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WIRE&CABLE INDIA Exhibitor List | Company Profiles | Indian Growth Sectors
SPECIAL EDITION INDIA: SUSTAINED EXPANSION By J.E. Swindells Consider India—its advances, its industrial growth, and its need to support the country’s growing infrastructure. All signals point to the simultaneous expansion of sectors that directly affect the wire and cable industry in the country. Widespread activity is at hand as evidenced by the expected participation of more than 200 exhibitors at the imminent Wire & Cable India 2010 event—November 18-20, Hall No. 6 of the Bombay Exhibition Centre. This, the third edition of the event, is the first one to be organized by Messe Düsseldorf’s subsidiary Messe Düsseldorf India Pvt. Ltd. with the promotional support of The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). The organizers are optimistic about the effect the show will have on global wire and cable companies. The 2008 show drew interest from 8,000 trade visitors from within India, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East; and 223 exhibiting companies, 56 of which were from Europe. “The Indian market is becoming increasingly important for the wire and cable industry, primarily due to growth in the sectors of building and construction, automobile, aviation, energy, engineering, and telecommunications. At Wire & Cable India, we add our rich experience in the organization of high-technology fairs,” said Mr. Hans-Werner Reinhard, Vice President of Messe Düsseldorf, Germany. Mr. Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII, shared similar sentiments noting that the event makes it “even more attractive to international export-oriented companies to enter the Indian growth market.”
INDIA IN CONTEXT Look at India now. It’s accelerating in all directions. Overcrowded one-lane roads are giving way to wider, paved highways for a more orderly traffic flow. More of the country’s skilled labor population is shifting toward the major cities, so it follows that car sales have accelerated by 33% over this time last year. New airports are springing up with the modern appointments that international travelers expect. And according to a September 2010 Forbes blog, the government is investing $500 billion in infrastructure in the five years ending 2012, and another $1 trillion in the five years that follow. In the next 10 years India is expected to experience 7% year-on-year growth.
ENVISION 2020 Look at India in a year, two, or 10 years down the road and try to imagine the progression of its infrastructure. Gaze at the celestial sphere over India to the firmamental space that will support the country’s air travel requirements, which are expected to reach pinnacle levels of 180 million passengers annually by the year 2020. If you can see how reliably electricity is delivered across the country’s national power grid...if you can see how the immense steel girders and gridwork reach for the cerulean sky over the horizon...or if you can fathom the amount of linear feet of wire and cable end products that become critical components of each car, plane, building, and grid...then you can realize a clear vision of our industry in India. Explore this supplement to learn about participants at Wire & Cable India.
18-20 November 2010 | Bombay Exhibition Centre | Mumbai, India Hours: 18-19 November 2010 – 10.00-18.00 h & 20 November 2010 – 10.00-17.00 h Admission to the exhibits is free.
2B | WIRE BULLETIN SPECIAL EDITION
OCTOBER 2010 | 2C
SPECIAL EDITION A-1 Fence Products I India
EXHIBITOR LIST
COMPANY PROFILES
Austria Austrian Wire & Cable Machinery Manufacturers Association (AWCMA) CPA Computer Process Automation GmbH EBNER Industrieofenbau GmbH Eder Engineering GmbH EVG Entwicklungs- und VerwertungsGesellschaft m.b.H. Lenzing Plastics GmbH MALI GmbH Medek & Schörner GmbH Unitek Maschinenbau- und Handels GmbH WKÖ-Wirtschaftskammer Österreich Aussenwirtschaft Österreich (AWO)
The company’s product line includes chain link systems; razor and barbed wire (galvanized and PVC-coated); fencing posts (galvanized and powder-coated); weld mesh systems; security gates; temporary fence panels; palisade fence; fencing accessories; gabions; and various fencing fabrications. Contact: sales@a1fenceproducts.com | www.a-1fenceproducts.com
Ajex & Turner Wire Dies I India The company’s products include wire and enameling dies; extrusion tools; measuring and polishing pins; die polishing accessories; and ceramic brushes. Its overseas collaborators will be present to discuss future business. Reps and their corresponding specialities include: Mr. David Lee—copper and aluminium drawing lubricants; Mr. M. Mantovani—multi-wire drawing machines; Mr. F. Bellina—steel wire lubricants and TC pressure dies and nibs; and Mr. Daniele Cipolla—self-centering cross-heads. Contact: sales@ajexturner.com | www.ajexturner.com
Alloy Wire International I India See ad, p. 2B. Contact: amitban@cal2.vsnl.net.in | www.alloywire.com
ASACO Private Ltd. | India
WIRE&CABLE
Kingdom of Bahrain MADEM Gulf Industries WLL
INDIA
The company provides wiredrawing lines with inline annealers; Maillefer cable insulating and sheathing lines; Esteves wiredrawing dies; Uhing traversing systems; Hearl Heaton cable spools and reels; Medek & Schoerner cable marking machines; and Redex copper rolling mills. Its customers include Finolex, Sterlite, Universal Cables, Anchor, V-Guard, Motherson Sumi, and many leading cable manufacturers in India. Contact: asacoltd@asaco.in | www.asaco.in
Associated Machinery Corp. Ltd. | India The company makes and exports wire processing and manufacturing machines; wire processing plants; wiredrawing and wire marking machines; stranding, bull block, and wet drawing machines; vertical drop and dead block coilers; spooling machines; pointing machines; and copper coating lines from India. Contact: wiremachine_amcoindia@yahoo.com | www.amcoindia.com
Assomac Machines Ltd. | India
Belgium
The Assomac Group of engineering companies produces and supplies drawing equipment and accessories for making alloy, carbon, mild, and stainless steel, and other nonferrous wires. The group, headed by Mr. R.K. Tyagi, has developed various ferrous and nonferrous wires and wiredrawing plants; it also designs and develops lowcost and efficient wire and cable machinery for specific applications within small to large ferrous and nonferrous wiredrawing plants. Machinery includes a vertical drop coiler, BB type wiredrawing machine, MIG (Co2) wiredrawing plant, dead block coilers, wire galvanizing lines (hot dip and electro), wire spoolers, tabular/cage stranding machines, spool take-ups, die boring and lapping machines, and tubular inverted coilers. The Wire Drawing Division produces cold rolling mills for both plain and ribbed bars. Assomac’s machines are installed in India, across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South East Asia. See ad below. Contact: info@assomacmachines.in | www.assomacmachines.com
FIB Belgium S.A. Gauder & Co. S.A.
Brazil Madem Reels
Austrian Wire & Cable Machinery Manufacturers Association (AWCMA) | Austria
China Anhui Herrman Impex Co., Ltd. Baicheng Fujia Machinery Manufacturer Co., Ltd. Borun Cable Material Co., Ltd. Chengdu Centran Industrial Co., Ltd. Comsuc Technology Development Ltd. Dalian Tongda Equipment Technology Development Co., Ltd.
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Ten member companies, jointly organised by the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and AWCMA’s President, Dr. Kurt Eder, will offer top-of-the-line machines in the Austrian Pavilion, in Hall 6. Companies include: AWCMA/VOEDKM, CPA, Ebner Industrieofenbau, Eder, EVG, Lenzing, MAG, Mali, Medek & Schoerner, Rosendahl, and Unitek. Information about non-exhibiting AWCMA member companies will be available also. Contact: office@awcma.com | www.awcma.com
Autowin Systems Pvt. Ltd. | India Established in 1995, the company retrofits oil cleaners on diesel engines for various applications including DG sets, earth moving equipment, compressors, drilling rigs, locomotives, marine engines, trucks, and buses. Its OEM product line—suitable on BEML Komatsu, Kirloskar, Greaves, and Tata engines—has an installation base of more than 50,000 units. Its centrifugal oil cleaner is widely used for industrial applications like wiredrawing, cold forming, quenching, forging, honing, reaming, and grinding; it can be used on various oils including turbine, gear, transmission, hydraulic, compressor, straight cutting, test bed, and water glycol-based cutting oils. Contact: response@autowinsystems.com | www.autowinsystems.com
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SPECIAL EDITION AUTOMOTIVE India’s automobile sector is once again on a roll as indicated by the sales figures from the car companies. This is despite the spiralling fuel prices and rising inflation levels. In July 2010, car sales in India hit an all-time high with local sales rising up to 1,58,764 cars, up 38 per cent from the sale of 1,15,084 cars recorded a year earlier, according to the data provided by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM). However, a recent analysis from Anagram Research on the automobile sector states that higher raw material costs and changes in emission norms might affect further growth of vehicle purchases in the country. A host of factors such as lower excise duty, accelerated depreciation, new models, salary hikes, release of arrears of the Sixth Pay Commission to government and PSU employees, lower interest rates, and buoyancy in rural markets due to higher crop prices have driven the massive positive change in the fortunes of automobile makers. Meanwhile, considering the sales figures from passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles across the companies, it is evident that the automobile demand is more robust for commercial purposes than domestic use. SIAM expects automobile sales to exceed the projections of 12-13 per cent for 2010-11 as the sales are likely to peak during October and November due to the festive season. This will positively impact the wire and cable industry, especially players supplying wire harnesses, cables, and other components to OEMs. For instance, one such company is Motherson Sumi whose sales for FY10 have increased by 26.87 per cent. With its primary manufacturing plant in Chennai, it derives 27 per cent of its revenue from the wire harness segment. Then there is Suprajit Engineering that has achieved phenomenal growth, making it India’s largest manufacturer of automotive cables with a capacity of 65 million cables a year. It now plans to increase its capacity to 100 million cables, and has recently set up its tenth automotive cable plant in India at Haridwar. As per a report by the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA), the turnover of the auto component industry is being estimated at more than USD 19.2 billion in 2010. The report states that 31 per cent of the auto component industry is dominated by engine parts, 19 per cent by drive transmission and steering parts, and 12 per cent each by suspension and braking parts and body and chassis, while equipment and electrical parts capture 10 and 9 per cent, respectively.|WB
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Niehoff has customers around the globe and a well established presence in India. We have seen first-hand the market evolving and it is exciting to see the pace of new projects and the overall growing capacity of this special region.” Bernd Lohmüller, Vice President Niehoff GmbH & Co. KG
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SPECIAL EDITION Bedmutha Industries Ltd. | India
China cont.
This industrial consultancy company also manufactures wire and wire products, electronic ballast, inverters/UPS, and supplies sealed maintenance-free lead acid batteries and inverter batteries along with its products. It has manufacturing units at Nashik, Sinner, and Silvassa. The company’s products include galvanized steel and MS wire, high carbon steel wire, cable armour wire, ACSR core wire, stay and earth wires, spring steel wires, binding wires, chain link fencing, barbed wires, high carbon rope wires, and wire nets. Contact: bedmutha_nsk@sancharnet.in | www.bedmutha.com
Dongguan City Jingtie Machinery Co., Ltd. Golden Technologies Wire & Cable Equipment Co., Ltd. Hefei Smarter Technology Co., Ltd. Ito-Sin (Deyang) Wire & Cable Equipment Co., Ltd. No.23 Research Institute of China Electronic Technology Corporation Group Qunye Electrical Machinery Factory Shanghai DIELEC Electrotechnics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Wangxun New Material Co., Ltd. Shaoxing Kaichen Mica Material Co., Ltd. Shenyang Tianrong Cable Materials Co., Ltd. Sinoleader Industries Group Co., Ltd. Suzhou Zhihong Cable Material Co., Ltd. Wah Sing (Shukchin) Chemical Co., Ltd. Wai Tak Lung Engineering Factory Well Gain Cable Systems (Shanghai) Ltd. Wintime Machinery Co., Ltd. Wuxi Hengtan Wuxi Quantong Cable Material Co., Ltd. Wuxi Sunking International Trading Co., Ltd. Yangzhou Qunye Electrical Machinery Factory Zhangjiagang Victor Textile Machinery Co., Ltd.
Beta LaserMike | India The company will display the CenterScan 2010, its new non-contact eccentricity measurement system, which is designed to improve wire and cable quality while reducing scrap and increasing productivity. The product— through highly sensitive magnetic and optical technology—precisely determines the location of the conductor and insulated wire. It offers online, high-speed eccentricity, diameter, and ovality measurements of wire and cable insulation over a solid or stranded core without touching the product, and it can detect product flaws. Also see the LaserSpeed length and speed encoder and AccuScan diameter and ovality gauge. See ad below. Contact: v.kumar@betalasermike.com | www.betalasermike.com
BWE Ltd. | United Kingdom On display will be the SheathEx™ machine that extrudes a continuous and seamless aluminium tube (max diameter 170 mm) around a high voltage cable core. The extrusion is from two 12.0 mm diameter rods. The product line is a result of the company’s collaboration with high voltage power cable producers in China to develop the product and process specifications of this new and unique technology, for which international patents have been filed. Three installations are in production; two further projects expected to be commissioned in 2010. BWE introduces a smaller 400 model to cover cable diameters up to 100 mm. BWE offers its customers very long lengths of cable in a seamless aluminium sheath at a very competitive price. The feedstock material is standard CCR aluminium rod. The SheathEx process is a continuous, reliable, and cost-effective method of sheathing high voltage power cables. See ad, p. 2E. Contact: paultree@bwe.co.uk | www.bwe.co.uk
Chengdu Centran Industrial Co. Ltd. | China The company will exhibit thin single-side non-conductive water-blocking tape CDZD-10 for cable core and high tensile strength semi-conductive toteron tape (conductor binding). Contact: market@china-centran.com | www.china-centran.com
Conoptica AS | Norway Conoptica’s production and quality control systems offer fast, accurate, and sophisticated commercial systems for 3D profile geometry measurements of drawing dies. Its 3D-Outline optical measurement technique uses precision mechanics and submicrometer image processing routines to reveal a multiple triangulated die outline. Conoptica AS is the only firm that offers a commercially available measurement solution for small ring gauges. Its quality control systems—which are used by local die and wire producers in Europe, the USA, Brazil, Japan, China, South Korea, India, Thailand, Malaysia, and other industrial countries—have become a de facto standard for measuring full profile inner geometries of drawing dies. Its systems offer low-cost measurement of round/shaped die and/or wire diameter to high-end 3D full profile measurement of any geometrical object (die, wire, rod, pin, needle, and tube) within the system’s range of 0.010 mm to 400.00 mm. See ad, p. 2M. Contact: conoptica@conoptica.com | www.conoptica.com
France FSP-One S.A.S. Redex S.A.
Germany ADVARIS Informationssysteme GmbH August Strecker GmbH & Co. KG Elektro-Schweissmaschinen-Fabrik Bongard Trading GmbH & Co. KG Bühler Würz Kaltwalztechnik GmbH EJP Maschinen GmbH
Eder Engineering GmbH | Austria & India
Visitors at the Eder booth during an earlier exhibition.
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The company brings more than 60 years of experience in the supply of top machines for die processing, e.g., leading standard, semi-automatic, and fully automatic machines for both the reconditioning and production of ultrahard precision TC/ND and PCD drawing die tools. Exhibit highlights include die-working and wire/cable industry equipment, with emphasis on PCD dies. Also: machines for working tungsten carbide dies; machines for working diamond/PCD dies; die workshop ancillary equipment; and die working materials. Some products will be shown live; others demonstrated via a multimedia show, or in catalogue form. See ad, p. 2C. Contact: office@eder-eng.com | www.eder-eng.com India Representation, contact: cables@vedicsystems.com
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SPECIAL EDITION FIB Belgium S.A.| Belgium
Germany cont. Elantas GmbH Friedr. Krollmann GmbH & Co. KG FUHR GmbH & Co. KG Hans Schmidt & Co. GmbH HIGHVOLT Prüftechnik Dresden GmbH KJM GmbH Klaus Merten GmbH Koch GmbH Maschinenbau Scholz GmbH & Co. KG Maschinenfabrik Johann Leimbach GmbH Minelco GmbH National Machinery Europe Niehoff GmbH & Co. KG Petig AG Queins & Co. GmbH RSD Technik GmbH Saarstahl-Export GmbH Scholz Maschinenbau GmbH SIKORA AG Troester GmbH & Co. KG WAFIOS AG WHG WAFIOS Handelsge-sellschaft mbH & Co. KG WAFIOS Umformtechnik GmbH Zeller + Gmelin GmbH & Co. KG
The company designs and supplies heat treatment lines for steel wire production. FIB specialises in lines for high carbon wires (cable, steel cord, bead wire); in galvanizing and galfan coating lines in the field of high and low carbon; in bell furnaces for annealing or spheroidizing of wires under nitrogen or hydrogen; and in furnaces for stainless steel and spring wires (oil tempering lines). Supplying 43 countries, its presence in India has been reinforced recently with several orders from well-known wire manufactures. See ad, p. 2O. Contact: info@fib.be | www.fib.be
Fort Wayne Wire Die Inc (FWWD) | USA FWWD will exhibit: wiredrawing dies—single crystal diamond, Poly-Di® polycrystalline, Dual-Draw™, and tungsten carbide; extrusion tips and dies; shaped profile dies; poly-Strand™ stranding, bunching, and compacting dies; enameling dies; Di-Pro™ diamond powder and compound; and miscellaneous wear parts. Learn details about the company’s die-inventory management and re-cutting services that optimize ROI and its die maintenance, measuring, and inspection solutions. See ad, p. 2Q. Contact: sales@fwwd.com | www.fwwd.com
FUHR GmbH & Co. KG | Germany FUHR GmbH & Co. KG will provide an overview of its latest cold rolling technologies for rectangular and flat copper wire, as well as its production solutions special profile rolling mills—the latter of which was delivered to India recently. Fuhr offers solutions for the production of high-precision magnet wires, particularly for CTC applications, for which tight tolerances must be maintained. It also supplies to the growing PV ribbon manufacturing industry. FUHR’s rolling mills offer minimal set-up times; tolerances of as little as +/- 0.003 mm; and production speeds of up to 800m/min, which enable customers to produce various high-precision rectangular and flat copper wires with a great deal of flexibility for downstream in and off-line annealing and tinning processes. See ad, p. 2L. Contact: sebastian.koenig@karl-fuhr.com | www.fuhr-wire.com
Gimax Group | Italy Founded in 1978, Gimax firmly established itself as a supplier of machinery to the wire industry with further growth in the 1990s, due to the success of its fully automatic respooler and its expansion in the worldwide market. The fully automatic respooler proved to be an ‘avant-garde’ piece of machinery. It still remains the most reliable, efficient, and cost-effective respooler that the welding wire market can offer. See ad below. Contact: sales@gimaxgroup.com | www.gimaxgroup.com
Kay Pee Dies & Tools | India A pioneer in the manufacture of tungsten carbide dies in India since 1968, the company has been supplying quality dies at the right price for various applications including wire, bright bar, tube, and fasteners. The company serves as an agent and distributor of wiredrawing lubricants and coatings for Pan Chemicals SpA, Italy; it is also an agent for Gimax Group, Italy, selling world-renowned machines for the welding wire industry. Contact: kaypeedies@airtelmail.in | www.kaypeedies.com
Hans Schmidt & Co. GmbH | Germany
Hong Kong Pilatus International Co., Ltd.
India A-1 Fence Products Ajex & Turner Wire Dies Co. ASACO Private Ltd. Asian Contec Ltd.
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The company offers 10 different series, 22 models, and more than 2,000 possible variations of tension meters, including both hand-held and online models, each available as mechanical and electronic versions. Highlights include: the Handheld Tension Meter Series DTMB-V1 with a tension range up to 50 daN and special guide rollers for larger diameters cables up to 6 mm; the Online Tension Sensor Series TS With Digital Output (RS232) with new features to meet the latest demands for digital signal processing (including easy installation, independence from electronic noise, direct computer connection, and the ability of a single PC to display, store, and analyse tension readings continuously); the Tension Sensor Model TSH-5000 with big steel-hardened roller for less wire bending; the Belt Tension Meter, a hand-held instrument to determine the belt tension of various machines and drives and accurately measure the static tension of flat, V, and ribbed belts of rubber, leather, fabric, and composite materials by measuring the natural frequency (Hz) of a segment of the belt that has been tapped and then converting it into tension units of newtons (N) or pounds force (lbf). The instrument uses a pulsed ruby red light source to measure the natural frequency of the vibrating belt; and control instruments such as force gauges and test stands, tensile strength testers, wire terminal testers, tachometers and stroboscopes, thickness gauges, and shore hardness testers. Contact: info@hans-schmidt.com | www.hans-schmidt.com
Indore Composite (P) Ltd. | India The company’s Cable Material Division offers its global customers a vast range of cable and engineering plastic materials and solutions including: reinforcement (e.g., FRP rods), yarn, and tapes. Its Engineering Plastic Division specialises in long fiber thermoplastic (LFT) compounds and solutions based on various resins such as PP, nylon, PBT, TPU, PPS, and PC/ABS. Contact: sales.cm@indore.co.in | www.indore.co.in
InnoVites | India InnoVites for Cable© is a unique ERP solution on user-friendly Microsoft Dynamics AX© technology, and has been developed at their Cable Competence Center, Hyderabad, India. InnoVites, headquartered in The Netherlands, is focused on issues in the wire and cable industry. Its software addresses length and tolerance management, product data management, and copper management. CableBuilder© is a popular and powerful cable design solution from their partner Cimteq, for which InnoVites is the exclusive reseller in India. This solution helps customers with engineering processes, and product data and quotation management to reduce costs, improve customer interaction, and capitalise on the accumulated knowledge and experience in a company. See ad, p. 2D. Contact: agroothedde@innovites.com, sathish.b@innovites.com | www.innovites.com
KEI Industries Ltd. | India The company manufactures high- and low-tension cables (EHT, HT, LT), control and instrumentation cables, house wires, and stainless steel wires. KEI is one of the few companies in India to manufacture specialty cables, including braided cables, fire survival, and zero halogen cables. Contact: info@kei-ind.com | www.kei-ind.com
Madem Reels | Brazil Madem Gulf Industries is a subsidiary Madem SA Brazil, a leading nailed wooden reels’ producer with more than 60 years of industry experience. The Madem Group has forests, sawmills, and manufacturing plants in Brazil, Spain, and Bahrain with more than 500 employees; it produces more than 400 containers/trucks of knock-down reels per month. Contact: madem@madem.com.br | www.mademreels.com
Maillefer SA | Switzerland At this show, which also marks the opening of the company’s new India office, Maillefer’s local staff will be joined by key management personnel from Finland and Switzerland. The company will present its extrusion systems for energy, fiber optic, and telecom cable; and tube manufacturing systems. Highlights include improvements for the production of medium-, high-, and extra-high voltage cables; new kV technology and innovations for higher speed capabilities and improved quality control, in the 500 figures; a CTC component innovation for the rapid change from one cable size to another in a CV line; and the talc-free system for producing low voltage cables and building wire. Maillefer’s TEL00 extrusion line produces both solid and foam skin as well as PE and FEP-insulated microwires some as thin as a human hair for coax and LAN applications. Maillefer offers solutions for every stage of the fiber optic cable process. Tight buffering, secondary coating, SZ stranding, and jacketing lines are available for producing FTTx cable with low fiber counts and short lengths. See ad, p. 2G. Contact: info@maillefer.net | www.mailleferextrusion.com
Medek & Schörner GmbH | Austria Cable marking machines with the following features will be on display: high quality gravure printers (LAN cables, control cables, etc.) for speeds up to 1,200 m/min.; a water misting, post-extrusion unit; an embossing meter, markers/hot foil sequential meter markers for high length measurement accuracy (power cables, telecommunication cables, and optical fiber cables); high performance ring markers for telephone and switchboard wires, and automotive and LAN cables; a video system for real-time inspection of print quality on cable; and laser marking system for cables. Also, optical fiber coating systems that feature optical fiber colour coding up to 3,000 m/min.; ring marking of optical fibers; tight buffering up to 1,300 m/min.; fiber ribbon production with excellent ribbon planarity and for speeds up to 1,000 m/min.; CFU production of compact fiber units; copper wire insulation with UV varnishes (enamelled wire) and dimension-sensitive precision micro-flexible flat cables (FFC) using UV resins. See ad, p. 2P. Contact: m+s@medek.at | www.medek.at
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SPECIAL EDITION TELECOM The Indian telecommunications network with 621 million connections (as of March 2010) is the third largest in the world. The sector has been growing at a speed of 45 per cent during the recent years. The rapid strides in the telecom sector have been facilitated by liberal governmental policies that provide easy market access for telecom equipment and a fair regulatory framework for offering telecom services to the Indian consumers at affordable prices. Presently, all the telecom services have been opened for private participation. The Indian Telecom Analysis (2008-2012) report by RNCOS Industry Research Solutions shows that the mobile telecom segment has surpassed all the other segments in the Indian telecom sector. Its growth has been forecast at a compound annual growth rate of around 15 per cent between 2010 and 2014. The report also indicates that the advance of services such as Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and 3G are fuelling further growth of the Indian telecom sector. Given the growth scenario, YOU Broadband & Cable India, which has a presence in 11 cities with more than 1,155 km of fiber optic and 4,000 km of coaxial cable, plans to provide better value for the cost of its service through high speed broadband plans, video content, and improved video services to its 2,00,000 plus customer base. Meanwhile, Shilpi Cables has ensured their products are all 3G compatible, and is also looking at introducing low loss cables and aluminum cables as a solution to the dearth in copper. Sterlite Technologies’ capacity expansion projects for optical fibers are well on track. With 20 million kms of fiber, Sterlite Technologies will be amongst the largest global manufacturers of optical fibers by FY11-12. The company also has its network ready to offer 10G when and if the need arises and when the technology is in place in the Indian market. Another strong player, Finolex, with a market share of 21.6 per cent, has shown a growth rate of 2.4 per cent in its revenues from the last fiscal. Relemac Technologies, a leading manufacturer of specialty cables, has received an order from a leading broadband provider company to provide multi-core combined cables. It is estimated that over the next 15 to 20 years, copper access networks in India will largely be replaced by fiber access networks, creating massive opportunities for vendors and network builders.|WB
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India is an exciting and promising market. As Indian companies strive to penetrate newer developed markets, they would need also to concentrate on superior quality. And for producing high quality wires and cables, they will need equally high quality production equipment and technologies.” Dr. Kurt Eder, President Eder Engineering GmbH
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Wire & Cable India November 18 – 20, 2010 Mumbai, India Booth No. D20, Hall 6
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SPECIAL EDITION Micro Products Co. | USA & India
India cont. Associated Machinery Corp. Ltd. Assomac Machines Ltd. Autowin Systems Pvt. Ltd. Bedmutha Industries Ltd. Beta LaserMike Bihani Manufacturing Co. Pvt. Ltd. CAB Device Industries Cablebiz Online Junction Carl Bechem Lubricants India CBS Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Coatwell India Pvt. Ltd. Condat Lubricants Datsons Enterprises Eder Engineering GmbH Excel Craft Machineries Pvt. Ltd. Gala Shrink Fit Garg Inox Ltd. IndiaMart Intermesh Ltd. Indore Composite (P) Ltd. InnoVites India Intellitech Jay Enterprise Kataria Industries Kay Pee Dies & Tools KEI Industries Ltd. Khurana Carbides Pvt. Ltd. Laser Measurement Instruments (P) Ltd. LMI India Pvt. Ltd. Lubrizol Advanced Materials India Pvt. Ltd. Machine & Controls Markem - Imaje Business Group Micro Products Co. Mikrotek Services Mikrotek Machines Ltd. Miracle Cables (India) Pvt. Ltd. MPI Machines Ltd. Niehoff of India Pvt. Ltd.
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Micro-Weld’s electric resistance butt and flash welders have been designed and manufactured by Micro Products Company of the U.S. since 1928. The company offers welders for both ferrous and nonferrous applications for various wire diameters and are used to continuously and cost effectively process wire, rod, or cable in more than 30 countries, including India. See ceramic fusion welders for perfect welds without burrs on stranded conductors. Micro-Weld products feature include heavy-duty, long-lasting transformers, manual or pneumatic operation, and self-aligning welding dies for consistent, high-quality welds; the design makes them tough, dependable, and easy to operate. Also: free sample weld evaluation service tests the stock/material and evaluates weldability and strength. See ad below. Contact: hdayal@micro-weld.com | www.micro-weld.com India Representation, contact: Mr. A.N. Sinha, A.S.H. Holdings Pvt. Ltd. | alar@alar.in
MPI Machines Ltd. | India Company products include: a rod breakdown wiredrawing machine—designed to draw aluminium and copper wire in one process—that consists of pay-off, main machine, bobbin spooler, or vertical coiler; a rigid stranding wire stranding machine, which is offered in various configurations, and is typically used for Al/Cu and steel wires; a power cable drum twister machine a—designed for laying of telephone and power cables—that consists of bobbin pay-offs/drum pay-offs, deviation roller stand, longitudinal polyster pay-off, lay plate/closing die stand binder unit, tapping head, rotating belt caterpiler, rotating take-up, lifting platform, and drive controls; and a steel tape armouring machine, designed for use on telephone cable and power cables. See ad, p. 2S. Contact: mpihouse@airtelmail.in | www.mpigwl.com
Nextrom | Austria & India See Rosendahl listing.
Niehoff GmbH & Co. KG | Germany & India Niehoff’s product line comprises a complete plant for producing wires from nonferrous materials and alloys. It has wiredrawing plants for single or dual wires or up to 32 wires per machine, from thin to thick wire. Electrolytic tin-plating of wires finished for use in household appliances, automobiles, and for telephone and data transmission ensures that they are temperature and corrosion-resistant and have enhanced soldering characteristics. Its bunching machines are used to produce flexible conductors. The Niehoff packaging system (NPS), featuring a patented winding pattern, enables the continuous production of packages of isolated conductors in connection with extrusion plants, these space and cost-saving systems are completely recyclable. The machines and equipment can be supplied in an almost completely automatic version or with robot facilities for fully automatic use. Contact: daniel@noi.sify.net | www.niehoff.de
Pressure Welding Machines (PMW) Ltd. | United Kingdom
M30
M101
PWM has designed and manufactured cold pressure welders and dies for more than 30 years. It will exhibit its range of high performance manual welders. Hand-held, bench, and trolley-mounted models will be shown, with wire diameter capacities of 0.10 mm to 3.60 mm diameter copper and 0.10 mm to 5.00 mm aluminium. See demonstrations of the cold weld process and try out the machines. Clean, economical, and simple to operate, PWM cold pressure welders repair nonferrous wire breaks quickly and reliably to create a permanent bond that is stronger than the parent material. No heat, flux, or fillers are required and the welding process takes minutes to complete. PWM’s hand-held portable welders, models M10, M25 and M30, are ideal for joining wire in confined spaces. Also: powerful air/hydraulic machines and electro-pneumatic and electro-hydraulic-powered rod welders with capacities of up to 25 mm copper and 30 mm aluminium. All PWM dies are handmade in the U.K. in PWM’s own workshops to standard or custom designs, using top quality tool steel. Contact: pwm@btinternet.com | www.pwmltd.co.uk
RAD-CON | USA RAD-CON annealing specialists will exhibit in the North American Pavilion. The company’s main product is 100 per cent hydrogen bell-type annealing equipment, along with software expertise to set up the plant and optimize annealing efficiency. Headquartered in the USA since its founding 44 years ago, RAD-CON operates globally to help industries increase BAF capacities of high-quality annealed wires and wire rods. RAD-CON has specific expertise in the area of spheroidize annealing and cold heading quality wire production for the fastener and bearing industries, it also serves ferrous and nonferrous applications in the agricultural, electrical, construction, spring, industrial, and communications industries. See ad, p. 2K. Contact: sales@rad-con.com | www.rad-con.com
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SPECIAL EDITION India cont. Niknam Chemicals Parovi Systems PCI Ltd. Peddington Lubrimetal P. Ltd. Pinnacle Cable Technology Prasad Koch Technik Pvt. Ltd. Precise Alloys Pvt. Ltd. Puretronics Raajratna Metal Industries Ltd. Ronak Industries Royle Extrusion Systems Pvt. Ltd. Rosendahl Maschinen India Pvt. Ltd. Sai Extrusion System Sarvasv Machinery & Equipments Pvt. Ltd. S.C.J. Plastics Ltd. Shah Fabricators Shakun Polymers Ltd. Sharda Enterprises Shree Mahalaxmi Die Industries Skyline Industries Pvt. Ltd. Sneham International Sovereign Tech. Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd. Steel & Metallurgy Strongweld Engineering Pvt. Ltd. Strongwire Industries Sudhir Enterprise Supermac Industries (India) Ltd. Swarajtechnocrafts Pvt. Ltd. Systematic Intel Industries Pvt. Ltd. Technovinyl Polymers India Ltd. Tomer Engineering Works Tradeindia.com Troester GmbH & Co. KG Unitech Metalstamping Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Videojet Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd. Vidyut Furnaces
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CONSTRUCTION India’s construction industry has grown at more than 20 per cent CAGR over the past five years. The Government of India proposes to achieve 9 per cent GDP growth during the Eleventh Plan period (2007-2012). To achieve growth of this scale, adequate infrastructure is the most basic requirement. To overcome the current constraint of insufficient modern infrastructure, the government is developing an infrastructure investment programme through both public and private sectors, expecting to increase the public investment to 2.8 per cent by fiscal 2012. The demand for construction is expected to grow by at least 8-9 per cent. During this period private sector investment in the infrastructure sector is expected to total Rs 1,323.85 billion, constituting 42.46 per cent of the total investments. According to a ASSOCHAM study, the Indian real estate industry is expected to reach USD 60 billion by year end. The increasing number of special economic zones (SEZs) will contribute to this robust growth. All this certainly augurs well for India’s wire and cable industry. “The steel wire sector has an annual turnover of Rs 8,000 crore with the production of approximately 2.5 million tonnes of steel wires per annum. The growth of this industry is directly linked to the growth of the infrastructure, automobile, and power sectors,” said Tirthankar Banerjee, Secretary, Steel Wire Manufacturers Association. Further, it is estimated that the power sector will grow at least 1.8 to 2 times of the GDP, translating to an additional capacity generation of nearly 18,000 to 20,000 MW anually. Estimates of nearly 3 to 3.5 per cent of investment per MW goes toward power cables. Therefore, with an approximate investment of Rs 40 million per MW, the demand for cables will be in the range of Rs 1.2 to Rs 1.4 million. Most of the companies are gearing up to meet demand. New Delhi-based Paramount Cables has pumped in Rs 30 crore to set up a line for its domestic cabling business to produce lead-free cables. The market for domestic cables is about Rs 5,000 crore and is growing at 20 per cent annually. Cords Cable Industries, a manufacturer of LT control cables, LT power cables, and instrumentation cables has announced a USD 1.9 million expansion plan. The scenario is attracting foreign players, too. The Prysmian Group has taken a majority 51 per cent controlling stake in India’s Ravin Cables, manufacturer of low- and medium-voltage cables. Nagpur-based Jayaswal Neco Industries has announced the commissioning of a wire rod plant. “This expansion plan will entail an investment of Rs 900 crore with a capacity of 4,50,000 TPA. This is in view of the increasing demand,” said Managing Director Ramesh Jaiswal.|WB
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SPECIAL EDITION Rosendahl & Nextrom | Austria & India A subsidiary company of Rosendahl Maschinen GmbH, Austria, Rosendahl India provides its services for the ever-emerging markets of the Indian sub-continent, Korea, and the complete area of Middle East Asia. Products include: ROEX extruders, designed to meet the special needs of cable production, offers continuous improvement of screw design and process control guarantees state-of-the-art technology for all applications; corrugating solutions; Rosendahl SZ-Stranding technology, which combines experitise with economic advantages to enable continuous production, at high production speed, due to stationary pay-off stands. To produce premium optical fibers, Nextrom offers turn-key solutions in the fields of pre-form and fiber production, utilising VAD, MCVD, and OVD technology. Rosendahl’s and Nextrom’s fiber optic cable manufacturing systems support the market requirements for customised production. Both companies will present their manufacturing solutions— including RF cables, metal forming and welding for power cables, high-speed building wire insulation lines, automotive lines, and from performs to fiber optic cables. Rosendahl is a global supplier of crossheads and manufacturing solutions for cables including datacom; RF and coaxial; automotive; low voltage power; and fiber optics. Nextrom supplies premium manufacturing solutions for optical fiber glass preforms (VAD, OVD, MCVD), fiber drawing, fiber UV coating, and optical cables. Contact: office.india@rosendahlaustria.com | www.rosendahlaustria.com
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While the global wire and cable industry is uncertain, the economic conditions within India are particularly better with more steel at competitive domestic prices. When you consider the tremendous opportunities in terms of low cost, willing investors, better infrastructure, political stability, associated with the untapped export market, the future for this region is very bright.” Mahesh Poddar, Chairman Miki Wire Works
Sarvasv Machinery & Equipments Pvt. Ltd. | India Since its inception in 1984, Sarvasv Machinery, has earned the reputation having the most innovative and out-of-thebox solutions in the market. The company’s manufacturing unit is equipped with the most sophisticated and modern machinery. Products include an extrusion line and various machines for wiredrawing, bunching, take-up & pay-off, copper annealing, testing, tubular stranding, rigid stranding, armouring, and core laying up. See ad, p. 2R. Contact: sarvasv@vsnl.com | www.sarvasv.com
SIKORA AG | Germany
The new X-RAY 6120.
Sikora will highlight its new X-RAY 6000 family, which measures wall thickness, eccentricity, ovality, and diameter with remarkable precision. The device is equipped with extra long life (XLL) X-Ray tubes for a long operation time. Simultaneously, the measuring rate can be chosen from 1 to 10 Hz, and the use of a universal power supply, which covers all the prevalent supply voltages and frequencies, rounds off the technological highlights. It can be integrated easily into any insulating and jacketing line and offers application-specific options for the measurement of RF cables, specifically for the measurement of the radial foam quality. The system is able to measure and control up to three layers of different materials. In combination with the display and control device ECOCONTROL 6000, the X-RAY 6000 provides information for optimum control of the production line in automatic mode. Contact: sales@sikora.net | www.sikora.net
SPX Precision Components, FENN Division | USA SPX Precision Components, FENN Division, a global supplier of metal forming machinery, will exhibitin the North American Pavilion. Established over 100 years ago, FENN Division’s reputation is built on decades of engineering and machine building experience. The company’s extensive product line is used in both the ferrous and nonferrous industries and includes rolling mills, complete wire flattening and shaping lines, power and non-driven turk heads, single and double capstans, draw benches, swaging machines, swager feed units, and Torin® CNC camless spring coilers. Its recent contracts include the supply of a wire flattening and shaping line to produce complex shapes from round steel wire for a customer in India. Contact: precision.fenn@spx.com | www.spxprecision.com
Supermac Industries Ltd. | India The company manufactures extrusion lines and produces various insulating and sheathing machines for cable manufacturers in the power cable, optical fiber cable, house wiring, and control cable industries. It has pioneered in providing world-class technology and systems for the cable industry, and the company has sold more than 400 lines in India and other locations in the last 30 years. Supermac’s high-speed insulating line for house wiring/auto cable/control cable are dedicated according to customer requirements. Contact: office@supermacindia.com | www.supermacindia.com
Teknor Apex Co. | USA The company produces a range of Apex® PVC compounds for wire and cable, including jacketing formulations for communications, data, and electronic interconnect cable markets. Apex jacketing compounds are available for riser (CMR) and tray (CM) cable use as defined by UL. Fireguard® compounds for plenum (CMP) cables can be shipped directly from the USA. These Apex and Fireguard products meet virtually all key regulatory codes and industry standards specified in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Japan for their intended applications.
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SPECIAL EDITION India cont. Walson Woodburn WAI Wire and Cable Services Pvt. Ltd. Zenith Weld Aids Pvt. Ltd. Zumbach Electronic India Pvt. Ltd.
Italy Gimax Group Micro Products Company Newtech S.r.l. SICME ITALIA IMPIANTI S.r.l. Solvay PadanaPlast SpA
Norway Conoptica AS
Poland ATS S.A.
Singapore Borouge Pte Ltd.
Slovenia Tekstilna tovarna Okroglica d.d.
Spain FLYMCA, S.L.
Sweden H. Folke Sandelin AB (HFSAB)
Switzerland Maillefer SA Zumbach Electronic AG
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AVIATION A report from the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) in association with SITA, the specialist in air transport IT solutions, forecasts that by 2020 India’s domestic air traffic will reach 160-180 million passengers per annum and international traffic will exceed 80 million. In order to meet the predicted growth over the next 10 years airlines will need to invest USD 20 billon in the airport sector. “The feedback indicates that mobile technologies, self-service kiosks, and biometrics will be the key areas of investment in future for the airports,” said Kapil Kaul, CAPA CEO, South Asia. The process has already started, an example being the new world-class Terminal 3 of the IGI Airport in New Delhi. It was built at a cost of about Rs 10,000 crore. In tune with this growth in the aviation sector the Government of India has announced a USD 10 billion airport upgrade and modernisation programme, identifying 35 non-metro airports for upgrade and modernisation. Also, a greenfield airport project will be initiated at Navi Mumbai with a capacity of 10 million passengers per annum increasing to 65 million by 2030. India will be the third largest aviation market in the world by 2027. This will directly benefit the wire and cable sector. One of the largest consumers of wire and cable products is the Bangalore-based Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) which has manufactured more than 3,550 aircraft, 3,600 engines, and overhauled more than 8,150 aircraft and 27,300 engines. Some of the other companies that source wire and cable products for the aviation sector include Maini Materials Movement and Premier Engineering Technics, which manufactures material handling equipment and cargo systems. As an indicator of the growth in this sector, consider the fact that until 2006 aerospace had remained a barely noticed business in the Tata Group fold. By February 2008, the conglomerate was planning for a manufacturing plant at Hyderabad for helicopter cabins because of the deal it signed with Sikorsky, a USbased helicopter maker. Now it has forged tie-ups with Boeing, Augusta Westland, and SAAB. According to consultancy firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers, India ranks second only to China as a worldwide destination for aerospace manufacturing investments. Boeing, for instance, has outsourced wire harness systems for its F-18 Super Hornet fighter jets to HAL. Some of the areas that will witness a boom include engineering design, composites, electronics and avionics components, cable harnesses, sheet metal work, precision machining, special alloy castings, and connectors.|WB
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SPECIAL EDITION Teknor Apex Co. continued from p. 2N See the company’s two new Apex PVC compounds that withstand harsh conditions in wind turbine and other outdoor control and power cable applications. Customers in India can source Apex wire and cable compounds from Singapore Polymers Corporation (SPC), a Teknor Apex subsidiary. See ad, p. 2T. Contact: wirecable@teknorapex.com | www.teknorapex.com
Taiwan ROC QTK Yih Shen Machinery Co., Ltd.
Troester GmbH & Co. KG | Germany & India The company can retrofit existing systems with Troester machines or implement new cable manufacturing systems such as CV Technology—including CCV lines (high-speed technology), VCV lines, and rubber CV lines; Silane technology for LV/MV cables; and insulation and sheathing systems. It provides innovative cable and core coating solutions to support the sustainable and on-demand transmission of clean energy through HV and EHV cables. See ad, p. 2I. Contact: thomas.lerch@troester.de | www.troester.de India Representation, contact: pn@tradexworldwide.com
United Arab Emirates Millennium Steel & Wire (L.L.C.)
United Kingdom Alloy Wire International Ltd. ASMAG UK Ltd. BWE Ltd. E Braude (London) Ltd. EuroWire Magazine Institute of Spring Technology International Wire & Machinery Association Intras Ltd. Pressure Welding Machines (PWM) Ltd. Wire & Cable ASIA Magazine
Vidyut Furnaces | India The company will exhibit: heat treatment furnaces and surface treatment lines for low carbon, high carbon, stainless steel wire, and special alloy steel wire; air patenting or lead patenting furnaces; annealing furnaces with controlled atmosphere; stainless steel annealing furnaces; stress relieving furnaces; oil tempering lines; hot dip galvanising lines with metallic and ceramic kettles; and fumeless strand pickling/electrolytic in line cleaning. Contact: info@vidyutfurnaces.com | www.vidyutfurnaces.com
WAI Wire and Cable Services Pvt. Ltd. | India WAI Wire and Cable Services Pvt Ltd
WIRE BULLETIN
Personnel from The Wire Association International, Inc. and its subsidiary in India, will be on hand to discuss the association’s individual membership benefits; upcoming trade events such as Interwire 2011—the largest wire and cable marketplace in the Americas; technical products; and publications—including its industry leading, monthly Wire Journal International magazine, annual WJI Reference Guide buyer’s directory, and quarterly WIRE BULLETIN newsletter. Visitors are encouraged to register for free subscriptions during this limited time offer at Wire & Cable India. Contact: hcontractor@wirenet.org, sales@wirenet.org | www.wirenet.org
Walson Woodburn I India
USA
See ad, p. 2N. Contact: info@walsonwoodburn.com, walsonwoodburn@hotmail.com | www.woodburndd.com
Fort Wayne Wire Die Inc. RAD-CON SPX Precision Components Fenn Division Teknor Apex Co. The Wire Association International, Inc. WIRE BULLETIN Wire Journal International Wire & Cable Suppliers Association® (WCISA®) Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp.
Wire & Cable Suppliers Association® (WCISA®) | USA WCISA® is a nonprofit association of North American suppliers of machinery, materials, accessories and controls used in the manufacturing of wire and cable. Membership stands at 92 companies; several of which are exhibiting at Wire & Cable India 2010. WCISA is an Official Sponsor of Wire & Cable India 2010. Contact: info@wcisaonline.org | www.wcisaonline.org
Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp. | USA Over the past 30 years Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp. has earned a reputation for providing a wide range of high quality pre-owned and reconditioned equipment to the wire and cable industry. Specialising in nonferrous and fiber optic cable manufacturing machinery, the company offers solutions for the following applications: optical fiber cable; data communication cables; building and house wires; energy cables; and control and custom cables. See photographs and video of the company’srecently acquired equipment along with examples of its rebuilding capabilities. Specialists will be available to assist visitors with appropriate equipment selections. Contact: info@wireandplastic.com | www.wireandplastic.com
Zumbach Electronic AG | Switzerland
Note: List as available at press time. See updates at www.wire-india.com.|WB
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The company will present The SPEEL 3000, a new, high-tech length and speed measuring gauge designed for applications requiring very high accuracy even at very high velocities. The device offers: non-contact optical measurement; compact, heavy-duty and industrial design for smooth and rough surfaces; a speed range up to 3,000 m/min.; accuracy of < 0.05 per cent or better; detection of standstill and direction; start and end recognition; deviation of the measuring distance; long-life LED illumination; and a maintenance-free product. Zumbach will also introduce USYS 20, a new data acquisition, processing, and display unit. It will feature the new lump and neck-down detector for continuous quality control, and it will also introduce The SIMAC® 63, a new, ultramodern surface inspection system that is the company’s latest model of surface inspection devices that used state-of-the-art image processing. See ad, p. 2E. Contact: sales@zumbach.ch | www.zumbach.com|WB
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