Preview: Interwire 2015 and the 2015 Global Continuous Casting Forum

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Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Industry News. . . . . . . . . . . . 10

CONTENTS

Volume 48 | Number 3 | March 2015

FEATURE

INTERWIRE 2015

Asian Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Fiber Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Fastener Update . . . . . . . . . . 24 WAI News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Chapter Corner . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Products . . . . . . . . . in preview Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Career Opportunities . . . . . 190

Preview: Interwire 2015 and the 2015 Global Continuous Casting Forum . . . . 34 The 2015 return to Atlanta should be especially productive and enjoyable as the Interwire will be joined by the Global Continous Casting Forum. WAI volunteers and staff have put much work into planning these two events, which offer an expanded scope, including a sold-out show floor. The preview’s 100 plus pages of editorial content should offer plenty of reasons to justify attending this event, the largest such one for the wire and cable industry in North America.

Advertisers’ Index . . . . . . . 191

TECHNICAL PAPERS

Next issue April 2015

• Global Steel Overcapacity

Due to the length of the Interwire 2015 and GCCF previews, technical papers will not be included in this issue.

• Update: Interwire 2015 and Global Continuous Casting Forum 2015

Cover: Atlanta will host both Interwire 2015 and the Global Continuous Casting Forum.

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE A MEETING WITH GOOD ODDS . . . . . 36

BE CAPTAIN OF YOUR BUSINESS! . . . 52

Mingling, networking and perhaps thoughts of a later go at the tables were on the agenda for the New England Chapter’s annual meeting, held Jan. 29 at the Mohegan Sun Resort Conference Center. A total of 122 members and guests were in attendance for the chapter’s 21st Annual Meeting, where the leaders for 2015 were announced and, as ever, a good time was had by all.

At Interwire, the keynote speaker literally was a captain of his own ship. Mike Abrashoff, former commander of the USS Benfold, and author of the New York Times bestseller It’s Your Ship, will explain how he was able to turn a troubled ship into a standout. He will explain the concepts that made it possible, and how they can apply to any business.

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EDITORIAL WIRE JOURNAL

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Interwire is better than vacation Your spouse might not agree with the headline, but attending Interwire offers a lot of pluses for people in the wire and cable industry.

First off, it is far too easy to stay in your plant because you are needed. Your daily routines are critical to the production cycle and there is no shortage of troubleshooting to do. Even if all systems are working 100%, then you shift your attention to the second tier issues and then, as time permits, to forecast, plan and develop. Not too long ago, the 3rd shift supervisor would be one of just a few people who had your home phone number in the event there was an emergency. Now, your phone alerts you to production slowdowns around the clock, even during those late hours that would usually be consumed with worrying about staffing or capital projects. Your time can also be consumed by recruiting and developing, labor matters, supplier issues, maintenance woes, sourcing issues or just plain lousy weather that cares not about your tight schedule.

For all the above considerations, I believe that you have an obligation to disconnect from that hefty anchor you call your desk. It is time to free yourself to take part in a guiltfree opportunity that allows you to join your peers who share similar challenges. It is time to focus not on the day-to-day madness but instead on finding solutions to some of your challenges. Best of all, such a break in your routine will give you a chance to find some help that would otherwise simply not be available.

This year’s opportunity is Interwire, and the full details of the event fill this issue. Dozens of your peers have helped develop educational programming specifically for you, and there will be some 400 exhibitors waiting for you under one roof that are fully prepared to help address the challenges that you face. For all these reasons, Interwire is the place to be, the place to bring a short list of challenges, and the place to be open to new ideas.

You also will come back to the office refocused and without having used any vacation time.

Steve Fetteroll WAI Executive Director

Publisher | Steven J. Fetteroll Editor-in-Chief | Mark Marselli Media Production Manager | Paul Streeto Director of Sales | Robert Xeller Advertising Sales | Anna Bzowski Director of Marketing & Corporate Communications | Janice E. Swindells Proofreader | Livia Jacobs Publications Committee Dane Armendariz | Chemetall Ferruccio Bellina | TKT Group/President ACIMAF, Italy Malcolm Michael | AWIA Australia Don Schollin | Q-S Technologies, USA Ralph Skalleberg | Skaltek USA Dave Stackpole | Nutmeg Wire, USA Giulio Properzi | Continuus Properzi, Italy Robert Wild | Niehoff Endex North America, USA Technical Advisors John Drummond | Scotia Group R. M. Shemenski | RMS Consulting, Inc.

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CALENDAR

CALENDAR March 26-28, 2015: Tel Fair 2015: International Istanbul Wire Fair Istanbul, Turkey. To be held at the Istanbul Expo Center.

Contact: http://tube-wire-coil-fair.com.

April 27-30, 2015: Global Continuous Casting Forum Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This WAI event will be co-located with Interwire 2015. The scope has been expanded to include aluminum. Contact: www.castingforum15.com.

April 28-30, 2015: Interwire 2015 & WAI’s 85th Annual Convention Atlanta, Georgia, USA. WAI returns to the Georgia World Congress Center to stage its biennial trade show, technical programs and 85th Annual Convention. Contact: WAI, USA. Tel. 001-203-453-2777, www.wirenet.org.

May 12-15, 2015: Wire Russia 2015 Moscow, Russia. To be held at the ZAO EXPOCENTR Exhibition Center at Krasnaya Presnya, this event is organized by Messe Düsseldorf North America.

Contact: MDNA, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

May 13-13, 2015: Electrical Wire Processing Technology Expo Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. To be held at the Wisconsin Center. Contact: Expo Productions, tel. 800-367-5520, electricalwireshow.com June 9-12, 2015: Wire & Cable Guangzhou Guangzhou, China. This event is held concurrently with the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition and Guangzhou Electrical Building Technology. Contact: Messe Frankfurt, info@china.messefrankfurt.com.

June 21-25, 2015: Jicable 9th International Conference on Insulated Power Cables Paris, France. This forum focuses on research, industrial development, installation and operation of insulated power cables and accessories. Contact: Jicable, tel. 33-1-56-9037-04, jicable@see.asso.fr, www.jicable.org.

Sept. 16-18, 2015: wire Southeast Asia 2015 Bangkok, Thailand. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

Oct. 5-8, 2015: 64th IWCS conference Atlanta, Georgia, USA. To be held at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia.

Contact: Pat Hudak, IWCS, tel. 717-993-9500, phudak@iwcs.org, iwcs.org.

Oct. 6-8, 2015: Wire South America 2015 São Paulo, Brazil. To be held at the Imigrantes Exhibition & Convention Center. Contact: MDNA, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

April 4-8, 2016: wire Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany. This biennial event will be held at the Messe fairgrounds. Contact: MDNA, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

June 8-9, 2016: WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo Uncasville, Connecticut, USA. This WAI event, which will be held at the Mohegan Sun Resort Center, will include its trade show, technical programs and WAI’s 86th Annual Convention.

Wire Association International Events For more information, contact the WAI, USA. Tel. 001-203-453-2777; fax 001-203-453-8384; www.wirenet.org.

April 27-30, 2015: Global Continuous Casting Forum Atlanta, Georgia, USA. See main listing.

April 28-30, 2015: Interwire 2015 & WAI’s 85th Annual Convention Atlanta, Georgia, USA. See main listing..

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June 12, 2015: Midwest Chapter 13th Annual Golf Tournament West Chicago, Illinois, USA. The Midwest Chapter will return to the St. Andrews Golf & Country Club.

Contact: Steve Fetteroll, tel. 203-453-2777, ext. 115, sfetteroll@wirenet.org.

June 8-9, 2016: WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo Uncasville, Connecticut, USA. See main listing.

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS Insteel to consolidate its PC strand facilities, will close Newnan plant

U.S.-based Insteel Industries announced that it will be closing its prestressed concrete strand facility in Newnan, Georgia, and moving manufacturing there to its other three PC strand production facilities located in Gallatin, Tennessee; Houston, Texas; and Sanderson, Florida.

A press release said that plant consolidations are expected to result in the elimination of 20 positions at the Newnan facility. It said that employees will be offered employment at Insteel’s other facilities together with relocation and transition assistance. It is anticipated that operations at the Newnan facility will cease by the end of March 2015 and the PC strand-related equipment will be relocated to Insteel’s other facilities. The Newnan facility was acquired from American Spring Wire Corporation in August 2014.

“The actions we are taking to consolidate our PC strand facilities will strengthen our market leadership position by aligning our manufacturing capacities with the requirements of our markets and reducing our operating costs,” said Insteel President and CEO H.O. Woltz III. “Our decision to close the Newnan facility was made only after thoroughly evaluating other alternatives and we are committed to making the transition as smooth as possible for the employees who are impacted.”

The release said that the closure will cost Insteel about $800,000, half of which will be for equipment relocation, the rest for asset impairment charges and employee separation costs. Closing the plant will result in annualized savings of about $3 million, it said.

Insteel is the nation’s largest manufacturer of steel wire reinforcing products for concrete construction applications. Insteel manufactures and markets PC strand and welded wire reinforcement, including engineered structural mesh, concrete pipe reinforcement and standard welded wire reinforcement. Based in Mount Airy, North Carolina, Insteel operates 11 manufacturing facilities located in the United States.

Nexans sets 2 records with its latest contract to supply subsea power cables Nexans announced that it will design, manufacture and install two 525 kV cable subsystems, with a total length of more than 700 km, off the coast of Norway and Denmark for a project that it said was the company’s

Nexans will manufacture 700 km of subsea power cable for an interconnector between Norway and Germany. largest ever in terms of volume and value.

A press release said that the order, which could be worth more than a half billion euros, is for the NordLink HVDC interconnector between Norway and Germany.

Production of the cables will begin at Nexans’ Halden plant in Norway in 2016 and final shipments are due to be completed in 2019.

The 1400 MW NordLink VSC (Voltage Source converter) HVDC project, a collaboration between Statnett, TenneT and the German promotional bank KfW, will connect the Norwegian and German electricity markets to exchange green energy. Surplus wind and solar power produced in Germany can be exported to Norway.

Conversely, hydroelectric power from Norway can be exported to Germany, an arrangement that was described as “an important contribution to the future development of climate-friendly energy.”

The release said that Nexans will design, manufacture and install mass impregnated non-draining (MIND) HVDC cables at depths down to 450 meters off the coast of Norway and Denmark. The cables will be laid by Nexans’ own cable-laying vessel, C/S Nexans Skagerrak, and protected on the seabed by trenching with Nexans’ Capjet system. The Nexans power cables will feature the same reliable and well-proven design implemented for the successfully completed installations of the Skagerrak 1, 2, 3 projects, and more recently the Skagerrak 4 project for the 140 km subsea HVDC interconnector between Denmark and Norway, it said.

“The NordLink project will be Nexans’ largest subsea power cable contract to date in terms of length and value and we look forward to continuing our close working relationship with TennetT, KfW and Statnett on this important project,” said Dirk Steinbrink, Nexans Senior Executive Vice President High Voltage & Underwater Cables. “The key to this success is our state of the art subsea cable technology combined with the proven capa-

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Prysmian wins cable contract for offshore wind farm

The Prysmian Group reports that it has been awarded a 60 million euro contract by the German subsidiary of Iberdrola, a wind farm developer, to supply and install wind turbine inter array cables for the Wikinger offshore wind farm, located within the west of Adlergrund cluster in the German Baltic Sea.

ing industry,” the release said.

Prysmian has been active in the area, last May winning a contract from 50Hertz Offshore GmbH to design, produce and install multiple 220 kV HVAC (High Voltage Alternate Current) 3-core extruded submarine cable systems between planned offshore wind parks within the West of Adlergrund cluster, the release said. It noted that Prysmian has positioned itself to win such contracts by making major investments in new and upgraded assets, broadening the range of offered products, services and capabilities in order to be fully equipped to face the many challenges coming from the offshore wind power market in a timely manner. One initiative was the conversion of a “dumb” barge to a self-propelled DP2 vessel able to operate in very shallow waters.

Prysmian has three production facilities dedicated to submarine cables, one each in Italy, Finland and Norway, as well as two installation vessels, Giulio Verne and Cable Enterprise, the release said.

Anixter to sell its OEM Supply – Fasteners segment for $380 million Prysmian will supply cable for Iberdrola project.

A press release said that Prysmian is responsible for the design, manufacture, installation, burial, termination and testing of total 81 km of 33 kV submarine cables in different cross-sections to connect the 70 wind turbines and an offshore substation that form the 350 MW wind farm.

The cables, it said, will be produced in Prysmian’s facility in Drammen, Norway, with installation work scheduled to be completed by the end of 2016.

“This new project is a full inter-array turnkey supply and installation contract, which re-affirms the Group’s full expertise in offshore wind farm connections and an extended ability to execute complex installation solutions in this field in order to support the demands of this grow-

U.S.-based Anixter International announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its OEM Supply – Fasteners segment to American Industrial Partners (AIP) for $380 million in cash.

A press release said that the deal is expected to close during the second quarter of 2015. “This transaction follows significant progress by the Fasteners team in delivering improved operating performance and benefits to all stakeholders,” said Bob Eck, president and CEO of Anixter. “Following the transaction, Anixter will have a sharper strategic focus on our core Enterprise Cabling & Security Solutions (ECS) and Electrical and Electronic Wire & Cable (W&C) segments,

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bility to handle complete turnkey projects from design through to installation. We are excited to be involved in the Nord Link which is a further step towards a complete integration of the European power grid.”

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and additional financial flexibility to build on these strong global platforms through organic investments, as well as strategic acquisitions, allowing us to continue to deliver long-term value to shareholders.

For fasteners, this transaction will provide access to additional operational expertise and financial resources to drive continued growth in its industry,” he added.

Anixter’s Fasteners unit serves customers in 15 countries, and the average relationship with its 10 largest customers exceeds 17 years, notes the distributor. The business reported 2014 revenues of $938.5 million and operating profit of $39.1 million.

The release said that AIP has also offered to acquire the portion of Anixter’s fasteners business in France that has historically supported Fasteners’ global business.

Prysmian Group reports its plans for multiple cable initiatives in Romania

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Italy’s Prysmian Group announced a series of news that collectively will bolster the company’s operations and activity in Romania, with an investment of 30 million euros in two new cable plants in Slatina.

A press release said that the first plant, for optical cable, will be constructed in stages in a new industrial park. The plant, some 20,000 sq m, will be able to produce a full range of new generation optical fiber cables for customers (public and private, national and international operators) that require quality certifications such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, IMQ. Prysmian plans to double the current production capacity during 2017, and to reach three times the current production capacity by 2020, passing from a yearly production of around 2.5 million km of optical cables to around 8 million km. The new plant will also provide 300 permanent jobs, by project end.

The release said that the second plant, also in Slatina, will produce high-voltage cables for underground power transmission lines up to 150 kV. The facility will serve both the internal market, sustaining the infrastructural energy development project in Romania, as well as the export market, “further qualifying Romania as an excellence hub to serve the most advanced international markets. Completion of the project and beginning of production is scheduled for July 2015.”

The two projects, which the release said represent an investment of about €30 million, were announced by Prysmian Group CEO Valerio Battista, along with Prysmian Central Europe CEO Francesco Fanciulli, during a press conference attended by Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the Minister of Energy Andrei Gerea, the Minister of Finances Darius Valcov and the Minister of Economy Mihai Tudose. “These new investments form part of a development plan already started in 2013 with an initial investment of €20 million,” it said.

The company also reported a Memorandum of Understanding to study a submarine connection between Romania and Turkey.

The Prysmian Group signed the agreement with Transelectrica, the Romanian Transmission and System Operator to consider the potential development of a submarine cable connection between Romania and Turkey. The goal is to determine if offering Romanian power suppliers the opportunity to export their surplus power to third party countries such as Turkey made sense. Prysmian, which can rely on three production facilities dedicated to submarine cables, notes that it has a long track record of world-scale projects successfully executed in various regions.

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Eurolls completes Vitari acquisition Italy’s Eurolls Spa reports that it has completed its acquisition of Vitari, a worldwide recognized brand for wire straighteners and other wire processing machines.

A press release said that Eurolls Spa, which has been focusing on technologically advanced integrated solutions in both the reinforcement and industrial sectors, generating significant interest from principals of major industries worldwide, will now further strengthen and broaden its presence in wire processing machinery through the acquisition. Founded in 1925, Vitari is located in Valbrembo, near Bergamo, in the Milan vicinity. In addition to its lines of automatic wire straightening and cutting-off machines, it supplies machines for manufacturing nails, chains, chain link fencing, barbed wire and dress-hangers, etc., as well as a wide range of ancillary equipment.

Telekom Malaysia wins contract to supply the cables for SKRIM project Telekom Malaysia Bhd has won a contract worth nearly US$200 million from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to develop and construct a new submarine cable system called Sistem Kabel Rakyat 1Malaysia (SKR1M).

A report in Malaysia’s The Star, said that the contract was won via open tender. It said that the new cable system, which would link Peninsular Malaysia with Sabah and Sarawak, spanning about 3,500 km, would have an initial capacity of four Terabit per second (Tbps). It was designed to provide upgradeable and transmission facilities by adopting the state-of-the-art 100Gbps technology.

“This new submarine cable system is expected to start carrying commercial traffic by mid-2017,” the story said.

“This huge bandwidth will improve the user experience by minimizing potential traffic congestion between Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. In addition, this also allows further growth in bandwidth-hungry as well as Internet-based applications to flow between these areas smoothly,” it added.

The story said that Telekom Malaysia is well experienced in the domestic, regional and global submarine cable development and investments. Its submarine cable systems, spanning more than 100,000 fiber-route miles around the globe, including several submarine cable routes the company uses to carry traffic between the Asia-Pacific region and North American region.

The story said that Telekom Malaysia will also invest about $65 million in the new project, which will be established through a public-private partnership arrangement between it and MCMC. In addition to the newly signed South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe Cable System 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5), Telekom Malaysia is also a member of various consortiums for submarine cable systems in the region. These include the Asia America Gateway Cable Network (AAG), South East 14 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Asia-Middle East-Western Europe Cable System 3 (SEA-ME-WE3-SMW3), SEA-ME-WE4 (SMW4), Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2), Batam-Rengit Cable System (BRIGHT) and Batam-Dumai-Melaka Cable System (BDM), Cahaya Malaysia, including the new Bay of Bengal (BBG) cable system. It also has invested in other cable systems, including the Japan-US Cable Network (JUSCN), China-US Cable Network (CUSCN) and South Atlantic 3/Western Africa Submarine Cable/ South Africa Far East (SAT-3/WASC/SAFE).

Emirates Steel plans to expand the company’s range of wire rod brands

UAE steelmaker Emirates Steel is expanding the range of its wire rod brands to create more opportunities for local downstream manufacturers.

A story in TradeArabia News Service outlined the goals and expectations of Saeed G Al Romaithi, Emirates Steel CEO, who said that “innovation and continuous improvement” would play a key role. “That is why we are constantly expanding our range of sizes and chemistries to meet more demanding criteria,” he said. The new range of products will help local industrial users who manufacture wires for welded mesh, nails, hangers, screws, chain link and gabion fencing, wire nets, barbed wires and binding wires, welding electrodes, nuts, bolts, rivets, PC strands and many other such materials.

At present, Emirates Steel is relying on its own R&D capabilities to produce special grades of high-carbon wire rod that would be used in the production of lighter

Emirates Steel is posed to further expand the company’s wire rod brands. automotive components such car springs and tire reinforcement cords; high-tensile ropes for bridges and wire ropes for the oil and gas industry that can withstand harsher environments, the company said. The Senaatowned steelmaker today has the capacity to produce 600,000 metric ton (MT) of wire rods per annum.

According to Emirates Steel figures, production of wire rod in the UAE is expected to remain at around 724,000

and long term is to support this government initiative by creating further opportunities for downstream manufacturing industries,” he added.

Swiss cable manufacturer opens plant in Saudi Arabia

Swiss cable specialist Reichle & De-Massari (R&M) reports that it has opened a new 1,500-sq-m solution assembly and production facility in Riyadh.

A story in TradeArabia said that the new plant will boost the R&M’s delivery speed and flexibility of offering its fiber optic solutions in Saudi Arabia. The facility, which is located at the Modon Industrial City 2, will have dedicated quality control (QC) personnel, it said. The first phase will see up to 20 technicians working in a single shift, and there will be a focus on opening doors for your Saudi personnel. Staff at the new facility will receive training at R&M’s headquarters in Switzerland. The company said that every raw material batch will be strictly monitored by the Swiss headquarters to ensure that the R&M Swiss quality is maintained.

Manzoor Ali, managing director, R&M, for Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Yemen, said that the plant will further the standing of his company, which is now recognized as one of the top three cabling vendors in the region

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mt up till 2015, while exports will remain at around 500,000 mt. A recent BMI forecast report estimated that UAE’s crude steel production will grow to 3.04 mmt by 2018, marking an annual average growth of 3.8% from 2013 estimates. BMI also forecast the consumption of steel to rise from 9.5 mt in 2013 to 13.3 mt in 2018.

“There is little local value added in the domestic steel and industry and this is one reason why we are looking at downstream integration with other local manufacturing industries,” Al Romaithi said. Another reason for that is to protect the local steel industry from foreign dumping. Emirates Steel manufactures wire rods in a continuous casting and rolling process, turning billets into premium quality wire rod in diameters of 5.5 mm to 16 mm.

At present, the UAE depends on wire rod downstream products imports with little domestic production.

There are today 20 to 25, generally small, local companies using wire rod for downstream production, around 15 of them are wire mesh manufacturers. The rest are fabricating steel nail products.

“As part of Abu Dhabi’s 2030 Economic Vision, which aims to diversify the emirate’s economy by adding strength to the industrial sector, our government has lent its support to the development of steel downstream clusters,” said Al Romaithi. “Our strategy for the medium

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“thanks to our strong local presence, together with Swiss engineering.” The company has a vision of becoming the leading cabling vendor in Saudi Arabia, and to achieve that vision “we have been investing in the country for the country.”

Prysmian Group wins 2 Kuwaiti deals worth more than 50 million euros

The Prysmian Group announced that it will supply some 210 km of high voltage underground cables for power transmission expansion projects in Kuwait.

A press release said that the company was awarded two new major orders worth more than 50 million euros for power transmission system expansion projects in Kuwait. The contracts refer to projects “MEW 06 Jaber Al Ahmed City,” awarded directly by MEW - the Kuwait Minister for Electricity & Water - and “Jamal Abdel Nasser Street,” awarded by ROBT (JV), a joint venture of Rizzani de Eccher-OHL under a larger scope contract with MPW – the Kuwait Ministry of Works - on behalf of MEW as end-user, it said.

Per the release, the Jaber Project is part of the Kuwait power transmission system expansion plan aimed at strengthening the main transmission networks and at securing power supplies to the industrial and residential sectors in the country. The Jamal Project is part of the substantial upgrade of one of the main traffic arteries in the middle of Kuwait City to the status of an ExpressWay and involves the diversion of a high-voltage underground line.

The contracts include design, engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning services of HV underground cable systems for a total of 210 km of 132 kV cable and related network components for both projects that will be implemented by the Group’s established offices in the Kuwait. Installation will start in 2015 with a planned completion date during 2016.

“These awards reflect MEW’S trust in Prysmian capabilities to meet the increasing needs for the development of new power grids in this strategic area,” said Antonio Chiantore, General Manager for Prysmian Group in the Middle East. “Since 1980, we have been supplying and installing a large portion of the Fluid Filled insulated HV cable systems within the MEW power transmission grid in Kuwait and we are very proud to deliver these new projects.”

The release added that the contracts “underline Prysmian’s leadership role in a strategic region like the Middle East, where the Group can rely on a number of projects completed or currently ongoing including the first-ever submarine power transmission link serving Doha and more recently the Phase XI underground cable system in Qatar, the GCC Saudi-Bahrain submarine interconnection and the 400 kV power transmission system for TRANSCO connecting the Bahia and Saadiyat Grid Stations in Abu Dhabi.”

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Malaysia’s Sarawack Cable plans to power up high-voltage cable exports

Malaysia’s Sarawak Cable Bhd (SCB), which recently acquired Universal Cable (M) Bhd and Leader Cable Industry Bhd, has high expectations for its ability to export its newly launched line of underground high-voltage power cables.

A story in Malaysia’s The Star cited CEO Aaron Toh Chee Ching as saying that Universal Cable, now an SCB subsidiary, was the only Asean company with the capability to produce the 275kV underground high-voltage cables.

He said that Universal Cable has begun commercial production of the high-margin product with an eye to exports. “Our key markets for the 275kV underground cables are Singapore and Australian cities, which need to replace a lot of their 132kV cables that have become obsolete as demand for power increases with the 275kV cables. So, there is a huge market for 275kV cables and I see this as a niche market,” he said.

In Malaysia, Universal Cable has a project to install the 275kV cables for a Pengerang Power Sdn Bhd’s transmission line project that was valued at US$71 million, the story said. Per Toh, the 275kV high-voltage underground cables are priced more than double that of the 132kV high-voltage underground cables.

He said that one of the key considerations for SCB to acquire Universal Cable was the latter’s manufacturing facilities for the 275kV underground cables that had involved big capital investments.

The story said that SCB has become Malaysia’s largest integrated manufacturer of power cables and conductors, with a market share of more than 50% after completing the acquisition of Universal Cable and Leader Cable for US$58 million in December 2014.

The acquired companies also manufacture 500kV cables and telecommunications cables. The SCB group now owns and operates seven manufacturing plants in Selangor, Kedah, Johor and Negri Sembilan and two plants in Sarawak.

Toh said that more acquisitions may follow, and that there is interest in providing more cable to Indonesia and the Philippines. “The (power) infrastructure in Indonesia is lagging far behind, and Jakarta requires a lot of 132kV underground cables. We (SCB) may acquire an Indonesian cable manufacturer which we have identified to use as a base to expand our market and increase our presence there,” he said, adding that the proposed acquisition might materialize this year.

Toh said the Middle East was the other market for underground and overhead transmission cables which SCB would further strengthen.

Omas Srl names NIMSCO as U.S. rep

Italy’s Omas Srl announced that NIMSCO LLC (Nichols International Machinery Systems Co.) has been named the company’s exclusive distributor for the U.S. market.

A press release said that OMAS is well known around the world for its innovative vertical multi-slide wire and strip forming machines, including the new Series BMX Modular System as well as the latest technology in CNC feed and form wire bending machines. The company will display its new CEB 200 MICR0 at Interwire 2015.

In 2004, General Cable Corporation’s plant in Marion, Indiana, was in a bad way. Today, the Marion site not only continues to survive, it has become a success story, named among IndustryWeeks’s “Best Plants.” Below, IW spells out the plant’s transition to an award-winning caliber.

The plant, which opened in 1910, had been hit by the dot-com bust and its effect on construction markets. It was downsized and focused only on making products for the mining industry. In Visit our stand #703 at Interwire 2015 2004, Marion plant employees were told that a cost-competitiveness feasibility study would be done to see if the plant would continue to operate. “This plant was at a crossroads,” said Plant Manager Features: Lee Sneed.

• Improved bow strength The change, and the smaller work(no holes) force, encouraged collaboration and a • Wire is out of the air stream focus on the operator that Marion had • Bow shaped like a wing for never seen before. The plant’s leadership improved aerodynamics model changed from a directive one to a and low cw factor collaborative one, a shift that improved • Wear strip eliminated and morale, increased employee participation replaced by wear bushand strengthened leadership’s relationship ings with windows for easy with the union. inspection and dust cleaning Today, more than 150 production • Wear bushings can be employees work at the 860,000-sq-ft changed while bow is plant, a testament to the hard battle mounted on the rotor fought there over the past decade.

“Marion’s progress during the darkest Advantages: time established an environment for pos• Up to 40% lower power itive growth as the years progressed,” (amps) consumption and according to its IndustryWeek Best Plants reduced noise application.

• Higher TPM - maintaining The plant that General Cable decided to wire quality take a chance on 11 years ago now man• Reduced elongation @ ufactures products for renewable energy, higher TPM oil and gas, and commercial building • Reduced bow breakage markets, adding three new product lines • Increased life on wear in the last four years. It has diversified, surfaces reducing downfocused on continuous improvement and times and maintenance championed lean. And it has made safety • Easy assembly and change its top priority. out of wear bushings The plant in 2010 created a central • Wire breaks are contained safety committee and then introduced within the bow - extending consequence thinking, which really was bow life US Patent #6,233,513 its turning point, said David Mooney, #5,809,703 and Other PatentsPending EH&S Manager. “Do the right thing, have the courage to care for each other and do KEIR Manufacturing, Inc. it one day at a time, and the numbers will Phone +1.828.885.8444 take care of themselves,” he said.

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On Nov. 27, 2014, the SMS Group inaugurated its new manufacturing and service workshop in Bhubaneswar, in the Indian state of Odisha, that was built with an investment of approximately 31 million euros.

A press release said that the new plant covers an area of 21,000 square meters, and is one of four locations operated by SMS India. It will focus on the supply of steelworks equipment and services tailored to the growth market in India. SMS notes that it has more than 1,000 employees in India. That number will increase by some 200 with Bhubaneswar.

Opening ceremonies at SMS Group’s new plant in India.

“This investment strengthens our manufacturing network for steel-works equipment in India,” said Burhard Dahmen, spokesman for the SMS Group’s Supervisory Board. “It is an important step for the SMS group in tapping this growth market and participating in the upswing taking place in this country. Annual steel production in India is expected to grow from its current level of 80 million tons to 300 million tons over the next 15 years.”

The new manufacturing workshop is strategically located centrally to SMS customers, most of which are within 300 km. It will also help exports as at the site is just 130 km from the marine port of Paradip.

The steelworks components manufactured at Bhubaneswar will be specifically aligned to the requirements of the Indian steel market. The range of equipment to be made at the workshop will include electric arc furnaces, secondary-metallurgy plants like ladle furnaces and RH plants (Ruhrstahl-Heraeus), and BOF plants, including cooling stacks for gas cleaning systems. For continuous casting plants, ladle turrets, tundishes, tundish cars and roller tables will be supplied. All the plants will be manufactured, assembled and tested in Bhubaneswar to ensure high quality. The service workshop of SMS India is equipped with various high-tech machines. These machines are critical to meeting OEM standards in the rendered repair and maintenance services.

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Top 200 Chinese cable companies see record US$61 billion in 2013 revenues

The “Top 200 Chinese Wire & Cable Producers Database,” recently reported by U.K.-based Integer Research shows that the top 200 cable companies in China saw 2013 revenue of an estimated US$61.1 billion.

A press release said that a single company, Far East Cable, topped the list of Chinese cable companies, with revenues of US$1.7 billion. The figures for 2013 reflect a 4.4% year-on-year increase, it said, noting that the top 200 company figure for 2008 was US$29.1 billion. Revenues are reported in US$ million, and include insulated power cable and enamelled/magnet wire and strip figures. Excluded are revenues from copper and aluminum rod, bare overhead cables (ACSR/AAC) and wiring harness.

The top 10 list is as follows: #1 Far East Cable Co., #2 Tongling Jingda Special Magnet Wire, #3 Jiangsu Shangshang Cable Group Co., #4 Hengtong Opticelectric Co.; #5 Baosheng Science & Technology Innovation Co. Ltd., #6 Jiangnan Group Ltd., #7 Xing Yue Group Co. (Xingle), #8 TBEA Co., #9 Shanghai Shenghua, and #10 Tianjin Suli Cable Group Ltd. The release observed that an acute rise in demand for wire and cable as well as market consolidation and merger and acquisition activity has taken place over the last six years. Also, there has been an infiltration of leading Chinese producers into the global cable companies, “displacing many European, Middle Eastern, Taiwanese and ASEAN companies from the global rankings.”

“The leading 200 Chinese cable companies have shown impressive growth over the last six years, although as overall growth rates in demand for wire and cable in China have slowed, we expect to see more consolidation in the industry over the next decade,” said Integer Research Director of Wire & Cable Philip Radbourne. He added that “it has taken considerable research time, but this report provides a definitive list of the leading Chinese cable producers that will shape both the China and Asian markets for the next decade.”

The report details wire and cable revenues company by company, based on the size of their turnover for each calendar year stretching from 2013 back to 2008, allowing for some very revealing analysis of the competitive landscape. The report details the year of founding and main location by city and province of each of the leading 200.

More information on the report, including a free preview, extract charts and an alphabetically list of featured companies, is available at www.integer-research.com.

exhibitor, which is known for its mica insulation materials, and plans to display its popular series of PE film mica tape and glass-backed muscovite mica tape as well as glassbacked phlogopite mica tape.

Wire & Cable Guangzhou will be held concurrently with Guangzhou Electrical Building Technology and Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, the largest lighting fair in Asia.

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Wire & Cable Guangzhou 2015, to be held June 9-12 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou, should feature more than 500 exhibitors.

The event organizers, Guangzhou Guangya Messe Frankfurt Co. Ltd. (GGMF) and Guangzhou Boyou Exhibition Service Co. Ltd., report that as of the end of January, more than 70% of the exhibition space has been reserved. More than 500 exhibitors are expected to be located at the two halls in the complex, where they will present equipment, materials, machinery and detection instruments used by the wire and cable industry. The event, they said, will be the largest a New kiNd oF PackagiNg… such international wire, cable and accessories from dewal fair in South China.

Citing a report by Integer Research (see opposite page), GGMF General Manager Emeka Hu said that China continues to be the industry leader. He noted that the country accounts for 25% of the global insulated wire and cable consumption, and that it is top ranked for market potential, exceeding Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Turkey and the U.S. “This is driven by the rapid ongoing urbanization across the country that fuels industry demand. As such, growth is forecast to remain strong well into the next three years.”

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He most recently worked for Cable Components, LLC, which he joined in 2007 as vice president in charge of business development and for the past four years has served as vice president and managing director.

He entered the wire and cable industry in 1992 when he joined NEPTCO Inc., beginning as a sales engineer and subsequently serving as product manager and then business unit manager. He holds an MBA degree from Bryant University in Smithfield, RI and a BSc degree in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a member of the International Wire and Cable Symposium Committee and was the 2012 chairman. He is also active in BICSI and serves on the board of the Communications Cable & Connectivity Association (CCCA). He is the holder

of two patents relating to cable technology. Based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA, Teknor Apex is a supplier of cable concentrates and colorants.

General Cable Corporation has filled several executive positions, including two promotions. Emerson C. Moser was named senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary and a member of the Operating Committee. He was previously assistant general counsel and assistant secretary and had been serving as the company’s interim chief legal officer since last July. Sonya Reed has been promoted to executive vice president, chief human resources officer. She was previously the company’s senior vice president in that department. Kurt L. Drake has joined the company as senior vice president, chief compliance officer and will be a member of the Operating Committee. In the newly created standalone position, he will report directly to President and CEO Gregory B. Kenny. He has19 years of international experience in compliance and finance.

He has held the senior compliance role with General Electric Aviation, Mubadala and PPG Industries. Based

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RichardsApex reported two promotions as part of the company’s expansion of its leadership team.

Bruce Calvert was named executive vice president.

He was described as being instrumental in driving technology gains for RichardsApex over the last four years. He will continue to direct R&D and will have a larger role in setting strategic direction for the company. Chris Hartline was promoted to vice president of operations. He has held a number of engineering and manufacturing positions for the company, including production engineer, facilities manager, and operations manager. As operations manager, he oversees production, maintenance, and shipping. He will now have an expanded role in process engineering and special projects related to expansion. He was cited for his determination and ability to drive change that, combined with his strong engineering and management skills, have resulted in better process control and improvements in order fulfillment. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. RichardsApex, Inc., is a global supplier of lubricants for the wire and cable industry.

Tom Shoup is the newest addition to the sales force of Amaral Automation Associates. He has more than 35 year of sales and product support experience selling industrial and high tech instrumentation. He worked for 20 years at TBS Industries, Inc., and most recently was a sales and support representative with LaserLinc. His sales territory will be the western New England area, New York, New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania.

He will also focus on the medical extrusion field.

Based in Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA, Amaral Automation Associates represents a range of machinery and ancillary equipment for the wire and cable industry.

Allied Wire and Cable has hired Jessica Weiss as a sales representative, working out of the company’s Pennsylvania location. Prior to starting her sales career, she earned a liberal arts degree from Montgomery County Community College. The company noted that it expects further such announcements to be made as it has seen strong growth.

Based in Collegeville, PA, Allied Weiss Wire and Cable has stocking locations in Florida, Wisconsin, and Nevada, and additional sales offices are located in New Hampshire and throughout the Southeastern United States.

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FIBER WATCH Google plans to provide 7 communities in North Carolina with fiber-optic cable Google plans to lay thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable in North Carolina in the coming years, connecting homes and businesses in seven municipalities to the internet through its high-speed Google Fiber service.

U-verse with GigaPower service deployed less than two months before Google’s announcement. It offers a gigabit connection, at nearly twice Google’s price, in parts of Raleigh, Cary, Carrboro and Chapel Hill, with an expansion planned for Durham. It added that Time-Warner Cable also plans lesser upgrades for local subscribers, with about a third the speed of the gigabit connections.

“They’re going to compete not just on speed but on price, on terms of service, on different types of offerings,” said Elise Kohn, program director for N.C. Next Generation Networks, a regional alliance pushing for better broadband.

FTTH White Paper: optical fiber remains best way to deliver broadband

Media reports said that Google Fiber will deploy in Raleigh, Durham, Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Garner and Morrisville, referred to as “The Triangle,” at an unspecified date. The Triangle is one of four metropolitan areas to join Google’s internet service in the recently announced expansion, which is Google Fiber’s largest yet.

The company chose the Triangle, Atlanta, Charlotte and Nashville from a pool of 21 metropolitan areas.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory described the initiative as a giant leap for the region’s internet connectivity.

Only 9% percent of the state had fiber-to-the-home access at the end of 2013, ranking 35th nationally, according to the Federal Communications Commission.

Per a report in North Carolina’s newsobserver.com, existing providers haven’t previously run high-speed fiber lines to residences because slower technologies dominate the market already. It also remains to be seen how many consumers will pay for ultrafast broadband speeds, given that few applications today require that much bandwidth.

“The business case for fiber has to take into account competing with other technology types already in place, or deploying in sparsely populated areas,” wrote Wes King, spokesman for the state Office of Digital Infrastructure, in an email.

While a basic broadband service provider might pull information from the Internet at 4 MB per second, GB providers promise download and upload speeds of 1,000 MB per second, with optional television access. Google’s service offers speeds about 100 times faster than a typical broadband connection. The rollout will happen in phases.

A GB connection should cost about $70 per month.

The newsobserver.com report said that Google’s presence may be spurring its competitors to action. AT&T’s

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The Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Council Americas recently filed a paper with the Federal Communications Commission that demonstrates how fiber is the fastest, most reliable, resilient and cost-effective way to deliver broadband.

The lengthy paper covers a wide range of topics, but below is a “bullet list “ that summed up the advantages of optical fiber.

• FTTH boasts speeds ten times faster than the best widely advertised cable connection and hundreds of times faster than DSL connections.

• FTTH is almost infinitely upgradeable to suit any need for increased speed.

• FTTH transmits in optical form; there is no potential for interference.

• FTTH is impervious to the effects of flooding, and its field equipment is usually an all-passive network, so power is not needed in the field.

“This report is a good explanation for why network providers, governments and consumers around the world invest in fiber to the home,” said Heather Burnett Gold, President and CEO of FTTH Council. “It is practical, low maintenance and cost-effective.”

Per the paper, bandwidth limitations among other factors are contributing to the decline of digital subscriber lines (DSL) and cable hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC).

Compared with fiber, copper and cable networks are more susceptible to equipment failure and degraded customer experience. As the costs to repair networks and increase speeds go up, these technologies – particularly copper – are becoming obsolete. 

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FASTENER UPDATE Anixter to sell its OEM Supply Fastener segment in deal worth $380 million U.S.-based Anixter International announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its OEM Supply – Fasteners segment to American Industrial Partners (AIP) for $380 million in cash.

A press release said that the deal is expected to close during the second quarter of 2015. “This transaction follows significant progress by the Fasteners team in delivering improved operating performance and benefits to all stakeholders,” said Bob Eck, president and CEO of Anixter.

“Following the transaction, Anixter will have a sharper strategic focus on our core Enterprise Cabling & Security Solutions (ECS) and Electrical and Electronic Wire & Cable (W&C) segments, and additional financial flexibility to build on these strong global platforms through organic investments, as well as strategic acquisitions, allowing us to continue to deliver long-term value to shareholders. For fasteners, this transaction will provide access to additional operational expertise and financial resources to drive continued growth in its industry,” he added.

Anixter’s Fasteners unit serves customers in 15 countries, and the average relationship among its 10 largest customers exceeds 17 years, notes the distributor. The

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business reported 2014 revenues of $938.5 million and operating profit of $39.1 million.

The release said that AIP has also offered to acquire the portion of Anixter’s Fasteners business in France that has historically supported Fasteners’ global business.

USITC rules that Chinese carbon and alloy steel rod were sold at unfair prices U.S. United States International Trade Commission determined that imports of carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from China were injurious to U.S. industry, supporting a previous finding by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Per the USITC release, Commerce will issue anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders on imports of this product from China. The action had been sought by a coalition of U.S. producers: ArcelorMittal USA LLC, Charter Steel, Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel, Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc., and Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc. They claimed that producers in China have injured the domestic industry by selling their products at unfairly low prices.

In 2012 and 2013, imports of wire rod from China surged into the U.S. market, rising from 144 tons in 2011 to over 614,000 tons in 2013. China is now the largest source of wire rod imports in the United States. n

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Igor Rogelj Vice President Sales & Marketing Plasmait Q: What does your company do?

A: Plasmait is an Austrian supplier of plasma-based heat and surface treatment machinery to the wire and tube industry. We build specific heat and surface treatment machinery or develop new production processes from conception to deployment. For example we build high-speed plasma annealers for stainless steel and nickel alloys or many other materials. We also build plasma cleaners, which allow chemical-free cleaning or surface preparation prior to plating.

Q: What is your role there?

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Q: What do you like best about your position?

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Q: Why did you recently join WAI? A: We joined WAI to strengthen our links with the industry, keep in contact with its members, use its resources such as industry directory. We present our news and technical articles at the conferences and at exhibitions. WAI’s strong presence in North America is for us a great attraction. The U.S. has become our key market.

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Webinar added to WAI’s series

WAI has made another new addition to its webinar series of core wire manufacturing topics with the recent staging of “Wiredrawing Dies and Lubrication.”

More than 30 people tuned in for the live presentation, which has since been added to WAI’s online archives of free webinars. In addition to the United States, viewers also hailed from Belgium, Canada and India.

“We had an engaged audience,” said WAI Director of Education Marc Murray. “We had a lot of good questions during the Q&A session. The overlap of interests among the audience was a good illustration of how well these two topics dovetailed.” Topics included calcium- vs. sodium-based lubricants, carbide nib cracks, zinc-coated wire, and die rotation.

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A. Which ONE of the following best describes your company’s type of business? CHECK ONLY ONE. WIRE MANUFACTURING 10 q Aluminum & Al. Alloys (Rod/Bar, Bare Wire) 20 q Copper & Copper Alloys (Rod/Bar, Bare Wire) 30 q Steel & Steel Alloys (Rod/Bar, Bare Wire) 40 q Other Metal (Rod/Bar, Bare Wire) 50 q Electrical (Insulated Wire) 53 q Communication (Insulated Wire) 55 q Fiber Optics FASTENERS, WIRE FORMING, FABRICATING 61 q Fastener Manufacture 62 q Four-Slide Forming 64 q Hot and/or Cold Forming and Heading 66 q Spring Manufacture 68 q Wire Cloth Mesh Screening 69 q Other Forming and Fabricating Please Specify ___________________________

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LUBRICATION PRINCIPLES STRIBECK CURVE

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Full Film Lubrication or Hydrodynamic Lubrication

Where: µ = Coefficient of Friction η = Viscosity V = Velocity p = Interfacial Pressure

Source: J.A. Schey, Tribology in Metalworking: Friction, Lubrication and Wear, American Society for Metals, 1983

Forces in wiredrawing. Chart: J. Domblesky.

Lubrication principles.

intention of this webinar is to provide an understanding of what makes a die work, how it is designed, causes of failure, and problems with drawing larger sizes.

The second half is presented by David Gzesh, an application specialist with Blachford Corp. The wiredrawing process generates significant heat from metal deformation and the friction occurring between the wire and die surfaces. This heat adversely affects the lubricant’s ability to adequately provide separation between the two surfaces. The lack of separation results in poor surface quality and shorter die life. This webinar shows how the lubricant’s chemistry influences its physical properties that allow production of high-quality product and longer die life.

The seminars are among the dozens that can be accessed for free at www.wirenet.org by WAI members.

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Looking for a hotel room for Interwire 2015 or GCCF?

Attendees seeking a hotel room can find one via WAI’s website, wirenet.org, where the Interwire page drop list of links includes one for reservations. Just click on “hotels” and a drop list will include a half-dozen hotels that WAI has negotiated with. One can then choose a timeframe and look at the available hotels and rates. The list includes Embassy Suites, Glenn Hotel, Hilton Garden Inn, Holiday Inn, the Omni and the Westin.

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CHAPTER CORNER Microwave Systems. He thanked the event sponsors for helping make the event possible, and introduced past Chapter President Kevin Buchanan, Fluouropolymer The new officer slate for 2015 was introduced at the Resources, Inc., who discussed the chapter’s scholarship New England Chapter’s annual meeting, held Jan. 29 at efforts. He singled out Quirk Wire’s Dave Thibodeau for the Mohegan Sun Resort Conference Center, where 122 “putting his heart and soul into the chapter’s scholarship members and guests were in attendance. program.” He noted The president is Bob that fundraising efforts Srubas, the vice prescontinued to bolster ident is Dave Fischer, the chapter’s resources the treasurer is Michael to where it was able to Crouchley, and the secadd $10,000 more to retary is Derek Olson. its scholarship fund, he Other board members said. Soon after, he introinclude Grant Campbell, duced WAI President Mike Canterino, Harish Bill Reichert, who was Panchal, Jim Stocking, accompanied by his Lori Parent, John Rivers, wife, Jennifer.

Brian Holden, Mark Reichert, who recalled Long, Nick Roth and that he met Buchanan Rich Goyette. when he started out in The New England Chapter’s 2015 officers include, front row, r-1, the industry in 1985, Standing in for 2014 Grant Campbell, Michael Crouchley, Dave Fisher, Bob Srubas, chapter President Ken said that he considered Derek Olson and Mike Canterino. Standing r-l, are Harish Strandberg, who was himself lucky in that he Panchal, Jim Stocking, Lori Parent, John Rivers, Brian Holden, unable to attend, was has been able to attend Mark Long, Nick Roth and Rich Goyette.

Bob Srubas, Times a wide range of industry

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Sponsors for the event included Platinum: Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp., Specialty Cable Corporation, Multi-Cable Corporation and James Monroe Wire & Cable Corporation; Gold: Carrris Reels, GEM Gravure, Quick Wire Co. and Breen Color Concentrates; Silver: S&E Specialty Polymers, Remee Wire and Cable, Fluorogistx, T&T Marketing, James Monroe Wire & Cable Corporation and Conneaut Industries Inc.; Bronze: Amaral Automation Associates, Color Chromatics, W. Gillies Technologies, Beta LaserMike, Lloyd & Bouvier, Mossberg Associates, Inc. and James Monroe Wire & Cable Corporation.

Reminder: March deadline draws closer for scholarship applications

Members of WAI’s New England, Midwest and Southeast chapters must mail their scholarship applications by Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Non-members of WAI who have students who would be eligible for the scholarships are welcome to join WAI and their respective chapter and be considered eligible to submit an application. For more details, contact WAI’s Steve Fetteroll at tel. 203-453-1777, ext. 115, or at sfetteroll@wirenet.org.

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events over the years as well as see firsthand the role the Association continues to play. “We’ve got 2,000 (WAI) members and we’re growing,” he said. “We have a profitable Association, and there’s lot to be proud about. All of us should feel good.” A key to the Association’s success is the volunteer support from members on its committees, as well as the headquarters staff led by Executive Director Steve Fetteroll, he said. It’s one thing to keep on top of planning for the upcoming Interwire show, but to do so while undergoing a move from its office in Guilford to a smaller location in Madison is especially challenging, he declared. “I feel we’re being very well led.”

The New England Chapter on its own has a lot to be proud of too, Reichert said. It’s the oldest and largest chapter, and it has seen its share of new members, including some who were at that night’s meeting. He encouraged those in attendance to remain active and to attend Interwire.

The evening concluded with a performance by a traveling comedy troupe from Brickroad Productions, as well as word that the raffle of Boston Red Sox baseball game tickets donated by Gem Gravure had raised $1,800.

Attendees were also reminded that about WAI’s Interwire 2015 event coming up in April, as well as that the following year the Association will stage its first-ever Wire Expo at the Mohegan Sun Resort Conference Center.

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A nighttime view of the Atlanta skyline, a familiar site to many Interwire attendees.

Atlanta: 2-in-1 event appeal Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center will be a bustling place when Interwire returns this April, joined for the second time by the Global Continuous Casting Forum (GCCF), last held in 2011 and now back in an expanded format.

Attendees will have plenty to do at Interwire 2015 at Building A in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. A sold-out show floor will feature the collective technology and services offered by some 400 represented companies, and the educational programs have

largely been designed and prepared by wire and cable manufacturers, people who believe in “practical” stuff.

The GCCF, which runs from Monday, April 27, through Thursday, April 30, will have its own reception and a dinner at the Georgia Aquarium on Wednesday, April 29. Details on the GCCF program start on p. 62, and the schedule has been set so that a healthy block of time is available for its attendees to walk the Interwire show floor. The WAI program was directed by Encore Wire’s Gary Spence, who was the driving force in creating the first-ever program in 2011 that covered

At Interwire 2013, the Windak crew was well prepared.

The Georgia World Congress Center is a home-awayfrom home for WAI’s biennial event.

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Aluminum joins copper for WAI’s second Global Continuous Casting Forum

Table of Contents Sponsors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Conference Planning Committee . . . . . . . . 38 General Program/Schedule: Interwire . . . . 40 General Program/Schedule: GCCF . . . . . . 42 New & Noteworthy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 City of Atlanta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Plant Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Education Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Keynote Speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Mordica Memorial Award Winner . . . . . . . 54 Donnellan Memorial Award Winner . . . . . 55 Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 WAI Life/25-Year Members . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Global Continuous Casting Forum . . . . . . . 62 Conference Sessions at a Glance . . . . . . . . . 72 Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing . . . . . 74 Conference Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Production Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Alphabetical List of Exhibitors . . . . . . . . . . 88 Preview of Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Floor Plan . . . . . . . . . . .insert, between 96-97 Exhibitors’ Product Directory . . . . . . . . . 176

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four types of continuous casting practices for copper. This time, it will also offer an aluminum track.

The full Interwire schedule starts on Tuesday, April 28, but Monday, April 27, will see a slew of WAI meetings held as well as the day-long staging of Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing. There will also be a tour of Southwire Company’s Carrollton rod mill plant that afternoon. The technical and operations program starts at 9 am, and the exhibits are open from 10 am to 5 pm on Tuesday and Wednesday, from 10 am to 3 pm on Thursday.

Leading off the conference session on Tuesday, April 28, is Philip Radbourne, a director of U.K.-based industry consulting firm Integer Research. He will give his overview of the wire outlook for the electric field. The sessions this year will focus on applications, dust control, staffing, ferrous and nonferrous. That afternoon, the show floor will once again host Productions Solutions. The WAI Member Rewards Luncheon and WAI’s Annual Meeting will be held from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm, with the winners of the Mordica and Donnellan awards honored, along with recognition of WAI’s new Life and 25-Year Members. There also will be a raffle and President’s Award at this members-only event. That night, the Opening Reception will be held Tuesday, April 28, at the College Football Hall of Fame, a recently opened attraction that should be of interest to all, not just sports fans.

The Mordica Lecture, presented by Prof. Tadeusz Knych, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland, will lead off the conference sessions on Wednesday, April 29. That afternoon, the keynote presentation will be presented by Mike Abrashoff, former naval commander of the USS Benfold, and author of “It’s Your Ship.” His talk, which will share lessons that allowed him to turn a troubled ship to a standout, can be applied to business. The talk, sponsored by Gem Gravure, Co., Inc., is from 2 pm to 2:45 pm, and is open to full conference registrants.

Thursday will see an event worth staying for: the Manufacturing Management Workshop. It will be presented

by John Barteld, a consultant best known for having served as CEO/executive director of the IWCS from 2004 to 2014.

Meanwhile, the city of Atlanta, a site well known to many Interwire attendees, will be there to explore and to enjoy.

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leaders Board of Directors William Avise Leggett & Platt

Steven Jones Asarco LLC - Amarillo Refinery

Gary Spence Encore Wire Corp

Richard Baker General Cable Corp

Allen Lindholm Arcelormittal Long Carbon North America

Jeffrey Stafford, Sonoco Reels and Spools Division

Steve Bonnell Marmon Specialty Wire & Cable Group

George “Jay” Munsey S&E Specialty Polymers

Anthony DeRosa Frigeco USA, Inc

Patricio Murga Conductores Monterrey SA de CV

David Ferraro Carris Reels, Inc

William Reichert Champlain Cable

Jaime Fuente Condusal SA de CV

Sheldon Scott Whitney Blake Co

David Hawker Nexans Energy Cables North America

Jan Sorige Enkotec Co, Inc

Andy Talbot Mid-South Wire Co, Inc Mark Thackeray General Cable Corp Richard Wagner Insteel Industries Bhaskar Yalamanchili Gerdau Ameristeel

Conference Programming Co-Chairmen William Reichert Champlain Cable Corp.

Andy Talbot Mid-South Wire Co. Inc. Staff Liaison Marc L Murray Wire Association International Inc

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William Avise Leggett & Platt Inc.

Steven Jones Asarco LLC

Richard Baker General Cable Corp.

Allen Lindholm ArcelorMittal Long Carbon N.A.

Randy Gibbs Southwestern Wire Inc.

Roy St. Andre EIS Wire & Cable Co.

Tracy Gooding Mar-Mac Wire Inc.

Richard Wagner Insteel Industries Inc.

David Hawker Nexans Energy USA Inc.

Tim Wampler General Cable Corp.

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schedule Schedule of Events MONDAY, APRIL 27 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Registration

8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing Course

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Fundamentals Course Luncheon

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Fundamentals of Wire Mfg. Ferrous Track

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Fundamentals of Wire Mfg. Nonferrous Track

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Plant Tour | Southwire Rod Mill

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

GCCF Welcome Reception | Hilton Garden Inn*

TUESDAY, APRIL 28 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Registration

8:45 am - 4:30 pm

GCCF Program (General Session)*

9:00 am - 10:30 am

Technical Program (Nonferrous/Electrical)

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Exhibits Open | Hall A

10:00 am - 4:30 pm

Technical Program (Ferrous)

10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Technical Program (Thermoplastic/Thermoset)

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

GCCF Luncheon & Speaker*

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Opening Reception | College Football Hall of Fame

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Registration

8:30 am - 1:00 pm

Technical Program (Nonferrous + Mordica Lecture, Tadeusz Knych

8:45 am - 12:30 pm

GCCF Program (Copper Session)*

8:45 am - 12:50 pm

GCCF Program (Aluminum Session)*

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Technical Program (Capital Expenditures)

9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Technical Program (Staffing Session)

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Exhibits Open | Hall A

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Technical Program (Nonferrous/Electrical)

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

WAI Member Rewards Luncheon & Annual Meeting (Members Only) Sponsored by: Lloyd & Bouvier Inc.

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Keynote Speaker: Mike Abrashoff Sponsored by: Gem Gravure Co. Inc.

3:30 pm - 3:50 pm

Production Solutions Demo | Cleaning

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

WAI Southeast Chapter Reception

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm

Production Solutions Demo | Lubricants

4:30 pm - 4:50 pm

Production Solutions Demo | Wire Breaks

6:30 pm - 10:00 pm

GCCF Dinner & Address | Georgia Aquarium*

THURSDAY, APRIL 30 8:00 am - 2:00 pm

Registration

8:00 am - 12:30 pm

GCCF Program (General Session)*

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Manufacturing Management Workshop

10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Exhibits Open | Hall A

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Schedule subject to change.

See www.Interwire15.com for updates *Concurrent Global Continuous Casting Forum (GCCF) requires separate registration.

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schedule Schedule of Events MONDAY, APRIL 27 7:00 -10:00 pm

GCCF Welcome Reception | Ventanas restaurant at the Hilton Garden Inn*

SESSION - Copper

SESSION - Aluminum

TUESDAY, APRIL 28 8:45 am -9:00 am

GCCF Welcome | Gary L. Spence

9:00 am-9:30 am

Properzi Casting Technology

9:30 am -10:00 am

SCR Casting Technology

10:30 am -11:00 am

Contirod Casting Technology

11:00 am -11:30 am

Upcast® GREENerCAST and Beyond

11:30 am -12:00 pm

Rautomead technology for production of oxygen-free copper wire rod and graphite furnace technology for production of dilute copper conductor alloys

12:30 pm -1:00 pm

Profits and Performance in Wire Manufacturing

1:00 pm -1:30 pm

Analysis of electrical energy demand trends and the implication in nonferrous rod demand

1:30 pm -2:00 pm

Copper: The Metal for the Future

2:00 pm -2:30 pm

Outlook for Global Aluminum and Aluminum Wire Rod Markets

2:30 pm -3:00 pm

Global Scrap Markets

3:00 pm -4:30 pm

Cost-Saving Opportunities Panel

6:30 pm -8:30 pm

Opening Reception

Aluminum joins copper for WAI’s second Global Continuous Casting Forum

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

8:45 am -9:00 am

GCCF Welcome (Aluminum) | Richard Baker

8:50 am -9:10 am

Molten Metal Management - An Aluminum Perspective

8:15 am -8:30 am GCCF Welcome | Gary L. Spence

9:10 am -9:35 am

Refractory Selection for Aluminum Casthouses

9:35 am -9:55 am

Benefits of Regenerative Combustion Systems

9:55 am -10:20 am

Furnace Efficiency Improvements

10:40 am -11:00 am

ACDTM – In-line Aluminum Degassing in Continuous Casting

11:00 am -11:20 am

The Development of an Ultrasonic Degassing Process for Continuous Aluminum Rod Casting

11:20 am -11:45 am

Metal Flow Improvement in the Properzi Caster Lower Tundish

11:45 am -12:10 pm

A Decade of Continuous Improvements in Aluminum Rod Casting at Rio Tinto Alcan

12:10 pm -12:30 pm

Development of Innovative Aluminum Alloys for Production of Overhead Cables

12:30 pm -12:50 pm

Endless Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys Rod Mill Plant

8:45 am -9:00 am

GCCF Welcome (Copper) | Gary L. Spence

9:00 am -9:30 am

Processing and Performance Differences Between Continuously Cast FRHC, ETP, and OF Copper Rod Into Wire Products

9:30 am -10:00 am

Melting Options for Copper

10:30 am -11:10 am

Monolithic Refractories Used In Transfer and Process Equipment Downstream of the Copper Melting Furnace

11:10 am -11:50 am

Continuous Cast Copper Rod Coolant and Water Filtration

11:50 am -12:30 pm

ETP vs. FRHC Copper Rod: Correlation With ASTM Standards

2:00 pm -2:45 pm

Keynote: It’s Your Ship | Mike Abrashoff

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

GCCF Dinner & Address

7:00 pm -10:00 pm

A tale of long hours and hard-earned success in 40+ years in copper continuous casting

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8:30 am -9:00 am The Two-Roll Rolling Process for Long Products 9:00 am -9:30 am Strategy for Controlling Aluminum Rolling Lubricants 9:30 am -10:00 am Management and Control Strategies for Hot Rolling Emulsions 10:30 am -11:10 am A Three-Dimensional Analysis of Wire Breaks 11:10 am -11:40 am Documentation, Analysis, and Traceability of Eddy Current Inspection Results With Computer-Based Instrumentation 11:40 am -12:10 pm Brief Overview of Analytical Methods with Special Focus on Spark Atomic Emission Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Copper and Aluminum Base Materials 12:10 pm -12:30 pm GCCF Closing | Gary L. Spence

Schedule subject to change.

See www.Interwire15.com for updates

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event notes New & Noteworthy Keynote speaker has literally been captain of his own ship Mike Abrashoff, former Naval Commander of the USS Benfold, will share lessons he learned and applied to turning a troubled ship around to an outstanding performer. His talk, on Wednesday, April 29, from 2 pm to 2:45 pm, will cover management techniques that helped sailors share his desire to achieve excellence. The event is sponsored by Gem Gravure, Co., Inc. See p. 52.

Mike Abrashoff

Monday special: learning the industry basics is a fundamental opportunity

The Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing course at Interwire remains an ideal primer for industry newcomers or people learning new duties. The series of presentations will be taught on Monday, April 27, by industry experts whose focus will be on providing practical information.

The format allows easy interaction with instructors as questions are encouraged. The program starts in the morning with five sessions (Mechanics of Wiredrawing, Drawing Dies, Wiredrawing Lubricant Technology and Wire Breaks & Surface Damage) while the afternoon will offer tracks for ferrous, nonferrous and electrical topics. See p. 74.

Monday special: tour of Southwire Company’s rod mill in Carrolton

Southwire has been designing, operating, and selling Southwire Continuous Rod (SCR) systems since 1963.

Southwire commissioned its own SCR copper system in 1981, which was the largest at that time. Today, the company’s plant rod plant in Carrolton remains one of the most productive electrolytic tough pitch (ETP) copper rod systems in the world. See p. 49.

A view of Southwire Company’s Carrollton rod mill.

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Technical program at Interwire offers multiple elements for attendee value

The WAI’s conference sessions to be held from Tuesday, April 28, through Thursday, April 30, will include dozens of technical presentations (see pp. 78-85) There are two panel discussions (see p. 79) and two guest speakers (see pp. 79 and 85). Collectively, the elements offer useful tech information and observations that directly and indirectly relate to the shop floor.

WAI seeks to score ‘reception’ points at the Football College Hall of Fame

WAI’s Opening Reception, always a must place to relax, catch up with the industry and do a little networking, will be held at a promising new site: the College Football Hall of Fame. The recently opened facility at

The recently opened College Football Hall of Fame.

250 Marietta St NW, boasts an array of interactive attractions that should get a passing grade from attendees, whether they are sports fans or not. The reception will be held Tuesday, April 28. See p. 56. Note: there will be no shuttle service.

And this event is sponsored by ...

The 2015 staging of Interwire has been bolstered by the generosity of corporate sponsors. The WAI would like to thank these companies for making it possible to put on quality programs.

Platinum level: Champlain Cable Corp. | Sonoco Reels and Spools | Southwire Co. | Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp.

Gold level: Continuus-Properzi S.p.A. | General Cable Corp. | Leggett & Platt Wire Group Silver level: BASF | Carris Reels Inc. | Gem Gravure Co. Inc. | The MGS Group | Nexans | Niehoff Endex North America | Sikora International Corp. | Windak Group Bronze level: RichardsApex Inc. Supporting sponsors: Baum’s Castorine Co. | Chemson | Commission Brokers Inc. | Heritage Wire Die | Lloyd & Bouvier Inc.

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Mordica Lecturer from Poland has extensive metallurgy experience

Tadeusz Knych, a full professor at AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH-UST), Krakow, Poland, and the winner of the WAI’s Mordica Memorial Award, will discuss the most serious operating risks concerning overhead power lines and the resulting modern requirements, with respect to both material and design. He is an award-winning specialist in Tadeusz Knych the field of metallurgy, especially synthesis of alloys, hot and cold plastic working, and testing of new materials. His presentation will be Wednesday, April 29. See p. 54.

How goes managing? This workshop offers practical advice on what works

Consultant John Barteld, best known for having served as executive director/CEO of IWCS from 2004 to 2014, will present this workshop. Barteld, whose industry background before joining IWCS included General Cable/ Pirelli and Draka, has also been a member of the faculty at York College of Pennsylvania, where he has taught a range of busiJohn Barteld ness classes. His Manufacturing Management workshop, designed specifically for wire and cable operations managers, will be held Thursday, April 30. See p. 85.

The global outlook for electrical wire? ... Phil’s got you covered at Interwire

Philip Radbourne, a director at Integer Research Ltd., London, U.K., will kick off the nonferrous/electrical segment of Interwire on Tuesday, April 28, with an overview of the global electrical sector. His presentation will look at the present and future of the electrical side of the wire industry, with a particuPhilip Radbourne lar focus on the North American market. It includes a snapshot of the U.S. and world economies, highlighting the positive and negative aspects of recent growth, and examines specific cable production trends in detail. See p. 79.

Attendees of the first GCCF in 2011.

Sequel to 2011 Global Continuous Casting Forum will have dual-focus

Four years ago, the continuous casting community was amazed at the scope and energy at the first-ever staging of the Global Continuous Casting Forum (GCCF).

Conceived and directed by Encore Wire’s Gary Spence, the event–by popular request–has returned in what should be a great event. Co-located once again with Interwire, the GCCF now has an expanded scope. The first event was totally focused on copper production, and it wowed the audience by covering not just one or two but four continuous casting methods. This time, it has added a second track, for aluminum. The standalone preview that starts on p. 62 outlines the event.

Education continues on the Interwire show floor with Production Solutions At Interwire, three separate 20-minute Production Solutions presentations will be made on the show floor from 3:30 pm to 4:50 pm on Wednesday, April 29.

First up is “Ways to determine root causes of issues blamed on the cleaning house,” by Chemetall. It is followed by “Lubricant Solutions,” by Bechem Lubrication Technology, then “Wire Breaks,” by Horace Pops Consulting, Inc. See p. 86 for times and locations.

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Who knew?

The city of Atlanta Atlanta is an easy place to get around, and as the Wire Association has been a long-time visitor, the idea surfaced that, rather than repeat past lists of various attractions and restaurants to try, it would be a noble idea to present some facts about the city that attendees might not know. To that end, below is a compilation of facts from various sources.

There are more than 65 streets with the word Peachtree in Atlanta. Oddly enough, it’s possible none of them are named for an actual peach tree.

Historians suggest they’re named after the Native American village of “Standing Pitch Tree.” The pronunciation corrupted over the years.

The world’s largest drive-in fast food restaurant is Atlanta’s famous Varsity Restaurant, which is located on two acres and can accommodate 600 cars and more than 800 people inside. Each day, the restaurant produces two miles of hot dogs, a ton of onions, 2,500 pounds of potatoes, 5,000 fried pies and 300 gallons of chili. It also is the largest single outlet for Coca-Cola.

The world’s largest bas-relief sculpture in the world called the Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park is in Atlanta city.

First commissioned in 1916, the Civil War monument scuplture wasn’t completed until 1972. The carving is recessed 42 feet into the stone 400 feet above the ground, and measures 90 feet tall by 190 feet wide.

The deepest part of the carving is twelve feet deep at Lee’s elbow.

The tallest building in the United States outside of New York City and Chicago is in Atlanta. The Bank of America Plaza stands at 1,023 feet tall and dominates the city’s skyline.

One of the interesting parts of the design of the building is that there are no street level pedestrian entrances; most people enter and exit the building from the parking areas located underground.

Buckhead, one of Atlanta’s most affluent neighborhoods and shopping mecca of the South, owes its unusual name to 19th Century local general store owner Henry Irby. Irby killed a large deer and prominently mounted the buck head on the wall of his establishment, a popular outpost for locals and travelers. The name stuck, despite efforts to change it in the late 1800s.

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Atlanta was the only city in North American destroyed as an act of war.

(General Sherman burnt it to the ground.)

Only 400 buildings survived. Fittingly, the city is represented by a symbol of the mythological Egyptian bird called the Phoenix, as Atlanta, like the Phoenix, rose from the ashes to become an influential city.

Atlanta was originally named Terminus and from 1843 to 1844 was called Marthasville, after Governor Wilson Lumpkin’s daughter.

The city got its current name from railroad engineer J. Edgar Thompson. It’s thought to be a shortened version of “Atlantica-Pacifica.”

Atlanta is home to the world’s largest annual 10K race. Known as “Peachtree Road Race,” it has seen as many as 45,000 runners compete.

Why did Atlanta resident Margaret Mitchell write Gone with the Wind?

Because an ankle injury kept her from walking and she was really, really bored.

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It is against the law in Atlanta to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.

Atlanta was the fifth city to be the capital of the state of Georgia. It was preceded by Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, and Milledgeville.

In terms of the largest concentration of the Fortune 500 companies in USA, the city of Atlanta ranks third.

Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center is the fourth largest convention center in the U.S., with some 3.9 million sq ft of exhibition space. Each year, it hosts more than a million visitors.

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Atlanta is one of two cities in the world to be home to two Nobel Peace Prize winners: Martin Luther King Jr. & President Jimmy Carter.

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tour Plant Tour: Southwire Rod Mill MONDAY, APRIL 27 | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Visit Southwire Company’s copper rod mill in Carrollton, Georgia. Southwire has been designing, operating, and selling Southwire Continuous Rod (SCR) systems since 1963.

Southwire commissioned its own SCR copper system in 1981, which was the largest at that time. Today, this plant remains one of the most productive electrolytic tough pitch (ETP) copper rod systems in the world.

The SCR process allows production of the highest quality copper wire rod at the lowest possible cost. Because of the ease of maintenance and operation, the Southwire system has higher availability than competing systems, which further lowers operating costs. Frequent system startups for new customers ensure that start-ups are well planned and minimize the required field services. Smooth startups get the customer’s equipment into production quickly to meet market demand. Fifty percent (50%) of all copper rod made in the world is produced with Southwire SCR technology.

An overhead view of Southwire Company’s copper rod mill in Carrollton, Georgia.

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leaders Education Committee Members Chairman Brian Parsons Dekoron Wire & Cable

Jordan Gonzalez National Standard Co.

Horace Pops Horace Pops Consulting Inc.

C. Richard Gordon Gerdau Long Steel North America

Peter Power Power Innovative Technology

William Jarae Charter Steel

Christopher Reeve Insteel Wire Products

Eric Bieberich Fort Wayne Wire Die Inc.

Erik Macs Progressive Machinery Inc.

Robert Shemenski RMS Consulting Inc.

Peter Blackford Cable USA Inc.

Richard Medoff Ace Metal Inc.

Bhaskar Yalamanchili Gerdau Long Steel North America

Donald Dodge Calmont Wire & Cable

Donald Neville RichardsApex Europe Ltd.

Joseph Domblesky Marquette University

Dale Olp Special Metals Corp.

A-1 Wire Tech Inc.

Vice Chairman Ralph Noonan Etna Products Inc.

Mark Garretson Flynn Garretson Associated Companies

WAI Historian Don Sayenga Cardon Management Group

Paul Pawlikowski Delphi Packard Electric Systems

Executive Committee Liaison Jan Sorige Enkotec Co. Inc.

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keynote Keynote speaker WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 | 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Mike Abrashoff, former Naval Commander of the USS Benfold, and author of the New York Times bestseller It’s Your Ship will share lessons from “The Leadership Roadmap” Michael Abrashoff in his keynote address. His system of management techniques helped him overcome the challenge of low morale and high turnover by empowering every individual to share the responsibility to achieve excellence. These concepts apply to many organizations facing the same problems today.

At the age of 36, Mike Abrashoff was selected by the U.S. Navy in June 1997 to become commander of the USS Benfold. At the time, he was the most junior commanding officer in the Pacific Fleet. The immediate challenges that faced him were staggering: exceptionally low morale with unacceptably high turnover. Few thought that this ship could improve. In many ways, the USS Benfold was an extreme example of problems that can exist at any business.

The solution was to establish a system of management techniques that Abrashoff calls “The Leadership Roadmap.” At the core of his leadership approach on Benfold was a process of replacing command and control with commitment and cohesion, and by engaging the hearts, minds, and loyalties of workers, with conviction and humility. “The most important thing that a captain can do is to see the ship through the eyes of the crew.” According to Abrashoff, “The Leadership Roadmap” is a practice that empowers every individual to share the responsibility of achieving excellence. “It’s your ship,” he was known to say. His former sailors to this day still remind him of it.

By every measure, these principles were able to achieve breakthrough results. Personnel turnover decreased to an unprecedented 1%. The rate of military promotions tripled,

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Sailors prepare an MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter for flight as the USS Benfold (DDG 65) takes a turn. and the crew slashed operating expenses by 25 percent.

Regarded as the finest ship in the Pacific Fleet, the USS Benfold won the prestigious Spokane Trophy for having the highest degree of combat readiness. Abrashoff served through January 2000.

The leadership lessons from Abrashoff’s turnaround in It’s Your Ship became a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller, with over 800,000 copies sold to date.

Prior to commanding the USS Benfold, Abrashoff served as the military assistant to the Secretary of Defense, the Honorable Dr. William J. Perry. He also helped draft the air defense plan for naval forces in the Persian Gulf in 1990, coinciding with Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait; and served as the executive officer of the Cruiser Shiloh, where he deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of United Nations sanctions against Iraq.

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notables Mordica Memorial Award Tadeusz Knych Tadeusz Knych is a full professor at AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH-UST), Krakow, Poland. He is a specialist in the field of metallurgy, especially synthesis of alloys, hot Tadeusz Knych and cold plastic working, and testing of new materials with respect to modern overhead lines and the railway power engineering sector.

Prof. Knych holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees related to theoretical and experimental work on the drawing process.

He holds many patents in the area of materials and technologies for overhead electricity and rail. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 papers, and has supervised more than 100 master’s and doctoral theses. He is winner of prestigious national and international awards (including the Prime Minister’s Awards for outstanding achievement in science and technology 2002, 2004, 2009).

Prof. Knych is well known as an educator, but he is also

well known as researcher and contributor to industry. He has worked with private companies, where his work has resulted in improvements. One such effort was his work for Tele-Fonika Kable, where he helped the company’s drawing process of Al-Fe micro-wires and for commercialization of enamelled Al wires. The scope of such work can be seen in contributions being part of to 42 patents. He has been involved in 22 research projects as project manager, main contractor and/or promoter. Two of these projects have been/ are sponsored by the European Union. He also has been active in a long list of smaller projects and consulting work.

In addition to his inspiring younger staff, one award nominator said that Knych was deserving of the award because he was “a very able academic devoted to his tasks, but at the same time a marvelous researcher and research manager, who was not only driven by curiosity (as a fundamental scientist should be), but also by the drive to help the wire drawing industry to shift its technological goals.”

Prof. Knych will be honored at Interwire 2015.

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Dominique Perroud Dominique Perroud, SAMP Shanghai, was WAI president for 2011. A WAI member since 2000, he served two terms on the Association’s Board of Directors. He was also a member of the Executive Committee and has served on multiple committees and task forces. Perroud has been involved in the wire and cable industry on the machinery supplier side of the business for more than 30 years, and has developed expertise in a wide range of products including extrusion, wiredrawing, and bunching equipment.

Perroud holds an electrical engineering degree from the ETS School and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts. His began his career with Brown Boveri in Baden, Switzerland, now known as ABB, as a project engineer in one of their electrical automation divisions. In 1981, he joined Nokia-Maillefer, where he held various positions in engineering and product management for the company both in Switzerland and in the United States.

He joined SAMP in 1997, became managing director of SAMP USA in Williamsport, Maryland, in 1999, and in 2010 was promoted to CEO of SAMP Shanghai.

Perroud’s year as WAI president was unique as he had to serve from China. He handled his long-distance challenge masterfully, and was lauded by award nominators for both his expertise Dominique Perroud as well as his style.

Observed one nominator, “Dominique Perroud is the epitome of professionalism, and he has the rare ability to convey and communicate to a broad audience with a certain calm and passion that fosters teamwork and collaboration.”

Wrote another, “It was impressive that as his term began he was promoted and relocated to China. He never missed a beat! Using Skype and the other communication avenues he was a ‘hands on’ President even if it meant having conference calls in the middle of the night. I think my friend is truly a worthy candidate.”

Perroud will be honored at Interwire 2015.

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meet Reception TUESDAY, APRIL 28 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Interwire 2015/GCCF attendees will enjoy a collegiate flavor at reception Interwire attendees may be very familiar with the city of Atlanta, but unless you’ve been there recently there is a new attraction that will be a welcome surprise for sporting-minded attendees (and even those who aren’t!): the College Football Hall of Fame, which will host WAI’s reception.

The $68.5 million, three-story building, completed last August, houses the College Football Hall of Fame, which was previously located in South Bend, Indiana. The “Fan Experience” includes museum-quality memorabilia and interactive, multi-media exhibits. The site, adjacent to the Georgia World Congress Center and Centennial Olympic Park, covers 94,256 sq ft, and is designed to entertain and educate visitors while celebrating the traditions of college football. That includes 50,000 sq ft of unique event space, including a 45-yard indoor playing field that can accommodate approximately 900 people for a sit-down meal and up to 1,450 people for a reception.

The WAI reception will offer a gridiron treat for attendees.

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Guests will be treated to a personalized experience in the Hall through 10 augmented reality displays where they can select video and images of players and coaches from their favorite school. The journey begins with a oneof-a-kind experience through the Entry Tunnel, boasting larger-than-life images from 11 conference champions that are updated each season. It winds its way to The Quad, which is anchored by the Helmet Wall presented by Southwest Airlines, featuring helmets from all 768 college football teams. Guests check in at the registration desks in The Quad to personalize their All-Access Pass credential with their favorite college football team.

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members Life/25-Year WAI Members Two groups of WAI members who have achieved special status within the Association will be among those recognized at the awards ceremony on Monday, May 2. See p. 58.

A total of 46 people have been designated as new Life Members, qualifying because their age plus number of continuous years of WAI membership equals 90. Another 34 people will be honored for attaining 25-year member status.

Life Members William A Avise Leggett & Platt Inc Carthage, MO, USA

Jai Dave Hanwa American Corp Fort Lee, NJ, USA

Charles A Glew Cable Components Group Pawcatuck, CT, USA

Bradley Martin Metals Solutions LLC Solon, OH, USA

William Baertels The Mapes Piano String Co Elizabethton, TN, USA

William Dohrmann Condat Corp Sylvania, OH, USA

Joseph H Hart J Hart Consulting Bakersfield, CA, USA

Steve C Mepsted Pressure Welding Machines Bethersden, Kent, UK

Richard S Baker General Cable Corp Atlanta, GA, USA

David G Ehrmann Industrial Wire Co Inc Cleveland, OH, USA

John K Henschel Mossberg Associates Inc West Kingston, RI, USA

Gary L Morrison Service Wire Co Culloden, WV, USA

Robert J Beecham Keystone Steel & Wire Co Peoria, IL, USA

David C Ferraro Carris Reels Inc Proctor, VT, USA

Robert Yates, Jr Eastern Wire Products Co Inc Jacksonville, FL, USA

Gregory T Nedell Fyne-Wire Specialties Inc Brandy Station, VA, USA

John Blachford H L Blachford Ltd Mississauga, ON, Canada

George S Frankfurter Port Washington, NY, USA

Andrew J Kleinert Torpedo Specialty Wire Inc Pittsfield, PA, USA

Donald Nicklaus Ivaco Rolling Mills Paradise, PA, USA

Robert L Knight Mid-South Wire Nashville, TN, USA

Paul J Pawlikowski Delphi Packard Electric Systems Warren, OH, USA

John Boddy Scunthorpe, UK

Tony Gabriel Southwire Co Waukegan, IL, USA

Erkan Buyuksoy AEB International Inc New York, NY, USA

Philip Garoon Basic Wire & Cable Chicago, IL, USA

Alan Camilleri Arc Associates West Boxford, MA, USA

Antonio Salazar Garza Paramount Die Co Monterrey, NL, Mexico

Bill Coleman Coletech Fairview, PA, USA

Scott Glaze Fort Wayne Metals Research Products Corp.

Fort Wayne, IN, USA

Paul M D’Addario ButtWelders USA Inc Sanford, FL, USA

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William B Laycock Century Specialties Inc Traverse City, MI, USA William D Lecount Falcon Fine Wire & Wire Products Rockwall, TX, USA Janusz Luksza AGH University of Science & Technology Krakow, Poland

Brian Perry Varflex Corp Rome, NY, USA Jan W Pilarczyk Czestochowa University of Technology Czestochowa, Poland Donald Reeves Atlantic Coast Engineered Metals Holly Springs, NC, USA

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Ron Rosenbeck Republic Wire Inc West Chester, OH, USA

Dr Andrew G Stacey Stonepark Consultancy Ltd Doncaster, UK

Kenneth Scott Poole, Dorset, UK

John Stowe Sandvik Wire and Heating Technology Corp Bethel, CT, USA

Janusz S Sekunda General Cable Williamsport, PA, USA Brian J Skeggs T & T Marketing Inc Yorba Linda, CA, USA

Manuel L Tabeliao JCL Ind Com Cabos Mogi das Cruzes, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Dr Hitoshi Tashiro Saitama, Japan Frederick P Waite Vorys Sater Seymour & Pease LLP Washington, DC, USA Michael Weiss Whitmor/Wirenetics Valencia, CA, USA

Christopher Whiting Hawthorne Wire Services Ltd Doylestown, OH, USA Morris Williams Southwire Co Carrollton, GA, USA Charles Wimpfheimer Millennium Wire & Steel Inc Cliffwood, NJ, USA

25-Year Members Salah Al-Qahtani Al-Qahtani Nails & Galvanized Wire Factory Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Frank E Goodwin International Lead Zinc Research Organization Inc Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Sam Altman Altman Technologies Inc Chicago, IL, USA

Mark A Haba Gavlick Machinery Corp Bristol, CT, USA

Brian A Bouvier Lloyd & Bouvier Inc Clinton, MA, USA

Peers Henes Alliance Steel Trading Corp Phoenix, AZ, USA

Paul Brezovsky Dekoron Unitherm LLC Cape Coral, FL, USA

Mark L Kristoff Gem Gravure Co Inc Hanover, MA, USA

Paul M D’Addario ButtWelders USA Inc Sanford, FL, USA

Erik A Macs Progressive Machinery Inc Natick, MA, USA

William Dohrmann Condat Corp Saline, MI, USA

Giuseppe Marcantoni Properzi International Inc Sparks, MD, USA Michael J McNulty Wire & Cable Technology International Akron, OH, USA

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William R Miller Windmill Associates Inc Warwick, RI, USA Donald Nicklaus Ivaco Rolling Mills Paradise, PA, USA Jay T Reed Utility Manufacturing Co Wilbraham, MA, USA Gregory K Scher Weber & Scher Mfg Co Inc Lebanon Borough, NJ, USA Frederick P Waite Vorys Sater Seymour & Pease LLP Washington, DC, USA Kum Seng Wong South Malaysia Ind Berhad Johor Bahru, MALAYSIA Michael J Yazum Blachford Corp Frankfort, IL, USA

I can help WAI members learn more about copper, continuous casting, and process innovation.

Q: Why did you join WAI? A: To network and connect with like-minded business professionals and enhance my career development through WAI technical programs and contacts. I also like the ability to meet many suppliers in one location.

Q: Why do you renew your membership?

A: To stay abreast of the latest technologies for a competitive edge and keep in touch with friends and colleagues from around the world. I am at the point in my career that I would like to give back to the WAI and our industry by being a voice for manufacturing.

Q: What would you be doing if you hadn’t become involved in the wire industry?

A: I’d be in the metals industry. I like metallurgy and molten metals.

Gary Spence VP Nonferrous Metals | Encore Wire Corp.

Member Since: 1980

Q: What do your co-workers say about you?

A: They think I am always trying to improve something, innovative, very knowledgeable of copper continuous casting, results oriented, outspoken, and fair.

Q: What did your most valuable WAI contact help Meet Gary Spence.

One of WAI’s worldwide members.

One compelling story.

You’ll find Gary where innovation and old-world ethics collide. He’s continuously improving. In 43 years he’s gathered more information on copper continuous casting than most will ever learn—until April 2015, that is, when he will join a casting call of his international colleagues at Interwire for the second global continuous casting forum of his design. The encore? Aluminum will join his cast.

He’s an expert. An optimistic leader. And, he’s emblematic of the knowledge base accessible through WAI. Gary’s profile reveals key themes familiar to all distinguished personalities, namely:

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A: Many helped further my professional development and assisted me in achieving product and process improvements. I now have global contacts to communicate with via the Internet at anytime.

Q: Who was your mentor?

A: My parents; they instilled a strong work ethic. I have also been fortunate to work for three outstanding companies all with strong, innovative leadership.

Q: Who is the most famous person you’ve met?

A: I met Brooks Robinson—the Baltimore Oriole third baseman with a golden glove—at a ball game in San Francisco.

Q: What do you do for leisure?

A: You can find me at a health club, on my Harley, or by the water.

Bold Optimism | Intrepid Innovation | Achievement | Hot Metal | Cool Mettle | Moving Ahead | Giving Back A global networker, he stays connected. When you meet Gary be sure to ask him what he’s working on. He’s clearly advancing but he’s always ready to give back.

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Q: What is your lifelong ambition?

A: In business to be recognized as an expert by my peers.

To be the best I can be at whatever I pursue.

Q: What is your greatest accomplishment?

A: I am optimistic; the best is yet to come.

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WELCOME COPPER PRACTITIONERS GARY L. SPENCE It is exciting to announce the second-ever WAI “Global Continuous Casting Forum.” The timing is perfect as we celebrate 50 years of Copper Continuous Casting.

This user’s forum has proven to be the most complete and well attended program ever designed specifically for Copper Continuous Casting practitioners.

Building on the exceptional success of the 2011 forum we have added an Aluminum program specifically for Aluminum Continuous Casting in 2015.

I can guarantee that you will get your money’s worth, too, including four days of technical and operational presentations, expert discussion panels, show floor exhibits, networking, and camaraderie with friends and colleagues.

And as a special bonus presentation I will share highlights of my 45 years of hands-on experience in Copper Continuous Casting—my personal shopfloor perspective of some of the people, events and their efforts that helped us move from invention to the mature technology we know today.

Being my last planned industry event before retirement I look forward to seeing my friends and colleagues from around the world as we celebrate this wonderful 50-year milestone.

All the Best in Continuous Casting, Gary Spence

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c o p p e r Celebrate milestones in Continuous Casting Join a renowned ensemble of continuous casting practitioners, raw material suppliers, and equipment manufacturers on an educational journey from ore to more at WAI’s second Global Continuous Casting Forum.

This four-day program features a content-rich curriculum created by a team of casting professionals who have dedicated their careers to these hot topics. The result is an inspiring series of shared sessions and independent technical tracks that speak to both the copper and aluminum continuous casting disciplines.

Content emphasizes today’s cost-saving measures and process improvements you can implement at your plant.

CASTING FORUM PRACTITIONERS RICHARD BAKER

a l u m i n u m Every major process is well represented:

Contirod | Properzi |ESSEX SCR | Upcast | Rautomead And with a guest list of international practitioners that doubles as a who’s who in continuous casting, unalloyed networking is guaranteed. The schedule conveniently dovetails with Interwire 2015. Learn more on the following pages, register today, and watch the forum bloom at: www.castingforum15.com

WELCOME

WELCOME ALUMINUM The 2015 Continuous Casting Forum being held in Atlanta is a not to be missed event if you are truly committed to improving your knowledge base, and reducing your operating costs. The faceto-face networking with our industries’ top professionals from around the world in copper and aluminum rod manufacture is a tremendous opportunity.

It is over 60 years since the first continuous caster for aluminum was built and, although many of the principles remain the same, many new techniques have been learned along the way as technology has evolved. This user’s forum is the ideal chance to hear about the latest technologies and innovations that can help your operation prosper.

The Aluminum Continuous Casting program has been added to the event in 2015 following the success of the Copper Forum held four years ago. We are really excited to have both Copper and Aluminum competing for your attention in Atlanta this coming April. So come and join with casting practitioners, raw material suppliers, and equipment manufacturers and participate in this industry event.

Richard Baker WAI Conference Programming Committee

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MONDAY | TUESDAY MONDAY, APRIL 27 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. | Welcome Reception

All Global Continuous Casting Forum registrants are invited to a Welcome Reception at Ventanas restaurant in the Hilton Garden Inn. The venue is a short walk from the Georgia World Congress Center.

TUESDAY, APRIL 28 - GENERAL TRACK 8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | Welcome & Introductory Remarks Gary L. Spence, Encore Wire Corp., USA

casting technologies

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

“Properzi Casting Technology,” by Giuseppe Marcantoni, Properzi International Inc., USA

Though considered mature, nonferrous technologies are still subject to development aimed at improving safety and the index of repeatability of quality while reducing transformation costs. Using Properzi lines in the production of ETP copper rod, the transformation of copper cathodes into wire rod passes on a continuous basis through melting, casting, rolling, and coiling. The most recent developments in Properzi technology, particularly the introduction of “big blocks” refractory in casting and the combination of roughing and finishing mills with new size rolling rolls, is reviewed.

9:30 a.m. -10:00 a.m.

“SCR Casting Technology,” by James D. Cooper, Southwire Co., USA

This presentation discusses the Southwire Continuous Rod (SCR®) process for continuously producing copper and aluminum wire rod. The company operates four SCR® systems— one copper and three aluminum systems—in its own manufacturing facilities. This paper presents a brief history of the SCR® process, a description, and recent process developments.

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Break 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Interwire Exhibits Open | Hall A

Forum registrants have access to the Interwire 2015 exposition where more than 400 companies are exhibiting.

See suppliers to the industry and manufacturers of wire; cable; and fastener, formed and fabricated wire products.

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

“Contirod Casting Technology,” by Michael Schwarze, SMS Meer GmbH, Germany, and Timm Lux, Andritz Maerz GmbH, Germany

During the more than 40 years of Contirod® history, many innovations have been made along the entire process line. These include a new charging device; an improved shaft furnace combustion control system; a modular-designed Hazelett caster; and individually driven, frequency-controlled drives for the rolling stands. The result of these constant improvements is today’s state-of-the-art Contirod® process which delivers the cost-effective production of high-quality wire rod. This presentation covers important new developments and the resulting influence on process cost reduction.

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

“Upcast® GREENerCAST and Beyond,” by Juan Carlos Bodington, Upcast Oy, Finland

Based on the combination of the GREENerCAST technique and new developments in metallurgical processes and thermal mechanics, Upcast® inherently clean technology has broken into areas that were considered off-limits, such as obtaining small grain as-cast structure (without grain refiners), casting 100% ETP scrap or magnet wire scrap into high-quality HCOF copper rod without harmful environmental emissions, casting new metals and alloys (including aluminum), and casting faster than ever.

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

“Rautomead technology for production of oxygen-free copper wire rod and graphite furnace technology for production of dilute copper conductor alloys,” by Michael Nairn, Rautomead Ltd., UK

Graphite furnace technology introduced for oxygen-free copper rod production in the mid-nineties has now been adapted to production of a series of dilute copper conductor alloys where tight control of volatile alloying elements is of critical importance in achieving a consistent balance between electrical conductivity and physical strength in the finished product. The Rautomead oxygen-free process is described together with its adaptations and the challenges of manufacturing consistent quality dilute copper conductor alloys.

The Contirod® Process is a registered trademark of Aurubis Belgium Properzi continuously cast and rolled (CCR) copper rod lines are a registered trademark of Continuus-Properzi Southwire Continuous Rod (SCR) is a registered trademark of Southwire Company UPCAST® system is a registered trademark of UPCAST OY

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GENERAL TRACK This lunch presentation addresses the keys to the profit and performance of Encore Wire, including highlights of Encore’s strategy and results. It also gives an overview of the general economy and construction industry and the impact on copper demand.

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

“Analysis of electrical energy demand trends and the implication in nonferrous rod demand,”

by Carmelo Maria Brocato, Continuus-Properzi SpA, Italy

Electrical energy (EE) is generally produced in a power station, then transported through a network, and exploited in various applications. Aluminum and copper rod have been, and will continue to be, the basic raw materials for production of cables and conductors. As a consequence, the growth of EE demand requires a parallel growth in the production of copper and aluminum rod and is one of the major driving forces of the wire and cable machinery industry. In this paper, the author analyzes EE demand trends during the past two decades and the link to the demand of nonferrous rod for electrical applications.

1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

“Copper: The Metal for the Future,” by Stephen J. Ruth, Freeport McMoRan Sales Co. Inc., USA

Copper is one of the world’s oldest metals. It is also a metal that is reinventing itself for the future. This presentation briefly reviews the current state of the copper market. It then examines the future uses of this innovative metal in an ever-changing world.

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

“The Outlook for Global Aluminum and Aluminum Wire Rod Markets,” by Paul Williams, CRU Group, UK

This presentation covers the outlook for aluminum over the next two years, discussing whether the current improvement in the market will continue. The paper outlines demand prospects for aluminum across the key end-use sectors together with the future growth in primary metal supply, with particular focus on the markets for aluminum wire and cable. The growth in primary supply is analyzed on a regional basis and a forecast of the aluminum supply/demand balance is discussed. The presentation discusses wire rod capacity and its growth over the next few years, both at integrated primary producers and at independent rod suppliers.

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

“Global Scrap Markets,” by Mike Jaap, DeReelTech, USA

The nonferrous copper and aluminum scrap markets have been through myriad changes in the past 20 years. These changes have impacted values realized for those who source or generate scrap and challenges for those who wish to consume scrap as part of their raw material requirements. Competition, business consolidation, innovation, and improved efficiencies in production have changed the business dramatically.

A review of the past and a glimpse into possibilities for the future are the topics for discussion.

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m “Cost-Saving Opportunities Panel,” by Brian Blair, Southwire Co., USA; John Quinn, Freeport McMoRan, USA; Steve Roussel, Rio Tinto Alcan, Canada; Carlos Sanchez, Nexans Canada Inc., Canada Join us as this panel discusses cost-savings opportunities in the casting world. Four executives from the copper and aluminum sectors will each share a cost-saving idea with the industry.

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. | Opening Reception

Join your colleagues for a cocktail and networking reception at The College Football Hall of Fame, Atlanta’s newest attraction and the site of the Interwire Opening Reception. The reception is open to all Global Continuous Casting Forum (GCCF) participants and is included in the GCCF registration fee.

profits | cost savings | futures

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch & Presentation “Profits and Performance in Wire Manufacturing,” by Frank J. Bilban, Encore Wire Corp., USA

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WEDNESDAY COPPER & WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 | COPPER TRACK 8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | Welcome & Introductory Remarks Gary L. Spence, Encore Wire Corp., USA

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

“Processing and Performance Differences Between Continuously Cast FRHC, ETP, and OF Copper Rod Into Wire Products,” by Matt Reinoehl, SDI LaFarga LLC, USA

This presentation is a review of the manufacturing process, mechanical and electrical properties of FRHC, ETP, and OF coppers. It emphasizes the differences in the continuous resistance annealing of the copper wires, namely, voltage, power requirements, and resulting properties for each.

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

“Melting Options,”

by John Hugens, Fives North American Combustion Inc., USA

Natural gas firing of copper shaft melting furnaces is the most economical and environmental method of melting refined or semi-refined copper. This concept is valid in terms of the mass of carbon used per ton of scrap or cathode copper raised to casting temperature when comparing available electrical and fossil fuel fired melting and liquid transfer processes. The comparative economics of electrical, shaft, and reverberatory melting of copper are explained here and compared for varying charge materials and initial energy sources.

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Break

copper track

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Interwire Exhibits Open 10:30 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.

“Lining life of silicon carbide or chromic oxide cast linings in pour pots/tundishes,” by Bryan Nelson, Allied Mineral Products Inc., USA

The goal of this study was twofold: improve pour pot/tundish life and develop a test that would correlate field results to a lab test. The results would allow prediction of refractory lining life from lab testing obtained as opposed to having to run tests in the field. The objective was approached by using two proven refractory systems in contact with molten copper and slag—SiC and Cr2O3—to ascertain which refractory system is superior as far as improving lining life. The testing was conducted in the pour pot/ tundish but the results would be applicable to slag vessels, furnaces, and launders.

11:10 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.

“Continuous Cast Copper Rod Coolant Filtration,”

by Tom Horn, Filtertech Inc., USA

The removal of copper oxide particulate from coolants in this application is known to have positive effects on coolant condition resulting in longer coolant life, improved quality rod, longer roll life, and increased production. This paper provides the most recent information to the copper rod producer about system design, sizing, and component preference.

Caster water management as well as aluminum rod coolant filtration is also reviewed.

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11:50 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

“ETP vs. FRHC Copper Rod: Correlation With ASTM Standards,” by Horace Pops, Horace Pops Consulting Inc., USA

Influence of residual impurities and alloying elements for both ETP and FRHC copper rod are discussed with an emphasis upon annealability and both mechanical and electrical properties. Major effects of oxygen content, thermal-mechanical processing variables, and continuous casting factors upon high-temperature embrittlement and drawability are reviewed. These copper-related factors are linked to recent changes to ASTM and European standards and are summarized with an emphasis upon fire refining and resulting rod requirements.

shared activities

12:50 p.m. | Lunch & Interwire 2015 Exhibits As part of registration, GCCF participants will receive a lunch voucher redeemable at the Wire Cafe in Exhibit Hall A of the Georgia World Congress Center.

2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. | Keynote Address “It’s Your Ship,” by Mike Abrashoff, USA Mike Abrashoff, former Naval Commander of the USS Benfold, and author of the New York Times bestseller It’s Your Ship, will share lessons from “The Leadership Roadmap” in his keynote address. His system of management techniques helped him overcome the challenge of low morale and high turnover by empowering every individual to share the responsibility to achieve excellence. These concepts apply to many organizations facing the same problems today.

6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. | GCCF Dinner & Address “A tale of long hours and hard-earned success in 40+ years in copper continuous casting,”

by Gary L. Spence, Encore Wire Corp., USA The final social event of the Global Continuous Casting Forum features a dinner, speaker, entertainment, and prize drawings.

Encore Wire’s Gary L. Spence will reflect on his more than four decades of continuous casting experiences. He will talk about the four different casting processes he has worked with (wire bar, ESSEX/Properzi, Contirod, and SCR), describe some of the early challenges, assess today’s challenges, and predict those to come.

His presentation will pay tribute to practitioners before him, and recognize individuals that impacted his career from 1970 on. It will be neither “institutional,” nor politically correct. It will just be Gary being Gary, sharing his story of evolving along with the industry, which unto itself makes this a must-attend event.

ALUMINUM TRA CKS 8:45 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. | Welcome & Introductory Remarks

Richard Baker, General Cable Corp., USA

8:50 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.

“Molten Metal Management - An Aluminum Association Perspective,” by Curt Wells, The Aluminum Association, USA

Aluminum in its molten state can present significant health and safety hazards.

This presentation reviews industry trends, management guidelines, and key protective/preventive measures that can be taken across all aspects of casthouse operations to minimize or eliminate the potential for molten aluminum to cause harm to employees and equipment.

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9:10 a.m. - 9:35 a.m.

“Refractory Selection for Aluminum Casthouses,”

by John Sutton, Harbison-Walker Refractories Co., USA

This presentation offers an overview of the major refractory wear mechanisms present in aluminum cast house operations and their potential detriment to lining materials. A better understanding of cast house processes with regard to the potential reactions and degradation of the refractory lining components can help improve lining performance and overall service life of molten metal handling equipment.

9:35 a.m. - 9:55 a.m.

“Benefits of Regenerative Combustion Systems,” by Donald F. Whipple and Keith Nieszczur, Bloom Engineering, USA

Regenerative combustion systems are primarily justified based on the high air preheat temperatures and subsequent fuel savings. Properly applied, the systems can offer additional benefits from increased production, quality improvement, and unanticipated environmental benefits. This presentation highlights the fuel savings as well as the other potential benefits.

9:55 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

“Furnace Efficiency Improvements,”

by Jim Grayson, Pyrotek Inc., USA

This presentation covers the basics of furnace operation and the importance of furnace operators and the proper training needed to achieve optimum efficiency and productivity. It also explains: furnace efficiency; guidelines to determine the potential melt rate of a melting furnace; mechanisms of heat transfer to the aluminum bath; types of melting furnaces and their characteristics; the benefits of molten metal circulation and the types and characteristics of circulation systems used in the industry today; and basic melt loss for light gauge scrap and how to optimize yield.

10:20 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. | Break

of the equipment during a cast and to eventually perform maintenance tasks while the machine is in operation. This presentation explains the improvements made to the ACDTM for continuous casting as well as some of the results obtained with this technology.

11:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.

“Ultrasonic Degassing,” by Reed von Gal, Southwire Co., USA The SCR Technologies division of Southwire Company, LLC has recently introduced the Ultra-D™ degasser which ultrasonically removes hydrogen gas, alkali metals, and other harmful inclusions from molten aluminum without the use of corrosive chemicals such as chlorine. This patented technology was developed at rod mills where three lines are used to produce 14 different aluminum alloys used primarily in the electrical industry. This paper explores the development and implementation of the technology as well as operating results when used in continuous rod production.

11:20 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

“Metal Flow Improvement in the Properzi Caster Lower Tundish,” by Kevin J. Condlin, Alcoa Messena Operations, USA; Dave Quilter, Pyrotek Inc., USA; and Sylvain P. Tremblay, Pyrotek Inc., Canada

After implementation of the RFM Properzi spout connecting the lower tundish to the cooper wheel, the next step was to optimize the metal transfer from the distribution trough to the lower tundish and through the casting spout. This metal transfer is important for the final metal quality, recovery, and up-time. The spout, the control pin and the lower tundish itself have been studied using mathematical simulation to optimize the flow reducing turbulence during casting. This paper presents not only the simulation results, but the material changes for each component. Plant test results using those improved components are also detailed.

11:45 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

“A Decade of Continuous Improvements in Aluminum Rod Casting at Rio Tinto Alcan,” by Michaël Lalancette, Rio Tinto Alcan Inc., USA

Rio Tinto Alcan’s strategy for the aluminum rod caster at Alma Works Smelter in Quebec, Canada, was to mobilize a fully integrated continuous improvement organization. This paper summarizes its major achievements in the last decade on the Properzi casting and rolling technology regarding safety, quality, process control and monitoring, productivity, production cost, and product diversification. The key factors underlying the sustainable performance of the continuous improvement organization are also analyzed and discussed. Finally, it briefly outlines the forthcoming challenges that will be tackled in the next few years.

aluminum track

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 | ALUMINUM TRACK

12:10 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.

“Development of Innovative Aluminum Alloys for Production of Overhead Cables,” by Miroslaw Ozog, Boryszew S.A., Oddzial Nowoczesne Produkty Aluminiowe Skawina, Poland

This paper discusses research that allows development of aluminum alloys for the production of rod and wires dedicated to modern overhead cables. The first group of wires is used for the construction of the high-temperature overhead cables, which allows increased current carrying capacity. The second group of wires is used for the construction of overhead cables that allows the reduction of power line current losses.

10:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

“ACDTM – In-line Aluminum Degassing in Continuous Casting Operation,” by Florent Gougerot, STAS Inc., Canada

Significant improvements have been made to the Aluminum Compact Degasser (ACDTM) technology to permit optimal metallurgical performance and safety, improve the operations experience, and reduce requirements in terms of maintenance. In line with these improvements, continuous casting is a perfect application for the ACDTM. It is now easier and safer to assess the status

12:30 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.

“Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys Wire Rod Plant,”

by Stefano Lodolo, Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA, Italy

Mechanical rod applications are a growing market; but there is a limited number of producers in the world due to the difficulties in the design of the equipment, technology, and experience, especially for the alloys. To reply to those customers’ needs, Danieli took the opportunity to enter an important new niche: technology for aluminum alloy rod production. The company has supplied a customer with an advanced and efficient endless rod mill in operation, from the aluminum melting furnaces up to the off-line heat treatment furnaces.

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THURSDAY GENERAL TRA CK THURSDAY, APRIL 30 - GENERAL TRACK

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Interwire Exhibits Open

8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | Welcome & Introductory Remarks

10:30 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.

“A Three-Dimensional Analysis of Wire Breaks,”

by E. Henry Chia

Gary L. Spence, Encore Wire Corp., USA

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

“The Two-Roll Rolling Process for Long Products,”

by Bruce V. Kiefer, Siemens Industry Inc., USA

A large body of knowledge has been created on the hot rolling of many different materials, shapes, and sizes, with increasing speed and accuracy. This paper discusses the history and advancement of the two-roll hot rolling mill technology, and some of the critical aspects of the process for the production of ferrous and nonferrous long products. In addition, it provides a general overview of typical nonferrous and ferrous rolling mills and some background on the selection of pass sequences used to produce rounds, flats, and other shapes of long products.

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

“Strategy for Controlling Aluminum Rolling Lubricants,”

by Graham Stratford, General Cable Corp., Canada

Careful control and balancing of lubricant emulsion parameters are necessary for high-quality, high-productivity rolling of concast aluminum rod. This paper discusses the key parameters of soluble oil emulsion systems and how they are controlled at a commercial facility to meet the needs of a wide variety of alloys and products.

The presenter shows and discusses the failure mechanisms of copper and aluminum wire breaks in 3-D.

11:10 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

“Documentation, Analysis, and Traceability of Eddy Current Inspection Results With Computer-Based Instrumentation,”

by Hari Muthuswami and Tommie L. Nilsson, Foerster Instruments Inc., USA

While detectability is the first priority in inspection systems, the inspection instrumentation industry now has more responsibility to enable the use of these systems as more than “Go / No Go” instruments. This paper discusses the trend and importance of documentation, analysis, and traceability in inspection systems and eddy current systems in particular. It also discusses the NDT manufacturing industry’s role not only to respond to the needs of users, but also to understand the customer industry and invest in and offer both hardware and software solutions.

11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

“Brief Overview of Analytical Methods with Special Focus on Spark Atomic Emission Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Copper and Aluminum Base Materials,”

by Brad Cooley, Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA

This presentation offers an overview of instrumentation and methods, sample preparation, and analysis. Analytical performances are highlighted for various Cu and Al base alloyed and pure materials.

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

“Management and Control Strategies for Hot Rolling Emulsions,” by Bruce Calvert, RichardsApex Inc., USA

Copper rod rolling lubricant parameters and control limits are discussed as they relate to performance criteria. Differences between mineral oil-based emulsifiable lubricants and synthetics are considered.

12:10 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Closing Remarks

Gary L. Spence, Encore Wire Corp., USA

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10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Break

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REGISTER TODAY: HTTP://WIRENET.ORG/T/IW15REG. Networkers note: go to www.castingforum15.com to set your visitor profile, connect with colleagues, and follow late breaking forum updates!

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INTERWIRE PREVIEW

highlights Conference Sessions at a Glance TUESDAY, APRIL 28 9:00 am-9:30 am

Properzi Casting Technology

9:30 am -10:00 am

SCR Casting Technology

10:30 am -11:00 am

Contirod Casting Technology

11:00 am -11:30 am

Upcast® GREENerCAST and Beyond

11:30 am -12:00 pm

Rautomead technology for production of oxygen-free copper wire rod and graphite furnace technology for production of dilute copper conductor alloys

12:30 pm -1:00 pm

Profits and Performance in Wire Manufacturing

1:00 pm -1:30 pm

Analysis of electrical energy demand trends and the implication in nonferrous rod demand

1:30 pm -2:00 pm

Copper: The Metal for the Future

2:00 pm -2:30 pm

Outlook for Global Aluminum and Aluminum Wire Rod Markets

2:30 pm -3:00 pm

Global Scrap Markets

3:00 pm -4:30 pm

Cost-Saving Opportunities Panel

6:30 pm -8:30 pm

Opening Reception

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 8:45 am -9:00 am

GCCF Welcome (Aluminum) | Richard Baker

8:50 am -9:10 am

Molten Metal Management - An Aluminum Perspective

9:10 am -9:35 am

Refractory Selection for Aluminum Casthouses

9:35 am -9:55 am

Benefits of Regenerative Combustion Systems

9:55 am -10:20 am

Furnace Efficiency Improvements

2:00 pm -2:45 pm

Keynote: It’s Your Ship | Mike Abrashoff

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

GCCF Dinner & Address

7:00 pm -10:00 pm

A tale of long hours and hard-earned success in 40+ years in copper continuous casting

THURSDAY, APRIL 30 8:30 am -9:00 am 9:00 am -9:30 am 9:30 am -10:00 am 10:30 am -11:10 am 11:10 am -11:40 am

10:40 am -11:00 am

The Two-Roll Rolling Process for Long Products Strategy for Controlling Aluminum Rolling Lubricants Management and Control Strategies for Hot Rolling Emulsions A Three-Dimensional Analysis of Wire Breaks Documentation, Analysis, and Traceability of Eddy Current Inspection Results With Computer-Based Instrumentation Brief Overview of Analytical Methods with Special Focus on Spark Atomic Emission Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Copper and Aluminum Base Materials ACDTM – In-line Aluminum Degassing in Continuous Casting

11:00 am -11:20 am

The Develo pm ent of an Ultrasonic Degassing Process for Continuous Aluminum Rod Casting

11:20 am -11:45 am

Metal Flow Improvement in the Properzi Caster Lower Tundish

11:45 am -12:10 pm

A Decade of Continuous Improvements in Aluminum Rod Casting at Rio Tinto Alcan

12:10 pm -12:30 pm

Development of Innovative Aluminum Alloys for Production of Overhead Cables

12:30 pm -12:50 pm

Endless Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys Rod Mill Plant

9:00 am -9:30 am

Processing and Performance Differences Between Continuously Cast FRHC, ETP, and OF Copper Rod Into Wire Products

9:30 am -10:00 am

Melting Options for Copper

10:30 am -11:10 am

Monolithic Refractories Used In Transfer and Process Equipment Downstream of the Copper Melting Furnace

11:10 am -11:50 am

Continuous Cast Copper Rod Coolant and Water Filtration

11:50 am -12:30 pm

ETP vs. FRHC Copper Rod: Correlation With ASTM Standards

11:40 am -12:10 pm

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8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Registration

8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing Course

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Fundamentals of Wire Mfg. Ferrous Track

8:30 am - 1:00 pm

Technical Program (Nonferrous + Mordica Lecture)

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Fundamentals of Wire Mfg. Nonferrous Track

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Technical Program (Capital Expenditures (Staffing Session)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

TUESDAY, APRIL 28

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Technical Program (Nonferrous/Electrical)

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Registration

3:30 pm - 3:50 pm

9:00 am - 10:30 am

Technical Program (Nonferrous/Electrical)

Production Solutions Demo | Cleaning

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm

10:00 am - 4:30 pm

Technical Program (Ferrous)

Production Solutions Demo | Lubricants

4:30 pm - 4:50 pm

10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Technical Program (Thermoplastic/Thermoset)

Production Solutions Demo | Wire Breaks

THURSDAY, APRIL 30 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Manufacturing Management Workshop

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MONDAY, APRIL 27

INTERWIRE PREVIEW

the basics Fundamentals of Wire & Cable Manufacturing The Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing course at Interwire is taught by highly regarded industry experts. The sessions will be held on a single day,

Monday, April 27, to make it easier for attendees to take part in other activities when the main event schedule begins the next day. The sessions are listed below.

SCHEDULE: MONDAY, APRIL 27 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing 8:30 - 9:15 am

Mechanics of Wiredrawing Frank F. Kraft, Ohio University, USA 9:15 - 10:00 am

Drawing Dies

FERROUS TRACK 1:00 - 1:45 pm

Fundamentals of Ferrous Metallurgy

Anand Bhagwat, Minova International, USA 1:45 - 2:30 pm

Ferrous Testing and Properties

Thomas Maxwell Jr., Die Quip Corp., USA

C. Richard Gordon, Gerdau Long Steel North America, USA

10:15 - 11:00 am

2:45 - 3:30 pm

Wiredrawing Lubricant Technology David Gzesh, Blachford Corporation, USA

11:00 - 11:45 am

Wire Breaks & Surface Damage Horace Pops, Horace Pops Consulting Inc., USA

NONFERROUS/ ELECTRICAL TRACK

Ferrous Heat Treatment

C. Richard Gordon, Gerdau Long Steel North America, USA 3:30 - 4:15 pm

Cleaning and Coating of Rod and Wire

Jack McAfee and Rudy Vey, Chemetall US, USA

1:00 - 1:45 pm

Fundamentals of Electrical Testing

Erika Akins, Southwire Co., USA 1:45 - 2:30 pm

Extrusion, Part 1

Erik A. Macs, Progressive Machinery Inc., USA 2:45 - 3:30 pm

Extrusion, Part 2

Erik A. Macs, Progressive Machinery Inc., USA 3:30 - 4:15 pm

Stranding

Darren McGreevy and Neilan Lawrence, International Wire Group, USA 4:15 - 5:00 pm

Q&A

12:00 - 1:00 pm Fundamentals

Luncheon

Sessions 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.

Scheduled for the day before the start of Interwire, 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 74 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

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.

8:30 - 9:15 am

“Mechanics of Wiredrawing,” by Frank Kraft, Ohio University, 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.

9:15 - 10:00 am

“Drawing Dies,” by Thomas Maxwell Jr., Die Quip Corp., USA. This presentation focuses on the die,

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the basics 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.

This course will provide an understanding of what makes a die work, how it is designed, causes of failure, and problems with drawing larger sizes.

10:15 - 11:00 am

“Wiredrawing Lubricant Technology,” 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 - 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.

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Fundamentals Luncheon

FERROUS TRACK 1:00 - 1:45 pm

“Fundamentals of Ferrous Metallurgy,” by Anand Bhagwat, Minova International, USA. This introductory course provides a 76 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

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.

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 - 2:30 pm

“Ferrous Testing and Properties,”

by C. Richard Gordon, Gerdau Long Steel North America, USA. 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. It also presents practical exercises of data analysis.

2:45 - 3:30 pm

“Ferrous Heat Treatment,” by C. Richard Gordon, Gerdau Long Steel North America, USA. This course focuses on heat treatment of ferrous metals. It includes basic heat treating principles applicable to many metals with specific examples related to heat treatment of steel rod and wire.

3:30 - 4:15 pm

“Cleaning and Coating of Rod and Wire,” by Jack McAfee and Rudy Vey, Chemetall USA, 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 finished product quality. The process designs impact the economics of the operation. It is imperative that rather than individual stages, this department should be viewed as a whole as it is critical to success. 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.

NONFERROUS/ ELECTRICAL TRACK 1:00 - 1:45 pm

“Fundamentals of Electrical Testing,” by Erika Akins, Southwire Co., USA.

1:45-2:30 pm

“Extrusion, Part 1,” by Erik A. Macs, Progressive Machinery Inc., 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.

2:45-3:30 pm

“Extrusion, Part 2,” by Erik A. Macs, Progressive Machinery Inc., 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.

3:30-4:15 pm

“Stranding,” by Darren McGreevy and Neilan Lawrence, International Wire Group, USA. This presentation documents the stranding process of nonferrous materials, specifically bare copper and tinned wire. Processes addressed include highspeed 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.

4:15-5:00 pm

Q&A Fundamental instructors will gather 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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papers and more Conference Sessions The educational program for 2015 will include ferrous, nonferrous and electrical papers,with authors from Austria, Belgium, Germany, India, Japan, Poland, Sweden and the U.S. The sessions will also include topics that are more specific to other topics, such as staffing, dust control, raw materials, applications and even capital expenditures. Collectively, the lineup offers multiple reasons to want to attend, and there’s a special new attraction planned for the last day that may encourage a few folks to not cut out early.

The sessions will start off at 9 am on Tuesday, April 28, with a presentation by Integer Research Director Philip Radbourne, a long-time U.K. contributor to stories in the WJI. The outline for his talk and his background is on the opposite page. The program will also include two panel discussions as follows: • Thermoplastic Compounds Panel, Tuesday, April 28, from 10:00 am to 11:00 am. Each panelist will share his take on Lean and how his company has applied the principles to its own operations.

• Thermoset Panel, Tuesday, April 28, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. Suppliers of plastics will discuss the various considerations for the use of thermoset insulation for wire and cable manufacturing.

The technical papers will be presented through Thursday, April 30, which will feature a half-day workshop, “Manufacturing Management,” by John T. Barteld, a U.S. consultant who is best known for having served as CEO of IWCS from 2014 to 2014. He is now in his 10th

Above, l-r, at Interwire 2013, moderator Neville Crabbe, Leoni Wire, with Lean Manufacturing panelists Mark Thackeray, General Cable; Roy St. Andre, EIS Wuire & Cable Co.; and Victor Jenkins, Nexans. year on faculty at York College of Pennsylvania where he teaches the capstone course in business strategy and policy, as well as international business courses and leadership and change.

As Barteld observes, in the Technology Age, change comes rapidly, and oftentimes, out of nowhere. Dealing with issues of leadership in an era of rapid change is a challenge, but also a requirement. His workshop will examine current thinking and techniques in leadership, and provide practical tools for the critical areas of leadership and teamwork in the challenging and unique wire and cable manufacturing sector. It is designed specifically for wire and cable operations managers.

Mordica Lecture TUESDAY, APRIL 28 | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm “Development of conductive material technology for modern and future needs of overhead electric power industry,” Tadeusz Knych, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland, This Mordica Lecture will cover the most serious operating risks concerning overhead power lines and the resulting modern requirements, with respect to both material and design. It characterizes technological problems associated with the production and processing of highly conductive AlZr and thermally high-resistant AlMgSi alloys. The lecture addresses the fatigue strength of wires made of aluminum and its alloys; heat resistance of wires made of AlMgSi alloy, exposed to temperature; and a manufacturing technology of Cu-Ag wires with a silver nano-fiber structure in copper matrix. It presents copper/aluminum composites—containing numerous, most noble varieties of allotropic carbon (CNTs, graphene)—as the most futuristic alternative to traditional conductive materials.

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9:00-9:30 am / Room 315

Industry Outlook

by Philip Radbourne, Integer Research Ltd., UK

This presentation kicks off the nonferrous/electrical segment of Interwire with an overview of the global electrical sector. It takes a look at the present and future of the electrical side of the wire industry, with a particular focus on the North American market.

It includes a snapshot of the U.S. and world economies, highlighting the positive and negative aspects of recent growth, and delves deeper to examine specific cable production trends in detail.

Presenter Philip Radbourne is director at Integer Research Ltd., London, UK, where he heads up the wire and cable research team. Integer Research provides a range of information, reports, and con-

9:00 am - 3:30 pm Conference

Sessions

9:30 am - 12:30 pm

SESSION - APPLICATIONS AM

This day-long track of electrical sessions traces the development of final products from raw materials to applications. Starting with raw materials, it begins with backto-back copper presentations on drawing and stranding. Next is a pair of raw materials discussion panels discussing thermoplastic compounds and thermosets. The program resumes in the afternoon with two more panels on processing and applications, again divided by thermoplastics and thermosets.

9:30 - 10:00 am

“Copper Drawing,” by Neville Crabbe, Leoni Wire Inc., USA 10:00 - 10:30 am

“Copper Stranding,” by Darren McGreevy and Neilan Lawrence, International Wire Group, USA This presentation documents the stranding process of nonferrous

sulting services to the aluminum and wire and cable industries. He has more than 13 years of experience in business analysis and consulting. He has managed market studies analyzing a range of products from power cables, magnet wire, LAN data cables to copper telecom and fiber optic cables. A petroleum engineer by training, he spent a couple of years in Norway working in the oil industry for Schlumberger. He won a Chevron Oil Scholarship to study at Imperial College, London, U.K.

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.

Panel Discussions 10:30 - 11:30 am

Thermoplastic Compounds Panel

Contributors: Hal Aitken, Nexans, USA; Kalpesh Patel, PolyOne Corp., USA; and Mike Patel, Teknor Apex Co., USA. This panel of wire manufacturers and plastics suppliers discusses different approaches to the use of thermoplastic materials in wire and cable manufacturing. The session addresses compounding, processing, and properties, as well as applications of different materials.

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Thermoset Panel

Contributors: Paul Brigandi, Dow Chemical Co., USA; Bill Fajardo, Borealis Compounds Inc., USA; Cindy L. Flenniken, Equistar Chemicals, USA; and Kalpesh Patel, PolyOne Corp., USA. This panel will see suppliers of plastics discussing the various considerations for the use of thermoset insulation for wire and cable manufacturing.

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lubricant break down into very fine particles in order to adequately flow into the die and form a plastic-like lubricant film between the die and wire surfaces. The shape of the lubricant particles, as well as the chemistry and handling practices, play an important role in the dust generation tendency of the lubricant. Selecting the proper lubricant supports the reduction of quantity and rate of dust generation allowing for easier dust control in the plant environment.

11:00 - 11:30 am

1:30 - 3:30 pm

SESSION - APPLICATIONS PM

1:30 - 2:30 pm

“Thermoplastic Processing & Applications Panel,” by Rick Chamberlain, General Cable Corp., USA; Sergio Montes, Conductores Monterrey SA de CV, Mexico.

The first afternoon panel of wire and cable manufacturers discusses different approaches to the use of thermoplastics in wire and cable manufacturing. The groups specifically addresses the processing and applications of these materials in a real-world wire and cable facility.

2:30 - 3:30 pm

“Thermoset Processing & Applications Panel,” by Hal Aitken, Nexans, USA; Rick Antic, Champlain Cable Corp., USA; Tim Jensen, General Cable Corp., USA. The final panel of wire and cable manufacturers discusses different approaches to the use of thermosets in wire and cable manufacturing. The session addresses topics like CV vs. moisture-curing and irradiation vs. ambient curing.

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10:00 am - 12:00 pm

SESSION - DUST CONTROL

The four presentations in this session consider the mitigation and evacuation of dust, focusing on the potential for damage and the cost to the industry. Speakers representing die and lubrication suppliers, along with collection and compliance experts, offer their perspectives on abatement of potential dust hazards.

The session considers all potential hazards, including not just those related to lubricant, but also scale dust and general airborne plant dust.

10:00 - 10:30 am

“Dies in Dust Control,”

by Eric Bieberich, Fort Wayne Wire Die Inc., USA. Certain factors in die design and maintenance affect the potential for generation of dust during drawing.

These include melting point and die angle. This presentation examines the role of the die in dust control, and how the variables can be managed to control dust.

10:30 - 11:00 am

“Lubricants in Dust Control,”

by David Gzesh, Blachford Corporation, USA. In many wiredrawing applications, it is critical that the dry drawing

“Dust Collection Principles and Wiredrawing Applications,” Jayson Cary, Donaldson Torit, Donaldson Company Inc., USA. This presentation discusses dust collection concepts and principles and looks at different types of collectors along with thoughts on centralized units versus individual units. It looks at collection from the point of dust generation to the capture hood, the conveying duct, the filters, the fan providing the suction, and the exhaust air.

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

“Dust Explosion Hazard Assessment,” by Vahid Ebadat, Chilworth Global, U.K. This presentation discusses the conditions required for dust cloud explosions and presents a well-tried approach to identify, assess, and eliminate/control dust explosion hazards in facilities. This includes identification of locations where combustible dust cloud atmospheres could be present; understanding dust characteristics; identification of potential ignition sources; proper process and facility design; and facility maintenance. The presentation includes discussion of the OSHA Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program.

1:00 - 4:30 pm

SESSION - FERROUS / GENERAL PAPERS

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“Meeting the customer demand for improved rod qualities through improvements to operating practices and rod mill equipment,” by Bruce V. Kiefer and Wade P. Krejdovsky, Siemens Industry Inc.; and Bhaskar Yalamanchili, Peter Power, Richard Gordon, Thad Boudreaux, and Leonardo Cunha, Gerdau Long Steel North America, USA. Producing high-quality wire rod requires both capable rolling mill equipment along with proper practices and controls. While rolling mill equipment determines the sizes and grades that can be rolled, the final mechanical and metallurgical properties depend upon many other factors such as rolling, controlled cooling, and inspection practices, all coordinated and controlled through automation. This paper discusses these factors on wire rod quality with some examples.

1:30 - 2:00 pm

“Improvement of the limit of drawing a fine high-carbon steel wire by decreasing back tension,” by Shiori Gondo, Shinsuke Suzuki, and Motoo Asakawa, Waseda University; Kosuke Takemoto and Kenichi Tashima, Factory Automation Electronics Inc.; and Satoshi Kajino, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan.

The authors drew fine high-carbon steel wire by changing back tension in an equivalent pass schedule using a wet-type non-slip drawing machine, and then performed tensile tests on the wire. Although the tensile strength was not changed, the reduction of area at the strain of three increased by 16% through decreasing back tension. These results showed the efficacy of decreasing back tension as the limit of drawing was improved by 31%.

2:00 - 2:30 pm

“Innovative FBG measurement of steel wire ropes deformation,”

by Janusz Juraszek, University of Bielsko-Biała, Poland.

This paper discusses the use of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors, a new concept of strain, stress, and temperature monitoring in wire ropes. FBG sensors offer a viable approach with a number of advantages over traditional sensors. These include immunity to electromagnetic interference, light weight, small size, multiplexing capabilities, ease of installation, and durability. This measuring system allows registration results with a frequency up to 1kHz. Measuring set-up was modeled on a materials testing machine.

3:00 - 3:30 pm

“Economic and chemical comparisons of hydrochloric acid recovery technologies for iron pickling operations,” by Jared Cullivan and Bryan Cullivan, Beta Control Systems Inc., USA. This paper presents an evaluation of available technologies to recover hydrochloric acid from spent wire pickling solutions. Technologies reviewed include acid retardation, diffusion dialysis, and evaporative recovery. A case study, based on typical batch pickling waste, examines energy consumption, chemical mass balance, and end products. The papers also presents an economic review of the capital and operating expenses.

3:30 - 4:00 pm

“Acid purification—technical and economic benefits for the wire industry,” by Roger Francois, Bekaert Corporation, Belgium, and C. Tom Philipp, PRO-pHx Inc., USA. Wire companies in South Africa and the USA have demonstrated the environmental and economic benefits of acid purification and automatic filtration. A catalyst is used in this process to change the solubility of ferrous chloride or ferrous sulfate.

This paper discusses a technology commercialized in 2000 which is presently used in 15 countries.

The benefits include: reduced acid concentrations, controlled iron concentrations, elimination of acid bath dumps/decants, reduced waste treatment neutralization costs, reduced virgin acid purchases, and reduced air emissions.

4:00 - 4:30 pm

“Continuous plasma cleaning and surface activation of ferrous and nonferrous wire and rod,” by Igor Rogelj and Primoz Eiselt, Plasmait GmbH, Austria.

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physical demands of the jobs they are being hired to perform through effective employment testing.

9:30 - 10:30 am

surface oxidation and surface activation, and surface preparation for coating or finished material cleaning. It explains the workings of the plasma cleaner and its components. It focuses on specific application with demanding surface and mechanical requirements in the medical, aerospace, electronics, jewelry, automotive, and high-performance cable sectors.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 9:00 am - 3:30 pm Conference

Sessions

MORDICA LECTURE 8:30 - 9:00 am

“Development of conductive material technology for current and future needs of overhead power lines,” by Tadeusz Knych, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland.

Tadeusz Knych is a full professor at AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH-UST), Krakow, Poland. He is a specialist in the field of metallurgy, especially synthesis of alloys, hot and cold plastic working, and testing of new materials with respect to modern overhead lines

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and the railway power engineering sector. He holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees related to theoretical and experimental work on the drawing process. He holds many patents in the area of materials and technologies for overhead electricity and rail.

He has authored or co-authored more than 300 papers, and has supervised more than 100 master’s and doctoral theses. He is winner of prestigious national and international awards.

9:00 - 11:00 am

SESSION - STAFFING

9:00 - 9:30 am

“Hiring Right!,” by Larry Feeler, WorkSTEPS Inc., USA. The decision to implement a pre-employment, post-offer testing program is a significant one. When administered properly, an effective testing program can greatly reduce the incidence of injuries, their related costs, and turnover. They can also demonstrate substantial ROI and enhance workplace safety and productivity. However, if the program being used has not been vetted for legal defensibility, validity, safety, and performance, these tests can create more risks than benefits. This module educates employers on how to effectively match workers to the

“Incentives Programs,” by Sandra Cabral, ArcelorMittal, USA; Randy Sheets, Leggett & Platt Inc., USA; Mid-South Wire Co., USA This panel examines different types of employee incentive programs that are essential to retaining a skilled manufacturing workforce. These wire and cable manufacturers share their different approaches, discussing various components of their plans and what they have found to be most successful. The panel considers the merits of individual and group production incentives, pay-for-skills, continuous proficiency evaluation, and cross-training.

10:30 - 11:00 am

“The Return on Effective Hiring and Retention – It’s Not Soft Stuff,”

by Christina B. Smiley and R. Stephen Burgess, Insteel Industries Inc., USA. With a tightening labor market and direct replacement costs estimated at 50 to 60 percent of an hourly employee’s annual salary, effective hiring and retention practices are essential to a company’s productivity and business performance. Meeting the challenges and taking advantage of current and future business opportunities requires different thinking and better practices.

This interactive session explores ways to engage an organization’s people throughout the process of finding and keeping the right talent.

9:00 - 10:30 am

SESSION NONFERROUS PAPERS

9:00 - 9:30 am

“Practical methods of reducing nonferrous fines generation in wiredrawing,” by Gil Baker, Confident Instruments Inc., USA. Reducing the generation of nonferrous fines has definite financial

9:30 - 10:00 am

“Additional details on fines measurement and analysis,” by Gil Baker, Confident Instruments Inc., and Horace Pops, Horace Pops Consulting Inc., USA. Although a rather voluminous paper on drawing fines appeared in Wire Journal International several years ago, the complexity of this topic and numerous related variables indicated the necessity of a follow-up. The present article covers a number of new details and variables related to the formation and analysis of fines. Included herein are discussions and some practical solutions concerning the analysis of fines at a die pass, which includes proper sampling as well as testing of water based, oils, and solid lubricants, the incoming and exiting wires, and the dies and die holders.

10:00 - 10:30 am

“Possibilities for copper and wire-producing environments,”

by Sonja Breyner and Anna Franzkowiak, RHI AG, Austria To address the high complexity and specification diversity of multiple production routes, RHI is striving for appropriate materials to meet the permanently challenging pyrometallurgical aspects of customers in the copper and wire-producing industries. This presentation discusses various tailor-made refractory solutions to even the most complex projects.

different wires. Magnesium alloys are very brittle, which makes them hard to use. That’s why research is concentrated on the improvement of ductility of magnesium wires by using alternate wiredrawing.

11:00 - 11:30 am

“Multi-pass wiredrawing of Mg alloys in a heated die with controlled recrystallization,” by Andrij Milenin, Piotr Kustra, and Maciej Pietrzyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland.

A new generation of magnesium alloys can by applied as surgical threads to the integration of tissue.

This paper proposes a new production process of drawing in a heated die assisted by FEM modeling. The basis of the process is drawing in conditions in which recrystallization occurs. A numerical method is used to control recrystallization after every pass. This study proposes a model of static and dynamic recrystallization and a complex model of the drawing process.

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

12:00 - 12:30 pm

“Cold alternate drawing of magnesium alloy wires,” by Vladimir Stefanov Hristov and Kazunari Yoshida, Tokai University, Japan.

This paper focuses on the cold drawing process of magnesium alloy wires and mainly the difference between conventional and alternate drawing. It also explains the difference between the two processes and presents in detail the changes in mechanical properties of several

“The correlation between hardness in Webster scale and selected mechanical properties,”

by Piotr Romański, Grzegorz Stradomski, and Jan W. Pilarczyk, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland.

The aim of this research is to analyze the correlation between hardness in the Webster scale as determined by a Webster hardness tester and selected mechanical properties: yield strength and tensile strength of hot extruded profiles from EN-AW 6060 and EN-AW 6063 aluminum alloys. Statistical analysis showed a high accuracy of correlation with errors lower than 5%. The study found a strong correlation with coefficient correlation higher than 0.95. The system of correlation can also be used for different shapes of semi products.

12:30 - 1:00 pm

“Establishing the manufacturing process of Ti-6Al-4V 1.6 mm-diameter filler wire for strategic

keynote speaker 2:00 - 2:45 pm

“It’s Your Ship,” by Mike Abrashoff, USA Mike Abrashoff, former Naval Commander of the USS Benfold, and author of the New York Times bestseller It’s Your Ship will share lessons from “The Leadership Roadmap” in his keynote address. His system of management techniques helped him overcome the challenge of low morale and high turnover by empowering every individual to share the responsibility to achieve excellence. These concepts apply to many organizations facing the same problems today.

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benefits. Often the largest source of fines is rod-related. This paper discusses methods of assessing rod sources along with practical methods of reducing fines in wiredrawing, including: reducing wire vibrations, new methods of optimizing die alignment, early-detection of deformation wear, and using fines as a powerful indicator at a single die-pass or over an entire drawing machine, including a low-cost method for rapid assessment.

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To protect against the rash of counterfeit-marked cables entering the wire and cable market, this paper demonstrates how Geon™ vinyl formulations with Percept™ authentication technologies can help secure the integrity of the wire and cable supply chain. The combination of these products provides customers with a mechanism to implement track-andtrace programs for their cables, while seeming virtually undetectable to the naked eye.

10:30 - 11:00 am

applications,” by M. V. Prasad, Mishra Dhatu Nigam Ltd., India The titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V is used for making structural elements in strategic sectors like Indian missile programs. The components are welded by using Ti-6Al-4V filler wire of 1.6 mm diameter. It is very difficult to cold draw this alloy because of its low ductility at room temperature, so hot working is substituted to make finished wire.

Initially, the bars were hot rolled to a 9-mm diameter after chemical milling. The bars were processed by hot swaging to a 4.5-mm diameter followed by hot wiredrawing to a 1.68-mm diameter.

9:00 - 11:00 am

SESSION - NONFERROUS / ELECTRICAL PAPERS

9:00 - 9:30 am

“Understanding flaws in communication cable production thanks to balunless single-ended measurements,” by Peter Fischer, AESA SA, Switzerland.

The balunless cable measurement technique opens the door to many new parameters, most of them not well known or understood. For the new upcoming 40GBase-T application (IEEE 802.3 bq), a deeper

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understanding of these new opportunities in measurement technologies is essential to reduce development time. These methods can be used also to improve the internal quality system and early failure detection to reduce scrap.

9:30 - 10:00 am

“Energy-efficient drive system for extrusion lines,” by Juan Carlos González Villar, Kabel Consulting, Germany.

In extruder drives, the ratio of net power requirement to installed power is very small, a condition known as a power “mismatch.”

Depending on cable type, cable/conductor diameter, insulation thickness, line speed, and pulling force, cable manufacturers have until now been forced to pay a lot of money for unnecessary power consumption every year. This paper discusses opportunities to make incremental improvements in extrusion lines that deliver significant cost savings. In particular, it discusses a new (and patented) drive technology.

10:00 - 10:30 am

“Authentication and traceability in wire and cable,” by Craig L. Shoemaker and Sean Bernhardt, PolyOne Corporation, USA.

“Rodents and insects—a chronic threat to wire and cable,” by Varsha Laxman Pote and Prajakta Shyamkant Dhamorikar, C Tech Corporation, India.

Cables in all applications are vulnerable to damage from rodents, termites, and ants. Conventional chemicals used to deal with these pests are toxic and hazardous, and have become ineffective as most of the target species have developed resistance to them. This paper describes polymer-specific masterbatches to combat these pests: Rodrepel™, Termirepel™, and Combirepel™.

These are patented non-toxic and non-hazardous products which have been successful in protecting polymer applications and which do not kill the target species.

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

“The new era in aluminum wiredrawing lubricants,” by Troy Carr, Bechem Lubrication Technology LLC, USA, and Harry Hofmann, Carl Bechem GmbH, Germany.

Significant efforts have been made in recent years by the wiredrawing industry to convert high-volume applications in automotive, magnet, and shielding wire from copper to aluminum. This has led to efforts by equipment manufacturers to develop the technique of drawing aluminum on multi-wire machines. First, developments were started with the use of lower-viscosity, high-lubricity drawing oils. While this was an

12:00 - 12:30 pm

“Optimizing productivity through improved maintenance of oil-based and water-based wiredrawing lubricants,” by Bill Coode and Gardner Tripp, Etna Products Inc., USA. On wiredrawing operations, die wear affects the overall economics of the process. Without proper lubrication, the frictional forces generated by the process result in excess die wear and reduced productivity.

In this paper, the authors present a review of lubrication theory, factors influencing lubricant selection and a review of process controls and maintenance procedures for both oil-based and water-based wiredrawing lubricants. In addition, this paper presents an overview of the new OSHA Globally Harmonized System (GHS) standard and its impact on lubricant formulation.

12:30 - 1:00 pm

“Impact of adverse cable handling on lifetime of optical fiber,”

by Sudipta Bhaumik, Sterlite Technologies Limited, India.

For long-term reliability prediction, it is necessary to determine in-service lifetime and in-service failure rates for various fiber stress histories like constant tension in buried cable or sudden jerk during cable installation.

This paper discusses various fiber lifetime prediction models. It predicts lifetime and safe stress based on various models, stress-time histories, and long length (20 m) tensile strength distributions. A set of experiments that can validate the lifetime models are conducted on fiber with pre-defined testable stress-time exposures.

SESSION - CAPITAL EXPENDITURES 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

“Approving Capital Expenditures Panel,” by Marco Gerardo, SAMP USA Inc., USA; David Hawker, Nexans Energy Cable Div., USA; John Howard, General Cable Corp., USA; Bernd Lohmüller, Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH & Co. KG, Germany.

A panel of wire and cable manufacturers and equipment suppliers discusses the ins and outs of how capital expenditures are approved, including what each considers the most important conditions and parameters. The discussion explores the different perspectives of engi-

neers, financial directors, and equipment suppliers. The speakers will work to educate each other on their own views on how equipment really figures into a manufacturer’s plans, as well as how efficiency, energy savings, wear life, and other considerations can factor into the approval process.

3:30 - 4:50 pm

SESSION PRODUCTION SOLUTIONS (See p. 86)

THURSDAY, APRIL 30 9 am - 12:00 pm

Leadership Panel

Manufacturing Management 9:00 - noon

“Manufacturing Management,” by John T. Barteld, USA If there is one constant in an organization, it is that nothing is constant. In the Technology Age, change comes rapidly, and oftentimes, out of nowhere. Dealing with issues of leadership in an era of rapid change is a challenge, but also a requirement. In this workshop, current thinking and techniques in leadership are examined, with direct examples used to illustrate the challenge and the opportunity. The use of “Change Agents”, strategies for “peeking around the corner” to identify tomorrow’s challenges, and coping with the disruption of change are explored.

The Manufacturing Management Workshop is a new half-day program designed to provide practical tools for the critical areas of leadership and teamwork in the challenging and unique wire and cable manufacturing sector.

It is designed specifically for wire and cable operations managers. It offers practical tools to advance performance, a chance for networking among professionals facing similar challenges and opportunities, and concludes with a leadership discussion panel of senior operations executives.

Moderator John Barteld recently retired after nearly 40 years in the wire and cable industry. He has served on company Boards of Directors in the U.S. and the Middle East and as chairman of the board of directors in India. After retiring from an active role in cable sector companies in 2004, he continued to serve the industry through his role as the CEO of the International Wire and Cable Symposium, a premier forum for exchange of technology within the wire and cable industry. He is now in his 10th year on faculty at York College of Pennsylvania where he teaches the capstone course in business strategy and policy, as well as international business courses and leadership and change.

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improvement over the high-viscosity standard products, eventually this led to the development of water-miscible lubricants which provide the required performance and are safe in use.

Both EC grade aluminum and aluminum alloys can be processed form rod breakdown through multi-wire applications.

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floor smarts Production Solutions At Interwire, three separate 20-minute Production Solutions presentations will be made on the show floor from 3:30 pm to 4:50 pm on Wednesday, April 29.

First up, at 3:30 pm, is “Ways to determine root causes of issues blamed on the cleaning house,” to be presented at Booth 480 by Jack McAfee, Chemetall USA. This presentation briefly covers identifying the root cause of issues that can develop from a cleaning house. It also discusses determining if the source really is the cleaning house or if it is possibly from processes that come before or after that step in the production cycle. In some cases, simple tests can be run on site to help point you in the right direction. An example would be: “is that red hue on the rod surface coming from copper plating or hematite scale?” Specific issues can be discussed one on one after the presentation.

Next up, at 4 pm, is “Lubricant Solutions,” to be presented at Booth 963 by Troy Carr, business development manager, Bechem Lubrication Technology, and Harry Hofmann, export sales manager, Carl Bechem GmbH. This presentation will discuss the recent developments of full synthetic lubricants and their expanded use in copper wiredrawing applications.

Ralph Noonan, Etna Products, Inc., makes his Production Solutions presentation on lubricants at Interwire 2013.

The final one, at 4:30 pm, is “Wire Breaks,” to be presented at the Properzi Booth (1840) by Horace Pops, president, Horace Pops Consulting, Inc. The former WAI President will address a vexing industry quandry. How do you identify the possible causes of wire breaks? Is it the process or is it the material? He will help attendees learn to distinguish the issues that can result in wire breaks. A detailed analysis of central bursting (cuppy wire) will include both causes, prevention, and correction.

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Booth 124 332 DESIGNERS & MANUFACTURERS OF PAYOFF & TENSION CONTROL EQUIPMENT FOR WIRE & CABLE

Wyrepak Industries offers high quality machines and solutions for wire and cable companies as well as other industrial applications. From tension controls, pay-offs, pulleys, sheaves, bobbin winders and custom applications — Wyrepak does it all!

For more details on any of our manufacturing product solutions, call us at 800-972-9222 or email sales@wyrepak.com WYREPAK INDUSTRIES — A Huestis Industrial Company • www.WYREPAK.com

68 Buttonwood Street, Bristol, Rhode Island 02809-0718 USA • tel: 800.972.9222 or 401.253.5500 fax: 401.253.7350 2C_BW_WYREPAKHuestis_OffersHighQualityMachines_WJI_halfHoriz_v4_02112015_PICset2_variousCombos_press.indd 1

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from A to Z Alphabetical exhibitors list Ace Metal Inc ...............................650 ACM AB ....................................1320 Advaris GmbH .............................551 Aeroel Srl ...................................2150 AESA SA .....................................114 Agape Industry Inc .......................863 AIM, Inc .....................................1014 All Wire Forming Machinery, Inc ...........................770 Allied Mineral Products, Inc ......1804 Amacoil, Inc .................................713

BLM Group USA Corporation ....224

Chemetall, Inc ..............................400

Bloom Engineering ......................601 Bohl/H Bohl North America........161

Chengdu Centran Industrial Co, Ltd .....................1801

Anbao (Qinhuangdao) Wire & Mesh Co, Ltd .........................753

Bojin Cable Drum Manufacturer Co, Ltd .......... 912/04

China Ruijin Fairs International ..966 Cimteq Ltd ..................................2019

Anhui Herrman Impex Co, Ltd ................................. 912/04

Bongard Trading GmbH ...........1068

Clifford Welding Systems ........1723

Boockmann Engineering GmbH .264

Clinton Instrument Company.......901

Appleton Manufacturing ............2126

BOW TECHNOLOGY ................424

CM Furnaces Inc ..........................654

Assomac Machines Ltd ................863

Boxy SpA/HOWAR Eqpt .........1320

CMEC International Exhibition ...412

Avic International Minerals & Resources Co, Ltd......................411

Breen Color Concentrates Inc ......250

CN Wire Corp ..............................924

Brookfield Wire Co ......................549

Collins & Jewell .........................2149

Bühler GmbH ...............................740

Cometo..........................................424

Burster...........................................470

Commission Brokers Inc..............719

Butt Welders USA Inc ...............2148

Condat SA/Condat Corp ............1650

BWE Ltd.......................................157

Conneaut Industries, Inc ..............423

Caballe SA. ...................................312

Continuus-Properzi, SpA ...........1840

Cable Consultants Corp ...............140

Conoptica AS ...............................870

Cable Services & Systems ...........424

Custom Machining & Fabrications LLC .......................770

Amaral Automation Associates .2136 American & Efird LLC ..............1556 American Kuhne ........................2050

AW Machinery LLC ..................1712 Axjo America Inc .......................1940 Aztech Lubricants LLC................964 B & H Tool Company LLC .........750 B & Z Galvanized Wire Ind ......1807 Baicheng Fujia Technology Co, Ltd ............. 512/10 Balloffet Die Corporation ..........1708 Beacon Reel Company .................145

Calmec Precision Inc..................2117 Candor Sweden AB......................624

DALOO ........................................424

Canterbury Engineering/ GENCA ......................................940

Davis-Standard, LLC .................1524 Die Quip Corp ............................1003

Carris Reels ................................1350

Domeks Makine Ltd Sti .............1340

Beijing Orient Pengsheng Tech Co Ltd .............................1808

Ceeco Bartell/Bartell Machinery1351

Dynamex Corporation ................1911

Bekaert ........................................2113

Cemanco LC .................................606

E-Beam Services Inc ....................141

Central Wire Industries Inc ........1818

Ebner Furnaces, Inc......................620

Ceramtech .....................................606

EJP Maschinen GmbH ...............1051

CERSA-MCI ..............................1601

Elco Enterprises (Wire Wizard)...765

Chase Wire & Cable Materials ....902

Electron Beam Technologies, Inc .......................454

Bechem Lubrication Technology...............................1706 Beijing BIHI International Exhibition Co Ltd ........... 131, 1910

Bergandi Machinery Co ...............701 Beta Steel ....................................2017 Blachford Corporation .................406

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Filtertech, Inc...............................1049

GCR Eurodraw SpA...................1824

Enercon Industries.......................1816

Fine International Corporation......332

Gem Gravure Co Inc.....................706

Engineered Machinery Group.......218

Finoptics Inc................................1801

GENCA.........................................940

Enkotec Company Inc...................108

Fisk Alloy Inc..............................2140

W Gillies Technologies, LLC.......958

ER-Bakir Elektrolitik Baker AS...924

FLYMCA & FLYRO..................1907

Gimax Srl.......................................140

ERA Wire Inc................................354

FMS USA, Inc...............................618

GMP Slovakia Sro........................758

Esteves Group................................806

Foerster Instruments Inc...............1814

Etna Products, Inc.......................1706

Forever Cable Materials Group.......................................512/03

Golden Technologies Wire & Cable Equipment Co, Ltd..... 912/06

Eurobend GmbH.........................1058 Eurolls Spa.....................................858 EuroWire.......................................132 George Evans Corp.......................711 EVG Inc.........................................150 Evolution Products, Inc.................133 Fabritex, Inc...................................616 Fastener Engineers......................2056 Fenn.............................................1955 FIB...............................................1358 Fil-Tec Inc...................................1502

Fort Wayne Wire Die, Inc..........1532 Fortune Machinery......................1053 Fridea Srl.....................................1739

Granite Falls Furnace..................1562 Guangzhou Hanstar Fluoro-Plastic Insulated Wires Co, Ltd........ 412/07 Guill Tool & Engineering.............211

Mario Frigerio/Frigeco................1379

Guney Celik...................................652

Frontier Composites and Castings................................215

H Folke Sandelin AB (HFSAB)...740 Hafner & Krulmann GmbH..........370

FSP-One.......................................2128

v Hagen & Funke..........................140

Fuhr GmbH....................................752

Hall Industries ............................1032

Gauder/Gauder Group...................424

Handuk Ultrasonic Co, Ltd.........2011

Gavlick Machinery Corp.............1053

Hangzhou JR Exhibition Co. 217/306

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Jouhsen-Bundgens Inc..................232 Kablosan Turkey - FBC..............1656 Kalmark Integrated Systems ......1656 KEIR Manufacturing, Inc.............703 Keystone Steel & Wire.................405 Kielselstein GmbH......................1051 King Steel Corp.............................537 Kinrei of America.........................624 KMB GmbH................................1506 KMK..............................................606 Kopilowitz Engineering Ltd.........624 Hariton Machinery Co, Inc...........147

IP Automation.............................1860

Heany Industries............................950

Isotek Corporation An Isabellenhutte Company ....1800

Hearl Heaton................................1949 Heatbath Corporation..................2012 Heinrich Muller GmbH.................670 Heritage Wire Die, Inc..................111 Hipo Electrix Science & Technology Co, Ltd.......... 412/10 Holland Colors America, Inc......1916 Houghton International...............1810 HOWAR Equipment Inc.............1320 Huestis Industrial...........................124 Huttner Maschinfabrik................1051 IBA Industrial................................569 ICE Wire Line Equipment Inc....1051 IDEAL Welding Systems...........1024 iiM AG Measurement + Engineering..............................872 INFLEX Inc.................................1656 Inhol LLC....................................2124 Innovites......................................1920 Inosym Ltd..................................1731 Integrated Control Technologies.1660 Integrated Control Technologies.............................1660 Interequip SA................................108 International Wire & Cable Machinery...................................602 International Wire & Machinery Association (IWMA)..................601 Intras Ltd.......................................132

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IWE Spools & Handling ............1051 IWG Group....................................240 Jiangsu Dasheng Electron Accelerator Co, Ltd ...................318 Jiangsu FNC Wire & Cable Co, Ltd.................... 512/06 Jiangsu Handing Machinery Co, Ltd................ 912/01 Jiangsu Sunlit Equipment Co, Ltd.....................217 Jiangsu Xinglong Metal Products Co, Ltd................... 412/06 Jiangsu Yonggao Steel Wire Manufacture Co, Ltd............. 512/02

Kyocera Industrial Ceramics.......1904 Lake Michigan Metals, Inc.........2015 Lamnea Bruk AB..........................324 LaserLinc.....................................1503 Leggett & Platt Wire Group.........440 Leoni Wire Inc..............................850 Lesmo Machinery America........1932 Lewis Machine............................2056 Light Speed Cable Technology (Shenzhen) Co, Ltd.....................131 Lint Top Cable Technology ... 912/03 Lloyd & Bouvier Inc...................1832 Longvision (Shanghai) Cable Materials Co, Ltd ..........1917 Lubrimetal Corporation...............1956 Lukas Anlagenbau GmbH............116 M&E Machine + Engineering....1358

Jiangyin Kangrui Stainless Steel Products Co, Ltd.......... 912/08

Madison Steel, Inc.........................360

Joe Snee Associates.....................1355

Magnetic Technologies Ltd..........612

JoeTools.......................................2130

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Maillefer Extrusion Oy.................932 Mario Frigerio/MFL Group........1739 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc............139 Messe Dusseldorf N. America....1001 Metal Resource Solutions, Inc......358 Metalloid Corp............................2016 Metallurgical Council of China....558 Metavan NV/HOWAR Eqpt ......1320 MFL USA Service Corp.............1739 MGS Group/MGS Mfg Inc.........1032 Micro Products Company.............550 Microdia USA.............................1922 Mid-South Wire...........................1354 Morgan-Koch Corporation..........1358 Mossberg Associates, Inc..............763 Mossberg Industries, Inc...............113 Nanjing Xiandai Diamond Products Co Ltd........................2014 Nano Diamond America, Inc......1806 Nantong Elite Metal Products Imp and Exp Co, Ltd............ 412/01

OEG GmbH/Weber & Scher......1731

Plasmait GmbH...........................1320

Oklahoma Steel & Wire..............2007

Plastic Equip, LLC......................2111

OM Frigerio Srl/HOWAR Eqpt .1320

Plasticolor....................................2111

OMCG NA..................................1050

Pneumatic Power Tools & Co......352

Otomec Srl...................................1932

POURTIER of America................424

Ozyasar Tel Ve Galvanizleme San As.......................................2018

Precision Die Technologies..........402

P&R Specialty, Inc........................333

PrintSafe......................................1850

P/A Industries, Inc.........................119

NDC Technologies (Beta LaserMike Products).........631

Paramount Die Company, Inc.......340

NEPTCO........................................902 Nextrom Oy/Rosendahl.................640

Pave CNC Wire Forming Systems.....................................1321

Niagara Composites Industries.....724

Pentre Group Ltd.........................1949

Niehoff Endex North America, Inc................................740

Phifer Incorporated........................450

NIMSCO LLC...............................301

Pittsfield Plastics Engineering.......764

Northampton Machinery ............1032 NUMALLIANCE.........................732

Parkway-Kew Corporation.........1057

Pioneer USA..................................206 PKG Equipment Inc......................231 Plas-Ties, Co.................................112

Premier Wire Die........................2134 Process Control Corporation.......1805 Progressive Machinery Inc...........724 Progress Maschinen & Automation AG......................153 Promostar Srl.................................452 Properzi International, Inc...........1840 Proton Products...........................1731 PWM Ltd.....................................1355 Q8Oil - Roloil................................771 QED Wire Lines Inc.....................952 Queins Machines GmbH.............1506 Raajratna Stainless Wire Inc.........453 RAD-CON, Inc..............................457 Radyne Corp................................1912 Rainbow Rubber & Plastics........1649 Rautomead Limited.....................1070 Reber Systematic GmbH...............740 Redex ............................................740 Reel-O-Matic Inc...........................464 Refractron......................................302 RichardsApex, Inc.........................540 RG Attachments/Tape Formers..1602

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United Wire Co, Inc......................252 Unitek Crossheads/HOWAR .....1320 Upcast OY...................................1856 Vandor Corp..................................449 Vinston US Corp...........................564 Vollmer America Inc....................350 W3 Ultrasonics LLC.....................451 WAFIOS Machinery Corp............906 WCISA Wire And Cable Industry Suppliers Association.................235 Weber & Scher Mfg. Co.............1731 Rockford Manufacturing Group, Inc (RMG)....................2056 Rosendahl Nextrom USA Inc.......640 Roteq Machinery Inc...................2032 S&E Specialty Polymers...............331 Saco Polymers...............................233 Saint Gobain..................................664 SAMP USA, Inc..........................1328 Schlatter North America.............1314 Schmidt Maschinenbau GmbH.....740 Schnell SpA.................................2152 Scienscope International.............2005 SETIC of America........................424 Shanghai Jiajie Technology Co, Ltd .....................................1919 Shanghai JNL Industry Co, Ltd ...316

Steel Cable Reels LLC..................270

Windak Inc..................................1940

Stolberger Inc DBA Wardwell Braiding Co......712

Wire & Cable Asia........................132

Stolberger KMBMaschinenfabrik.......................1506 Strecker GmbH & Co KG............906 Subec AB.....................................2136 Sylvin Technologies, Inc...............129 T & T Marketing, Inc..................1064 Talladega Castings & Machine Co.................................136

Taubensee Steel & Wire Co.........749

Wirex Dies and Steels India Pvt Ltd.........................................143

Taymer International Inc...............849 Tecnofil SA....................................234

Teknikor.......................................1066

Shenzhen Ktyu Insulation Co.......570

Teknor Apex Company.................212

Siebe Engineering GmbH...........1069

Tensor Machinery Ltd.................1750

Sikora International Corporation..812

Thermcraft Inc.............................1902

SIMPACKS...................................206

Thermoplastics Engineering Corp...........................................2116

Sonoco Reels And Spools.............432 Spirka Schnellflechter GmbH.......712 Starrett-Bytewise.........................1702

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Wire Lab Company.......................506 Wireworld....................................2114

Tecvil.............................................120

Sneham International....................702

Wire Forming Technology International................................235

Tape Formers/RG Attachments..1602

Shaoxing Kaichen Mica Material Co, Ltd.................... 512/01

SKET GmbH............................... 712

Wire Association International........... .........................................Show floor

Wire Machine Systems, Inc........1052

Tecnofil SpA........................................

Sjogren Industries..........................715

Wire & Plastics Machinery Corp........................1040

Tantec Est, Inc.............................1908

Shanghai Pudong Co...................1512

Sivaco Wire Group........................258

Wire & Cable Technology International................................235

Top Tapes/TT Okroglica DD........123 Trafco Cortinovis Sictra..............2156 Traxit North America....................349 Troester GmbH & Co KG..........1067

Witels Albert USA Ltd...............1812 Woodburn Diamond Die, Inc.......705 Worth Steel and Machinery, Inc............................459 WTM Srl........................................571 Wuxi Xingcheng Walsin Steel Products Co, Ltd................... 412/04 Yangzhou Yalong Cable Sample Co, Ltd..................... 512/04 Yield Management Corp.............2144 Zhangjiagang Greenshine Electronics Co, Ltd............... 412/02 Zhejiang Jinping Wire Drawing Die Co, Ltd .................306

Tubular Products Co...................1550

Zhejiang Wanma Macromolecule Material Co, Ltd..........................966

Tulsa Power.................................1950

Zumbach Electronics Corp.........1540

Ultimate Automation Ltd..............458

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preview Exhibits: A full house awaits Atlanta attendees In a welcome return to better days, Interwire returns to the Georgia World Congress Center with a full show floor. As of Feb. 20, the last booth was sold, and companies are now on a waiting list for a possible expansion.

All that is good news for attendees as the collective technology from the more than 400 companies on the show floor should offer plenty of options. The exhibits will be open from 10 am to 5 pm on Tuesday, April 28, and Wednesday, April 29, and from 10 am to 3 pm on Thursday, April 30.

Ace Metal Inc. Tel. 610-623-2204 www.acemetalinc.com sales@acemetalinc.com USA Booth 650 Exhibiting: Ace Metal has worked hard to build an excellent reputation manufacturing both custom and standard wiredrawing spools for the ferrous, nonferrous and tire cord wire industries. Our spools are designed with uniform quality and precision and are also used in the batch annealing process. Spools are made from prime cold-rolled steel and are available in multiple colored finishes. We manufacture many varieties of tubular wire carriers: square base, star base, clover leaf base and circular base designs. We design, manufacture and ship our wire carriers throughout North America at economical prices. All our products are guaranteed for quality, strength and design. We know that customers are looking for durability as well as performance, and that shipping times or JIT supply is vital, so we are tailored to meet those needs.

Personnel: Richard Medoff, Gerri Medoff, Trudee Daly, Ted Szanajda ACM AB Tel. 905-669-4010 www.acmab.com sales@howarequipment.com Sweden/Canada Booth 1320 Exhibiting: Tools designed to save insulation compound usage and $$$s by means of controlling wall thicknesses. Cable cross-section measure96 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

ment 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 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.

Customers are invited to bring their cable samples to the show, so that they may experience the innovative measurement system first hand.

Personnel: Willy Hauer, Stefan Askenfors.

ment of wires, cables and other similar products. WIRELINE- laser system for on-line diameter and ovality measurement of drawn wire. WireLab - ultra Aacurate table-top laser micrometer for the wire industry.

Personnel: Antonio Spizzamiglio, Rudi Gatti.

Advaris GmbH Booth 551

Exhibiting: Nearly 40 years of experience in the cable industry allows AESA Cortaillod to offer you the benefits of its skills and complete solutions for testing, quality control and process improvement. An acknowledged leader in this sector, AESA is here to help you run your business with maximum efficiency by offering you only the most productive solutions. We will present a newly developed adapter matching to its balunless automatic high frequency measuring system called Cobalt. Additionally, it is now possible to test all kind of patchcords for LAN cables.

Personnel: Denis Milz, Peter Fischer.

Aeroel Srl Tel. 39-0432-671301 www.aeroel.it sales2@aeroel.it Italy Booth 2150

Exhibiting: HWS - Handy Wire Scanner, a fully portable optical micrometer for non-contact measure-

AESA SA Tel. 41-328-415177 www.aesa-cortaillod.com aesa@aesa-cortaillod.com Switzerland Booth 114

Agape Industry, Inc. Booth 863

All Wire Forming Machinery, Inc. Tel. 406-994-0008 www.allwireforming.com allwireforming@aol.com USA Booth 770 Exhibiting: Serving the wire and strip forming industry for over 20 years, we offer a complete line of new equipment for the wire industry with 2D & 3D CNC wire benders, CNC spring coilers, CNC wire formers, power payoff dereelers, custom built machines, automation systems for all industries, rebuilt and refurbished multi-slides, and new Diacro benders and cutters. We will display photos and videos of new equipment: 2D-3D CNC benders, 13-axis CNC wire formers, machines to produce sod staples, wire ties, wire coils, wire looper, powered de-reelers, feed grippers, 2-plane wire straighteners. We represent one of the most highly qualified, reputable designers

and manufacturers of custom automated wire forming machinery, either standalone stations or complete systems. Specializing in all types of turnkey applications, with custom built machines for all applications.

Personnel: Jim DeCarolis.

Allied Mineral Products, Inc. Tel. 614-876-0244 www.alliedmineral.com allied@alliedmin.com USA Booth 1804

Exhibiting: Allied Mineral Products is a leading producer of monolithic refractories and precast refractory shapes for the foundry, steel, aluminum, copper and zinc metals markets as well as the cement, power, incin-

FIRST-TIME EXHIBITOR Granite Falls Furnace, USA Booth: #1562 www.granitefallsfurnace.com Description: Granite Falls Furnace manufactures drawn steel wire and annealed wire products for a wide variety of industrial markets. Our continued focus is to deliver cost effective quality wire products and superb customer service. We employ state-of-the-art equipment and processes coupled with a highly experienced staff to produce the highest quality drawn steel wire in the industry.

Representatives: Dave Duncan, president, and Matthew Duncan, vice president WJI: Why will you be exhibiting at Interwire for the first time in 2015?

Duncan brothers: Interwire provides a great venue for customers who have never heard of us to find out what we do and how we can help with their wire needs.

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

Duncan brothers: Innovation is hard to come by in wire drawing, however concentrating on the fundamentals and

Brothers Matthew Duncan, l, and David Duncan Jr. out-working the established guys is what we are presenting.

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

Duncan brothers: Attendees should stop by our booth to see there is a new company desiring to provide the best quality wire products, to a wide range of markets to our customers….shouldn’t your name be on our customer list?!

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AIM, Inc. Tel. 630-458-0008 www.aimmachines.com USA Booth 1014 Exhibiting: AIM offers 2D and 3D CNC wire-bending solutions with models ranging from 2.5 mm to 25 mm. Our automated work cell solutions take wire from straight-and-cut or coil and will form, weld and systematically arrange the finished parts.

During the past few years, AIM has developed new benders and accessories that we will unveil at Interwire.

No further details can be provided at this time but stop by Booth 1014 to witness these innovations firsthand.

AIM will exhibit robotic integrations with its patented hybrid forming solution, the AFM-3D8Sd, capable of unmatched versatility, fast output and low-cost maintenance.

Personnel: Constantine Grapsas.

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NEW PRODUCT Let a robot open up new packaging possibilities For the first time ever at Interwire, the MGS Group will be demonstrating a fully operational robotic arm that is integrated with the company’s automatic dual spooler to provide a complete packaging system.

Employee manual labor is virtually eliminated for loading, unloading, winding, wrapping, labeling and stacking.

Using custom designed tooling, the robot employs MGS’s latest technology to locate nested empty spools stacked on a supply pallet, pick them up and load them onto the motorized take-up entrance conveyor. Full

eration, mineral processing and boiler industries. Our primary manufacturing, research and corporate headquarters are located in Columbus, Ohio. Additional manufacturing facilities are located in Brownsville, Texas, USA; Tianjin, China; Foshan, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; Tholen, Netherlands; and Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. All are supported by a worldwide network of distributors, sales and service representatives.

Personnel: Pat Anderson, Bryan Nelson, Brett Spychalski.

Amacoil, Inc. Tel. 610-485-8300 www.amacoil.com amacoil@amacoil.com USA Booth 713 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 hairthin fiber to heavy-gauge wire, cable, rope and chain. Traverse reverses automatically without clutches, cams or gears. Threadless shaft will not clog or jam. Custom designs include 98 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

spools will then also be palletized in pre-programmed patterns and stacked utilizing the same robot. Labels can be precisely applied to desired location on reel flange and/or also under the stretch wrap on the side of the reel. Our “Reelbot” will demonstrate its precision capabilities…and it may even toss you a surprise!

Other industries have been using robots for decades and now MGS has introduced this compact productive system to our industry to improve productivity, eliminate lifting of heavy reels and dramatically reduce employee injuries. We envision many other

moving spool assemblies, optical flange sensing and slowdown/dwell.

Accessories on display include shaft collars to hold spools secure and wire guides. Featured will be a Uhing traverse system equipped with flange detection sensors which trigger traverse reversal saving time when winding material onto spools of varying widths.

Personnel: Bob Eisele, Wolfgang Weber.

Amaral Automation Associates Tel. 401-405-0755 www.amaralautomation.com rick@amaralautomation.com USA Booth 2136

Exhibiting: D/S extrusion lines, Subec wire-handling accessories, Zumbach diameter gauges and wall measurement, B&H crossheads, RSD/Gillies printers, Wittman processing equipment, accurate thermal tool cleaners, angle systems cable/ wall detection, Balloffet drawing dies, Bongard used machinery,

The MGS Reelbot. applications that we would be happy to discuss with you.

See us (and our Reelbot!) at Booth 1032.

RS Schlicht talc machines, drives, process measurement and control systems, cold welders, Yield Management tape break detection devices and WTM tape systems Personnel: Rick Amaral, Tom Shoup.

American & Efird LLC Tel. 704-827-4311 www.amefird.com salesusa@amefird.com USA Booth 1556 Exhibiting: American & Efird is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of industrial thread, technical textiles and embroidery thread and a global supplier of solutions for the wire and cable industry. A&E offers a comprehensive line of strength members, ripcords, binder yarns and marker yarns. Specialties include aramids, polyester, nylon, rayon and cotton, and advanced fiber systems, including camel waterblocking yarns. Our advanced winding systems ensure dependable payoffs and maximum package yardages.

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American Kuhne Tel. 401-326-6244 www.americankuhne.com sales@americankuhne.com USA Booth 2050 See p. 112!

Exhibiting: American Kuhne provides extruders and small diameter turnkey extrusion systems specifically designed to meet the needs of the wire and cable segment, including: energy, fiber optic, telecom, building, automotive, high temperature, construction, medical, oil and specialty.

Anbao (Qinhuangdao) Wire & Mesh Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-335-3893600 www.anbao.net anbao@anbao.net China Booth 753

deformed steel bar, seamless tube, and welded tube, etc.

Exhibiting: Anhui Herrman Impex Co. is a worldwide professional trading company in China which has exported cable machinery since 2003. It was established in 1994 by management of its group companies: Nanjing Herrman Chemicals, Anhui Herrman Chemicals Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Herrman Impex Co., Ltd., Anhui Herrman Machinery Technology Co., Ltd. Personnel: Taiping Zhu. Appleton Manufacturing Booth 2126 Assomac Machines Ltd. Booth 864

Exhibiting: We specialize in exporting various kinds of wire and wire mesh products: steel wire, galvanized wire, Galfan wire, PVC coated wire, 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. Angle Systems LLC Booth 165 Anhui Herrman Impex Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-551-65667601 www.herrman.com president@herrman.com China Booth 912/04

AVIC International Minerals & Resources Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-18806509847 www.avic-mr.com jackylsh@126.com China Booth 411

Exhibiting: AVIC International, founded in 1979, has set up wholly-owned or holding subsidiaries in each major city in China. It has over 80 overseas offices in more than 40 countries and regions, and owns eight listed companies. Steel is our major business section, and our export and import volume has ranked in the industry’s top level for years. Our products include: hot-rolled and coldrolled steel, structural steel, galvanized coil and sheet, pre-painted steel sheet, medium-thick plate, wire rod,

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AW Machinery LLC Tel. 973-882-3223 www.ammachinery.com awm@awmachinery.com USA Booth 1712 Exhibiting: AW Machinery designs and supplies complete extrusion lines as well as discrete components from control panels, payoffs, take-ups, flyers, cooling troughs, cablers and accumulators. Virtually any piece of equipment used in the production of electrical, communication and fiber optic cables. They also provide rebuild services for machinery and control systems.

Axjo America Inc. Tel. 828-322-6046 www.axjoamerica.com info@axjoamerica.com USA Booth 1940 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 Booth 964

Exhibiting: Aztech Lubricants is celebrating 10 years in business and 10 years of continuous growth. Jonathan Anderson and Michael Colvin started from zero and now have a full line of wiredrawing lubricants – EZDraw (powders and oils); precoats EZCoat, cleaners - EZClean and our AZWipe spiral brushes. Products are manufactured in Wayne, Oklahoma, and sold to the U.S. and 14 other

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countries. We are willing to manufacture small volume products that others will not. Stop by and let us know what we can do for you.

Personnel: Jonathan Anderson, Michael Colvin, Fredy Quintana, Sanjiv Aggarwal.

B & H Tool Company LLC Tel. 760-471-8984 www.bhtool.com pneville@bhtool.com USA Booth 750 Exhibiting: B & H manufactures plastic extrusion tooling for insulation and jacketing applications. This includes single and multiple layer crossheads, adjustable and fixed center crossheads, various deflector designs, adapters, tips and dies, striping attachments. We offer models for low and high-temp applications.

We specialize in developing tooling based on polymer optimization.

Call us today to have a conversation

about a solution for your extrusion tooling needs.

Personnel: Peter M. Neville.

B & Z Galvanized Wire Industry Tel. 626-966-6296 bz_galvanized@yahoo.com USA Booth 1807 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.

Baicheng Fujia Technology Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-436-3298000 www.bcfjmm.com sales@bcfjmm.com China Booth 512/10

Exhibiting: We are the biggest special CV lines manufacturer and sup-

plier in China. The main equipment is: a 6~35kV CCV line, a 10~132kV CCV line, a 35~500kV VCV line, CV rubber lines, extruder lines, etc.

Personnel: Oscar Liu. Balloffet Die Corporation Tel. 915-592-5252 www.balloffetdie.com www.balloffetdie@sbcglobal.net USA/France Booth 1708 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.

Baum’s Castorine Co., Inc. Booth 2132

FIRST-TIME EXHIBITOR ELCo Enterprises, Inc. (Wire Wizard®) Booth: #765 / www.wire-wizard.com Description: ELCo Enterprises is an industry leader in wire dispensing and welding equipment. The Wire Wizard® line of products has revolutionized wire delivery throughout the welding industry and solved the most complex wire feeding challenges.

Representative: Edward Cooper, President WJI: Why will you be exhibiting at Interwire for the first time in 2015?

Cooper: We are bringing our line of innovative wire dispensing and material handling equipment to the Interwire show because we believe there are beneficial uses for our products in this industry. We hope to learn of new applications where our products can be utilized to solve difficult wire feeding issues.

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

Cooper: The booth will feature our Wire Wizard® Guide Module System along with our Wire Pilot®

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Pneumatic Wire Feed Assist and low friction conduit. These products are designed to provide flawless wire delivery in applications where smooth wire feeding is critical. Additionally, we have a line of heavy duty drum and reel handling equipment for bulk wire packaging.

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

Cooper: Wire Wizard® products have provided solutions to the welding industry for over 30 years. This same line of products can provide wire dispensing and wire handling solutions for various applications throughout the wire industry. Ask us how to solve your toughest wire delivery challenges!

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Bechem Lubrication Technology, LLC Tel. 440-561-6001 www.bechem.com carr@bechem.com USA Booth 1706 Exhibiting: Bechem Lubrication Technology will display the company’s Unopol product line for wiredrawing and forming with a focus on products for the nonferrous market. This focus will target water-based products for aluminum and full synthetic products for copper. Applications for these products include rod breakdown, down to ultrafine drawing, roll forming, annealing and corrosion prevention.

These lubricants are designed for copper, aluminum, brass, steel, stainless steel and other exotic alloys.

Also, plan to stop by our booth at 4 pm on Wednesday, April 29, to attend a presentation by Troy Carr, business development manager, metalworking lubricants, fluids & services, that is part of WAI’s Production Solutions program. His talk, “Innovations in Synthetic Wire Drawing Products for the Copper Industry,” will cover the benefits of new chemistries that are more resistant to pulling copper into solution and the impact this might have on your drawing process.

Personnel: Troy Carr, Harry Hofmann, Justin Steigerwald.

Bekaert Corporation Tel. 770-514-2200 www.bekaert.com jason.jones@bekaert.com USA Booth 2113 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.

Beijing BIHI International Exhibition Co., Ltd. Booths 131, 1910

Bergandi Machinery Co. Booth 701

Beijing Orient Pengsheng Tech. Co. Ltd. Booth 1808

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Beta Steel Tel. 800-594-9074 www.betasteel.com sales@betasteel.com USA Booth 2017 Exhibiting: Manufacturer and warehouse of steel wire, rod, and cut length bar. Supplier to the cold heading, wire forming, and industrial wire industries. We offer annealing, coating, and drawing for diameters from .056 in. through 1.750 in.

Specializing in custom designed JIT stocking programs.

Blachford Corp.

Tel. 815-464-2100 www.blachford.com mvandervlist@blachford.com USA Booth 406 Exhibiting: Blachford Corporation has been supplying the global wire drawing industry and many of the world’s largest wire drawing companies since the 1950s with cost effective, meticulously researched, and innovative wire drawing lubricant programs designed to meet the exact-

ing requirements of our customers’ processes and end product goals.

Personnel: Mark van der Vlist, Dan Howard, Matthew Messner, John Papierski, Art Williams, Michael Yazum, Dave Gzesh, Ian Sidders.

capability and on-site field service experience allows Bloom to provide the best possible solution for each unique situation.

Personnel: Don Whipple, Keith Nieszczur.

BLM Group USA Corporation Booth 224

Bohl/H. Boehl North America Tel. 904-449-4981 www.hboehlnorthamerica.com williamb@ hboehlnorthamerica.com USA Booth 161 See p. 134!

Bloom Engineering Tel. 412-653-3500 www.bloomeng.com info@bloomeng.com USA Booth 601 Exhibiting: Bloom Engineering has developed a reputation for quality industrial burners and combustion systems. Our professional staff and years of experience have been the cornerstone of our business. Bloom’s products can be used for a variety of applications and can be operated with a wide array of fuels and capacity ranges. The industrial burners operate with Low to Ultra Low NOx emissions. Our customizable product line, extensive installation list, R&D

Exhibiting: Representatives from Bohl and H. Boehl North America will demonstrate a Meister coil wrapping machine designed to efficiently package cable, wire, and rolled metal in a coil configuration for 100% surface protection. It will also have information on a variety of packaging solutions for all types of product materials, shapes, and sizes.

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Bojin Cable Drum Manufacturer Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-222-375876e+011 www.bjcabledrum.com info@bjcabledrum.com China Booth 912/04

Exhibiting: Bojin Cable Drum Manufacturer specializes in wooden cable drums, wooden and steel cable drums. Our products enable easy and efficient packing of high-tech cables used by engineering, telecommunications and electrical industries. Our experience has enabled us to develop impressive technological capabilities and possess extensive production facilities. Dynamic and static balance

tests are applied throughout the manufacturing process.

Personnel: Stephanie Liu.

experienced team of specialists provides fast and flexible solutions.

Personnel: Thomas Bongard.

Bongard Trading GmbH & Co. KG Tel. 49-2378-9155 www.bongard.de info@bongard.de Germany Booth 1068 Exhibiting: Bongard is a specialist for the wire, cable and rolling industries. Being known as one of the leading suppliers for second-hand equipment, Bongard has been in the market for 56 years. Our warehouses cover 1,200 machines and 20,000 sq m. Since 2008, Bongard has been completing the product program for the manufacture of new machinery.

This includes drawing lines, static coilers, spooling lines, take-ups, horizontal bull blocks, etc. Our strength comes from our international network and close dialogue with our customers around the world.

Bongard knows its business and its

Boockmann Engineering GmbH Tel. 49-9708-70-46-0 www.boockmann.com info@boockmann.com Germany Booth 264 Exhibiting: Boockmann will present the company’s HELICORD® technology for wire and cable surface processing and welding wire finishing, which during the past few years was implemented in industrial production lines. Very successful applications include removal of misprints from cable, removal of metal particles from strands for high frequency and submarine cables, and removal of drawing lubricants and metal particles before extrusion. The most promising application is welding wire finishing with simultaneous coating and removal of particles.

Personnel: Michaela Boockmann, Roger Williams.

Driving Improvements in wire straightening This alignment marker — found exclusively on Sjogren rollers — helps optimize your straightening operation. And it’s just one of many subtle-but-significant engineered enhancements that give our components and assemblies world-beating performance.

Replacement runs of any quantity, full custom engineering and fabrication, decades of specialized expertise, global distribution: rely on Sjogren to push your productivity into high gear.

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Personnel: William Buckley, Oliver Schmitz, Robert Van Veen.

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BOW TECHNOLOGY by Gauder Group Tel. 336-856-8176 bowtechnology@gaudergroup.com www.bowtechnology.com USA/Belgium Booth 424 Exhibiting: BOW TECHNOLOGY is the answer to cable makers con-

cerned 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

Celebrating the century mark at Interwire:

Evans Corporation At Interwire, Evans Corporation, a U.S.-based diversified supplier of reels, will be celebrating its 100th anniversary. Below, company President David W. Evans shares his thoughts on attaining this accomplishment.

WJI: How was your company founded WJI: Did you ever reach a point where you and how has its product focus changed? weren’t sure the business could continue?

Evans: George Evans, my Great Evans: 1977-79 is when I came into the busiGrandfather, had run sheet metal firms ness, and it was the bottom. We had supervisors for other people in the upper Midwest. running machines at that time. It was touch When he was approaching 50, he decidand go for a while, but with using computers to ed to go out and run his own place. lower the office overhead and developing new Starting in the back of his father-in-law’s markets, we were able to pull through. hardware store, in three years he had built enough business to require his own WJI: In what ways has the skills needed building. Starting out making buckets to run your company most changed over the George Evans and other household metal goods, making years? Do you see technology as the ultimate gas tanks for an early IH Farmall tractor, key, or is the ability to deploy it as important? fenders for the Velie automobile, he developed and built Evans: The ability to make quick strategic decisions, the his own oil-burning furnace by the end of 1920s. In the ability to quickly change directions, is a skill that one must early 1930’s the firm started making switchboard panels constantly cultivate. Technology by itself may be intellecfor Western Electric in Chicago. tually interesting, but deploying it is when you are making In the late 1930’s, the TOROIDAL® reel, was first made a positive difference for your customers and hence your for Western Electric for its Hawthorne Works in Chicago. employees and their families.

In the 1940s, war work took place due to our close proximity of the Rock Island Arsenal. We made bed pans, WJI: What advice can you share regarding industry lonbread pans, other cookware and parts for the WILDCAT gevity? Are there really any secrets? self-propelled anti-tank artillery piece made by the Buick Evans: It’s a marathon…keep running and don’t let anyDivision of GM. After the war, the firm was dominated one pass you. by the reel business through the 50s 60s and the early 70s.

Then AT&T was broken apart by the Federal Government WJI: What aspects would you say have been most importand reel demand dropped after the initial rush. Reel ant to your company’s endurance/success? demand dropped even further with the introduction of fiber Evans: Hard work, over multiple generations, with the optic cable. So it was “Back to the Future,” and we develoccasional lucky break. I will say that being a bigger compaoped our abilities to do general sheet-metal working and ny allows one to roll over obstacles that would halt a smaller have served Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) firm. Running a firm is like rolling a large round stone: it by making parts for them. Those abilities have often transtakes enormous amounts of energy to have it roll in the ferred back to cable reels, where techniques would enable right direction, but once it is rolling, the mass can overcome us to create new sizes while not requiring new tooling. obstacles and putting more energy increases the speed.

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Boxy SpA/HOWAR Equipment Tel. 905-669-4010 www.boxy.com sales@howarequipment.com Italy/Canada Booth 1320

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global service from conception to production. The team is ready to discuss any particular model matching the customer production needs.

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Exhibiting: A large array of steel reels and reel handling equipment will be showcased. The line-up includes machined reels for wiredrawing, 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 reelless 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. The booth will have a working display of handling equipment and reels.

Personnel: Alberto Tononi, Chris Hauer.

Reaching new levels of excellence for composite bows.

Breen Color Concentrates Tel. 866-99-breen www.breencolor.com lparent@breencolor.com USA Booth 250 Exhibiting: Color concentrates and additives for Frontier we pride ourselves on theTPE/ quality of the wireAt and cable industry: PVC, PE, EVA, ourFEP/ETFE. products and the exceptional level of service TPU and

and support we povide to our customers.

Brookfield Wire Company, Inc. Tel. 508-867-6474 brookfieldwire.com wlussier@brookfieldwire.com USA Booth 549 Exhibiting: Brookfield is a leading manufacturer of 115 Cushman Road, Unit 8 fine diameter stainless steel and nickel alloy round St. Catharines, Ontario and flat wire. Our materials are DFARS-compliant, Canada L2M 6S9 with one of the largest inventories available in the Tel 905 685 3633 marketplace. With an active ISO certification system Fax 905 685 3482 in place, you can be assured that we will meet your Email info@frontiercomposites.com needs and requirements.

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NEW PRODUCT New mesh welder will have a reccurring starring production role at Interwire At Interwire, Schlatter North America plans to display its new MG950 mesh welder, with live demonstrations approximately every 30 minutes during which booth personnel can explain how the technology can save manufacturers both time and money.

Developed by Schlatter Industries AG, the MG950 welder is designed primarily for the production of industrial mesh. It is flexible in relation to various mesh geometries, achieves high production speeds and exhibits the highest quality right from the first mesh.

Lot sizes continue to shrink and manufacturers cannot longer afford to generate waste. This waste can occur when the operator adjusts the machine to optimize the setup and weld settings. The measuring system on the new MG950 remedies the situation. When using the measuring system, the line wire feed positions can be precisely positioned according to the mesh that been programmed. As a result, productivity is significantly higher for small lot sizes when using the newly developed MG950 compared to traditional industrial mesh welding machines.

Schlatter’s MG950 mesh welder.

Lastly, many products are trimmed along the cross wire, for example: appliance racks, cable trays, point of purchase displays. For the first time, Schlatter will demonstrate the new SQ14 trimming heads that are mounted directly behind the welding portal to save a manufacturing step.

See us at Booth 1314.

Personnel: Wayne Lussier, Jim Hauck, Leonard DeFino.

Butt Welders USA, Inc. Booth 2148

Bühler Würz Kaltwalztechnik GmbH Tel. 49-7231-7755-0 www.wire-rolling-mills.com/ info@buehler-wuerz.de Germany Booth 740

BWE Ltd. Tel. 44-1233-627736 www.bwe.co.uk mail@bwe.co.uk U.K. Booth 157 Exhibiting: Full imformation and details of the company’s complete range of BWE Conform and Conklad extrusion technology for the wire and cable industry. Also, details on the complete range of BWE cold pressure welding equipment.

Personnel: Kevin Bennett.

Exhibiting: Bühler Würz develops and builds wire reduction rolling mills, flat and profile wire rolling mills, strip rolling mills, and laserclosed FCW-Lines. Its comprehensive product portfolio also includes spoolers, dancer accumulators and spoolers with wire laying.

Personnel: Ralph Buerkle, Stefan Nixdorf.

Burster Booth 470

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Caballé SA Tel. 34-934-601-413 www.cmcaballe.es/ caballe@cmcaballe.com Spain Booth 312 Exhibiting: With over 70 years of experience in the design and manufacture of rotating machinery for the production of power and telecommunication cables as well as steel ropes, Spain’s Caballé provides the cable industry with a wide array of strand-

ing, twinning, bunching and cabling machinery. At Interwire 2015, it will show the new range of rigid stranders and drum twisters to manufacture extra-high-voltage power conductors (Milliken) and aluminum aerial conductors with round or trapezoidal wires. The portfolio also includes big bunchers for up to 500 sq mm (1000 MCM) compacted conductors. The firm is constantly developing new, high-quality equipment to meet the needs of the wire and cable industry.

Personnel: Antoni Colomer, Luis Morancho, Pat Carney, Irv Baston.

Cable Consultants Corp.

Tel. 914-834-8865 www.cableconsultantscorp.com dstein@cableconsultantscorp.com USA Booth 140 Exhibiting: Cable Consultants Corp. (CCC) represents well-known European companies producing a range of cabling, stranding, spooling/re-spooling, extrusion and wire cleaning lines for the production

QUEINS Machines GmbH WHO WE ARE - WHAT WE OFFER We are a german company with generations of experience in manufacturing machines for the cable and rope industry. We develop and manufacture according to our customers‘ requirements and are the world‘s leading manufacturer for machines for CTC (continuous transposed conductors). Further we offer used or reconditioned cable and rope making machines.

Please take a look at our currently available used equipment at www.queins.com

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Cable Services & Systems A brand of the Gauder Group Tel. 336-856-8176 c2s@gaudergroup.com www.cable-services-systems.com USA/Belgium Booth 424

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of wire, wire rope, electrical and fiber conductors.

CCC will exhibit a primary wire wipe for the cleaning of wire and rope strand up to a diameter of 2 mm. (.80 in.)

Personnel: Fred Hardy, David Stein, Mary Stein.

OFFERED MACHINES Pay-offs and take-ups, all Tubular stranders designs Rigid stranders Belt-type caterpillar capstans Planetary stranders Single- and double disc Power cable drumtwisters capstans Armouring lines Rotating caterpillar capstans Bow/Skip stranders Single/Double twist bunchers Taping heads for plastic- and steel tapes Transposed wire machines

WANTED - PRE-OWNED MACHINES IN GOOD CONDITION Exhibiting: Rich of a long successful experience in North America, the Gauder Group, Inc., takes care of all wire and cable production lines, acting as an overall efficiency booster to restore machine productivity and product quality. The newly rebranded “C2S” division is being assigned spare parts, upgrades and maintenance projects for all brands rotating equipment, recently reinforcing the engineering and commissioning team with ex-Lesmo and ex-Cortinovis engineers.

The global services division turnover has been rising by 350% for 10 years.

• Tubular stranders - 1+6/630 mm, (24.8") • Rigid stranders - 54 or 61 wires/630 mm, (24.8") Please visit us at Interwire Atlanta on booth no. 1506

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Calmec Precision, Inc. Booth 2117 Candor Sweden AB Booth 624 Canterbury Engineering Company Tel. 800-241-7650 www.canterburyengineering.com contact.us@cec75.com USA Booth 940 Exhibiting: Canterbury Engineering Company has a full line of screws and barrels for all types of plastic processing. The company has an 80,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility in Atlanta, Georgia, that is capabile of manufacturing screws over 300 inches in length.

We offer custom designs and engineering services for extrusion, injection molding, and the rubber industry.

In addition to high temperature and highly corrosive applications, Canterbury utilizes all types of exot-

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QUEINS Machines GmbH Hans-Georg-Weiss-Str. 12 52156 Monschau GERMANY Tel.: +49 2472 8080 Fax: +49 2472 3014 info@queins.com www.queins.com

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ic 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.

Personnel: Paul Cusolito, Jasmin Sehovic, Joe Fleiss, Jerry Anderson, Joe Moses, Justin Rosenbleeth,

John Thurston, Nick Basel, Jimena Homrighaus, Michael Maduro, Eduardo Martinez, Diane O’Donnell Carris Reels Tel. 802-773-9111 www.carris.com sales@carris.net USA Booth 1350

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Exhibiting: Carris Reels has proudly serviced the wire and cable industry

Celebrating the century mark at Interwire:

Weber & Scher Mfg. Co., Inc. At Interwire, Weber & Scher Mfg., Co., Inc., a supplier of wire processing equipment, will be celebrating its 100th anniversary at Booth 1731. Below, company CEO William Scher shares his thoughts on attaining this accomplishment. tionally to smooth out the peaks and valleys. This has allowed WJI: How was your company founded and how has its us to take advantage of changing market conditions on a global product focus changed? basis. While virtually every company experiences an occaScher: The company was founded in 1915 by my father, sional lean year, I never had any reservations regarding the George Scher, with a partner, Otto Weber, as a tool and die continuity of the company. shop in Newark, NJ. In 1917, George Scher purchased the WJI: In what ways has the skills interest of Otto Weber and needed to run your company became the sole owner. The most changed over the years? company evolved into the Do you see technology as the designing and building of ultimate key, or is the ability to special machines. This led deploy it as important? its entry into the cable indusScher: Running a business try in the early 1940s when today has become much more it received a contract from complex and demanding both the Western Electric Co. to in terms of business skills and design and build the complete keeping pace with the virtually range of equipment to proexponential growth in technoloduce two new telephone cable gy. In our type of business ,it is sheath constructions, Alpeth necessary to stay at the forefront and Stalpeth, to replace From l-r, company President Gregory Scher, his brother, of technology and continuously the traditional lead sheath.

CFO Douglas Scher and their dad, CEO William Scher. implement technological changes With this start, the company in our products. evolved over the next 10 years, expanding its product line to exclusively serve the wire WJI: What advice can you share regarding industry lonand cable industry. gevity? Are there really any secrets?

Scher: I am not sure there are any secrets. The advice I WJI: Did you ever reach a point where you weren’t sure would give is to offer a reliable product incorporating the the business could continue? latest technology that will survive the test of time, and to Scher: As a manufacturer of tooling and special machinprovide superior service to your customers. Also, listen to ery with an exclusive domestic customer base predominatethe feedback from your customers, and be responsive to ly in the metropolitan area, there were a number of peaks their needs in your product offering. I always take great and valleys in the business cycle. Exclusively serving the pleasure when a customer comes to us for a spare part for a wire and cable industry, my focus was expanding our cusmachine he has had in service for more than 40 years. tomer base both nationally and most importantly interna110 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Ceeco Bartell Products/ Bartell Machinery Systems Booth 1351 Cemanco LC Tel. 954-970-3099 www.cemanco.com USA Booth 606 Exhibiting: Since 1989, Cemanco has supplied the wire and cable industries in the U.S., Canada and Latin America with wear parts and machinery. It offers laser-controlled take-ups and re-winders for fine wire; traversing systems for rakeups, mechanical and laser-guided; ceramic drawing rings, cones and capstans in zirconia and alumina; ceramic eyelets, bow guides, rods, tubes, hook guides, etc.; solid ceramic pulleys and sheaves, ceramic/ metal composites, hard coated with ceramic or tungsten carbide, plastic; wire straighteners and roller guide systems; hydraulic and pneumatic steel rod and cable cutters up to 380 mm material OD; and nickel annealer bands and rings.

Most products can be customized to individual customer needs.

Personnel: Beliza Bermudez, Mark Votypka, Rainer Lashofer.

Central Wire Industries Ltd. Booth 1818 Ceramtech Booth 606 Cerrini Booth 1932 CERSA-MCI Booth 1601 Chase Wire & Cable Materials Booth 902 Chemetall, Inc. Tel. 800-526-4473 www.chemetallus.com dane.armendariz@chemetall.com USA Booth 400 Exhibiting: Chemetall, a global leader in the manufacturing and development of chemical processes for the wire industry, will highlight these processes. It will also conduct a Productions Solutions seminar at its booth, with its experts focusing on how to troubleshoot a cleaning house process when issues arise.

Staffs will be available to address specific issues before and after the session. Chemetall supplies cleaners, phosphates, salt carriers, polymer lubricants and a complete line of specialty processes. Please consider attending our Fundamentals course as it will present manufacturers with meaningful information and advice.

Personnel: Jack McAfee, Dane Armendariz, Ed Davis, Rudy Vey, Martin Orben, Bill Gardner.

Chengdu Centran Industrial Co. Tel. 86-28-85322171 www.china-centran.com market@china-centran.com China Booth 1801 Exhibiting: Centran Industrial is a leading manufacturer of water-blocking tape and yarn, and flame-retardant tape for the cable industry. We have developed a new type of single-side, high-tensile-strength, water-blocking tape (CBDWD) that offers extra-high tension and good swelling to protect a cable core. We make fine small

swellable yarn (CZS-35) with perfect surface treating technology. It can absorb water fast and has a consistent stable gel, making it very suitable for using inside a tube.

Personnel: Jukka Kohtala, Jonathan Yang, Joonas Kohtala, Denise Sun. China Ruijin Fairs International Booth 966 Cimteq Ltd. Tel. 44-197866422 www.cimteq.com info@cimteq.com U.K. Booth 2019 Exhibiting: Cimteq will show two products: their flagship product, CableBuilder, and a new innovation called CableMES, a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) specific to cable manufacturing based on the Wonderware platform. CableBuilder is used to design wire and cable faster, quote faster and avoid costly mistakes that lead to waste. Its applications cover all cables, mass-updates, drawing generation, version control, integration to ERP, length-based costing and datasheets. CableMES improves communication with the shop floor to maximize throughput, improve schedule adherence, improve process efficiency and reduce waste.

This makes it possible for manufacturers to convey orders/specifications to shop-floor, to progress to ERP, to offer non-conformance handling, quality alarms, tracking/analysis of process parameters and OEE/KPIs. Personnel: Ali Shehab, Amanda Shehab.

Clifford Welding Systems Tel. 27-33-355-3400 www.cliffeng.com graham@cliffeng.com South Africa/USA Booth 1723

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for more than 60 years. Our nine manufacturing plants and eight assembly/warehouse locations are strategically located throughout North America to provide you with the best service in the industry. Our range of reel packaging allows customers to minimize inventory dollars and warehouse footprint through our “One Call Does it All” model. Our booth will display the company’s extensive line of products made from different materials: plywood, plastic, nailed wood, wood/metal, stamped metal and hardboard, along with the newest product line of polyethylene plastic reels. Stop by and meet the people who can help provide you with creative and timely solutions for your packaging needs.

Personnel: Dave Ferraro, Michael Roussel, Brian Holden, Jerry Selby, Leann Sexton, Jessica Oberg.

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Exhibiting: Clifford Welding Systems will be opening a new dedicated sales and service office in the USA. The office will handle the North and South American market, and Interwire 2015 is the perfect time and place to tell our customers about the exciting changes coming this year. Clifford is known worldwide as a leader in reinforcing mesh welders, off-coil fencing welders, fine mesh welders, grating welders and high-speed wire straightening machines. Our knowledgeable staff will be ready to answer your questions and help you find the best equipment configuration to fit your budget. We look forward to meeting you. For more information visit www.cliffeng.com Personnel: Graham Raynor, Rogan MacLean.

Clinton Instrument Company Tel. 860-669-7548 www.clintoninstrument.com klangley@clintoninstrument.com USA Booth 901 Exhibiting: Clinton Instrument Company will exhibit its new Model HF-15B series of high-frequency AC spark testers. The new system will feature: DSP-based 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.

Clinton will also show the STCAL calibration system and the FL20A cable fault locator.

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

CM Furnaces, Inc. Booth 654 CMEC International Exhibition Ltd. Booths 412, 512, 912 CN Wire Corp.

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FIRST-TIME EXHIBITOR American Kuhne, USA Booth: #2050 / www.americankuhne.com Description: Custom is our standard™. Specialized in solving customer challenges, American Kuhne is the preferred provider of engineered solutions for plastic, rubber, and silicone extrusion. Solutions comprise single screw extruders, feed screws, extrusion systems, and specialized turnkey systems.

WJI: Why will you be exhibiting at Interwire for the first time in 2015?

American Kuhne: We have co-exhibited at Interwire and know it is a great opportunity to connect with our customers as well as prospects. The decision to exhibit on our own is a result of our increased investment in the wire and cable business segment.

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

American Kuhne: Examples of our market-driven innovation include the American Kuhne FlipOpen™ feed section for rubber and silicone extrusion which provides quick & complete access to all feed section components for easy cleaning, adjustment, and maintenance. We also offer American Kuhne SMED Quick-Change™ design

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options which 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 dualhinge design.

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

American Kuhne: The team is active in the field calling on customers at their sites and hosting customer visits, project reviews, and line tests at our manufacturing facility in Ashaway, Rhode Island. However, it is nice to have the opportunity to meet with customers and prospects at Interwire to review innovations and to discuss challenges and needs that American Kuhne can help solve.

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the wire industry. The company specializes in nonferrous wire and cable equipment, wire harness/processing/ assembly equipment, and braiding machinery, from individual pieces to complete plants.

Personnel: Martin Kenner.

Commission Brokers Inc. Tel. 401-943-3777 www.commissionbrokers.com mkenner.commissionbrokers @cox.net USA Booth 719

CONDAT SA/Condat Corporation Tel. 734-944-4994 www.condatcorp.com inquiries@condatcorp.com USA/France Booth 1650

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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 U.S.based division of France’s CONDAT SA, has extensive production capabilities and offers the flexibility and reactivity to fully serve the North American market.

Personnel: François Chambellant, Neil Lowdon, Clement Barrat, Bill Dohrmann.

Conductix Wampfler Booth 969

B r o k e r s Exhibiting: We will display photos and brochures of currently available second-hand machinery as well as information relating to our appraisal, liquidating, auction, and consignment capabilities. Company President Martin Kenner has more than 46 years of experience servicing

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

Conneaut Industries, Inc. Tel. 800-955-9276 www.conneaut.com info@conneaut.com USA Booth 423 Exhibiting: Conneaut Industries is a global supplier of specialty high-

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performance insulating yarns used in braiding, serving and cabling applications. The fibers include S2 glass, E-glass, Kevlar and polyglass. It also produces ignition wire (conductive) rovings/substrates for the automotive industry. A wide variety of hi-grade yarns and packaging will be on exhibit. 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.

drawing die measurements. The company’s high-quality measurement systems provide automatic 3D measurement with high accuracy. They can measure inner 3D geometry of: drawing dies, shaped dies, and enameling dies. Measures cross-section profiles of: wire, rod, bar, plug, needle, and pin. Measuring key parameters as diameter/ovality, reduction cone angle, bearing length and bearing asymmetry.

Personnel: Steinar Ommedal, J.P. Franky Friquin.

Conoptica AS Tel. 47-72830150 www.conoptica.com conoptica@conoptica.com Sweden Booth 870

Continuus-Properzi, SpA Tel. 39-02-98-84-921 www.properzi.com hq@properzi.it Italy Booth 1840

Exhibiting: The Conoptica production and quality control system is known as the market leader for

Exhibiting: Continuus-Properzi invented the methodology and process of continuously casting and rolling nonferrous rod in the 1940s.

Today, Continuus-Properzi is the global leader of CCR lines for nonferrous wire rod production offering a complete product line including all the necessary elements from furnaces to casting equipment, to rolling equipment, to double spoolers.

The Properzi organization provides unparalleled continuous casting and rolling technology for the production of aluminum and copper wire rod on a global basis. The copper rod can be produced from either copper cathodes or 100% low-quality copper scrap to yield top-quality copper rod.

The product line also encompasses machinery for the production of nonferrous ingots with the Track & Belt system. The product line, complemented by the offerings of the Wire Machinery Division, includes newly designed drawing lines for high-carbon, stainless steel and AS wire, as well as complete PC strand lines, PC wire lines, and steel rope lines. During the second half of 2014,

FIRST-TIME EXHIBITOR Tantec EST, Inc. Booth: #1908 / www.tantec.com Description: A privately held company founded in 1974, Tantec is a leading manufacturer of standard and customized plasma and corona systems for surface treatment of plastics and metals to enhance adhesion properties.

Representative: Jeff Gradus WJI: Why will you be exhibiting at Interwire for the first time in 2015?

Gradus: We have identified this industry as a market segment that can benefit greatly from Tantec’s advanced surface treatment technology. We have spoken with previous exhibitors and they have given this particular show very high reviews.

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

Gradus: We plan to demonstrate how plasma and/or corona treatment can improve the quality and process control of the printing and coating in the industry. We have seen with the advancement of polymers, inks, glues, and coating a rise in general adhesion issues which our technologies can help overcome.

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

Gradus: To learn more about how Tantec can resolve adhesion and coating issues without the need for primers and other chemical processes.

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Custom Machining & Fabrications LLC Booth 770 DALOO A member of the Gauder Group Tel. 336-856-8176 sales@daloo-machines.com www.daloo-machines.com USA Booth 424

ups and payoffs, pulling caterpillars and now, tubular stranders.

Davis-Standard, LLC Tel. 860-599-1010 www.davis-standard.com info@davis-standard.com USA Booth 1524 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-

Exhibiting: Davis-Standard engineers and manufactures innovative extrusion equipment and systems to provide processors in the wire and cable industry with rugged, reliable, yet cost-effective solutions. DavisStandard manufactures complete wire

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Properzi added to its portfolio the Continuous Extrusion plant under the name of PRO-FORM, which stands for “Properzi Forming.” A wide selection of technical literature will be available at our booth. Visit www. properzi.com or contact us at hq@ properzi.it or info@properzi.us for more detailed information regarding our complete product offering.

Personnel: Giulio Properzi, Carmelo Brocato, Stefano Prevedini, Paola D’Oria, Giuseppe Marcantoni.

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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, tension brakes, take-ups and auxiliary equipment that includes 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.

DEM Wire Rolling Technology Booth 1824 Die Quip Corp.

Tel. 412-833-1662 www.diequip.com smaxwell@diequip.com USA Booth 1003 Exhibiting: Die Quip is your die making and wire-cutting resource, featuring quality equipment, supplies, training and die designs to help you efficiently and consistantly produce dies, leading to less downtime and increased production. Let us become your strategic partner to get more feet per die. We are featuring our line of innovative cutters for wire, rod, cable and chain at Interwire. Safely and easily tackle your tough cutting needs with our manual, battery, pneumatic, electric or hydraulic cutters. Don’t risk injury with inferior tools or cutting methods.

Personnel: Tom Maxwell Jr., Scott Maxwell.

Domeks Makine Ltd. Sti Booth 1340 Dynamex Corporation Tel. 310-329-0399 www.dynamexcorp.com sales@dynamexcorp.com USA Booth 1911 Exhibiting: The newest version of the company’s patented automatic tape-splicer for high-speed taping at

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the extruder. It is the first low-cost, small footprint, longitudinal taping system with fully automatic on-the-fly tape splicing at full line-speed. his innovative process enables taping continuously with unattended automatic splices at constant tension. Payoff is PLC controlled, with digital AC drives, and runs up to 1,500 FPM. It operates with AL/PE, PE, Mylar, Kraft, tissue, water-swellable, etc.

The tape leaves the payoff and is redirected to the wire-line and enters the tape-folder that folds it around the core prior to entering the extruder.

Models now available for flat pads, traversed pads, or universal for both styles, up to 3 in. wide tape. For taping in a cabling line, Dynamex offers non-driven two position tape payoffs, for flat pads, traverse pads, both styles, for single or two tape operation. These units operate best with “Dial-In-Angle” tape redirection units, delivering the tape to the cable at the correct angle. Dynamex offers newly designed rugged single-twist cablers and bunchers (CU and AL offered for 36 in./1000 mm, 48 in./1250 mm).

Personnel: Ben Bravin, Angel Hernandez, Joe Fontaine.

E-BEAM Services, Inc. Tel. 513-933-0031 www.ebeamservices.com ebeam@ebeamservices.com USA Booth 141 Exhibiting: E-BEAM Services, Inc., with locations in Ohio, New Jersey and Indiana, provides crosslinking and polymer modification services to the wire and cable industry. The e-beam crosslinking process provides improved tensile, impact and hot modulus strength as well as creep resistance, durability, solvent and chemical resistance, abrasion resistance, cut-through resistance and environmental stress crack resistance.

When compared to alternative technologies, the process is more energy-efficient, safe and environmentally friendly and often uses lower-cost compounds and a faster development process. The company has high-speed

reel-to-reel equipment to handle all applications, from heavy-wall cable to multi-strand wire to thin-wall heat shrink tubing. Visit our booth to learn more about what we can do for you.

EBNER Furnaces, Inc. Tel. 330-335-1600 www.ebner.cc sales@ebnerfurnaces.com USA Booth 620 Exhibiting: EBNER, a world leader in designing and manufacturing annealing equipment for the ferrous and nonferrous rod and wire industry, invites you to visit us at Booth 620. HICON/H2® technology utilizing high convection and up to 100% hydrogen as process atmosphere provides up to 70% higher throughput and yields the highest product quality with superior and consistent mechanical and surface properties that is ultra-clean. Elimination or reduction of pickling requirements, a high degree of automation, low annealing costs, and outstanding equipment reliability make HICON/ H2 the technology of choice for leading rod and wire processors, worldwide.

Personnel: Herbert Gabriel, B.J. Austin.

EJP Maschinen GmbH Booth 1051 ELCo Enterprises (Wire Wizard) Tel. 517-782-8040 www.wire-wizard.com sales@wire-wizard.com USA Booth 765 See p. 102!

Exhibiting: ELCo Enterprises is an industry leader in wire dispensing and welding equipment. The Wire Wizard® line of products has revolutionized wire delivery throughout the welding industry and solved the most complex wire feeding challenges.

Our products are designed to provide flawless wire delivery in applications

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NEW PRODUCT Printer/ink jet combo offers 2-in-1 possibilities At Interwire, W. Gillies Technologies, LLC, a member of the RSD Group, will display its Model SPI Combination Printer & Ink Jet Positioning System, a flexible design that allows contact printing and ink jet marking in one location.

The system can be used to independently contact print, ink jet mark or simultaneously print and mark both sides of insulated wire, jacketed cable, hose and tubing in-line during extrusion or off-line during re-spooling. Conventional contact printing

where smooth wire feeding is critical.

Additionally, we have a line of heavy duty drum and reel handling equipment for bulk wire packaging.

Personnel: Edward Cooper.

Electron Beam Technologies, Inc. Tel. 815-935-2211 www.electronbeam.com ebtservice@electronbeam.com USA Booth 454 Exhibiting: Electron Beam Technologies is a world wide supplier of composite specialty cables for all types of environments. We will exhibit sample of various specialty cables for industry and OEM applications.

Personnel: Valgene Raloff.

EMSCO Booth 1912 Enercon Industries Booth 1816 Engineered Machinery Group Inc. Tel. 909-579-0088 www.emc-wire.com jstevens@emc-wire.com USA Booth 218

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uses industry standard concave and flat printing wheels to provide quality print on the underside of the cable.

Conventional printing allows for easy color changes, longitudinal striping, numbering and the printing of legends, logos and regulatory symbols.

Ink jet marking is achieved on the top side of the cable by means of a precision y-z positioning ink jet head holder. Brackets are available for virtually all models of new and existing CIJ (continual ink jet) printers. The Model SPI Combination Printer can

Exhibiting: Various photos will be on display of wire and tubing equipment. We offer a wide variety of machinery including bull blocks, deadblocks, high-speed wire draw machines, wetdraws, stranders, pickling lines, galvanizing lines and other auxiliary machinery.

Personnel: John Stevens, Jonathan Stevens, Jerry Scott, Jae Kwan, Chris K. Enkotec Company, Inc. Tel. 440-349-2800 www.enkotec.com enkotec@enkotec.com USA Booth 108 Exhibiting: Nail making machinery. At ENKOTEC’s information booth, staff will be ready to present news about high performance machinery for nail production. Apart from its rotary nail manufacturing machines, ENKOTEC’s product program includes high-speed, thread-rolling machines, collators, cleaning and packaging equipment, supplied as either standalone units or in ENKOline inline systems.

The fastest rotary, our ENKOnail+ machine, is producing 2,500

be equipped with a precision measuring wheel and interchangeable encoder bracket to match your authorized ink jet manufacturer’s encoder.

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short nails per minute. ENKOTEC has exclusive rights to sell and service BAUSSMANN’s wire coil collator and VIBRON’s nail cleaning systems all over the world. Both ENKOTEC’s new feeder bowl and new paper stick collator are finishing field testing this spring.

Personnel: Jan Sorige, John Renteria Ludena, Winfried Baussmann, Jr. Enshiang Machinery Enterprise Co., Ltd. Booth 666 ERA Wire Inc. Tel. 203-933-0480 www.erawire.com rich@erawire.com USA Booth 354 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 Booth 806

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 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 per-

formance 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.

Personnel: Gary Kantz, Monica Lepper, Michael Schoolcraft, Isabelle Martinez, Carsten Vanderputten, Alejandro Altamirano, Mike Rodino, Mary Rodino.

Etna Products, Inc. Tel. 440-543-9845 www.etna.com etna@etna.com USA Booth 1706 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 ultrafine 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: Bill Coode, Gardner Tripp, Ike Tripp, Ralph Noonan.

Euroalpha Srl Tel. 39-0424-472084 www.euroalpa.it massimo.parise@euroalpha.ot Italy Booth 558 Exhibiting: Wiredrawing machines for ferrrous and nonferrous materials.

Personnel: Massimo Parise, Giuseppe Arami.

Eurobend GmbH Booth 1058 Eurolls Spa Tel. 39-0432796511 www.eurolls.com Italy Booth 858 See p. 124!

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Exhibiting: Eurolls Spa specializes in equipment for ferrous and nonferrous wire industry. Range of products includes: wire drawing lines for low-medium-high carbon wire; multi-block cold rolling lines; manual-automatic spoolers and coilers; wet wire drawing lines; skip and tubular stranders for steel-cord and bead-wire, ropes, LRPC wire and strand; welding wire equipment and flux-cored wire production lines; lattice girder machinery; rolling cassettes for reinforcement wire and industrial wire, tungsten carbide rolls; Vitari straightening-cutting machines (see p. 124), chainlink fencing-gabions production machines, high resistance chain production lines. Come by, visit our booth, speak with a Eurolls professional and get the right solution for your wire production needs.

Personnel: Steven Nichols.

EuroWire Tel. 44-1926-834684 www.intras.co.uk jason@intras.co.uk U.K. Booth 132 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.

George Evans Corporation Tel. 800-733-5872

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www.george-evans.com dave-evans@george-evans.com USA Booth 711 See p. 106!

Exhibiting: Celebrating our 100th 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.

Personnel: Dave Evans.

EVG Inc. Booth 150 Evolution Products, Inc. Tel. 855-728-0753 www.evolutionproducts.com blaubach@evolutionproducts.com USA Booth 133 Exhibiting: Evolution Product’s mission is to help our customers improve their bottom line by providing them with cost-savings solutions and green alternatives to the traditional ways of packaging.

Personnel: Richard Witwer, Bill Laubach.

Fabritex, Inc. Tel. 706-376-6584 www.fabritex.com dantrier@fabritex.com USA Booth 616 Exhibiting: Fabritex will be displaying the company’s tubular wire carriers, stem packs and accessory items.

Personnel: Dan Trier, Lee Adams.

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Fenn Tel. 860-259-6600 www.fenn-torin.com

sales@fenn-torin.com USA Booth 1955 Exhibiting: Complex metal forming processes are easy with 115 years of experience! Fenn is a global supplier of rugged, innovative, stateof-the-art metal forming machinery, custom engineered and precisely manufactured for your unique application. With decades of experience, our experts can help make your company’s production goals a reality. Fenn’s well-rounded product line includes rolling mills, wire flattening and shaping lines, Turks Heads, drawbenches, spring coilers, and swagers. Services offered include upgrade, remanufacture preventative maintenance, spare parts and after sales support. Fenn is headquartered in East Berlin, Connecticut, USA, with agents available across the globe to provide sales and support to your business.

Personnel: Darcy Sordo, Nelson Ferguson.

FIB Booth 1358 Fil-Tec Inc. Tel. 800-258-5052 www.fil-tec.com rhernandez@fil-tec.com USA Booth 1502 Exhibiting: Fil-Tec provides innovative solutions to the wire and cable industry. Our next-generation water swellable binders offer the highest absorption capacity while providing excellent yield and a high yield package, designed for high speed and cleaner running. We will showcase our line of WS yarn solutions for power cable applications as well as exhibit ripcords and binder yarns, wicking and non-wicking, marker, filler and flame retardant yarns as well as fiberglass yarns for various applications. The yarns are made from materials such as aramid, high-tenacity polyester, nylon, fiberglass, Vectran, etc. They are available with performance coatings or uncoat-

equipment and servicing that equipment for the life of the process.

Personnel: Joe Scalise, Tom Horn, Mohammed Albedour.

Filtertech, Inc. Tel. 315-682-8815 www.filtertech.com info@filtertech.com USA Booth 1049

Fine Internatioanal Corporation Tel. 732-933-0040 www.fineinternational.net finesales@gmail.com USA Booth 332 Exhibiting: Fine International will have rotary braiding and tape applying machinery operating throughout the exposition. Engineering personnel will be available at our booth to provide literature and have discussions regarding our complete machinery line, including wire-handling equipment, extrusion equipment, vertical and horizontal braiders, vertical and horizontal taping equipment, inductive preheaters and custom machinery. The company also offers raw materials, including separating and shielding tapes, and process reels.

Industrial Liquid Filtration Systems

Exhibiting: Since 1969, Filtertech 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 customer’s expectations by supplying quality

Personnel: Lee Wu, Joe Delconte, Bruce Ceres.

Finoptics Inc Tel. 404-247-1324 www.finoptics.com jukka.kohtala@finoptics.com USA Booth 1801 Exhibiting: FinOptics, Inc., is a premier high technology marketing company, linking overseas companies with North American customers for optical fiber and cable production and process equipment, measuring equipment, non-woven cable materials, and more.

Personnel: Jukka Kohtala.

Fisk Alloy Inc. Booth 2140 FLYMCA & FLYRO Tel. 34-942-55-98-55 flymca@flymca.com flyro@flyro.es www.flymca.com, www.flyro.es

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ed, wound on a variety of package sizes and customized to your needs.

Personnel: Ricardo Hernandez, Jerry Swope, Jim Fisher.

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Spain Booth 1907 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 Booth 618 Exhibiting: FMS will showcase its RTMX42 system for tension control in wire stranding machines.

The RTM X42 Wireless Tension Monitoring System is a modular unit that is expandable to monitor in real time up to 42 wire strands on rotating machinery. The tension data are wirelessly transmitted to the operator station to provide either an analog signal or 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 system is ideal for both OEM and upgrade applications. FMS will also display a selection of tension measurement products for the wire and cable industry, including force sensors and amplifiers (including EtherNet/IP and Profibus interfaces).

Foerster Instruments Inc. Booth 1814

Forever Cable Materials Group Tel. 86-512-66030392 www.fecchina.com lilian.zhou@fecchina.com China Booth 512/03 Exhibiting: The Forever Cable Materials Group consists of cable material manufacturing plants and a trading company named Suzhou Forever Imp & Exp Corp., Ltd. The Group specializes in manufacturing and exporting cable materials of semicons, XLPE, PBT, PP filler yarn, copper tape, galvanized steel tape, mica tape and water-blocking tape.

Personnel: Lilian Zhou.

Fort Wayne Wire Die, Inc. Tel. 260-747-1681 www.fwwd.com sales@fwwd.com USA Booth 1532 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

FIRST-TIME EXHIBITOR Holland Colours Americas Inc., USA Booth: # 1916 / www.hollandcolours.com Description: Holland Colours develops, produces and markets coloring and additive solutions for plastics and coatings since 1979. Holland Colours has built itself a solid track record in coloring rigid PVC, PET and silicone elastomers, as well as many other specialty resin types.

Representative: Dwight Marshall, North American Sales Manager WJI: Why will you be exhibiting at Interwire for the first time in 2015 Dwight Marshall: Holland Colours will launch the company’s new Holcoprill series, and Interwire is an ideal place to spread the word to the industry.

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

Dwight Marshall: Holland Colours has taken a major step forward in technology with the develop-

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ment of two revolutionary new Holcoprill series for the wire and cable industry to color PVC and PE. They offer revolutionary product advantages compared to the competition, such as allowing lower dosing levels, which saves coloring costs. In addition, our products have shown better performance and less spill and waste of material due to fast color changes, clean-up and purging.

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

Dwight Marshall: Attendees should stop by our booth because we have something new, different and revolutionary to offer to the market.

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Fortune Machinery Booth 1053 Fridea Srl Booth 1739 Mario Frigerio/Frigeco Tel. 908-894-5801 www.frigeco.com t.derosa@mariofrigerio.com

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Exhibiting: The MFL Group will display the following equipment and will have technical and commercial personnel on hand to present the entire scope of our machinery and to discuss your specific project requirements. Mario Frigerio will display the WS2 Draweasy Sander. This machine, which uses one or two heads depending on inlet speed, has increased the efficiency of the entire line producing from low carbon to a mechanical descaling process for the rod preparation to draw PC Wire with carbon contents up to 1080c.

With the 50 units sold in the last year we have seen energy savings, higher operating speeds, less maintenance costs, and easier to use by the operator. Also, a Frigeco extruder, 60 mm + 35 mm dual extrusion system. This redesigned extruder provides a more accurate temperature control system for the extrusion process, resulting in increased output without degrading the material.

In some cases you have the option of going down one extruder size, decreasing your capital cost and decreasing the amount of energy required. We will display a 60 mm 25:1 L/D extruder with volumetric dosing system used for color or master batch plus a 35 mm 25:1 L/D extruder with volumetric dosing system for color concentrate, dual cross head and operator interface.

Personnel: Marco Del’Oro, Beniaminio Gessaghi, Piero Brunetti, Tony DeRosa.

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High Performance Wire Dies Searching for expert help with reducing wire breaks, improving wire surface quality, or solving cast issues? Need help identifying optimal wire die size sequences and profiles for your machines?

Esteves Group wire die products and services are maximizing productivity and quality in wire manufacturing applications every day.

The traditional “one-profile fits all” wire die is not up to the challenge of today’s competitive market. To see how Esteves Group can help you, call 800-325-7989 Learn more at www.estevesgroup.com

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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.

Personnel: John Downey, John Dabbelt, Tino Corral, Darin Nicol, Byron Philipson.

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NEW PRODUCT New Vitari straighteners now available in both left and right-hand configurations At Interwire, Vitari, now part of the Eurolls Group, will be able to inform attendees about the company’s new NR straightening series and in particular the NR300 straightener for 3 mm-10 mm wires.

Vittorio Mion, sales director of the Vitari Division, will be at Booth 858 to outline all the innovative technical features of the new Vitari straightening machine series, NR100-200-300 and 400, which have been engineered to improve processing performance but in particular plant efficiency too.

In relation to plant efficiency Mion highlights the following: logistics and material-flow have been key factors in Vitari’s decision to engineer left-handed straighteners that enable mirrored machine set-ups. For decades straightening machines have been manufactured in the conventional right handed

version obliging plant lay-outs to look very much like school classrooms.

At last, Vitari’s dynamic engineering team has unfolded its unique left and right-handed straightening machines.

Some of the advantages include: possibility to set up machines face-toface, enabling the operator to tool-up both machines without needing walk around 3-6 or 12 meter-long benches to access the straightener; as bars fall into the collecting bench, forklift trucks or overhead cranes can collect two bar bundles from the same corridor; the use of the forklift trucks, a hazard in most plants, can now be reduced as access to the straighteners is cut by 50%; with limited plant space or complex existing plant layouts the left handed model

Vitari’s NR300 straightener. offers greater flexibility in identifying suitable floor space; and, as much as face-to-face solutions are favoured there are unquestionable advantages for side by side set-ups with the unique left-handed straighteners.

See us at Booth 858.

Frontier Composites and Castings Tel. 905-685-3633 www.frontiercomposites.com jwh@frontiercomposites.com USA Booth 215 Exhibiting: Composite wire winding bows, flyer bows. Materials are carbon fiber and fiberglass in an epoxy matrix with Kevlar used where desirable. Bows can be fully outfitted and balanced or blank. A wide selection of hardware is available.

Personnel: James W. Howe, Erwin Kish.

FSP-One Tel. 508-695-2822 www.thermocompact.com jguzik@fsp-one.com France/USA Booth 2128 Exhibiting: FSP-one is a world-wide leader of specialty wire headquartered in France, with additional manufacturing capability in Vietnam (Hi 124 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Tech Wires Asia, which started in 2007). The company has a U.S. sales office and warehouse in Plainville, Massachestts, and a sales office in China. Products include silver, nickel and gold plated copper and copper alloys. A high strength alloy (Green 6) was developed and is qualified by aircraft industries. Markets include telecom, electronics, medical and aircraft. New innovations have also been developed using SPCCA and NPCCA for Airbus projects.

Personnel: John Guzik, Patrice Peillon, Christian Blanc.

Furh GmbH & Co. KG Booth 752 Gateway Recovery, Inc. Booth 2158 Gauder Tel. 336-856-8176

ggi@gaudergroup.com www.gaudergroup.com USA/Belgium Booth 424

Exhibiting: Gauder, a member of the Gauder Group, earned a leadership position providing reliable and economical solutions ready to manufacture nonferrous and ferrous products like rods, wires, conductors, cables, strands, ropes, bars, meshes. The Belgian based supplier has more than 1000 machines in stock ready to manufacture wires, conductors, cables, ropes or steel products. See large stock of equipment

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and any new entries in real time at www.gauderonline.com. Also, new MAPRÉ extruders, ranging from 38–150 mm are available, as well as accessories.

Gauder Group, Inc. Tel. 336-856-8176 ggi@gaudergroup.com www.gaudergroup.com USA/Belgium Booth 424 Exhibiting: For more than two decades, Gauder Group, Inc., the North American representative of the Gauder Group based in Greensboro, NC, 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 multipurpose single-twist machine for the production of special and power cables, all members and brands are gathered on the same enlarged booth (area more than doubled). See listings for these group members: POURTIER of America (rotating machines); SETIC of America (rotating machines); GAUDER (second-hand machines); DALOO (lower-cost rotating machines); C2S (cable services and systems for all brands); and Bow Technology (high technology bows for all brands).

Gavlick Machinery Corp.

Tel. 860-589-2900 www.gavlick.com sales@gavlick.com USA Booth 1053 Exhibiting: Gavlick Machinery was established in 1957. It supplies used machinery for the international ferrous and nonferrous industry. It services include appraisals, liquidations, and buying and selling single machines and complete plants in the following categories: bar, rod and wire processing; wire drawing; multi-pass; bullblocks; wire flattening mills; stranders; cablers; straighten-and-cut; fence; nails; rope; spring coiling; shaped and flat; weaving; welded mesh; etc.

Personnel: Mark Haba.

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Gem Gravure Co., Inc. Tel. 781-878-0456 www.gemgravure.com info@gemgravure.com USA Booth 706

Exhibiting: Gem Gravure will bring ink jet and contact printing equipment with high-tech fluids to Atlanta for Interwire 2015. We will be showing the newest ink jet fluids with reduced VOC content. Both dye-based and opaque alphaJET into® ink jet printers from KBAMetronic will be featured. Visit us to see a demonstration of diamondJET connect software, the best software program for communicating with your CIJ printers. GEM continues to supply the finest in striping and contact printing equipment. Custom marking wheels remain a company specialty. Bring GEM your toughest marking and coding challenge and we’ll bring you the solution.

Personnel: David Gemelli, Paul Gemelli, Mark Kristoff, Mike Prasad, Cliff Schult, Robert Henderson, Richard Chamberland, Jared Mullinax, Derek Olson.

GENCA Tel. 800-237-5448 www.genca.com sales@genca.com USA Booth 940 Exhibiting: GENCA offers a complete line of crossheads capable of single and multilayer extrusion with multiple stripes for the wire and cable industry. In addition to tooling and breaker plates, the company provides color-changer components. All crossheads (both fixed and adjustable) are for thermoplastics and thermoset materials.

Personnel: Paul Cusolito, Jasmin Sehovis, Jimena Homrighaus, Mike Maduro, Eduardo Martinez Jerry Anderson, John Thurston

Justin Rosenbleeth, Nick Basel Diane O’Donnell, Frank Jack.

General Copper Co., Ltd. Booth 2160 W. Gillies Technologies, LLC Tel. 508-852-2502 www.wgillies.com sales@wgillies.com USA Booth 958 See p. 118!

Exhibiting: A member of the RSD Group, W. Gillies Technologies manufactures equipment for printing, marking, guiding and positioning. It will display the following working models: a new production model, the CPLM1040 Fiber Laser for in-line and off-line marking; the CP4R highspeed, electronically driven contact printer, featuring automatic wheel indexing; the CP1Z mid-speed contact printer; a new “space saving” combination ink jet guidance and contact printer; a combination offset and direct contact printer; a vertical printer; print wheels, indent and embossing wheels; and guide roller assemblies Personnel: Mark Spencer, Bill Karsok, Martin Rasenberger, Bernd Vortherms, Heinz Schneider.

Gimax Srl Tel. 39-0444-551790 www.gimaxgroup.com info@gimaxgroup.com Italy Booth 140 See p. 138!

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Exhibiting: Gimax will exhibit one of its new generation drawing equipment models for ferrous and nonferrous wire: the TRW wet draw line.

This is a non-slip, high-performance drawbench, with a line speed of over 6000 feet/minute, with other features including low maintenance requirements and low energy costs. Gimax will also exhibit one of its respoolers designed specifically for sub-arc welding wire. The POLISPIRA semi-automatic re-spooling line produces standard 33-lb spools of welding wire on wire baskets, plastic spools or fiberboard spools, with speeds up to 6900 feet/min. Full information will be available on the complete range of Gimax equipment, from drawing to respooling to drum packing, as well as specialized machinery, such as shaving lines for aluminum wire.

Personnel: Enrico Romagnolo, Gianluca Marangoni, Fred Hardy.

GMP Slovakia s.r.o.

Tel. 42156628021 www.gmp-slovakia.com sales@gmp-slovakia.com Slovakia Booth 758

Exhibiting: A worldwide leader in the production of reels, take-apart reels, handlinq equipment for reels and coils, GMP has know-how, highly experienced people and high quality machining that present the perfect mix one needs to consistently produce a very high quality product.

European quality is a warranty. The group includes three companies: GMP Slovakia in Pribenik, GMP do Brazil in Sao Paulo and GMP Reels India in Nashik.

Personnel: Federica Gatti.

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Golden Techologies Wire & Cable Equipment Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-13509806615 www.gtcablemachine.com sales@gtcablemachine.com China Booth 912/06

Exhibiting: We specialize in manufacturing all kinds of cable extrusion lines, cable-twisting bunching machines and auto cable coiling machines, etc., with high quality level. Our machines have been successfully exported to date to more than 55 countries, such as Germany, Nigeria and Thailand, etc.

Personnel: Michelle.

Granite Falls Furnace Tel. 828-324-4394 mduncan@granitefallsfurnace.com USA Booth 1562 See p. 97!

Exhibiting: We manufacture drawn steel wire and annealed wire products for a wide variety of industrial markets. We deliver cost-effective quality wire products and superb customer service. See our profile on p. 97.

Guangzhou Hanstar Fluoro-plastic Insulated Wires Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-20-8149-3939 (or 3883) www.hanstar-gz.com hanstarmarket@yeah.net China Booth 412/07 Exhibiting: Hanstar, established in 1989, specializes in producing high temperature PFA, FEP, ETFE, E/CTFE wire cables and coaxial cables, PVC, XLPVC, XLPE, silicon wires and other electronic and electrical equipment internal wiring.We have certificates for UL, CUL,VDE and ROHS, and also passed the ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 international quality management systems. We warmly welcome your visit. Your OEM and ODM is acceptable.

Personnel: Marco Xu.

Guill Tool & Engineering Tel. 401-828-7600 www.guill.com bconley@guill.com USA Booth 211 Exhibiting: Guill Tool & Engineering, a leading manufacturer of extrusion tooling, will demonstrate its complete line of extrusion crossheads. We will feature our updated line of C.V. crossheads, which are available in single and multi-layer. Additional designs on display include our low-volume, fixed-center crossheads for fiber optic and circuit size wires as well as our FlexiSpiral design. Our FlexiSpiral design offers a unique package of features that include our multi-port spiral flow deflector, patented feather touch concentricity adjustment, and our seal right system to eliminate leaking Personnel: Bill Conley, R.J. Masse, Tom Baldock.

Guney Celik Booth 652 H. Folke Sandelin AB (HFSAB) Tel. 46-141-203630 www.hfsab.com hfsab@hfsab.com Sweden Booth 740 Exhibiting: HFSAB, co-exhibiting with Niehoff Endex North America, will exhibit continuous lead extrusion equipment and know-how in providing the perfect moisture barrier to produce trouble-free, leadsheathed cables. The latest design is horizontal, floor standing, which makes it easy to install/maintain.

The equipment is fully automatic and extremely reliable, with state-ofthe-art control systems that enable continuous operation for weeks with little or no variation in temperatures and thickness/concentricity.

Additional equipment includes the Cable Repair and Recovery System, CRRS, with the possibility of removing the outer jacket, lead sheath or triple layer XLPE insulation, without

v. Hagen & Funke Tel. 49-232-497450 www.vhf-cable-machines.com sales@vhf-cable-machines.com Germany Booth 140 Exhibiting: Exhibiting video and photos displaying the v.H&F range of machines for the production of electrical conductors. Including but not limited to semi and fully automatic (robotic) re-spooling lines, all extruder line equipment, irradiation, under-beam-handling equipment, single twist stranding lines, air-wipes and cable dryers, take-ups/payoffs, eccentric and concentric tapers.

Personnel: Chris Roweda, Fred Hardy, David Stein.

Handuk Ultrasonic Co., Ltd. Tel. 82-41-533-9517 www.handuk.org handuk88@daum.net South Korea Booth 2011

1994, and we now proudly present ourselves as the best supplier of ultrasonic polishing and lapping machines for the drawing dies industry in Korea. Nevertheless, we recommend our automatic and semi-automatic ultrasonic machines for increased productivity in all industrial ďŹ elds.

Hangzhou JR Exhibition Co., Ltd. Booths 217, 306, 318, 1917, 1919

Exhibiting: A South Korean manufacturer, we specializes in ultrasonic technology, including ultrasonic processors, ultrasonic grinders, ultrasonic lapping machines, and ultrasonic polishing machines. We offer an unsurpassed selection of machines for drawing dies, molds, plastics, nonferrous, woodworking and textile industries. We have been developing various ultrasonic machines with a focus in the diamond dies industry since

Hariton Machinery Co., Inc. Tel. 203-367-6777 www.haritonmachinery.com machinery@haritonmachinery.com USA Booth 147 Exhibiting: We will debut a new wire straighten-and-cutoff machine that will be running. Also, a portable hydraulic wire bending machine.

Personnel: Alan Hariton, Michael Coda.

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Hall Industries (See MGS Group.)

causing any damage to the subsequent layer below.

Personnel: David Smith.

Hafner & Krullmann GmbH Booth 370

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Heany Industries, Inc. Tel. 585-889-2700 www.heany.com cliffr@heany.com USA Booth 950 Exhibiting: Heany Industries, Inc., manufactures high-purity alumina and zirconia guides, bushings, pulleys, etc., for the wire and cable industry to extend the life of machinery components. We also provide thermal-spray coatings to custom fabricated or customer parts to increase wear and corrosion resistance. Heany also offers thermally insulating ceramics and coatings.

Personnel: Cliff Rabidoux, Kathie Carl.

Heatbath Corporation Tel. 413-452-2000 www.heatbath.com info@heatbath.com USA Booth 2012

Heinrich Muller GmbH Booth 1560

Exhibiting: Heatbath Corporation supplies a comprehensive line of cleaning and coating chemicals for the ferrous wire industry. Products include acid inhibitors, scale conditioners, zinc phosphate, oxalate and immersion copper coatings, neutralizers and lubricating topcoats.

Supplying innovative solutions for over 90 years. Visit our booth to scuss your specific cleaning house requirements. ISO 9001 certified.

Personnel: Dennis Breton, Cheryl Hickman, Robert Barach, Edward Borucki.

Heritage Wire Die, Inc. Tel. 260-728-9300 www.heritagewiredie.com jon@heritagewiredie.com USA Booth 111 Exhibiting: Wiredrawing dies: tungsten carbide dies, new, recut and rough-cored. Diamond and synthetic diamond dies. Die room supplies: gages, compounds, tools and equipment that including microscopes, pointers and pullers.

Personnel: Jon M. Fuhrman, Jon W. Fuhrman, Otto Fuhrman.

Hipo Electrix Science & Techology Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-21-37519670 sherry-25@163.com China Booth 412/10 Exhibiting: HIPO designs and manufactures testing equipment for H.V. 500kV and below. Our range

FIRST-TIME EXHIBITOR IP Automation, Inc. Booth: #1860 / www.ipautomationinc.com Description: IP Automation provides intelligent solutions for manufacturing lines. We focus on high-volume production solutions, using pre-engineered systems wherever possible and customize when necessary to fit the client’s needs.

This process provides a higher ROI for justifying capital expenditures and allows flexibility for any production line change in the future.

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

IP Christofilis: Automation will be showcasing new wire forming technology addressing both high volume production along with the addition of increased flexibility addressing changing customer needs through production lines.

Representative: Tom Christofilis

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

Christofilis: If you are looking for new equipment because your current equipment is not capable, and are looking for open machine architecture to easily add new processes with minimal floorspace. If you are looking for a system that can changeover a component or an assembly in minimal amount of time. If you are looking for a knowledgeable and experienced team of engineers, that are technical experts in the steel wire industry. Visit our booth and see our revolutionary state-of-the-art machine in BOOTH action. You will be pleasantly surprised.

WJI: Why will you be exhibiting at Interwire for the first time in 2015?

Christofilis: We want to show Interwire attendees how our company’s robust and efficient solutions can improve their manufacturing lines. Whether it’s on a simple automated machine, or a turn-key cell manufacturing customer components or assemblies, we can offer multiple technologies to improve your processes.

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windakgroup.com axjo.com

us t e e M th o o b in 1940 AXJO & WINDAK GROUP PROUDLY PRESENTS

SPOOLS & DRUMS AND MACHINERY THAT HELPS TO PACK CABLES MEET US IN BOOTH 1940 AT INTERWIRE EXPOSITION ATLANTA, APRIL 28-30 INTRODUCING

AXJO ® 11,75 INCHES AXJO ® 6,5 INCHES

WINDAK SW6-14 The most reliable, high-speed spooler in the world.

Output 3,5 spools per minute!

Axjo develops, produces and markets packaging solutions and customized systems in polymer materials. Our customers are located globally, and by combining a wealth of ideas, great flexibility, high technical competence and quality, we are the customers´ first choice as a long-term partner.

Windak Group is one of the world’s leading providers of intelligent material handling and cable packaging solutions with more than 20 years of experience in wire, cable and automotive industries. Windak packaging equipment includes automatic Coilers and Spoolers, Payoffs & Takeups, Rewind lines, Palletizing and Pallet handling systems.

Contact Dan Shelander (USA) E-mail: dan.shelander@axjoamerica.com Phone: 828-322-6046

Contact Dan Shelander (USA) E-mail: dan.shelander@windakgroup.com Phone: 828-322-6046

Anders Gaarsdal (USA) E-mail: anders.gaardsdal@axjoamerica.com Phone: 828-322-6046

Reelika Viikoja (Estonia) E-mail: reelika.viikoja@windakgroup.com Phone: + 372 56840004

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includes a 500 kV PD Test System, an 1800 kV impluse generator, a heat cycle system, high-voltage test equipment, spark tester, mobile test car, etc., for the cable and cable accessories and transformer field.

Personnel: Sherry HeBo. Holland Colours America, Inc. USA Booth 1916 See p. 122!

Exhibiting: Holland Colours develops, produces and markets coloring and additive solutions for plastics and coatings since 1979. Holland Colours has built itself a solid track record in coloring rigid PVC, PET and silicone elastomers, as well as many other specialty resin types. It is introducing two revolutionary new products for the industry.

Personnel: Dwight Marshall.

Houghton International Tel. 610-666-4000 www.houghtonintl.com sales@houghtonintl.com USA Booth 1810 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 Booth 1320 Exhibiting: HOWAR Equipment will showcase wire and cable manufactur-

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ing 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 & 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.huestisindustrial.com sales@huestis.com USA Booth 124 Exhibiting: Showcasing and 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.

Personnel: Howard S. Fancher, Stephen Bettencourt.

Huttner Maschinenfabrik Booth 1051 IBA Industrial Tel. 631-595-4101 www.iba-worldwide.com/ industrial-us@iba-group.com USA Booth 569 Exhibiting: IBA Industrial supplies electron beam technology for crosslinking wire and cable insulation for superior properties. The company’s Easy-e-Beam integrated system is based on the proven industrial reliability of the Dynamitron® accelerator. It handles cables up to 30 sq mm, reaches a line speed of up

to 1000 m/min and can be installed almost anywhere in a facility thanks to its self-shielding.

Personnel: Rick Galloway.

ICE Wire Line Equipment, Inc. Booth 1063 IDEAL Welding Systems Booth 1024 iiM AG measurement + engineering Tel. 49-3681-45519-0 www.cable-measurement.com info@iimAG.de Germany Booth 872 Exhibiting: For more than 15 years, iiM AG measurement + engineering has provided worldwide customers with complete solutions for measurement engineering and industrial machine vision. Its VisioCablePro® brand specializes in producing innovative devices for geometrical cable measurement engineering (EN 60811). The optical cable measuring devices of the VisioCablePro series fulfill cable producer’s requirements to measure the geometrical features of insulating skins and cable sheaths. They create high resolution colour video pictures of cable samples with a diameter up to 130 mm.

Heiko Freund and Edward Wark will be presenting iiM’s most innovative product: the VCPX5.

Personnel: Heiko Freund, Edward Wark.

Inflex Inc. Booth 1656 Inhol LLC Booth 2124 InnoVites Booth 1920 Inosym Ltd Tel. 64-2135-3634 www.inosym.com inosym@inosym.com New Zealand Booth 1731

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Exhibiting: Inosym will display a range of steel and plastic reels to showcase the compant’s production capabilities and quality. Our team welcomes the opportunity to talk to customers about some of the new technology we have introduced into our manufacturing plant and how this can benefit the wire and cable manufacturer. This includes robotic welding and automated painting.

So if you have a requirement for steel or plastic reels please visit our team at Booth 1731. One of our representatives from throughout the Americas will be on hand assist with your inquiry. We are sure you will find their quality, performance and prices to be world class.

Personnel: Philip Young, Mark Greenwood, Greg Scher, Irv Baston, Fred Camarena.

Integrated Control Technologies Tel. 972-906-7445 www.integratedcontroltech.com contact@integrated controltech.com USA Booth 1660 Exhibiting: W specializes in extruder drive and control upgrades. Our ACPAK Drive/Motor Package is stocked through 500 HP, and can ship in one business day. The TEMPCOM is a competitively priced graphical extruder control system for all types of extrusion.

Personnel: Scott Barlow, Dan Barlow, Natalie Crawford.

Interequip SA Booth 108 International Wire & Machinery Association (IWMA) Tel. 44-121-781-7367 www.iwma.org info@iwma.org U.K. Booth 601 Exhibiting: A corporate membership association for the wire, cable

and wire product industries, IWMA considers its primary function to promote new technology, education and growth within the wire and cable industry. Events provide an international forum for the exchange of technology, regular focused meeting places and excellent reference sources from a library of past papers. IWMA offers assistance to members exhibiting at the best international wire exhibitions and publicity opportunities though its newsletter and wirefirst.com directory web site. Through the IWMA Educational Trust Fund, it actively encourages the gaining of new skills and experience for future rising stars in the industry.

Personnel: Andy Lewis, Steven Rika, Geoff Church, John Stanaway.

Intras Ltd. (See EuroWire.)

IP Automation Inc. Tel. 630-656-1215 sales@ipautomationinc.com

FIRST-TIME EXHIBITOR H. Boehl North America Booth: #161 / www.hboehlnorthamerica.com Description: H Boehl North America provides customer service, spare parts, and machine sales services for all Bohl wrapping and banding machines in the United States and Canada.

Representative: William Buckley, president

Buckley

WJI: Why will you be exhibiting at Interwire for the first time in 2015?

Coiled wire and cable manufacturers have a unique challenge when dealing with product packaging. Interwire is the best way to demonstrate a tried-andtrue technology specifically engineered for the coiled wire industry.

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

The speed, efficiency, and low labor cost of spiral wrapping is the best way to package coiled wire and cable. Spiral wrapping also provides flexibility in choice of packaging material including stretch film, paper, foam, and VCI for corrosion protection.

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

Fast, cost effective, high quality packaging is what Bohl is all about. Well packaged coils that will make your customers happy when your product arrives - that’s what we do.

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Isotek Corporation - An Isabellenhutte Company Tel. 508-673-2900 www.isotekcorp.com sales@isotekcorp.com USA/Germany Booth 1800

Exhibiting: Isotek offers alloys for internationally standardized thermocouples (also mineral insulated) as well as extension and compensating leads for producing thermocouples, quick cups, connectors and plugs.

We also supply resistance wire for heating elements and precision resistors. Solid, stranded and flat wires, strips, foils and rods available. We are the North American subsidiary of our manufacturing partner, Isabellenhütte, located in Dillenburg, Germany. Isotek stocks many items at our warehouse in

Trafco has acquired the Cortinovis and Sictra brands and technologies. New or reconditioned equipment: Trafco has many years’ experience in the wire and cable machinery industry. During this time we have built up a deep knowledge of the equipment and the majority of the main manufacturers.

Now, combining the experience and ability of Cortinovis Sictra with Trafco, we are able to offer customers a broad portfolio of products ranging from the upto-date Sictra equipment for drawing copper and aluminium wires, to the stateof-the-art Cortinovis equipment for stranding, laying up and armouring power and telecommunication cables, as well as steel ropes. For the smaller budget investors, Trafco are able to provide refurbished second hand equipment.

STRADA TORINO, 20 - 10080 RIVARA C.SE (TO) ITALY tel. +39 0124 48827 - fax +39 0124 48700 info@trafcomachinery.com www.trafcomachinery.com

Swansea, Massachusetts. Precision alloys from Isabellenhütte are used in multiple industries, including the automotive and aerospace industry, petrochemical, process engineering, railway technology, as well as in control, temperature measurement and regulation.

Personnel: Mark Ferreira, Anthony Carreiro, Christian Vorlaender, Jens Roger Peters.

International Wire Group Bare Wire Division/High Performance Conductors, Inc. Booth 240 IWE Spools & Handling GmbH Booth 1051 Jiangsu Dasheng Electron Accelerator Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-512-82859888 www.dasheng.com wangping@dasheng.com

Atlanta (USA), 28-30 April 2015

Stand 2156

VIA LEONARDO DA VINCI, 28 - 24030 VALBREMBO (BG) ITALY tel. +39 035 0061511 - fax +39 035 0060447 info@cortinovissictra.com www.cortinovissictra.com

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www.ipautomationinc.com USA Booth 1860 See p. 130!

Exhibiting: IP Automation provides intelligent solutions for manufacturing lines. We focus on high volume production solutions, using pre-engineered systems wherever possible and customize when necessary to fit the client’s needs. This process provides a higher ROI for justifying capital expenditures and allows flexibility for any production line change in the future. IP Automation will be showcasing new wire forming technology addressing both high volume production along with the addition of increased flexibility addressing changing customer needs through production lines.

Visit our booth and see this revolutionary state-of-the-art machine in action. You will be pleasantly surprised.

Personnel: Tom Christofilis, Bob Tlapa, Artur Trzebunia.

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China Booth 318 Exhibiting: We manufacture EB irradiation processing system for wire and cable cross-linking, including e-beam system and under beam transport systems. We also manufacture compounds for insulation/sheath of wire and cable, especially crosslinked compounds.

Jiangsu FNC Wire & Cable Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-510-81660708 www.fncwire.com/ wu_huiming@fncwire.com China Booth 512/06

Exhibiting: Our company, which was set up in 1992, specializes in exporting steel wire and wire rope. It entered a joint venture in 2001, and reorganized in 2010. We have specialized in supplying steel wire, galvanized cable, wire rope and raw material for the cable industry over 20 years.

Personnel: Wu Huiming.

Jiangsu Handing Machinery Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-519-86230798 www.hdxljx.com export@hdxljx.com China Booth 912/01

Exhibiting: Handing is a manufacturer and exporter of wire and cable equipment. Our company has 13 years of experience of providing extruders, bunching machines, single-twisters, double-twisters,

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taping machines, coilers and packing machines, etc.

Personnel: Nie Lily.

Jiangsu Sunlit Equipment Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-510-85183218 www.wxsunlit.com sales@wxsunlit.com China Booth 217

Exhibiting: Sunlit is a scientiďŹ c and technological enterprise specialized in R&D, manufacture and sales of complete set of auto control equipment as well as manufacturing professional equipment for steel wire and solar industries. The company has successfully developed an electroplating brass production line and medium wire heat treatment production line and series products. Our equipment operates reliably, with easy operation and good controllability. Steel wires are produced that are stable in quality and fully meet the requirements of customers in each performance index, a level of performance that has been afďŹ rmed and praised by users.

Jiangsu Yonggao Steel Wire Manufacture Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-0513-85916666 www.yggs.com info@yggs.com China Booth 512/02

Exhibiting: Jiangsu Yonggao Steel Wire Manufacture Co., Ltd., established in 2000, and located near the Sutong Yangtze River Bridge, occupying an excellent position for transportation of land, water and air, is a manufacturer specialized in producing spring steel wire, mattress wire, piano wire, rivet wire, etc. Annual overall capacity is around 50,000 metric tons, annual turnover is about RMB 160 million. Products have found a good sale in Southeast Asia, Middle east and Occident market.

Company owns Nantong Yonggao Wire Products Co., Ltd., and Nantong Yongsheng Wires Co., Ltd. Personnel: Yu Yingzhi.

Jiangsu Xinglong Metal Products Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-523-83781571 www.cnxinglong.com sales@cnxinglong.com China Booth 412/06

Exhibiting: XingLong is a leading manufacturer of stainless steel cable, galvanized steel cable and wire rope assemblies. Our company was founded in 1985, and our factory now has 86,500 square meters, 380 employees and modern testing machines and production capacity of 350 tons per month.

Personnel: Mu Donglu.

Jiangyin Kangrui Stainless Steel Products Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-510-68975019 www.chinakangrui.com sales@chinakangrui.com China Booth 912/08

Exhibiting: Jiangyin Kangrui Stainless Steel Products Co., Ltd. (KRS for short) specializes in production of stainless steel wire/welding wire/bar for various application for customers in both domestic and abroad markets. It has annual output of 40,000 metric tons. We sell the products worldwide, including the U.S., Europe, etc.

Personnel: Vivian.

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

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NEW PRODUCT This new system is not a bench-warmer Interwire 2015 is an important venue for Italy’s Gimax Srl. This year we will not only be presenting our range of wiredrawing equipment, but particular emphasis will be given to the newly updated and fully redesigned wet-drawbench.

The drawbench can be classed as a “wet draw” unit as the liquid lubricant is sprayed onto the die/wire. The main feature is that the drawbench is a “non slip” type, as each capstan is individually driven, and the capstans themselves are positioned vertically. Other features include low wear (dies and capstans), low energy consumption, low maintenance but high speed and

high productivity – the productivity of the line does not depend solely on the line speed (which can reach 6000 feet/minute or 30 meters / second) but also on the reduced maintenance costs, extreme ease when threading wire through machine, maximum accessibility to all components, etc.

The wire has a reduced cast and helix making alignment between capstan and die extremely easy, and the result is an increase in wire quality.

The design of the unit makes it adaptable to both ferrous and non-ferrous wires, and the innovations are such that the unit qualifies for subsidies

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eccentricity gauges, LaserSpeed length & 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, Steve Mepsted, Carole Cole.

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 handheld unitt 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,

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JoeTools Tel. 877-832-7864 www.joe-tools.com sales@joe-tools.com USA Booth 2130 Exhibiting: From extrusion crossheads and in-line heads to tips, dies, screws, barrels and breaker plates, JoeTools is your complete design and manufacturing resource for all extrusion tooling in the production of wire and cable products. For each application, JoeTools offers a wide selection of industry standard crossheads along with exclusive, innovative designs that can make your extrusion processes more productive and profitable. And with each of our wide selection of products, you can always rely on JoeTools’ precision

Gimax’s new wet draw drawbench. from the EU in support of innovative machinery.

Gimax is now able to offer a complete range of machinery for the ferrous and nonferrous wire industry. See our booth listing and stop by our booth to talk to us.

See us at Booth 140.

quality manufacturing and superior service.

Personnel: Joe Dixon, Ron Neuman, Robert Craven, Peter Anand.

Jouhsen-bündgens Inc. Tel. 404-850-9753 www.jouhsenusa.com sales@jouhsenusa.com Germany/USA Booth 232 Exhibiting: Special solutions for efficient, high-precision wire processing. Whether straightening and cutting, electro fission, end machining, cold forming or point grinding, Jouhsen-bündgens machines process wires with the smallest tolerances at high speeds worldwide. The demand for our technology has increased with the continued drive for component miniaturization. Our equipment produces parts for the electronics or the automotive industry; drive and cam chains, bearings or pins. For medical applications lancets, cannulas and surgical needles are often cut, grinded and loaded into magazines at speeds as high

Kablosan Turkey - FBC Yayincilik Ltd. sti Booth 2146 Kalmark Integrated Systems, Ltd. Booth 1656 KEIR Manufacturing, Inc. Tel. 828-885-8444 www.keirmfg.com sales@keirmfg.com USA Booth 703 Exhibiting: KEIR is a North Carolina-based manufacturer of technical engineered products serving the worldwide wire and cable industry with high purity ceramic guides, the energy efficient Frontiersman line of air wipes, and state of the art composite flyer bows. KEIR’s mission is

to engineer value and differentiation by partnering with each customer to generate solutions applying leading-edge materials to solve challenges of improving productivity.

Personnel: Mike Walters, Gordon Murray, David Watkins.

Keystone Steel & Wire Tel. 800-447-6444 www.keystonesteel.com rammelsr@keystonesteel.com USA Booth 405 Exhibiting: Keystone Steel & Wire, an integrated mill, heats, melts, casts, rolls and finishes our steel to our own and our customers’ exacting specifications. Our integration produces premium wire and rod with a high level of metallurgical integrity and mechanical capability. From beginning to end, continuous control enables us to produce the finest steel possible. At Keystone, our business is quality and has been since 1889.

Kieselstein GmbH Booth 1051 King Steel Corp.

Tel. 800-638-2530 sales@kingsteelcorp.com www.kingsteelcorp.com USA Booth 537 Exhibiting: We are the largest U.S. distributor of hot-rolled wire rod. With over 20,000 tons 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 clean-and-coat, annealing, galvanizing and cut-tolength wire. Please contact us 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.

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as hundreds per minute. We look forward to your visit.

Personnel: Dr. Peter Renz, Till Banik.

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Kinrei of America (KOA) Tel. 973-677-9500 www.kinreiusa.com/ sdonnelly@kinreiusa.com USA Booth 624 Exhibiting: Kinrei of America (KOA) is a supplier of twisting equipment to the wire and cable industry. We will exhibit a Kinrei FX-630 single-twist buncher and KOA PS-PS-2 dual-head, power payoff. KOA will also display a complete line of ABS and steel processing reels manufactured in India. The U.S. facility in Wayne, New Jersey, supplies spare parts and service support for all machines.

The KOA umbrella will also include representatives from the following companies: Candor Sweden AB, Electro Plating and cleaning equipment; Kopilowitz Engineering, Ltd., payoffs, take-ups and rewinders; and Donnelly Reels, ABS plastic processing and shipping reels manufactured by Sudhir Enterprises of India as well as steel reels manufactured

by Skyline.

Personnel: Rod Donnelly, Mitch Jacobsen, Sean Donnelly, Chris Tullock, Takeshi Suzuki, John Lindh, Sudhir Gianchandani.

KMB Maschinenfabrik GmbH Booth 1506 KMK Booth 606 Ernst Koch GmbH & Co. KG Booth 1358 Kopilowitz Engineering Ltd. Booth 624 Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Tel. 828-698-4135 www.kyocera.com USA Booth 1904 Exhibiting: Kyocera supplies wire rings, cones, blocks and pulleys.

Lake Michigan Metals, Inc. Tel. 630-783-9555 www.epqwire.com

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sales@lakemichiganmetals.com USA Booth 2015 Exhibiting: Lake Michigan Metals is a stocking distributor of stainless steel wire. We specialize in electro polish quality (EPQ) forming wire and cold-heading wire for the fastener industry. Multiply stocking locations for JIT delivery. Quick lead times on specials and aggressive pricing.

Personnel: Andrew Dostal.

Lämneå Bruk AB Tel. 46-122-23200 www.lamnea.se info@lamnea.se Sweden Booth 324 Exhibiting: Lämneå Bruk AB specializes in the design and manufacture of machines for the wiredrawing industry. Our journey in the wiredrawing industry started more than 100 years ago which has given us a tremendous amount of experience which we incorporate in the design of our machines and equipment. Today, we have a wide range of high-quality machines with the latest designs and technology, and this year at Interwire we would like to welcome you to come visit us at Booth 324 for more information on our machines.

LaserLinc Tel. 318-2440 www.laserlinc.com info@laserlinc.com USA Booth 1503 Exhibiting: LaserLinc is the preeminent manufacturer of highly-accurate/highly-adaptable non-contact laser and ultrasonic systems for OD, ID, wall thickness, eccentricity, and concentricity for wire, cable, and fiber, in-process and offline.

Our products help reduce scrap, increase production efficiency, and improve and document quality.

LaserLinc gauges plus Total Vu™ software and a standard PC or the SmartLinc™ processor gives you the most versatile control systems available.

Leggett & Platt Wire Group Tel. 417-358-8131 www.leggett.com lucretia.burt@leggett.com USA Booth 440 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.

Personnel: Lucretia Burt, Dan Gutos, John Calcagni, John Meyer.

Lewis Machine Fastener Engineers (See Rockford Manufacturing Group.)

Leoni Wire Inc. Tel. 413-593-6618 www.leoni.com info@leoniwire.com USA Booth 850 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. 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, Neville Crabbe, Alex Boekholt, Jeanne Lavallee.

Lesmo Machinery America, Inc. Booth 1932 Light Speed Cable Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-755-28373676 www.lightspeedtm.com billwang@lightspeedtm.com China Booth 131

Lint Top Cable Technology Co. Tel. 86-516-87318026 www.linttop.com sales@linttop.com China Booth 912/03 Exhibiting: Lint Top Cable has rich experience and professional technology in the wire and cable (low/ medium voltage) field. We offer the best production machinery and test equipment as well as technical assistance that includes installation,

trial running, training operators and trouble shooting.

Personnel: Ashley Yin, Yin Ting.

Lloyd & Bouvier Inc. Tel. 978-365-5700 www.lloydbouvier.com sales@lloydbouvier.com USA Booth 1832 Exhibiting: An industry leader in providing new and rebuilt equipment solutions—from individual items such as payoffs, take-ups, capstans, cablers, stripers and dancers/ accumulators to complete lines for extrusion, cabling, respooling, taping and specialty applications—Lloyd & Bouvier has been providing quality products and outstanding service for 25 years. Each new or rebuilt machine or system is designed to the customer’s specific requirements and tested in-house before shipment to ensure conformance. An on-site electronics department and modern machine shop provide customers with

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the latest technology, ensuring that all equipment is kept current to constantly changing standards and system improvements. Stop by our booth and speak with the equipment experts.

Personnel: Ron Reed, Pete Kuipers, Harish Panchal, Brian Bouvier.

LongVision (Shanghai) Cable Materials Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-21-64951451 www.longvision.com.cn genegao@longvision.com.cn China Booth 1917

Exhibiting: LongVision is one of the leading suppliers for cable related products (raw cable materials and machines) in the international market. We aim to supply a one-stop solution for your cable production.

Longvision’s products have been

• Over 100 Years in the Wire Industry • Continuing to Innovate and Expand • Standard and Custom Sizes Available

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Exhibiting: We design, manufacture and market high performance coaxial and high data rate copper cable/ cable assembly products for a broad range of industries, such as high-performance computing, military and civil radar system, aviation, medical, automotive, aerospace, semiconductor automatic test system/ equipment(ATE system), test and measurement, smart phone/tablet, handheld devices, etc.

Personnel: Bill Wang.

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made strictly in compliance with ISO-9001 and are widely recommended by customers. More detailed information about our product is available on our website.

Lubrimetal Corporation Tel. 828-212-1083 www.lubrimetal.com info@us.lubrimetal.com USA/Italy Booth 1956

Exhibiting: The latest member of the Lubrimetal family, Lubrimetal Corporation has the same principles of quality and service that has made Italy’s Lubrimetal SpA the supplier of choice for many of the world’s leading producers of wire products for more than 55 years. The North

Carolina facility has developed a suitable range of ultraviolet curable coatings and UV solutions for the wire industry. Lubrimetal is ready to customize new UV coatings to satisfy customer’s needs for protective or decorative purpose. Come visit us for our products and to learn more about our latest news.

Personnel: Michael Will, David Pawloski, Richard Lankshear, Jack Ludwig, Edo Cetina, Giorgio Corso, Angelo Corso.

LUKAS Anlagenbau GmbH Tel. 49-9561-930-0 www.lukas-anlagenbau.de lukas.voh@lukas-anlagenbau.de Germany Booth 116 Exhibiting: LUKAS Anlagenbau GmbH, a manufacturer of cable and wire technology from Bavaria, Germany, offers a wide range of take-ups, payoffs, drawing machines and taping equipment of different types and shapes. We provide cus-

tomer tailored configuration for various applications.

Personnel: Josef Lang, Karin Salomon.

M&E Macchine + Engineering Srl Tel. 39-0341-806000 www.meitaly.it info@meitaly.it Italy Booth 1358 Exhibiting: M+E specializes in the design and manufacturing of payoffs and take-ups for steel and stainless steel wires in coils or on spools for annealing, patenting, galvanizing, oil tempering and other in-line processes, with long experience in the steel cord industry. It also manufactures wet drawing machines for steel and stainless steel wire complete with horizontal or vertical axis spoolers.

Madison Steel, Inc. Tel. 404-343-4855 www.madisonsteel.com USA Booth 360

FIRST-TIME EXHIBITOR SIEBE Engineering GmbH Booth: #1069 / www.siebe.de Representative: Henning Tepe, sales manager Description: Since founded in 1982, SIEBE GmbH has grown to one of the leading engineering companies for plastic processing machines. SIEBE produces customized extrusion lines for automotive cables, data-communication cables, special cables and plastic-tubes. Its extrusion lines are specially designed to meet the permanently increasing demands of the industry for highest quality, highest productivity and a minimum of production scrap. Measurement equipment for cables can also be offered to the market, such as color-matching system for cables.

WJI: Why will you be exhibiting at Interwire for the first time in 2015?

Tepe: SIEBE extrusion lines are producing high quality cables for our customers worldwide. To increase the business, especially the North American market, we want to introduce our technology to the large audience at Interwire 2015 in Atlanta.

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

Tepe: Our SIEBE technology. New for many cable producers will be our automatic color measuring system that provides an objective, reproducible and comparable inspection of colour deviations of single-colored and double-stripe cables.

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

Tepe: Visitors should stop by to learn more about our company, its special technology and the complete product portfolio, which includes the development, the production and the distribution of a single extruder or fully operational and customized extrusion lines as well as the integration of modern technology in obsolete machinery.

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Exhibiting: Come visit Madison Steel to discuss steel wire and strand requirements and demands and how we can make solutions for your individual needs.

Personnel: Al Hickson, Jason Woodruff, Andrew Miller, Michelle Potts, Angela Fritsch.

Magnetic Technologies, Ltd. Booth 612 Maillefer Extrusion Oy Tel. 358-9-88-665-600 www.maillefer.net info.finland@maillefer.net Finland Booth 932

Exhibiting: Maillefer is a global leader in wire and cable production technologies. We offer over 50 technologies and the widest services portfolio in the industry to cover nearly 20 applications. Our tri-level production solutions (/Enter, // Extend and ///Explore) vary in capacity, cost, automation, flexibility, product range, space requirements and maintenance needs. From us, you can always get the best technical fit and value—from a single component to a complete factory, and services—to match your lifecycle needs. We offer solutions for building and automotive wires, dry or jelly-filled fiber optic cables, low, medium, high and extra-high voltage cables, rubber cables, telecom, LAN and coaxial cables.

Personnel: Juha Hiltunen, Markus Bostrom, Harry Excell.

Mario Frigerio/Frigeco Tel. 908-894-5801 www.frigeco.com t.derosa@mariofrigerio.com USA/Italy Booth 1379

Exhibiting: The MFL Group will display the following equipment and will have technical and commercial personnel on hand to present the entire scope of our machinery and to discuss your specific project requirements. Mario Frigerio will display the WS2 Draweasy Sander.

This machine, which uses one or two heads depending on inlet speed, has increased the efficiency of the entire line producing from low carbon to a mechanical descaling process for the rod preparation to draw PC Wire with carbon contents up to 1080c.

With the 50 units sold in the last year we have seen energy savings, higher operating speeds, less maintenance costs, and easier to use by the operator. Also, a Frigeco extruder, 60 mm + 35 mm dual extrusion system. This redesigned extruder provides a more accurate temperature control system for the extrusion process, resulting in increased output without degrading the material.

In some cases you have the option of going down one extruder size, decreasing your capital cost and decreasing the amount of energy required. We will display a 60 mm 25:1 L/D extruder with volumetric dosing system used for color or master batch plus a 35 mm 25:1 L/D extruder with volumetric dosing system for color concentrate, dual cross head and operator interface.

Personnel: Marco Del’Oro, Beniaminio Gessaghi, Piero Brunetti, Tony DeRosa.

Mathiasen Machinery, Inc. (MMI) Tel. 860-873-1423 www.mathiasen-machinery.com mmi@mathiasen-machinery.com USA Booth 139

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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 booth will display photos of a wide variety of secondhand machinery. Bring surplus machinery list and photos for evaluation.

Personnel: Mark Mathiasen, Mike Mathiasen.

Meltech CRE Ltd. Booth 1655 Messe Düsseldorf North America (See wire Düsseldorf.)

Metal Resource Solutions, Inc. Tel. 513-874-7630 www.metalresourcesolutions.net bob@metalresourcesolutions.net USA Booth 358 Exhibiting: Metal Resource Solutions is a world-class distributor of stainless steel, brass, copper and bronze wire serving the fastener and wire forming industries. Our corporate office is based in West Chester, Ohio, with additional distribution centers in Chicago, Illinois, and Chicopee, Massachusetts. We serve customers from Fortune 500 companies to small privately held.

Personnel: Richard Tereba, Bob Beebe, David Kerr.

Metalloid Corporation Tel. 269-503-7300 www.metalloidcorp.com sales@metalloidcorp.com USA Booth 2016 Exhibiting: Metalloid Corporation is a manufacturer of environmentally friendly wiredrawing lubricants.

Our goal is to revolutionize the

Metallurgical Council of China Booth 658 Metavan NV/HOWAR Eqpt Tel. 905-669-4010 www.metavan.com sales@howarequipment.com Belgium/Canada Booth 1320

Exhibiting: Steel reels from 12 in.- 49 in. (305 - 1250 mm) made to the highest quality and consistency will be showcased at the HOWAR Equipment booth. 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.

MFL Group/MFL USA (See Mario Frigerio.)

MGS Group Tel. 315-337-3350 www.themgsgroup.com sales@mgshall.com USA Booth 1032 See p. 98!

Exhibiting: The MGS Group, which consists of MGS Manufacturing, Hall Industries and Northampton Machinery Co., is an international supplier of automation and technology solutions for product handling and twisting systems. Its technology is customized to optimize your application through comprehensive design and engineering capabilities, the result being ruggedly built systems able to reliably produce for decades, all supported by personalized service. Featured products include our Fully Automatic Dual Takeup with the unique Robot Handling System (see p. 96); various dual-reel takeups for fiber to 1000 mcm cable; Northampton twisting machines; and our standard product range of payoffs, takeups, rewinders, dancers, accumulators, capstans, length counters, air wipes, double-twist bunchers, twinners and cablers.

Personnel: Jim Zampogna, John Dudus, Tom McComiskey, Jim Russo, Robert Sandore, James Green, Tom Beland, John Sandle, Dave Lane.

MGS Manufacturing, Inc. (See MGS Group.)

Micro Products Company Tel. 630-406-9550 www.micro-weld.com info@micro-weld.com USA Booth 550

Taping Equipment

Single Twist Lines

Production range: • Taping, binding, screening machines with concentric heads having dynamic dancer, for spools and pads; • High performance single twist lines with high speed back-twist feeders; • Rewinding lines with in-line measuring and quality control systems; • Take-up and pay-off units for reels up to DIN 1600, also in traversing version with horizontal axis for precision flat wires laying; • Caterpillars and capstans for any wire shape, for small and medium section; • Cable peeling machines for large diameters; • Ancillary, testing, special and customized equipment.

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Via Austria, 12 - 35127 Padova - ITALY Tel. (+39) 049 8705566 - Fax (+39) 049 8705599 www.wtmachinery.com e-mail: info@wtmachinery.com

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Personnel: Francis Vanhaelewijn, Chris Hauer.

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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: Fred Edwards, Terry Wiedemann, Extruders and Auxiliary Equipment Jennifer Edwards.

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Exhibiting: A wide range of high-performance Micro-Weld butt welders for welding steel, copper, aluminum, alloys - wire, rod, cable will be on display. Models include welders for fine wire to very large diameter material, and ceramic fusion welders for clean burr-less welds. Our technical team 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 85 years.

Personnel: Ed Harrington, Robert Bulitta, Hamond Dayal, Adam Fore.

Morgan-Koch Corporation Tel. 508-793-1945 morgan-koch.com jay@morgan-koch.com USA Booth 1358 Exhibiting: Since 1988, MorganKoch 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, 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, Jochen Koch, Bob Strauss.

Microdia USA Booth 1922

Mossberg Associates, Inc Tel. 401-334-2255 www.mossberg-reel.com info@mossberg-reel.com USA Booth 763 Exhibiting: Information will be available on small and large metal reels for all phases of wire processing and packaging. We will also have information on reel ancillary equipment.

Personnel: John Henschel, Rene Mayer.

Mid-South Wire Tel. 615-743-2850 www.midsouthwire.com info@midsouthwire.com USA Booth 1354 Exhibiting: Mid-South Wire is an industry leading manufacturer of carbon steel wire with locations in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee (headquarters) and Scott City, Missouri.

Founded in 1967, this family owned company began with a single “side-winder” machine and today boasts more than 30 state-of-the-art drawing machines capable of producing wire from .072 in. through .625 in. in diameter. We specialize in low/ medium carbon industrial quality, plating quality, cold heading quality, galvanized, and shaped wire. We are an ISO 9001 certified company committed to producing the highest quality wire products in the industry.

Personnel: Ken Davis, Robert Knight, Mike Casey.

Mikrotek Machines Ltd.Booth 717

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Mossberg Industries, Inc. Tel. 260-357-5141 www.mossbergind.com indiana@mossbergind.com USA Booth 113

Mossberg Associates, Inc.

Exhibiting: Mossberg Industries manufacturer of plastic spools and reels offers a range of sizes from 5 in. to 72 in. in diameter for various products. We offer injection-molded light utility spools, molded heavy-duty bare wire reels and rotation-molded power cable reels up to 72 in. Come see our new flanges for auto winding applications and more knock-down

style plastic reels to reduce transportation costs. Also, custom-designed tooling from concept, to 3D model, then production parts to meet your specific requirements. Mossberg serves customers from locations in Indiana and California.

Personnel: James Khorshid, June Hauer, Barry Sordelet, Bill Uhlenbrock.

Nanjing Xiandai Diamond Products Co. Ltd. Booth 2014 Nano Diamond America, Inc. Tel. 434-906-6199 www.nano-die.com admin@nano-die.com USA Booth 1806

Exhibiting: Nano Diamond America supplies Nano-Dies® to the global cable, wire and tube manufacturing industries. Cable manufacturers all over the world know the benefits of operating at +0 tolerance. Now they do this all the time using Nanodies, and at 2-10 times less than previous-generation diamond dies.

Nano-dies still lead the way in diamond-coating technology, giving them their tremendously strong surface. We provide the lowest-friction working surface on the die market.

This unparalleled smoothness leads to raw material savings due to less damage being done to the stranded material.

Personnel: Lee Thornton, Doug Thornton.

Nantong Elite Metal Products Import and Export Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-15000984962 www.elitesteelwirerope.com hugoliu1983@gmail.com China Booth 41201

Exhibiting: We are a big, specialized manufacturer of galvanized, guy cable, galvanized and stainless commercial aircraft cable that is located in Hangzhou city. Besides providing a large quantity of guy cable for China’s domestic market, we have exported cables for years to greenhouse manufacturers, dairy manufacturers, poultry manufacturers, etc., in the U.S. We compete with Korean cable manufacturers and help our U.S. customers reduce their costs.

Personnel: Hugo Liu. NDC Technologies (Beta LaserMike Products) Tel. 937-233-9935 www.ndc.com/betalasermike

Exhibiting: NDC Technologies exhibits its complete wire and cable extrusion line measurement system with Beta LaserMike gauges. The new AccuScan 6012 is the industry’s first four-axis 12 mm diameter gauge with the highest ovality measurement and flaw detection accuracy.

The new InControl process controller brings advanced graphical user interface, functionality, and ease of use for increased productivity. Also on display: three-axis lump and neckdown detectors, LayScan lay length gauge, CenterScan eccentricity gauge, LaserSpeed length and speed encoder, spark testers, wire

straighteners • guides • Feeders

pre-heaters, CapScan capacitance gauge, BenchMike off-line inspection system, DCM cable testing, SRL Pro structural return loss prediction system, and DataPro process controllers.

NEPTCO Booth 902 Nextrom Oy/Rosendahl Nextrom Technologies Tel. 828-464-2543 www.nextrom.com harri.turunen@nextrom.com USA/Finland Booth 640

Exhibiting: Nextrom and Rosendahl both invite attendees to visit them at the booth of Rosendahl Nextrom Technologies, the U.S. representa-

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tive office. Nextrom is a premium supplier of optical fiber glass preform manufacturing equipment.

It produces fiber draw towers and associated machinery for the global fiber market using MCVD, OVD and VAD technologies. Besides providing optical fiber equipment, Nextrom is a world leading supplier of fiber optic cable production lines.

Rosendahl, a leading global supplier of high-tech wire and cable manufacturing solutions, offers first-class products and turnkey solutions in the fields of extrusion, corrugation, fiber optic cable as well as SZ stranding.

Knowledge, experience and production are made in Austria.

Personnel: Robert Pinter, Robert Mailloux.

Niagara Composites Industries Inc. Booth 724 Niehoff Endex North America, Inc. Tel. 856-467-4884 www.niehoff-usa.com sales@niehoffendex.com USA/Germany Booth 740 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 takeups (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.

Personnel: Robert Wild, Rolf Wurmbach, Edmond Torbey, Mike

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Dalal, Jose Agusil, Bernd Lohmüller, Arnd Kulaczewski, Frank Knobloch, Chang Yu, Li Jgu, Stefan Nixdorf, Ralph Bürkle, Holger Junkereit, Klaus Eichelmann, David Smith, Lisa Lent, Sherry Newsome.

NIMSCO LLC/OMAS Booth 301 Nirmal Wires (P) Ltd. Booth 1063 Northampton Machinery (See MGS Group.)

NUMALLIANCE Booth 732 OEG GmbH/Weber & Scher Tel. 908-797-0329 www.oeggmbh.com www.webscher.com greg.scher@webscher.com Germany/USA Booth 1731 Exhibiting: OEG GmbH, represented in the U.S. by Weber & Scher, will display its DM 1 optical gauge designed for measuring and validating the inside diameter and bore ovality of drawing dies and enameling dies prior to use. Based on an optical measuring principle, the data acquisition and evaluation takes place by an image processing system,which guarantees highly accurate and reproducible measurements. It provides a very cost effective and fast solution for obtaining high measuring accuracy of drawing and enameling dies that can be quickly and easily collected, evaluated and archived as part of your die management program.

OM Frigerio Srl (OMF)/HOWAR Equipment Tel. 905-669-4010 www.howarequipment.com sales@howarequipment.com Italy/Canada Booth 1320 Exhibiting: Wiredrawing accessories designed to increase the wiredrawing 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 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.

OMCG North America Inc. Tel. 630-860-1016 www.omcg.com b.sears@omcg.com d.togni@omcg.com USA Booth 1050

Exhibiting: OMCG NA, the North American business of Italy’s OMCG SpA, will exhibit the company’s MINI CNC wire forming machine, integrated with a robot.

This machine features simple tooling and three-to-six bend radii capability plus generation for rings and large radii. Wire sizes can range from 1 to 6 mm, while other available models will handle wire up to .625 in. Machines have off-site diagnostic modems.

Programming is very easy using a standard Windows-based PC and 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.

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bend angle and orientation of angle of the part, then the program creates the bending program that controls the machine production. For high production speeds, OMCG manufactures a line of CNC slide-forming machines along with their Multislide forming machines that allow some parts to be produced at 300 parts per minute. The vertical Multislide line has press capacities of 20, 30, 40, 60 tons. Stop by our booth to find out more.

Personnel: Daniele Togni, Bob Sears.

Otomec Srl Tel. 39-0341-660246 www.otomec.it info@otomec.it Italy Booth 1932 Exhibiting: Otomec provides engineering and manufacturing expertise in the form of complete customized plants for cleaning and plating of metallic wire, strip, coil, bar and tube, as well as single complete lines for plating tin, nickel, zinc and silver. It offers quality systems, engineering, manufacturing and training soutions to meet customer requirements.

Ozyasar Tel Ve Galvanizleme Tel. 90-2127352578 info@ozyasar.com.tr www.ozyasar.com.tr Turkey Booth 2018 Exhibiting: Ozyasar is the largest manufacturer of wire products located at Istanbul, Turkey. Our annually wiredrawing capacity is around 90,000 metric tons, with 80% of this capacity for both low-carbon and high-carbon galvanized wire. We have four galvanizing lines and can produce from 35gr/sq m up to 410 gr/sq m per EN – BS – ASTM standarts. More than 55% of our total capacity is for export, and we are in the top 100 exporters in Turkey. We can also manufacture some final products like welded panel, barbed wire, chain

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link fence, cutlength wire and steel wire rope.

Personnel: Erman Korkusuz.

P & R Specialty, Inc. Tel. 937-773-0263 www.prspecialty.com sales@prspecialty.com USA Booth 333

Exhibiting: P & R is a leading supplier of reels and spools for the wire and cable industry, offering plastic spools, fiberboard spools and plywood reels. Our in-house tool shop, which adds tremendous value to our customers’ experience, is a unique feature in the industry. Our tool shop team is dedicated to designing, building, and maintaining all the tooling used in our manufacturing processes. Preventative maintenance is performed efficiently and repairs are made quickly, reducing downtime and allowing us to meet or exceed production expectations.

We strive to meet expectations by ensuring each call is answered by a friendly person ready to assist; each request is responded to as quickly as possible, and in many situations orders can be shipped the same day.

Personnel: Greg Blankenship.

Alissa Blankenship. Craig Stiefel.

Vince Reidy.

P/A Industries, Inc. Tel. 860-243-8306 www.pa.com sales@pa.com USA Booth 119 Exhibiting: P/A will exhibit a wire pallet reel paying off to a fully enclosed wire cut-to-length machine.

Wire is fed to length by the servo feed, straightened and then cut to specified length.

Personnel: Edward Morris, Don Frank, Mark Beiner, Tim Qualls.

Paramount Die Company, Inc. Tel. 410-272-4600 www.paradie.com rprevatt@paradie.com USA Booth 340 Exhibiting: Paramount Die is the leading designer and manufacturer of wiredrawing die inserts and tooling systems for the wiredrawing industry. For more than 45 years, Paramount Die has delivered dies and wiredrawing solutions that optimize wire drawing operations.

Paramount Die has helped hundreds of wiredrawers improve productivity and increase the efficiency of their wiredrawing processes by providing premium die inserts and holders.

Parkway-Kew Corporation Tel. 732-398-2100 www.parkwaykew.com sales@parkwaykew.com USA Booth 1057 Exhibiting: Custom coatings for extreme wear applications including: capstans, draw rings, pulleys, stepcones, 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., Mark Patrizzia, Robert Galperin.

Pave CNC Wire Forming Systems Tel. 783-516-3000 www.pave-wire.com pave@enterprise.net U.K. Booth 1321 Exhibiting: We specialize in CNC wire-bending machines and auxilliary equipment from the U.K. Personnel: Olly Perna, Sean Bassett.

Pentre Group Ltd./Hearl Heaton Tel. 44-194-2676331 www.pentregroup.com

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sales@pentregroup.com U.K. Booth 1949 Exhibiting: The Pentre Group, incorporating Hearl Heaton, will be exhibiting with J.J. Lowe Associates, our exclusive sales agent for the Americas. The Pentre Group designs, manufactures and supplies, on an international basis, a comprehensive range of high-speed steel and plastic ABS process reels, plywood and cardboard reels, wholly molded plastic spools, steel and wooden shipping reels and drums, equipment for the offshore industry.

Personnel: Craig Currie.

Phifer Incorporated Tel. 205-345-2120 www.phifer.com info@phifer.com USA Booth 450 Exhibiting: With 60 plus years of wiredrawing experience, Phifer Incorporated is the 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-11.1 mm, and offers a vast range of reel and spool options.

Personnel: Terry White, Cedric Patton.

Pioneer USA Tel. 973-285-3211 www.pioneermachinery.us sales@pioneermachinery.us USA Booth 206

Exhibiting: Pioneer, is a leader as a supplier of complete factory automation to the wire and cable industry, has developed one of the most advanced dual spooler with closed-loop control traverse completed automated and 0 to 100% torque speed control including 1000:1 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. Pioneer has already

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delivered three of the new and advanced bunch to the market.

It has available new multi-wire drawing machines, and 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 & concentric tapping machines, capstans, single and dual take-up, payoffs, vertical and horizontal accumulators.

Personnel. Hernando Blanco.

Pittsfield Plastics Engineering, Inc. Tel. 413-442-0067 www.pittsplas.com info@pittsplas.com USA Booth 764 Exhibiting: Pittsfield Plastics will have a booth full of plastic spools and reels used in the wire and cable industry.

Personnel: Nick Roth, Tom Walker, Sam Parris.

PKG Equipment, Inc. Tel. 585-436-4650 www.pkgequipment.com info@pkgequipment.com USA Booth 231 Exhibiting: PKG Equipment designs, fabricates and installs corrosion-resistant process equipment for the rod and wire, tube, specialty steel and hot-dip galvanizing industries.

We specialize in metal and thermoplastic tanks, tank liners, wire plating cells, drying ovens, ventilation systems, waste treatment systems and complete tank lines for wire coating, coil processing, galvanizing, pickling, cleaning, and plating. We also offer equipment repairs and modifications, floor trenching, and floor coating services.

Personnel: Stephen Pontarelli Graham Roberts.

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Plas-Ties, Co. Tel. 714-542-4487 www.plasties.com info@plasties.com USA Booth 112

Exhibiting: Stop by our booth to discover a wide variety of twist tying machines and cable tie solutions designed to provide secure, industrial strength tying closures for your products. Our new XL-S Smart Tyer will showcase our latest solution to provide self-adjusting finishing options (from delicate to specialized) using either convenient preprogrammed user selections or custom automation via Ladder Logic Programming. Preview our full line of solutions at www.plasties.com.

Personnel: Jesse Garcia, Cecilia Nguyen.

Plasmait GmbH Tel. 43-0-3182-52-475 info@plasmait.com Austria/Canada Booth 1320 Exhibiting: Plasmait, represented in the U.S. and Canada by HOWAR Equipment, will present a range of new machines. PlasmaANNEALER, for high-speed annealing of stainless steel, CCA, CCS, nickel alloy wires; a PV ribbon line for rolling, annealing, tinning of super-soft PV ribbon; PlasmaPREPLATE, for surface preparation prior to coating, hot dip and electroplating applications; and PlasmaCLEANER, a plasma surface treatment machine for pre-heating, surface cleaning, degreasing, deoxidation or surface activation.

Personnel: Igor Rogelj, Chris Hauer.

Plastic Equip, LLC/ PLASTICOLOR Tel. 203-606-2378 www.plasticolor.de tsiedlarz@sbcglobal.net USA Booth 2111

Exhibiting: Plastic Equip, the U.S. distributor for Germany’s PLASTICOLOR/Woywod, will exhibit a two-fold volumetric mixing station with modular control, demonstrating upgrade capability.

Poul Hansen from Woywod will be available for technical discussions.

Personnel: Tom Siedlarz, Poul Hansen.

Plymouth Wire Reels & Dies, Inc. Booth 717 Pneumatic Power Tools & Co. Tel. 832-482-5988 www.strappingtoolppt.com info@strappingtoolppt.com USA Booth 352 Exhibiting: We are a leading manufacturer of pneumatic and hydraulic wire cutters, bar straighteners, nibblers and steel strapping tools.

POURTIER of America Tel. 336-856-8176 ggi@gaudergroup.com www.gaudergroup.com USA/Belgium Booth 424

Exhibiting: This is the name chosen by the Gauder Group to promote the sales of the POURTIER product range. The equipment line includes POURTIER’s successful rigid and planetary stranders, single-twist cablers and drum twisters for producing of all type of power cable (low, medium, high and extrahigh voltage underground, overhead conductors and submarine/umbilical), as well as signal/instrumentation and large communication cable. POURTIER is extending its existing range of tubular stranders, skip stranders and bow cablers.

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leaders in rotating machines for non ferrous cable, are offering the widest range of twisting/stranding solutions to cable makers.

Precision Die Technologies Tel. 260-482-5001 www.pdtinc.com www.sales@pdtinc.com USA Booth 402 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: Tatiane Menzie, John Freiburger, Brad Freiburger, Josef Geisler.

Precision Process Inc. Booth 2162 PrintSafe Booth 1850 Process Control Corporation Tel. 770-449-8810 www.process-control.com sales@process-control.com USA Booth 1805 Exhibiting: Information about auxiliary equipment for plastics processing. We will be able to discuss material handling, gravimetric blending, scrap recovery and extrusion control solutions for your system.

Personnel: Dana Darley, Andy Dunn.

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Progress Maschinen & Automation AG Tel. 39-0472-979-100 www.progress-m.com info@progress-m.com Italy Booth 153 Exhibiting: Progress Maschinen & Automation has been designing and manufacturing coil-processing machinery and equipment for over 50 years. The company’s core competence lies in the conception and realization of state-of-the-art wire processing machinery tailor-made to customers’ individual requirements.

Progress Maschinen & Automation stands for innovation, quality and reliability.

Promostar Srl Booth 452 Properzi International, Inc. Tel. 443-212-4320 www.properzi.com info@properzi.us USA Booth 1840

Exhibiting: Continuus-Properzi invented the methodology and process of continuously casting and rolling nonferrous rod in the 1940s.

Today, Continuus-Properzi is the global leader of CCR lines for nonferrous wire rod production offering a complete product line including all the necessary elements from furnaces to casting equipment, to rolling equipment, to double spoolers. The Properzi organization provides unparalleled continuous casting and rolling technology for the production of aluminium and copper wire rod on a global basis. The copper rod can be produced from either

copper cathodes or 100% low-quality copper scrap to yield top-quality copper rod. The product line also encompasses machinery for the production of nonferrous ingots with the Track & Belt system. The product line, complemented by the offerings of the Wire Machinery Division, includes newly designed drawing lines for high-carbon, stainless steel and AS wire, as well as complete PC strand lines, PC wire lines, and steel rope lines. During the second half of 2014, Properzi added to its portfolio the Continuous Extrusion plant under the name of PROFORM, which stands for “Properzi Forming.” A wide selection of technical literature will be available at our booth. Visit www.properzi.com or contact us at hq@properzi.it or info@properzi.us for more detailed information regarding our complete product offering.

Personnel: Giulio Properzi, Carmelo Brocato, Stefano Prevedini, Paola D’Oria, Giuseppe Marcantoni.

Proton Products International Tel. 908-236-8484 qphtech@webscher.com U.K./USA Booth 1731 Exhibiting: At Interwire 2015, Proton Products International, represented in the U.S. by Weber & Scher, will displaying the full array of instrumentation equipment offered from within their 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, dual and triple axis solid state diameter gauges with lump and neck detection capability, high frequency induction preheating systems for wire and cable conductor applications (see attached photo), high frequency spark testers, capacitance gauges, and process control systems. With over 35 years of experience designing and manufacturing instrumentation and process control products,

PWM Ltd. Tel. 44-1233-820847 www.pwmltd.co.uk pwm@btinternet.com U.K. Booth 1355

Exhibiting: PWM will present its best-selling EP500 rod welder, plus a range of powered and manual cold welding machines. The PWM products will be featured by Joe Snee Associates, exclusive distributor of PWM cold welding equipment, spares and dies in the U.S. and Canada. PWM’s electro/pneumatic EP500 provides a cost-effective method of welding large nonferrous rod sections 5 mm (.197 in.) to 15 mm (.590 in.). The air/hydraulic HP100, for wire/strip 1 mm to 5 mm (.039 in. to .197 in.) is trolley-mounted so it can be wheeled to the work area. Manual models to be shown include the M101, BM10 and BM30, and the hand-held M10, M25 and M30. PWM machines and dies, standard or custom made to suit round or profile wire and rod, are designed and made in the company’s own U.K. workshops.

Personnel: Joe Snee, Ginny Ruckel, Steve Mepsted, Carole Cole.

Q8Oil - Roloil Tel. 212-880-3737 www.q8oils.com info@roloil.com USA Booth 771

Exhibiting: Lubricants for the rolling and drawing of bar, rod, wire, tubes, profiles and strip. lubricants for fastener production, heat treatment and protectives, metalworking lubricants, plant maintenance oils and greases. Technical support services to increase productivity and provide cost savings.

Personnel: Andrew Turner, Stuart Duff, Matt East.

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the Proton Products team provides the most advanced technology at affordable prices.

Personnel: Grant Latimer, Gregory K. Scher, Paul Sives, John Kyriakis.

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QED Wire Lines Inc. Tel. 450-458-1200 www.qedwire.com sales@qedwire.com Canada Booth 952

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 multiple 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.

Personnel: Jack Hall, Bill Crowle, Mike Crowle, Gord Murray.

Queins Machines GmbH Tel. 49-2472-8080 www.queins.com info@queins.com Germany Booth 1506 Exhibiting: Queins Machines GmbH will exhibit a number of large pictures of delivered machines to the cable and rope industry as well as a video of operating lines. Further to the range of different delivered lines for special applications, such as power transmission, steel rope applications and other fields, can be given during the exhibition. Visit our homepage www.queins.com for further information about all available equipment.

Personnel: Hans Georg Queins, Manfred Hoffmann.

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Raajratna Stainless Wire Inc. Booth 453

Personnel: Guy Henderson, Jay Taylor.

RAD-CON, Inc. Tel. 1-440-871-5720 www.rad-con.com sales@rad-con.com USA Booth 457 Exhibiting: Bell-type furnaces using 100% Hydrogen Protective Atmosphere. RAD-CON is a world leader in the design and manufacture of bell-type furnaces for spheroidize annealing of wire rod for the production of cold-heading quality wires (CHQ). Many of the largest fastener manufacturers are using our equipment. RAD-CON is headquartered in the USA, and operating globally, with more than 75% of the turnover outside the USA. RAD-CON specializes in one type of furnace, bell-type, one type of process, annealing, and has very specific knowledge in spheroidizing while producing a clean surface that is free of decarburization.

Reber Systematic GmbH+Co. KG Tel. 49-712194830 www.resy-filtration.com k.eichelmann@resy-filtration.com Germany Booth 740 Exhibiting: Filtration and cooling systems for wiredrawing machines with oil and emulsion, cooling water filter systems for extrusion and annealing lines and other different solutions for filtration applications Personnel: Klaus Eichelmann.

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Booth 1912 Rainbow Rubber & Plastics Booth 1649 Rautomead Limited Tel. 44-1382-622341 www.rautomead.com sales@rautomead.com U.K. Booth 1070 Exhibiting: RS upwards vertical casting machines for oxygen-free copper rod 3,000 – 30,000 TPA. Rautomead’s graphite furnace technology produces highest quality CuOF 8 mm diameter wire rod. This high quality material benefits manufacturers of enamelled wire, LAN cables and fine wires. Larger diameter CuOF rods may be produced for processing to flat strips or water tube fittings; 8.0-12.5 mm CuAg rod for processing to commutator sections; 18-30 mm CuCd or CuMg for trolley wire cables and 8.0 mm copper alloy wires for special applications such as EDM machining wires.

REDEX Tel. 33-2-38-94-42-00 www.redex-group.com info@redex.fr France Booth 740

Exhibiting: High-capacity rolling mill lines for the production of aluminum strip, copper transformer strip and low-carbon steel flat wire.

Personnel: Jacques Guyon, Chang Yu Li. Reel-O-Matic, Inc. Booth 464 Refractron Tel. 315-331-6222 www.refractron.com sales@refractron.com USA Booth 302

Exhibiting: Refractron’s specialty ® is manufacturing Izory (proprietary magnesia stabilized zirconia ceramic) rolls and rings for breaking down rod and drawing non-ferrous wire.

Refractron has experience making Izory for rod mills, intermediates and multiwires made by all major OEMs. Our applications engineers understand

Rhenium Alloys Booth 1906 RichardsApex, Inc. Tel. 215-487-1100 www.richardsapex.com raincorders@richardsapex.com USA Booth 540 Exhibiting: Innovation meets worldclass customer support. RichardsApex applications specialists and scientists from around the world join client services people to discuss groundbreaking new products. We welcome the chance to understand your needs and determine how we can help. Old friends or new, stop by to see us.

Personnel: Andy Hellfrich, Bruce Calvert, Kyle Craft, Don Neville.

Rizzardi Booth 1328 Rockford Manufacturing Group, Inc. (RMG) Tel. 815-624-2500 www.rmgfelm.com rmgfelm@rmgfelm.com USA Booth 2056

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, three die arbors and our patented “CLUTCHLESS” cutting technology. Stop by to see our Lewis 3SV8 straighten & cut machine with the Model 6450VF powered payoff, on display and fully operational.

The 3SV8 has been re-designed to include many updated features, including variable frequency drive technology, “CLUTCHLESS” cutter and our Micro-Fine Adjustable Release Mechanism for accurate length control, which we are introducing. 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. When it comes to service and support, RMG is the only OEM for Fastener Engineers, Lewis Machine and G.C. Patterson equipment, and it is the best source for all of your tooling, spare parts and technical service requirements. Take a tour of our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at www.rmgfelm.com. Contact us with any questions at rmgfelm@ rmgfelm.com.

Personnel: Kirk Prosser

Roteq Machinery Inc. Tel. 905-660 8800 www.roteqmachinery.com inquiries@roteqmachinery.com Canada Booth 2032 Exhibiting: Roteq will present our manufacturing developments in stranding of aluminum and copper conductors, single-twist and double-twist with roll forming and die compacting strip armouring two in. and five in.; cabling machines using S/Z, single twist, planetary and drum twisters; armouring using single-twist planetary cablers and drum twisters; shielding with double-twist, single-twist and custom-taping lines; LAN cable manufacturing using double- and single-twist; rewind and cut lines in all sizes; S/Z lines in various sizes and configurations; taping heads including eccentric and concentric with pancake and bulk pack pads; take-ups and payoffs in all sizes and configurations; and custom equipment solutions Personnel: Mike Marshall, Martin Boyne, Kevin Dancy, Dave Alexander.

RSD Group USA Booth 958 RTD Manufacturing Booth 612 S & E Specialty Polymers Tel. 978-537-8261 www.sespoly.com jmunsey@sespoly.com USA Booth 331

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, MARCH 2015 | 157

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the key role Izory® plays in wiredrawing and can offer solutions to “Keep You Running.” Refractron is ISO 9001 and ITAR certified.

Additional products manufactured include: ceramic/metal assemblies, annealer pins, spooler guides, eyelets, air wipes, wire reeds and idler rollers. Additional departments: precision grind shop, materials testing laboratory.

Personnel: Adam Osekoski, Anthony Natale, Tim Seibert.

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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, highflame retardant plastic compounds.

Personnel: Jay Munsey, Ilia Charlat.

Saco Polymers Inc. Booth 233 Saint-Gobain Booth 664 SAMP USA, Inc. SAMPSISTEMI Tel. 301-223-8584 info@sampinc.com USA/Italy Booth 1328 Exhibiting: The SAMPSISTEMI division of Italy’s SAMP will exhibit several machines representing a broad product range.

The display will include the DM80.2x8.22 (16 wire, 22 die) multiwire with annealer + pay-off/ buncher combination, which will be in operation during the show.

The DM80.2x8.22 represents the latest generation of SAMP multiwire design to improve production versatility, increased output and reduced energy consumption. The displayed line will feature a 22-die draw-box for 16 strands with the AN200M.16.16.3500 annealer. The BM/630-D double-twist buncher is equipped with PLC controls and drives, specifically developed for the North American market and will be combined with the SV800 payoff.

Personnel: Marco Gerardo, Keith Sasso, David Graff, Sandy Scroggs, Tim Walter.

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Schmidt Maschinenbau GmbH Tel. 49-2265-910770 www.schmidt-maschinenbau.com info@schmidt-maschinenbau.com Germany Booth 740 Exhibiting: We focus on high performing (powerful) and extremely flexible machines to guarantee the highest possible product quality.

Our years of experience enable us to design machines that are handled efficiently and with little need for maintenance. The outstanding quality and durability of our machines has long been appreciated by our customers. Our clients operate wiredrawing plants for weaving, knitting, braiding and bunching wires.

We supply manufacturers of cutting wire, heating wire and resistance wire as well as wire for precious metal catalysts, measurement technology and medical purposes. Our supply range encompasses all components of our product line, among them various types of payoff devices, roll-off devices, heat treatment and electroplating plants, drawing machines, spooler with traversing pulleys or traversing spoolers, with automatic spool rim correction, fully automated spool changeover, for a wide range of spool types.

For downstream processes we offer respooling machines for all wires and features, also with a fully automated spool changer, as well as take-ups for annealing processes.

Customized machines are made in close collaboration with our clients.

Customers all over the world trust us as a responsible and professional partner. Our wide range of wet drawing machines for your wires: stainless steel steel (galvanized and brass-coated) and iron copper, brass, bronze nickel, cobalt, niobium, tantalum noble metals, such as platinum, gold and silver. In addition to the well-known cone wire drawing machines (drawing of wire with slippage), we also offer machines for drawing wire without slippage.

Personnel: Holger Junkereit.

Schnell SpA Booth 2152 Schlatter North America Schlatter Industries AG Tel. 815-874-9471 USA/Switzerland Booth 1314 See p. 108!

Exhiting: The company’s will display its new MG950 mesh welder to the North American market. During the week, Schlatter plans to have live demonstrations approximately every 30 minutes. Our service technicians will explain the new features of the machine and how they can save you time and money.

Personnel: Werner Schmidli, Roger Widmer, Michael Foli, Greg Rayson, Ronnie Meiers, Uwe Golla.

Scienscope International Booth 2005 SETIC of America Tel. 336-856-8176 ggi@gaudergroup.com www.gaudergroup.com USA/Belgium Booth 424

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 and special cable with enhanced performances. SETIC is now extending its existing range of 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. It will display a mul-

Shanghai Jiajie Technology Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-21-55232928 www.shjiajie.cn shjjkj@aliyun.com China Booth 1919

Exhibiting: A private company that was set up in 2000, we offer wire rod preparing lines, steel wiredrawing machines, wet drawing machines and production lines with good environmental protection such as: a medium-patenting line, brassing line, a bead wire line with DV 500 and a galvanizing line (electrical coating and hot dip) DV 140, which has among the world’s lowest consumption levels of acid and water.

Shanghai JNL Industry Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-21-66581267 www.alloywirechina.com export@shjnl.com China Booth 316 Exhibiting: Shanghai JNL has over 26 years of production experience and a history of innovation in the alloy industry. We supply: high temperature (up to 1000℃/1830°f) fiber/polyimide and other material insulated thermocouple wire/cable, resistance heating wire/cable, (car seat heating wire), pure nickel, NiCr alloy, CuNi alloy, CuMn alloy wire and strip, enamelled wire and so on.

Our products have been exported to numerous countries. Hope you can enjoy our top quality and best service.

Shanghai Pudong International Exhibition Co. Booth 1512 Shenyang Jinggong Cable Material Co. Ltd. Booth 970

Shaoxing Kaicheng Mica Material Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-575-88047455 www.sxkcym.com kc@zjsxkc.com China Booth 512/01

Exhibiting: Found in 1985, we are a modernized enterprise that produces auxiliary materials for electric wire and cable. We are the most professional Asian producer of resistant mica tape prodution, with the biggest sales volume. Major products are mica tape; non-halgon, low-smoke fire-retardant tape; and polyester tape and the fillings.

Personnel: Zhang.

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China Booth 570 Exhibiting: Shenzhen Ktyu Insulating Co., established in May 2004, specializes in insulating products for cable and wire of our subsidiary company. It is located in the coastal city of Shenzhen, near to Hongkong and Macao, making it very convenient to ship goods via sea all over the world and for quick custom clearance. We own two plants: one in Hubei for mica sheet and one in Dongguan for mica tape.

We import the raw mica from India and Sri Lanka. Our mica tape output is approximately 700 metric tons per year. We supply slitted mica in pads or spools as well as jumbo rolls.

Since 2005, we have supplied some of Europe’s top cable plants, based on our stable quality and service.

That amount keeps rising, with annual mica tape delivery to Europe now around 400 metric tons. Our product lines include: phlogopite mica tape; synthetic mica tape; muscovite calcined mica tape; mica glass roll; and mica sheet (various thicknesses), based on different usage.

Personnel: Lawrance Luo, Janney Chan, Liu Quan.

SIEBE Engineering GmbH Tel. 49-2683-30030 www.siebe.de vkde@siebe.de Germany Booth 1069 See p. 142!

Exhibiting: SIEBE GmbH, founded in 1982, has grown to be one of the leading engineering companies for plastic processing machines. It produces customized extrusion lines for automotive cables, data-communication cables, special cables and plastic-tubes. SIEBE extrusion lines are specially designed to meet the permanently increasing demands of the industry for highest quality, highest productivity and a minimum of production scrap. Also, measurement 160 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

equipment for cables can be offered to the market, e.g. color matching system for cables.

Personnel: Henning Tepe.

SIKORA International Corporation Tel. 770-486-1233 www.sikora.net/ sales@sikora-usa.com USA Booth 812 Exhibiting: SIKORA will showcase innovative measuring, control, inspection and sorting technology for continuous online quality control in the wire, cable and plastic industry. The product range includes X-ray and laser devices for the measurement of diameter, eccentricity, ovality and wall thickness, capacitance measuring devices, spark tester and wire preheater with temperature measurement and control. It also offers lump detectors for the detection of non-conformities on the product surface and devices for monitoring the cleanliness of plastic material and for temperature measurement of PE melts are presented.

At Interwire, SIKORA will introduce the PURITY SCANNER, a system for online inspection and sorting of plastic pellets.

Personnel: John Dognazzi, Susan Lynch, Jhonathan Ruiz, Jeff Terrell, Hien Nguyen, Margie Thacker.

SIMPACKS Tel. 973-402-4098 sales@simpacks.com www.simpacks.com USA Booth 206 Exhibiting: A new dual-head automatic coiler that can coil 18 AWG up to 8 AWG building wire solid or strand. It also can coil flat wire/ cable. This coiler is capable of pro

ducing 6 to 8 coils per minute, 100 m length. Our new automatic coiler + strap + coil holder are available for all your steel wire packaging 22 to 34 kg coil, including 2/4 straps option. Also, a new automatic coiler + strap is available for all your hose/ armor cable packaging solutions, including 2/4 straps on coil.

Personnel: Hernando Blanco, Alejandro Munoz.

Sirio Wire Booth 1358 Sivaco Wire Group Booth 258 Sjogren Industries Tel. 508-987-3206 www.sjogren.com sales@sjogren.com USA Booth 715 Exhibiting: Sjogren Industries has been providing high quality machinery, tooling and accessories to the 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.

Personnel: Ron Garceau, Carl Sjogren, Jim Jolda.

Skaltek Inc. Booth 1900 SKET Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH Tel. 49-39140558 0 www.sketvmb.de/ info@sketvmb.de Germany Booth 712 Exhibiting: SKET will present photos and graphics of its production program of machinery and

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equipment for making cables and ropes. In the center of presentation will be a model of a vertical laying-up machine. This machine is designed for laying up of insulated round conductors to make long-length submarine cables of different constructions. Depending on the cable construction, further elements such as fiber optics, telecommunications or control cables and conductors can be stranded from rotating payoffs and various filler strands from stationary payoffs. As a function of the arrangement of the payoffs, vertical lines of modified design are also suitable for producing umbilicals.

Personnel: Georg Godau, Michel Mösken, Stefan Moritz.

Skyline Industries Booth 624 Sneham International Tel. 91-831-2441847 www.snehamtapes.com info@snehamtapes.com India Booth 702 Exhibiting: Sneham International is India’s leading manufacturer and exporter of cable wrapping tapes, electrical insulation tapes and masking tapes. The company’s state-of-the-art technology and its talented team of professionals make it a premier global player in the cable industry. The company’s businesses are supported by a wide marketing and distribution network, and have established a reputation for strong customer support. We have expertise in manufacturing a complete range of water blocking tapes. Our comprehensive range of product portfolio includes tapes for optic fiber cables, power cables and submarine cables.

Sonoco Reels and Spools Tel. 800-633-3962 www.sonoco.com/reels wcr.sales@sonoco.com USA Booth 432

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Exhibiting: Sonoco will exhibit a full array of reels: new built-in pallets on polyfiber composite reels for easier, safer handling; Reel Tough® plastic reels with lifespan exceeding similar-process reels. From small precision spools for 56 AWG to reel diameters of 288 in., Sonoco has your solution—structural, corrugated or tubular steel, utility, lightweight, durable and recyclable EconoReel plastic spools, nailed wood, polyfiber composite and plywood. Sonoco’s EcoReel® recycling program offers truckload or LTL pickup of viable used reels.

Founded in 1899, Sonoco has reel service centers across North America, design and development resources worldwide and is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index.

Personnel: Fedor Baranov, Allen Bishop, Kendall Deep, David Gluth, Leslie Lawrence, Christine Lovett, Randy Lusk, Tracy Mason, Christy Phillips, Jim Printz, Jeff Stafford, Brooke Stoneseifer, Jay Swetenbur.

Spirka Schnellflechter GmbH Tel. 49-30-549918-0 www.spirka-schnellflechter.com info@spirka-schnellflechter.com Germany Booth 712 Exhibiting: Spirka will exhibit a four-spindle fully automatic winder for copper and steel wires suitable for combination with all the usual payoff systems in cable industry.

Personnel: Harald Baumbach, Torsten Scholz.

STAKU-Anlagenbau Booth 1051 Starrett-Bytewise Tel. 706-323-5142

www.starrett.com/bytewise mwright3@starrett.com USA Booth 1702 Exhibiting: We produce non-contact, in-line measurement solutions that are specialized for profile manufacturing industries. A complete solutions provider, we manufacture line laser sensors, build multi-sensor systems, produce the application software, and provide the sales and service network to assure that you are well supported.

Personnel: Michael Wright, Jim Williams.

Steel Cable Reels LLC Tel. 713-851-5713 www.scrholdings.com npatel@scrholdings.com USA Booth 270 Exhibiting: Part of the Cabrol Group, we offer reel tracking, collection, dismantling and refurbishment services in North and South America. It has a global presence via manufacturing and warehouse locations that allows us to service the cable industry with shipping reels.

Personnel: Nalin Shah, Amit Shah, Nick Patel, Victor Torres.

Stolberger Inc. DBA Wardwell Braiding Co. Tel. 401-724-8800 www.wardwell.com sales@wardwell.com USA/Germany Booth 712

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

Stolberger KMB-Maschinenfabrik Tel.: 49-2472-8080 www.stolberger.com info@stolberger.com Germany Booth 1506 Exhibiting: Stolberger KMB will exhibit large pictures of delivered machines to the cable and rope industry and video of operating lines.

Further details can be provided about the company’s range of different

delivered lines for special applications such as power transmission, steel rope applications and other fields. Visit www.stolberger.com for further information about all available equipment.

Personnel: Willibert, Dautzenberg Bastian Sommer.

Strecker GmbH & Co. KG Tel. 203-481-5555 www.streckerusa.com sales@strecker-limburg.de USA/Germany Booth 906

Exhibiting: For over 75 years, August Strecker GmbH has been a specialist in the development and production of butt welding machines for almost any wire and cable inudstry applicationry. Our product range includes machines for butt welding

solid wires, flat conductors, rings, chain links, stranded wires and conductors as well as special parts. This includes: mechanical butt welders for wire; pneumatic butt welders individual part manufacturing and for series production of special parts; hydraulic butt welders with automatic deflashing for wire and cable, including special applications with very high demands on weld quality and reproducibility; stranded wire welders and tongs for cable; steel cable welders for steel cable production or processing industries; steel cord welders and tongs for automotive tire manufacturers; cold welding systems for wire; and special machines as well as customer-specific solutions.

Personnel: Michael Stock, Brian Davi, Thomas Madelung, Gareth Smith.

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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 problem solving.

Please visit our booth to see our Rapid Braider, which is equipped with new features, a four-spindle automatic winder with static payoff.

Personnel: John Tomaz.

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www.subec.com info@subec.com Sweden Booth 2136

Exhibiting: SUBEC AB’s guide rollers, offshore roller crosses, guides, wire straighteners, pulleys, ceramics, payoff stands, length counters, caterpullers, brakes, pre- and postformers. It will showcase a pneumatic suspended Iris rollercross with centric opening and pneumatic suspension that is available in various sizes. With extensive experience as a quality manufacturer, Subec offers a wide range of equipment and solutions for handling of products in the cable, hose, rope, steel, tube, wire and offshore industries. A well proven product range can be supplied from stock.

Subec produces to a client’s specific requirements, which results in around 500 new products each year.

Personnel: Horst Schneider, Stefan Germer, Rick Amaral, Tom Shoup.

conductive properties, flame and oil resistance and improved low temperature flexibility. Bio-based, non phthalate products are available as eco-friendly alternatives to traditional vinyl compounds. Our on-site laboratory has developed insulating and jacketing compounds for a variety of applications including automotive wire, speaker wire, blasting wire, booster cable and flexible cords. We are a trusted partner that will deliver excellent technical expertise, high quality materials that process consistently and superior customer service.

Personnel: Chris O’Connell, Doug Eby, Dick Wilpers, Mike McCloskey.

T & T Marketing, Inc. Tel. 800-608-1577 www.ttmarketinginc.com info@ttmarketinginc.com USA Booth 1064

Sudhir Enterprises Booth 624 Sylvin Technologies, Inc. Tel. 800-462-4781 www.sylvin.com info@sylvin.com USA Booth 129

Exhibiting: Sylvin Technologies is a leading manufacturer of custom flexible vinyl and vinyl alloy compounds developed to meet your specific requirements. Our diverse product portfolio includes RoHS, REACH and Prop 65 compliant compounds for the wire and cable and electrical markets. Several grades are UL and CSA recognized and numerous specialty grades have been developed for enhanced

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Exhibiting: T & T Marketing supplies wire and cable manufacturers with everything from bare copper to shielding, filling, insulating and jacketing products. As a result of two new supplier partnerships, T & T has added EVA, moisture curable EPR, and thermoplastic CPE jackets to its portfolio. In addition, T & T is introducing two new compounds from its own compounding line: EXP 5595 LSZH, a low-smoke, zero-halogen flame retardant thermoplastic elastomer, and EXP 5187 LSZH, an oil-resistant, low-smoke, zero-halogen flexible flame retardant thermoplastic vulcanizate.

Talladega Castings & Machine Co. Booth 136 Tantec EST, Inc. Tel. 630-351-1320

www.tantec.com usa@tantec.com USA/Denmark Booth 1908 See p. 114!

Exhibiting: Our plasma and corona treatment technologies are cost effective and easily integrated in existing production lines, providing fast treatment time. The technologies do not damage the material and offer manufacturers an eco-friendly solution.

At Tantec, we develop both standard and customized plasma and corona surface treatment systems. Our core competence is treatment of 3D parts and our systems are developed to meet high quality requirements of even and uniform treatment. We help our customers choose the most suitable surface treatment system for their product and production line. Our parent company, Tantec A/S, based in Denmark, is an ISO 9001 certified supplier.

Personnel: Jeff Gradus, Ray Mark.

Tape Formers/RG Attachments Booth 1602 Taubensee Steel & Wire Company Tel. 847-459-5100 www.taubensee.com Contact@taubensee.com USA Booth 749

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-inclass 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-

Taymer International Inc. Tel. 905-479-2614 www.taymer.com info@taymer.com USA Booth 849 Exhibiting: Taymer International has more than 40 years’ experience designing and building machines for the wire and cable industry. The SI3100 Surface Inspector detects surface defects 360 degrees around your cable surface and also provides dimensional measurements for lines up to 400 meters per minute. The PV1400 Print Verification system will automatically verify the print quality. Taymer’s hot foil printers are used in the wire and cable industry to produce a clear, bright

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cut wire, and cold-drawn bar needs.

Come visit our booth to find out more.

Personnel: Nancy Taubensee, Casey Bouton, Nathan Hill, Ed Parcell, David Westerbeck, Bill Smith, Brett Sarver.

legend with a very accurate sequential cable length measurement mark in meters or feet. To learn more about Taymer’s products and services, visit Taymer.com.

Personnel: Craig Girdwood, Oricia Tucci, Andrew McCloskey, Zach Franklin.

Tecnofil SA Booth 234 Tecnofil SpA Booth 159 TECVIL Booth 120 Teknikor Booth 1066 Teknor Apex Tel. 401-725-8000 www.teknorapex.com wirecable@teknorspex.com USA Booth 212

Exhibiting: New vinyl elastomer cable jacketing compounds will be introduced at Interwire 2015 that withstand harsh industrial environments such as those in mining and oil drilling. The compounds are the latest additions to the Flexalloy® range, which consists of proprietary formulations that provide the elasticity and low-temperature toughness of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs), plus PVC benefits like flame retardancy. Flexalloy 9616-94 is a high-hardness elastomer that provides crush and impact resis-

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tance and UV stability for uses like mining cable, and flame retardance for applications such as industrial Ethernet networks. Flexalloy 9617-79 can be used for oil drilling and chemical environments.

It contains a specialty plasticizer that—combined with the high-molecular-weight PVC polymer on which Flexalloy compounds are based—provides excellent resistance to oils and chemicals. The 79 Shore A compound has a maximum continuous operating temperature rating of 105°C and oxygen index of 35%. Flexalloy 9616-94 is a high-hardncialty plasticizer that— combined with the high-molecular-weight PVC polymer on which Flexalloy compounds are based— provides excellent resistance to oils and chemicals. The Vinyl Division of Teknor Apex Company supplies the wire and cable industry with RoHS and REACH-compliant, UL-Recognized Apex® flexible and semi-rigid PVC, Fireguard® plenum compounds, Flexalloy® UHMWPVC elastomers, Halguard® low smoke halogen-free FR compounds, and Vidux® and Polydux® conductive compounds.

Personnel: Mike Patel, David Braun, Chuck Hoover, Rod Fischer Tensor Machinery Ltd. Tel. 514-636-3121 www.tensorfiber.com headoffice@tensorfiber.com USA Booth 1750 Exhibiting: Tensor Machinery manufactures cable making equipment for both fiber optic and copper cables. We custom build complete lines and also have standard equipment to build your particular cable.

Our equipment includes UV coloring, SZ stranding, armoring, yarn serving and jacketing of both indoor and outdoor cables. At Interwire, we will have brochures and videos describing our latest designs. Stop by our booth for a visit.

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Personnel: George Kepes, Ken Luterbach, Raymond Coe, Ellis Weatherford.

Thermcraft Inc. Booth 1902 Thermoplastics Engineering Corp.

Booth 2116 Tien Chen Diamond Industry Co., Ltd. Booth 206 Top Tapes (TT Okroglica DD) Booth 123 Trafco Cortinovis Sictra www.cortinovissictra.com info@cortinovissictra.com Italy Booth 2156 Exhibiting: Trafco has long been in the wire and cable machinery business. Joining the experiences and knowledge of Cortinovis Sictra with ours, we offer to our customers a portfolio of products ranging from Sictra equipment for drawing copper and aluminium wire to state-of-the-art Cortinovis equipment for stranding, laying up and armoring power and telecom cables as well as steel ropes and, for lower budget investors, Trafco’s refurbished second-hand western equipment.

Personnel: Andrea Camparada, Diego Pagliarello.

Tramev Booth 1932 Traxit North America Tel. 901-366-8525 www.traxitna.com USA/Germany Booth 349 Exhibiting: Traxit North America is part of Germany’s Traxit International GmbH, a leading lubricant supplier for the wire drawing and rolling industry. Traxit North America offers a wide range of calcium and sodium based lubricants for all wire drawing applications.

Products are locally manufactured or imported from Germany. Traxit also offers a full range of dry-drawing lubricant products completely free of borax and all boron compounds. These innovative and superior products, which are better than traditional boron-containing products offer longer die life, higher drawing speeds, reduced wire breaks, reduced drawing temperatures and less moisture pick up.

Personnel: Hubertus Damm, Jack DeSario, Kyle Wood, Ryan Byrnes, Yvette Evans.

TROESTER GmbH & Co. KG Tel. 49-5118-7040 www.troester.de info@troester.de Germany Booth 1067

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Exhibiting: TROESTER, a supplier of machines and lines for the cable manufacturing industry, will present a variety of information and new developments in the field of CCV lines and VCV lines for XLPE and rubber cables, one step silane lines for LV and MV cable applications, as well as high speed insulation lines and sheathing lines. Technical solutions for CV tube components, heavy duty cable jacketing and submarine cable equipment will be introduced. TROESTER also represents its subsidiary, X-Compound, which supplies compounding plants for cable compounds such as PVC, HFFR, XLPE, semi-conductive material and special applications.

Personnel: Thomas Lerch, Jack Howanski.

Tubular Products, Co. Booth 1550 Tulsa Power Tel. 918-584-1000

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Exhibiting: Tulsa Power, a 40+ year veteran of manufacturing, is a leading wire and cable handling equipment manufacturer. Tulsa Power designs and builds a wide range of material-handling equipment that includes payoffs, takeups, accumulators, cabling lines, linear measurers, caterpullers, coilers, rewind/test lines, concentric and eccentric taping lines, spiral striping machines and many specialty items. It will display an ACT-26, an automatic cut-and-transfer spooler allowing for continuous operation whether as either a take-up on an extrusion line or a rewind applica-

tion. Please visit www.tulsapower. com and stop by our booth to see how Tulsa Power can maximze your applications.

Personnel: Mike Spence, Jim Miller, Tim McElhany.

Ultimate Automation, Ltd. Tel. 44-1403-711043 www.ultimat.com sales@ultimat.com U.K. Booth 458 Exhibiting: Ultimat will be displaying the company’s latest version of its ULTIMAT UMW-100, 2D wire forming and welding machine, which incorporates faster drives and control systems. The UMW can be combined with the UCW-100 model to create an integrated forming and welding cell for the production of shelving products. The frames are produced on the UMW-100 and then transferred into the UCW-100,

where the frame support/brace wire is fed direct from coil, and welded into the frame. Ultimat has a machine to suit everyone’s requirement from the manufacture of POP displays, lampshades, supermarket shelving and automotive components, etc.

Personnel: Martin Smith, John Manning.

United Wire Co., Inc. Tel. 800-840-9481 www.unitedwirecompany.com bob@unitedwirecompany.com USA Booth 252

Exhibiting: Located in North Haven Connecticut, United Wire Co., is a

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third-generation family business that specializes in manufacturing flat, square and shaped wire in copper bases, carbon steels, nickel bases, and stainless steels.

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

Unitek Crossheads/HOWAR Equipment Tel. 905-669-4010 www.unitek.at sales@howarequipment.com Austria/Canada Booth 1320

Vandor Corp.

Booth 449 Vinston US Corp.

Booth 564 Vitari (See Eurolls...and p. 124!)

Vollmer America, Inc. Tel. 860-824-5157 www.vollmeramerica.com USA Booth 350 Exhibiting: We sell and support wire measuring equipment for square, rectangular and profilded wire. SPC control systems and FFT analysis is available. vom Hagen & Funke (See Hagen & Funke.)

Exhibiting: UNITEK will be exhibiting its high precision/high concentricity fixed-center single and multi-layer crossheads for thermoplastic and fluoropolymer thermoplastic materials. The high precision 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 in.) 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 for efficient purging of material and changing of product.

This keeps the head clean during tool changes.

Personnel: Bernd Klein, Markus Vizral, Michael Gromko.

Uniwire Trading LLC Booth 151 Upcast OY Booth 1856

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WAFIOS Machinery Corporation Tel. 203-481-5555 www.wafios.us sales@wafios.us USA/Germany Booth 906

W. Gillies Technologies LLC (See Gillies Technologies.)

W3 Ultrasonics LLC Tel. 330-284-3667 www.w3ultrasonics.com info@w3sonics.com USA Booth 451

Exhibiting: Process developers and manufacturers of cleaning equipment, particularly in continuous production environments such as wire, rod, strip, tube, fasteners, springs, extrusions, etc. We determine the correct cleaning process and design our systems around that process. Our specialty is ultrasonic cleaning, however, we use any method, or combination thereof, necessary to achieve your desired cleaning result. Our extensive experience allows us to quickly determine the best process for your specific application. Stop by and discuss your cleaning problem, new application or repair or replacement of your transducers and generators.

Personnel: Scott Miller, Frank Koontz, Randy Woodall.

Exhibiting: WAFIOS will exhibit the fast, flexible and efficient B 3 CNC coiling and bending machine for the production of 3D wire parts (.079 - .157 in. working range). The B 3 will be producing a broad range of complex bent wire forms while demonstrating: high flexibility and safety due to reliable and tested tool concept; simple handling of wire, from feed unit up to bending head; safe and simple operation with the company’s user-friendly WPS 3 programming system; and enhanced efficiency through intelligent process and quality control using iQ Functions We invite you to our booth where you can meet our experts and share your applications.

Personnel: Thomas Madelung, Gareth Smith, Brian Davi.

Wardwell Braiding Co. (See Stolberger Inc.) WCISA Wire and Cable Industry Suppliers Association Tel. 330-864-2122 www.wcisaonline.org info@wcisaonline.org USA Booth 235 Exhibiting: The Wire and Cable ® Industry Suppliers Association ® (WCISA ) is a nonprofit corporate membership association with approximately 90 North American suppliers of machinery, materials and accessories used for making all types of wire and cable. Members are based in or have an established subsidiary in North America.

WCISA’s mission is to promote its

Weber & Scher Mfg., Co., Inc. USA Booth 1731 Tel. 908-236-8484 webscher@webscher.com USA Booth 1731 See p. 110!

Exhibiting: At Interwire 2015, Weber & Scher will celebrate its 100 year anniversary. Companies do not attain the century mark unless they are very good at providing quality products and serving their customers well, and that’s what Weber & Scher has done, and what it will continue to do. You are most welcome to stop by and chat with CEO William Scher (2nd generation) and President Gregory Scher (3rd generation) about how the company has evolved since it was started in 1915 by George Scher. We’ll have images from past decades as well as updates on our latest technological advances.

Our product lines include metal shielding/armoring tape handling and splicing equipment as well as longitudinal forming equipment for smooth and corrugated metal tape.

Today, we are a leading supplier

of core wrap tape handling and applicating equipment; concentric and eccentric binding and taping machines, 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 payoffs/take-ups. We’ve also become the leading supplier of welded metal tape sheathing systems (see photo). Our unique inductoweld and gatweld technology and systems are used for continuous seam welded metal tape sheathing of power cables as well as coaxial cables, RF cables

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members’ products and services by providing them with representation, networking/social opportunities and services at wire and cable trade events and conferences. WCISA is active, both as an exhibitor and supporter, in global wire and cable trade events and conferences.

Personnel: Mike McNulty.

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and optical fiber cables. Corrugating systems are available for imparting either a helical or annular corrugation in the welded metal sheath.

Personnel: William Scher, Gregory Scher.

Windak Inc./Windak Group Tel. 828-322-2292 www.windakgroup.com infoamericas@windakgroup.com USA/Sweden Booth 1940

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. At Interwire 2015, Windak will introduce our SW6-14, a dualhead spooler developed for fully automatic packaging of cable and wire products onto spools between 165 mm (6.5 in.) and 360 mm (14 in.) in overall diameter.

Personnel: Staffan Edström, Urban Bollö.

Wire & Cable ASIA (See EuroWire.)

Wire & Cable Technology International Tel. 330-864-2122 www.wiretech.com info@wiretech.com USA Booth 235 Exhibiting: Published in print and digital formats six times per year, Wire & Cable Technology International (WCTI) is a technical magazine for manufacturers, processors, distributors and users of all types of electrical, communication and mechanical wire and cable. WCTI includes a special section called Wire Harness & Cable Connector (WHCC) for the wire processing sector.

Readers are located in more than 100 countries.

Personnel: Chip Lippincott, Tom Hutchinson, Mike Dies, Mike McNulty.

Wire Association International www.wirenet.org info@wirenet.org USA Show floor

Exhibiting: Info and a floor plan for WAI Operations Summit & Wire

Brighten your product’s future with better cleaning Continuous products, continuous parts and batch processing—We Do Them All !

Contact us at: w3ultrasonics.com or info@w3sonics.com Call us at (330) 284-3667 See us at InterWire booth #451

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Expo, June 8-9, 2016, Mohegan Sun Resort Center, Uncasville, Connecticut, USA. Also, the Association’s publications, products and services, including WJI; the WJI 2016 Reference Guide; WIRE BULLETIN; technical books, reports, WAI membership, chapter network and more.

Personnel: Janice Swindells, Marc Murray, Chuck Szymaszek. wire Düsseldorf 2016/Messe Düsseldorf North America www.mdna.com info@mdna.com USA Booth 1001

Exhibiting: Exhibitor and visitor information for Messe Düsseldorf’s worldwide program of international wire and cable trade shows, including wire Düsseldorf 2016, wire Southeast Asia 2015, wire Russia 2015 and wire South America 2015.

Wire Forming Technology International Tel. 330-864-2122 www.wireformingtech.com info@wireformingtech.com USA Booth 235 Exhibiting: Wire Forming Technology International (WFTI) is a quarterly publication covering the manufacture of springs, wire formed parts, wire mesh and rebar products and the materials, tooling, machinery and control systems for making those parts. Readers are located in more than 70 countries.

Personnel: Chip Lippincott, Tom Hutchinson, Mike McNulty.

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: Rob Fulop, Jeff Bryda.

Wire Machine Systems, Inc. Booth 1052 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp.

Tel. 860-583-4646 www.wireandplastic.com info@wireandplastic.com USA Booth 1040

Exhibiting: Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp. is a global equipment supplier offering high quality solutions for wire, cable, and optical fiber manufacturing. The company will feature an interactive

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Wire Lab Company Tel. 216-362-0800 www.wirelab.com e-mail@wirelab.com USA Booth 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 models are available, from the most basic and economical WILCO Model 920 Air Jet Descaling System to the complete WILCO Model 1250-DB 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.

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presentation of its 30,000+ machine inventory items. Since 1981, Wire & Plastic has assisted clients by providing secondhand or rebuilt machinery for wire drawing, stranding, bunching, cabling, braiding, extrusion and other cable making needs. Experienced sales and engineering personnel will be available to assist with any equipment needs. Web-enabled workstations will also be provided for access to a live product search with detailed photographs and specifications.

Personnel: Rick Narang, Rahul Sachdev, Greg Malcervelli, Denis Godin, Rishi Narang, Eshan Narang.

Wire World Booth 2114

wiredInUSA (See EuroWire.)

Wirex Dies and Steels India Pvt. Ltd. Tel. 91-9991100593 www.wirex.in sales@wirex.in India Booth 143

Exhibiting: WIREX is one of the biggest semi-finished and finished die manufacturing companies based in North India. It produces natural diamond dies, PCD Dies, mono diamond dies, TC carbide wiredrawing dies in all shapes and sizes. Also, enamelling dies, extrusion tools, compacting dies, TC die re-conditioning machines,

ultrasonic cleaners and polishing machines, thermal spray ceramic-coated pulleys, buncher bow guides, diamond files, diamond paste and powder, and many more products. Our product quality has been accepted by many major companies in North, Central and South America, Europe, Middle East, South East Asia, Africa and in India. We offer competitive pricing.

Personnel: Hitesh Garg.

WiTechs Booth 1358 Witels Albert USA Ltd. Tel. 410-228-8383 www.witels-albert-usa.com info@witels-albert-usa.com US/Germany Booth 1812

Visit our stand #711 at Interwire 2015 Exhibiting: Witels Albert USA will be presenting both new and field-proven solutions from its range of straightener, roll, guide, feed and pre-former products. The company will turn the spotlight onto engineering solutions for straightening applications and the feeding of process materials. Visitors to the stand can see the new products in action and find out how good they really are. The show also gives visitors the opportunity to learn more about the latest clever ideas from the world of wire, tube, rope and cable production and to familiarize themselves with the services and what our website has to offer.

Personnel: Bob Flower.

Woodburn Diamond Die, Inc. Tel. 260-632-4217 info@woodburndd.com USA Booth 705 Exhibiting: The company’s wide range of dies and related products and related products.

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Exhibiting: Worth Steel and Machinery is a steel wire and cold finished bar supplier near Chicago.

Worth stocks low-carbon wire in bright basic, galvanized, and annealed. We also stock carbon alloy cold finished bar in 1018, 12L14, and 1215, with many other alloys available. Size range on Cold Finished Bar from 5/32 in. to 1 3/16 in. Wire sizes range from .062 in. to .625 in. Worth also sells used wire fabricating equipment,

and is an ISO 9001 registered company.

Personnel: Robert Bender, Jim DeGrado, Ike Baya.

Woywod Kunststoffmaschinen GmbH & Co Vertriebs KG Booth 2111 WTM Srl Tel. 39-049-8705566 www.wtmachinery.com sales@wtmachinery.com Italy Booth 571

Exhibiting: High precision fast taping unit suitable for extra sensitive

tapes. This unit is equipped with the WTM’s optical quality control VISIO System. Taping and wrapping systems are available for any other kind of applications of tapes and yarns. WTM also offers single and multi-wires sintering, curing, sealing systems to work standalone or in-line with other equipment; single twisting lines equipped with concentric back-twist feeders for high performances cables; mechanical testing machines for torsion and bending of cables; and many other types of ancillary equipment for the cable industry.

Personnel: Nicola Spessato, Aldo Zanirato.

Wuxi Xingcheng Walsin Steel Products Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-510-83552530 www.xcwalsin.cn annabelxu@xcwalsin.com

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ISO9001 April 28–30 23–25 REGISTERED Atlanta, GA

Booth 124 332 DESIGNERS & MANUFACTURERS OF PAYOFF & TENSION CONTROL EQUIPMENT FOR WIRE & CABLE

ISO9001

Wyrepak Industries has long recognized the value of making a quality product — cost-effective manufacturing applications, backed by a solid guarantee and excellent customer service — Wyrepak has it all!

REGISTERED

For more details on any of our manufacturing product solutions, call us at 800-972-9222 or email sales@wyrepak.com WYREPAK INDUSTRIES — A Huestis Industrial Company • www.WYREPAK.com

68 Buttonwood Street, Bristol, Rhode Island 02809-0718 USA • tel: 800.972.9222 or 401.253.5500 fax: 401.253.7350 2C_WYREPAKHuestis_LongRecognizedValue_WJI_halfHoriz_v9_02112015_PICset1_VariousCOMBOS_press.indd 1

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Worth Steel and Machinery, Inc. Tel. 708-388-6300 www.worthsteel.com rbender@worthsteel.com USA Booth 459

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China Booth 412/04

Exhibiting: Wuxi Xingcheng & Walsin Lihua Steel Co., Ltd. is jointly established by Xingcheng Special Steel Ltd., a subsidiary under CITIC PaciďŹ c Special Steel Holdings, and Taiwan Walsin Lihua Corp., with the total investment of RMB 650,000,000. It covers an area of 280 acres with a total staff of 700. It is specialized in R&D and production of stainless steel wire rod, stainless steel wire and stainless steel bar. The company annually produces 200,000 tons of stainless steel rod, 25,000 tons of

stainless steel bar and 36,000 tons of stainless steel wire. Annual sales will exceed RMB 4 billion.

Personnel: Annabel Xu. Yangzhou Yalong Cable Sample Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-514-83839818 www.cablesample.com export@cablesample.com China Booth 512/04

Exhibiting: We are a professional manufacturer and exporter that is concerned with the design, development and production of cable samples.

Personnel: Lu Jinglong.

Yield Management Corp.

Booth 2144 Zhangjiagang Greenshine Electronics Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-512-58163220 www.jscca.com China Booth 412/02

Exhibiting: Zhangjiagang Greenshine Electronics engages in developing, manufacturing and sales of composite bimetallic wire. Its main products include: Copper Clad Aluminum (CCA) wire, CCS wire and silver-plated copper wire.

Personnel: Amy Lee.

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one listed as the top 500 of Chinese chemical enterprises in the industry.

In 2008, we were recognized as a high-tech enterprise in Zhejiang Province, and the first one to implement the innovative concept of green technology in the cable industry.

Personnel: Mr. Roger.

Zumbach Electronics Corp.

Tel. 914-241-7980 www.zumbach.com USA/Switzerland Booth 1540

Zhejiang Wanma Macromolecule Material Co., Ltd. (Wanma) Tel. 86-571-63755318 www.wanma-mm.cn wm_export@wanmagroup.com China Booth 966

Exhibiting: We have been praised as a large national enterprise, among the top 500 in Chinese manufacturing. In the field of cable insulation material, the production and sales of Wanma ranks first continuously in domestic market. Wanma is the only

Exhibiting: Zumbach will showcase its extensive portfolio of dimensional measurement and inspection systems for wire drawing, wire insulating and cable jacketing processes as well as for rod and bar mills. To achieve the highest precision and best price-performance ratio, different technologies such as laser scanning, X-ray, ultrasound, light-section technique and linear sensor technology are used. Its display will include new developments of 3-axis laser diameter heads of

the famous ODAC® family for diameters down to 0.6 mm), DVO 2 and DVW 1 oscillating devices for ODAC gauges, MSD diameter and ovality gauges with novel linear sensor technology, ODEX combined diameter and eccentric® ity measuring system, CAPAC for in-line capacitance measurement and FFT/SRL analysis; UMAC® WALLMASTER in-line ultrasonic measuring and control system for concentricity and ® wall thickness; RAYEX X-Ray measuring system for diameter/ ovality, wall thickness and concentricity for CV power cable applications, WST preheaters and the AUTAC temperature control system. The newly developed AC and DC SPARK TESTER solutions and modular USYS IPCE data acquisition and processing systems will also be on display.

For hot and cold rolling mill applications, the revolutionary, rotating STEELMASTER SMR will be presented. SIMAC® 63 for in-line surface inspection with Machine Vison, KW TRIO fault detectors for lumps and neckdowns for smallest products and ® PROFILEMASTER PMM 30 for in-line profile measurement of shaped wire complement the wide product line.

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Zhejiang Jinping Wire Drawing Die Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-573-85600635 www.jinpingwiredie.com jinping@jinpingwiredie.com China Booth 306 Exhibiting: A private manufacturing company, we are one of the largest producers and suppliers of wire dies in China. We specialize in the manufacture of PCD dies, mono diamond dies, natural diamond dies, extrusion tips and dies, enamelling dies and TC dies, etc.

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products Exhibitors’ product directory Adhesives Baicheng Fujia Tech Co, Ltd 512/10

Air Wipes Amaral Automation Associates.2136 Cable Consultants Corp. . . . . . . .140 Clinton Instrument Company . . .901 Davis-Standard, LLC . . . . . . . . .1350 Esteves Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .806 FIB Belgium SA . . . . . . . . . . . .1358 Guill Tool & Engineering . . . . . .211 v. Hagen & Funke GmbH . . . . .1351 KEIR Manufacturing, Inc . . . . . .703 MGS Manufacturing, Inc. . . . . .1032 Refractron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302

Aluminum and Al Alloys BWE Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157 Phifer Incorporated . . . . . . . . . . .450 REDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .740 Zhangjiagang Greenshine . . . 412/02

Aluminum Wire Mfg. Phifer Incorporated . . . . . . . . . . .450 REDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .740 Jiangsu Xinglong Metal . . . . 412/06

Annealing Atmospheres/Eqpt Bloom Engineering . . . . . . . . . . .601 CM Furnaces, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . .654 EBNER Furnaces, Inc.. . . . . . . . .620 Enercon Industries . . . . . . . . . . .1816 Engineered Machinery Group .....218 FIB Belgium SA . . . . . . . . . . . .1358 Filtertech, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1049 Henrich GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1506 ICE Wire Line Equipment Inc .1063 Lint Top Cable Tech Co . . . 912/03 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc. . . . . .139 Mario Frigerio/Frigeco . . . . . . .1379 Niehoff Endex North America . .740 QED Wire Lines Inc . . . . . . . . . .952 Queins Machines GmbH . . . . . .1506 RAD-CON, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .457 Radyne Corporation . . . . . . . . . .1912 SAMP USA, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . .1328 Shanghai Jiajie Technology . . .1919 Shanghai JNL Industry Co . . . . .316 Thermcraft, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . .1902

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Assembly Systems Thermcraf Foerster Instruments Inc . . . . . .1814 Leggett & Platt Wire Group . . . .440 OMCG NA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1050

Associations /Rep. Bodies International Wire & Machinery Association/IWMA. . . . . . . . . . .602 WCISA®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235 WAI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Show floor

Automation Equipment AIM Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1014 All Wire Forming Machinery . . 770 Bohl/H Bohl North America . . . .161 Cimteq Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2019 Clifford Welding Systems . . . .1723 Conoptica AS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .870 Custom Machining & Fabrication, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . .770 Finoptics, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1801 Hall Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1032 IDEAL Welding Systems LP . .1024 Integrated Control Tech . . . . . . .1660 Jouhsen Bundgens Machinery. . .232 LORS Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . .119 LUKAS Anlagenbau GmbH . . . .116 MGS Manufacturing, Inc. . . . . .1032 NDC Technologies/Beta

LaserMike Products . . . . . . . . . .631 Northampton Machinery . . . . . .1032 OMCG SpA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1050 P/A Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119 Pioneer Machinery Co Ltd . . . . .206 Plas-Ties, Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112 Progress Maschinen & Automation AG . . . . . . . . . . . . .153 Progressive Machinery Inc . . . . .724 Promostar Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .452 Rosendahl Maschinen GmbH . . .640 Schlatter Industries AG/Schlatter North America .........................1314 Sikora International Corp . . . . . .812 SIMPACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Tantec Est, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1908 Taymer International Inc . . . . . . .849 Teknikor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1066 Tulsa Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1950 Unitek Crossheads . . . . . . . . . . .1320 Windak Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1940 Yield Management Corp . . . . . .2144 ZT Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1959

Belting for Machinery Hariton Machinery Co., Inc. . . . .147 Kieselstein Group GmbH . . . . .1051 Rainbow Rubber & Plastics, Inc 1649

Cometo snc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1932 Lesmo Machinery America. . . . 1932

Bolt and Nut Making Machinery Hariton Machinery Co, Inc. . . . . 147 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc. . . . . . 139

Bolt Mfg P/A Industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Braiding and Weaving Anbao............................................753 Commission Brokers Inc. . . . . . . 717 Fine International Corporation . . 332 International Wire Group. . . . . . . 240 Lloyd & Bouvier Inc. . . . . . . . . 1832 Niehoff Endex North America . . 740 Progressive Machinery Inc . . . . . 724 Spirka Schnellflechter GmbH. . . 712 Stolberger Inc. DBA Wardwell . 712

Bunchers - Bows Bow Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . 424 Caballe SA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 Cemanco LC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .606 Frontier Composites and Castings. 215 Gauder Group, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 424 KEIR Manufacturing, Inc. . . . . . 703 Lesmo Machinery America. . . . 1932 MGS Manufacturing Inc. . . . . . 1032 Niagara Composites Ind Inc. . . . 724 Niehoff Endex North America . . 740 Northampton Machinery. . . . . . 1032 POURTIER of America . . . . . . . 424 SETIC of America. . . . . . . . . . . . 424 SKET GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712 Wire Machine Systems. . . . . . . 1052

Bunchers - Machinery Ceeco Bartell Products. . . . . . . .1351 Commission Brokers Inc. . . . . . . 717 Dynamex Corporation. . . . . . . . 1911 Enshiang Machinery Enterprise Co, Ltd.......................666 Fine International Corporation . . 332 Flymca & Flyro. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1907 Gauder Group, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 424 Hall Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032 Jiangsu Handing Machinery . . 912/01 Kinrei of America . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 Lesmo Machinery America. . . . 1932

Lloyd & Bouvier Inc.. . . . . . . . . 1832 Magnetic Technologies Ltd. . . . . 612 Mario Frigerio/Frigeco . . . . . . . 1379 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc. . . . . . 139 MGS Group/MGS . . . . . . . . . . . 1032 MGS Manufacturing, Inc. . . . . . 1032 Niehoff Endex North America . . 740 Northampton Machinery . . . . . 1032 Pioneer Machinery Co Ltd . . . . . 206 Plas-Ties, Co.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 POURTIER of America . . . . . . . 424 Progressive Machinery Inc . . . . . 724 QUEINS Machines GmbH. . . . 1506 Roteq Machinery Inc. . . . . . . . . 2032 SAMP USA, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328 SETIC of America. . . . . . . . . . . . 424 Stolberger KMB GmbH . . . . . . . 712 Tensor Machinery Ltd. . . . . . . . 1750 Thermoplastics Eng Corp...........2116 Wire Machine Systems. . . . . . . 1052 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1040 WTM Srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Cable Accessories Axjo America Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . 1940 Bojin Cable Drum Man . . . . . 912/04 Cable Consultants Corp. . . . . . . . 140 Custom Machining & Fabrication, LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . 770 Domeks Makine. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1340 ELCo Enterprises (Wire Wizard). 765 GMP Slovakia sro. . . . . . . . . . . . 758 Golden Technologies . . . . . . . 91206 v Hagen & Funke GmbH . . . . . 1351 Plas-Ties, Co.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Precision Die Technologies . . . 402 Shaoxing Kaichen Mica . . . . . 51201 Sonoco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432 Taymer International Inc. . . . . . . 849 Zhejiang Wanma Macromolecule Material Co, Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . 966 Yangzhou Yalong Cable Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . 512/04

Cable Color Concentrates Breen Color Concentrates. . . . . . 250 Holland Colours America Inc. . 1916 Teknor Apex Company. . . . . . . . 212

Cable Jacket Strippers Anhui Herrman Machinery Technology Co Ltd . . . . . . . . 912/04 Cable Consultants Corp. . . . . . . . 140 Golden Technologies . . . . . . . 91206

H Folke Sandelin AB (HFSAB). 740 Huestis Industrial. . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 iiM AG measurement + . . . . . . . 872 Zhejiang Wanma . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966 Witels Albert USA Ltd. . . . . . . 1812

Chain Making Machinery Gavlick Machinery Corp. . . . . . 1053 Vitari SpA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .858 WAFIOS Machinery Corp . . . . . 906

Chemicals and Coatings Aztech Lubricants LLC. . . . . . . . 964 Bechem Lubrication Technology, LLC. . . . . . . . . . . 1706 Boockmann Engineering GmbH. 264 Blachford Corporation. . . . . . . . . 406 Candor Sweden AB. . . . . . . . . . . 624 Chemetall, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 Condat/Condat Corporation. . . . 1650 Gem Gravure Company Inc . . . . 706 Heatbath Corporation. . . . . . . . . 2012 ICE Wire Line Equipment Inc . 1063 Lubrimetal corporation . . . . . . . 1956 Metalloid Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2016 Parkway-Kew Corp (PKC). . . . 1057 QED Wire Lines Inc . . . . . . . . . . 952 RichardsApex, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 540 Traxit North America, LLC. . . . . 349

Cleaning and Plating Chemicals/Systems Aztech Lubricants LLC. . . . . . . . 964 Bechem Lubrication Technology, LLC. . . . . . . . . . . 1706 Boockmann Engineering GmbH. 264 Blachford Corporation. . . . . . . . . 406 Cable Consultants Corp. . . . . . . 1024 Candor Sweden AB. . . . . . . . . . . 624 Chemetall, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 Condat/Condat Corporation. . . . 1650 FIB Belgium SA . . . . . . . . . . . . 1358 Gem Gravure Company Inc . . . . 706 Heatbath Corporation. . . . . . . . . 2012 Houghton International. . . . . . . 1810 HOWAR Equipment Inc. . . . . . 1320 ICE Wire Line Equipment Inc . 1063 Jiangsu Sunlit Equipment . . . . . . 217 Lubrimetal Corporation. . . . . . . 1956 Metalloid Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2016 Morgan-Koch Corporation . . . . 1358 OM FrigerioSrl/HOWAR. . . . . 1320 Otomec Srl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1932 Parkway-Kew Corp (PKC). . . . 1057 PKG Equipment Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 231 MARCH 2015 | 177

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Precision Process Inc. . . . . . . . . 2162 QED Wire Lines Inc . . . . . . . . . . 952 Reber Systematic GmbH+Co KG. 740 RichardsApex, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 540 Sirio Wire Srl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1358 Tantec Est, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1908 Traxit North America, LLC. . . . . 349 W3 Ultrasonics LLC. . . . . . . . . . 451 Wire Machine Systems. . . . . . . 1052

Cold Headers AIM, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1014 Hangzhou Harbor Tech Co. . . . 2019 Hariton Machinery Co Inc.. . . . . 147 Jouhsen-Bundgens Inc. . . . . . . . . 232 Lake Michigan Metals Inc. . . . . 2015 NUMALLIANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . 732 Vitari SpA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .858 WAFIOS Machinery Corp . . . . . 906

Cold Pressure Welding Amaral Automation Associates. 2136 Buehler Wuerz Kaltwalztechnik .740 BWE Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Huestis Industrial. . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Joe Snee Associates Inc. . . . . . . 1355 Micro Products Company. . . . . . 550 PWM Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1355

Communications Equipment Teknikor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

Compounds Forever Cable Materials Group. . . . . . . . . . . 512/03 Inhol BV/PTL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2124 Jiangsu Dasheng Electron Accelerator Co, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . 318 Saco Polymers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 S&E Specialty Polymers. . . . . . . 331 Sylvin Technologies, Inc. . . . . . . 129 T & T Marketing, Inc.. . . . . . . . 1064 Teknor Apex Company. . . . . . . . 212

Computer Hardware/Software ADVARIS GmbH. . . . . . . . . . . . 551 AESA Cortaillod. . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Cimteq Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2019 Cimteq Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2019 Esteves Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806 InnoVites BV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1920 NDC/Beta LaserMike . . . . . . . . . 631 OEG GmbH/Weber & Scher. . . 1731 178 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Proton Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1731 Sikora International Corp . . . . . . 812

Continuous Casting Mchr & Auxiliary Eqpt Continuus Properzi . . . . . . . . . . 1070 Beijing Orient Pengsheng Tech Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1808 Filtertech, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049 Lint Top Cable Tech Co . . . . . 912/03 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc. . . . . . 139 Properzi International, Inc. . . . . 1840 Rautomead Limited. . . . . . . . . . 1070 Upcast OY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856

Copper & Copper Alloys Brookfield Wire Co. . . . . . . . . . . 549 Bühler GmbH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740 BWE Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 CN Wire Corporation . . . . . . . . . 924 Euroalpha Srl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558 Fisk Alloy Conductors, Inc. . . . 2140 FSP-one, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2128 International Wire Group (IWG).240 Isotek Corporation . . . . . . . . . . 1800 International Wire Group. . . . . . . 240 Leoni Wire Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850 Metal Resource Solutions Inc. . . 358 Rhenium Alloys. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1906 Sarkuysan AS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2024 T&T Marketing Inc. . . . . . . . . . 1064 Tecnofil SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 REDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740 Zhangjiagang Greenshine . . . . 412/02 United Wire Co Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 252

Copper Trading Metal Resource Solutions, Inc. . . 153

Copper Wire Processing Electron Beam Technologies, Inc.. 454 Boockmann GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Bühler GmbH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740 Candor Sweden AB. . . . . . . . . . . 624 Central Wire Industries Ltd. . . . 1818 Chemetall US. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 Clayton Industries . . . . . . . . . . . 1064 CN Wire Corporation . . . . . . . . . 624 CommScope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 DEM Wire Rolling Technology.1824 Electron Beam Technologies. . . . 454 ERA Wire Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .354 Euroalpha. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558 Filtertech, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049

FUHR GmbH & Co KG. . . . . . . 752 HOWAR Equipment, Inc . . . . . 1320 International Wire Group . . . . . . 240 Leoni Wire Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850 Metal Resource Solutions Inc. . . 358 QUEINS Machines GmbH. . . . 1506 Radyne Corporation. . . . . . . . . . 1912 REDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740 REFRACTRON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 Sarkuysan SA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2024

Crossheads & Extrusion Tooling ACM AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1320 Amaral Automation Associates. 2136 B&H Tool Company. . . . . . . . . . 750 Baicheng Fujia Technology Co. 1807 Cable Consultants Corp. . . . . . . . 140 Canterbury Engineering. . . . . . . . 940 Cerrini Srl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1932 Davis-Standard, LLC. . . . . . . . . 1524 ESTEVES GROUP. . . . . . . . . . . 806 GENCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940 Guill Tool & Engineering. . . . . . 211 HOWAR Equipment Inc. . . . . . 1320 JoeTools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2130 Microdia SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1922 Process Control Corporation. . . 1805 Plastic Equip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2111 PLASTICOLOR/Woywod . . . . 2111 Maillefer Exrusion Oy. . . . . . . . . 932 Rosendahl Nextrom USA Inc.. . . 640 TROESTER GmbH & Co. KG. 1067 Unitek Crossheads/HOWAR. . . 1320 Wirex Dies and Steels India Pvt .143

Crosslinking Equipment E-Beam Services, Inc. . . . . . . . . . 141 IBA Industrial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569 v Hagen & Funke GmbH . . . . . 1351 Inhol BV/PTL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2124 Lubrimetal Corporation. . . . . . . 1956 Maillefer Exrusion Oy. . . . . . . . . 932 Saco Polymers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Unitek Crossheads. . . . . . . . . . . 1320

Descaling, Cleaning & Pickling Equipment Bergandi Machinery Co Inc . . . . 701 Boockmann GmbH/Slover Grp. . 264 Candor Sweden AB . . . . . . . . . . 624 Clifford Welding Systems . . . . 1723 DEM Wire Rolling Technology.1824 EUROLLS SpA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858 EVG, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Die Grinding & Finishing Equipment Balloffet Die Corporation. . . . . 1708 Clifford Welding Systems . . . . 1723 Die Quip Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003 Esteves Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806 Gavlick Machinery Corp. . . . . . 1053 Handuk Ultrasonic Co., Ltd.. . . 2011 Heritage Wire Die, Inc.. . . . . . . .111 Nanjing Xiandai Diamond Products Co Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 2014 Paramount Die Company . . . . . . 340 Premier Wire Die. . . . . . . . . . . . 2134 Tien Chen Diamond Ind Co Ltd. 206 Wirex Dies and Steels India Pvt .143 Woodburn Diamond Die, Inc. . . 705 Zhejiang Jinping Wire Drawing Die Co, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Dies & Die Compounds Balloffet Die Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 1708 Clifford Welding Systems. . . . . 1723 Davis-Standard, LLC. . . . . . . . . 1524 Die Quip Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003 Esteves Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806 Fort Wayne Wire Die, Inc. . . . . 1532 OM Frigerio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1320 GENCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940 Heritage Wire Die, Inc.. . . . . . . . 111 Mikrotek Machines Ltd. . . . . . . . 717 Nano Diamond America, Inc.. . 1806 Paramount Die Company, Inc. . . 340

Plymouth Wire Reels and Dies . 717 Precision Die Technologies. . . . . 402 Premier Wire Die. . . . . . . . . . . . 2134 Refractron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 Sanxin Wire Die, Inc. . . . . . . . . 1806 Tien Chen Diamond Industry . . . 206 Unitek Crossheads/HOWAR. . . 1320 Vandor Corporation . . . . . . . . . . 449 Wirex Dies and Steels India Pvt .143 Woodburn Diamond Die, Inc.. . . 705 Zhejiang Jinping Wire Drawing Die Co, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Distribution/Warehouses Madison Steel, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 360 T & T Marketing, Inc . . . . . . . . 1064 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co . . . . 749

Drilling, Cutting, Grinding & Secondary Operations Butt Welders USA Inc. . . . . . . . 2148 Die Quip Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003 EJP Maschinen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051 Jouhsen-Bundgens . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Parkway-Kew Corp. (PKC). . . . 1057

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Amaral Automation Associates..2136 Assomac Machines Ltd................864 Beijing Orient Pengsheng Tech Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1808 Bergandi Machinery Co Inc.........701 Boockmann GmbH.......................264 Buttwelders USA Inc..................2148 Caballe SA.....................................312 Clifford Welding Systems .........1723 Custom Machining & Fabrication, LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . 770 ELCo Enterprises (Wire Wizard).765 Engineered Machinery Group......218 Euroalpha Srl.................................558 EUROLLS SpA............................858 EVG...............................................150 Fastener Engineers......................2056 FENN...........................................1955 Filtertech, Inc..............................1049 Fine International Corporation.....332 Flymca & Flyro.......................... 1907 Frigeco.........................................1739 Gauder Group, Inc........................424 Gavlick Machinery Corp............1053 Gimax Srl....................................1351 Hariton Machinery Co Inc............147 Huttner Maschinenfabrik............1051 HOWAR Equipment Inc............1320 Ideal Welding Systems LP.........1024

Jiangsu Sunlit Equipment ............217 Kieselstein Group GmbH...........1051 Ernst Koch GmbH & Co KG.....1358 Lamnea Bruk AB..........................324 Lesmo Machinery America. . . . 1932 Lewis Machine............................2056 Lint Top Cable Technology....912/03 LUKAS Anlagenbau GmbH........116 Mario Frigerio/Frigeco...............1739 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc............139 Morgan-Koch Corporation.........1358 Niehoff Endex North America.....740 OM Frigerio srl/HOWAR..........1320 Pioneer Machinery Co Ltd...........206 Plasmait GmbH/HOWAR..........1320 Progressive Machinery Inc...........724 Properzi International, Inc..........1840 QUEINS Machines GmbH.........1506 Reber Systematic GmbH..............740 Refractron......................................302 Rizzardi Srl..................................1328 Rockford Manufacturing ...................

Group ........................................2056 RTD Manufacturing Inc...............612 SAMP USA, Inc.........................1328 SAS Engineering and Planning Srl...............................1962 Talladega Castings & Machine Co.................................136 Trafco Cortinovis Sictra.............2156 wire 2016/Messe Düsseldorf North America..........................1001

Drives & Controls Amacoil, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713 Amaral Automation Associates. 2136 Cemanco LC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .606 Davis-Standard, LLC. . . . . . . . . 1524 Engineered Machinery Group. . . 218 FMS USA, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618 Integrated Control Technologies.1660 Kieselstein Group GmbH . . . . . 1051 Magnetic Technologies Ltd. . . . . 612 Morgan-Koch Corporation . . . . 1358 Teknikor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066 Witels Albert USA, Ltd. . . . . . . 1812

Electric Utilities Sivaco Wire Group . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Electrical Wire & Cable Mfg B&Z Galvanized Wire Industry.1807 Bühler GmbH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740 Cable Consultants Corp. . . . . . . . 140 Electron Beam Technologies, Inc. 454 MARCH 2015 | 179

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Fastener Engineers. . . . . . . . . . . 2056 Gimax Srl/Gimax Group. . . . . . . 140 HOWAR Equipment Inc. . . . . . 1320 Heatbath Corporation. . . . . . . . . 2012 ICE Wire Line Equipment Inc . 1063 Jiangsu Dasheng Electron Accelerator Co, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . 318 Kieselstein Group GmbH . . . . . 1051 Ernst Kock GmbH & Co KG . . 1358 Lamnea Bruk AB. . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 Lewis Machine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2056 Metalloid Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2016 Morgan-Koch Corporation . . . . 1358 OM Frigerio Srl/HOWAR. . . . . 1320 Otomec Srl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1932 Paramount Die Company . . . . . . 340 Plasmait GmbH. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1320 QED Wire Lines Inc . . . . . . . . . . 952 Rockford Manufacturing Group Inc (RMG) . . . . . . . . . . 2056 Sirio Wire Srl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658 Staku Surface Treatment. . . . . . 1358 Wire Lab Company. . . . . . . . . . . 506 Wire Machine Systems. . . . . . . 1052 WiTechs GmbH. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1358

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Filtertech, Inc..............................1049 Fine International Corporation.....332 FSP-One......................................2128 v Hagen & Funke GmbH...........1351 Isotek Corporation ....................1800 Kalmark Integrated Systems .....1656 Light Speed Cable Technology .. 131 Phifer Incorporated.......................450 QUEINS Machines GmbH.........1506 Reel-O-Matic.................................464 Rosendahl Maschinen GmbH......640 Sarkuysan AS..............................2024 SKET GmbH.................................712 August Strecker GmbH ...............906 Tulsa Power Inc..........................1950 United Wire Co Inc.......................252 Windak Inc..................................1940 Zhangjiagang Greenshine . . . . 412/02

Electroplated Steel Wire B&Z Galvanized Wire Industry.1807 Kinrei of America . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 Lake Michigan Metals Inc. . . . . 2015 Longvision (Shanghai) Cable . . 1917 August Strecker GmbH . . . . . . . 906 Uniwire Trading LLC. . . . . . . . . 151

Environmental Services/ Plant Maintenance Filtertech, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049 Microdia SA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1922 Reber Systematic GmbH. . . . . . . 740 Teknikor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066

Extruders & Auxiliary Eqpt ACM AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1320 Amaral Automation Associates..2136 American Kuhne, Inc..................2050 AW Machinery LLC.................. 1712 B&H Tool Company....................750 Baicheng Fujia Technology Co..1807 Balloffet Die Corp.......................1708 Bergandi Machinery Co Inc.........701 Boockmann GmbH.......................264 BWE Ltd.......................................157 Cerrini Srl....................................1932 Commission Brokers Inc..............719 Davis-Standard, LLC..................1524 Fine International Corporation.....332 Flymca & Flyro...........................1907 H Folke Sandelin AB (HFSAB)..740 Gauder Group, Inc........................424

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Guill Tool & Engineering ............211 Hall Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032 Hüttner Maschinenfabrik. . . . . . 1051 Jiangsu Handing Machinery ....91201 Lint Top Cable Tech Co .........912/03 Lloyd & Bouvier Inc...................1832 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc............139 Maillefer Exrusion Oy..................932 Mario Frigerio/Frigeco...............1379 Meltech CRE Ltd........................1655 Microdia SA................................1922 Northampton Machinery.............1032 Pioneer Machinery Co Ltd...........206 Process Control Corporation......1805 Progressive Machinery Inc...........724 QUEINS Machines GmbH.........1506 Reel-O-Matic.................................464 Rosendahl Nextrom USA Inc.......640 SAMP USA, Inc.........................1328 SIEBE Engineering GmbH........1069 Thermoplastics Eng Corp...........2116 Trafco Cortinovis Sictra.............2156 TROESTER GmbH & Co. KG.. 1067 Unitek Crossheads/HOWAR......1320 Vandor Corporation......................449 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corporation...............................1040 Wire Machine Systems...............1052 Woywod GmbH/Plasticolor . . . 2111

Extrusion Accessories ACM AB.....................................1320 American Kuhne, Inc..................2050 Calmec Precision Limted............2117 Canterbury Engineering/ GENCA.......................................940 Clinton Instrument Company.......901 Davis-Standard, LLC..................1524 Dynamex Corporation................1911 Enercon........................................1912 Esteves Group...............................806 Fine Internatioanal Corporation...332 Guill Tool & Engineering ............211 Hall Industries.............................1032 HOWAR Equipment Inc............1320 Huestis Industrial..........................124 Joe Snee Associates Inc............. 1355 JoeTools.......................................2130 MGS Manufacturing Inc.............1032 Microdia SA ...............................1922 NDC/Beta LaserMike...................631 Northampton Machinery.............1032 Plasmait GmbH...........................1320 Plastic Equip, LLC......................2111

Process Control Corporation..... 1805 Rosendahl Nextrom USA Inc.......640 SAMP USA, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328 SIEBE Engineering GmbH. . . . 1069 Sikora International . . . . . . . . . . . 812 August Strecker GmbH Co KG. 906 SUBEC AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2136 Unitek Crossheads/HOWAR. . . 1320 Wirex Dies and Steels India Pvt .143 Woywod GmbH/Plasticolor . . . 2111

Fabrication & Bending Machinery Ace Metal Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650 AIM, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1014 All Wire Forming Machinery.. . . 770 Bergandi Machinery Co Inc . . . . 701 Cometo snc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1932 Eurobend SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1058 EVG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc. . . . . . 139 NUMALLIANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . 732 P/A Industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Pave Automation Design. . . . . . 1320 Tramev Srl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1932 Ultimate Automation Ltd. . . . . . .458 WAFIOS Machinery Corp . . . . . 906 Wire Machine Systems. . . . . . . 1052

Fastener Wire Mfg Anbao............................................753 B&Z Galvanized Wire Ind.........1807 Leggett & Platt Wire Group.........440 Lake Michigan Metals Inc ........ 2015 Madison Steel, Inc........................360 Metal Resource Solutions Inc.......358 Mid-South Wire Co....................1354 P/A Industries................................119 Phifer Incorporated.......................450 Sivaco Wire Group ......................258 Strecker GmbH & Co KG............906 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co.........749 wire 2016/Messe Düsseldorf North America..........................1001

Fasteners Mfg Enkotec Company, Inc.................108 Jouhsen-Bundgens Inc..................232 Leggett & Platt Wire Group.........424 P/A Industries................................119 Plas-Ties, Co.................................112 wire 2016/Messe Düsseldorf North America..........................1001

Conductix Wamplfer.....................969 Dunst GmbH...............................1050 EUROLLS SpA............................858 FinOptics, Inc..............................1801 Fine International Corporation.....332 Hall Industries.............................1032 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc............139 Reel-O-Matic.................................464 Rosendahl Nextrom USA Inc.......640 Skaltek Inc ..................................1900 SIMPACKS ..................................206 Sneham International....................702 Thermoplastics Engineering ......2116 Tulsa Power Inc..........................1950 Unitek Crossheads/HOWAR......1320 Vandor Corporation......................449 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corporation...............................1040

Fiber Optic Mfg/Machinery ACM AB.....................................1320 Amaral Automation Associates..2136 Anbao............................................753 AW Machinery LLC ..................1712 BWE Ltd.......................................157 Caballe SA.....................................312 Commission Brokers Inc..............719 Conductix Wamplfer.....................969 Davis-Standard, LLC..................1524 Dynamex Corporation................1911 Fine International Corporation.....332 FinOptics, Inc..............................1801 Flymca & Flyro...........................1907 Gauder Group, Inc........................424 Hall Industries.............................1032 Lloyd & Bouvier Inc...................1832 Longvision (Shanghai) Cable ....1917 Maillefer Extrusion Oy.................932 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc............139 Maillefer SA..................................932 Medek & Schörner .....................1050 The MGS Group.........................1032 MGS Manufacturing, Inc............1032 POURTIER of America...............424 Radyne Corporation....................1912 Reel-O-Matic.................................464 Rosendahl GmbH..........................640 Rosendahl Nextrom USA Inc.......640 Roteq Machinery Inc..................2032 SETIC of America........................424 SIEBE Engineering GmbH........1069 Sikora International Corporation.. 812 Skaltek Inc...................................1900

SKET GmbH.................................712 T&T Marketing Inc.....................1064 Tensor Machinery Ltd................1750 Tulsa Power Inc..........................1950 Unitek Crossheads/HOWAR......1320 Weber & Scher Mfg Co Inc.......1731

Filtration & Cooling Systems AW Machinery LLC...................1712 Candor Sweden AB......................624 Filtertech, Inc..............................1049 Niehoff Endex North America.....740

Fine Wire Mfg Anbao............................................753 B&H Tool Company....................750 B&Z Galvanized Wire Ind.........1807 Beijing Orient PengSheng Tech.1808 Brookfield Wire Co.......................549 Central Wire Industries Ltd........1818 CN Wire Corporation...................924 Er-Bakir™ Elektrolitik Bakir.......924 Fisk Alloy Conductors, Inc.........2140 Isotek Corporation - An .............1800 Phifer Incorporated.......................450 International Wire Group..............240 Leoni Wire Inc..............................850 Madison Steel, Inc........................360 Metal Resource Solutions Inc.......358 Phifer Incorporated.......................450 Sarkuysan AS..............................2024 Strecker GmbH & Co KG............906 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co.........749 Tecnofil SA...................................159

Forming Tools & Dies Canterbury Engineering................940 Cometo snc..................................1932 DEM Wire Rolling Technology.1824 ESTEVES GROUP.......................806 EUROLLS SpA............................858 Guill Tool & Engineering.............211 Heritage Wire Die, Inc..................111 OMCG SpA.................................1050 OMCG North America...............1050 WiTechs GmbH..........................1358

Furnaces Allied Mineral Products, Inc......1804 Bloom Engineering.......................601

CM Furnaces Inc...........................654 Continuus Properzi ....................1840 EBNER Furnaces, Inc...................620 FIB Belgium SA.........................1358 ICE Wire Line Equipment Inc...1063 LUKAS Anlagenbau GmbH........116 Meltech CRE Ltd........................1655 Plasmait GmbH/HOWAR..........1320 Properzi International, Inc..........1840 QED Wire Lines Inc.....................952 RAD-CON, Inc.............................457 Radyne Corporation....................1912 Thermcraft, Inc............................1902 Upcast OY ..................................1856

Hand Tools Cemanco LC.................................606 Die Quip Corp.............................1003 Heritage Wire Die, Inc................111 iiM AG measurement + ...............872 Tramev Srl...................................1932

Heat Treating Atmospheres Bloom Engineering........................601 EBNER Furnaces, Inc...................620 Enercon Industries.......................1816 iiM AG measurement + ...............872 Jiangsu Sunlit Equipment .............217 QED Wire Lines Inc......................952 RAD-CON, Inc..............................457 Radyne Corporation....................1912 Thermcraft, Inc............................1902 WTM Srl........................................571

Heat Treating Equipment & Services Enercon........................................1912 ICE Wire Line Equipment Inc...1063 FIB Belgium sa...........................1358 HOWAR Equipment Inc............1320 Plasmait GmbH/HOWAR..........1320 QED Wire Lines Inc.....................952 Radyne Corporation....................1912 Thermcraft, Inc............................1902

Insulated Wire Mfg Anbao............................................753 B&H Tool Company....................750 Cable Consultants Corp................140 Clinton Instrument Company.......901 Electron Beam Technologies........454 Guangzhou Hanstar Fluoro .. 412/07 v Hagen & Funke GmbH.............140

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Reel-O-Matic.................................464 Rosendahl Maschinen GmbH......640

Insulation Materials ACM AB.....................................1320 American & Efird Inc.................1556 Cogebi ..........................................372 Longvision (Shanghai) Cable ....1917 Precision Die Technologies..........402 Saco Polymers...............................233 Shenyang Jinggong Cable Materials Co Ltd.........................970 Shaoxing Kaicheng Mica Material Co, Ltd.....................512/01 Shenzhen Ktyu Insulation ............570 SIMPACKS ..................................206 Sneham International....................702 T & T Marketing, Inc.................1064 Thermcraft, Inc............................1902 Top Tapes......................................123 Tulsa Power Inc..........................1950 Zhejiang Wanma Macromolecule Material Co, Ltd .........................966

Knitting Machines Anbao............................................753 Fine International Corporation.....332

Lubricants /Lube treatment Aztech Lubricants LLC................964 Baum’s Castorine Co Inc............2132 Blachford Corporation..................406 Boockmann GmbH.......................264 Chemetall, Inc...............................400 CONDAT ...................................1650 Etna Products, Inc.......................1706 Filtertech, Inc..............................1049 Heatbath Corporation..................2012 Houghton International Inc.........1810 Lubrimetal Corporation............. 1956 Metalloid Corp............................2016 Reber Systematic GmbH..............740 RichardsApex, Inc.........................540 Saco Polymers...............................233 Traxit North America, LLC..........349 Wirex Dies and Steels India Pvt .143

Machine Installation & Relocation Collin & Jewell, Co....................2149

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Machine Rebuilding/Upgrading AW Machinery LLC...................1712 Bergandi Machinery Co Inc.........701 Bongard Trading GmbH ............1068 Ceeco Bartell Products...............1351 Clifford Welding Systems .........1723 Davis-Standard, LLC..................1524 Dynamex Corporation................1911 Engineered Machinery Group......218 ERA Wire Inc...............................354 EUROLLS SpA............................858 FENN...........................................1955 Flymca & Flyro...........................1907 Gauder Group, Inc........................424 Golden Technologies ..............912/06 H Folke Sandelin AB (HFSAB)..740 Hall Industries.............................1032 Ideal Welding Systems LP.........1024 Integrated Control Technologies. 1660 Kalmark Integrated Systems .....1656 Kieselstein Group GmbH...........1051 Kinrei of America.........................624 Ernst Kock GmbH & Co KG.....1358 Lloyd & Bouvier, Inc..................1832 Magnetic Technologies Ltd..........612 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc............139 MGS Manufacturing Inc.............1032 Morgan-Koch Corporation.........1358 Niehoff Endex North America.....740 Northampton Machinery.............1032 P/A Industries................................119 PKG Equipment Inc......................231 POURTIER of America...............424 QUEINS Machines GmbH.........1506 Reel-O-Matic.................................464 Refractron Technologies Corp.... 302 Rizzardi Srl..................................1328 Rockford Manufacturing Group Inc (RMG).....................2056 Roteq Machinery Inc..................2032 Schlatter Industries AG/Schlatter North America..........................1314 SETIC of America........................424 Skaltek Inc...................................1900 SKET GmbH.................................712 Stolberger KMB GmbH...............712 Talladega Castings & Machine Co.................................136 Teknikor......................................1066 Thermcraft, Inc............................1902 Thermoplastics Engineering ......2116 Tulsa Power Inc..........................1950 Worth Steel and Machinery, Inc..459 Yield Management Corp............2144

Marking & Coding Eqpt Amaral Automation Associates..2136 Enercon Industries.......................1816 Gem Gravure Co. Inc....................706 W Gillies Technologies LLC.....1832 Medek & Schörner .....................1050 PrintSafe Inc................................1850 Tantec EST, Inc..........................1908 Taymer International Inc..............849

Material Handling & & Storage A Appiani................................... 1932 Amaral Automation Associates..2136 Appleton Manufacturing ............2126 Bohl/H Bohl North America........161 Boxy SpA/HOWAR...................1320 Cometo snc..................................1932 ELCo Enterprises (Wire Wizard)...765 Foerster Instruments Inc............ 1814 Gimax Srl/Gimax Group..............140 v. Hagen & Funke GmbH............140 Hall Industries.............................1032 IWE Spools & Handling.............1051 Lesmo Machinery America........1932 Metavan NV/ HOWAR..............1320 Mossberg Associates, Inc.............763 P/A Industries................................119 Process Control Corporation......1805 Rainbow Rubber & Plastics.......1649 Reel-O-Matic...................................46 Sonoco Reels and Spools..............432 SUBEC AB.................................2136 Tulsa Power Inc..........................1950

Measuring & Testing Eqpt ACM AB.....................................1320 AEROEL Srl...............................2150 Amaral Automation Associates..2136 Angle Systems LLC......................165 Calmec Precision Limited..........2117 Cersa-MCI...................................1601 Cimteq Ltd...................................2019 Clinton Instrument Company.......901 Conoptica AS................................870 Die Quip Corp.............................1003 Esteves Group...............................806 FinOptics, Inc..............................1801 FMS USA, Inc..............................618 Foerster Instruments Inc.............1814 Gauder Group, Inc........................424 W Gillies Technologies, LLC......958 Guill Tool & Engineering.............211

Media EuroWire.......................................132 Intras Ltd.......................................132 Wire & Cable Asia........................132 Wire & Cable Technology Int’l....235 Wire Forming Technology Int’l...235 Wire Journal Int’l............Show Floor Wire World Internet....................2114 WIREBULLETIN.............Show Floor WiredInUSA .................................132

Nail Making Machinery Clifford Welding Systems .........1723 Enkotec Company Inc..................108 Gavlick Machinery Corp............1053 Jouhsen-Bundgens Inc..................232 Vitari SpA.....................................858 WAFIOS Machinery Corp...........906

Nickel & Nickel Alloys B&H Tool Company................... 750 Brookfield Wire Co.......................549 Bühler GmbH................................470

Central Wire Industries Ltd........1818 CN Wire Corporation...................924 Fisk Alloy Conductors, Inc.........2140 FSP-one, Inc................................2128 International Wire Group..............240 Leoni Wire Inc..............................850 Metal Resource Solutions Inc.......358 United Wire Co Inc.......................252

Nonferrous Wire Mfg Beijing Orient PengSheng Tech Co Ltd..............................1808 Brookfield Wire Co.......................549 CN Wire Corporation...................924 Electron Beam Technologies.......454 Filtertech, Inc..............................1049 Fisk Alloy Conductors, Inc.........2140 FSP-one, Inc................................2128 v Hagen & Funke GmbH............ 140 International Wire Group..............240 Leggett & Platt Wire Group.........440 International Wire Group. . . . . . . 240 Leoni Wire Inc..............................850 Madison Steel, Inc........................360 Metal Resource Solutions Inc.......358 wire 2016/Messe Düsseldorf North America..........................1001 Phifer Incorporated.......................450 Rhenium Alloys .........................1906 Sarkuysan AS..............................2024 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co.........749 United Wire Co Inc.......................252

Ovens EBNER Furnaces, Inc...................620 HOWAR Equipment...................1320 Plasmait GmbH/HOWAR..........1320 QED Wire Lines Inc.....................952 Radyne Corporation....................1912 Sneham International....................702 Thermcraft, Inc............................1902 WTM Srl.......................................571

Packaging Equipment Axjo America Inc........................1940 Bohl/H Bohl North America........161 Custom Machining & Fabrication, LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . 770 Domeks Makine Limited............1340 Evolution Products, Inc................133 Fabritex Inc...................................616 Gimax Srl/Gimax Group..............140 Hall Industries ............................1032 Hüttner Maschinenfabrik............1051 IWE Spools & Handling.............1051 Jiangsu Handing Machinery ...912/01

Kieselstein Group GmbH...........1051 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc............139 Metavan NV................................1320 The MGS Group.........................1032 Niehoff Endex North America ....740 Northampton Machinery.............1032 Plas-Ties, Co.................................112 Pneumatic Power Tools & Co......352 SAS Engineering and Planning Srl...............................1962 Tecnofil Spa..................................159 Windak Inc..................................1940

Pallets A Appiani................................... 1932 Boxy SpA/HOWAR...................1320 GMP-Slovakia Sro........................758 Mossberg Associates, Inc.............763

Parts Washers W3 Ultrasonics LLC.....................451

Payoff Reels A Appiani .................................. 1932 All Wire Forming Machinery.......770 Boxy SpA/HOWAR...................1320 Cable Consultants Corp................140 Dynamex Corporation................1911 Engineered Machinery Group......218 ERA Wire Inc...............................354 Fabritex Inc...................................616 Gimax Srl/Gimax Group..............140 GMP Slovakia sro.........................758 v Hagen & Funke GmbH.............140 HOWAR Equipment Inc............1320 IWE Spools & Handling.............1051 Kinrei of America.........................624 Lesmo Machinery America........1932 Metavan NV................................1320 MFL Group.................................1739 Morgan-Koch Corporation.........1358 P/A Industries, Inc........................119 Reel-O-Matic.................................464 Rockford Manufacturing Group Inc (RMG).....................2056 RTD Manufacturing Inc...............612 Sarkuysan AS..............................2024 SIMPACKS...................................206 Skaltek Inc...................................1900 Tubular Products Company ......1550 Tulsa Power Inc..........................1950

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Hall Industries.............................1032 Heritage Wire Die, Inc................111 Hipo Electrix Science | & Technology.......................412/10 HOWAR Equipment...................1320 Ideal Welding Systems ..............1024 iiM AG measurement + ...............872 LaserLinc.....................................1503 Lint Top Cable Technology ...912/03 MGS Manufacturing, Inc............1032 NDC Technologies Beta LaserMike .........................631 Northampton Machinery.............1032 POURTIER of America...............424 Proton Products...........................1731 QUEINS Machines GmbH.........1506 Reel-O-Matic.................................464 Scienscope International.............2005 SETIC of America........................424 SIEBE Engineering GmbH........1069 SIKORA International..................812 Joe Snee Associates Inc............. 1355 Starrett-Bytewise.........................1702 Tantec EST, Inc..........................1908 Taymer International Inc..............849 Thermcraft, Inc............................1902 Tulsa Power Inc..........................1950 Vollmer America..........................350 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corporation...............................1040 Zumbach Electronics Corp.........1540

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Ultimate Automation Ltd.............458 Vandor Corporation......................449 WiTechs GmbH..........................1358

Plating Equipment Candor Sweden AB .....................624 Jiangsu Sunlit Equipment .............217 Kinrei of America.........................624 Morgan-Koch Corporation.........1358 Niehoff Endex North America.....740 Otomec Srl...................................1932 PKG Equipment Inc......................231 Plasmait GmbH/HOWAR..........1320 QED Wire Lines Inc.....................952 Shanghai Jiaje Technology ........1919 Sirio Wire Srl..............................1358 Staku Surface Treatment............1051 ZT Srl...........................................1959

Pollution Control Equipment Candor Sweden AB .....................624 Filtertech, Inc..............................1049 Sirio Wire Srl..............................1358

Power Cable/Dist/Tran Mfg Electron Beam Technologies........454 SKET GmbH.................................712

Process Control Equipment ACM AB.....................................1320 Amaral Automation Associates..2136 Chemetall, Inc...............................400 Cimteq Ltd...................................2019 Conoptica AS................................870 FMS USA, Inc..............................618 Guill Tool & Engineering.............211 HOWAR Equipment Inc............1320 Integrated Control Tech..............1660 LaserLinc.....................................1503 Magnetic Technologies Ltd..........612 NDC Technologies/ Beta LaserMike...........................631 PKG Equipment Inc......................231 Process Control Corporation..... 1805 Proton Products International.....1731 Rosendahl GmbH..........................640 SIEBE Engineering GmbH........1069 Sikora International Corporation.. 812 SIMPACKS...................................206 Sjogren Industries.........................715 Teknikor......................................1066 Vollmer America Inc....................350 Worth Steel and Machinery, Inc..459 Woywod GmbH/Plasticolor.......2111 184 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Yield Management Corp............2144 Zumbach Electronics Corp.........1540

Protective Atmospheres Thermcraft, Inc............................1902

Pulleys Cemanco LC.................................606 Ceramtec AG.................................606 Dynamex Corporation................1911 Guill Tool & Engineering.............211 H Folke Sandelin AB (HFSAB)..740 Heany Industries Inc ....................950 KEIR Manufacturing, Inc.............703 Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corporation..............................1904 Parkway-Kew Corp. (PKC)........1057 Refractron Technologies Corp.... 302 Subec AB.....................................2136 Wyrepak Industries, Inc................124

Reclamation Equipment H Folke Sandelin AB (HFSAB)..740 Filtertech, Inc..............................1049 OM Frigerio.................................1320 Gateway Recovery Inc................2158 Process Control Corporation..... 1805

Recycling Services Sonoco Reels and Spools..............432

Reels, Spools, Drums & Bobbins Ace Metal Incorporated................650 A Appiani................................... 1932 Axjo America Inc........................1940 Beacon Reel Company................ 145 Beijing Orient PengSheng Tech Co Ltd..............................1808 Bojin Cable Drum Man ..........912/04 Boxy SpA/HOWAR...................1320 Carris Reels.................................1350 Evolution Products......................2011 George Evans Corp.......................711 Gimax Srl/Gimax Group..............140 GMP Slovakia sro.........................758 Hafner & Krullmann GmbH........370 Hearl Heaton/Pentre Group........1949 HOWAR Equipment Inc............1320 IWE Spools & Handling.............1051 Kinrei of America.........................624 Lesmo Machinery America. . . . 1932 Metavan NV/ HOWAR..............1320

Mossberg Associates, Inc.............763 Mossberg Industries, Inc...............113 Pentre Group Ltd.........................1949 P/A Industries Inc.........................119 P&R Specialty, Inc.......................333 Pittsfield Plastics Engineering......764 Plymouth Wire Reels and Dies Inc.......................................717 Skyline Industries..........................624 Steel Cable Reels..........................270 Sonoco Reels and Spools..............432 Steel Cable Reels..........................270 Tubular Products Company........1550 Vandor Corp/Reel Options...........449 Windak Inc..................................1940 Wire Machine Systems...............1052

Roller Guides Amaral Automation Associates..2136 Cemanco LC.................................606 Ceramtec AG.................................606 Cometo snc..................................1932 W Gillies Technologies, LLC......958 Frontier Composites & Castings..215 W. Gillies Technologies, LLC.....958 Heany Industries Inc ....................950 KEIR Manufacturing, Inc.............703 Lesmo Machinery America. . . . 1932 Parkway-Kew Corporation.........1057 REFRACTRON............................302 Sjogren Industries.........................715 Subec AB.....................................2136 Wyrepak Industries, Inc................124

Rolling Mills & Auxiliary Equipment Beijing Orient PengSheng Tech.1808 Bloom Engineering.......................601 Bühler Wuerz Kaltwalztechnik ...740 Clifford Welding Systems . . . . 1723 Davis-Standard, LLC..................1524 DEM Wire Rolling Technology.1824 EUROLLS SpA............................858 FENN...........................................1955 Filtertech, Inc..............................1049 FUHR GmbH & Co KG...............752 Gavlick Machinery Corp............1053 Hüttner Maschinenfabrik............1051 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc............139 Niehoff Endex North America.....740 Promostar Srl.................................452 Properzi International, Inc..........1840 REDEX SA...................................740 RTD Manufacturing Inc...............612 Sivaco Wire Group ......................258 Teurema/EUROLLS Group.........858 Weber & Scher Mfg Co Inc.......1731

WAFIOS Machinery Corp...........906

Secondary Operations Machines Buttwelders USA Inc..................2148 FLYMCA & FLYRO.................1907 Huestis Industrial..........................124 Jouhsen-Bundgens Inc..................232 P/A Industries Inc.........................119 Strecker GmbH & Co KG............906 Tantec Est, Inc.............................1908 Tecnofil Spa..................................159

Sensors FMS USA, Inc..............................618 NDC Technologies Beta LaserMike ..........................631 Proton Products International ....1050 Sikora International Corporation.. 812 Zumbach Electronics Corp.........1540

Shaping Machinery DEM Wire Rolling Technology................................1824 FENN...........................................1955 Gavlick Machinery Corp............1053 Hüttner Maschinenfabrik............1051 Leggett & Platt Wire Group.........440 Vinston US Corp...........................564 WAFIOS Machinery Corp...........906

Spoolers & Respoolers Amaral Automation Associates..2136 Assomac Machines Ltd................864 AW Machinery LLC...................1712 Bongard GmbH.......................... 1068 Buttwelders USA Inc..................2148 Cable Consultants Corp................140 Calmec Precision Limited..........2117 Cemanco LC.................................606 Commission Brokers Inc..............719 Conductix Wamplfer.....................969 DEM Wire Rolling Technology.1824 Domeks Makine Limited............1340 Dynamex Corporation................1911 Engineered Machinery Group......218 EVG...............................................150 Fine International Corporation.....332 FUHR GmbH & Co KG...............752 Gimax Srl/Gimax Group..............140 v. Hagen & Funke GmbH............140 Hall Industries ............................1032 Kieselstein Group GmbH...........1051

Kinrei of America.........................624 Kopilowitz Engineering Ltd.........624 Lamnea Bruk AB......................... 324 Lloyd & Bouvier, Inc..................1832 LUKAS Anlagenbau GmbH........116 MFL Group.................................1739 MGS Manufacturing Inc.............1032 Morgan-Koch Corporation.........1358 Niehoff Endex North America.....740 Northampton Machinery.............1032 Pioneer Machinery Co Inc............206 Promostar Srl.................................452 Properzi International, Inc..........1840 QUEINS Machines GmbH.........1506 Rosendahl Maschinen GmbH......640 Roteq Machinery Inc..................2032 SIMPACKS...................................206 Sonoco Reels and Spools..............432 Spirka Schnellflechter GmbH.......712 Stolberger Inc DBA Wardwell Braiding Co.................................712 TROESTER GmbH & Co. KG..................................1067 Taymer International Inc..............849 Tecnofil Spa..................................159 Thermoplastics Eng Corp...........2116 Tulsa Power Inc..........................1950 Weber & Scher Mfg Co Inc.......1731 Windak Inc..................................1940 Wire Machine Systems...............1052 Wyrepak Industries, Inc................124 ZT Srl...........................................1959

Spring Making Machinery AIM Inc.......................................1014 All Wire Forming Machinery.......770 FENN...........................................1955 Gavlick Machinery Corp............1053 NUMALLIANCE.........................732 Vinston US Corp...........................564 WAFIOS Machinery Corp...........906 wire 2016/Messe Düsseldorf North America..........................1001

Stainless Steel Wire Mfg. Anbao............................................753 Bekaert Corp/Bekaert NV..........2113 Brookfield Wire Co.......................549 Bühler GmbH................................740 Central Wire Industries Ltd........1818 International Wire Group. . . . . . . 240 Jiangsu FNC Wire & Cable 512/06 Jiangyin Kangrui Stainless .....912/08 Jiangsu Xinglong Metal ..........412/06 Heinrich Muller GmbH..............1560 Lake Michigan Metals Inc ........ 2015

Leggett & Platt Wire Group.........440 Madison Steel, Inc........................360 Metal Resource Solutions Inc.......358 United Wire Co Inc.......................252

Steel, Rod, Bar and Bare Wire AVIC International Minerals........411 Bekaert Corp/Bekaert NV..........2113 Beta Steel......................................2017 Bloom Engineering........................601 Brookfield Wire Co.......................549 ERA Wire Inc...............................354 Granite Falls Furnace..................1562 Guney Celik..................................652 Heinrich Muller GmbH..............1560 Keystone Steel & Wire................ 405 King Steel Corp...........................1913 Lake Michigan Metals Inc ........ 2015 Leggett & Platt Wire Group.........440 Madison Steel, Inc.........................360 Mid-South Wire Company.........1354 Nirmal Wires (P) Ltd.............. 1063 Raajratna Stainless Wire ........... 453 Sivaco Wire Group.......................258 Sonoco Reels and Spools..............432 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co.........749 United Wire Co Inc.......................252 Tecnofil Spa..................................159 Uniwire Trading LLC.................. 151 Worth Steel and Machinery, Inc... 459 Wuxi Xincheng Walsin Steel .412/04

Stepcones Cemanco LC.................................606 Ceramtec AG.................................606 Kyocera Industrial Ceramics......1904 Parkway-Kew Corp. (PKC)........1057 Refractron Technologies Corp.... 302 Talladega Castings & Machine Co.................................136 Wire Machine Systems...............1052

Straightening & Cutoff Machinery & Equipment AIM, Inc......................................1014 All Wire Forming Machinery.......770 Amaral Automation Associates..2136 Buttwelders USA Inc..................2148 Cemanco LC.................................606 Clifford Welding Systems . . . . 1723 Cometo snc..................................1932 DEM Wire Rolling Tech............1824 Engineered Machinery Group......218 ERA Wire Inc...............................354 Eurobend SA...............................1058 MARCH 2015 | 185

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EUROLLS SpA............................858 EVG...............................................150 Fastener Engineers......................2056 Fortune Machinery Co, Inc..........866 Gavlick Machinery Corp............1053 Hariton Machinery Co Inc..........147 Ideal Welding Systems LP......... 1024 Jouhsen-Bundgens Inc................232 Lewis Machine............................2056 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc............139 NUMALLIANCE.........................732 OMCG SpA.................................1050 OMCG North America...............1050 P/A Industries, Inc........................119 Progress Maschinen & Automation AG......................153 Promostar Srl.................................452 Rockford Manufacturing Group Inc (RMG).....................2056 SAS Engineering and Planning Srl...............................1962 Schlatter Industries AG/Schlatter North America..........................1314 Schnell Wire System Srl.............2152 Sjogren Industries.........................715 Subec AB.....................................2136 Taymer International Inc..............849 Tramev Srl...................................1932 Ultimate Automation Ltd.............458 Vitari SpA.....................................858 WAFIOS Machinery Corp...........906 Wire Machine Systems...............1052 Worth Steel and Machinery, Inc..459 ZT Srl...........................................1959

Stranders & Auxiliary Equipment Anhui Herrman Impex Co.......912/04 AW Machinery LLC...................1712 Caballe SA.....................................312 Cable Consultants Corp................140 Calmec Precision Limted............2117 Ceeco Bartell Products...............1351 Commission Brokers Inc..............719 Conductix Wamplfer.....................969 Daloo.............................................424 Dynamex Corporation................1911 Engineered Machinery Group......218 Enshiang Machinery Enterprise Co, Ltd.......................666 Fine International Corporation.....332 Flymca & Flyro...........................1907 Gauder Group, Inc........................424 Gavlick Machinery Corp............1053 Gimax Srl/Gimax Group............1351

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v. Hagen & Funke GmbH..........1351 Jiangsu Handing Machinery ...912/01 Jiangsu Sunlit Equipment .............217 Mario Frigerio/Frigeco...............1739 Kalmark Integrated Systems .....1656 Kinrei of America.........................624 Lesmo Machinery America. . . . 1932 Lloyd & Bouvier, Inc..................1832 LUKAS Anlagenbau GmbH .......116 Magnetic Technologies Ltd..........612 Mali GmbH.................................1050 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc............139 Metavan NV................................1320 MFL Group.................................1739 MGS Manufacturing, Inc............1032 Morgan-Koch Corporation.........1358 Niehoff Endex North America.....740 OMA USA..................................1950 Pioneer Machinery Co Inc............206 POURTIER of America...............424 Progressive Machinery Inc...........724 Properzi International, Inc..........1840 QUEINS Machines GmbH.........1506 Rosendahl GmbH..........................640 Roteq Machinery Inc..................2032 SETIC of America........................424 SIMPACKS...................................206 SKET GmbH.................................712 Stolberger KMB GmbH...............712 Strecker GmbH & Co KG............906 Tecnofil Spa..................................159 Tensor Machinery Ltd................1750 Thermoplastics Eng Corp...........2116 Trafco Cortinovis Sictra.............2156 Weber & Scher Mfg Co Inc.......1731 Windak Inc..................................1940 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corporation...............................1040 Wire Machine Systems...............1052 Wyrepak........................................124 Wuxi Hengtai Cable Machinery Manufacture Co Ltd.................2023 Yield Management Corp............2144 ZT Srl...........................................1959

Systems & System Design ADVARIS GmbH.........................551 AW Machinery LLC...................1712 Cable Consultants Corp................140 Cimteq Ltd...................................2019 Dynamex Corporation................1911 InnoVites BV..............................1920 Integrated Control Technologies.1660

Kalmark Integrated Systems......1656 Magnetic Technologies Ltd..........612 Plasmait GmbH/HOWAR..........1320 Tantec Est, Inc.............................1908 Teknikor......................................1066 W3 Ultrasonics LLC.....................451

Take-ups & Payoffs Ace Metal Inc................................650 AIM, Inc......................................1014 Amacoil, Inc..................................713 Amaral Automation Associates..2136 AW Machinery LLC...................1712 Bergandi Machinery Co Inc.........701 Bühler GmbH................................740 Buttwelders USA Inc..................2148 Caballe SA.....................................212 Cable Consultants Corp................140 Calmec Precision Limited..........2117 Ceeco Bartell Products.................749 Cemanco LC.................................606 Cerrini Srl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1932 Commission Brokers Inc..............719 Conductix Wamplfer.....................969 Daloo.............................................424 Davis-Standard, LLC..................1524 DEM Wire Rolling Technology.1824 Domeks Makine Limited............1340 Dynamex Corporation................1911 Engineered Machinery Group .....218 Enshiang Machinery Enterprise Co, Ltd.......................666 EUROLLS SpA............................858 EVG...............................................150 Fabritex Inc...................................616 Fastener Engineers......................2056 Fine International Corporation.....332 Flymca & Flyro...........................1907 FUHR GmbH & Co KG...............752 Gauder Group, Inc........................424 Gavlick Machinery Corp............1053 Gimax Srl/Gimax Group..............140 GMP Slovakia Sro........................558 Guill Tool & Engineering.............211 v Hagen & Funke GmbH.............140 Hall Industries.............................1032 Henrich GmbH............................1506 HOWAR Equipment Inc............1320 Hall Industries ............................1032 HOWAR Equipment Inc............1320 uestis Industrial.............................124 Jiangsu Handing Machinery ...912/01 Kinrei of America.........................624

Wyrepak Industries, Inc................124 ZT Srl...........................................1959

Tape - Machinery Dynamex Corporation................1911 Gimax Srl/Gimax Group..............140 LUKAS Anlagenbau GmbH........116 Northampton Machinery ...........1032 Tape Formers/RG Attachments..1602 Roteq Machinery Inc..................2032 SPIRKA GMBH...........................712 Tape Formers/RG Attachments..1602 WTM Srl.......................................571

Tape - Materials Cable Consultants Corp................140 Chase Corporation........................902 Chengdu Centran Industrial Co..1801 Conneaut Industries Inc................423 Longvision (Shanghai) Cable ....1917 Sneham International....................702 T & T Marketing, Inc.................1064

Testing, Measuring & Inspection ACM AB.....................................1320 AESA SA......................................114 Angle Systems LLC......................165 CERSA-MCI...............................1601 Clinton Instrument Company.......901 FMS USA, Inc..............................618 Foerster Instruments Inc............ 1814 Henrich GmbH............................1506 HOWAR Equipment...................1320 iiM AG........................................1068 LaserLinc Inc..............................1503 MGS Manufacturing Inc.............1314 NDC Technologies Beta LaserMike ..........................631 OEG GmbH/Weber & Scher......1731 Proton Products International ....1731 Scienscope International.............2005 Sikora International Corporation.. 812 Starrett-Bytewise.........................1702 Taymer International Inc..............849 Vollmer America Inc....................350 Zumbach Electronics Corp.........1540

Testing Services ACM AB.....................................1320 AESA SA......................................114

NDC Technologies/ Beta LaserMike...........................631 Cogebi ..........................................372 iiM AG........................................1068 LaserLinc.....................................1503

Thread Rolling Mchry/dies AIM Inc.......................................1014 Enkotec Company, Inc.................108 OMCG SpA.................................1050 OMCG North America...............1050 Zhejiang Jinping Wire Drawing...306

Trade Show Organizers Messe Düsseldorf North America/wire 2016...........902 Wire Association Int’l......Show Floor

Training Buttwelders USA Inc..................2148 Die Quip Corp.............................1003 Esteves Group...............................806 Guill Tool & Engineering ............211 InnoVites BV..............................1920 Stolberger Inc. DBA Wardwell ...712 WAFIOS Machinery Corp...........906

Tubular Wire Carriers Ace Metal Inc................................650 Boxy SpA/HOWAR...................1320 Fabritex Inc...................................616 GMP Slovakia Sro........................758 Sonoco Reels and Spools..............432 Tubular Products Company .......1550

Turntables AIM Inc.......................................1014 Bergandi Machinery Co Inc.........701 ELCo Enterprises (Wire Wizard).765 Engineered Machinery Group......218 EVG...............................................150 Fastener Engineers......................2056 Gauder Group, Inc........................424 Kieselstein Group GmbH...........1051 Lewis Machine............................2056 OMCG North America...............1050 P/A Industries, Inc........................119 Rockford Manufacturing Group.2056 POURTIER of America...............424

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Kalmark Integrated Systems .....1656 Kieselstein Group GmbH...........1051 Kopilowitz Engineering Ltd.........624 Lamnea Bruk AB..........................324 Lewis Machine............................2056 Lesmo Machinery America. . . . 1932 Lloyd & Bouvier Inc...................1832 LUKAS Anlagenbau GmbH........116 M+E Macchine Engineering ....1358 Magnetic Technologies Ltd..........612 Maillefer Extrusion Oy.................932 The MGS Group.........................1032 MGS Manufacturing, Inc............1032 Morgan-Koch Corporation.........1358 Niehoff Endex North America.....740 Northampton Machinery ...........1032 Otomec Srl...................................1932 P/A Industries Inc.........................119 Pioneer Machinery Co Ltd...........812 Plasmait GmbH...........................1320 POURTIER of America...............424 Progressive Machinery Inc...........724 QUEINS Machines GmbH.........1506 Radyne Corporation....................1912 Reel-O-Matic.................................464 Rockford Manufacturing Group Inc (RMG).....................2056 Rosendahl GmbH..........................640 Roteq Machinery Inc..................2032 RTD Manufacturing Inc...............612 SAMP USA, Inc.........................1328 Sarkuysan AS..............................2024 Schnell Wire System Srl.............2152 SETIC of America........................424 Schmidt Maschinenbau GmbH....740 Sonoco Reels and Spools..............432 Spirka GMBH...............................712 Stolberger KMB-........................1506 Subec AB.....................................2136 Taymer International Inc..............506 Thermoplastics Eng Corp...........2116 Trafco Cortinovis Sictra.............2156 Troester GmbH & Co. KG.........1067 Taymer International Inc..............849 Tulsa Power.................................1950 Wardwell Braiding Co/ Stolberger Inc..............................712 Windak Inc..................................1940 Wire Machine Systems...............1052 WiTechs GmbH..........................1358 WTM Srl.......................................571 Stolberger Inc. DBA Wardwell ...712 Wuxi Hengtai Cable Machinery Manufacture Co Ltd................ 2023

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Rockford Manufacturing Group Inc (RMG).....................2056 SETIC of America........................424 Ultimate Automation Ltd.............458

Used Equipment & Machinery Bongard Trading GmbH ............1068 Buttwelders USA Inc..................2148 Clifford Welding Systems .........1723 Commission Brokers Inc..............719 ERA Wire Inc...............................354 Flymca & Flyro...........................1907 Fortune Machinery........................866 Gauder Group, Inc........................424 Gavlick Machinery Corporation.1053 W Gillies Technologies, LLC......958 Hall Industries.............................1032 Hariton Machinery Co Inc............147 Kalmark Integrated Systems......1656 Kinrei of America.........................624 Lloyd & Bouvier Inc...................1832 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc............139 MGS Manufacturing, Inc............1032 Northampton Machinery.............1032 QUEINS Machines GmbH.........1506 Schlatter Industries AG/Schlatter North America..........................1314 Schnell Wire System Srl.............2152 SETIC of America........................424 Stolberger Inc. DBA Wardwell ...712 Subec AB.....................................2136 Thermcraft, Inc............................1902 Trafco Cortinovis Sictra.............2156 Tulsa Power Inc..........................1950 Vollmer America..........................350 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corporation...............................1040 Worth Steel and Machinery, Inc..459

Warehouse/Distributors Isotek Corporation - An .............1800 Madison Steel, Inc........................360 Metal Resource Solutions Inc.......358

Welders (all) Agape Industry, Inc.......................863 AIM, Inc......................................1014 Buttwelders USA Inc..................2148 Clifford Welding Systems..........1723

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Eurobend SA...............................1058 EVG...............................................150 Gavlick Machinery Corporation.1053 Ideal Welding Systems LP.........1024 Joe Snee Associates Inc............. 1355 Micro Products Company.............550 Pressure Welding Machines.......1066 Promostar Srl.................................452 Schlatter Industries AG/Schlatter North America..........................1314 Schnell Wire System Srl.............2152 Strecker GmbH & Co. KG...........906 Tensor Machinery Ltd................1750 Ultimate Automation Ltd.............458 WAFIOS Machinery Corp...........906 Weber & Scher Mfg Co Inc.......1320 Worth Steel and Machinery, Inc..459

Wire Bending/Forming Machines AIM, Inc......................................1014 Bergandi Machinery Co Inc.........701 BLM Group USA Corporation....224 Cometo snc..................................1932 DEM Wire Rolling Technology.1824 Eurobend SA...............................1058 EUROLLS SpA............................858 EVG...............................................140 FUHR GmbH & Co KG...............752 Gavlick Machinery Corporation.1053 Hariton Machinery Co., Inc..........147 IP Automation Inc.......................1860 Jouhsen-Bundgens Inc..................232 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc............139 NUMALLIANCE.........................732 OMCG SpA.................................1050 OMCG North America...............1050 P/A Industries Inc..........................119 Pave Automation.........................1321 Progress Maschinen & Automation AG..........................153 Promostar Srl.................................452 Radyne Corporation....................1912 Schlatter Industries AG/Schlatter North America..........................1314 Schnell Wire System Srl.............2152 Teurema/EUROLLS Group.........858 WAFIOS Machinery Corp...........906 Weber & Scher Mfg. Co Inc......1320 Wire Machine Systems...............1052 Worth Steel and Machinery, Inc..459 Ultimate Automation Ltd.............458

Wire Grippers Sjogren Industries Inc................. 715

Wire Mfg/Building Anbao............................................753 B&H Tool Company....................750 B&Z Galvanized Wire Ind.........1807 CN Wire Corporation...................924 Keystone Steel & Wire ................405 Henrich GmbH..............................712 Jiangsu FNC Wire & Cable ...512/06 Mid-South Wire Co....................1354 Oklahoma Steel & Wire.............2007 Ozyasar Tel Ve Galvanizleme ..2018 Queins Machines GmbH............1506 Strecker GmbH & Co KG............906 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co.........749 wire 2016/Messe Düsseldorf North America..........................1001 Worth Steel and Machinery, Inc..459

Wire Mfg/Cold-Heading Quality Bekaert Corp/Bekaert NV..........2113 Buehler Wuerz Kaltwalztechnik .740 Central Wire Industries Ltd........1818 CN Wire Corporation...................924 Madison Steel, Inc........................360 Metal Resource Solutions Inc.......358 Mid-South Wire Co....................1354 P/A Industries, Inc........................119 Phifer Incorporated.......................450 Sivaco Wire Group ......................258 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co.........749 Tecnofil SA...................................159

Wire Mfg/Communication (Voice/Data) Anbao............................................753 B&H Tool Company....................750 B&Z Galvanized Wire Ind.........1807 CN Wire Corporation...................924 Er-Bakir™ Elektrolitik Bakir ....924 FSP-one, Inc................................ 2128 International Wire Group..............240 Jiangsu FNC Wire & Cable.....512/06 Leoni Wire Inc..............................850 Sarkuysan AS..............................2024 Strecker GmbH & Co KG............906 Zhangjiagang Greenshine .......412/02

CN Wire Corporation...................924 Leoni Wire Inc..............................850 Sarkuysan AS..............................2024

Wire Mfg/Construction B&Z Galvanized Wire Ind.........1807 Brookfield Wire Co.......................549 Central Wire Industries Ltd........1818 CN Wire Corporation...................924 FUHR GmbH & Co KG...............752 Henrich Maschinenfabrik...........1506 Keystone Steel & Wire ................405 Madison Steel, Inc........................360 Ozyasar Tel Ve Galvanizleme ..2018 Sivaco Wire Group ......................258 Strecker GmbH & Co KG............906 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co.........749

Wire Mfg/Electrical Equipment Clinton Instrument Company.......901 Leoni Wire Inc..............................850 LUKAS Anlagenbau GmbH .......116 Sarkuysan AS..............................2024 Strecker GmbH & Co KG............906

Wire Mfg/Electronic Components Anbao............................................753 Cable Consultants Corp................140 FSP-one, Inc................................2128 Leoni Wire Inc..............................850 wire 2016/Messe Düsseldorf North America..........................1001

Wire Mfg/Magnet Bühler GmbH................................740 FUHR GmbH & Co KG...............752 Sarkuysan AS..............................2024 United Wire Co Inc.......................252

Wire Mfg./Packaging Anbao............................................753 Gimax Srl/Gimax Group..............140 Jiangsu FNC Wire & Cable . 512/06 Keystone Steel & Wire ................405 Leggett & Platt Wire Group.........440 Madison Steel, Inc........................360 Ozyasar Tel Ve Galvanizleme ..2018

Pittsfield Plastics Engineering .....764 Mossberg Industries Inc................113 Tubular Products Company .......1550 Windak Inc..................................1940

Wire Mfg/Power Generation/ Trans./Dist.

Anbao............................................753 Electron Beam Technologies........454 Taubensee Steel & Wire ..............749 Maillefer SA..................................932

Wire Mfg/Rope/Sling/Related Anbao............................................753 B&Z Galvanized Wire Ind.........1807 Central Wire Industries Ltd........1818 Enshiang Machinery Enterprise Co, Ltd.......................666 Nantong Elite Metal Products .412/01 EUROLLS SpA............................858 Jiangsu FNC Wire & Cable.....512/06 Jiangsu Xinglong Metal ..........412/06 Madison Steel, Inc........................360 Mid-South Wire Co....................1354 Ozyasar Tel Ve Galvanizleme ..2018 Sarkuysan AS..............................2024 Sivaco Wire Group ......................258 SKET GmbH.................................712 Strecker GmbH & Co KG............906

Brookfield Wire Co.......................549 FUHR GmbH & Co KG...............752 Keystone Steel & Wire ................405 Leoni Wire Inc..............................850 Mid-South Wire Co....................1354 Sarkuysan AS..............................2024 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co........749 United Wire Co Inc.......................252

Wire Mfg/Wire Formed Products Agape Industries, Inc....................863 Anbao............................................753 Bekaert Corp/Bekaert NV..........2113 Brookfield Wire Co.......................549 Central Wire Industries Ltd........1818 CN Wire Corporation...................624 ERA Wire Inc...............................354 FUHR GmbH & Co KG...............752 Keystone Steel & Wire ................405 Leggett & Platt Wire Group.........440 Mid-South Wire Co....................1354 Oklahoma Steel & Wire.............2007 Schlatter Industries AG/Schlatter North America..........................1314 Sivaco Wire Group ......................258 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co.........749 Ultimate Automation Ltd.............458 wire 2016/Messe Düsseldorf North America..........................1001

Wire Mfg/Springs Anbao............................................753 Central Wire Industries Ltd........1949 ERA Wire Inc...............................354 FENN ..........................................1955 Gavlick Machinery Corp .............866 International Wire Group..............240 Jiangsu Yonggao Steel Wire .512/02 Numalliance North America .......732 Ozyasar Tel Ve Galvanizleme ..2018 Numalliance North America .......732 Ozyasar Tel Ve Galvanizleme ..2018 Raajratna Stainless Wire-USA.....453 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co.........312 WAFIOS Machinery Corp...........906 wire 2016/Messe Düsseldorf North America..........................1001

Wire Mfg/Transportation/ Automotive/Vehicular

Yarns, Threads, Tapes & Textiles American & Efird LLC...............1556 Finoptics Inc...............................1801 Fil-Tec Inc...................................1502 Forever Cable Materials Group.....................512/03 Longvision (Shanghai) Cable ....1917 Chase Corporation........................902 Chengdu Centran Ind Co Ltd.....1801 Conneaut Industries Inc................423 Fil-Tec, Inc..................................1502 FinOptics, Inc..............................1801 NEPTCO.......................................902 Pittsfield Plastics Engineering......764 Shenyang Jinggong Cable Mtl ....970 Shaoxing Kaicheng Mica Material Co, Ltd.....................512/01 Top Tapes......................................123

Bekaert Corp/Bekaert NV..........2113

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CLASSIFIEDS WIRE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL MEMBERS seeking positions are entitled to free “Position Wanted” classified ads. Limit: one ad per issue, three ads per year. This benefit is not transferable to nonmembers or to companies.

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES ENGINEER-QUALITY. Loos & Co., Inc. a Connecticut Wire and Cable Manufacturer seeks an Engineer for our Medical Technologies Division. This is a new position that will coordinate activities supporting product launch and process development.

Requires a BS in Engineering or Quality Engineering or equivalent manufacturing experience, 5 years minimum. Requires knowledge of APQP, FMEA, FEPPE, SPC, Control Plans, etc. Full benefit package offered. Send resume to: lynn.bouthillier@loosco.com / visit www.loosco.com.

DEADLINES: Copy is due a full month in advance.

Contact: classified@wirenet.org for more details.

OUTSIDE SALES AGENT WANTED. Seeking Industry Veteran for WFH PT/FT Sales Agent for Steel Spools/Reels in North/South America.Email Resume to strategicimpexgroup@gmail.com.

ACCOUNT MANAGER WANTED. T & T Marketing, a privately held, well-established, full service supplier of compounds and materials to the Wire & Cable (W&C) industry, is seeking a motivated Account Manager with excellent communication skills for our New England Territory. Experience required: 5 years in sales and 5 years in the W&C or plastics industry. 70% of time should be spent making sales

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calls. Some overnight travel required within and outside the territory. Must reside in a New England state and be able to work independently. Will be based out of home office. Technical and marketing experience a plus.

Opportunities for advancement are available. Industry leading pay and benefits will be offered. Please send resume to info@ttmarketinginc.com.

PERSONNEL SERVICES “LET OUR SUCCESS BE YOUR SUCCESS” Wire Resources is the foremost recruiting firm in the Wire & Cable Industry. Since 1967 we have partnered with industry Manufacturers to secure the services of executives, managers, and thousands of key individual contributors. Contact: Peter Carino, pcarino@ wireresources.com or online at www.linkedin.com/in/petercarino1/ Wire Resources Inc., PO Box 593, Riverside, CT 06878, tel. 203-6223000. www.wireresources.com.

DIES APOLLO DIA-CARB COMPANY Sells Natural/PCD diamond dies.

Fair prices/excellent lead times.

Contact Paulette, Owner/Sales Tel. #1 (508) 226-0946 E-mail: apollodie@comcast.net.

HINERY

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Ace Metal Corp / Howar Equipment..................147 AlphaGary Corp.................................................... C2 Amacoil Inc........................................................... C3 Amaral Automation Associates...........................25 Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd..................................48 Axjo America.......................................................131 Beta LaserMike / NDC Technologies.....................1 Boxy - Howar Equipment....................................169 Caballe SA............................................................155 Carris Reels Inc.................................................... C4 Cemanco................................................................89 Cimteq Ltd..............................................................77 Clifford Welding Systems................................... 117 Clinton Instrument Co........................................ 115 Commission Brokers Inc....................................190 Davis Standard....................................................149 DeWal Industries...................................................19 Ebner Furnaces...................................................129 Elco.........................................................................24 Enkotec Co Inc......................................................99 Esteves Group USA............................................123 Eurolls SpA............................................................53 Eurotek Srl.............................................................15 George Evans Corp.............................................172 FENN LLC .............................................................. 161 FMS USA Inc..........................................................47 Filtertech Inc..........................................................23 Flymca & Flyro....................................................103 Foerster Instruments Inc......................................73 Fort Wayne Wire Die Inc.......................................39

Frigeco USA Inc.....................................................59 Frontier Composites & Castings Inc...................28 Fuhr GmbH & Co KG...........................................165 Gauder Group........................................................93 Gem Gravure Co Inc.............................................27 W Gillies Technologies LLC............................... 21 GIMAX ........................insert, between pages 32-33 Guill Tool & Engineering Co.................................48 Howar Equipment / Ace Metal Corp..................147 Howar Equipment / Boxy SpA............................169 Howar Equipment / Unitek.................................... 11 Howar Equipment / Metavan................................24 Huestis Industrial............................................32, 49 IWG High Performance Conductors Inc.............87 Ideal-Werk............................................................151 Innovites ................................................................77 Inosym............................................................52, 175 Isotek .....................................................................41 Joe-Tools..............................................................119 KEIR Manufacturing Inc................................17, 174 Lamnea Bruk AB.................................................137 Lloyd & Bouvier Inc............................................ 113 Locton Limited....................................................174 Metavan - Howar Equipment................................24 Micro Products Co................................................43 Mossberg Industries Inc.....................................141 Niehoff GmbH & Co KG........................................57 P&R Specialty Inc................................................125 PA Industries........................................................159 Paramount Die................................................... 127

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ADVERTISERS’ INDEX ADVERTISER ............................ PAGE PKG Equipment Inc..............................................50 PolyOne ............................................................... 51 Pressure Welding Machines Ltd ..................... 167 Proton Products International ................... 54, 171 Queins Machines GmbH .................................. 109 Rainbow Rubber & Plastics Inc........................... 2 Refractron Technologies Corp ........................ 163 Rosendahl Nextrom GmbH .................................. 5 Saint Gobain Ceramics & Plastics Inc ............ 143 SAMP USA Inc................................................... 133 Sanxin Wire Die Inc ............................................ 13 SIKORA AG ........................................................... 7 SIMPACKS / Pioneer Machinery ............ floor plan Sjogren Industries ..................................... 104-105 SKET Verseilmaschinenb au GmbH ............ 94-95 Sonoco Reels ...................................................... 75 Steel Cable Reels................................................ 12 Stolberger Inc dba Wardwell Braiding Machine . 153 August Strecker GmbH & Co KG......................139 Talladega Castings & Machine Co Inc ................ 4 Teknor Apex ............................................ floor plan Trafco Srl ........................................................... 135 Troester GmbH.................................................. 121 Tubular Products Co .......................................... 20 Ultimate Automation .......................................... 55 United Wire Co Inc.............................................. 31 Unitek - Howar Equipment .................................. 11 Upcast OY ........................................................... 71 W3 Ultrasonics LLC.......................................... 170 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp ........................... 9 Windak Group ................................................... 101 Witels Albert USA Ltd....................................... 147 Woodburn Diamond Die Inc. ........................... 107 WTM Srl ............................................................. 145 Wyrepak Industries .................................... 86, 173 Zumbach Electronics ......................................... 29

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