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Volume 49 | Number 10 | October 2016

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

FEATURE

Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Industry News. . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Patent Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Asian Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Fiber Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Applications: CommScope . . . . 22

Fastener Update . . . . . . . . . . 34

In this occasional section, CommScope took to the fast lane to provide a top-to-bottom cabling upgrade to the Daytona International Speedway, host to the iconic Daytona 500 race.

WAI News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WIRE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

Chapter Corner . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Industry Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Technical Papers . . . . . . 64-74

This feature includes reports on ways that some wire and cable companies have responded to different needs, an Industry 4.0 update, a market focus from Integer Research, a UL presentation on one aspect of the new NEC code, and more.

Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Career Opportunities . . . . . . 85 Advertisers’ Index . . . . . . . . 87

TECHNICAL PAPERS

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Possibilities for copper- and wire-producing environments Sonja Breyner and Anna Franzkowiak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

• Green Focus • Wrapups: wire China 2106

The use of steel strip, shaped wire and round wire in the production of umbilical cable and submarine cable Sean Harrington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

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Proton Products International/U.K.

At Interwire, Proton Products International showcased the company’s InteliSENS SL series speed and length gauges, which it noted are saving cable manufacturers serious money every day around the world.

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the hugely popular combined Diameter and Flaw Detection Gage DGK SuperFast Series. ”We’d like to say a big ‘thank you’ to all who visited (us) at Interwire 2015.

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In a perfect world, the sales department of a company that manufactures top-quality wire and cable should have all the tools that are needed for continued success, but in a digital age, that may just not be enough.

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It was without doubt our busiest exhibition and our full team of agents and employees were on hand to take care of our customers.” Grant Latimer, managing director, g.latimer@protonproducts.com.

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WIRE JOURNAL A lowly tomato is all it takes to undercut political pledges supporting manufacturing The candidates vying to be the next U.S. president are about as diametrically opposed as could be, but one place where both are in near-perfect harmony is their support for good ol’ U.S. manufacturing. Setting aside international trade acts, they fall in line when it comes to placing manufacturing right up there with kissing babies, apple pie and the American way of life.

Yet a lowly tomato (and not for throwing) says otherwise to their visions.

In the 1960s, California’s 2.2 million tons of tomatoes required some 45,000 workers to harvest. Then, scientists and engineers at the University of California, Davis, developed an oblong tomato. Why? That shape allowed it to be picked up by a mechanical harvester in one pass through a field. It was an advance in technology that—along with others that followed, such as new crop varieties bred to even better match the automated pickers—worked so well that by 2000 it only took 5,000 harvest workers to handle a 12-million-ton crop.

The tomato, needless to say, is a symbol, one for a far bigger issue that cuts across just about any sector or industry: technological success can come with a price tag, and it is one that applies across the board. Observes Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist at Columbia University.

“Global employment in manufacturing is going down because productivity increases are exceeding increases in demand for manufactured products by a significant amount.” That assessment, however, has no place in a heart-thumping campaign trail speech. It’s just not a feel-good, can-do story.

And that’s where we are. The need for employees—especially those without specialized skills—has decreased. There are fewer jobs for a dwindling middle class, and while one can try to further refocus education, it seems inevitable that while manufacturing can thrive, numbers-wise it will never be the employer it once was.

The above is not meant to be seen as a Luddite call to turn back the clock. One cannot halt advances, but it is hard to believe that either a wall bordering Mexico or more tariffs will ultimately be relevant in creating sustainable jobs. These are just the rantings of a law-abiding yet irked voter who is fortunate to be well out of tomato-lobbing range.

Mark Marselli Editor-in-chief

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CALENDAR May 8-10, 2017: Global Ferrous Rod & Wire Symposium Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This WAI event, to be co-located with Interwire 2017, focuses on ferrous rod and wire processes, www.wirenet.org.

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

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

Oct. 3-5, 2017 Metal Engineering eXpo Hartford, Connecticut, USA. To be held at the Connecticut Convention Center by the Spring Manufacturers Institute with the New England Spring and Metalstamping Association. Contact: SMI, tel. 630-495-8588, www.smihw.org.

May 12-15, 2017: wire Russia 2017 Moscow, Russia. To be held at the EXPOCENTRE in Krasnaya Presnya. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

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

June 9-11, 2017: Guangzhou International Wire, Cable and Accessories Fair Guangzhou, China. To be held at the China Import and Export Fair Complex. Contact: www.wirecable-china.com, wire@china.messefrankfurt.com.

Sept. 19-21: wire Southeast Asia 2017 Bangkok, Thailand. To be held at the Bangkok Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC). Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

April 16-20, 2018: wire Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany. This biennial event will be held at the Messe fairgrounds. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

May 15-16, 2018: WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo 2018 Nashville, Tennessee, USA. This WAI event, to be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, includes its trade show, technical programs and 88th Annual Convention.

WIRE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL EVENTS November 3, 2016: Midwest Chapter Tour & Meeting Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. See p. 42.

March 2-4, 2017: 7th International Conference on Drawing Zakopane, Poland. Organizers for this event, to be held at the Antałówka Hotel, include memebrs of the WAI’s Poland Chapter. For more details, go to the event website at www.konferencja.wip.pcz.pl.

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May 8-10, 2017: Global Ferrous Rod & Wire Symposium Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This WAI event, to be co-located with Interwire 2017, focuses on ferrous rod and wire processes, www.wirenet.org.

May 9-11, 2017: Interwire 2017 Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This WAI event, which will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center, includes its trade show, the Global Ferrous Rod & Wire Symposium,

technical programs and 87th Annual Convention, www.wirenet.org.

May 15-16, 2018: WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo 2018 Nashville, Tennessee, USA. This WAI event, to be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, includes its trade show, technical programs and 88th Annual Convention.

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS Southwire reports acquisition of United Copper Industries Southwire Company LLC announced that it has acquired Texas-based United Copper Industries, the third largest manufacturer of building wire in the U.S.

drive operational excellence and accelerate growth,” said Southwire president and CEO Rich Stinson. “We will extend our company’s position in our core building wire products as we grow a generationally sustainable organization.”

Sweden’s ABB announces plan to sell high-voltage cable unit to NKT Cables

An inside view of United Copper Industries, which is now part of Southwire Company.

A press release said that the acquisition of the company “expands Southwire’s manufacturing capabilities in the company’s core building wire products segment and enhances Southwire’s geographical footprint, increasing the ability to respond favorably to customer growth in key markets.”

United Copper, with a workforce of some 300 employees, offers a full line of copper building wire products and metal clad cables. Per its website, that includes all major types of 600 volt building wire used in both residential and commercial construction, such as THHN, metal-clad, HCF-AC, NM-B and UF-B. “At Southwire, we remain committed to growth within our core markets. This acquisition provides us with an opportunity to expand one of our largest product offerings for both electrical wholesalers and retail customers,” said Norman Adkins, Executive Vice President and President of Southwire’s Construction Systems and Solutions Group. “As we focus on the ever-developing needs of our customers, the addition of United Copper will help to expand our operational footprint to grow with them.”

The 450,000 square foot facility in Denton, Texas, is comprised of sales and support resources, a copper rod mill, a manufacturing plant and distribution resources. Southwire plans to fully integrate this campus into Southwire’s existing operations so that the campus will serve as a strategically-located facility with opportunities for long-term operations, expansion and increased capacity, the release said.

“This acquisition supports all three of Southwire’s key strategic goals: to build organizational capability,

Sweden’s ABB announced that it is selling its high-voltage cable system business to NKT Cables for 712 million euros, a deal that will include an additional 124 million euros for a new cable laying ship that is being built for delivery next year.

Press releases from the two companies spelled out the scope of the deal, which will greatly bolster the high-voltage market presence of NKT Cables. ABB’s cable system business offers turnkey solutions that include design, engineering, supply, installation, commissioning and service for both AC- and DC-based cable systems. It had adjusted standalone revenues of US$524 million in 2015, employs around 900 people, and has manufacturing and R&D capabilities for high-voltage submarine and underground cables in Karlskrona, Sweden.

A range of ABB cable products.

NKT Cables designs, manufactures and supplies power cables for low-, medium- and high-voltage solutions, mainly in the AC area. The acquisition “will allow NKT Cables to be a leading player within DC high-voltage power cables, a market that has strong growth potential.”

ABB’s high-voltage cable technology and manufacturing as well as service footprint is highly complementary with NKT Cables’ activities, making the combined business ideally suited to serve the rising global demand for long-distance power transmission cable systems.

“We are combining two strong cable portfolios rooted in a shared Nordic heritage that will be more competitive on a larger scale under NKT Cables’ ownership, while maintaining access to supply through a long-term stra-

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Wire & cable in the news Lack of wire backup clipped airline’s wings An early morning small fire at Delta Air Lines Inc.’s computer center was partly to blame for the network failure that caused massive cancellations worldwide on Monday, Aug. 8.

Axjo America to consolidate, plans call for a move to a larger plant, more staff Axjo America reports that the company plans to invest $11.1 million at a new reels and spools-manufacturing facility in Conover, North Carolina.

A press release said that Axjo America, a subsidiary of Sweden’s Axjo AB, will consolidate two current facili-

ties into the new location. The company is purchasing an existing 143,268-sq-ft- facility in Conover, and adding new machinery and equipment that will allow it to grow in size and increase product offerings to the cable industry. It expects the expansion to create 14 new jobs. Axjo

Aug. 8, 2016, was a day that some Delta Airlines customers woud like to forget.

Per published reports, a spokesman for the airlines said that the fire was extinguished without assistance from the local fire department. The fault was with a power-control module at the company’s Atlanta command center that failed and caught fire, leading to the electric surge and a loss of power to the company’s computers.

CEO Ed Bastian told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that about 300 of Delta’s 7,000 servers weren’t wired to backup power, a vulnerability that the company hadn’t been aware of. That problem led to a computer-network failure that resulted in Delta cancelling more than 2,100 flights.

America, which located in Hickory in 2011, had outgrown the facility, and an extensive search ultimately led to the choice of the Conover facility.

The release said that over the next five years Axjo America plans on expanding into large spool sizes, adding new

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tegic partnership,” said ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer.

“The combination of our niche cable system business with the strength of NKT Cables demonstrates our commitment to active portfolio management, a key element of our Next Level strategy.”

The acquisition is being made from ABB’s power grids business, which it said is currently undergoing a strategic review. Last June, ABB sold Southwire its high-voltage power cable plant in the U.S. that it had opened in 2012 at a cost of $90 million.

A report in The Wall Street Journal said that the sale was pushed by two big ABB shareholders—Swedish activist fund Cevian Capital and U.S.-based Artisan Partners—that “wanted the Swiss engineering giant to spin off its power-grids unit... .”

The transaction is anticipated to close in Q1 2017.

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injection molding machines each year. It said that the company primarily uses recycled environmentally friendly materials and the latest injection molding technology to produce fiber-optic reels for spooling equipment.

The products, it notes, are low weight, UV-resistant and waterproof.

“We are excited to become part of the Conover City community and to grow our business in Catawba County,” said Dan Shelander, managing director, Axjo America.

The prime output will be oil-tempered, valve quality wire for the high demands of the engine, clutch, and transmission springs industry as well as high-tensile, oil-tempered wire for other spring applications.

Suzuki Garphyttan Group, a global supplier of advanced spring wire products, is part of the Japanese Nippon Steel & Sumikin SG Wire Co., Ltd., Group, which has other operations in Sweden, Germany, China and England.

HUBER+SUHNER to be key industry supplier for Bombardier Transportation

Suzuki Garphyttan building wire mill in ‘heart of automotive sector’ in Mexico Suzuki Garphyttan (SG) announced that it is building a new 12,000-sq-m plant in Mexico that will have the initial production capacity of 3,600 metric tons of wire when it opens in 2017.

An announcement said that the expansion “continues the SG focus of increasing our global footprint with local production close to our customers to offer greater flexibility and shorter lead times.” It said that capacity at the plant, located in San Jose Iturbide, Guanajuato, will expand to more than 12,000 MT at full production levels. The plant will start out with a workforce of 20 to 25 employees, and go as high as 70 as more equipment is added, a process that may take until 2021, said Kirk Manning, president of the U.S. SG operation in South Bend, Indiana.

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After more than 20 years of collaboration, Bombardier Transportation has named HUBER+SUHNER as the preferred supplier for its cable requirements.

A press release said that Bombardier intends to equip existing and new rolling stock throughout the world predominantly with RADOX® EN and GKW cables. The two companies signed a five-year deal that spells out that agreement. “In the future, (the) majority of cables in trains and metro carriages manufactured by Bombardier will be based on HUBER+SUHNER connectivity solutions.”

The release explained that the agreement represents a further milestone in the good collaboration between the two companies, which signed a similar contract in 2009.

One of the reasons to do so, it said, is that limiting suppliers helps reduce costs, risks and time to market, and

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INDUSTRY NEWS Bombardier Transportation will continue to be a good customer of HUBER+SUHNER. “HUBER+SUHNER provided the best overall package.”

To date, more than 20 Bombardier train types are equipped as standard with power, control and databus cables from HUBER+SUHNER, including the MOVIA metros for Delhi, the INNOVIA Monorail for São Paulo and the TWINDEXX Swiss Express operated by SBB, the release said. Supplies to Europe are made from the cable plant in Switzerland. Bombardier’s Asian projects are served

by HUBER+SUHNER’s Chinese production facilities.

The release said that the partnership agreement is far more than just a supply contract as it seals the future strategic collaboration between the two companies. “As technology leaders, they can benefit from their long-term experience and develop solutions for the future together.”

Carris Reels acquires Lone Star Reel Carris Reels announced that it has bought Lone Star Reel from owners Mike Pawlish and Larry Beal.

A press release said that Lone Star Reel, a manufacturer of plywood reels and nailed wood reels, has served wire and cable customers throughout the Southern United States for some 20 years. The company was founded in McKinney, Texas, in 1997, and expanded to Bonham, Texas, five years later. Today, nailed wood reels are produced in the Bonham plant and plywood reels from McKinney. The two former owners will remain actively engaged in the company.

“We enthusiastically welcome Lone Star Reel to our community of companies,” said Carris Reels CEO Dave Ferraro. “This ... provides a similar product portfolio in a new geography for Carris. Lone Star Reel’s 150

Dave Ferraro, center, with Mike Pawlish and Larry Beal, who have sold their company to Carris Reels.

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experienced employees and production capabilities provide Carris and Lone Star Reel a platform for continued growth of our broad line of quality packaging solutions for wire and cable.”

The release said that Carris Reels will retain the Lone Star Reel name “for the unparalleled customer service they have become known for.” This announcement, Ferraro said, “demonstrates our philosophy for making long-term strategic investments in areas where we can add value for our customers and stakeholders”.

Carris Reels, an employee-owned company based in Proctor, Vermont, manufactures plywood, nailed wood, wood/

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metal, plastic and stamped metal reels and spools, operating in 17 locations in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Polycab to launch joint venture for copper wire rod with trading firm India’s Polycab Wire announced that it and Trafigura Group Pte Ltd., a commodity trading firm, have entered into a joint venture to set up a production facility in Gujarat for copper wire rod production.

The Business Standard reported that the plant will have annual production of 240,000 metric tons at the facility, which will be located on a 40 acres site at Halol. With a proposed total investment of US$25 million, the manufacturing unit is expected to be operational by the end of 2017, a joint statement said.

The announcement said that the plant will be technologically advanced, consuming almost 30% less energy and produce significantly lower carbon emissions than existing facilities in the country. “This is the first base metal manufacturing investment for Trafigura for the Indian sub-continent and is aimed at addressing the rising domestic supply-demand gap in the copper wire rod market extensively used by the construction, power, transport and telecoms industries amongst others,” it said.

“We established our first dedicated operating subsidiary in 2009, leveraging local and international knowledge to consistently understand and address the challenges in the country’s commodity and metals industry,” Trafigura CEO Jeremy Weir said.

“In line with Polycab’s efforts to produce energy efficient products we will construct a technologically advanced copper rod mill which will save on energy consumption and significantly reduce carbon emissions,” Polycab Wires Chairman and Managing Director Inder Jaisinghani said.

Per the announcement, the Indian copper wire rod market is estimated at US$3 billion, and is expected to grow 12% yearon-year. “We see a great opportunity for managing our working capital and inventory management with this backward integration JV with Trafigura, our long standing partner,” Jaisinghani added.

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Huawei Marine to provide 250-km subsea link for SEA Cable Exchange-1 Huawei Marine Networks announced that it has been selected by Super Sea Cable Networks to deploy SEA Cable Exchange-1 (SeaX-1), a subsea cable system set to link Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia by the end of 2017.

A press release said that the 250-km undersea fiber-optic cable will deploy high-speed, large capacity, 24-fiber pairs that will connect Mersing (Malaysia), Changi (Singapore), and Batam (Indonesia). The system will serve operators in the region to meet increasing bandwidth demand.

“We are delighted to be selected for this project which will provide robust connectivity to these three regional data hubs,” said Huawei Marine CEO Mike Constable.

Joseph Lim, CEO of Super Sea Cable Networks, observed that SeaX-1 “passes through one of the busiest areas in the Asia-Pacific region, where bandwidth demands are increasing exponentially.”

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AMSC and Nexans enter partnership AMSC and Nexans announced that they have formed a partnership to market and sell AMSC’s Resilient Electric Grid (REG) system, as well as other high performance superconductor power cables, in the U.S. and Canada. As part of this partnership, AMSC and Nexans will collaborate to jointly develop and deliver these projects with existing and potential electric utility customers in the U.S. and Canada.

“We are pleased to be expanding our relationship with Nexans. Nexans is a valued partner and leading provider of utility power cables, that is committed to building advanced power transmission and distribution networks utilizing AMSC’s HTS superconductor technology,” AMSC President and CEO Daniel P. McGahn said in a press release. He said that Nexans’ expertise in power transmission and distribution cable systems, along with the combined strengths and assets of both companies, will support commercial projects for REG systems and high temperature super-conductor (HTS) power cables.

“We see particular value being offered to our electric utility customers to help address the commercial complexities of a REG system order.”

“We are proud to partner with AMSC and to offer superconductor solutions for complex urban power transmission and distribution challenges in the North American utilities market,” said Dr. Dirk Steinbrink, Senior Executive Vice President High Voltage & Underwater Cable Business Group at Nexans. “We believe targeting this market opportunity with a collaborative approach

Bartell Machinery enters agreement to work with Automated Dynamics At the deal signing were, back row, l-r, Jean-Maxime Saugrain, High Voltage & Underwater Cables Business Group, Nexans; Frank Schmidt, superconductivity business unit head, Nexans; James Maguire, AMSC; front row, Dirk Steinbrink, HVUCBG, Nexans; and Daniel McGahn, AMSC president and CEO. will be incrementally productive to both companies.”

The release described AMSC’s REG system as an innovative approach to the power distribution system that increases reliability and capacity of the electric grid. By enabling the use of transmission and distribution assets in a way that is not feasible with traditional technologies, the REG system enables significant increases in grid reliability

Bartell Machinery, a provider of highly engineered industrial manufacturing equipment for industries that include wire and cable, reports that it has entered into a technology development agreement with Automated Dynamics of Niskayuna.

A press release said that the agreement is intended to foster the development of innovative solutions allowing for the introduction of new production capabilities of composites for the engineering world. The new solutions will incorporate advanced composite materials in the continuous fabrication of high-performing products such as continuous pipe for oilfield applications.

Automated Dynamics holds designs and patents on composite processing equipment for continuous pipe solutions and brings over 30 years of composites expertise, the release said. “Their composite process-

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and increases load-serving capacity, while limiting the need for additional grid infrastructure, which mitigates any environmental impact. The key component ® to the REG system is AMSC’s Amperium wire that combines with other sub-system design elements to increase the reliability, redundancy, and resiliency of urban power grids, greatly reducing the impact of equipment failure due to aging, cyber threats, physical disasters, or weather-related events. The superconductor wire is able to conduct approximately 200 times the electrical current of copper wire of similar dimensions.

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technology will integrate with Bartell’s rotating equipment to allow for the manufacturing of continuous products using fiber composite materials. Integrating continuous fiber composite opens the design space for such products as subsea components and industrial cables, with a focus on reduced weight and improved environmental resistance.”

General Cable enters collaborative partnership with Power Line Systems

overhead conductor design engineering expertise to Power Line Systems’ software with our complimentary full array of sag and tension coefficient conductor data files.”

General Cable also announced a second such partnership, this one with Manhattan Scientifics, Inc., which specializes in areas that include nano-structured aluminum technology. See story on p. 54.

Drew Richards to head WCISA

General Cable reports that it has formed a collaborative partnership with Power Line Systems, Inc.(PLS), a supplier of engineering software for structural analysis and design of overhead power lines.

A press release said that General Cable is among the companies that use the PLS-CADD™ line design program, described as “the industry’s sag-tension software of choice.”

“General Cable looks forward to helping the line designers utilizing PLS software tools by demonstrating the advantages of our latest development in technolo® gies such as our TransPowr Overhead Conductors with E3X™ Technology,” said Jay Lahman, vice president and general manager, General Cable Electric Utility Products. “General Cable brings innovative wire and cable technology backed by years of industry-recognized

The Wire & Cable Industry Suppliers Association (WCISA) reported that Drew Richards, CEO, RichardsApex, Inc., has been elected the new president, serving a threeyear term. He succeeds Rahul Sachdev, executive vice president, Wire & Plastic Machinery Corporation, who will remain on the WCISA Board of Directors, serving as WCISA Immediate Past President.

The following existing WCISA board members were re-elected to new three-year terms: Tom Copp, president, REELEX Packaging Solutions, Inc.; Rob Fulop, president, Wire Lab Company; Jim George, global business manager, cable materials, Chase NEPTCO; Dave Kiddoo, CEO/director, IWCS, Inc.; Jay Luis, marketing manager, worldwide, NDC Technologies (Beta LaserMike Products); Rene Mayer, vice president, Mossberg Associates, Inc.; Gord Murray, director, QED Wire

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Lines, Inc.; and John Zachow, vice president, wire & cable systems, Davis-Standard Corporation. These directors will serve through the end of July 2019.

The new board member is David Braun, wire & cable industry manager, Teknor Apex Co. Also, Mike Patel, director of marketing and business development, Teknor Apex Co., has resigned from the board. Sachdev and Patel were thanked for their guidance and service to WCISA and the wire and cable industry.

Congressman visits Davis-Standard Davis-Standard welcomed Joe Courtney, U.S. Congressman for Connecticut’s Second District, on Friday, August 19, at its headquarters in Pawcatuck, Connecticut.

Congressman Courtney and Congressional staff member Taijah Anderson visited the site to learn more about Davis-Standard’s technology, economic impact on the region, and the upcoming expansion of the Pawcatuck facility. Davis-Standard is adding 15,000 sq ft of manufacturing space and over 30 jobs in the next two years to its Pawcatuck headquarters, which currently employs over 400 people. The addition will house the manufacturing and precision machining of advanced multi-layer blown film dies, and enable Davis-Standard to move all blown film manufacturing for its Gloucester Engineering product line to Pawcatuck.

Davis-Standard President and CEO Jim Murphy and other staff provided a tour and overview of the business,

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Davis-Standard’s Ernie Plasse, executive vice president and general manager-aftermarket, explains the company’s extrusion technology to Congressman Joe Courtney, U.S. Congressman for Connecticut’s Second District. offering insight into the company’s impressive global growth, plant specifics and diverse equipment portfolio.

“Davis-Standard has an impressive operation and it was an honor to tour the facility in Pawcatuck,” Congressman Courtney said. “The cleanliness of the machining floor, advanced manufacturing practices and employee engagement is really something to behold. ... We’re very proud

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of Davis-Standard and the strong economic boost they continue to provide to southeastern Connecticut.”

“We enjoyed Congressman Courtney’s visit and appreciate his support of the manufacturing industry,” said Murphy, who noted that an R&D tax credit enacted last year by Congress has helped further Davis-Standard’s technological advancements. “We also appreciate the Congressman’s support of the Pawcatuck expansion, which will house manufacturing capabilities for our growing blown film business.”

Charity golf event achieves record results with support of cable company The Life is Good Kids Foundation reported its bestever result—$33,800—from its annual “Play Fore Playmakers Charity Golf Tournament, which was sponsored by the James Monroe Wire & Cable Corporation and held July 18 at the Sterling National Country Club in Sterling, Massachusetts.

The cable manufacturer, a supplier of custom wire and cable products, has supported the tournament in the past, and this was the first year that the company was the major sponsor. The money was raised from golf registrations, donations, a live auction and hole and corporate sponsorships. The participants included Boston Red Sox Legend Luis Tiant, who played with three winning bidders from an online auction held prior to the tournament.

“It is an honor that in our first year of sponsoring the

James Monroe Wire & Cable Corporation President Dave Fisher (holding check at right) and tournament Directors Jay & Penny Munsey, to his right, present check to the Life is Good Kids Foundation. tournament it generated the biggest return for The Life is Good Kids Foundation to date,” said James Monroe President David Fisher. “We all at James Monroe look forward to sponsoring and supporting the efforts of the Life is Good Kids Foundation next year.”

The charity partners with organizations serving the most vulnerable children to improve the quality of their care. For more information on the charity, go to www.lifeisgood.com.

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DEPLOYMENT FEATURE

APPLICATIONSRNER

The start of the 2016 Daytona 500.

Famed raceway project took CommScope to the fast lane Host to the Daytona 500, NASCAR’s most prestigious race, the Daytona International Speedway needs no introduction to car racing fans, but earlier this year saw the completion of a major overhaul of the renowned venue via a $400 million project called DAYTONA Rising, aimed at improving the fan experience. The legacy of the track— first opened in 1959—was never in question, but the overall project called for a range of improvements, one of which was top-to-bottom cabling upgrade of its decades-old network

by CommScope. Below are highlights of what was done, followed by a Q&A with Vince Sumrall, manager, technical sales, CommScope.

• 100 miles of single-mode fiber-optic cable. This cable was designed to operate from 1,280 nanometers to 1,625 nanometers to increase the usable wavelength range over conventional single-mode fiber by more than 50% and future-proof the network for next-generation equipment.

• 12,500 terminations. These would create a comprehensive connectivity solution throughout the stadium. In addition to the video displays, digital signage and Wi-Fi, the Speedway’s network needed to be equipped with network bandwidth and flexibility to offer services that would both enhance the fans’ experience and improve track operations.

CommScope’s comprehensive cabling infrastructure solution connects and supports virtually every communication and facilFor the project, Commity management function in the Scope supplied fiber and Speedway, including: high-resocopper cabling equivalent lution security cameras; fire and to more than 140 laps of safety services; and HVAC and the Speedway’s famed lighting controls.

A view of some of CommScope’s GigaSPEED Cat. 6 cable 2.5 mile tri-oval track, “The Speedway’s network that was installed at the track. including: infrastructure was old and • 250 miles of Cat. 6 outdated,” said Dr. Ispran Kanstructured cable. This CommScope cable offers perfordasamy, global leader, Building Solutions, CommScope. mance that exceeds Cat. 6 performance standards by up to “The project provided...the opportunity to start with a 300%, with a cost-effective design and robust reliability clean slate, and (we) delivered a comprehensive solution that can help make network downtime a thing of the past. ensuring that all the new communications components work

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together seamlessly to help deliver memorable user experiences on each and every occasion.”

Track officials said that CommScope was essential at making the improvements they had sought. “We’re creating the first and only motorsports stadium on the planet. We needed partners that understand our vision, who understand what ‘best in class’ is, and know what it’s like to be under the spotlight,” said Joie Chitwood III, president, Daytona International Speedway. “With CommScope, we found a partner that was ready for that challenge of reimagining a true American icon—Daytona International Speedway.”

In addition to the CommScope contribution, the Speedway project saw the expansion and redesign of five of its entrances (now called injectors) that lead fans to a series of escalators and elevators, transporting them to three different concourse levels. Each level features spacious

WJI: There’s been major projects done before at sporting events, most notably some football stadiums (and likely soccer, I’m sure): what’s so special about this one?

Sumrall: This project is different because most of the physical structure remained the same. This was a new construction project, but a renovation.

For the network infrastructure, the cabling Sumrall at Daytona International Speedway was old and outdated, installed piecemeal over a period of many years. DAYTONA Rising provided an opportunity to start over with a clean slate.

CommScope was able to deliver a comprehensive solution that ensures that all of the new communications components work together as a seamless network.

WJI: What were the capacities of the existing system? What kind of cable was used and how old was it?

Sumrall: The existing system before the renovation had everything you can imagine that had been in the marketplace from the 1950s until present day. Not only did you have

social areas, or “neighborhoods,” along the nearly milelong front stretch.

The Speedway now has 101,500 permanent, wider and more comfortable seats, twice as many restrooms and three times as many concession and merchandise stands.

It also has more than 60 luxury suites with track side views and a completely revamped hospitality experience for corporate guests.

“The solutions that we’re enabling will keep fans connected throughout the stadium and allow them to experience the event at a higher level, and with greater ease, than ever before,” said. Craig Neeb, executive vice president, chief development and digital officer, International Speedway Corporation, which owns the Speedway. “The technology will also help our operations team provide a safe, comfortable environment for our fans to enjoy the race.”

all the different levels of category cables (Cat. 3, 5, 5e and 6), and all flavors of fiber optics (single mode, 62.5 multi-mode, hybrid fiber), you also had different types of coax cables along with many different multi-pair copper cables for a myriad of systems.

WJI: Was wireless the major driver for this project?

Sumrall: CommScope deployed a comprehensive cabling infrastructure solution that connects and supports virtually every communication and facility management function in the stadium, including the cabling that supports Wi-Fi for fans and media.

WJI: What, specifically, will fans now be able to do that they previously couldn’t?

Sumrall: The solutions deployed will keep fans connected throughout the stadium and allow them to experience the event at a higher level, and with greater ease, than ever before. The cabling infrastructure solutions connects and supports virtually every communication and

facility management function in the stadium, including more than 1,500 HD video displays, Wi-Fi for fans and media, and enhanced audio.

WJI: Was there any aspect that presented challenges to design/install this?

Sumrall: The size and makeup of the structure. The grandstand structure itself is right at a mile long. So long in fact that during design the structural engineers had to take into account the curvature of the earth. When you think about it, that’s almost twice as long as the Dubai Tower is high. The makeup of the design was different also.

Most stadium projects today are domed structures or have a lot of enclosed spaces for the fan base.

Daytona is a very open and outdoor experience. That experience is a big part of the race atmosphere that the fans love and we had to adapt to accommodate to that. This presented a challenge in finding the right balance of products and equipment that can live and perform in this type of environment.

This occasional section will highlight the deployment of wire and/or cable for a wide range of uses. If your company would like to share details about a noteworthy project you have done, e-mail editor@ wirenet.org and tell us about it.

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PATENTS

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

Method for manufacture of multi-layer wire structure for high efficiency wireless communication U.S. Patent No.: 9,444,213 Patent date: Sept. 13, 2016 Filed: Oct. 21, 2013 Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc., U.S. Inventors: Vinit Singh, Christine Frysz, Matthew Geary, Eitan Babcock, Justin Derbas, Alberto Peralta A new heating cable is described. The heating cable is comprising between seven and two hundred metallic monofilaments of a first type which are acting as electrical conductors to generate heat. The metallic monofilaments of a first type are having a diameter ranging from 30 .mu.m to 100 .mu.m. The metallic monofilaments of a first type are having a substantially round cross section. The metallic monofilaments of a first type are comprising a steel layer with a chromium content of less than 10% by weight. The heating cable is having an electrical resistance ranging between 0.1 .OMEGA./m and 20.0 .OMEGA./m when measured at 20.degree. C.

Heating cable comprising steel monofilaments U.S. Patent No.: 9,439,244 Patent date: Sept. 6, 2016 Filed: Mar. 1, 2012 Assignee: NV Bekaert S, BE Inventor: Steve Verstraeten A new heating cable is described. The heating cable is comprising between seven and two hundred metallic monofilaments of a first type which are acting as electrical conductors to generate heat. The metallic monofilaments of a first type are having a diameter ranging from 30 .mu.m to 100 .mu.m. The metallic monofilaments of a first type are having a substantially round cross section. The metallic monofilaments of a first type are comprising a steel layer with a chromium content of less than 10% by weight. The heating cable is having an electrical resistance ranging between 0.1 .OMEGA./m and 20.0 .OMEGA./m when measured at 20.degree. C.

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Shield connector for a shield cable U.S. Patent No.: 9,438,000 Patent date: Sept. 6, 2016 Filed: Mar. 26, 2014 Assignee: Yazaki Corporation, Japan Inventors: Hajime Kato, Hiroshi Shinba A shell of a female connector includes two members including a shell body integrated with a female housing and a braided wire fixing member to which a braided wire of a shield cable is crimped and fixed. The braided wire fixing member to which the braided wire is crimped and fixed is mated with a cylindrical portion of the shell body integrated with the female housing.

Shield wire for wiring harness and method of making the same U.S. Patent No.: 9,437,351 Patent date: Sept. 6, 2016 Filed: June 13, 2014 Assignee: Yazaki Energy System Corp., Japan Inventor: Tadatoshi Sugiyama Disclosed is a shield wire for a wiring harness improving workability for wiring, and a method of the shield wire for a wiring harness. Forming of a shield part by winding a strip-like shield member outside of an electric wire allows work for inserting the electric wire into the shield part to be omitted, which improves workability for wiring. Forming of overlap portion where the shield part

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2016 Filed: Mar. 11, 2016 buffer tube. tions to reducePatent costsdate: critical to 6,profi tability. industrial commachinery sales at previous & Wire Expo 2016.

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Method of fabricating a flat cable U.S. Patent No.: 9,431,784 Patent date: August 30, 2016 Filed: April 2, 2014 Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Japan Inventors: Detian Huang, Takanobu Watanabe, Noriyuki Imai, Norihiro Nishiura A flat cable has a plurality of electric wires disposed in parallel, and a fiber member woven to thread through each of the electric wires along a juxtapositional direction of the electric wires. The fiber member is made of a fiber having an elastic recovery rate after elongation of 80% or more and 95% or less. The fiber has an initial modulus of 20 cN/dtex or more and 30 cN/dtex or less.

Multi-core cable U.S. Patent No.: 9,431,726 Patent date: August 30, 2016 Filed: Jan. 22, 2014 Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd,

Japan

Inventors: Masato Tanaka, Takuya Ishikawa,

Yoshimasa Watanabe A multi-core cable 1 includes plural shielded electric wires 10 for signal transmission. The plural shielded electric wires 10 are bundled so as to make contact with the

adjacent shielded electric wires 10, and sheaths 14 of the plural shielded electric wires 10 are respectively removed at the same position in the length direction, and outer conductors 13 of the plural shielded electric wires 10 at the position at which the sheaths 14 are removed are bundled by a metal wire 30 and the bundled portion is soldered and fastened.

Leaky coaxial cable having radiation slots that can be activated or deactivated U.S. Patent No.: 9,431,716 Patent date: August 30, 2016 Filed: Oct. 10, 2013 Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson, SE Inventors: Henrik Asplund, Jan-Erik Berg, Jonas Medbo A leaky co-axial cable arrangement, including a co-axial cable, a plurality of radiation slots arranged on the (Cont’d. on p. 82)

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ASIAN FOCUS

ASIAN FOCUS FO cable to be part of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Plans call for an 820-km fiber optic cable to be laid at an estimated cost of US$44 million as part of a project that is part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

An article in The Express Tribune said that the project is to be completed by mid2018. The project was being completed through collaboration between China’s Huawei and Special Communication Organization (SCO), according to SCO Sr. Project Manager Muhammad Adil. He said that the project will both generate revenue and provide a safe route between the two countries.

Layout of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

Work began earlier this year, and some 18.2 km of the optic Pakistan to China’s northwestern autonomous region of fiber cable would pass through Xinjiang via a vast network of highways and railways. the federal capital, 466 km from Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), 280 Proposed infrastructure projects are worth approxikm from Khyber Pakhtunkhaw (KPK), and 47 km from mately US$11 billion, and will be financed by heaviPunjab. The optical fiber cable would reach Rawalpindi ly-subsidized concessionary loans that will be dispersed from Khunjrab via Karimabad, Gilgit, Chilas, Babusar Top, to the Government of Pakistan by the Exim Bank of Naran, Mansehra and Jery Kas. China, China Development Bank, and the Industrial and A project to expand the fiber cable up to Gawadar, still Commercial Bank of China. in the approval stage, would provide international linkage along the entire CPEC route. The project, meant to stimulate trade, tourism and IT awareness in the region, has the Chinese company creates subsidiary potential to generate revenue of US$24.3 million in its first to operate new cable plant in Senegal three years.

A Chinese multinational company expects that its subPer Wikipedia, the CPEC is a collection of projects cursidiary will have opened a new cable plant in Senegal rently under construction at a cost of $46 billion. The corthat will be fully managed by local workers. ridor is considered to be an extension of China’s ambitious Per multiple media reports, the new enterprise in “One Belt, One Road” initiative, and is listed as part of Senegal—Senegal-based Caleb Cable Africa S.A—is the China’s 13th five-year development plan. first African subsidiary of Caleb Cable Industrial Limited Pakistani officials predict that the project will result in the (CCIL).

It was expected to have begun manufacturing creation of upwards of 700,000 direct jobs between 2015– coaxial cables in September, according to comments from 2030, and add 2 to 2.5 percentage points to the country’s Amadou Ly Bocoum, its director general. annual economic growth. Were all the planned projects to Based in Dias, western Senegal, Caleb Cable Africa be implemented, the value of those projects would be equal will specialize in manufacturing power cables destined to all foreign direct investment in Pakistan since 1970, for African and international markets, with support from and would be equivalent to 17% of Pakistan’s 2015 gross its parent company. “The entire project is managed by domestic product.

Senegalese citizens. The Chinese intervention is limited to Infrastructure projects under the aegis of CPEC installation of machines and to practical training of techniwill span the length and breadth of Pakistan, and will cal operators who need to have access to the equipments,” eventually link the city of Gwadar in southwestern

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SOUTH AFRICA

short time. India is a “the growth of any country is possible only if the number huge country, a place of employed persons grows” is satisfied, India will be said. Hethat explained with a multitude of relitheBocoum next territory we must serve intensively with our that Chinese will Of course, the basic infragions/cultures, and from equipment andstaffers technology. support the workan industrial point of structures areSenegalese presently not sufficient and not adequate and the depart once they growth of this giant. Carmelo view it’s not possible to to ers, permit harmonious have been well trained. generalize into a single Maria Brocato, Continuus-Properzi. evaluation. What is cerCaleb Cable Africa will tain is that India is a land China is and willofremain the most important BRICS have production between that has thousands of opmember despite 90,000 country, to 100,000 km ofslowing growth. Brazil is lookportunities, as does—to ingcables moreper likemonth, India,but mired in corruption scandals, while should a lesser extent and all the India this point underthea new regime holds the most thereatbe more orders, differences considered promise.

Again, whether the reforms promised by the parent company will be able —South Africa. Companew government India lead to rapid growth remains Bellina to provide more in logistical nies in South African are to support, be seen.the Russia will continue to have problems and it reports said. focusing on quality and innovation and our Group is laywill“It take several years recover from Western-imposed is exciting for metothat Industrial cables are one of the product lines of Caleb Cable Africa S.A. ing the groundwork for a big market development there. sanctions.

Not much has been heard from South Africa, Senegal has an industrial unit Brazil, the world’s sixth largest economy—even though though it isstatus, now offi cially a member. of global which will it is very far annual from Italy and presents some I be think the BRICS are going to continue to be relevant. continued to see expansion of as much as customs 30% a clearablethat to manufacture coaxance and trade policies issues—is a market increasingly While the pace of GDP growth may slow for a few years year.

The ISO-9001 business began making coaxial cable ial, computer and telephone cables and later fiber optic important for our strategic framework. due to political and socio-economic factors or sanctions, for telecom and automotive markets in 2003, built a cables,” Bocoum said. “Having a ‘Made in Senegal’ One other thought: the BRICS acronym was originally etc., these remain temporary roadblocks at best.

As 40% 25,000-sq-m plant in 2006; established an antenna cable label on cables is something that brings pride to me, used to defi ne countries characterized by a developing of and the world’s population resides in these countries, it is assembly department in 2007; added a second new plant at the same time it is an economic boost,” he said. economic situation, a strong growth in GDP, a large popinevitable that at some point in the future they will produce in 2008, created a sales company, Dongguan Manson, The company sits on an industrial site measuring ulation, a vast UL, territory natural resources. and consume the majority of the world’s output. Rahul in 2009; achieved TUVand andabundant other certificates for 38,000 sq m. It will create 2,400 jobs, out of which In 2015, we can’t talk of them any more as “developing Sachdev, Wire & Plastic Machinery. cables, including solar cables; and added a third plant, 60% will be positions held by women, the report said. countries”inbut as superpowers that, together with 20,000-sq-m, Huangjiang, that has a workshop for the G7 At itsfaced website, Hong-Kong-based CCIL notes that, countries, dominate the worldwide market. Fabio BelliRussia economic and political distresses in 2014 further processing of compounds. wassituation founded may in 2001

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PEOPLE Paramount Die Company has named Dan Howard as its international sales manager, with a focus on expanding the global sales of the organization’s premier wire drawing die systems. He spent the last 11 years managing Blachford Corporation’s international business growth initiatives. After earning a B.S. degree in chemical engineering, he spent 13 years in the pulp and paper industry, rising to general Howard management of a chemical distribution company prior to joining the wire industry. He has held various commercial roles, including international business development, strategic account management and oversight of general business operations. Based in Abingdon, Maryland, USA, Paramount Die is a global supplier of wire die inserts and tooling systems.

IEWC recently announced that Senior Vice President, Strategic Global Sourcing and Business Development Lanny Million has taken on the added role of Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO). He has some 30 years of industry experience, including 14 years at Prestolite Wire LLC, where he was vice president of operations. He holds a B.S. degree in business from Arkansas Million State University. The company also announced that Chief Information Officer Joseph Crum

has taken on the added role of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). He joined IEWC in 2012 as marketing director.

He previously served in marketing and product management positions.

He holds a B.S. degree in marketing from the University of Iowa. He will lead IEWC’s marketing efforts in the U.S. and abroad. Based in New Berlin, Wisconsin, USA, IEWC is a global supplier of total connectivity solutions for different industries.

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Robert P. (Bob) Fiorentino has been named vice president, sales and marketing, at Philatron Wire and Cable.

He has more than 30 years of sales and marketing experience, and has worked extensively, both domestically and internationally, for companies such as Eastman Kodak, Redlake Imaging, and Luminys Corp. He holds an executive MBA degree from The Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University. Based in Sante Fe Springs, California, USA, Philatron Wire and Cable, is a manufacturer of custom and standard electrical wire and cable.

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Johnstown Wire Technologies, Inc., has named J. David Reed as president and CEO of the company.

He has more than 30 years of industry experience, including developing companies into global leaders in their respective industries. He served as president of Essex Group, Inc., from 2007 to 2015. Prior to that, he was president of the Little

OBITUARY Industry veteran and innovator Ronald Kenny Neuman, died following a lengthy illness on August 24, 2016, at age 66. A native of Detroit, Michigan, and a resident of Georgia, he was a member of the Armed Forces, and served in the Vietnam War where he was wounded and awarded a Purple Heart.

Neumann graduated from the University of Texas (UTEP) and became a successful engineer and Ronald Neuman (l), with Joe Tools staff. business owner, with his niche years at Laribee Wire, where he being specialized tooling for induswas responsible for all phases of trial applications. His career in the the company’s operations. He was a wire and cable industry spanned co-founder and sales manager of the decades, including more than 15

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Gema Engineering Company, which began in 1995 and in 2002 was acquired by Canterbury Engineering, and parent company CanGen Group, which included the GENCA Corporation. He served as sales manager for both Canterbury Engineering and GENCA until he joined JoeTools in 2009.

He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Mary Sue Groover; a son, John; a daughter, Kimberly Neuman Salamone; a brother, Don; a sister, Denise Harkins; and nieces, nephews and grandchildren.

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Report: FTTH has strong broadband base throughout urban areas in China A report from China Academy of Telecommunication (CAICT), Broadband Development Analysis in 1H16, shows that China has made great progress in broadband construction in both rural and urban areas.

The release said that the number of subscribers of highspeed broadband has “increased rapidly during the period and China is entering the era of gigabit-level broadband capacity.” At this time, Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) covers nearly 90% of the residents on average in cities in China.

FTTH has been aggressively promoted in urban areas, and buildings made in cities in 2016 all have optical network access. “FTTH has covered 704 million residents and subscribers of the four major operators whose home has been covered with FTTH accounted for about 90% in China.

The coverage rate was almost 100% in some provinces like Tianjin and Jiangsu.”

The report said that FTTH was achieved in over 80% of the administrative villages in China. It noted that the country has been improving the broadband speed aggressively in rural areas. FTTH was achieved in over 80% of the administrative villages by the end of May 2016 while the access

bandwidths in over 50% of the administrative villages were above 12 Mbps. FTTH ports in rural areas accounted for 31.6% of the total nationwide.

China’s operators have also been deploying 10G PON, the report said, noting that the popularity of high-bandwidth applications such as 4K TV has increased the demands for megabytes-level bandwidth. To solve the problems, EPON, GPON and other technologies have been used, while operators in Shanghai and some other regions have been aggressively deploying 10G PON, based on FTTH deployments.

The high-speed broadband subscribers has increased significantly in China, the report said. The statistics reflect stable growth in the first half of 2016, with fixed broadband access subscribers totaling 273.75 million by the end of May, a penetration rate of 20.4%, a number that is expected to exceed 21% in 2016.

Broadband subscribers rapidly migrated to FTTH in 2016, the report said. FTTH broadband subscribers increased 62.18 million in the first five months this year, accounting for 66.4% of the broadband users, and they are estimated to increase to 80%, almost reaching 100 million by the end of 2016. Subscribers of fixed broadband of 8 MB or above accounted for 79.7% by May 2016, and those of 20 MB or above, 47.7%. 

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FASTENER UPDATE Federal officials issue bolt warnings Federal regulators have warned subsea oil drillers and equipment makers that bolt failures in the Gulf of Mexico could result in an oil spill on the scale of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

An article in The Wall Street Journal said that the warning came at a public forum at the Interior Department in Washington. At it, one official said there have not been any major catastrophes to date from bolt failures, but one could happen. The agency’s working group and a parallel task force set up by an oil industry trade group are trying to determine why critical metal fasteners have corroded and failed in recent years.

In 2013, GE recalled more than 10,000 bolts after a failure on one of its components, a blowout preventer connector, led to a spill of more than 400 barrels of drilling fluid in the Gulf of Mexico.

Cited failures have included premature corroding, stripping of threads or snapping outright, the story said. The company and regulators have previously said that a variety of factors could have caused those failures, including metallurgical issues with the alloy used in the bolts themselves, as well as “over-torquing” of the fasteners during

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Fire boats battle flames on April 22, 2010, at the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig. the assembly of the stacks of equipment that sit atop the subsea well.

U.S. regulators said they have contacted counterparts in other countries about the failures. Troy Trosclair, a BSEE supervisor for the Gulf of Mexico region, said Brazilian officials reported that 56 rigs working for either Petróleo Brasileiro SA or Petrobras (the country’s biggest oil producer) were affected by the 2013 GE recall.

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SPOTLIGHT This section introduces a new WAI member each issue.

Randy Marttinen Director, Supply Chain Industrial Door Co. U.S.

Q: What does your company do?

A: Industrial Door Company manufactures steel springs, primarily serving the overhead garage door industry with a focus on torsion and extension springs. We are celebrating our 41st year in business and serve customers across North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East.

Q: What is your role there?

A: I am the director of supply chain so I manage the supply chain group with responsibility in sourcing, logistics, vendor relations, and materials.

Q: What do you like best about your position?

A: The most rewarding part of my position is enhancing business relationships with internal and external customers and vendors. In addition, providing springs for companies across the globe and sourcing materials both domestically and internationally provides an opportunity to experience the diversity and cultural differences between people/nations; and is a fascinating aspect of manufacturing in the 21st century, which is very rewarding to experience first hand traveling to various countries.

Q: How has your industry most changed?

A: In the 41 years in business our industry has primarily changed with consolidation in the industry among manufacturers. This has changed the landscape in how we sell to and source within the industry. The players are much larger with more at stake with each customer and the vendor pool has also consolidated with a reliance on fewer supply partners.

Q: How does your company remain competitive?

A: As a company the space we compete in is uber competitive, so managing costs and enhancing relationships with our customers and vendors are contributing factors to us remaining competitive in the years to come.

Q: Why did you recently join WAI? A: WAI provides an opportunity for our company to learn and to network through events and the magazine subscription which is important to our success with wire being a primary product in our manufacturing process.

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

Richard Day European Sales Manager Mexichem Specialty Compounds Inc

Randy Alan Marttinen Director of Purchasing Industrial Door Company

Yusuke Oshima SEO Osaka Oviss Inc

Andrew Depue Process Engineer Southwire Co

Omar Mureebe Regional Sales Manager Huber Engineered Materials

Lisa Patterson Site Manager Wyre Tek, Inc., a WireMasters Company

Doug Lipp Compliance Manager The Govmark Testing Services, Inc.

Frank N Noble Consultant Times Microwave Systems

Rick Peiczarka National Sales Manager Mexichem Specialty Compounds Inc

Michael N Pullano Northeast Regional Sales Manager Mexichem Specialty Compounds Inc Blake Collier Skaggs Project Manager Accuracy Technical Services Dr Bram Steijn Nedri

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From the WAI Ferrous Wire Handbook With 36 chapters over 1,168 pages, the Ferrous Wire Handbook, published in 2008, remains the Association’s most-ever comprehensive literature project, written by three dozen wire industry experts and edited by former WAI President Robert M. Shemenski, an industry consultant and president of RMS Consulting, Inc. The book is a modern-day reference tool for those working directly in the steel wire or manufacturing, engineering and operations sectors of the industry. The chapters present straightforward explanations of different process, supported by charts and photos. The content covers a full spectrum of sectors, with individual chapters—from wire rod production and deformation in cold drawing to patenting and straightening and cutting wire—that explain the process in practical terms. A company that just wants one or two chapters need not pay for the entire book ($235/$195 for WAI members).

A PDF of a single chapter, from 4 through 36, can be ordered for $25, $20 for WAI members. Each order will include an additional free PDF with the first three chapters (A short history of the Ferrous Wire Industry, Evolution of Modern Steel Manufacture, and Modern Steel

Manufacturing), which serve as an industry introduction and overview.

To get the first three chapters for free, go to www.mywai.org. There you can see and order the other individual chapters. Future issues will present chapter summations here.

CHAPTER 7: The Modern Morgan High-Speed Rod Mill SUMMARY: This chapter, 12 pages, discusses the subjects in the below subheads. It includes 22 charts/ and pictures, and a bibliography.

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The Wire Association International has announced it is accepting nominations at large for its two highest individual honors: the Mordica Memorial Award and the Donnellan Memorial Award.

Named in tribute to WAI’s founding president John Mordica, the Mordica Award is given to an individual for outstanding contributions to the wire industry’s base through research, development, innovation, or other technical contributions. The Donnellan is awarded as a tribute to J. WAI 1st V.P. Dave Hawker with Edward Donnellan, Mordica Memorial Award winformer Executive Director and Executive ner Daniel P. Jones.

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Secretary of the Association, to an individual for exemplary voluntary service to the association.

WAI’s Memorial Awards Committee, comprising past winner’s of these two awards, reviews candidates for worthiness of nomination. They select a slate of candidates to present the Board of Directors, who votes on the nominees to choose each year’s winner. The board is voting this year on candidates for the 2017 award. The Memorial Awards Committee is accepting nominations for 2018 and beyond.

The 2016 Mordica Memorial Award was presented to Daniel L. Jones, president, CEO, and chairman of the board for Encore Wire Corp. The 2016 Donnellan was awarded to WAI Past President Nick Nickoletopoulos, president and CEO of Urecon.

To nominate a candidate, please visit wirenet.org and click on the “Education Center” for application materials and more details on WAI Awards.

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CHAPTER CORNER New England Chapter sets player record at new golf course For many in the Northeast, September golf is perfection. The humidity has vanished, along with the crowds, the greens have come back to life. As the golf season will not last forever, it provides good reason to savor every opportunity to enjoy a round.

This was certainly the scene in Connecticut on Sept. 13 at the WAI New England Chapter’s annual golf tournament, which drew a record 165 players at the Golf Club of Avon. The weather was outstanding with a crisp blue sky, cool start and a warm afternoon sun.

Many players left saying that this was one of the best-ever tournaments in the event’s 22-year history. It was especially good for the winning team of Jon From l-r, chapter event co-organizer Derek Olson, the winning Ulbrich team Ulbrich, Mike Alstrits, Mike Norton (Michael Alstrits, Jonathan Ulbrich, David Brocket and William Forrest), and Bill Forrest, Ulbrich Shaped Wire/ co-organizer John Rivers and chapter President Dave Fisher.

Ulbrich Stainless Steels, who topped the field with a score of 60. without diminishing the pace. The chapter’s dedicated volThe chapter’s Board of Directors manages the event with unteers also sought food services that matched the quality a true continuous improvement approach. Every year there of the course, and this was evident in the nearly continuous are enhancements deployed to improve the experience for food and beverage service that even included a craft beer the attendees and return additional money to the Scholarstop on the course. ship Fund. For many, the past events, including the last Chapter President David Fisher of James Monroe Wire five that were held at Ellington Ridge Country Club, were & Cable was quick to acknowledge the Board for their exwell planned, and equally well executed and sold-out. For tra-ordinary year-long efforts and the generous support of some, there was no reason for change, but the New England the sponsors (see next page) who filled the course with conBoard was not satisfied. That desire to chase perfection and test holes and the raffle table with great prizes. disrupt the process led them to the beautiful new location, “With the Chapter’s passion for making this event great, one of a very few premier 27-hole courses in the region.

I would encourage everyone to consider participating next This adjustment allowed more of the industry to take part year,” Fisher said.

Jessica Hoogendoorn, Colorant Chromatics Group, can only smile as Amphenol Corp.’s Kevin Warner displays a sponsor towel from chapter President Dave Fisher.

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Plant tour, truckers and Duesenbergs part of Midwest Chapter’s Nov. 3 meeting The Midwest Chapter has a trifecta of activity planned for its dinner meeting on Thirsday, Nov. 3.

The chapter plans to tour the Fort Wayne Metals (FWM) plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana. FWM is a leading manufacturer of precision wire-based materials. It is best known for its products for the medical field, but it also supplies wire for demanding industrial applications.

The chapter will then re-assemble after the tour for a

presentation on Trucking by David Enoch of Mid-South Wire Company. The steel wire manufacturer has a transportation department (MS Logistics) with a fleet of tractor trailers. The meeting will be held at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum in Auburn, Indiana.

For details about the meeting, contact chapter President Tim Fingeroos at tfingeroos@chartermfg.com or WAI’s Steve Fetteroll at sfetteroll@wirenet.org. 

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FEATURE

Industry trends This feature includes stories on companies that have bolstered their R&D through a university program, further deployed digital marketing and made acquisitions to break into otherwise unattainable markets as well as an Industry 4.0 update, a market focus from Integer Research, a UL presentation on one aspect of the new NEC code and a reminder (below) that the perception and “support” of industry remains a troubling trend.

NAM president: industry deserves more than rhetoric This year, Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National for manufacturing and our country. Of course, if you listen Association of Manufacturers, has made the rounds, to the candidates who are out campaigning today, they all spreading the good word about U.S. manufacturing: it embrace manufacturing and pledge their support—at least accounts for more than 12 million jobs and contributes more rhetorically. The same is true of our leaders in Congress. But than $2 trillion to national GDP, but he is not satisfied. words alone don’t build the right business environment or “Unavoidable headwinds, like global economic weakness produce a skilled workforce. We need the right public policy and worldwide instability, have roiled manufacturing. While agenda for that. At the NAM, we want to make it easy on these challenges will be slow to change, our leaders right our leaders. here in our own country have, at this moment, the power “We’re spelling it out with exactly the right policies to fix other self-imposed barriers to opportunity. They can for manufacturers to compete and win—for America to fix policies in Washington that imperil our promise. These compete and win. We zero in on 11 key areas: tax; trade; barriers exist because Washington hasn’t yet summoned the energy; environment; transportation & infrastructure; labor; will to change them. And because ‘We The People,’ in some immigration; workforce; healthcare; research, innovation ways, haven’t done enough to fight for manufacturing as and technology; and regulatory/legal reform. Our message essential to American Exceptionalism and our future. is this: if a candidate really wants to be a manufacturing “It’s ... time to stop selecting political candidates based president, this is the agenda. If Congress wants to energize consistently recognized as one the industries to the economiceconomy, prosperity of athis nation citizens. Whychecklist.” then are U.S. manufacturers facing onManufacturing how theyissound, rather than worldwide what they canofactually dothat contributes themost manufacturing is and theitslegislative

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Technology is the ultimate industry driver, and one essential ingredient is having the resources to take a concept and make it reality. For cable manufacturers, that means having to make sure that their new products will pass code and performance requirements. As top-end sophisticated testing equipment can be cost-prohibitive, some manufacturers have partnered with higher education.

Below, Dr. Paul Nahass, director, Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP), of the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Connecticut, discusses how the school has been able to serve as an industry resource.

WJI: When did UConn’s Institute of Materials Science start IAP? Nahass: IMS launched IAP in 1974 to provide convenient access to resources at the Institute of Materials Science (IMS) to assist industry with short-term, materials-related research, development and production projects.

WJI: How has the program grown over the years? Has the scope of what you offer expanded much?

Nahass: IAP has over 30 member companies, from startups and companies with less than 20 employees to multi-nationals with tens of thousands, such as GE and Pfizer. I’d classify most of the wire and cable companies as medium-sized. Most of them are based in Connecticut, with a few scattered throughout other parts of the Northeast. The

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basic premise remains the same, although the IMS facilities have expanded and the types of R&D projects have changed. One thing we do a lot more of these days is proofof-concept R&D projects that address high-risk concepts with very modest investment.

WJI: We see that the list of companies that IAP serves includes three cable manufacturers: Specialty Cable Corporation, The Okonite Co. and the Marmon Group. What services do you offer them?

Nahass: IAP helps solve problems and accelerate their R&D efforts. We identify production anomalies, customer complaints, vendor quality changes, and the like. We also work very closely with the Electrical Insulation Research Consortium (EIRC), which has facilities specific to their

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SPECIALTY CABLE CORPORATION Specialty Cable Corporation (SCC) has been a member of the Industrial Affiliates Program at UConn’s Institute of Materials Science for three years. Below Jim Streifel, vice president of sales, Specialty Cable Corporation, shares his thoughts on the program.

WJI: Has the program been a definite plus for your company?

Streifel: The UConn program is considered a tremendous success at SCC. It preforms tests that we cannot perform in our lab, mostly for analyzing new and currently used materials to determine Jim Streifel if the chemical and physical compositions are suitable for our applications.

WJI: Do you have a sense of trust in this program, and how valuable do you see that as?

Streifel: UConn has provided quick turnaround times, and the results, without exception, have been reliable, helping guide SCC when addressing issues. Our UConn affiliation gives us access to a world-class testing facility, without all the expense of operating a lab independently. UConn has become a necessary and valued asset for SCC. WJI: Can you provide an example of a single experience that reflects the value of the arrangement?

Streifel: We don’t just do R&D for

a new cable and then see if it passes.

We test at different stages to verify that we are still good. We recently sent UConn a sample for a new PTFE aerospace product that had to meet a stringent flame test. One critical requirement is knowing the degree of sinter. Now, we could test in-house for that, but not to the exacting degree that UConn can.

For a reasonable price we get good confidence our product will pass, and if something is not right, they can provide us with valuable data to help determine our next move. That is real-world help because a lot of man hours, from marketing to R&D, go into each new cable.

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needs, as well as utilizing our core chemical, polymer and mechanical analyses facilities. The EIRC, a consortium, operates within UConn’s Institute of Materials Science, and all the work is done at UConn, most of it within IMS. WJI: What happens when one of those companies (or any participating program company) contacts you with a request?

Nahass: They usually call me to describe the problem, and we propose an analytical suite of tests to address them. Typical requests are done in one to two weeks, with a report of the findings provided.

performance of the vendors’ products, and recommend potential changes to the formulation and the process to improve its longevity. We quickly characterized the chemical formulation and correlated it to the performance tests the company performed. Based on that, we made recommendations for chemical changes and surface preparation to improve the longevity of the product. The jury is out on success of the product in the market.

WJI: What kind of equipment do you A UConn graduate student performs electron microscopy on an typically use to test IAP member sample. samples from your cable clients?

Nahass: Typical requests for analysis of material degWJI: Please provide an example of what the process may radation or contamination would utilize chemical analysis be like for a participating company. techniques such as infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and gas Nahass: One small company in the healthcare space chromatography/mass spectrometer (GC-MS); polymer trying to launch a new product has vendors providing a thermal analysis, such as TGA, DSC, and DMA; or polykey component. They recently asked us to analyze the

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MARMON GROUP The Marmon Group has been a member of the Industrial Affiliates Program at UConn’s Institute of Materials Science for at least 25 years. Below Dan Masakowski, director of materials development, shares his thoughts on the program. tists at UConn we have established a WJI: Has the Industrial Affiliates very high level of trust. At this point, Program program been a definite many of the associates are plus for your company? considered to be partners in Masakowski: Yes, it our work here at Marmon certainly has. We have Engineered Wire & Cable. We had scores of problems have been associated with the resolved through our colCapstone senior project in the laboration. All requests School of Material Science for help have been hanfor the past seven years with dled in a timely manner excellent results from this with a written report at effort. the end to summarize the Dan Masakowski results.

WJI: Can you provide an example of a single experience that WJI: Do you have a sense of trust reflects the value of the arrangement? in this program, and how valuable is Masakowski: We had a particuit to your company? lar problem with copper conductor Masakowski: Through a close colbreaking prematurely in an aggreslaboration with a number of the scien-

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sive flame test at UL. We had noticed that the conductor had changed appearance during this test in that it appeared to be less the color of copper and more like bronze. With the help of the IMS metallurgy group we determined that indeed we had bronze which melts at a much lower temperature which explained the premature break. Now we had to determine how it became bronze and once again with the help of the metallurgists we found that since the cable was tested in a galvanized conduit, the zinc evaporated and at the high test temperature, alloyed with the copper to produce bronze.

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WJI: Was there an interesting aspect not covered by the above questions?

Nahass: IAP provides different services for different types of companies. Large companies tend to come for highly-speWJI: Who does the actual work on your end? Do the cific characteristudents get to do zation problems, meaningful work? using some of Nahass: IAP the world-class has six full-time, facilities and faculty professional lab IMS has. Small managers (four companies often use have PhDs) each IAP as an extension with an average of of their R&D staff 20 years of expeand equipment. rience. They are Medium-sized comexperts in operatpanies tend to have ing and maintaintheir own equiping our equipment, ment for routine and interpreting An IAP staffer performs chemical analysis on a contaminant sample. analysis, but need the data generated. more specialized Additionally, gradfacilities occasionally, or come to us when their equipment uate students design and execute real-life company projects fails or is occupied. and run analyses for requesters. In addition to providing real-world examples of what the equipment can do, this For more information on the UConn Industrial Affiliates work establishes relationships between the companies, Program, go to www.ims.uconn.edu/industrial-affiliatesstudents, and faculty that lead to new hires and consulting program/industry-affiliates partnerships. mer molecular weight determination using gel permeation chromatography (GPC).

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Why having a digital marketing strategy is necessary Belden, a global supplier of connectivity and networking products for end-to-end signal transmission technology, has focused more on digital marketing to get its message out. Below, Zach Garrett, digital marketing manager, enterprise, discusses what this encompasses.

WJI: Digital marketing is a broad term. How do you define and approach it?

Garrett: When done right, digital marketing is simply an avenue to reach customers where they hang out (online) and help educate, provide tools and resources, and move forward their buying decision. 100% of our efforts are geared towards what in digital marketing is called “Inbound Marketing.”

The inbound approach, which is widely by leading B2B organizations, is a distinct shift in strategy and mindset.

Instead of “pushing” things at an audience (think mass promotional emails) you work to “pull” them in by offering some of value to them (think white papers). Our mission is to help customers move forward in their “buyer” journey. One way you see that is via the banner ads we send out, via Google, that will appear to people who have visited belden.com and then later do searches that trigger the pop-ups. We may have two or three such campaigns a month. At the end, we measure how they did results-wise.

WJI: Is digital marketing relevant to B2B and in particular manufacturing? What are the goals? How is it going?

Garrett: Digital marketing is not just relevant but absolutely necessary for any organization that wants to serve customers well in the 21st century. The reality is that potential customers spend more and more time on the internet, and companies that do not invest in creating value for through digital channels will, at a minimum, miss out at connecting and engaging with a huge portion of the market, and at a maximum, risk losing business because they don’t provide what the customer expects online. We have focused on digital marketing the last three years, but in the last year Voice of the Customer (VoC) has driven more intentional efforts to help our target audience through digital channels. Our goals are to increase the number of people we reach online organically, and through paid advertising improve our pre-purchase web experience, and help customers move towards a buying decision.

WJI: So, what has worked best? What hasn’t?

Garrett: There are four areas we have focused on this year. First is a blog strategy. You need a process and checklist to ensure every post is optimized for search, has good, content—such as news about a trend or practical tips—and

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is specific to your target market.

Second is lead nurturing. You have to follow up, providing related conGarrett tent and resources, and that can be very complex. Third is digital advertising. Displaying your ads on other websites after someone visits your site (known as “remarketing”) is a great way to stay in front of audiences. And fourth is search engine optimization (SEO), which has to do with getting your messages to appear.

As for what has not worked as well, that would be social media paid advertising. We have tested paid avenues on social media platforms and had mixed results. It is great from an organic perspective but we have found their effectiveness to vary greatly based on the activity.

WJI: How do analytics work?

Garrett: By implementing a few free or low-cost tools, any organization can track just about any online metric Unlike any other marketing channel, digital allows you to track massive amounts of data in real time. We have dashboards and metrics that track things monthly, weekly, and some even daily to ensure we are on pace to reach our goals.

We look at data as real time VoC and analyze it to make continual improvements that will best help our customers, optimize efficiency, and provide the greatest ROI. WJI: Any advice for companies not using digital marketing?

Garrett: Some people may think that if their company starts investing in digital channels, that somehow implies that other commercial activities—such as their street sales force, events and distribution relationships—are at risk. That is not so. This is not an either/or case. Companies need to continue doing what has been successful, but they are missing out if digital is not a key part of their overall marketing efforts.

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Market entry via acquisitions The home field advantage matters, both in sports and in manufacturing. A physical presence and reputation can boost a company’s ability to establish a market presence in a new region or for a new product, so carefully made acquisitions represent a trend that will never end. One wire and cable manufacturer that has followed this philosophy is Germany’s Leoni AG, which has a global presence but continues to make key acquisitions.

Per a press release, in September, Leoni bought a majority interest in Chinese automotive harness maker Wuhan Hengtong Automotive (WHA). The company’s 13,000-sqft wiring harness plant in the Hubei Province has nearly a thousand employees. WHA’s customer base includes local car manufacturers, in particular the Dongfeng Group, China’s second largest car producer. In a first step, it will supply DPCA, the joint venture of Dongfeng and the French manufacturer PSA. The deal brings both short- and long-term growth, the release said. It notes that WHA generates annual revenue of 35 million euros, but that Leoni expects to see increased business volume raise those figures to “three digit million euro.” This particular investment, it said, enables Leoni “to become a supplier of the Dongfeng Group and thus assures its future growth in the Asian market.”

Leoni, which is best known as an automotive wire and cable manufacturer but also makes products for other sectors, including medical, has followed this approach to access other markets. Per Press Officer Sven Schmidt, in 2008, Leoni acquired Valeo Connective Systems, the wiring systems unit of the Valeo Group. “In doing so, we got access to French OEMs Renault, Peugeot and Citroen.

Moreover, with their plants we considerably enlarged our low-cost production capacities in North Africa.”

In 2008/2013 (each time 50%), Leoni acquired Daekyeung, a wiring systems maker in South Korea, which lead to project wins from SangYong and Hyundai. It also previously bought manufacturers to acquire technology, such as Studer Cables in Switzerland, which enabled Leoni to expand its product portfolio with cables and systems for railway applications using electron beam technology, which we did not have before.

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Industry 4.0 update: this is not futuristic science fiction In July, the WJI feature focused on Industry 4.0 (aka, “the Smart Factory”), including comments from OEMs as well as three suppliers that provide different pieces that can go into such an approach.

This story goes one step further, presenting comments from a fourth company. Below, Kevin Blais, vice president of operations, Wonderware North, a supplier of industry connecting software, shares his thoughts on the field. He will also be part of panel discussion on this topic at Interwire 2017.

with a control device which makes the promise of a smart WJI: How do you define Industry 4.0? factory more accessible for the masses.

Blais: I’m happy to let others spend their time trying to define Industry 4.0. Given the number of “movements” WJI: So what if anything is different about Industry 4.0? we’ve seen in manufacturing since Blais: Time. As time passes more the dawn of the PC of these concepts become a reality for I’m more interested more use cases. If you think back to in understanding if This is just a the genesis of SPC, people realized there are tangible rebranding of the need to collect data to plot trends elements of these larger concepts concepts put forth which could to some extent predict what was going to happen. The which can bene25 years ago. problem was there was no accessible fit our customers Visionaries have technology at the time capable of raptoday. For Industry Kevin Blais idly recording data, so operators had 4.0, many of these dreamed of fully to manually pull pieces off the line concepts are the automated or and test them. Based on the informasame as we’ve seen before but have been refreshed. It covers the standard smart factories for tion provided by the SPC plot, they the process as necessary. challenges of collecting manufacturing at least that long. adjusted Today, inline gauge testers can mondata, contextualizing it and presenting itor process parameters in real-time it in a form most suited to the intended and provide instant feedback to the target whether that is an operator or control system. The availability of CEO. Industry 4.0 refers to this as the inexpensive IO and control systems, the prevalence of “smart” or digitized factory. The ultimate goal is to enable Ethernet networks and the increasing power of PCs has better decision making through more comprehensive ananow made these concepts more accessible. There really lytics and machine learning algorithms. isn’t any reason every piece of equipment shouldn’t be connected to the enterprise control system.

WJI: You say that Industry 4.0 is not a new story: what exactly do you mean by that?

WJI: If many of the Industry 4.0 concepts have been Blais: I’ve been in the automation industry for 35 years. available for some time as you say, how well have they From my perspective this is just a rebranding of concepts been adopted? put forth 25 years ago. Visionaries have dreamed of fully Blais: I’d say that varies greatly depending on industry automated or smart factories for at least that long. The and company size. Generally speaking, the companies challenge has always been the accessibility of technology. with the best reason to implement these concepts are the By that I mean the availability of technology exists well ones doing the most. For instance, the food and beverage before it becomes accessible for the average consumer. For industries operate on the same type of margins as cable example, putting a control system on a small cable line was manufacturers but are generally heavily regulated and technically possible 30 years ago but was cost prohibitive. must meet certain requirements. Larger enterprises which Now even the smallest manufacturing line can be equipped

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WJI: Why aren’t more companies ready for Industry 4.0?

Blais: Again there are many of Industry 4.0?

WJI: What answers can you provide? reasons but more often than not The biggest problem Blais: Our goal is to help our cusit has to do with having the infratomers become more successful. If structure. Cable manufacturing is I’ve seen over the that means moving forward with a good example of an old industry years is paralysis. something like Industry 4.0, then which still gets by with a lot of old that’s what we can do, but many machinery. Amazingly, many of more of our customers can benethese old machines lack even basic data acquisition capabilities. They operate fit from small affordable incremental changes. Simply on thin margins and are generally hesitant installing low cost data acquisition and a “historian” to collect as much data as possible and exposing it to as to spend money on networkmany people as possible would provide an immediate ing and benefit that doesn’t cause any disruption to the company.

The problem is that everyone likes to come up with these very “disruptive” concepts. If you were responsible for running one of these companies, how would you feel about investing significant time and money to disrupt your upgrading old equipment unless company? there are obvious benefits. Many of these companies probably aren’t aware just how costWJI: What does your company offer that can help? effective the current solutions are, or perhaps they just Blais: Wonderware is the leading supplier of manufacdon’t have a partner they are comfortable making the comturing automation software. Our solutions are in more mitment with. than a third of the world’s plants, with more than one million installations globally - including wire and cable WJI: What would you say has most delayed use of companies. Our software suite covers the full gamut of Industry 4.0?

Industry 4.0 and has for more than 10 years. Our parent Blais: The biggest problem I’ve seen over the years is company, Schneider Electric, is one of the largest proparalysis. People get so caught up in all of the lingo and

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marketing hype and then they don’t do anything. They spend years looking at Industry 4.0 trying to figure out what it is exactly, how much it will cost and how long it will take to implement. During the same time they could have implemented a series of smaller solutions which would have paid benefits and given them a better understanding of where they are at and what to focus on. Companies are fighting every day to stay alive and to solve problems. Very few are just sitting back wondering what else they can implement. You also have to remember this isn’t the first great promise they’ve seen. Many have gone down similar roads in the What would you say past and had less than satisfactory has most delayed use results.

need visibility into their global operations will generally be further along.

When a cable company is looking at this technology they have to ask, What’s the point for us? Will Industry 4.0 help us make better wire? Is it going to help us make more wire? Is it going to help us make cheaper wire? Will Industry 4.0 naturally make these things happen or will users simply end up with more data to analyze and interpret? Technology for technology sake is never the answer.

Adding these concepts has to intuitively integrate into an existing environment to drive value or the initiative will stall.

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cess control companies in the world. We have a full complement of both hardware and software that goes from the sensor to the boardroom and an extensive network of industry integration partners who can provide much needed engineering experience. Most importantly, our solutions are completely scalable in both size and functionality from one machine to an entire enterprise.

WJI: What do you say to people looking at Industry 4.0?

Blais: I say find someone you can work with who you trust. There are a lot of advanced concepts here that sound great and seem simple; however, when you are talking about a fully integrated manufacturing environment it’s never what it appears. You need someone who has extensive experience not only with these technologies but with these types WJI: Could you describe any of of projects in the past. As I said, your customers as currently having most of these concepts aren’t new an Industry 4.0 operation? so you don’t need an Industry Blais: As I’ve said many of these 4.0 company, you simply need concepts are not new so there are one that has extensive experience many companies who are doing with manufacturing automation many of these things; however, very systems. You might not be able to Email editor@wirenet.org few are doing them all and even find a company that does everyto request a PDF of a new fewer are doing them as described. thing but you’d be wise to find story where manufacturers/ By that I mean, in the ideal Industry one who does most of what you OEMs discuss potential & 4.0 world everything is digitized and need. Don’t bite off more than concerns. integrated perfectly. In reality, we are you are comfortable handling in a not quite there yet. Many companies six month period but have a long are accomplishing many of these term plan as well. Rather than concepts in their own way. There is spending a long time trying to still a large number of systems that need to interact with justify the ROI, spend your time thinking about all the each other, and fewer still are closing the loop between the ways you can use the system to improve operations. business supply chain and plant floor executions systems to Too often companies invest money to put these sysmove closer to the fully automated world of Industry 4.0. tems in only to figure out what to do with them later.

I would say the concepts which hold the greatest promise Plan ahead. Too many of these projects get stalled going forward are the analytics and machine learning. These when everyone realizes what kind of infrastructure technologies are starting to become more readily accessible. needs are required.

Want more 4.0 perspectives?

Interwire 2017 session to clarify what Industry 4.0 is and can do Whether you call it the Industry Internet of Things, the Smart Factory or Industry 4.0, there seems to be more and more focus on it across industry as a whole. At Interwire, a panel discussion will focus on this topic, the goal being to make Industry 4.0 understandable on a shop-floor level. Wonderware North’s Kevin Blais will be joined by Cimteq Ltd. principal Ali Shehab, Innovites CEO Albert Groothedde and Oden Technologies Willem Sundblad. For more details on what they will discuss, and/or to send an anonymous question to be posed, e-mail mmarselli@wirenet.org.

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Oden offers an end-to-end wireless data acquisition and production analytics platform for the wire and cable industry. Our data collection device plugs into all existing equipment and sends real-time data to the analytics tool.

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Partnering to discover electrifying advances In July, General Cable Corporation and Manhattan Scientifics, Inc., entered a joint development agreement. Below, Dr. Srini Siripurapu, vice president of R&D at General Cable, explains why the company sought outside expertise to design and develop nano-structured aluminum for wire and cable applications, with a strong focus on overhead conductors for the transmission of power.

WJI: Why did General Cable want a partner?

Siripurapu: We believe in an Open Innovation model.

The concept is that in a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but can benefit from sharing ideas, processes or inventions from other companies. Via this approach, we identify partners from anywhere in the world who have the best technology expertise in the innovation areas we target.

WJI: What need led you to seek a partner?

Siripurapu: Some 7% of energy is lost between a generation source and customer meter in the U.S., an annual loss of some $25 billion. Transmission and distribution overhead conductor lines are the dominant source of these energy losses. Nano-structured aluminum has the potential to offer superior balance of strength and conductivity, which can be leveraged to significantly improve the efficiency of electrical power transmission and distribution. It can also improve safety and reliability of the transmission grid, as the nano-structured aluminum based conductors are expected to be resistant to high temperatures.

WJI: Why Manhattan Scientifics?

Siripurapu: We want to supply the best nano-structured aluminum solution.

Manhattan Scientifics is a world leader in bulk nanostructuring of metals and alloys through severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques. Most work in the literature has focused on mechanical alloys for structural applications, such as aerospace. We have a history of innovation in electrical grade alloys, and we believe our combined expertise will make this a great team effort.

We believe the potential of nanostructured aluminum to offer a superior balance of strength and conductivity can be realized by Manhattan Scientifics’s background in nanostructuring and our expertise in electrical power cables.

WJI: Does each company enter this with a shared sense of what to do, and does General Cable have enough experience with nanotechnology to be an equal partner?

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solution that will benefit our mutual customers. As for our Dr. Srini Siripurapu ability to contribute, General Cable has established expertise in nanotechnology for compounds that provide superior performance in fire resistance, electrical conductivity, dielectric strength and mechanical properties for wire and cable products.

WJI: Is this akin to a marathon, where the entrants know that the finish line is a long way off?

Siripurapu: General Cable is committed to sustained innovations. We focus on a mix of incremental innovations with near-term impact and industry-changing innovations over the long run. Our partners understand that breakthrough innovations can require multi-year efforts and that we must share a vision if we are to jointly develop a “game changer.” We focus on multiple innovation areas that will benefit our utility customers on many fronts, from safe handling and ease of installation to increased capacity and reliability of our products.

WJI: Would your findings be patented?

Siripurapu: Intellectual property is important to maintain differentiation for our products. We have a focused patents strategy that covers our innovation areas.

Our partners are included in the patents strategy and we maintain transparency through the joint development process, which builds trust and strengthens the partnership.

WJI: Is there anything else you would like to point out?

Siripurapu: General Cable continues to build on its 170-year history of innovation through two approaches.

The first is customer-driven development of new products and services, often by collaborative programs with other industry leaders. Secondly, we often recognize an industry need and develop a solution that anticipates customer demand. One recent example that has shown extraordinary results is TransPowr® with E3X™ Technology, the utility industry’s first heat-dissipating overhead conductor, which meets the need to change two of the key material properties that affect the thermal rating of bare overhead conductors.

Editor’s note: see related story on p. 18.

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Power over LAN cables: the impact of revisions to the National Electrical Code One of the higher profile revisions to the NEC that will take effect in 2017 is related to a need for LAN cables to do more than just carry data signals: they need to be able to carry more current without overheating, a non-insignificant change.

Below are edited excerpts from a presentation published earlier this year in UL’s Wire Talk, on this topic by Randy Ivans, Program/Project Manager, UL, LLC. When the data and communications industries decided to go down the path of powering devices over cabling that was originally intended for data transmission only, they entered a new realm where current carrying capacity, cable heating, and the safety issues associated with these factors became important considerations that could not be ignored. In addition to the data performance requirements (Cat. 5e, Cat. 6, Cat. 6a, etc.) and fire and smoke concerns (CM, CMR, CMP, etc.), the ability of a cable to handle power in various installation scenarios needs to be addressed.

Further, other industries are realizing the advantages of using standard LAN cables for their combined data and power needs, all of which sets the stage for unpredictable implementation of this rapidly evolving technology.

Organizations like the IEEE, TIA and

BICSI have been working hard on performance issues related to this change.

Their focus is primarily on specific data and power systems like Power

There is significant data that show LAN cables carrying relatively little current will overheat ... over Ethernet (PoE). The mission of the NEC, however, is focused on “the practical safeguarding of persons and property from hazards arising from the use of electricity.” The distinction between performance and safety cannot

Fig. 1. Test data showing excessive cable temperatures before and after being placed in a closed cable routing assembly.

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be overlooked. NEC’s scope is much broader as it has to consider safety issues associated with a broad range of existing and developing systems that might use data/LAN cables for powering equipment, such as IP cameras (with positioning motors and heaters), intelligent LED lighting systems, flatscreen displays and more.

There is significant data that show LAN cables carrying relatively little current will overheat (reach temperatures above the temperature rating of the cable), especially when installed in bundles. This was confirmed by a UL investigation that demonstrated bundled cables could exceed 180°C while operating well within the limits of the existing Class 2 tables in the National Electrical Code (NEC). See Fig. 1.

What kind of currents are we talking about? For direct current, the 2014 NEC allows a per-circuit limit of up to 5 amperes (depending on voltage) of operating current to be carried by the conductors of a Class 2 cable. That’s a lot of current for a 22-25 AWG conductor to handle. Technically, the NEC also permits multiple Class 2 circuits in a single cable, so that means each conductor could be carrying this amount of current. And how much current was that cable operating at over 180°C carrying? A relatively modest 1 ampere per conductor. One reason for the excessive temperature was that the cable was configured in a 192-cable bundle and installed in a closed plastic cable routing assembly. Not an unreasonable installation. In contrast, that same cable in a 7-cable bundle, installed in metal conduit, only reached 43°C when carrying the same 1 ampere per conductor. This current + bundling of cables issue was not anticipated by the existing NEC requirements.

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Even today, the existing published IEEE PoE standards only permit about 30 watts, which translates to about 0.175 amperes per conductor at a nominal 50 Vdc. However, experience has shown that designers tend to push the limits. Even within the controlled world of PoE standards, manufacturers have broken ranks a number of times with proprietary systems when more power was needed than the published PoE standards would permit. Today, 60 and 100 watt systems are already in use, and 200 watt systems have been proposed. The NEC code panels saw the need to limit how much power LAN cables could safely handle in bundled installations.

UL’s investigation provided the data to develop a new table, 725.144, for the 2017 NEC. This table recognizes the relationship between AWG size, bundle size, and the cable temperature rating as it relates to the amount of current the cable can safely handle.

This table and related requirements

address the safety issues of installing LAN cables for powering equipment. It provides answers to important questions from designers, installers and

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Industry report shows maritime sailing at top of list Integer recently completed a key update of its original 2011 Global Specialty Industrial Cable report. The 2016 report provides detailed information on the leading global cable producers in the aerospace, merchant and military shipboard, mining, offshore oil & gas, rolling stock, solar and wind power markets.

The report provides product information at a global level for each sector, including all the key North American and Western European producers such as Prysmian, Nexans, General Cable, the Marmon Group, NKT Cables, TE Connectivity and Southwire. In Asia, it cover sthe largest producers such as Hitachi Metals, LS Cable & System, SEI, TMC and Yangzhou Marine. In the update, Integer worked closely with Rachael Lee, who was a senior marketing manager in market & business development at LS Cable & System. As a result, the report reflects improved detail of the key South Korean, Japanese and Chinese specialty cable producers, particularly in the key shipboard cable market.

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The vast majority of specialty cable production across these eight sectors is based in Asia, in China, Japan and South Korea: • The largest shipboard cable producers are focused primarily in the “big three” merchant shipboard cable countries: South Korea, China and Japan.

• Many of the producers of offshore oil & gas cables originally produced shipboard cables and have transferred their skills over to this sector, with most production in the U.S. and South Korea.

• Rolling stock cable production is fairly fragmented compared to other industrial cables, but the largest areas of production are in Europe, Japan and China.

• Wind turbine cable production is focused in three countries: U.S., China and Germany. The cable types differ across regions, which reflects the very different standards required for offshore compared to onshore cables. While land-based wind turbine cables are fairly basic—for example in the U.S. there is widespread use of diesel locomotive (DLO) cables in this sector—in contrast, offshore wind turbine cables are much more complex. Cable makers in this

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sector often already have experience in producing marine or offshore oil and gas Latin America Middle East & Africa cables.

North America • Most solar cable proEurope duction is done in the Asia Pacific & South Asia U.S., Europe and Japan. The biggest players in solar cables are large cable producers that have expanded their specialty ranges to include renewables, though there is a growing Chinese market too.

• Aerospace cable proMerchant Rolling Mining Offshore Wind power Military Solar Aerospace duction is focused shipboard stock oil & gas shipboard among fewer companies than in other Fig. 2. Breakdown of top specialty cable markets by types and regional production. industrial sectors due to the high degree of For more details on the report, contact Editor Louisa Winnik complexity, with the top 10 companies representat louisa.winnik@integer-research.com. ing 70% of the total market in 2015.

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TECHNICAL ECHNIC PAPER Possibilities for copper- and wire-producing environments Ceramic-bonded SiC refractory material has been proven to be a versatile product for cathode melting as a first step of casting rods or billets.

By Sonja Breyner and Anna Franzkowiak

The extractive metallurgy of copper has a high complexity in metallurgical processes and, combined with a vast variety of metal processing furnaces, precise knowledge of the system for the appropriate refractory product selection is indispensable1. Therefore, a special focus is placed on keeping the specific refractory consumption as low as possible. Economic considerations—such as steadily increasing energy and resource costs—have resulted in companies investing in recycling processes and optimizing process efficiency in general. This adversely affects the performance of standard linings and drives refractory producers to seek material innovations and product solutions

with longer service life to reduce repairs and idle times.

As these aspects are also important for copper wire production, research activities were focused on shaft melting furnaces, in particular silicon carbide-based refractory materials and their bonding systems.

Shaft melting furnaces and lining concepts

Both in the primary and secondary copper production route, cathodes are melted in vertical shaft furnaces before the casting of cathode copper. In the three existing shaft furnace types (Asarco, Southwire and Properzi/Luxi), descending cathode sheets are melted by ascending hot combustion gases produced by reducing flames. The latter and silicon carbide-based refractories protect the copper from excessive oxygen pickup2.

Since a furnace lining is the heart of a vessel and essentially influences its performance, the standard shaft melting lining is based on silicon carbide materials due to the reducing atmosphere within. Silicon carbide is one important addition to the six basic oxides on which refractories are based.

See Fig. 1.

Silicon carbide as a raw material is characterized by high strength, high abrasion resistance, high thermal conductivity, Fig. 1. Base material pyramid with location of silicon carbide (marked in red) within the high oxidation resis1 refractory materials .

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WJI: What’s the most important news in your paper?

Breyner/Franzkowiak: This paper describes in detail the presentation held by Anna Franzkowiak at the Interwire 2015 conference in Atlanta/ USA. The most important news about it is the fact that ceramic-bonded SiC products prove to be a reliable material likewise in areas where predominantly nitride-bonded types are in use. This is supported by both the basic physical investigations and an application study.

WIJ: What are ceramic-bonded SiC products particularly suitable for besides the application in copper producing environments?

Breyner/Franzkowiak: Due to the high abrasion resistance, high thermal shock resistance and high corrosion resistance these materials can be applied in contact with various gases, slags, acids and metallic melts under challenging conditions with a restriction to wa-

ter vapor atmosphere. Application areas are e.g. the zinc industry or the domestic waste incineration. A particular feature of ceramic-bonded SiC materials is the production of hand-rammed special shapes with simple up to complex geometry which requires a profound production expertise. This represents one of RHI’s distinct excellences.

WIJ: Do you believe that ceramic-bonded silicon carbide refractories are most suitable for all continuously melting shaft furnaces?

Breyner/Franzkowiak: There exist certain excellent physical properties with nitride-bonded products, however, ceramic-bonded SiC is equally notable to consider for cathode melting shaft furnace lines and a suitable application.

This involves shaft furnaces, holding furnaces and launders for remelting.

Further metallurgical actions require other specific refractories due to the special processes.

tance and high corrosion resistance to non-oxidizing slag. It can be sensitive to hydrogen atmosphere and starts to disintegrate at ~1000°C. The Acheson method is commonly used to produce refractory grade SiC. A mixture of quartzite and carbon are synthesized according to the following equation: SiO2 + 3C = SiC + 2CO Eq. 1 SiC refractories are produced in the same way as conventional refractories.

The material properties are extended in a refractory brick based on SiC, especially temperaturewise. Its high thermal conductivity combined with a good spalling resistance make it the ideal material for cathode melting shaft furnaces2,3.

Comparability study of SiC products with different bonding types

Breyner

Franzkowiak

WIJ: Do you see the need for any further research in this area?

Breyner/Franzkowiak: Since we always strive for a good range of utilization of our products, further application tests are ongoing at the moment.

Nevertheless we are still aiming for new test fields to expand and confirm the results of the described application study.

These results will help to complete the scientific work on application level.

This comes along with RHI’s specialization in providing tailor-made solutions for lining concepts to be able to advise copper and nonferrous material manufacturers for projects, from simple to most complex.

Questions for the author? Contact her at sonja.breyner@rhi-ag.com.

General information SiC sample Manufacturing firing atmosphere

C

N

Oxidizing

Nitriding

Physical test results2) Test method

Unit

Bulk density (ASTM C20)

g/cm³

2.7

2.6

Apparent porosity (ASTM C20)

Vol%

12.7

15.3

CCS (ASTM C133)

MPa

150

140

cm³

3.7

5.2

°C

1480

1475

°C

1475

>1700

Abrasive wear resistance (ASTM C704) Grit volume Refractoriness under load (ASTM C832) T0

T0,5 1) 2)

On ignited sample (1050 °C) by X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis On original sample

Refractory bricks based on silicon carbide may be bonded either by forming Table 1. Physical test results for SiC brick types with ceramic bond (C) NSiC in a nitride atmosphere or by a and nitride bond (N).

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Fig. 2. Refractoriness under load measurements for N (orange) and C (green) according to (DIN EN ISO 1893/ASTM C832).

Fig. 3. Cup test assembly and sampling position for polished section. Dimensions in mm.

ceramic bond based on silicates during oxidizing firing.

Both types of bricks were investigated in this study. The tests comprised the standard physical properties including cup corrosion tests with copper at 1150°C under reducing atmospheric conditions and subsequent mineralogical analysis.

refractory plates. The test was run for 48 h at 1150°C. In order to create a reducing atmosphere, the cups were put in a box embedded in coke gravel. The cup dimensions can be seen in Fig. 3.

After the test the cups were cut in half in order to evaluate the cross sections and to take samples for the mineralogical analysis. The analysis was performed by incident light microscopy (Inc. light) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of the polished sections. The results are documented in Figs. 4-6.

Physical test results Both the nitride and ceramic bonded brick samples are composed of >90% SiC. The results of the physical testing can be seen in Table 1.

The values of bulk density, apparent porosity, cold crushing strength and abrasion resistance are higher for the ceramic-bonded type C. The refractoriness under load of both brands is comparable as far as the temperature of the highest expansion is concerned (T0). In contrast, the temperature of 0.5% deformation (T0.5), is increased for N. See Fig. 2. However, C exhibits a sufficiently high refractoriness under load with respect to the application in a melting shaft furnace.

Cup tests and mineralogical investigation The cups were made of standard bricks. A hole was drilled into the refractory material and filled up to two thirds of the hole with copper. The cups were covered with

Brick C

Fig. 6

Spot

Mineralogical analysis of SiC brick grade C The analysis shows that there is no copper (Cu) infiltration. There is a partial attack by Cu on SiC grains (see circle in Fig. 4) and formation of CuSi (see arrow in Fig. 5).

After reacting to CuSi, carbon remains in the pore space that is left by the shape of the original SiC grain.

Calculation of the chemical composition was done by SEM in the reaction area. The results (see Table 2) show that SiC grains near the reaction zone pick up ~1% Cu and that the newly formed CuSi alloy contains ~2% Si and ~1% O2. No Cu infiltration and same reaction mechanisms were observed for C. Corroded SiC grains (circle in Fig. 8) and formation of CuSi (line Fig. 8).

The results of the calculation of the chemical composition (see Table 3) show similar Cu pickup of ~1% in SiC grains. The newly formed CuSi alloy contains even more Si with a value up to ~4% Si.

O

Si

Ni

Cu

%

%

%

%

Mineralogical analysis of SiC brick grade N

A1

0.8

98.0

1.2

A2

1.1

2.1

A3

1.2

2.0

Equal wear mechanisms were found in both types of SiC bricks, independent of their bonding system. There was no infiltration of copper, but there was formation of a copper alloy containing up to 4% Si by the copper attack on coarse grains. Carbon remains in the microstructure as relict of corroded SiC grains.

Table 2. SEM energy dispersive analysis.

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0.6

96.2 96.8

According to these investigation results, the ceramicbonded silicon carbide refractories are most suitable for the continuously melting shaft furnaces. A hot face lining out of SiC is supported by the predominant reducing conditions to avoid oxygen as well as hydrogen pickup of the molten copper1.

Furthermore, the good wear resistance of the refractory material is very important in the upper furnace part (see Zone 1 in Fig. 10) since the main stresses are induced by the charging of the cathodes, sliding downwards during the continuous process. Reduced wear is very important

for a reduction of inclusions to a minimum, since this would be counterproductive during the affiliated casting process.

On the other hand, the material must withstand the prevailing thermal stresses due to the induced heat of the burner flames in the lower part of the furnace (see Zone 2 in Fig. 10). With the existing temperature gradient from top to bottom, the ceramic-bonded SiC refractory material is a versatile product for cathode melting as a first step of casting rods or billets.

Several tests with RHI’s customers supported these results with samples taken from the red marked areas

Fig. 4. 20x mag. Inc. light, dry.

Fig. 5. 100x mag. Inc. light, dry.

Fig. 6. 500x mag., detail of Fig. 5. SEM BSE.

Fig. 7. 20x mag. Inc. light, dry.

Fig. 8. 200x mag. Inc. light, dry.

Fig. 9. 500x mag., detail of Fig. 8. SEM BSE.

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TECHNICAL PAPER Summary and conclusions Brick type N

Fig.

9

Spot

O

Si

Ni

Cu

%

%

%

%

A1

99.3

0.7

A2

1.1

4.2

94.7

A3

1.2

3.7

95.1

Table 3. SEM energy dispersive analysis. in Fig. 10. All residual brick lengths were in a range of ≼ 50% after an operation time of averaged two years with a production capacity above >100,000 metric tons per annum.

The investigations elaborate that, independent of their bonding types, SiC works excellently in withstanding conditions such as those in a cathode melting shaft furnace. Therefore an application in these vessel types is highly recommended. It enables the specific refractory consumption to be minimized and increases the overall operational efficiency.

References 1. G. Routschka and H Wuthnow, editor, Handbook of Refractory Materials, Essen, Vukan-Verlag GmbH; 2012.

2. M. Schleisinger, M.J. King, K.C. Sole and W.G. Davenport, Extractive Metallurgy of Copper, Oxford: Elsevier Science, Ltd., 2011.

3. H. Shikano, et al, Refractories Handbook, Tokyo, Technical Association of Refractories, Japan, 1998.

Sonja Breyner is project manager nonbasic bricks, Research & Development, for RHI AG, Vienna, Austria. She has been with RHI since 2007. Previously, she was project manager basic bricks. Prior to that, she was project assistant for the characterization of casting powders for Breyner Montanuniversity Leoben.

She studied applied geosciences and building materials and ceramics at Montanuniversity Leoben, Austria. Anna Franzkowiak is marketing manager, technical marketing and product management for RHI AG. She has been with RHI since 2011. Previously, she was a research assisFranzkowiak tant and process engineer with Rath AG as well as a project assistant in advanced ceramics with TU Wien (Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics). She studied at Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. This paper was presented at Interwire 2015, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 2015.

Fig. 10. Cathode melting shaft furnace with depiction of sampling area sections.

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TECHNICAL ECHNIC PAPER The use of steel strip, shaped wire and round wire in the production of umbilical cable and submarine cable Manufacturers of steel wire, strip and tube must constantly seek to further improve the performance and quality of their products if they are going to meet the demands for sub-sea cables in the future.

By Sean Harrington Umbilical cable and submarine cable offer a full range of solutions, which thanks to innovative designs, materials and state-of-the-art processes meet all of the demanding requirements of such applications.

During the last few years, offshore oil extraction activity has been constantly increasing. New platforms are being continuously installed in different parts of the world and operate in deeper and deeper waters. The safe and efficient interconnection from the topside platforms and vessels to the well heads and pumps on the sea floor is necessary to transfer power and data, as well as hydraulic and other fluids to guarantee reliable oil extraction operations. The local generation of electric power and the subsequent distribution to various appliances achieves lower generation costs. In addition, broadband communication systems are now an essential feature of the most modern communication and process control systems. Subsea umbilical cable forms this vital link among the various centers of operation. They must be able to withstand high mechanical and chemical stresses, high operating temperatures and pressures in order to ensure the continuous and reliable supply of services in the harsh environments below the sea. See Fig. 1.

Umbilical cable and submarine cable have to be designed to suit static and dynamic applications in water

Fig. 1. View of typical deployment of umbilical cable.

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depths of up to 3,000 meters and are composed of any possible combination of hydraulic lines (thermoplastic hoses or steel alloy tubes), low-voltage electrical control cables, medium-voltage power transmission cores and optical signal components. See Fig. 2.

An umbilical is basically a composite cable used by the offshore oil and gas industry for linking the various elements of subsea oil and gas production systems or in support of intervention or construction activities.

The umbilical may contain steel tubes, thermoplastic hoses, electrical power and/or signal cores, and optical fibers, otherwise known collectively as functional components. A sub-sea production umbilical forms a critical link between the production system and host facility conveying hydraulic power, process chemicals, and electrical power and signals to oil and gas production or water injection centers.

An umbilical may be many kilometers in length and must be highly reliable in the subsea environment where recovery and repair may not be possible or may prove extremely costly. Shorter length umbilicals are also used to facilitate connection between subsea structures and to facilitate offshore installation activities and to control the pressure retaining systems during drilling of wells and well work over activities.

Fig. 3a shows a typical example of a subsea power cable capable of transmitting electric power between platforms, subsea equipment and shore. This layer can have multiple layers of steel armor around the cable; this armor layer can either be constructed from round or flat strip.

Fig. 3b shows a typical example of a subsea steel tube umbilical used for hydraulic control and chemical injection lines for wellhead control systems.

Fig. 3c shows a typical example of a subsea umbilical being an assembly of hydraulic hoses that can also include electrical cables or optical fibers, used to control subsea structures from offshore platforms or a floating vessel.

The need for technological advances has

WJI: What’s the most important news in your presentation?

Harrington: The purpose of the paper was to highlight the current challenges that the manufacture of these products face, and to discuss some of the items that not only impact the cable design but have an impact on the materials, in particular, steel that is used in the cable construction.

WJI: Do you consider umbilical cables and submarine cables highly developed now, or do you think there are large gains yet to be made?

Harrington: Umbilical cables and submarine cables have been used in various forms for many years and as such the cable design is highly developed. However, due to need to go to deeper depths in the ocean cables; 2000 meters to 3000 meters, designs are constantly changing and being improved.

WJI: Do you think it is inevitable that composite materials will replace steel?

Harrington: Umbilical cable and submarine cable are unlikely to see steel eliminated in the near future, though their replacement will be consistently under scrutiny with the improvements of composites materials.

There will be a constant demand for steel manufacturers of wire, strip and tube to constantly improve the performance and quality of their products if they are going to meet the demands for sub-sea cables in the future.

In certain ultra-deep water applications, where the weight of the cable is critical, there will be a trend to replace certain steel layers with a composite layer in order to reduce the weight of the cable to prevent the potential for premature failure.

WJI: Do you see the need for any further research in this area?

Harrington: There will always be more Harrington research and development in this highly competitive area effecting every aspect of the cable: producing better materials that are used in the cable, such as higher quality high tensile steel wire and tubes with better mechanical properties; improvements in machine design of equipment that manufactures this type of cable; introduction of new materials such as composites; and development of new cable designs to improve performance.

Questions for the author? Contact sean.harrington@ceecobartell.com.

is in the order of 20 years, is not put at risk. Cable problems largely been driven by a combination issues; the rising often fall into areas such as: incidents during transportademand for oil and gas, even in the current low price of tion or installation; design flaws; incorrect usage; fatigue oil long term demand for oil and gas is still high; environfailure; manufacturing problems; damage from shark atmental concerns regarding the need for increased reliability tacks and marine growth; and accidental damage. Many and safety in all sub-sea equipment relating to oil and gas of these issues are often interrelated. production; as well as the need to extract oil and gas from more difficult areas of the oceans usually within deeper water.

Deep water requirements are increasing the demand for the steel layers to be capable of withstanding the more dynamic applications the cables may be subjected to. That, in turn, leads to the demand of steel materials that have higher fatigue resistance and high strength in order that specific umbilicals and power cables can be smaller, leaner, lightweight designs.

Another considerations that cannot be overlooked is that safety factors must be kept high so that the cable guaranteed life, which Fig. 2. Examples of locations of deployments at different water depths.

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TECHNICAL PAPER ration to avoid strain aging.

A high-temperature galvanizing process can also drastically reduce ductility.

Therefore, the design and placement of the galvanizing operation becomes a challenge that has to be overcome.

Another consideration is that during cold working, moderate levels of drawing soap residue that remain on Fig. 3a, 3b and 3c. Examples of a subsea power cable, a subsea steel tube umbilical the wire can prevent wire and a subsea umbilica for an assembly of hydraulic hoses. adhesion within the cable.

This introduces a new obCable failures stacle because increased amounts of soap residue reduce wire heat, which reduces The mechanical failure is usually attributed to excessive strain aging. axial tension or torque or excessive bending. In the steel A balance between these operations is essential to produce layers, that can result in layer separation and instability a high-strength wire with good ductility. From rod chemdue to either bird caging and mechanical degradation due istry selection and cooling, followed through heat treating to wear and fatigue of the steel or to exposure to adverse and cold work, every step is critical to obtain ultimate external agents such as pressure and temperature. Failure performance. in the steel tubes can also occur due to crushing by exIn many recent deep water projects, steel tubes for concessive external pressure or hose/tube bursting due to the trol and injection lines have become the preferred solution excessive internal pressure. over traditional thermoplastic hose-based designs. This is Deep ocean cables require high strengths to restrain due to enhanced response times and prevention of permeelongation and maintain long life cycles. As subsea depths ation of fluids (particularly methanol) from the tube. In become greater, the strength requirements become harder general, the preferred material for the steel tubes is super to attain. The cable strength is attained by using galvaduplex stainless steel. The typical size for the steel tubes nized steel wire. Thicker wire can add more strength, but is between a half-inch and one-inch, though some designs that also adds weight. Therefore, the greatest benefit is are proposed which incorporate a large core tube (e.g. two achieved through higher ultimate tensile strengths (UTS). to three inches), which is used for gas lift or methanol The main contributing factors to UTS are: steel chemisinjection. try and rod cooling; rod patenting (normalizing); and cold Tubes are constructed by seam welding from strip or work (high-speed drawing). seamless from hollows. Seamless is usually only availThe greatest difficulty in obtaining higher strengths is able in relatively short lengths, necessitating welding to to not lose ductility (often attributed by high amounts of achieve the required production lengths. Seam-welded cold work), which will ultimately create fatigue failures. tube can be produced in lengths between 3000 m to 8000 The following controls are essential in providing galm, depending on the tube size. Tubes are manufactured vanized steel wire with ideal properties: electro-magnetic from carbon steel or stainless steel (duplex, super-duplex, stirring and efficient rod cooling to avoid segregation and etc). The material chosen is dependent on corrosion resisunwanted microstructures; rod patenting to attain higher tance, pressure requirements and strength. strengths through a fine pearlitic microstructure; and inDue to the product lengths, welding plays an important creased inter stand cooling and an optimized die configu-

Fig. 4. Examples of cable failures.

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TECHNICAL PAPERS Fig. 5. Wire used for deep ocean cables must provide high ultimate tensile strength (UTS) and ductility.

Fig. 6. A high-temperature galvanizing process must be controlled so as not to drastically reduce ductility. role in the production of seamless or seam-welded tube.

This in turn necessitates high inspection standards for the tube, such as the below typical examples.

Butt welds: 100% X-ray inspection; thick-walled tubes require multiple welding passes (typically two to four depending on bore size/wall thickness; and 100% X-Ray after each weld pass.

Seam welds: continuous eddy current inspection. This may be also combined with ultrasonic inspection.

Use of stainless steel requires the tubes to be purged with inert gas to ensure the welds are to be to the correct specifications.

Carbon and duplex steels (and super duplex where the surface temperature will exceed a critical limit) require the presence of external corrosion protection for service in marine environment. Generally, stainless steel construction materials offer very high levels of corrosion resistance. However, care has to be taken as it is known that seawater containing sulfite-reducing bacteria can result in corrosion attack of welds.

Umbilical cable and submarine cable are unlikely to see steel eliminated in the near future, though their replacement will be consistently under scrutiny with the improvements of composite materials There will be a constant demand for steel manufacturers of wire, strip and tube to constantly improve the performance and quality of their products if they are going to meet the demands for sub-sea cables in the future.

Sean Harrington is director of sales and marketing at Ceeco Bartell Products, Bartell Machinery Systems LLC, Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada, where he has been employed since 2003. He has worked at various cable and wire machine companies as engineering manager, both in the U.K. and Canada. He Harrington has over 40 years’ experience in the wire and cable industry and is a chartered engineer. He holds an degree in mechanical engineering. This paper was presented at the 7th biennial CabWire World Conference, DĂœsseldorf, Germany, November 2015.

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AGermany’s press release said AG that reports addition ofitJ.plans Hamelin, LEONI that to introduce which has been wire that and can cable customers its Dacar familyserving data cables meet a new stanthroughout Canada and northeast U.S. for International 77 years, dard for automotive Ethernet cables at the is Suppliers a major plus companies. “We welcome Fair for thisboth month.

J. Hamelin to the Carris family, and look forward to future growth and operating at a ‘best of industry’ (level),” said Carris Reels CEO David Ferraro. manufacturing reels, J.Dean Hamelin operAtIntheaddition ShanghaitoHOSN booth at Interwire, Zhang, l, ates extensive recycling and Edison repair Qin, network chief an of North American sales, and chief throughof South out Canada, with facilities in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta American sales, point to machines sold to the Americas. and Saskatchewan offering wood and steel reel repair/ recycling, said the release, noting the following. J. With its specifi csaid personnel servicing the U.S. and A press release that benefits include very good Hamelin also has U.S. assembly facilities in Marion, other markets in the American continent, HOSN is flexibility, and flame resistance transmission Indiana, andheat Enfield, Connecticut.

Inand 2010, the compacommitted to supplying high-effi ciency drawing and resistance andoperates shield nyproperties; launched outstanding a significantcoupling investment and now stranding equipment to the wire and cable and industry in properties; stable impedance; a attenuation highly efficient and automated nailed wood superior reel plant the Americas. properties/recyclability. The addition, inenvironmental St. Jerome. In addition to automated production Interwire, HOSN displayed range photosofofshielded its JLKand itAtsaid, broadens the company’s lines, unique material handling practices have been series rigid stranding machine with bottom loading or unshielded cable products available for automotive employed, yielding a state-of-the-art facility. side loadingwhich system.

Thisisunique machinestandard is suitable Ethernet, it notes an oncoming for data Ferraro said that J. Hamelin CEO Harold Stotland for producing large-length, compact/round bare Al/Cu communication in vehicles.

With the introduction the will remain actively engaged in the organization, of both wire, ACSR and aluminum alloy wire.

Thefrom machine is Ethernet standard, which originally stems industrial as a stakeholder in Carris Reels and as vice president of driven by individual motors for can the meet rotating and applications, the the cage rising de-the manufacturing forauto threeindustry Carris nailed wood manufacstranding pitch can be adjusted freely.

Another featured mandsites for data vehicles.

TheConnecticut; 100 Base-T1 turing (St. transfer Jerome,within Quebec; Enfield, product was an aluminum breakdown machine usedItfor standard applies for common data that communication. and Madera, California.

He noted Stotland, who endrawing aluminum alloy, and all kindsatof100 shaped ables bidirectional dataCarris transmission mbpswires across has been active on the Board of Directors for the from 9.5 mm down totwisted 1.8-5.0pair mm.

Many customers also a single, unshielded cable. past six years, “will continue in that governing role.” showed interests in the HOSN’s drum twisterEthernet which Also strong toand be displayed event are sheathed “Harold his teamsatcomplement our talented iscables used for cablingtolow, medium and high voltage power designed ensure high symmetry of the cable employee-owners, as our collective experience and will even when subjected vibration,and humidity or dirt.

They cables and for applyingtoarmoring screening wires. assure we are meeting our customers’ needs for custom fulfill the OPEN Alliance SIG component specificawww.hosnglobe.com. packaging and solutions,” Ferraro said. “This acquisitions for Ethernet cables. Optimized materials are used tion strengthens our competitive position by expandto maximize symmetry, which helps reduce external

Ultimate Automation, Ltd. U.K.

At Interwire, Ultimate Automation displayed the latest version of the company’s ULTIMAT UMW-100, 2D wire forming and welding machine, which incorporates fasterinfluences drives andorcontrol systems. disruptive the mutual impairment of cables The UMW can be combined the for UCW-100 running next to each other and with the need constructive model to create an integrated forming and shielding elements such as metal-clad foils welding or braids. cell forcompany the production of in shelving products.installation The The notes that EMC-sensitive frames are produced on the UMW-100 and then spaces, interference suppression by means of constant transferred UCW-100, where the use frame supsymmetry isinto not the enough, which is why the of Ethernet port/brace from coil, and in welded cables withwire braidisorfed foildirect shields is advisable such cases. into the frame.

Further include press stations Contact: LEONI AG,options www.leoni.com. forHamelin’s post-forming andStotland, secondary bend headsReels for formJ. Harold l, with Carris CEO ing loops and eyes.

Dave Ferraro.

Sparktester has removable self-test

ing our geographic footprint across North America. module that simplifies calibration Hamelin has a track record of delivering value Germany’s Sikora AG Davis-Standard’s new spark tester enhanced packaging programs through innovation in SPARK 6030 HF offers (optionally) a three-step self-test process, automation and reel tracking systems. We have and calibration system that includes the company’s app for an exciting future and as we leverage our shared experience mobile monitoring analysis of the measuring results. and knowledge to drive profitable growth. As part of the negotiation, Harold will have an equity position in Carris, further aligning our future objectives.”

Stotland described the deal as win-win for both parties. “We saw an opportunity to better align our companies to achieve shared growth objectives,” he said.

“Together we are stronger and can leverage new opportunities.”

Carris Reels, based in Proctor, Vermont, manufacUltimate Automation Sales Director Martin Smith by a tures plywood, nailed wood, wood/metal, plastic, and UMW-100 model stamped metal reels and spools, with 550 employees in 12Alocations in Canada, Mexico, and thestandards U.S. press release explained European Ultimat manufactures thethat UMW 2D wire formingre-& quire openly operated measuring and testing equipment to welding machines, UTW Automatic Ring Machines be checked regularly. each testlargest probe to be caliGeneral CableAs lands portion and UCW T-Welders.

The company hashas a machine to brated, the testing module has to be controlled regularly suit everyone’s requirement from the manufacture of of 3-year Canadian cable as well.

Therefore, spark testers are testedcontract with regard POP displays, lampshades, supermarket shelving andto Canada’s Hydro-Québec has named General Cable as the accuracy of the supplied high-voltage, the short automotive components, etc. www.ultimat.com. circuit its mainand cable supplier for the next three years, awardcurrent function (sensitivity). ingToitsupport a contract an estimated $108 million. this valued process,atSikora further developed the module of the SPARK 6030 HF. The result is that it is now

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In-line measuring system designed to can measure surface roughness U.S.-based FocalSpec has introduced an automatic inline roughness measurement system for wire, cable and filament extrusion applications in North America.

A press release said that the company, which supplies

optical high-precision 3D scanning sensors and solutions, now offers its MicroProfiler MP 900 model. The non-contact model is based on FocalSpec’s patented Line Confocal Imaging (LCI) technology that enables accurate in-production roughness measurement from a fast moving surface of any type and color. The system scans and analyzes a product’s actual surface profile at the rate of 512,000 points per second. The maximum line speeds is 150 m/min (500 ft/min) and products with diameter of 1 mm (0.04 in.) to flat can be measured. The minimum reported Ra is 0.2 µm (8µ in.) and other standard roughness parameters, such as Rz, can also be calculated. Roughness of the product is displayed in real-time and operators are automatically alerted for abnormal process changes enabling instant corrective actions. All roughness results from the entire

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easy to change the module that combines all testing functions. It also can easily be exchanged from an additional opening in the unit’s housing.

Per the release, to meet the requirements of the ISO 9001 standards, Sikora recommends a yearly calibration of the spark tester by simply exchanging the test module. As all functions are directly mounted at the module, the complete module is exchanged for calibration, so a submission of the complete device to Sikora as well as the assignment of a service engineer is unnecessary..

For the sensitivity test, 20 discharges are simulated in 20 seconds, and all must be completely detected by the spark tester. For the short circuit current test, an error caused by the contact of a user and the bead chain electrode during the operation is simulated. Here, a defined value must not be exceeded in order to guarantee the safety of the user. The calibration module measures continuously the accuracy of the testing voltage. The standard for spark testers requests an accuracy of +/- 5%. The test is successful if this criterion is met.

Contact: Sikora, AG, www.sikora.net.

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GENCA ........................................940 Inc..............................1049 Enkotec Inc ..................108 length ofCompany each produced reel are stored inFiltertech, the system’s database Machinery for quality certification and production report- Corporation.....332 General Copper...........................2160 Fine International Enshang ing purposes.

Enterprise Co Ltd.......................666 W Gillies Technologies, LLC ......958 Finoptics Inc ...............................1801 Continuous surface Bakir roughness measurement allows ER-Bakir Elektrolitik AS ...924 Gimax Srl......................................140 Fisk Alloy Inc .............................2140 manufacturers to optimize their processes for each prodERA Wire Inc ...............................354 GMP Slovakia Sro........................758 & FLYRO.................1907 uct and material for maximum line speedFLYMCA and production Ernst Koch GmbH & Co............1358 an optimized insertion of theTechnologies cross wire from above output, the release said.

Other benefits, itFMS said, USA, include Golden Wire & Inc ..............................618 or below the line wires.Cable This Equipment enables to achieve cycle improved product quality, reduced scrap, Foerster faster process Co, Ltd ....

912/06 Esteves Group ...............................806 Instruments Inc ..............1814 rates of up to 200 cycles per minute without a problem. startups and changeovers, and reduced labor needed in Granite Falls Furnace .................1562 Etna Products, Inc ......................1706 Forever Cable MaterialsThe Group ..512/03 cross wire feed from above or below the line wires quality control activities.

Guangzhou Euroalpha Srl ................................558 Fort Wayne Wire Die,eliminates Inc..........1532 the need for a turning Hanstar process.Fluoro-Plastic This has a Contact: Juha Saily, FocalSpec, Inc., tel.

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412/07 Eurobend GmbH ........................1058 positive effect on the production capacity short 0837, info@focalspec.com, www.focalspec.com.

Fortune Machinery .....................1053 Tool & Engineering ............211 The design of the Guill new welding machine—equipped Eurolls Spa....................................858 Fridea Srl ....................................1739 with single welding Guney groups Celik for the development of ..................................652 Welding......................................132 system can process Frigeco light USA Inc ........................1739 EuroWire 50 mm line wire grids—not only reduces the changeHafner & Krulmann GmbH .........370 George Evans Corp ......................711 and heavy mesh at high speeds over times immensely, but also enhances the weldFrigerio USA Inc ........................1739 Hagen & Funke EVG Inc ........................................150 Switzerland’s Schlatter Industries AG, which this year ingCastings quality..215 due to thevom implemented direct....................140 welding Frontier Composites & Hall Industries ...........................1032 celebrates its 100th anniversary, notes that the company’s technology. “Just like the MG800, the MG316 is noted Evolution Products, Inc ................133 FSP-One......................................2128 MG316d is designed to ensure highest production perforfor its great accessibility andUltrasonic robustness, leading to Handuk Co, Ltd ........2011 Fabritex, Inc..................................616 GmbH ...................................752 mance of large quantities of light and heavyFuhr standard mesh. decreased maintenance and repair costs.” It added that Hangzhou Harbor Technology Fastener .....................2056 A pressEngineers release from the company, represented the there is a wide range of complementary modules able GatewayinRecovery .....................2158 Co, Ltd ............................... 1512-11 U.S. by Schlatter North America, said thatGauder/Gauder the MG316d Groupto..................424 be adapted to suit a great variety of requirements Fenn LLC....................................1955 Hangzhou JR Exhibition Co .............. is characterized its very high productivity, low operand allow for a gradual expansion of the automation FIB Belgium SAby .........................1358 Gavlick Machinery Corp ............1053 217/306/318/1917/1919 ating costs and easy handling. The model operates with development.

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SAS Engineering and Planning Srl Exhibiting: Reinforcement processprocessing of ferrous and nonferrous Tel. 39-031-655593 ing machinery: automatic stirrup materials. www.sas.it work hardening of the benders, cutting/shaping machines, Company offers new generation info@sas.it Schmale Machinerywires USA, LLC being twisted. cage making/assembling machines, of single-twist rotating machines Italy Booth 1962 Telephone: 904 501 -The 28 24 multi position straighteners, wire processing plants, U.S.-based Dynamex Corp. & reports thatwww.schmale-machinery.com it is now Exhibiting: SAS Engineering innovative software systems. driven payoffs are offering a combined new generation of its high-speed concentric Planning’s drawing lines available from two to Personnel: Simone Bruscia. walter.wieser@ single-twist rotating that are available both as 20 positions for reel and peeling lines meanmachines technologschmale-machinery.com bunchers for bare aluminum and copper, and as cablers sizes from 16 in. to 36 Shanghai Kaibo Compounds ical value, reliability and ease of USA Booth 52 for The insulated stranded, or pairs elements. in. Alltothe single-twist Co., Ltd. use.

SAS solid, combined drawing Exhibiting: If you want speed A press release said that the systems are available for machines PLC-con-Tel. 86-21-59122219 machine can be supplied with the up your wire bending process,are come both U.S. and DIN reels up to 1250 mm/48 in. sizes. For trolled with intuitive most advanced accessories in order www.sh-kaibo.com along and have a look. Get an update optimal operation of the single-twist machines, Dynacolor HMI that offers tomex obtain a totally automated line: xs@sh-kaibo.com on the latest developments for swagoffers multi-position driven payoffs with pneumatic recipes, diagnostics, and payoff group, pre-straightening ing, pressing, threading and bending dancer control constant tension. The tension range on inputs/outputs display China Booth 1512/15-17 device, draw bench, chamfering a German machine builder. these payoffs is extremely wide, allowingfrom the same screens.

Reel loading/ machine, strapping, weighBring your payoff tobundle run sizes from very small to very heavy.

Allparts po- or drawings unloadingwith is by built in ing and handling, etc. Everything is sensors sitions have individual broken wire for findpowered youselectable and we will a solution for and the device, the positions used only. The Eachcomposition hasyour a local slow managed automatically. demand! machines are installed forward/reverse switch to facilitate without a pit or any Exhibiting: Shanghai Kaibo pany takes customers through each string-up.

Personnel: Walter Wieser.

The individual reel drives are fully regenerative special foundation. With stage of the process, while technical Compounds Co., founded in 1993, (four-quadrant) and provide driving or braking action the exception of the is a high-tech enterprise supportstaff can provide instructions and Schnell SpA automatically required. When braking is Tel. occurring—as all the twisters are shipped solve problemsasworldwide.

Thanks 39-0721-878711largest sizes (48 in./1250 edmm) by the Shanghai Electric Cable is required for medium and heavy sizes, and always during fully pre-wired to the operator/control panel, and can be to its long years of experience, SAS www.schnell.it Research Institute.

Its main products line slow-down or stopping—the braking energy is coninstalled and put into production in a couple of hours. isverted an important partner for reaching sales@schnell.it PE compounds, into electrical energy and is fed back into the plant Contact: Ben Bravin,include Dynamex Corporation,PVC comtop manufacturing targets in for thebare aluminum Italy and Booth 2152 pounds, silane cross-linkable PE power grid. The new version copper tel. 310-329-0399, bbravin@dynamexcorp.com, (shown in photo) offers minimum bending to minimize www.dynamexcorp.com.

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Company to showcase its line of take-ups and payoffs at wire China Davis-Standard will feature its latest wire and cable technology this month at wire China, where it will promote a new line of traversing and collapsible take-ups and pay-offs as well as capstan and extruder technology.

A press release said that Davis-Standard’s take-ups and payoffs integrate simplified engineering and cost efficiency. With a smaller overall footprint and excellent operator ergonomics, these machines have been well received since their introduction in early 2015.

Machine sizes range from 1,250 mm to 5,000 mm (48 in. to 195 in.) with the greatest concentration within the 1,800 mm to 2,500 mm (70 in. to 98 in.) size range.

For international customers, machines are equipped with a Siemens AC drive, PLC and HMI with a Mitsubishi servo drive. For North American customers, machines feature a Yaskawa A-1000 AC drive and Allen-Bradley/Rockwell

components that include a servo drive, PLC (programmable logic controller) and HMI (human machine interface).

Technology is available as “stand-alone” (running in torque control), with a dancer or with an accumulator.

Davis-Standard reports that it has also seen ongoing demand for its caterpillar capstan and HPE extruder technology. Davis-Standard supplies multi-pass, linear and belt wrap capstans for the full range of wire and cable applications. The HPE offers a compact design and is one of the industry’s most widely used extruders. It is known for a fast delivery and rugged design that is energy efficient and easy to maintain. Advantages for wire and cable applications include increased torque capacity for high viscosity resins and custom options.

The release said that the ability to address market demand in terms of performance and cost efficiency is just one aspect of Davis-Standard’s Global Advantage™ in wire and cable. Another is the company’s unmatched experience in supplying extruders and associated wire and cable equipment for more than 70 years, for applications from aerial cable to coaxial cable and CATV to THHN wire, and more.

Contact: Davis-Standard, LLC, www.davis-standard.com.

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of thousands of kilowatt hours per year, which translates to thousands of dollars in saved utility costs. Additionally, PowerWise 1G 4PPoE cable maintains the lowest temperature rise in large cable bundles, ensuring reliable power and data transmission in high-density installations and further improving system energy efficiency.

The release said that the company wanted to offer customers a complete PowerWise cabling solution set to help connect their entire space with PoE cabling infrastructure. “From external building security and access controls in parking decks to outdoor WiFi networks that connect entire campuses, we are seeing a wide range of applications for PoE in the outdoor space. For these emerging applications, we wanted to offer our customers a complete PowerWise cabling solution set to help connect their entire space with PoE cabling infrastructure.”

The cable is made using sustainable processes in a Zero Waste to Landfill facility and maintains a limited environmental impact over the course of its life cycle. It is the only cable of its type to offer Environmental Product Declarations and Health Product Declarations, which allow this product to contribute toward credits in LEED certification. It is also the first and only cable of its type to be included Cisco’s Digital Ceiling Framework and be to be offered in the Cisco Marketplace as a partner solution.

Contact: Superior Essex, www.superioressex.com.

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1 Gigabit 4-pair Power-over-Ethernet (4PPoE) cable that it said meets a need for challenging applications.

A press release said that the cable can help end-users looking for ways to optimize and customize their environments with converged lighting, climate and security control systems that use Power-over-Ethernet cabling technology. These can encounter challenges in environments where the systems span between indoor and outdoor spaces.

PowerWise I/O 1G 4PPoE cable is specifically designed to meet the high power and data demands of Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) applications. Utilizing 22 AWG copper conductors, PowerWise 1G 4PPoE cable delivers 60 Watts of power to PoE-enabled devices with 97% power efficiency and 100 Watts of power at 88% power efficiency, while also supporting 1 Gigabit data transmission. In spaces with hundreds of PoE devices, this unparalleled power efficiency can yield an energy savings

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MEDIA Updated website presents full scope of industry equipment and services The MGS Group reports that its newly enhanced web site—www.themgsgroup.com—provides customers easy access to information on the company’s complete range of products.

The home page opens up to video of the company’s product handling and twisting system technology in action. A photo gallery displays more than a hundred images of equipment and machinery collectively offered from The MGS Group, which includes MGS Manufacturing, Hall Industries and Northampton Machinery, Co. The technology includes a full range of product handling systems to the wire, cable, fiber optic and telecom industries, including fully automatic packaging systems and robotics as well as wire and cable stranding equipment.

The main site of the company is its 70,000-sq-ft plant in Rome, New York. It has an R&D site in North Branford, Connecticut, and a plant in Northampton, U.K., that supplies the high-speed wire and cable stranding equipment.

The website also has a company history; contacts for capital equipment, spare parts and service; news; list of industry events it will be exhibiting at; product and service announcements; career pages; and more.

Contact: The MGS Group, www.themgsgroup.com

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Publication cites cable LEED points General Cable reports the publication of Health Prod® uct Declarations (HPDs) for its GenSPEED Brand Data Communications cables that, combined with previously announced Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), will contribute two points in the Leadership in Energy and ® Environmental Design (LEED ) certification process for building projects.

A press release said EPDs and HPDs have been published for General Cable Corporation’s full line of GenSPEED Brand category cables, making it possible for these products to contribute towards two LEED points: one for an EPD and one for an HPD, as described in the Materials and Resources Credit category under LEED v4.

An EPD describes the impact of a product to the environment throughout its lifecycle, while an HPD validates that a product doesn’t contain hazardous materials; both are independently verified reports.

“General Cable recognizes the importance of promoting sustainability,” said Matt Gentile, product manager, data communications products. “Providing both HPDs and EPDs for our GenSPEED Brand cables furthers our commitment while also strengthening our support of the U.S. Green Building Council and organizations seeking LEED green building certification.” LEED is a program created and administered by the U.S. Green Building Council for the design, construction, maintenance and operations of high-performance green buildings.

General Cable Corporation manufactures a wide range of high performance GenSPEED Brand copper data communi® cations cables and NextGen Brand fiber optic cables.

Contact: General Cable Corporation, www.generalcable.com.

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co-axial cable and an activation arrangement configured for affecting predetermined regions on the cable to selectively activate or deactivate at least one of the plurality of radiation slots to provide the leaky co-axial cable arrangement.

Method of manufacturing electrical cable, and resulting product, with reduced required installation pulling force Patent No.: 9,431,152 A totalU.S. of 22 presentations were made in two tracks.

Patent date: August 30, 2016 Filed: Mar. 11, 2016 the company’s success.

Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC, U.S. Probst reported thatPhilip electrical systems for vehicles Inventors: Sasse, Terry Chambers, have evolved to support new features demanded by Randy Kummer, John Armstrong, customers. Today, theDavid wiring system for the average Reece, Hai Lam vehicle includes 3,000 meters, with 1,500 single cables Disclosed is type THHN cable having a reduced and 3,000 contacts. Those products, he said, represent a surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manlabor-intensive assembly business, and as result, they now ufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and have 70,000 employees in 82 plants worldwide. insulating layer are surrounded by a nylon sheath. A high The ferrous track was a collection of outstanding, comviscosity, high molecular weight silicone based pulling

lubricant for THHN cable, or alternatively, erucamide or stearyl erucamide for small THHN gauge wire, is incorporated, by alternate methods, with the nylon material from which the outer sheath is extruded, and is effective to reduce the required pulling force on the cable during installation.

Method and apparatus for determining wire resistance U.S. Patent No.: 9,429,534 Patent date: August 30, 2016 Filed: May16, 2013 Assignee: Fluke Corporation, U.S. Inventor: Jeffrey Bottman A method and apparatus qualifies a conductor for service and determines imbalance resistance of a conductor.

The method and apparatus comprises feeding signals from a controller to termination ends of at least three wires of a offered conductor.

In the controller a resistance differCabWire a combination of education and marketence is determined between first and second wires of the ing opportunities in a congenial setting. conductor using a measured resistance of one of the three

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conductor wires as a reference value. The conductor is qualified for services when the resistance difference between the first and second wires is below a threshold.

Wire rope and method of constructing wire rope U.S. Patent No.: 9,428,858 Patent date: August 30, 2016 Filed: Mar. 14, 2014 Assignee: Alberta Ltd., Canada Inventor: Kim Cavallin A method of constructing a wire rope from plural outer strands and a core, the core having one or more core strands, each of the one or more core strands having plu-

Flexible conductive single wire U.S. Patent No.: 9,422,622 Patent date: August 23, 2016 Filed: Oct. 3, 2012 Assignee: Surfatek LLC, U.S. Inventor: Daniel Storey Thin conductive metal coatings suitable for flexible nonmetal fine wires and leads are described. Polymer clad silica fiber cores are produced by plasma coating with single or dual layers of metals such as silver, gold or titanium to provide micro thin leads such as those used for pacemakers and fracture resistant aircraft wires that are both conductive and resistant to flexing breakage. The metal surfaces can be used to transmit analog signals while the nonmetal cores can be designed to transmit digital signals. Select deposition conditions can produce nanorough metal coating surfaces which promote cell adhesion so that tissue scarring in vivo is greatly reduced.

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ral core wires, the method comprising: swaging the core to laterally compress the core to an extent sufficient to cause concave deformation of at least some of the plural core wires; and closing the plural outer strands over the core to produce the wire rope.

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to 1.30mm Spring wires. It includes two of hydraulic pay off systems, mechanical descaler, brush unit (stationary & rotating), coating and drying unit, two of butt welders, point machine, compressor, 3 off water chillers, strapping station complete for export capability.

If you require any further information please email david@aussiebedproducts.com.au or phone Australian mobile +61418511241 WWW.URBANOASSOCIATES. COM. For New (Hakusan Heat Pressure Welders, Ferrous & NonFerrous; Marldon Rolling Ring Traverses) & Used Wire & Cable Equipment (buttwelders, coldwelders, ers and pointers). Tel: 727-863-4700 or by e-mail, please send to urbassoc@ verizon.net.

SERVICES NEED PROCESS HELP? Control system retrofits, repair, and troubleshooting for steel wire equipment.

Mesh welders, wire cutting lines, etc.

Jim at Teknutronics LLC, tel. 724880-7601.

MEDIA FERROUS WIRE HANDBOOK. Written by WAI members and edited

by Dr. Robert M. Shemenski, this 1,168 page, hard-cover, indexed publication is a definitive industry resource for ferrous wire. It is a modern-day reference tool for those working directly

in the steel wire or manufacturing, engineering, or operations sectors of the industry. The publication includes comprehensive 36 chapters that cover a broad range of topics including many of the equipment types, processes, and specialty applications of steel wire manufacturing. The book begins with a history of the steel industry and its evolution, followed by details on: continuous casting; controlled rod cooling; rod defects;

Please e-mail the requested information to: WAI’s Cindy Kirmss at ckirmss@wirenet.org.

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pickling and coating; mechanical descaling; deformation in cold drawing; wiredrawing theory, machinery, and finishing equipment; lubrication; heat treatment; stress relief; annealing; oil tempering; patenting; corrosion; galvanizing; statistical process control; bridge rope and strand; nails, barbed wire, mechanical springs. d. The price is $235, $195 for WAI members. To purchase, go to wirenet.org and click on The WAI Store.

FOR SALE 1 - NEB 72-C #2 Braider, Long Legs, Motor 2 - NEB 48-C Harness Braiders, Motors 1 - HACOBA Model DF24 24-Carrier Braider 2 - J.B. HYDE 24-C, 48-C Braiders 1 - CEECO 60” Rotating Cabler 1 - REEL-O-MATIC 24” Caterpuller Capstan 1 - GOODMAN 18” Caterpuller Capstan 1 - ROYLE 48” Belt Wrap Capstan 1 - VITECK 36” Belt Wrap Capstan, CBW-36-D 1 - BARTELL 36” Dual Wheel Capstan 2 - NEB 12-Wire 8” Vertical Planetary Cablers 1 - ALLARD 36” Closer, Model STC-36 2 - SYNCRO FX13, F13 Rod Breakdown Drawers 1 - DAVIS STANDARD 4.5” 24:1 Extruder 1 - DAVIS STANDARD 3.5” 24:1 Extruder Line 1 - ENTWISTLE 2” 24:1 Extruder 1 - DAVIS STANDARD 1.5” 24:1 Extruder 1 - BRABENDER 1.25” 24:1 HiTemp Extruder 1 - SKALTEK 2000mm Payoff, Model AX20-4K-1 2 - TULSA 96” Payoffs, Model CTPO-30, 2005 1 - SKALTEK 1600mm Payoffs, Model A16-4K Commission

1 - DYNAMEX Tape Payoff, Model TPB30-2-D 1 - SKALTEK 2500mm Take-up, Model UX25-T-1 1 - TULSA 96” Gantry Traversing Take-ups, GTU-30 1 - SPHEREX 18” Dual Reel Take-up, refurbed 1 - CLIPPER Model SP16 Dual Spooler 1 - AL-BE Model MS12 Respooler, 18” Reels 5 - REEL-O-MATIC B12, B12X Respoolers 1 - REEL-O-MATIC HJ/CVS Reel to Coil Machine 1 - GRAHAM INT’L 72” Rewind Line, 2015 1 - WINDHAK AR24-D “SpoolWind” Spooling Line 2 - WINDHAK UW612 48” Take-ups 1 - CEECO Tape Line 1 - NASHOBA 3-Head Taper 1 - USM Single Head Tape Line 7 - KINREI 560mm D.T. Twisters 1 - METEOR Model ME301 3-Head Winder 1 - ENTWISTLE 4WDT24 4-W 24” D.T. Twister 2 - NEWMCO 16” D.T. Quadders 1 - HALL Tape Accumulator 2 - IMCS Bulk Bag Unloaders, 4,000lb capacity 1 - ARTOS MTX10, MTX5 Wire Processors

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ADVERTISER ............................ PAGE

Amacoil Inc .............................................. Cover 3

Inosym Ltd ...................................................25, 74

Anbao Wire & Mesh Co Ltd ..............................34

Integer Research ...............................................38

Black Sea Technology Inc ................................55

KEIR Manufacturing Inc ....................................76

Cable Consultants Corp....................................41

Kinrei of America LLC .......................................63

Carris Reels Inc ....................................... Cover 4

L-S Industries Inc ..............................................79

Cemanco ............................................................20

Lamnea Bruk AB ................................................20

Commission Brokers Inc ..................................85

Metavan/Howar Equipment...............................83

Electric Cable Compounds Inc.........................37

Mexichem Specialty Compounds Inc .... Cover 2

Esteves Group USA...........................................77

Micro Products Co.............................................12

George Evans Corp ...........................................76

NDC Technologies .............................................47

Fenn LLC ............................................................83

Paramount Die Co ...............................................4

Flymca & Flyro ...................................................21

Pressure Welding Machines Ltd ......................57

Gem Gravure Co Inc ..........................................33

Proton Products International Ltd .............29, 82

Henrich GmbH ...................................................53

Queins Machines GmbH ...................................13

Honeywell .............................................................1

Rainbow Rubber & Plastics Inc..........................2

Howar Equipment ........................................11, 34

REELEX Packaging Solutions Inc......................5

Howar Equipment/Metavan...............................83

Rosendahl Nextrom Gmbh ...............................27

Huestis Industrial ..............................................60

Sanxin Wire Die Inc ...........................................15

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ADVER DVERTISERS’ ISERS’ INDEX ADVERTISER ............................ PAGE SCR / Tektapes ...................................................35 Sheaves Inc ........................................................80 SIKORA AG ..........................................................7 Sjogren Industries Inc ................................. 16-17

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August Strecker GmbH & Co KG .....................49 Teknor Apex Co .................................................19 Tubular Products Co .........................................31 Ulbrich Stainless Steels Inc..............................14 Ultimate Automation .........................................18 Vandor Corporation ...........................................59 Web Industries Inc.............................................75 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp ..........................9 Wyrepak Industries .....................................26, 78

Zumbach Electronics Corp ............................... 61

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