 100 B & H Tool Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802 Davis-Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 ESTEVES Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513 Howar Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 JoeTools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Microdia SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Rosendahl Nextrom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Dies and Die Compounds

Microdia USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Paramount Die Company . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Precision Die Technologies Inc . . . . . . . . 307 Premier Wire Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Refractron Technologies Corp . . . . . . . 1011 Woodburn Diamond Die Inc . . . . . . . . . . 713 Distribution/Warehousing T&T Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co . . . . . . . . . . 418 Drawing & Auxiliary Equipment AITMAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002

Descaling

Amaral Automation Associates . . . . . . . . 100 AWT Machinery, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805

Balloffet Die Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001

Davis-Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

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FACTS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

Magnetic Technologies Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Wire Machine Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Witels Albert USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Zumbach Electronics Corp . . . . . . . . . . . 416 Electrical Utilities Cable Consultants Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711 Sivaco Wire Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1004 Southeastern Felt & Supply Corp . . . . . . 423 Electrical Wire & Cable Mfg. BWE Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Direct Wire & Cable, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Eurolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805 Magnetic Technologies Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Phifer Wire Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 Queins Machines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602 United Wire Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905 Weber & Scher Mfg Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 703 Zhejiang Baichuan Conductor Technology Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

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Extrusion Accessories

Phifer Incorporated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Teknikor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818

American Kuhne Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818

Sivaco Wire Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1004

short time. India is a “the growth of any country is possible only if the number Cohuge Inc . .country, . . . . . . 517a placeTaubensee Steel & Wire Co . . . . . . . . . . 418 of employed persons grows” is satisfied, Canterbury India willEngineering be Extruders & Auxiliary Eqpt Clinton Instrument . . . . . a. . multitude . . . . . 609 of relithe next territory that we must serve intensively with ourCo . . . with American Kuhne . . . . . . . . . . . . Of . . . .course, . 818 theDavis-Standard, equipment and. . technology. basic infra- LLC . . . . gions/cultures, . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 and from Fiber Optic Machinery point ofAmacoil Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705 structures notTool adequate BWE Ltd . . . are . . . .presently . . . . . . . . . .not . . . suffi . . . . .cient 102 andGuill & Engineering . an . . . industrial . . . . . . . . . 302 view it’s not possible to to permit the harmonious growth of this giant.

Carmelo Cable Consultants Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711 Rosendahl Nextrom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603 . . . . . . . . . . . into . 210 a single Maria Brocato, Continuus-Properzi. Howar Equipment Inc . . . generalize Collins & Jewell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806 Weber & Scher Mfg. Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . 703 Huestis Industrial . . . . . . . evaluation. . . . . . . . . . . . .What 408 is cerCommission Incremain . . . . . . . the . . . .most . . 112important BRICS tain is that India is a land China is Brokers and will Joe Snee Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 Fiber Optic Cable Mfg Mchry that has thousands of opmember country, growth. Brazil is lookDavis-Standard, LLC . despite . . . . . . . .slowing . . . . . . . 523 JoeTools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 portunities, as does—to ing more like India, mired in corruption scandals, while Amacoil Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705 FACTS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721 Proton . . . . . extent . . . . 703and all the a lesser India at this point under a new regime holds theProducts most International BWE Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Flymca & Flyro . . . . whether . . . . . . . . .the . . . .reforms . . . 420 promised Rosendahl . . . . . . . . . . . .considered 603 promise.

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by Nextrom the . . . . . differences Flymca & Flyro . . . . . Bellina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 —South new government rapid growth Genca . . . . . . . . . . . . in . . .India . . . . . lead . . . . . to . . 517 Sikora remains International Corporation . . . . Africa. . . 1015 CompaProton Products International . . . . . . . . . 703 nies in South African are to be seen.

Russia will continue to have problems and it Howar Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 focusing on quality and innovation will take several years to recover from Western-imposed Rosendahl Nextromand . . . .our . . . .Group . . . . . . .is. .lay603 Fabrication & Bending Mchry Lloyd & Bouvier . . .much . . . . . .has . . . .been . . . . . heard . . 110 from South ing the groundwork Thermoplastics for a big market development sanctions.

Not Africa, Engineering Corp . . . .there. . . 426 AIM Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brazil, . . . . . . . .the . . . world’s . 702 sixth largest economy—even though though itMachinery, is now offi Mathiasen Inc.cially . . . . . a. .member. . . . 1016 Weber Scher Mfg some Co Inc.customs . . . . . . . . clear. . 703 Mathiasen Machinery Inc it . . is . . .very . . . . .far . 1016 from Italy and& presents I think that the BRICS are going to continue to be relevant.

MFL Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 Wire & Plastic Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 ance and trade policies issues—is a market increasingly While the pace of GDP growth may slow for a few years OMCG North America Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 Pioneer . . . .socio-economic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 important for our strategic framework. due to Machinery political and factorsP/A or sanctions, Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Rosendahl . . . . . . . . . . roadblocks . . . . . 603 at best. As 40% Filtration Cooling Systems One other thought: the BRICS and acronym was originally etc., theseNextrom remain. .temporary Ultimate Automation Ltd . used . . . . . .to. . defi . . . .ne 111countries characterized by a developing of theInternational world’s population these countries, it is Sikora Corporationresides . . . . . . in 1015 Filtertech Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506 a strong growth in GDP, a large popinevitable that at some Corp point. . in future they produce Wirewill Machine Systems Inceconomic . . . . . . . . . .situation, . 521 Thermoplastic Engineering . . .the . . 426 ulation, a vast territory and abundant natural resources. and consume the majority of the world’s output. Rahul Fine Wire Mfg. Wire & Plastic Machinery . . . . .Machinery. . . . . . . . 410 In 2015, Sachdev, Wire & Plastic Fastener Wire Mfg. we can’t talk of them any more as “developing Wire Machine Systems Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 603 Amacoil Inc .that, . . . . .together . . . . . . . . .with . . . . .the . . . G7 705 countries” but as superpowers Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . 207 countries, dominate Anbao the worldwide market.

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Material Handling and Storage Fabritex Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704 Mossberg Associates, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 1021 Rainbow Rubber & Plastics, Inc . . . . . . . 106 Sonoco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 Tubular Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 Measuring & Testing Eqpt Beta LaserMike Products (NDC Technologies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502 Clinton Instrument Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609 Die Quip Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 EddyTech Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807 ESTEVES GROUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513 FACTS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721 FMS USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719 Foerster Instruments Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 605 Howar Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Eurolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805

Machine Rebuilding/Upgrading

FENN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901

Automated Industrial Machinery . . . . . . . 702

Fisk Alloy Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Leoni Wire Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

American Kuhne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818

Loos & Co., Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Phifer Wire Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 Refractron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co . . . . . . . . . . 418 Forming - Cold Chemetall North America . . . . . . . . . . . . 808 Guill Tool & Engineering Co . . . . . . . . . . 302 OMCG North America Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 Furnaces FIB Belgium SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 Properzi International, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 915 QED Wire Lines Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 Hand Tools Cemanco LC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Die Quip Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803

AWT Machinery, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805 Clifford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805 Collins & Jewell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806 Die Quip Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 ERA Wire Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908 FACTS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721 FENN LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901 Fylca & Flyro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 Gauder Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Integrated Control Technologies . . . . . . . 902 Lloyd & Bouvier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Q8Oils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 RichardsApex, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816

Zumbach Electronics Corp . . . . . . . 100, 416 Nail Making Machinery AWT Machinery, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805 Vitari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805 WAFIOS Machinery Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

MFL Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 Morgan-Koch Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

B&H Tool Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802 Fisk Alloy Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019 Leoni Wire Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Precision Process Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Loos & Co., Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

POURTIER & SETIC of America . . . . . . 103

United Wire Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905

Rainbow Rubber & Plastics, Inc . . . . . . . 106

Shuster-Mettler Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008

Condat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Houghton International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622 Metalloid Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907

Vollmer America inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003 Witels Albert USA Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Mathaisen Machinery Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 1016

Lubricants

Chemetall North America . . . . . . . . . . . . 808

Sikora International Corporation . . . . . . 1015

Nickel and Nickel Alloys

Rockford Manufacturing Group Inc. . . . . 118

Bechem Lubrication Technology . . . . . . . 723

Proton Products International . . . . . . . . . 703

Magnetic Technologies Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Witels Albert USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Aztech Lubricants LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Joe Snee Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 LaserLincInc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 NDC Technologies (Beta LaserMike Products) . . . . . . . . . . 502

Schlatter North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720 Teknikor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Thermoplastic Engineering Corp . . . . . . . 426 Wire & Plastic Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 Marking and Coding Equipment Gem Gravure Co. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 W Gillies Technologies LLC . . . . . . . . . . 309 QuickLabel Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919

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Nonferrous Wire Mfg. Leggett & Platt Wire Group . . . . . . . . . . 1010 Leoni Wire Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706 Phifer Incorporated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 United Wire Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905 Ovens QED Wire Lines Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 Packaging Equipment Fabritex Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704 Gem Gravure Co. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Tubular Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

FMS USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719 Howar Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Hüttner Maschinenfabrik . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 MGS Manufacturing, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 616 Tubular Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 Wire Machine Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Windak Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Candor Sweden AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Pallets

Krollmann GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Mossberg Associates, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 1021

Morgan Koch Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Parts Washers

Pollution Control Equipment

Southeastern Felt & Supply Corp . . . . . . 423

Filtertech, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

SIMPACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Sjogren Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

Payoff Reels

Power Cable / Distribution Mfg

Publications

AITMAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002 HOWAR Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Inosym Reels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Direct Wire & Cable, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

EuroWire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009 Wire & Cable Technology Int'l . . . . . . . . . 113

Process Control Equipment

WIRE BULLETIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Store

Morgan-Koch Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Amaral Automation Associates . . . . . . . . 100 Beta LaserMike Products (NDC Technologies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Wire Journal International . . . . . . . . . . .Store Wireworld.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025

P/A Industries, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Shuster-Mettler Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008 SIMPACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Sonoco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

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Plating Equipment Precision Process Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Pointing Equipment

Chemetall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808 FACTS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

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Integrated Control Technologies . . . . . . . 902 Magnetic Technologies Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . 303 NDC Technologies (Beta LaserMike Products) . . . . . . . . . . 502 Precision Process Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Proton Products International . . . . . . . . . 703 Sikora International Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 1015

Pulleys Cemanco LC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

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FENN LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901 WAFIOS Machinery Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Spoolers and Respoolers Amaral Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Cable Consultants Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711 CEMANCO LC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Lamnea Bruk AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 Lloyd & Bouvier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Loos & Co., Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 MFL Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 MGS Manufacturing Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616 Morgan-Koch Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 Niehoff Endex North America Inc . . . . . . 717 Pioneer Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Queins Machines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602 Rosendahl Nextrom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Heany Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 KEIR Manufacturing, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804 Parkway-Kew Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Refractron Technologies Corp . . . . . . . 1001 Witels Albert USA Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Reels and Spools Ace Metal Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 Axjo America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Carris Reels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916 Zumbach Electronics Corp . . . . . . . 100, 416 Cavallero Plastics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 George Evans Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . 202 HOWAR Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Inosym Reels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

W Gillies Technologies LLC . . . . . . . . . . 309 Heany Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 KEIR Manufacturing, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804 Parkway-Kew Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Refractron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011 Sjogren Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707 Witels Albert USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Rolling Mills & Auxiliary Eqpt FENN LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901 Lamnea Bruk AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 Niehoff Endex North America Inc . . . . . . 717 Properzi International, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 915 Weber & Scher Mfg Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 703

IWE Spools & Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Secondary Operations

Mossberg Associates, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 1021

Flymca & Flyro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

P & R Specialty Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

P/A Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Pittsfield Plastics Eng Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 708 Reel Options by Vandor Corporation . . . 618 Sonoco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 Wire Machine Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Witels Albert USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Yangzhou Havet Machinery Co., Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522 Roller Guides AITMAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002 Amacoil Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705 Cemanco LC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 CeramTec AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

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Sensors Beta LaserMike Products (NDC Technologies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

SIMPACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Thermoplastics Engineering Corp . . . . . . 426 Weber & Scher Mfg. Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . 703 Windak Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Wire Machine Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Spring Making Machinery FENN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901 OMCG North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 Vinston Corporation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904 WAFIOS Machinery Corporation . . . . . . . 503 Stainless Steel Wire Mfg. Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . 207 Bekaert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809 FENN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901 Leggett & Platt Wire Group . . . . . . . . . . 1010 Loos & Co., Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Raajratna Stainless Wire Inc . . . . . . . . . . 620 United Wire Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905 Steam Generators/Boilers Clayton Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Steel

FMS USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719 NDC Technologies (Beta LaserMike Products) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502 Q8Oils Roloil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Collins & Jewell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806

Sikora International Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 1015

Leggett & Platt Wire Group . . . . . . . . . . 1010

Zumbach Electronics Corp . . . . . . . 100, 416 Shaping Machinery Automated Industrial Machinery . . . . . . . 702

Steel rod /bare wire Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . 207 Sivaco Wire Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1004 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co . . . . . . . . . . 418 United Wire Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905

Magnetic Technologies Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . 303

P/A Industries, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Pioneer Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 POURTIER & SETIC of America . . . . . . 103

Cemanco LC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

MFL Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

CeramTec AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Heany Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

POURTIER & SETIC of America . . . . . . 103 Thermoplastics Engineering Corp . . . . . . 426

Precision Process Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Refractron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011

Wire Machine Systems Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Properzi International, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 915

Straighten/Cutoff Mchry Eqpt

Systems and System Design

Automated Industrial Machinery . . . . . . . 702

Integrated Control Technologies . . . . . . . 902

EJP Maschinen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 P/A Industries, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Rockford Manufacturing Group Inc. . . . . 118 Schlatter North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720 Shuster-Mettler Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008 Sjogren Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707 WAFIOS Machinery Corporation . . . . . . . 503 Witels Albert USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Stranders & Auxiliary Eqpt AITMAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002 Cable Consultants Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711 Commission Brokers Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Flymca & Flyro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 Gauder Group Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 KALMARK Integrated Systems Ltd. . . . . 208

Takeups & Payoffs Amacoil Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705

Queins Machines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602 Rockford Manufacturing Group Inc. . . . . 118 Roteq Machinery Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 SAMP USA, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612 Schlatter North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

Cable Consultants Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Shuster-Mettler Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008

Ceeco Bartell Products Bartell Machinery Systems . . . . . . . . . . 812

Southeastern Felt & Supply Corp . . . . . . 423

Commission Brokers Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Davis-Standard, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 Flymca & Flyro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 Gauder Group Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 HOWAR Equipment, INc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Joe Snee Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 Lamnea Bruk AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 Magnetic Technologies Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . 303 MGS Manufacturing, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 616 Morgan-Koch Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 Niehoff Endex North America Inc. . . . . . . 717

Sonoco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 Stolberger Inc. DBA Wardwell Braiding Co. 511 Weber & Scher Mfg. Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . 703 Windak Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Wire Machine Systems Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Tape - Machinery Amaral Automation Associates . . . . . . . . 100 Magnetic Technologies Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Roteq Machinery Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Thermoplastics Engineering Corp . . . . . . 426 Weber & Scher Mfg. Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . 703

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Used Equipment and Machinery Daloo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Flymca & Flyro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 Gauder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Lloyd & Bouvier Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 1016 Wire & Plastic Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 Warm Forming Machines Mathiasen Machinery, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 1016 Welders AIM Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702 Clifford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805 Eurobend GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005 IDEAL Welding Systems, L.P.. . . . . . . . . 421

Tape - Materials Conneaut Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Q8Oils Roloil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 Schlatter North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

T & T Marketing Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Sikora International Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 1015

Testing

Zumbach Electronics Corp . . . . . . . 100, 416

ACM AB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Beta LaserMike Products (NDC Technologies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502 Clinton Instrument Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609 EddyTech Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807 FMS USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719 Foerster Instruments Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605 Howar Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 LaserLinc Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 NDC Technologies (Beta LaserMike Products) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502 Proton Products International . . . . . . . . . 703

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Sjogren Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

Micro Products Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 PWM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 Schlatter North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 Joe Snee Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 Strecker GmbH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 WAFIOS Machinery Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Wire Bendinging

Training

AIM Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702 Eurobend GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005

Die Quip Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803

OMCG North America Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

Tubular Wire Carriers Ace Metal Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 Fabritex Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704 Sonoco Reels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Schlatter North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720 Ultimate Automation Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Vinston Corporation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904 WAFIOS Machinery Corporation . . . . . . . 503

Tubular Products Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Wire Mfg - Building

Turntables

Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . 207 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co . . . . . . . . . . 418

P/A Industries, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Wire Mfg - Magnet Wire

Wire Mfg - Wire Formed Products

Southeastern Felt & Supply Corp . . . . . . 423

Leggett & Platt Wire Group . . . . . . . . . . 1010

Sivaco Wire Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1004 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co . . . . . . . . . . 418 Wire Mfg. - Communication Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . 207 Fisk Alloys Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019 Leoni Wire Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Wire Mfg - Packaging P&R Specialty, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 Pittsfield Plastics Engineering, Inc. . . . . . 708 Wire Mfg - Power Taubensee Steel & Wire Co . . . . . . . . . . 418

Sivaco Wire Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1004

Wire Mfg - Rope/Slings

Wire Mfg - Construction

Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . 207

Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . 207 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co . . . . . . . . . . 418 Wire Machine Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

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Multi-core cable U.S. Patent No.: 9,269,477 Patent date: Feb. 23, 2016 Filed: June 25, 2013 Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

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Inventors: Kazuhiro Sato, Masato Tanaka,

Tatsunori Hayashishita One embodiment provides a multi-core cable including: at least one ground wire which is arranged in a center or its vicinity in a cross section perpendicular to a length direction of the cable; plural insulated wires arranged in a periphery of the ground wire; an overall shield layer which covers a periphery of the insulated wires; and a sheath which covers a periphery of the overall shield layer.

Gas encapsulated dual layer separator for a data communications cable U.S. Patent No.: 9,269,476 Patent date: Feb. 23, 2016 Filed: March 14, 2013 Assignee: General Cable Technologies Corporation, U.S. Inventors: David P. Camp, II, Brian P. Skocypec, David M. Fausz

A data communications cable is disclosed herein. The data communications cable includes a plurality of twisted pairs of conductive wires and a separator between the plurality of twisted pairs of conductive wires. The separator includes an inner member and an outer layer being supported and shaped by the inner member for completely encapsulating at least one gas pocket between the outer layer and the inner member. The outer layer prevents the plurality of twisted pairs of conductive wires from entering the at least one gas pocket.

High-permeability elastic multistrand metal cable U.S. Patent No.: 9,267,233 Patent date: Feb. 23, 2016 Filed: April 21, 2011 Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Establissements Michelin, France Inventor: Henri Barguet, Emmanuel Clement Multistrand metal cable of 4.times.(4+M) construction, which can especially be used for reinforcing tire belts for industrial vehicles, formed from four elementary strands assembled in a helix with a helix pitch P3, each elementary strand consisting of a two-layer cable of 4+M construction comprising an inner layer C1 formed from four wires of diameter D1, assembled in a helix with a pitch P1, and an unsaturated outer layer C2 of M wires, M being greater than or equal to 8 and smaller than or equal to 11, of diameter D2, these being assembled in a helix with a pitch P2 around the inner layer C1, P1 being smaller than P2, the four wires of the inner layer C1 being wound in a helix in the same twist direction as the M wires of the outer layer C2, and wherein each of the diameters D1 and D2 is greater than or equal to 0.10 mm but less than or equal to 0.50 mm.

Wire with excellent suitability for drawing and process for producing the same U.S. Patent No.: 9,267,183 Patent date: Feb. 23, 2016 Filed: Nov. 7, 2006 Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd., Japan Inventors: Takuya Kochi, Shogo Murakami, Shoji Miyazaki, Ken Ishida, Masao Toyama, Fujio Koizumi A hot-rolled wire rod excelling in wire drawability is provided, in which breakage can be suppressed even in heavy work from a large diameter. A hot-rolled wire rod contains C: 0.35 to 0.65% (percent by mass, hereinafter

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expressed as well), Si: 1.4 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.10 to 1.0%, Cr: 0.1 to 2.0%, P: 0.025% or less (exclusive of 0%), S: 0.025% or less (exclusive of 0%), N: 0.006% or less (exclusive of 0%), Al: 0.1% or less (exclusive of 0%), and O: 0.0030% or less (exclusive of 0%), with the remnant consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities; wherein the content of hydrogen in steel is 2.50 ppm (ppm by mass, hereinafter expressed as well) or less, and hardness (HV) is 460.times.C.sub.0.sup.0.1 or less (C.sub.0 indicates the content of C (percent by mass) in a position of depth of D/4 (D: diameter of the wire rod)).

Phosphorus-free based halogen-free flame-retardant resin composition, phosphorus-free based halogen-free flame-retardant insulated electric wire and phosphorusfree based halogen-free flame-retardant cable U.S. Patent No.: 9,267,079 Patent date: Feb. 23, 2016 Filed: March 12, 2013 Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Japan Inventor: Hitoshi Kimura, Motoharu Kajiyama, Takuya Suzuki A phosphorus-free based halogen-free flame-retardant resin composition includes a base polymer including a copolymer of ethylene and .alpha.-olefin having carbon number of 3 to 8 polymerized by a metallocene catalyst as a main component, and 5 to 30 weight % of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer that has a melt flow rate of not less than 50 g/min and a vinyl acetate content of not less than 40%, a metal hydroxide blended with the base polymer in a ratio of 100 to 250 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the base polymer, and a mineral oil blended with the base polymer in a ratio of 1 to 20 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the base polymer.

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Aluminum alloy wire rod, aluminum alloy stranded wire, coated wire, wire harness and manufacturing method of aluminum alloy wire rod U.S. Patent No.: 9,263,168 Patent date: Feb. 16, 2016 Filed: April 8, 2015 Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Japan Inventors: Shigeki Sekiya, Sho Yoshida, Kyota Susai, Kengo Mitose An aluminum alloy wire rod has a composition consisting of 0.10-1.00 mass % Mg; 0.10-1.00 mass % Si; 0.01-1.40 mass % Fe; 0.000-0.100 mass % Ti; 0.000-0.030 mass % B; 0.00-1.00 mass % Cu; 0.00-0.50 mass % Ag; 0.00-0.50 mass % Au; 0.00-1.00 mass % Mn; 0.00-1.00 mass % Cr; 0.00-0.50 mass % Zr; 0.00-0.50 mass % Hf; 0.00-0.50 mass % V; 0.00-0.50 mass % Sc; 0.00-0.50 mass % Co; 0.00-0.50 mass % Ni; and the balance being Al and incidental impurities, wherein at least one of Ti, B, Cu, Ag, Au, Mn, Cr, Zr, Hf, V, Sc, Co and Ni is contained in the composition or none of Ti, B, Cu, Ag, Au, Mn, Cr, Zr, Hf, V, Sc, Co and Ni is contained in the composition. A precipitate free zone exists inside a crystal grain, and the precipitate free zone has a width of less than or equal to 100 nm.

Optical fiber cable 9,261,664 Feb. 16, 2016 Filed: Aug. 6, 2014 Fujikura Ltd., Japan Kouji Tomikawa, Naoki Okada, Masayoshi Yamanaka, Daiki Takedam There is provided an optical fiber cable having a configuration in which a strand core of optical fibers is housed in a sheath and capable of fulfilling sufficient mechanical characteristics and ensuring a predetermined watertight property. The optical fiber cable includes a strand core 1 including a plurality of optical fiber strands 11 and watertight material strings 12, a tape body 2 covering the strand core 1, and a cylindrical sheath 5 covering the strand core 1 and the tape body 2, wherein the U.S. Patent No.: Patent date: Assignee: Inventors:

Rope-tension system for a marine seismic cable U.S. Patent No.: 9,261,617 Patent date: Feb. 16, 2016 Filed: Dec. 7, 2012 Assignee: ION Geophysical Corporation, U.S. Inventors: Andre W. Olivier A rope-tension system for a marine seismic cable comprising a series of sensor nodes connected between flexible cable sections connected to other sensor nodes and flexible sections by armored cable segments. The flexible sections, which are housed in flexible protective covers, have a pair of ropes as stress members. The two ropes are pivotably pinned at both ends to termination units at the opposite ends of the flexible sections. The two ropes extend through a ring positioned between the two termination units. The pivots at the rope ends form linkages with the ropes that allow the ropes to adjust their positions as the flexible section engages a curved surface during retrieval. The ring presents bearing surfaces with a large radius of curvature to the ropes to avoid sharp bending loads.

Method of wrapping elongate material, especially cable harnesses, with a sheath U.S. Patent No.: 9,252,583 Patent date: Feb. 2, 2016 Filed: Aug. 14, 2006 Assignee: tesa SE, Germany Inventors: Andreas Wahlers-Schmidlin, Thomas Friedrich, Frank Lange A method of wrapping elongate material with a sheath having first and second single-sided adhesive

tapes the tapes laminated to one another with an offset, a free edge of the first adhesive tape aligned parallel to the center axis such that, relative to the center axis of the material, the adhesive of the first adhesive tape lies outwards, the first adhesive tape of the sheath guided by the free edge onto the material, and wound around the material so that the first adhesive tape essentially completely envelopes the material, the second adhesive tape also wound around the material, the exposed adhesive of the second adhesive tape bonding to the exposed adhesive of the first adhesive tape, so that the material is surrounded by at least two plies of adhesive tape.

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PRODUCTS & MEDIA TECHNOLOGY Liquid antioxidant solution launched by polymer supplier of XLPE cables Addivant™, a global supplier of polymer additive ® technologies, has launched LOWINOX FAST XL, a next generation liquid antioxidant solution for the production of medium and high-voltage cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) cables.

Per a press release, LOWINOX FAST XL was developed to help achieve new levels of productivity and cable consistency that helps lower the total cost of ownership for the cable industry. It is designed to do that by providing an optimal balance between scorch protection and crosslinking speed to enable cable manufacturers to increase line speeds, improving productivity gains without comprising on the reliability and quality, which is critical for cable longevity.

Made in Germany, LOWINOX FAST XL meets all the necessary quality and high cleanliness standards for medium, high and extra high voltage XLPE compounds. It has been extensively researched and tested, confirming that it overcomes the handling and consistency issues related to the use of conventional liquid antioxidants. Cable producers will see clear benefits in terms of higher throughput, lower costs through formulation optimization and less offgrade production due to improved cable consistency. The new solution builds on Addivant’s reputation for technology and quality, with industry benchmarks such as LOWINOX® TBM6, which has 40 years of proven success in the most demanding power cable applications.

Contact: Addivant, www.addivant.com.

5 data cables get CC-Link approval HELUKABEL USA, a subsidiary of Germany’s HELUKABEL GmbH, a leading cable manufacturer, recently announced that it has received Control and Communication Link (CC-Link) approval for five of the company’s HELUKAT data cables.

A press release said that HELUKABEL, which joined the CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA) in 2014 after submitting its CC-Link BUS Cable, now has received CC-Link IE Field approval

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for the HELUKAT 200, HELUKAT 500ID, HELUKAT 600, HELUKAT 600IND and the HELUKAT 600S PUR. These cables are suitable for either fixed or continuous-flex applications and vary in data rate ranging from Cat. 5e to Cat. 7. Some cable types are oil-resistant and/or have halogen-free jackets.

CC-Link is a fieldbus system used in the areas of manufacturing and production machinery, industrial manufacturing cells or process control applications, testing, sensors, and actuators. Developed by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in the late ‘90s, CC-Link enables industrial network devices from numerous manufacturers to communicate. The CC-Link IE Field is a 1-Gbit/s Ethernet-based network that provides optimized control and deterministic handling of data along industrial communication infrastructures. Determinism is ensured by a technique of passing tokens without using additional switches. Not only does it transmit control data, but it enables information processing for maintenance and diagnostics to improve collaboration and productivity. CC-Link IE Field allows up to 120 stations to be on each network with up to 328 feet between each station and can interconnect up to 239 networks in various network topologies.

Contact: HELUKABEL USA, tel. 847-930-5118, www.helukabel.com.

Power cable added to product line U.S.-based Direct Wire & Cable reports that it has begun production of Dura-Flex® Type W power cable at its plant Denver, Pennsylvania.

A press release said that Dura-Flex Type W is made of 30 gauge copper stranding and a CPE outer jacket and an EPDM rubber inner jacket. The power cable is suitable for industrial and mining applications, heavy-duty service and as temporary power supply cables; motors, batteries and generator leads; and for mobile and portable electrical equipment. The cable is offered in both bulk orders and standard assemblies.

“We are excited to offer customers our Dura-Flex Type W,” said Bill Laubach, director of power cable sales.

“We showed it to customers earlier this month and the feedback we received regarding the flexibility, durability, and the mere fact we can produce it, was phenomenal.

This is a big step for Direct Wire and creates a lot of benefits for our customers.”

Contact: Direct Wire & Cable, Inc., tel. 800-2333848, www.directwireusa.com.

W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Gore) offers a family of high flex cables to meet the semiconductor industry’s growing demand for higher data rate cables in a flexible, lightweight, and cost-effective package. ® A press release said that the GORE High Flex Cables, which are engineered for complex cleanroom environments, provide reliable signal integrity for high-speed data transmission in a variety of semiconductor equipment applications. These cables support standard protocols such as Ethernet Cat. 5, 6, and 7, USB 2.0 and 3.1, Camera Link™, CoaXPress and more. The cables have a proven flex life greater than 10 million cycles at a 50-millimeter bend radius without compromising signal integrity.

The high flex cables are the ideal choice for cleanroom, vacuum, and low-charging applications. They protect against particulation, outgassing, and electrostatic discharge due to their unique low-friction, chemically-inert materials. The unique construction of these cables significantly reduces weight with a small bend radius for easier installation. All of this translates to reduced maintenance and downtime, and lower total costs over the life of the equipment.

Typical applications for GORE High Flex Cables include high-speed transmission and datalinks, control networks, moving cables in machine vision systems (camera), high-speed image scanning, processing and data transfer, display interconnects, laptop screens, external wirings and digital video cameras.

“Gore continues to lead the industry with cables that meet or exceed AIA Vision cable standards in high flex environments for machine vision applications,” said Jason Davis, global product manager.

Contact: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., www.gore.com.

Brass sleeving added to wire family U.S.-based Alpha Wire has introduced brass braid sleeving for the company’s FIT Wire Management Family.

A press release said that the tubular expandable sleeving is tough and provides a high-end option for wire management needs. It features a tough exterior that provides great EMI protection and protects against harmful micro-organisms while also looking good. The FIT Brass Braid Sleeving can also be used to create a low-resistance point-to-point ground strap. The product is also ideal for retrofit applications, since it is an ideal way to install additional shielding to cable. The sleeving will be come in four standard part numbers and will be in stock and ready to ship. The product will be supplied in put-ups of 100 ft for the .25 in., .375 in. and .50 in. sizes and 250 ft for the .125 in. size. “(This is) a functional product to protect cables in all different types of environments,” said Alpha Wire prod-

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uct Specialist Hillary Riden. “FIT Brass Braid is great for medical devices, food and beverage equipment, and semiconductor equipment due to its sleek appearance and antimicrobial and germicidal properties.”

Contact: Alpha Wire, www.alphawire.com.

Wire for medical equipment offers both inside and outside advantages U.S.-based Anomet Products announced that it is offering custom engineered composite medical wire for medical equipment OEMs that can combine properties such as a high strength interior and corrosion resistant exterior.

A press release said that Anomet Medical Implant Wire combines two or three metals on the interior and exterior which are metallurgically bonded to achieve properties not available in a single alloy. The product is ideal for coils, micro coils, electrodes and leads requiring properties such as a conductive interior with a bio- compatible exterior or high strength and corrosion resistance, this wire provides greater ductility and formability than filled or plated wire. Available in sizes from .002 in. to .125 in., with a 2% typical cladding thickness, the wire can feature precious metals on the exterior for properties such as radiopacity, bio-compatibility, and contact-resistance. Interiors can include copper, stainless steel, ® MP35N, Nitinol , nickel-iron, niobium, palladium, tantalum, titanium, and others.

Anomet Medical Implant Wire is priced according to configuration, size, and quantity. Samples and price quotations are available upon request.

Contact: Anomet Products, Inc., tel. 508-842-3069, www.anometproducts.com.

Cable jumpers line is expanded U.S.-based Molex, LLC, has expanded its line of Premo-Flex Cable Jumpers with the addition of round flat cable (RFC) and hot bar soldering cable versions, TM

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providing distributors, original equipment manufacturers and contract manufacturers with an extensive range of custom PCB-connection solutions.

A press release said that like previously released options, including Flat Flex Cable (FFC) and etched polyimide, the new custom cable jumpers are durable, flexible and available in a variety of pitches, cable lengths, thicknesses and formats for use in multiple applications such as automotive electronics, consumer devices, home appliances, and medical.

Using a simple solder wave assembly process, Premo-Flex RFC jumpers deliver exceptional cost savings by eliminating the need for connectors or wire stripping. The direct-to-board solution is ideal for electrical connections between PCBs and display boards in high-vibration applications. Available with polyester, aramid or polyimide insulation, the jumpers meet REACH requirements and withstand high-temperature ratings. The Premo-Flex Hot Bar jumpers are permanently affixed to PCBs by soldering, creating a durable board-to-board connection that also withstands high vibration. With superior signal integrity, they feature a flat cable design that can be folded and bent for applications with space restrictions. Both options include hybrid terminations that feature zero insertion force (ZIF) or low insertion force (LIF) to through-hole soldering with round-to-flat or round-throughout format options, facilitating interchange to different PCBs. Contact: Molex LLC, www.molex.com.

Cable comes in ‘job in a box’ U.S.-based American Cable Systems (ACS) Uni-Fab, a unit of AFC Cable Systems, is offering a unique “job in a box” solution that features precut prewired and pre-assembled components that can be easily and quickly brought together as a whole system on a job site.

A press release said that the ACS modular wiring solutions result in fewer materials and tools needed on site at time of installation, offering significant labor savings. The

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job in a box pre-fabricated solution is available for any configuration, and is especially ideal for large projects with typical room types with repetitive wiring applications, like hotels, motels, dormitories, apartments, and condos. ACS’s job in a box modular wiring solution is also a good option for commercial offices with numerous cubicles, casinos, and schools that utilize a raised floor as a raceway. The ACS line of modular wiring products for lighting are an industry standard for wiring fixtures in big box retail outlets, warehouses, distribution centers, office buildings and any other lighting application where labor-savings and timely project schedules are important.

ACS follows the building’s exact construction plan specifications to carefully plan and organize the wiring for a building, using the type of AFC Cable Systems’ armored cable best suited to a particular project. Expert wiring specialists from ACS prepare electrical installation plans, resulting in reduced waste. Each floor and room is labeled and electrical cable is pre-wired to an outlet box. This room in a box solution not only provides excellent labor-savings in the field, it also offers inventory management saving the contractor from having to procure and arrange delivery of all the individual components required to wire the space.

Contact: American Cable Systems, tel. 508-998-1131, www.afcweb.com.

MEDIA Website showcases new logo, branding, for cable company The new website of U.S.-based Galaxy Wire & Cable, Inc., presents the new logo and branding for the company, which manufactures custom and stock wire and cable.

Per a press release, the website “now provides users with deep, rich information about Galaxy’s products and services so that customers can better understand (its) extensive offerings and easily qualify Galaxy as a wire and cable supplier.” The site, it said, has a responsive design that makes it easy to view and use on computers, tablets and mobile devices. “The new logo and tagline provide a modern, tech-savvy look to match Galaxy’s broad capabilities and vast experience.”

The website includes new sections on the company’s custom wire and cable offerings as well as standard

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Website offers updated special cable configurations for its customers U.S.-based Pasternack, a supplier of in-stock and ready to ship RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has released an improved version of the company’s popular online tool called The Cable Creator™.

Per a press release, the new tool iteration allows the user to not only design and customize special cable configurations online in a few clicks, but also purchase their designs without the need to wait for a quote from the company’s sales team. Cable Creator has a modernized look and feel that enables engineers and buyers to quickly and

easily create customized RF cable assemblies that meet their specifications from any combination of compatible connectors and cables offered by the company. Designers can choose from over 1,300 connector types and 115 different coaxial cables to construct a cable solution uniquely qualified for their specific applications. The Cable Creator can also be used to locate any of the company’s existing 40,000+ cable assemblies.

The new version builds a unique product page on the fly that provides the customer a part number, pricing, a build-of-materials (BOM) datasheet and the ability to enter the desired length of the assembly. The user can then add their special design to the online shopping cart and purchase their assembly like any other product. The custom cables are built and shipped the same day they are ordered.

Contact: Pasternack, tel. 949-261-1920, www.pasternack.com.

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products. For custom wire and cable, it cites a long list of insulation and jacketing materials that can be used, along with conductor, shielding and other enhancement options. Customers can use the custom cable quote form to provide their required specifications and get a quick response from Galaxy. The section on standard wire and cable describes the offerings for commercial applications, those that meeting MIL specifications, and UL/CSA approved products, along with tubing, sleeving and wire management products and molded cord sets. There also is a section for assemblies and harnesses.

Contact: Galaxy Wire & Cable, Inc., www. galaxywire.com.

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TECHNICAL ECHNIC PAPER Monolithic refractories used in transfer and process equipment downstream of the copper melting furnace Silicone carbide (SiC) was found to perform the best in slag cup tests that identified a percentage at which product was found to experience minimal slag penetration.

By Bryan Nelson and Dominic Loiacona

Allied Mineral Products was approached by Encore Wire to assist in improving the life of refractory linings in all areas of the copper wire manufacturing process. The majority of copper melting facilities are using refractory materials containing silicon carbide (SiC), chromic oxide (Cr2O3) or zirconia (ZrO2). In order to ascertain what composition of refractory was most effective for this application, copper slags from the industry were obtained for analysis with various compositions of refractory in slag cup tests.

The copper slags chosen for testing were considered to be representative of what is being produced in the industry as a whole. These samples were then analyzed for chemical and phase composition via x-ray fluorescence (XRF) and powder x-ray diffraction (PXRD). Table 1 shows the chemistries of the slags from four different manufacturers.

Table 2 shows the general phase compositions of the slags as analyzed by PXRD. One of the slags chosen for refractory slag cup testing

was from a copper tubing company, because they typically use a significantly higher concentration of phosphorus in their process (typically 180-220 ppm), which is a known corrosive element. Encore Wireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slag was chosen for refractory slag cup testing due to its high concentration of copper oxide, which is typical of copper rod mills running approximately 70% copper cathode and 30% scrap.

Refractory slag cup testing was performed with these two slags in order to determine which refractory composition was most effective in resisting corrosion and penetration from the slag. A variety of industry standard refractory products from different manufacturers was used. The procedure of performing the slag cup tests is as follows.

Castable refractories were cast into cup molds at their required water ranges and air-cured overnight. They were dried overnight at 230oF (110oC), and pre-fired to 1800oF (982oC) with a two hour hold, and allowed to cool. Approximately 150 g of slag was added to each cup, and they were fired at 2500oF (1371oC) with a 10-hour hold with the slag. After cooling, the cups were sectioned in half for visual examination.

Encore Wire Copper Tube Asarco Slag "B" Wire Slag After visual examination, each Slag Slag product from a particular slag was Compound Wt. (%) Wt. (%) Wt. (%) Wt. (%) ranked from best to worst, based CuO 75.9 10.2 13.6 99.3 purely on visual appearance. It is important to note that some products Al2O3 11.4 9.1 5.5 0.3 performed roughly identically to one SiO2 10.9 20.3 75.3 0.3 another, with negligible differences, P2O5 0.8 38.4 0.7 0.1 so they were ranked as a tie in these situations. Then, measurements were TiO2 0.2 0.2 0.4 taken to determine the depth of corCr2O3 0.2 0.1 0.1 rosion and penetration that occurred FeO 0.2 1.9 0.9 in each product. Penetration is the infiltration of the refractory matrix by MgO 0.1 0.9 0.6 a potentially destructive component CaO 0.1 15.8 2.0 from the slag, metal or other source.

ZnO 0.1 0.1 Corrosion is dissolution of the reK2O 2.0 0.1 fractory matrix by this destructive component, causing the refractory to Table 1. Chemical compositions of evaluated slags, reported as oxides.

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WJI: What’s the most important news in your presentation?

Nelson: I’d like to point out three aspects, as each represents an important consideration for refractories.

First, SiC, Cr2O3 and ZrO2-based refractories all do a good job at resting both rod and tube mill slags.

However, SiC based refractories not only resisted corrosion but also penetration of slags. The study showed SiC based refractories were the best at resisting the attack from the phos additive in tube mill slags.

Second, the study showed that you need at least +20% SiC in the refractory to resist rod and tube mill slags.

And third, operators of rod and tube mills should consider Cr2O3based refractories for the areas in the launders that are subject to extreme heat and/or high oxygen content copper. These areas would be the first few feet of the upper launder near

the taphole and areas where you are adding oxygen via air injection.

WJI: Were you surprised by the results?

Nelson: I was surprised at the level of SiC that was needed to resist rod and tube mill slags. The testing showed me that it is not necessary to have high SiC refractories in the copper rod or tube making process, whether it is in the shaft furnace or in the metering box’s refractory lining at the end of the process. These results have been backed up via a shaft furnace trial that is successfully using a 28% SiC refractory metal hybrid (RMH).

WJI: Was it difficult to determining the optimum level of SiC? Nelson: The testing showed that low levels of SiC, single digit amounts, were not sufficient to resist

rod and tube mill slags.

The testing proved to me the value of scientific testing: do we optimize Nelson refractory materials in the field or do we do this in the lab?

I don’t think rod and tube mills want to be test subjects.

WJI: Do you see the need for any further research in this area?

Nelson: From my field experiences since doing this paper I’m seeing a need to optimize the refractory to resist high temperatures near the taphole and areas seeing air injection.

Questions for the author? Contact him at bryan.nelson@alliedmin.com.

the castable—will have different thermal expansion charbe gradually dissolved and destroyed over time. Corrosion acteristics than the refractory body, thus potentially causcan also be accelerated by the formation of volume expaning more cracks and spalls in the refractory castable. sive phases in the refractory matrix, causing cracking and Normally, the copper slag cup test is treated as quala further increasing the rate of penetration, compounditative in nature, but it was possible to quantify the reing the effect even further. This problem is typically prosults by measuring the distance that the slag corroded and portional to the amount of thermal cycling the material penetrated the refractory. In order to verify these meais subjected to. Generally, penetration eventually leads to surements, because visually it is often difficult to see the corrosion. penetration depth of the slag, SEM/EDS analysis was perExamples of typical pure alumina and silicon carbide formed on several of the candidate materials. cup tests are shown in Figs. 1 and 2 respectively. It should The candidate materials were chosen from commercial be noted that the goal of this work was to test refractory castables that are commonly used in the industry. Of the resistance of slag, not metallic copper, however it is often nine candidate materials tested, four are from manufacturdifficult to separate the metal from the slag, so many of ers other than the authors’ company of employment. Table these cup tests also include some metallic copper.

It is apparent that copper slag penetrates deeply into this high aluEncore Wire Copper Tube Asarco "B" Wire mina castable while the 80% SiC Slag Slag Slag Slag castable displays no penetration, holding all of the copper and copPrimarily Primarily per slag in the cup. Slag penetration silica Primarily Primarily calcium phosinto a refractory body can cause rephases, Cu2O, Cu2O and phate phases, General Phase action products to form, typically metallic Cu with some with some with some Composition glassy phases that can crack or spall with some Cu2O and metallic AlPO4, metalthe material upon thermal cycling.

CuO, AlCuO2 metallic Cu lic Cu, Cu2O Any materials in the slag— includCu ing metallic copper, copper oxide, or other compounds that penetrate Table 2. General phase composition.

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ypically proportional to the amount of thermal cycling the material is subjected to. Generally, enetration eventually leads to corrosion.

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xamples of typical pure alumina and silicon carbide cup tests are shown below in Figure 1 and gure 2 respectively. It should be noted that the goal of this work was to test refractory esistance of slag, not metallic copper, however it is often difficult to separate the metal from Figure 1, High Alumina castable cup test with Copper Tube Mill slag, showing slag penetration he slag, so many of these cup tests also include some metallic copper. into the refractory.

Product

Wt.%

SiC Mixes

Fig. 1. High alumina castable cup

8SC

8% SiC

15SC #1

15% SiC

15SC #2

15% SiC

23SC

23% SiC

60SC

60% SiC

80SC

80% SiC

16CR

16% Cr2O3

Fig. 2. View of 80% silicon carbide Figure 80% Silicon carbide castable cup test, showing virtually no slag penetration. igure 1, High Alumina castable cup test with Copper Tube Mill slag, 2, showing slag penetration Chrome Mixes test with Copper mill slag, castable cup test, showing virtually no into the Tube refractory. showing slag penetration into the refractory.

slag penetration.

3 lists products chosen for study, which have been designated names based on their key component by weight.

Please note that two materials containing 15% SiC were used, they are simply referred to as 15SC#1 and 15SC#2.

The goal of the project was to determine which of these three commonly used refractory systems (SiC, Cr2O3 or ZrO2) is better at resisting corrosion and penetration by the Encore wire slag (representing the wire rod mill industry) and the Tube Mill slag (representing the copper Figure 2, 80% Silicon carbide castable Additionally, cup test, showing virtually no slag penetration. tube industry). two different 15% SiC products were tested with each slag because this is a common percentage used by refractory manufacturers in the copper industry. This was done to determine if the two 15% SiC castables are equivalent, or if there are other variables to be considered.

Encore slag cup test results Table 4 shows the results from the 2500oF (1371oC) copper slag cup testing utilizing the Encore Wire slag.

The table shows the depths of corrosion and penetration into the various refractory materials. Rankings have been put together based upon the combined effects of corrosion and penetration, as well as overall visual appearance. It is important to note that penetration depth is measured with respect to the original refractory line of the cup, not with respect to the refractory line after corrosion occurred.

Figs 3 and 4 graphically show the effects of corrosion and penetration, as measured by the midpoint of the range given in Table 3. Note that from a corrosion standpoint, SiC and Cr2O3 are equal in their ability to resist corrosion from typical rod mill slags. Zirconia does not seem to be quite as resistant to corrosion by rod mill slags. Penetration measurements in Fig. 4 show a completely different picture: SiC and ZrO2 are significantly more resistant to rod mill slags than Cr2O3 containing refractories.

SEM samples were prepared by cutting the cup in a way that includes the slag/refractory interface. The sample was cast in epoxy, polished, and coated with evaporated carbon. Fig. 5 shows two of the zones evaluated with SEM for the 80SC cup test with Encore Wire slag.

Fig. 6 shows Zone 1 at 50X magnification. Of note, Ta-

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30CR 30% Cr2O3 bles 3 and 4 show Zirconia Mixes that there is abso10% ZrO2 lutely no Encore/ 10Z Rod Mill Slag penetrating the 80SC Table 3. Candidate materials used refractory castable. in refractory slag cup testing.

The metallic copper is limited to <0.1mm of penetration, with a few sparse exceptions around 1 mm from the hot face that were too small to see with the naked eye.

The slag and metal are noticeably brighter in appearance in the SEM image because the Backscattered Electron Microscopy utilized in this analysis contrasts elements according to their atomic mass, and the heaviest elements

Product SiC Mixes 8SC 15SC #1 15SC #2 23SC 60SC 80SC Chrome Mixes 16CR 30CR Zirconia Mixes 10Z

Corrosion (mm) 2-4 0-1 0-2 0-1 0-1 0-1

Penetration* (mm) ENCORE SLAG x 1-2 1-2 x x x

Ranking** from Best (#1) to Worst 5 2 3 1 1 1

0-1 0-1

10-16 10-15

6 7

0-2

2-3

4

Table 4. Encore slag cup test results. * = Penetration marked â&#x20AC;&#x153;xâ&#x20AC;? signifies that no visible penetration was observed beyond the final refractory line after corrosion. However, penetration must have occurred in order for corrosion to have taken place. ** = Products share the same rank in some cases, due to negligible differences in appearance.

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were prepared by cutting the cup in a way that includes the slag/refractory e sample was cast in epoxy, polished, and coated with evaporated carbon. Figure ws two of the zones evaluated with SEM for the 80SC cup test with Encore Wire

Fig. 3. Corrosion depth in Encore slag tests.

Fig. 4. Penetration depth in Encore slag tests.

Zone 1 Zone 2

Fig. 5. Zones evaluated with SEM Fig. 6. SEM-BSE image of Zone 1, Fig. 7. SEM-BSE imageofofZone Zone 2, Figure 7, SEM-BSE Image 2, showing no penetration for copper metal and Encore slag showing no penetration of 80SC by showing no penetration ofapproximately TF80SC copper 3mm from the h ones evaluated with SEM for copper metal and Encore slag slag, penetration in 80SC. minimal penepenetration in 80SC. and extremely by slag or metallic copper approxiFigure 8 below compares the penetration resistance of 80SC an tration byofthat copper 3 mm the hot face.

Figure 6, SEM-BSE Zone 1, metal. showing no penetration mately of 80SC by slag, from and extremely w shows Zone 1 at 50X magnification. Note from Tables 3 and 4Image above there

These products represent an 80% SiC castable and a 23% SiC ca

Copper & Slag Penetration, mm

minimal penetration by copper metal. no Encore/Rod Mill Slag penetrating the 80SC refractory castable. The metallic in an image will appear the brightest.

1 ited to <0.1mm of penetration, with a few sparse exceptions from No slag or metallicaround copper1mm was observed three millimeters from the hot face in the 80SC 1.5 Since copper much atomicalthat were too small to see withis the nakedheavier eye. sample, as the SiC prevented slag and metallic copper from infiltrating through the refractory ly than the components of the refracto1 matrix. None of the extremely small bright spots observed in Zone 2 below are not from theare copper metalbrighter and copper oxide in the SEM image, hat the slag andry, metal noticeably in appearance copper metal, they were confirmed via EDS analysis to be the iron-rich particles 0.5intrinsic to 0.1 components of the slagutilized appearinbrighter se the Backscattered Electron Microscopy this analysis contrasts many SiC raw materials.

The SEM image of Zone 2 is shown below in Figure 7.

0 than the restand of the spots ording to their atomic mass, the sample. heaviest Larger elements in an image will appear the 0 of copper metal that have infiltrated nce copper is much heavier atomically than the components of the refractory, the 80SC the refractory are marked. Many of the l and copper oxide components of the slag appear brighter than the rest of the extremely small bright spots in the reer spots of copper metal that have6 infiltrated the refractory Figure 8, Comparison of 80SC and 23SC in copper metal and sl fractory in Fig. are not copper metal, are marked. Many of Slag cup tests. y small bright spots in the refractory in Figure 6 are not copper metal, but were but were instead confirmed by EDS to Fig. 8.

Comparison of 80SC and 23SC in copper metal and slag penetrarmed by EDS to be be rich a typical tracetrace element found in many SiC raw richininiron, iron, a typical element

tion from the Encore Slag cup tests. found in many SiC raw materials.

No slag or metallic copper was obTube mill slag cup test results served three millimeters from the hot face in the 80SC sample, as the SiC prevented slag and Table 5 shows the results from the 2500oF (1371oC) copmetallic copper from infiltrating through the refractoper slag cup testing utilizing the Copper Tube slag. The ry matrix. The extremely small bright spots observed rankings and measurements show that SiC levels above in Zone 2 are from copper metal; they were confirmed 20% performed significantly better than Cr2O3-containing via EDS analysis to be the iron-rich particles intrinsic to refractories and slightly better than ZrO2-containing remany SiC raw materials. The SEM image of Zone 2 is fractories. The * and ** descriptions in the Table 4 capshown in Fig. 7. tion apply here as well.

Fig. 8 compares the penetration resistance of 80SC and As with the Encore slag, most test materials containing 23SC to the Encore slag. These products represent an SiC, Cr2O3 or ZrO2 resist corrosion from Tube Mill slag.

80% SiC castable and a 23% SiC castable, respectively.

Also just like the rod mill slags, SiC-containing refractories

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Corrosion (mm)

SiC Mixes 8SC 15SC #1 15SC #2 23SC 60SC 80SC

Penetration* (mm)

Ranking from Best (#1) to Worst

TUBE MILL SLAG 3-5 1-3 4-5 0-1 0-1 0-1

x x x 0-2 x x

5 3 4 2 1 1

0-1 0-1

3-5 5-10

7 8

0-1

1-3

6

resisting corrosion and penetration, as seen by the variance in performance by both of the 15% SiC products evaluated. Analysis conducted by SEM-EDS verifies these results, showing the superiority of high SiC refractory castables in resisting slag penetration and corrosion.

Chrome Mixes 16CR 30CR Zirconia Mixes 10Z

Table 5. Comparison of 80SC and 23SC in copper metal and slag penetration from the Encore slag cup tests. are significantly more resistant to penetration by Copper Tubing slag than Cr2O3-containing refractories, and only slightly better than ZrO2-containing refractories.

As previously mentioned, the 2500oF (1371oC) copper slag cup testing results were verified with SEM/EDS analysis of select key products.

Conclusion From the collected data, it is clear that SiC performed the best in slag cup tests against both Encore slag and Tube Mill slag. Additionally, it appears that a product must contain at least 20% SiC to experience minimal slag penetration, with additional SiC beyond that point further adding to the superior performance of SiC castables. It is important to note that SiC concentration alone is not the only factor that determines whether a SiC castable will be successful in

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Loiacona

Bryan Nelson is a senior sales representative at Allied Mineral Products, specializing in refractory technology. He joined the company in 2012, and previously worked for 30 years in engineering, research and marketing positions for Spar, Inc., National Refractories & Minerals Corporation and North American Refractories Company. Dominic Loiacona is a research scientist at Allied Mineral Products, where he has been employed for five years. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry from Gannon University and Youngstown State University, respectively. This paper was presented at the Global Continuous Casting Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 2015.

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TECHNICAL ECHNIC PAPER Technological advancements in a continuous rod system This paper traces the history of the Southwire Continuous Rod (SCR) process, which was created more than a half-century ago, and over the years has seen more than a hundred systems sold around the world.

By Jeffrey Ainsworth

Southwire began continuously casting and rolling aluminum rod in 1953. The original equipment was Italian made. In 1963, Southwire started developing the first copper SCR process, a joint venture with Western Electric. Prior to this, copper rod was made from 153 kg wire bars. Wire bars were cast in static molds, cooled, and sold. To make rod, the bar was heated, rolled, acidpickled, washed and waxed. There were many advantages to continuously casting copper over the existing wire bar technology.

The first copper rod mill equipment required many changes to get a running process. New equipment was designed and an alliance with Morgan Construction Company helped improve the process. Morgan was a leading supplier of steel rolling mills. In 1964, Southwire began installation of its own SCR casting machine coupled to a Morgan rolling mill. This rod mill started up in 1965. Southwire also sold its first copper SCR system in 1965. In 1967, Southwire sold its first aluminum SCR system.

Fig. 1. Typical SCR system layout.

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In 1969, the first SCR Users Group was formed. This group was composed of all the licensees of the SCR process. The more users there are, the more ideas, and efforts take place to improve the system. This user group meets every two and a half years to discuss the process, trade ideas, and accomplishments.

In 1976, Southwire designed the first Southwire shaft furnace. This furnace system used a pre-mixed combustion system. This yielded many advantages over the old design, nozzle mix furnace. Later came a new holding furnace design and a pre-mix launder system. As with other parts of the rod mill, the furnace system has seen many improvements. Fig. 1 shows a typical SCR system layout.

SCR continuous rod system improvements There have been many improvements to SCR systems.

Some were major, taking place very early, such as replacing steel casting rings with copper-alloy casting rings

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What’s noteworthy in this paper WJI: What’s the biggest advantage of Southwire making its own SCR systems?

Ainsworth: There are many, but the biggest advantage is we operate what we sell. Southwire has been operating four rod systems for many years. We know the daily tasks involved to make high quality rod.

There is a lot of process knowledge used to design an SCR system. We have the ability to test equipment and process techniques before offering them to our customers. We also can bring customers to our facilities for training.

WJI: How important is the role of the SCR Users Group? Has the group led to any process improvements or helpful production advice?

Ainsworth: The SCR Users Group is a nice way of spreading knowledge around to SCR licensees. Every couple of years we meet

and share improvements, process techniques, replacement parts, and discuss projects others have tried.

Prior to the meeting, we ask users to provide their process data. We compile this data and share it with everyone. Users are also asked if they would like to present a technical paper on some improvement or major event related to the group.

People can mingle and ask questions of each other outside of the meetings. Many friendships are developed through the years. The meeting minutes and technical papers are bound and sent to the users to share with their colleagues.

WJI: Is the SCR optimized, or will there be further enhancements?

Ainsworth: The SCR process has changed drastically through the years. Equipment, automation, efficiency, and safety have greatly improved. We have many engineers

for casting copper. This paper will overview some of the more recent improvements.

Copper systems Everyone is trying to reduce costs. Fuel to melt metal is a major expense. Southwire’s Vortex Burner System reduces fuel usage by increasing the heat-retention time on the shaft furnace. The original idea was sparked by Gary Spence of Encore Wire, who is part of the SCR Users Group. The furnace combustion gases and burner layout were modeled using a computational fluid dynamics analysis program that provided an optimized burner orientation and layout for the best heat transfer. See Figs.

2 and 3.

Another fuel-saving improvement was the twin-fork loading system. This loader can operate as a standard skip charger or it can optimize the distribution of material in the shaft furnace. The loader has a fork mechanism which distributes cathode to the left, right, and center positions. Bundles of cathode are spread across the top of the charge, eliminating holes for flame to escape. This increase in surface area allows for better heat transfer. It also reduces the impact the charge material has on the furnace lining and allows for charging heavier loads.

Most users have increased the height of the shaft furnace

Ainsworth thinking about these things all the time. The SCR Users Group has many more people thinking about these things. The need for better efficiencies and safety will continue to drive innovation. There is always room for improvement. .

Questions for the author? He can be contacted by e-mail at jeffrey.ainsworth@southwire.com.

when they installed the new loader. These users report decreases in fuel usage from 10 to 17%.

Melting copper in the shaft furnace is the largest use of fuel in a rod mill. This furnace uses auto ratio control to maintain a constant air/fuel ratio to each burner as firing rates change. Automatic fire-rate control is used to maintain a constant melting rate. The system looks at the melting rate, holding furnace metal weight, and casting rate to determine the ideal firing rates of the shaft furnace.

A constant melting rate will more evenly preheat charge material in the furnace. It also improves process control by helping maintain a constant tundish level. It makes it easy for the furnace operator, allowing him to pay more attention to things other than maintaining holding furnace weight.

Another energy saving improvement was switching to variable speed blowers for the furnaces. Standard combustion air control designs have used constant pressure, inlet and outlet control to regulate firing rates. With constant pressure control, one blower can supply air to many rows of burners. Air flow to an individual area is controlled by a damper. With variable-speed blower control, each row of burners has its own blower and no dampers. Firing rate is controlled by blower speed. The initial cost of variable speed drives and multiple blowers is more expensive, but it uses much less energy. Savings FEBRUARY 2016 | 151

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Fig. 2. Burner layout.

Fig. 3. Gas path.

of 10 to 30% may be realized due to the lower horsepower requirements.

level. The new AMPS system measures the tundish level with a laser-distance sensor that automatically controls the level using a servo-controlled valve. The operator can remotely control the casting operation from a control room. Cameras give the operator magnified views of the mold and tundish level.

Aluminum systems Aluminum systems have also seen many improvements.

One is Southwireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ultra-D ultrasonic degassing process, which efficiently removes hydrogen and reduces undissolved inclusions in molten aluminum. It does not use corrosive chemicals, like chlorine and fluorine, that are generally used in conventional degassing processes. Tiny vacuum cavities are generated in the melt by the ultrasonic wave. The dissolved gas diffuses into these vacuum cavities and is removed from the melt as the bubbles escape. See Fig. 4.

Improved safety is achieved using a new aluminum Automatic Metal Pouring System (AMPS). The old system used a counterweighted arm to balance a float that controlled a valve regulating metal flow. The operator had to adjust the counterweight to control the tundish

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Applicable to either Some things are common to both aluminum and copper systems, one of which is the need for data. To run efficiently, operators and managers need to know what is happening in the process. Southwireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Computer Monitoring and Data Acquisition System does just that.

It gives the operator a visual representation of the process and allows him to make informed decisions. Both process data and product quality data are displayed on computer monitors throughout the plant. Historical data are available. Automatic coil grading and coil classifica-

Fig. 5. Operator screen.

Conclusion

Fig. 6. Vibration analysis.

Figure 6. Vibration analysis

tion uses predefined quality and chemistry information to correctly grade or classify every coil of rod. See Fig. 5.

Independently driven rolling mill stands with AC motors has reduced maintenance, reduced power consumption, and improved mill roll utilization. AC motors have higher energy efficiencies and require less maintenance. Smaller motors are used to drive each stand which are less expensive and easier to source. Useful roll life is doubled by using independently driven stands compared to the previous method of driving four stands with one motor. This significantly reduces roll costs. Many rod diameters are possible with independently driven stands with the proper roll pass design and tooling. Installation of the rolling mill is simpler because the alignment of one motor and one gear reducer is much less complicated than four reducers and one motor. Independent drive motors eliminate mechanical shear pin couplings, for decreased maintenance and better up time.

For many years, carbon steel casting machine bands were used to form the fourth side of the casting mold.

Much research has been spent finding the best steel composition and the best welding technique. Switching to stainless steel (SS) casting machine bands greatly improved band life. The average band life increased 66%. With SS bands, the labor spent welding bands and the downtime installing bands was reduced. This allowed some casting machines to run a complete week without stopping for a band change. It is much better to have long runs than short runs.

The SCR SMART (Southwire Maintenance And Reliability Testing) service program provides predictive maintenance diagnostics for SCR copper and aluminum rod systems. Predictive maintenance diagnostics determines a machine’s condition while in operation as components exhibit symptoms before a failure such as high temperature, vibration or excessive end or axial play. Temperature and vibration measurements, radial and axial movement on each rolling mill stand, and lubricating and hydraulic oil analyses are used to determine if the machine components are approaching catastrophic failure. See Fig. 6.

Southwire is one of the largest wire and cable producers in the world. Not only does the company produce wire and cable, but it is are a leader in copper and aluminum rod systems. Southwire developed the SCR (Southwire Continuous Rod) process over 50 years ago; since then over 100 systems have been sold. The SCR Users Group and Southwire share process improvement technology.

These combined efforts make SCR the industry-leading rod technology. Southwire owns and operates four SCR rod mills that supply rod to its own wire and cable plants.

These mills also serve as training locations for new rod mill users, and development facilities for new designs.

Jeffrey Ainsworth is the Furnace Systems and Automation Manager for Southwire. He has worked for the company for 29 years in managerial and engineering roles in wire and cable operations, copper smelting, refining, rod mill operations and SCR technologies. He is a registered Ainsworth Professional Engineer in the state of Georgia. This presentation was made at the 2nd Global Continuous Casting Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 2015.

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Ace Metal Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Gem Gravure Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Amacoil Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cover 3

Guill Tool & Engineering Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Honeywell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Beta LaserMike Products/NDC Technologies . 15

Howar Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Boxy SpA/Howar Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Ace Metal Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Cable Consultants Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Howar Equipment/Boxy SpA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Carris Reels Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cover 4

Howar Equipment/Unitek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Cemanco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Huestis Industrial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Clinton Instrument Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Inosym Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74, 143

Commission Brokers Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

IP Automation Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Condat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

International Wire Group Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

DEM Costruzioni Speciali srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Joe-Tools Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

DeWal Industries Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

KEIR Manufacturing Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Esteves Group USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Lamnea Bruk AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

George Evans Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Lieber & Solow Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Fenn LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Lloyd & Bouvier Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Filtertech Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Mexichem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cover 2

FMS USA Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

MFL Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Foerster Instruments Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Micro Products Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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ADVER DVERTISERS’ ISERS’ INDEX ADVERTISER ............................ PAGE Nano Dies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 NDC Technologies/ Beta LaserMike Products . 15 Niehoff GmbH & Co KG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 P & R Specialty Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 PA Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Paramount Die Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Pressure Welding Machines Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Properzi International Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

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Proton Products International Ltd . . . . . . 91, 129 Queins Machines GmbH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Rainbow Rubber & Plastics Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 REELEX Packaging Solutions Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Refractron Technologies Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 SAMP USA Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Sanxin Wire Die Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Sheaves Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 SIKORA AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Sjogren Industries Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82, 83 Steel Cable Reels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 August Strecker GmbH & Co KG . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Teknikor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Teknor Apex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Tubular Products Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Ulbrich Stainless Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Unitek/Howar Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Upcast OY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Witels Albert USA Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Woodburn Diamond Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Wyrepak Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 119 Yuen Neng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Zumbach Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

WIRE ASSOCIATION INT’L ADS WAI Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Wire Expo 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Wire Expo 2016 Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Monterrey ITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37-38 Interwire 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 WAI Industry Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 155

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