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INTERWIRE 2023
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Personnel: Ricardo Hernandez, Christine Lovett.
Filtertech Inc.
Tel. 315-682-8815 www.filtertech.com/ lisac@filtertech.com
USA Booth 852
Flymca, Fluidos Y Mecanicas Cantabria S.L.(FLYMCA)
Tel. 34-942-559-855 www.flymca.com mlg@flymca.com
Spain Booth 1350 wire, and copper wire. We make quality visible.
Exhibiting: FLYMCA manufactures rotating machinery for production of conductors and cables for the power sector, control and instrumentation, telecommunication, submarine, offshore and umbilical, transformer cables, steel strands and ropes. Its sister company, FLYRO, sells used equipment.
Fort Wayne Wire Die, Inc.
Tel. 260-747-1681 www.fwwd.com sales@fwwd.com
USA Booth 1331
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 equipment and servicing that equipment for the life of the process.
Fine International Corp.
Tel. 732-933-0040 www.fineinternational.net finesales@gmail.com
USA Booth 866
Exhibiting: Fine International will operate braid wire rewinding machinery throughout Interwire. Booth engineering personnel will be available to provide literature and discuss our complete machinery line. That includes: wire handling equipment (payoffs, capstans, accumulator/dancers, take-ups), extrusion equipment, stranders and bunchers, vertical and horizontal braiders, vertical and horizontal taping equipment, non-contact and contact inductive preheaters and custom machinery. We also offer raw materials, including separating and shielding tapes, as well as process reels and other process accessories.
FMS USA Inc.
Tel. 847-519-4400 www.fms-technology.com fmsusa@fms-technology.com
USA Booth 405
Exhibiting: FMS will showcase the company’s RTMX42.BC brake control system for closed loop tension control on stranding machines. A functional system will be on display. Tension data is wirelessly transmitted off of the machine for integration into either a PC or PLC. Possibilities include data logging, graphing, tension limit alarms, etc. In addition, a functional RTM MP telemetry system will be available for review that uses wireless technology to replace the slip rings for encoder, digital and tension signals on bow style machinery. Also on display will be a selection of force sensors and amplifiers (with EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT and PROFINET interfaces).
Foerster Instruments Inc.
Tel. 412-788-8976 www.foerstergroup.com/en/ gornek.kristin@foerstergroup.com
USA Booth 765
Exhibiting: Foerster, a leading manufacturer and supplier of nondestructive testing equipment, utilizes electromagnetic or eddy current test principles. Products range from simple hand-held instruments to sophisticated integrated test systems for in-line testing. We offer complete solutions for ferritic and austenitic steels, for hot wire, valve spring
Exhibiting: Fort Wayne Wire Die’s complete product line will be on display. That includes single-crystal diamond, poly-di polycrystalline diamond and nano diamond coated (DCD) wire-drawing dies as well as shaped profile dies, extrusion tips and dies, tungsten carbide round hole and shaped profile dies, Poly-Strand compacting, bunching and stranding dies, Di-Pro diamond powder and compound, and miscellaneous wear parts for the wire, cable and tube industries. The company also offers a full line of equipment for die maintenance and more.
Personnel: Brad Scherer, John Downey, Byron Philipson, Tony Priutt, Logan Scherer, Tino Corral.
Frekans Makina San. ve Tic. A.S.
Tel. 90-0541-2880488
Turkey Booth 1654 See p. 84
Exhibiting: We will display a full central stranding line. Our company has more than 25 years of knowledge and experience in providing cable manufacturing machinery. We provide insulation lines, sheathing lines coarse wire drawing lines, central conductor stranding lines, shielding lines, drum twister lines, banding machines, transfer lines and modernization of all existing lines.
Frigeco USA Inc.
MFL USA Service Corp
Tel. 908-894-5801 www.mflgroup.com/en/brand/ frigeco t.derosa@mflgroup.com
USA Booth 411
Exhibiting: The FRIGECO brand belongs to the Wire & Cable Machinery Division and is one of the two brands born and raised within MFL Group. Its origins date back to the late 1990s. Over the last 20
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FUHR GmbH & Co. KG
Tel. 49 5233 38360-0 www.fuhr-wire.com sales@fuhr-wire.com
Germany Booth 228
Exhibiting: FUHR develops highly specialized wire rolling mills for the widest range of industrial applications. As a supplier of complete turnkey solutions, we develop and construct tailor-made equipment and systems in close collaboration with our clients: systems that integrate seamlessly into existing processes on site. We are a third-generation, medium-sized, family-owned company that can look back on more than 75 years of know-how in the construction of rolling lines and special machinery. During the course of the past decades, we have become a leading partner of many industry sectors – from the automotive industry to medical technology.
Personnel: Volker Gerth, Benjamin Joachim.
Gateway Recovery Inc.
Tel. 828-635-8400 www.gatewayrecovery.net don@gatewayrecovery.net
USA Booth 869
Exhibiting: Gateway Recovery is a full service metal recycling and processing facility that focuses on the wire and cable industry. We are an environmentally responsible operation that is under roof, SREA compliant, and a certified zero-runoff facility through NC DEQ. We have developed unique processes that range from large power cable on reels to specialty types of communication cable.
Gem Gravure Co., Inc.
Tel. 781-878-0456 www.gemgravure.com asviokla@gemgravure.com
USA Booth 805 by a comprehensive analysis of all relevant parameters. Processes are tested in near production conditions at GEO’s test laboratory. GEO also produces machines that can coat drawn and finished welding wires to maintain their pristine nature.
GEON Performance Solutions
Exhibiting: Established in 1952, Gem pioneered marking systems for the wire and cable industry using patented wheel printing processes designed by Gem founder Joseph Gemelli. Gem CEO David Gemelli introduced the first ink jet printers to the wire and cable industry in the 1980s. Further expansion has added a full line of fluids compatible with all brands of continuous ink jet printers. We specialize in the design and production of the finest pigmented fluids in the market today. Our alphaJET ink jet printers can provide superior coding for industries ranging from food and beverage to automotive and pharmaceuticals.
GEO Reinigungstechnik GmbH
Tel. 49-2542-9555290 www.geo-reinigungstechnik.de/en
Germany Booth 350
Exhibiting: GEO Cleaning Technology. For more than two decades, GEO has explicitly dealt with the cleaning of various profiles of wire, ribbon, strand and cable, and today offers a complete range of aqueous and mechanical wire cleaning systems both for single and multi-wire applications. With mechanical cleaning, contamination is removed from the visible surface by using textiles, microfibers and brushes. GEO Systems with textiles or brushes are very effective, having small space requirements, and are easily integrated into existing processes for a very low cost, for predictable and dependable results. Aqueous cleaning can substantially remove contamination, even the smallest surface defects. Depending on the requirements, high-pressure nozzles, steam or ultrasonic modules are used individually or in combination. The recommendation for a suitable cleaning process is preceded
Tel. 561-946-5059 www.geon.com
USA Booth 1504
Exhibiting: In a growing world that is dependent on wire and cable, there’s a reason manufacturers rely on GEON Performance Solutions. Our 70+ years of experience and incredible technical breadth stand-out in the telecommunications, industrial, power and control, and emerging industries. Our history gives us the knowledge, experience and maturity to address the needs and challenges of our customers. Throughout our material design to manufacturing services, we are committed to continually innovating and expanding our offerings to support next-generation technologies that help our customers meet their goals for improved performance, better quality, lower total costs and sustainability.
Gimax Srl
Tel. 39-0444-551790 www.gimaxgroup.com info@gimaxgroup.com
Italy Booth 1134
Exhibiting: Gimax will highlight the range of its wiredrawing equipment. It supplies drawing equipment for producing copper-based brazing wires, aluminum welding alloys, cobalt flux cored wire and titanium fine wire, stainless steel and more. The machinery includes both TRS wet drawbenches (spray type, not immersed) and TRD dry drawbenches (with both vertically and horizontally mounted capstans), all of which are non-slip with individual motors for each capstan. Gimax drawbenches are designed to easily adapt to ferrous and nonferrous wires. Gimax also offers wire processing machinery: descaling, pickling, dry drawing and wet drawing
Why is our company a WAI Elite sponsor?
Encore Wire remains a committed partner and sponsor of the WAI. With our robust membership numbers and our ongoing event sponsorship, we are devoted to investing in our employees and the industry. In addition to its trade shows, there is no better industry resource than the WAI. With its deep pool of educational resources—from its basic Fundamentals course for new industry members to its technical papers and its coverage of the latest industry news—the Wire Association has it all.
W.T. Bigbee
benches, chemical coppering tanks, shaving and peeling lines; and wire handling machinery: respooling, coiling and rewinding, drum packing and packaging machinery. We will show examples at our booth.
Personnel: Gianluca Marangoni, Enrico Romagnolo.
GMM Cable Machinery
Tel. 630-822-0113 www.gmm.com.tr iselvili@gmm-usa.com
USA Booth 965 automation and controlling equipment with a deep focus on safety, ergonomics and reliability.
Personnel: Hasan Levent Selvili.
GMP Slovakia sro Tel. 42-9156-6280211 www.gmp-slovakia.com sales@gmp-slovakia.com
Slovak Republic Booth 761 extrusion systems and specialized turnkey systems for automotive, industrial, construction, packaging, wire and cable, durable goods, graphics and healthcare industries. GEC is a privately held company located in York, Pennsylvania.
Exhibiting: GMP Slovakia is a worldwide leader in the production of steel reels, drums, take-apart reels and handling equipment for the wire and cable industry. The company has two plants, in Europe and in India.
Personnel: Federica Gatti, Livio Ruggenenti.
Guill Tool & Engineering Co. Tel. 401-828-7600 bconley@guill.com
USA Booth 618
Exhibiting: Guill Tool & Engineering, a leading manufacturer of extrusion tooling, will display its bullet series crossheads to the wire and cable industry. These crossheads are fixed center, have no hardware, and includes our patented cam lock feature that facilitates lightning fast tool changes and crosshead cleaning. Additional designs on display include our multi-layer nylon/PVC and multi-layer CV crossheads.
W. Gillies Technologies LLC
Tel. 508-852-2502 www.wgillies.com mspencer@wgillies.com
USA Booth 500
Exhibiting: GMM-USA, a subsidiary of GMM (Guven Muhendislik Makina) Cable Machinery, produces high quality fiber optic and power cable production lines for more than 20 years. These include stranding lines, rewinding lines, jacketing lines, tubing lines and individual equipment such as caterpillars, cooling troughs, capstans, accumulators, extruders, take-ups and payoffs. We also produce heavy duty submarine grade take-ups and payoffs up to 100 tons, and caterpillars up to six tons. GMM also produces state-of-the-art
Graham Engineering Company, LLC Tel. 717-505-4810 www.grahamengineering.com
USA Booth 324
Exhibiting: The global standard in single-screw extrusion, Graham Engineering Corporation (GEC) has more than 50 years of experience meeting and exceeding our customers’ needs. GEC has provided machinery solutions in over 70 countries across many forms of extrusion. The company’s solutions comprise standard and custom extrusion solutions spanning blow molding, sheet, single-screw extruders, feed screws,
Exhibiting: W. Gillies Technologies, LLC, a member of the RSD Group, offers a full line of equipment for marking and printing on jacketed wire, cable, hose, tubing and extruded profiles. It specializes in contact Gravure printers, laser markers, ink jet guidance and line speed detection systems and guide roller assemblies. It also manufactures an extensive line of engraved printing wheels, indent wheels and embossing wheels. It will feature its CPLM 1064 high-speed laser marker.
H. Folke Sandelin AB (HFSAB)
Tel. 46-141-203630 www.hfsab.com
Sweden Booth 841
Exhibiting: HFSAB, from Motala, Sweden, a co-exhibitor with Niehoff Endex North America, Inc., supplies continuous lead extrusion equipment and know-how for trouble-free lead sheathing of cables requiring a perfect moisture barrier. Horizontal lead extruders are floor-standing,