Global Steel Overcapacity

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CONTENTS

Volume 48 | Number 4 | April 2015

FEATURES

OVERCAPACITY

Asian Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Fiber Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Fastener Update . . . . . . . . . . 24

Preview: wire Russia 2015 . . . . 32

WAI News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Economic conditions are not ideal, but wire Russia organizers say that the market remains attractive.

Chapter Corner . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Update: Interwire & GCCF . . 28/38

Products . . in Interwire Update

This section includes more highlights and updates, but one should also go to www.wirenet.org to review the programs.

Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Career Opportunities . . . . . 102 Advertisers’ Index . . . . . . . 103

Steel overcapacity . . . . . . . . . . 80 Too much steel production and slowing demand is not a good equation for the steel sector.

TECHNICAL PAPERS Modeling centerline damage with DEFORM® Christian A. Regalado and Roger N. Wright . . . . . . . . . 86

Next issue May 2015 • BRICS Outlook

Inline wire diagnosis Marcus Paech and Walther Van Raemdonck . . . . . . . . . 92 IWCS Paper: Manufacturing Technology of Special Field Mobile Optical Cables Jing Li, Hong WeiWang and Xing Xiao Zhang . . . . . . . 98

Cover: The steel industry continues to struggle with too much steel capacity and not enough demand, which have contributed greatly to weak pricing.

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE A ZEST FOR WORK AND FOR LIFE . . 31

OPPORTUNITY NEVER SLEEPS . . . . . 32

The Poland Chapter, jointly with Institute of Metal Forming and Safety Engineering of Czestochowa University of Technology (CUT), reports that its 6th Conference on drawing in Zakopane in March 5-7, 2015, was a successful blend of technology, networking and comaraderie for the participants. There was an appreciation for both education and after-hours friendship.

Russia’s outlook may seem somewhat bleak at this time, but wire Russia organizers report that the current modernization requirement of Russia’s economy remains enormous, and provides international companies rewarding business opportunities within the wire and cable industry. As they note, “wire Russia 2015 will be an ideal gateway to this lucrative market.”

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EDITORIAL WIRE JOURNAL

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China evolution is a decade’s long process For the last 25 or so years, China has been on a determined march. It has become the world leader in supplying hundreds of products, from pork and cotton to beer and toys. And steel.

Lots and lots of steel, more than half of the world’s production. Only now, that momentum may be slowing, just a bit, but enough to remind one that heady double-digit growth cannot continue indefinitely. Also, that it comes with a price.

The feature in this issue looks at global steel overcapacity, and China, not surprisingly, is the focus. There are some regions in the world that are faring well, but the overall world economic picture remains tepid at best. With that backdrop, China plans GDP growth of about 7% in 2015–a rate that mature economies can only dream of achieving–which represents its weakest expansion since 1990. Premier Li Keqiang said that the target growth rate is appropriate for China’s “new normal” of slower growth.

The actual GDP numbers for Chinese manufacturing are believed to be even slower for industry as domestic demand has continued to wane at home. Yet as the feature notes, China’s capacity to produce steel far exceeds its domestic needs, so steel mills have focused even more on exports.

China shipped a record 100 million metric tons of steel overseas in the 12 months ended in February, a 55% increase from the previous year.

That flood of steel has led to numerous trade actions from other steel producers. The environmental cost for decades of unchecked production has also become a price tag that is harder to ignore. Some obsolete mills have been closed with much fan-fare, but many more still remain.

Li Keqiang recently said that it was important for China to reduce its reliance “on traditional industry and credit-fueled investment, replacing them with consumer demand as a pillar of the economy...(that) will be channeled into a powerful force driving economic growth.”

It’s hard to envision significant reductions in steel production in China, but once upon a time in the 1980s, it was also hard to see how any country could withstand the technical might of Japan. The world, indeed, does not remain static.

Mark Marselli Editor-in-chief

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CALENDAR

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

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

May 12-15, 2015: Wire Russia 2015 Moscow, Russia. See preview that begins on p. 32.

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

June 21-25, 2015: Jicable 9th International Conference on Insulated Power Cables Paris, France. This forum focuses on research, industrial development, installation and operation of insulated power

cables and accessories. Contact: Jicable, tel. 33-1-56-9037-04, jicable@see.asso.fr, www.jicable.org.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 29, 2015: Southeast Chapter reception at Interwire 2015 Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The Southeast Chapter will hold a reception from 4 pm to 6 pm, Room A313, GWCC.

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

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

Nov. 3, 2015: 7th biennial CabWire World Technical Conference Düsseldorf, Germany. To be held at the Congress Centre, this conference is a joint venture between the IWMA, IWCEA, ACIMAF and the WAI. More details to follow.

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS ABB reports $130 million cable order from DONG Energy for wind farm

Switzerland’s ABB announced that the company has won an order worth around $130 million from DONG Energy, the Danish integrated energy company, to supply a high-voltage cable system that will bring power from the Walney Extension Wind Park off the northwest coast of England to more than a million people in the U.K. A press release said that ABB will design, manufacture, supply and commission the 220 kilovolt (kV) alternating current (AC) extruded cable system.

The link includes more than 157 km of submarine cable to connect the two wind farm platforms to each other and to shore, as well as 24 km of underground cable for the grid Loading of a submarine cable at connection.

ABB’s factory in Sweden.

The existing Walney offshore wind farm is located 15 km west of Walney Island off the coast of Cumbria in the Irish Sea, with its turbines covering an area of approximately 73 sq km. The Walney Extension Wind Farm site where ABB is supplying the high-voltage cable system is northwest of the existing installation and will cover an area twice as large at 149 sq km. The completed project will result in one of Europe’s biggest wind farms when the new extension is ready, the release said.

“The Walney Extension cable link will help deliver clean renewable power to more than a million people,” said Claudio Facchin, president of ABB’s Power Systems division. “This project reaffirms ABB’s commitment to delivering power and productivity for a better world and reinforces our position as a leading provider of innovative high-voltage cable technology.”

Europe now has around 8 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind power connected to the grid. U.K. is the leading contributor, with nearly half the installed capacity and a further 11.9 GW of offshore capacity under construction or having planning approval, the release said.

Canadian company buys rival from its German parent company

Central Wire Industries of Ontario, Canada, has acquired Hempel Wire, which itself had recently acquired trademarks, trade names and intellectual property of Fox Wire in Stocksbridge, a producer of stainless steel wire.

A report in The Star said that Central Wire bought Hempel Wire from its German parent company. The deal includes the assets of Fox Wire, which went into administration in December with the loss of 40 jobs after it failed to find new finance to support the business following downturns in its key oil and gas industry markets. The 170-year-old company, once part of British Steel, was until recently the U.K.’s largest maker of engineering wiring.

Central Wire Industries’ Paul From, was cited as saying that Hempel’s managing director, James Roper, would stay in his post. “This acquisition significantly broadens the product offerings of CWI, expands our reach in existing markets, and enables new market opportunities,” he said.

Bekaert reports plan to sell its global carding activity to Groz-Beckert

Bekaert reports that it has agreed to sell its carding solutions activities to Groz-Beckert, a global company with headquarters in Albstadt, Germany.

A press release said that the deal covers carding production facilities, including assets and employees, in Belgium, India, China and the U.S., as well as the global sales and services network. The carding activities, it said, generate annual revenues of about 26 million euros, which “accounts for less than 1% of Bekaert’s consolidated sales.”

The deal was expected to close in the second quarter of 2015. As part of the transaction, the companies will enter into a long-term supply agreement of Bekaert steel wire to Groz-Beckert.

Groz-Beckert KG notes that it is the world’s leading provider of industrial needles, precision components and fine tools as well as systems and services for the production and joining of textiles. Founded in 1852, the company is still family-owned.

Per Bekaert’s website, the carding products include plain rib and interlocking metallic card wires in a broad range of geometries, shapes, steel grades and finishes for all kind of applications. Those can include feed rollers, transfer, fancy, cylinder, worker, stripper, doffer, condenser, randomizer and take-off rollers, it said.

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Germany’s SKET GmbH reports that a long-time customer, Messrs Has Celik in Kayseri, has placed an order collectively worth more than 3 million euros for eight more tubular stranders in various sizes and machine configurations.

A press release said that SKET will supply the Kayseri plant with the high-speed stranders in the third and fourth quarters of this year. The company notes that it has continued to see good activity in Turkey, where more than 20 of its systems, also including cage-type stranders machines and double-twist bunchers that produce wire rope in a variety of constructions, are now in use. “The reputation which SKET machines enjoy in Turkey and which is enhanced on a daily basis has recently led to another order being placed with SKET,” it said. It noted that SKET recently supplied a tandem tubular stranding machine, type SRW 630.

In further news, SKET also reported that it recently received an order from Egypt’s El Sewedy Cables for an additional central strander. The machine, type MKZS (1+6)+12+18+24x100, is a further development of the single version of the machine consisting of three stranding units with new controlled braking systems that ensure sensitivity when starting-up with full bobbins, and product consistency by virtue of controlled wire tensions.

“It was nine years ago that the El Sewedy group placed a first order for a central strander with SKET. Now, with the delivery of a new central strander this year, 20 type MKZ stranding systems will be in operation in El Sewedy works.” The central stranders are designed to operate at speeds topping 180 m/min, it said.

To date, SKET has supplied more than 170 central stranding units to customers in Europe, North and Central America, Australia, Arabian countries and Asia, the release said.

Rosendahl Nextrom GmbH opens a new technology center in Austria

Rosendahl Nextrom GmbH announced that the company has invested in its production facility in Pischelsdorf, Austria, where it has opened a new technology center to provide further service and support for its customers.

From l-r, company officials Johann Jäkel, Gerhard Jakopic, Ernst Altmann and Siegfried Altmann.

A press release said that besides the company’s already established technology centers (one laboratory for cable production, one for battery machine manufacture and one clean room laboratory for optical fiber technology in Vantaa, Finland) a fourth one has been established for exclusive customer demonstrations in a highly professional environment. The facility covers 700 sq m for the set-up and testing of its newly developed production lines and includes a meeting room for technical workshops. It is “home to inspirations and ideas of visionaries and technologists and includes the opportunity for customers to come and see the running lines in demonstration.”

“Our new Technology Center will allow us to innovate locally for our customers and promote those innovations to the world,” said CEOs Siegfried Altmann and Gerhard Jakopic. “Over the past decade, we have increased our R&D investment and expanded our global network of sales and service units to address customer’s growing

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SKET reports Turkish contract worth more than 3 million euros

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needs for breakthrough technology that we develop together with them. We see significant performance opportunities and having the best technology will ensure we maintain our quality in our solutions.”

ABB to build U.S. manufacturing plant

ABB reports that it plans to invest $30 million in building a new manufacturing site and expand its customer experience center for its Low Voltage Products division near Memphis, Tennessee.

A press release said that the investment will initially create more than 200 jobs, with a further 100 jobs expected to be added over the next five years. It noted that ABB’s total workforce in the Americas has tripled over the last five years to about 20,000 as the company has expanded across the region, including with its $3.9 billion purchase of electrical components maker Thomas & Betts in 2012.

“As part of ABB’s Next Level strategy, we are expanding our offering of low-voltage products in the United States. This will allow us to provide the full ABB portfolio of products to our customers across the U.S., through the strong distributor network of Thomas & Betts,” said Low Voltage Products Division President, Tarak Mehta, at the opening of the company’s Automation and Power World fair in Houston, Texas. “This investment will boost ABB’s organic growth potential through improved customer focus and a broader portfolio of electrical connection, protection and control products.”

The new 11,000-sq-m facility will assemble products from across ABB’s low-voltage products portfolio, including the world’s first integrated breaker and power manager, Emax2. The range will include other breakers, switches; power distribution systems; modular enclosure and DIN rail products; and control products including ABB’s new soft starter solution. Additionally, the site will house research and development and product development.

ABB is also expanding its customer experience center at its existing Memphis location. The investment will be used to upgrade its training suite to accommodate the requirements of its expanding product portfolio as well as

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to reinforce ABB’s commitment to best-in-class technical support and training.

Huawei reports Guinea cable contract

Huawei Marine Networks reports that it has been awarded a contract by the government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to build the Ceiba-2 Submarine Cable System, which is expected to be ready for service (RFS) in Q4 2015.

A press release said that the 280 km cable, using Huawei Marine’s Wavelength Division Multiplex (WDM) and Optical Transport Network (OTN) technologies, will have an initial design capacity of 4Tbps. It will connect the capital city of Malabo, on the northern coast of Bioko island, to Bata on the mainland, with a branching unit towards Kribi (Cameroon). Once completed, the link via Kribi will enable Equatorial Guinea to connect to other submarine cable systems, including WACS, SAT-3 and Main One, it said. It will also provide redundancy for existing traffic on Ceiba-1, the direct link between Malabo and Bata, and the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable branch to Bata.

Welded wire producer plans to invest $14 million in plant in South Carolina

U.S.-based Wire Mesh Corp. (WMC) announced that it plans to invest nearly $14 million over the next five years in a new facility in St. Matthews, South Carolina.

A report in scbiznews.com said that WMC will create some 50 jobs in an existing 143,000-sq-ft facility that is located on 29 acres off U.S. Highway 601, with nearby rail access. It noted the following. The company, founded in 2003, will place an initial focus on the production of prestressed concrete strand from steel rod. Hiring is expected to begin this summer. First started in Jacksonville, Florida in 2003, WMC has expanded to locations in Illinois and California, in addition to adding plants in Maryland and Texas as of early 2012. Its product lines include Standard Mesh (SM), Structurally Engineered Welded Wire

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Reinforcing (WWR), PC Strand (PCS), Bright Basic Wire (BBW) and Pencil Rod (PR). Customers include the Department of Transportation, military, commercial and private use jobs.

At a frequently asked questions page on its website, the first question is: “Why have I never heard of Wire Mesh Corp before?” The answer is: “Until late 2008 we had only gone to market with a national two step distributor.

We recently became aware of the necessity to market our products through additional channels in order to hit all segments of the industry.”

ping on the third rail. The gaps, commonly about six feet wide, are bridged by jumper cables, which are insulated power lines the keep electrical current flowing along the third rail. If a jumper cable is deteriorated or damaged in some way, and electricity begins to escape, the phenomenon is called “arcing.” It can generate sparks, heat, melting and smoke.

In the wake of the incident, Metro inspected all of its 2,600 underground jumper cables which supply electrical power to the rails. Metro found about 24 faulty cables and has made repairs and replaced some of those cables.

ABB wins subsea cable order worth over $100 million from Energinet.dk

REELEX mission: to stop counterfeiters

ABB reports that it has won an order worth $100 million for a subsea cable system for Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm.

A press release said that ABB will provide a cable system to connect Energinet.dk’s offshore wind farm platforms Kriegers Flak A and B to Rødvig, in Denmark. ABB will design, supply and install three high-voltage alternating current 220 kilovolt three-core submarine cables with a total length of about 100 km, 44 km from each of the platforms to shore and 11 km between the two platforms. The project is scheduled to be commissioned in 2018.

The 600 megawatt (MW) cable system will enable transmission of energy from Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm to the mainland, the release said. “As Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm it will help to increase the country’s wind power capacity to over 40 percent, capable of providing electricity to meet the demand of over 600,000 homes.”

ABB noted that it has commissioned more than 25 high-voltage DC cable connections and numerous high-voltage AC cable links around the world.

Jumper cables are linked to fatal subway train incident in January

The National Transportation Safety Board plans to hold hearings in June about a Jan. 2 deadly Metro smoke incident on a stuck subway train near the L’Enfant Plaza in Washington, DC, that claimed the life of a passenger.

The focus will include jumper cables, which the NTSB’s initial report found contributed to the death of a woman, Carol Glover, who died from smoke inhalation.

Per multiple news reports, the fatal incident near L’Enfant Plaza was caused when a cable arced and smoke filled a Yellow Line train. Federal investigators said their inspection found “severe electrical arcing damage” to the rail and cables inside the tunnel. The electrical malfunction, known as “arcing,” occurred in a subway power line called a “jumper cable” and involved the electrified third rail, from which trains draw propulsion power. In a tunnel, there are gaps in the third rail where ventilation shafts are located so that during an evacuation, people can get out through a shaft without the danger of step14 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

U.S.-based REELEX Packaging Solutions is embarking on an anti-counterfeiting campaign aimed at educating installers of the perils of using knock-off packaging systems and non-compliant cables.

REELEX’s Tim Copp by the genuine product.

A press release said that the company, which invented the REELEX Packaging System which incorporates a specialized cable coil wind-pattern and payout dispenser, has started an anti-counterfeiting campaign aimed at educating installers of the perils of using knock-off REELEX packaging systems and non-compliant cables.

The company also vows to continue to pursue measures against wire and cable brands that violate its patents and trademarks.

“Counterfeit boxes do not use the same technology as our licensees use,” said Timothy Copp, vice president of business development. “It is important that the installer understand there are genuine REELEX boxes and there are knock-off boxes, and when the package isn’t genuine, it’s very likely the cable isn’t either. This leads to problematic wire-pulls; additionally inferior cable leads to the installer potentially having to re-wire the job in the future.”

The company notes that REELEX is a patented, trademarked method of winding cable into a figure-eight coil that in turn, does not rotate during payout. This approach dates back to WWII as a method for US soldiers on the front lines to more efficiently run wire from their backpacks. Today, the REELEX coil hugely benefits bulk cartons of LAN and low-voltage cables across AV,

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security and electrical channels, most especially for installers conducting one-man wire-pulls. In optimizing each REELEX coil, factors such as gain, payout hole control and the density of the wind, along with progressive coil tension, are all instrumental in producing tangle-free packages. Void of any moving parts, the REELEX coil dispenses from the inside-out with a clear path, thus avoiding the twists, tangles and snags that plague knockoff bulk wire cartons.

This unique coil can only be produced via unique, licensed software on a specialized REELEX machine purchased by a wire/cable manufacturer.

Copp said that installers should be looking for the REELEX trademark printed on the company’s box.

The company also has a video at www.reelex.com showing how to identify genuine REELEX-enabled cartons and a side-by-side pull-test depicting a knockoff REELEX carton failing versus that of REELEXenabled carton.

IEWC to acquire U.K. distributor

U.S.-based IEWC reports that it has agreed to buy U.K.-based Argosy Components Limited, a distributor within the broadcast and communications industries.

A press release said that Argosy Components, which has locations in England, Dubai and Kuala Lumpur, has established relationships with well known manufacturers that include ADC, Belden, Draka, Neutrik, Amphenol, Fujitsu and Percon.

“This investment in Argosy enhances IEWC’s on-going global commitment to the Broadcast & Communications industry, in addition to expanding IEWC’s reach within the UK, United Arab Emirates and Malaysia,” said IEWC VP of Broadcast & Communications Roger Caynor. IEWC provides total connectivity solutions for sub-assemblers, OEMs and the broadcast and communications industries with distribution centers strategically located throughout the world.

Troester completes management transition at X-Compound

Germany’s Troester Group reports that it has completed a four-year management transition period at X-Compound, where the original founders and owners have stepped down as managing directors.

A press release said that compounding plant manufacturer, based in Kaisten, Switzerland, is now headed

by CEO Raul Friedrich, a senior Troester manager.

It said Frank Knittel was appointed Director of Sales and Marketing and Stefan Nägele joined the company as Head of Process Technology and R&D. Both men, it said, have long-term experience with continuous Kneader compounding systems from previous responsibilities.

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ASIAN FOCUS

ASIAN FOCUS Cutting carbon emissions will carry a huge price for China’s steel sector

China’s biggest steel-producing region, Hebei, is paying “a huge price” for the country’s war on pollution, the province’s top party official said, days after the central government offered more financial support.

Per reports in multiple media sources, Hebei, which surrounds the capital Beijing, churns out nearly a quarter of Chinese steel output, but it is now bearing the brunt of a campaign aimed at easing the country’s dependence on heavy and polluting industrial capacity. Production fell 0.6% last year to 185.3 million tons, official data showed. Annual economic growth in the province slipped to 6.5% last year, missing an 8% target, with steel demand hit by a nationwide slowdown as well as the campaign against pollution.

“In order to solve the problems of industrial restructuring and pollution, Hebei has made huge efforts and paid a huge price,” Zhou Benshun, the province’s Party secretary, told reporters on the sidelines of China’s recent annual parliamentary session.

Thick smog covers the sky from Yuanbaoshan steel plant in Hebei. The province produces about 190 million tonnes of crude steel a year, about twice as much as the entire U.S. Photo by The Guardian.

At a closed meeting with the Hebei delegation on Saturday, Premier Li Keqiang said the state needed to help the province in its efforts to wind down excessive steel production capacity. “Hebei’s easing of steel overcapacity needs state help and we need to offer some preferential policies in aspects such as financing,” Li was quoted by state media as saying.

Hebei Governor Zhang Qingwei urged Beijing to provide long-term loans to his province to help cover the costs of cutting overcapacity. Hebei has seven of China’s 10 smoggiest cities, per official 2014 air quality data. It 18 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

vowed to close 60 million tons of outdated and polluting crude steel capacity in the 2014-2017 period and met its target to shut 15 million tons last year. It also aims to cut coal consumption by 30 million tons.

However, Hebei has struggled to find alternative sources of economic growth and hopes a new state plan aimed at integrating the province’s economy with the prosperous cities of Beijing and Tianjin will help reduce its reliance on steel and coal. The plan aims to break down administrative barriers and improve transportation networks in the region. It will also see relocation of “non-essential” industries and government functions from Beijing to Hebei.

China lifts ban on foreign control of steel industry, but action may be moot

Mainland China was slated to lift restrictions on overseas takeovers of domestic steelmakers and companies in other industries on April 10, but whether that action will have an impact is not a given.

Per an article in Reuters, measures were to be taken to end the ban on foreign control in the steel industry that has been in place since 2005. In November, the National Development and Reform Commission called for public comment on a draft of the new foreign investment guidelines, including industries suffering from overcapacity such as steel and ethylene production.

The decision came as Premier Li Keqiang last week set this year’s economic growth target at 7%, the slowest full-year expansion since 1990, as the country grapples with slumping property prices, excess industrial capacity and disinflation.

Per Morgan Stanley, the mainland’s steel output will peak this year as supply and demand decline. It accounts for about half of global steel production and is the world’s biggest buyer of seaborne iron ore.

What affect ending the ban of foreign ownership would have was uncertain at best. Observed Hu Yanping, an analyst with custeel.com, “I don’t think this policy change would prove very attractive for foreign investors as China’s steel industry has passed its golden years and has many problems to solve. The nation’s steel companies are also quite expensive to buy.”

The revised guidelines cut the number of industries subject to restriction on foreign investment to 38 from 79, according to the official statement. They include paper-making, lifting machinery and power conversion and transmission equipment. The new list comes after an earlier draft that had been criticized by foreign business lobbies as being too broad.

Beijing has vowed to increase the competitiveness of its economy by loosening restrictions on the manufacturing and service sectors as it tries to improve inefficient state-owned firms by adopting market-friendly policies.

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4:1. On a year-over-year basis, Top 100 Global Innovators increased their total R&D spending by nearly 17%.”

All organizations with 100 or more innovation patents Asia is home to the largest share of Top 100 innovators from the most recent five years were included in the analfor the first time this year, with 46 ysis. A unique invention is defined companies on the list. as the first publication of a patent The Thomson Reuters 2014 Top document in a new technology, drug, 100 Global Innovator list uses methbusiness process, etc. In DWPI, odology based on four principle crithese are called “basic” patents. teria: overall patent volume, patent DWPI provides a record of patents grant success rate, global reach of published by nearly 50 patent issuthe portfolio and patent influence ing authorities worldwide to enable as evidenced by citations. Breaking a comprehensive picture of the innodown the 46 Asian companies, 39 vation landscape. Subsequent filings are based in Japan, four in South for the same invention are recorded Korea, two from Taiwan and, for as “equivalents” in DWPI and collatthe first time, a Chinese company ed in “patent families” and, for this Huawei, the largest telecommunications (Huawei) has made the list. analysis, were not included.

North America was home to the sec- equipment maker in the world, is the first The success metric measures the ratio ond largest contingent, with 36 com- Chinese company to make the Thomson of inventions described in published Reuters 2014 Top 100 Global Innovator list. applications to inventions protected panies, down from 46 last year. Of those, 35 companies were from the with granted patents over the most U.S. and one from Canada. Europe had 18 companies as recent five years. The number of inventions that have follows: France (seven), Switzerland (five) and Germany quadrilateral patents in their patent families was calcu(four). One key to the results was R&D, the report said. lated to create a ratio that shows which companies place “The surge in R&D spending among Top 100 Global a high value on their portfolios in major world markets.

Innovators is also noteworthy. With the 100 organizations Finally, the impact of an invention “down the line” can in the study spending U.S. $208 billion on R&D in 2013, be determined by looking at how often it is subsequently the group outspent the constituents of S&P 500 at a rate of cited by other companies in their inventions.

Asian countries garner largest share of the world’s top 100 innovators

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PEOPLE Cable Components Group (CCG) announced the promotion of Barbara Cioffi from sales, marketing, & customer service manager to director of operations and customer service. She will oversee the company’s manufacturing, R&D and quality control departments as well as provide support to customers through the direction and guidance of CCG’s customer service departCioffi ment. She has more than 25 years of experience in the wire and cable industry, including customer service and product manager positions at NEPTCO. Based in Pawcatuck, Connecticut, USA, the Cable Components Group LLC manufactures high-performance plastic extruded products for sectors that include the wire and cable industry.

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Fluoropolymer Resources LLC (FRL) announced the promotion of Mike Canterino to president. He joined FRL in December 2014 as executive vice president. Before joining FRL, he served as vice president operations at Remee Products, Florida, New York, for more than 20 years. Before that, he was manufacturing manager at Rockbestos Wire & Cable (now RSCC Wire

& Cable), East Granby, Connecticut, from 1988-1996.

He held earlier positions as plant engineer at Pirelli Cable, Wallingford, Connecticut, and Intermagnetics General Corp. (IGC), Waterbury, Connecticut. He succeeds David Ely, who will stay to assist in the transition through his retirement on May 1, 2015. Ely was named president of FRL in 2013 after serving as president of Chromatics, Bethel, Connecticut. Ely had prior management and business development experience with ICI, LNP Plastics, DuPont Fluoropolymers, and has been active with the Society of Plastics Engineers. Based in East Hartford, Connecticut, USA, Fluoropolymer Resources LLC is a value added supplier and re-processor of melt fluoropolymers used for applications such as fire-rated cables, automotive conduit, petrochemical and chemical processing, and other industries.

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

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OBITUARY Richard Roland Pechie, Jr., better known as “Dickie,” a long-time key staffer at Vollmer America, Inc., died unexpectedly Monday, Feb. 23, 2015, at age 66.

After high school, the Connecticut native joined the Air Force as an electronics technician and served during the Vietnam War. He met his wife, Mary, while stationed in Omaha, Nebraska, and they were married in 1969. In 1970, a staff sergeant, he completed his military service. He worked as a maintenance mechanic at Glass Container in Dayville, Connecticut, while going to school. He earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Connecticut.

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Steel (ATI), and in 1987 started in direct sales at Vollmer America.

He was promoted several times over the years to vice president and regional sales manager. “He was a talented engineer, a good salesman and a good person,” said company President John Wallace.

In 1995, Pechie joined WAI, and was one of the earliest members of its New England Chapter. He was an active member, serving on the Association’s Exhibition Planning Committee for 10 years and the Member Relations Committee for five years. “Dick was a very loyal member of the WAI and worked with us on many projects, such as locations for our trade show venues,” said WAI Sales

Richard Pechie at Interwire 2013.

Director Bob Xeller. “Dick’s presence in the industry will be greatly missed.”

He was predeceased by his brother, Kevin Pechie. In addition to his wife, survivors include two sons, Jean-Philippe Pechie and Alain Pechie; and brothers Gary Pechie and David Pechie.

& Cable, based in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, USA, is a family owned and operated specialty manufacturer and distributor of wire and cable, serving customers in markets that include government, military, aerospace, automotive and telecom.

Allied Wire and Cable has made two additions to the company’s sales force. Susan Seibert has 14 years of experience in the wire and cable industry, and even more years of practice in customer service. She will be based in the compaSeibert ny’s Midwest office in Wisconsin. Chris Jodoin worked as an inside sales representative at Simcona Electronics Corp. for 24 years. He will be based in New York. Allied Wire Jodoin

Graham Engineering Corporation has appointed Alan Jones to be regional sales manager for extrusion in the U.S. Southwest, including American Kuhne extruders and extrusion systems. He has more than 20 years of sales experience and career progression in extrusion, plastics, and packaging at companies that include Starlinger & Co. GmbH, Reifenhauser Kiefel Extrusion, and Jones Occidental Chemical Corporation.

Based in Dallas/Fort Worth, he will be responsible for sales in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Based in York, Pennsylvania, USA, the Graham Group holds a majority interest in American Kuhne, a supplier of extrusion technology.

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ern Pennsylvania. He will also focus on the medical extrusion field. Based in Warwick, Rhode Island, USA, Amaral Automation Associates represents a range of machinery and ancillary equipment for the wire and cable industry.

FIBER WATCH

FIBER WATCH Texas A&M scores a touchdown with its decision to use all optical fiber cable

Texas A&M’s Kyle Field was to use copper cabling for its update to the stadium, but a presentation on the advantages of using optical fiber led to a change in plans.

Per a report in mobile sports report, use of optical fiber is still developing in stadium network deployments.

With a Wi-Fi network set to support 100,000 concurrent connections, a robust DAS network with more than 1,000 antennas, and an IPTV deployment with more than 1,000 screens, the IBM-designed network based largely on Corning’s fiber-optical systems, has already produced impressive results during the “Phase 1” period of the two-phase $450 million Kyle Field renovation.

Phase 1 planning started with traditional copper cable network design for the network, but a presentation by IBM and its “smarter stadium” team changed the thinking at Texas A&M. “The IBM team came in and did a really good job of presenting the positive points of an optical network,” a school representative said.

Todd Christner, a Corning staffer who was previously at IBM as part of the team that brought the optical idea to Texas A&M, said that talking about fiber to copper-cable veterans can sometimes be “like telling people to drive on the left side of the street.” However, he said, the fiber plan’s power, scalability and flexibility “fit in well with the ambitious Kyle Field plans.”

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With what has to be one of the largest student sections anywhere (Texas A&M has 40,000 seats set aside for students), the school knew they would need extra support for the younger fans’ increasingly heavy data use on smartphones, Christner said. The school officials were also concerned about DAS performance, which in the past had been left to outside operators with less than satisfactory results.

IBM’s somewhat radical idea was that instead of having separate copper networks for Wi-Fi, DAS and IPTV, there would be a single optical network with the capacity to carry the traffic of all three. Though the pitch for better performance, far more capacity, use of less space, and cheaper costs might sound a bit too good to believe, most of it is just the combination of the simple physics advantages of using fiber over copper.

Why hasn’t fiber won more business in such venues?

Mainly because in single-user deployments – like to a single home or office – it is still costly to replace systems already in the ground or in the wall with fiber, and for many users fiber’s capacity can be a bit of overkill, Christner said. Fiber’s main benefits, he noted, come when lots of bandwidth is needed, and the scale of a project is large, since one main benefit is the elimination of a lot of internal switching gear, which takes up space and consumes lots of power. 

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FASTENER UPDATE

FASTENER UPDATE Report: industrial market for fasteners looks very strong through year 2020

A report from U.S.-based Grand View Research projects that the market for industrial fasteners should fare well in the coming years.

A press release said that the industrial fasteners market analysis is expected to top the $104 billion mark by 2020. The report separates fasteners into three types: externally threaded, aerospace and other standard. Contributors include a strong automotive industry as well as construction, driven by overall economic growth and industrialization in the U.S., China, Brazil, Russia, Poland and India. Adding to demand is more demand for electrical and electronics, aerospace, machinery and MRO applications, as well as fasteners with advanced processing techniques and improved mechanical properties.

Per the release, threaded fasteners were the largest product segment, accounting for more than 45% of market share in 2013. Automotive OEM was the second largest application market, accounting for over 20% of revenue share in 2013.

MRO was the third largest application segment in 2013 and is expected to grow on account of increasing maintenance activities in Europe and North America.

Industrial fasteners demand in construction applications is expected to witness rapid growth due to rising government

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funding for large scale infrastructure and residential construction in emerging markets including China, Argentina, India, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.

Europe and North America are matured markets and are expected to witness slow demand growth over the next six years. Asia Pacific is expected to witness significant market growth over the forecast period owing to increasing government investments in commercial aircraft and aerospace, non building construction and defense applications.

Anti-dumping duties and alternative fastening methods will restrict fasteners demand, but offsetting that will be growth from advanced processing techniques and improved mechanical properties. Development of railroad fasteners is also expected to open new market avenues in the next six years.

The global industrial fasteners market, the release said, is highly fragmented in nature. Some companies are employing nanocomposite material processing techniques for aerospace fasteners production which is anticipated to improve performance characteristics along with cost reduction while others are producing nonferrous fasteners for marine and commercial applications that offer exceptional wear and corrosion resistance.

To find out more about the report, contact Grand View Research, Inc., at tel. 415-349-0058 or at sales@grandviewresearch.com. 

WAI NEWS

April 2015

WAI MEMBERSHIP

SPOTLIGHT This section introduces a new WAI member each issue.

Robert Durante Quality Assurance Mgr James Monroe Wire & Cable

Q: What does your company do?

A: We design and manufacture a broad range of high quality wire and cable solutions for a variety of industries.

Q: What is your role there?

A: I was hired to spearhead the implementation of ISO as the Quality Assurance Manager. In today’s changing times, my role is more of a business management data analyst helping to track business management trends.

Q: What do you like best about your position?

A: That I am like a teacher and help by imparting some of my years of experience. We have a great team here and it gives me the freedom to monitor our quality business systems. James Monroe is a great place to work and one of the few places where all the employees are a priority.

Q: How does your company remain competitive?

A: We have a very small minimum quantity for orders which in turn keeps our customers coming back. We strive to make sure the customer is getting what they need. All customers are important to us.

With the increase in awareness of quality systems over the years we are able to be more cost effective.

Also, we are more technological than we were 40 years ago, which allows us to deal on a global scale at a faster pace with information at the touch of a few keys.

Q: Why did you recently join WAI? A: It’s more like I have come back to WAI. I originally joined in the late 80s or early 90s and have been out only the last few years. It is a great way to stay in touch with the many friends that have been made over the years.

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Charles Andrews Proc Eng Charles Andrews Consulting Henry Azevedo Purch Mgr Specialty Cable Corp Steve Bartel Prod Mgr Charter Steel Thorne Bartlett Supl Mgr T&T Marketing Sudipta Bhaumik Assoc Gen Mgr Sterlite Optical Tech Ltd Abigail Birch Mtls Coordinator Quirk Wire Co Inc Clayton Blunt Fld Sls Rep Copperweld Alain Bourdelais Prod Mgr General Cable Corp

Tim Burns Sr Acct Exec Equistar Chemicals Lp Claudia Day Sural Quebec Mario Diaz Prod Mgr Conneaut Industries Inc Robert Durante Quality Assurance Mgr James Monroe Wire & Cable Steve Edelson VP Sls Fluoropolymer Resources Inc Cindy Flenniken Ad & Ts Eng Equistar Chemicals Lp Miranda Erin Garrison Fld Sls Rep Copperweld Bimetallics John Gerczak Plt Mgr Charter Steel Joel Goudelock Sr Acct Exec Equistar Chemicals Lp

Paul Greve Proj Eng Rea Magnet Wire Co Inc

Chris Ogden Fluoropolymer Resources

James A Hale Sr Acct Mgr Fushi Copperweld

Michael Prendergast Sr Sls & Mktg Rep Freeport-Mcmoran Copper

Mick Hundley Ad & Ts Eng Equistar Chemicals Lp

George Pruce Dupont Chemicals & Fluoroproducts

Christopher Kimmet Bus Dev Mgr Polyone Corp

Scott Schultz Asian Prod Mgr RichardsApex Australasia

James Krohn Mktg Mgr Equistar Chemicals Lp Daniel C Messmer Sls Eng Cable Components Group Andrew Meyer Mtl Dev Eng Marmon Innovation & Technology Group Elias Muhlrad President Remee Products Corp

Lijin Sheng Cnpiec Sh Tom Shoup Amaral Automation Katie Six Quality Mgr Charter Steel Donald F Whipple Bloom Engineering Michael Wright North American Sls Dir Starrett-Bytewise

Updated list of WAI Platinum Member Companies: • ArcelorMittal

• Encore Wire

• Asarco LLC

• Enkotec

• Beta LaserMike

• Equistar Chemicals LP

• Blachford

• Fluoropolymer Resources Inc

• Borealis Compounds Inc

• Fort Wayne Metals

• CAP Technologies LLC

• Frigeco USA Inc

• Carris Reels Inc

• Gem Gravure Co Inc

• Champlain Cable Corp

• General Cable

• Chase Corp

• Gerdau

• Chemetall/Chemetall US

• Hazelett Strip-Casting Corp

• Clinton Instrument Co

• Insteel Industries Inc

• Coleman Cable

• J Hamelin Industries

• Condusal SA de CV

• Joe-Tools Inc

• Crown Technology Inc

• Leggett & Platt

• Davis-Standard LLC

• Lloyd & Bouvier Inc

• Electric Cable Compounds

• Mario Frigerio SpA

• Marmon Specialty Wire & Cable Group

• SDI LaFarga LLC

• MFL USA Service Corp

• Sikora International

• MGS Manufacturing • Micro Products Co • Mid-South Wire • Nexans • Niehoff Endex North America Inc • Paramount Die Co • Pittsfield Plastics Eng Inc • PolyOne Corp • Q-S Technologies Inc • RichardsApex Inc • S&E Specialty Polymers • SAMP USA Inc

• Siemens Industry Inc • Singleton Reels • Sivaco/Ivaco • Sonoco • Southwire Co • Standridge Color Corp • Sterling Steel Co • T & T Marketing Inc • Teknor Apex Co • United Copper Ind • Whitney Blake Co • Windak USA Inc • Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp APRIL 2015 | 27

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

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Interwire keynote speaker has advice for companies seeking smooth waters

Mike Abrashoff, who took command of one of the poorest performing ships in the U.S. Navy and transformed it into an award-winner as well as the basis of a bestselling book, It’s Your Ship, will be the keynote speaker at Interwire 2015.

At age 36, Abrashoff, the most junior commanding officer in the Pacific Fleet, was named Commander of the USS Benfold. The ship was said to have had exceptionally low morale and unacceptably high turnover, and few thought this ship could improve. In many ways, the USS Benfold was actually an extreme example of the same problems facing many organizations today.

Abrashoff’s solution was to establish a system of management techniques he calls “The Leadership Roadmap.”

His leadership approach was a process of replacing command and control with commitment and cohesion, and by engaging the hearts, minds, and loyalties of workers with conviction and humility. His methods brought about breakthrough results. Personnel turnover decreased to an unprecedented 1%, the rate of military promotions tripled and the crew slashed operating expenses by 25%.

Regarded now as the finest ship in the Pacific Fleet, the USS Benfold won the prestigious Spokane Trophy for having the highest degree of combat readiness.

Abrashoff recounted the leadership lessons from his turn-

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Photo of the USS Benfold. around of the USS Benfold in his book, which has sold more than 800,000 copies to date. At Interwire, he will discuss his approach, the essence of which can apply to any business.

Other small changes have Michael Abrashoff been made to the program, mostly having to do with authors, paper titles and/or descriptions. The best way to see the latest version is to go to www.wirenet.org and click on Interwire 2015, then review the different elements. Also, look for the Show Program at the event.

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Interwire 2015 Program update: changes to technical paper schedule

Etna Products Inc.’s technical paper has been re-scheduled. The paper entitled “Optimizing productivity through improved maintenance of oil-based and waterbased wiredrawing lubricants,” by Bill Coode, will be presented at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 29, instead of its original time-slot later the same day. It has also moved to a different room and will now be in Room 313.

On wiredrawing operations, die wear affects the overall economics of the process. Without proper lubrication, the frictional forces generated by the process result in excess die wear and reduced productivity. In this paper, the authors present a review of lubrication theory, factors influencing lubricant selection and a review of process controls and maintenance procedures for both oil-based and water-based wiredrawing lubricants. In addition, this paper presents an overview of the new OSHA Globally Harmonized System (GHS) standard and its impact on lubricant formulation.

Continuous Casting Forum Panel: any interest out there for cost-savings?

The first day of the Global Continuous Casting Forum program will end with a 90-minute panel discussion of

The 2011 Global Continuous Casting Forum drew more than 200 attendees from 25 countries. ways to find cost savings in the casting world. This is an excellent opportunity to hear from four industry veterans in the copper and aluminum sectors, each of whom will share a cost-saving idea with the industry.

The panelists include Brian Blair, Southwire Co., USA; John Quinn, Freeport McMoRan, USA; Steve Roussel, Rio Tinto Alcan, Canada; and Carlos Sanchez, Nexans Canada Inc., Canada. Topics will range from controllable costs and unit cost management, to scrap management and cost center efficiency.

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CHAPTER CORNER

CHAPTER CORNER Poland Chapter finds continued success with technical program

The Poland Chapter, jointly with Institute of Metal Forming and Safety Engineering of Czestochowa University of Technology (CUT), reports that its 6th Conference on drawing in Zakopane in March 5-7, 2015, proved to be a successful blend of technology, networking and comaraderie for the participants.

The theme of conference, once again held at the at the Antałówka Hotel in Zakopane, Poland, was “Modern Technologies and Modeling of Drawing and Manufacturing Processes of Metals Product.” The conference included 30 papers that were published in an electronic version of the Conference Proceeding as well as in the highly regarded Polish magazine HutnikWiadomosci Hutnicze, as well as poster papers. The conference topics included: steel wire and wire products (Session 1), moderated by Prof. Janusz Łuksza; non-ferrous wires and wires products (Session 2), moderated by Prof. Maciej Pietrzyk. The remainder (Session 3), moderated by Prof. Eugeniusz Hadasik.

Speaking at the event were Polish Steel Association officials Stefan Dzienniak, president of the board, and Kazimierz Kowalski, deputy director.

The first day of the conference included a special meeting with Board of Polish Steel Association (Hutnicza Izba Przemysłowo Handlowa), with presentation of two papers: “The situation in the steel industry in Poland: challenges, opportunities and threats,”

by Deputy Director Kazimierz Kowalski; and “The possibilities of obtaining, by the companies or scientific-industrial consortia, the subsidy for Research, Development and Innovation (R+D+I) in the frame of the sectoral program for metallurgy,” by Board President Stefan Dzienniak.

The 100 participants came from 30 institutions and companies. These included representatives from the following technical universities and research institutes: Madrid Technical University from Spain, and the AGH University of Science and Technology, Silesian Technical University, Lublin Technical University, Bielsko-Biala Technical–Humanistic Academia, CUT, Institute for

From l-r at the award ceremony were professors: Janusz Łuksza, Bogdan Golis, Jerzy Wysłocki, Jose Miguela Atienza, Eugeniusz Hadasik, Sylwia Wiewiórowska, Jan W. Pilarczyk and Zbigniew Muskalski.

Ferrous Metallurgy, Institute of Nonferrous Metals, all from Poland).

Represented enterprises in the ferrous and nonferrous sector included Arcelor Mittal Poland SA, Centrum Badań i Dozoru Górnictwa Podziemnego, Gaweł Zakład Produkcji Śrub SA, Metalurgia SA Radomsko, Gamma Metal, Pawlak Ltd., Staldrut, Promet SA, Techmet Druty Stalowe SC Polska, Other attendees came from NV Bekaert SA from Zwevegem, Belgium; CBMM North America and EVRAZ Stractor, Inc, both USA; Coficab Company, Tunisia; Lubrimetal and Pan Chemical, both Italy; Traxit. Germany; Heberlein GmbH-Paramount Die, Europe; and Trinecke Żelazarny and Material & Metallugical Research Ltd., both Czech Republic.

Tabletops were presented by EVRAZ Stratcor, Lubrimetal, Traxit, Paramount Die and Pan Chemicals.

The Schneider Memorial Award, named for Prof.

Marian Schneider, who is recognized as the “father” of the Polish wire industry was awarded to Prof. Jose Miguela Atienza Reira from Madrid Materials Science University, from Spain (laudation was prepared and presented by Associate Professor Sylwia Wiewiórowska) and CUT Prof. Jan Pilarczyk (laudation was prepared and presented by Prof. Zbigniew Muskalski. The award ceremony was led by Sylwia Wiewiorowska, chairman of the Organization Committee of the Conference.

The attendees also enjoyed social acitivites that included entertainment and dancing.

Southeast Chapter to have reception at Interwire on Wednesday, April 29

The Southeast Chapter will hold a reception from 4 pm to 6 pm on Wednesday, April 29, in Room A313 at the Georgia World Congress Center. This would be a good time for chapter members to stop by, and bringing along a prospective new member (or two!) would be a +++.

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wire Russia: focus on business Organizers of wire Russia, to take place May 12-15, 2015, at the ZAO Expocentr in Moscow, report that 250 plus exhibitors from more than 27 nations are expected to participate, presenting their latest technologies for the wire and cable industry to trade visitors from the Russian Federation.

Russia’s economic picture is somewhat bleak at this time, but a press release from organizers Messe Düsseldorf observes that the wire and cable sectors regard the future with optimism due to an ongoing increase in investment in Russia. “Many sectors rely on products from the wire, cable and wire-processing industry since they are essential for transmitting electrical energy, electronic data and mechanical forces.

concurrently held trade fairs Metallurgy-Litmash, Tube Russia, Aluminium/Non-Ferrous and Russia Essen Welding & Cutting, wire Russia attracted some 10,850 visitors from all parts of the Russian Federation.

The trade fair will again be jointly organized by Messe Düsseldorf and its subsidiary Messe Düsseldorf Moscow, with the support of leading Russian and international industry associations: the All Russian Cable Scientific Research and Development Institute (VNIIKP), the International Wire and Cable Exhibitors Association (IWCEA), the German Wire and Cable Machine Manufacturers Association (VDKM), the International Wire and Cable Exhibitors Association France (IWCEA France), the International Wire & Machinery Association (IWMA), the Italian Wire Machinery

In order to meet increased product requirements, machinery and technology is needed that adapts to a large range of specifications while continuing to offer the same high degree of production quality with minimum resource consumption.”

The current modernization requirement of Russia’s economy is enormous and provides international companies rewarding busiShow floor activity at wire Russia 2013. ness opportunities within the wire and cable industry, the release said. “wire Russia 2015 will be an Manufacturers Association (ACIMAF) as well as ideal gateway to this lucrative market.” the Wire and Cable Industry Suppliers Association Exhibitors at wire Russia 2015 will display the latest (WCISA), the Austrian Wire and Cable Machinery in wire manufacturing and finishing machinery (includManufacturers Association (AWCMA-VÖDKM) and ing cable, fastener and spring manufacturing machinthe Shanghai Electric Cable Research Institute (SECRI). ery), process technology tools, auxiliary process techFor further information on visiting or exhibiting at nology materials, measuring and control technology as wire Russia 2015, contact Messe Düsseldorf North well as test engineering and special wires and cables.

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Below are listings from a few of the companies that will be exhibiting at wire Russia.

AESA SA Nearly 40 years of experience in the cable industry allows AESA Cortaillod to offer you the benefits of its skills and complete solutions for testing, quality control and process improvement. An acknowledged leader in this sector, AESA is here to help you run your business with maximum efficiency by offering you only the most productive solutions. www.aesa-cortaillod.com.

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

Eurolls Spa Eurolls Spa specializes in equipment for the ferrous and nonferrous wire industry. Range of products includes: wire drawing lines for low-medium-high carbon wire; multi-block cold rolling lines; manual-automatic spoolers and coilers; wet wire drawing lines; skip and tubular stranders for steel-cord and bead-wire, ropes, LRPC wire and strand; welding wire equipment and flux-cored wire production lines; lattice girder machinery; rolling cassettes for reinforcement wire and industrial wire, tungsten carbide rolls; and Vitari straightening-cutting

machine, chainlink fencing-gabions production machines and, high resistance chain production lines. Speak with a Eurolls professional and get the right solution for your wire production needs. www.eurolls.com.

Maillefer

Maillefer the global leader in wire, cable, pipe and tube production technologies, provides the best technical fit and value, from a single component to a complete factory. Only with us, can you choose between three different levels of production lines (/Enter, // Extend, and ///Explore) that vary in capacity, cost, automation, flexibility, product range and space, and maintenance requirements. To better serve our customers in the CIS market, our service personnel have recently been trained to check the wearing of extruder screws and barrels. We have also acquired special equipment for measuring screw and barrel dimensions. Our whole service department in Moscow is always ready and happy to help you, and our 1500 sq m R&D center in Finland allows visiting customers to develop customized solutions and receive training on full-scale equipment. Stop by and see what’s new in our product lineup. www.maillefer.net.

MFL Group

The MFL Group provides customers with complete innovative solutions

with products represented by two historic brands: MARIO FRIGERIO steel wire and rope machinery and FRIGECO machinery for the non-ferrous wire and cable industry. The MFL Group is not just a machine supplier. We continue to diversify with the goal of enhancing our knowledge base in order to assist our customers pertaining to Product: machinery for wire drawing, stranding and insulation; Technology: ferrous and nonferrous materials; and Customer Service: specific product requirements and total customer satisfaction. www.mflgroup.com.

Niehoff GmbH & Co KG

At wire Russia, Maschinenfabrik Niehoff and Niehoff of Russia will show an MSM 224 type wire drawing machine for intermediate wire range with RI 250 type continuous inductive inline annealer, and a D 632 double-twist bunching machine with ARP 630.1 payoff. The company has more than 60 years of experience in providing machinery needed for the production of nonferrous metals wires and the further processing into automotive, data and special cables, with the exception of extruders. The technology is supported by professional specialists who speak the customers’ languages and a reliable supply of original Niehoff wear parts and spare parts, machinery inspection, refurbishment and maintenance measures as well as machine operator and maintenance training courses complete the range of services. www.niehoff.com/www.niehoff.de.

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Queins Machines GmbH Queins Machines GmbH will exhibit pictures of delivered machines to the cable and rope industry as well as a video of operating lines. Details further to the range of different delivered lines for special applications, such as power transmission, steel rope applications and other fields, can be given during the exhibition. www.queins.com.

Rautomead Limited Rautomead will exhibit its RS upwards vertical casting machines for oxygen-free copper rod 3,000 – 30,000 TPA. Rautomead’s graphite furnace technology produces the highest quality CuOF 8 mm diameter wire rod. This high quality material benefits manufacturers of enamelled wire, LAN cables and fine wires.

Larger diameter CuOF rods may be produced for processing to flat strips or water tube fittings; 8.0-12.5 mm CuAg rod for processing to commutator sections; 18-30 mm CuCd or CuMg for trolley wire cables and 8.0 mm copper alloy wires for special applications such as EDM machining wires. www.rautomead.com.

Rosendahl Nextrom GmbH

ROSENDAHL and NEXTROM have extended their technological solutions, the company having focused strongly on the extrusion of silicone and high temperature materials in recent months. The results will be presented at Wire Russia 2015, along with our high performance secondary coating line and fiber optic cable manufacturing solutions as well as our extrusion and crosshead technology. We have two offices in Moscow: one for local sales representatives who serve the majority of the Russian

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and CIS market and one for a service office, OOO Rosendahl Nextrom, which fully supports Rosendahl’s and Nextrom’s customers in every aspect of project execution and post-project support, from consulting that includes factory design and throughput calculations to long-term maintenance and spare parts. This close contact ensures the shortest-possible response time. Rosendahl and Nextrom are the leading global suppliers of production technologies for cable, wire and optical fiber. www.rosendahlnextrom.com.

Stolberger KMB-Maschinenfabrik Stolberger KMB will exhibit large pictures of delivered machines to the cable and rope industry and video of operating lines. Further details can be provided about the company’s range of different delivered lines for special applications such as power transmission, steel rope applications and other fields. www.stolberger.com.

Trafco Cortinovis Sictra Trafco has long been in the wire and cable machinery business. Joining the experiences and knowledge of Cortinovis Sictra with ours, we offer to our customers a portfolio of products ranging from Sictra equipment for drawing copper and aluminum wire to state-of-the-art Cortinovis equipment for stranding, laying up and armoring power and telecom cables as well as steel ropes and, for lower budget investors, Trafco’s refurbished second-hand western equipment. www.cortinovissictra.com.

Troester Group Troester GmbH & Co KG is a worldwide leading manufacturer of complete extrusion systems for the cable industry. The excellent results produced by its extrusion technology makes Troester a competent and reliable partner in the cable industry.

At wire Russia, it will present the company’s technology and solutions in the field of: rubber CV and CCVlines up to 35 kV; XLPE CCV and VCV lines for power cables up to

500 kV; sheathing lines for medium and high-voltage cables; and silane lines for LV and MV cables. Also there will be X-Compound, part of the Troester Group, which will present its kneader technology for the continuous compounding of HFFR (LSOH), PVC, XLPE, semiconductive materials and EPR/EPDM. X-Compound is specialized in the planning and construction of complete systems for the compounding of plastics with the process steps conveying, melting, dispersing, mixing and degassing. Specialists from Troester and X-Compound look forward to meeting you at our booth and will be happy to discuss your specific requirements with you. www.troester.de.

WCISA Wire and Cable Industry Suppliers Association The Wire and Cable Industry Suppliers Association® (WCISA®) is a nonprofit corporate membership association with approximately 90 North American suppliers of machinery, materials and accessories used for making all types of wire and cable. Members are based in or have an established subsidiary in North America. WCISA’s mission is to promote its members’ products and services by providing them with representation, networking/social opportunities and services at wire and cable trade events and conferences. WCISA is active, both as an exhibitor and supporter, in global wire and cable trade events and conferences. www.wcisaonline.org.

Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp.

Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp. is a global equipment supplier offering high quality solutions

WTM Srl

WTM offers a high-precision, fast taping unit suitable for extra sensitive tapes. This unit is equipped with the WTM’s optical quality control VISIO System. Taping and

wrapping systems are available for any other kind of applications of tapes and yarns. WTM also offers single and multi-wires sintering, curing, sealing systems to work standalone or in-line with other equipment; single twisting lines equipped with concentric back-twist feeders for high performance cables; mechanical testing machines for torsion and bending of cables; and many other types of ancillary equipment for the cable industry. www.wtmachinery.com.

wire Russia Exhibitors

For updated information and booth numbers, go to wirerussia.com and click on list of exhibitors, and see the Show Program at event.

ACIMAF Italy

Bühler GmbH Germany

AESA SA Switzerland

BWE Ltd United Kingdom

Alexmash Russia

Ceeco Bartell USA

Anping County Liande Hardware Wire Mesh Co China

Cerrini Srl Italy

August Strecker GmbH Germany

Changzhou Winlong Import & Export Co, Ltd China

CZKSK Russia

Cometo Italy

DEM Costruzioni Speciali Srl Italy

Aumann GmbH Germany Balloffet France Carl Bechem GmbH Germany Boockmann Engineering GmbH Germany Borealis AG Austria

Changzhou Jiangxin Machinery Co, Ltd China

Compomec Oy Finland Condat Lubrifiants France Condor Compounds GmbH Germany

Construcciones Meccinicas Caballe SA Spain

Ekstel d.o.o. Slovenia

Continuus-Properzi Italy

Esteves Group Poland

CSM Metalurji Imalat san ve Muhendislik Ltd Turkey CTS Group Russia Davis Standard, LLC USA

Dunst GmbH Austria Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH Austria Eder Engineering GmbH Austria

Elantas GmbH Germany Euroalpha srl Italy Eurobend Germany Eurolls Italy EVG GmbH Austria Fedax GmbH Germany FIB BELGIUM sa Belgium Fiber-Line International B.V. The Netherlands Fisk Alloy Inc. USA Forever Cable Materials Group China

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for wire, cable, and optical fiber manufacturing. The company will feature an interactive presentation of its 30,000+ machine inventory items. Since 1981, Wire & Plastic has assisted clients by providing secondhand or rebuilt machinery for wire drawing, stranding, bunching, cabling, braiding, extrusion and other cable making needs.

Experienced sales and engineering personnel will be available to assist with any equipment needs. www.wireandplastic.com.

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Freudenberg Cliesstoffe KG Germany

Kalpena Industries Ltd India

Petrokanat Russia

Sina Plast Russia

FSP – one France

Kieselstein International GmbH Germany

Proplast GmbH Austria

SKET GmbH Germany

Promostar Italy

Spajic doo Serbia

PS Costruzioni Meccaniche Srl Italy

Spirka Schnellflechter GmbH Germany

Qinghuangdao AoBao International Trading Co Ltd China

SPKB Russia

Gauder & Co sa Belgium GEO Reinigungstechnik GmbH Germany Gimax Srl Italy GlabSnabSyrie LLC Russia GMP Slovakia sro Slovakia Guizhou Aerospace Nanhai Science & Technology Co, Ltd China H. Folke Sandelin AB Sweden Heifei Smarter China Heinrich Müller GmbH Germany Henrich Maschinenfabrik GmbH Germany HOLIFA Fröhling GmbH Germany Hsiang Chuan Machinery Co Taiwan IBA Sa Russia IDEAL-Werk Germany Inhol BV The Netherlands Interline Sl Russia International Wire + Machinery Association United Kingdom Intras Limited United Kingdom

Ernst Koch GmbH Germany Werkzeugfabrik Albert Krenn Germany Krollmann GmbH Germany Lämnea Bruk AB Sweden

Queins Machines GmbH Germany

Landgraf SRL Italy

Rautomead Ltd United Kingdom

Lantor The Netherlands

Ravni Technologies France

Lasso Russia

Reber Systematic GmbH Germany

Longvision (Shanghai) Cable Materials Ltd China Lubrimetal Spa Italy Lukas Anlagenbau GmbH Germany Machine Speciali Srl Italy MAG – Maschinen und Apparatebau AG Austria Maillefer Extrusion Oy Finland Mali GmbH Austria Mario Frigerio Spa Italy Medek & Schörner GmbH Austria Melos GmbH Germany Micron Machine Electrostatic Powder Application Co Turkey

ISIS SAS France

Mimtek Makine san Tic AS Turkey

Isovolta AG Austria

Newtech SRL Italy

Itco Industries Ltd India

NMS Rus Russia

ITO-SIN (Deyang) China IVA Essex sas. France

Niehoff GmbH & Co KG Germany

OOO Trade House “JLS Chemical” Russia

OMCG Srl Italy OMD Italy

Joh. Pengg AG Austria

Otomec Srl Italy

Kablosan Turkey Magazine Turkey

Pan Chemicals Spa Italy

Kabmak Müh ve MAK san tic Ltd, Sti Turkey

Pedax GmbH Russia

Parafluid GmbH Germany Permanent K & M Russia

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Redex Sa France RK Umformtechnik GmbH Germany Roblon A/S Denmark Rosendahl Nextrom GmbH Austria Ruskabkomplekt Russia Samp Spa Italy Sar Medya-Altan Kilinc Kablo Tel Dünyasi Turkey SAS Engineering and Planning Srl Italy SCG Performance Chemicals Co, Ltd Thailand

STC Russia Stolberger KMB GmbH Germany Supreme Superabrasives Co China Technomarket VARO srl Italy Theleico Schleiftechnik Germany TKT Group Italy Tongdaxinming Beijing Int’l China Transcool RUS Russia Trafco Srl Italy Traxit International GmbH Germany Troester GmbH & Co KG Germany TT Okroglica dd Slovenia Unigel (UK) Ltd United Kingdom UTG Russia Varo Srl Italy

Schlatter Industries AG Switzerland

Vassena Filiere Srl Italy

Schnell SPA Italy

VNIIKP Russia

Shanghai Kechen Wire & Machinery Co, Ltd China

voestalpine Wire Austria GmbH

Shanghai Singcheer Tech Co China

VÖDKM/AWCMA Austria

Shanghai Yupin Communication Technology Co, Ltd China

WCISA USA

Shenzhou Senxin Aluminium Co, Ltd China Sicme Italia Impianti Srl Italy Sictra Italy Sikora AG Germany

Vimens Russia

WAFIOS AG Germany Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp USA Wirex Dies & Steel India Pvt. India WiTechs GmbH Germany WTM Italy ZT Italy

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preview Update: Interwire 2015 A full house (and then some) for Atlanta Last issue, WAI announced that the Interwire show floor at the Georgia World Congress Center had sold out as of Feb. 20. The floor plan was able to be expanded by 22 booth units, and 11 of those were taken by March 19.

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

ACIMAF Booth 70 ADVARIS GmbH Tel. 49-7251-981760 www.advaris.com info@advaris.com Germany Booth 551

Exhibiting: Under the motto “Always a twist ahead,” Germanybased ADVARIS will present its new generation of “Advaris Cable,” its tried-and-tested software solution for the sector. Managing Director Dr. Manfred Moser says, “Advaris Cable is the most comprehensive, fully integrated operations management system for cable and wire producers available on the market today.

(We) support all aspects of cable manufacturing, from product data management through production to warehouse management and sales.

Personnel: Manfred Moser.

Angle Systems LLC Tel. 408-306-4537 www.anglesystems.com info@anglesystems.com USA Booth 165 Exhibiting: Angle Systems’ wall thickness measurement system measures jacket wall thickness of single, double and triple wall extrusions using machine vision technology.

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This system can be used for off-line measurements on the production floor as well as in a lab environment.

Founded in 2009, the company designs, develops and manufactures high-speed metrology, inspection and automation system solutions involving vision and laser based sensor technologies. It will display its Dual Head Wall Thickness Vision System (WTVS-DH) and a demo version of Print Inspection system (PI).

Personnel: Ananda Mysore.

ATE Applicazioni TermoElettroniche Srl Booth 63 AW Machinery LLC Tel. 973-882-3223 www.awmachinery.com awm@awmachinery.com USA Booth 1712 Exhibiting: AW Machinery will exhibiting a few of its products at Interwire. The list includes a horizontal accumulator, a tension controller, a flyer jackstand, a flyer cone payoff, a vertical dancer, a take-up and a belt wrap capstan. Additionally, we will have on hand brochures and information on numerous other products.

Personnel: Art Watson, Ed Gener, Robert Prunchak, Wael Tawadrous.

Bad Dog Tools Booth 41 Baum’s Castorine Booth 2132

Beijing BIHI International Exhibition Co., Ltd. Telephone: 86-4006001958 www.showmesse.com allen@bihiexpo.com China Booths 131, 1910 Exhibiting: We provide a portal that that helps exhibitors obtain services, including searching shows, consulting, solutions, designs and decoration, freight, visa agent, business trip help, and more. The exhibitions we serve cover over 120 countries and regions in five continents, and more than 170 industry segments in 24 areas.

Personnel: Allen Guo. Bergandi Machinery Company Tel. 951-361-8020 www.bergandi.com sales@bergandi.com USA Booth 701 Exhibiting: Bergandi has over 85 years of manufacturing history in developing equipment for the wire industry. Come see the latest in our equipment line that includes: chain link fence machines, razor tape lines, barbed wire, extrusion lines, fabrication panels system, and much more.

Or visit us at www.bergandi.com.

Personnel: Scott Barsotti, Greg Jendreas, William Rodriguez.

Candor Sweden AB Tel. 46-1121-7500 www.candorsweden.com info@candorsweden.com Sweden Booth 624

Cerrini Srl Tel. 39-0331-631233 www.cerrini.it info@cerrini.it Italy Booth 1932 Exhibiting: Cerrini, represented in the U.S. and Canada by Lesmo Machinery America, was founded in 1946 by Paolo Cerrini. The company has grown to become a very well-known name in extrusion technology, serving customers worldwide. Supplying complete extrusion system for building wire and THHN cables, energy cables, fiber optic, data cables and wire ropes sheathing lines, as well as extrusion line equipment.

They represent examples of typical lines for different extrusion technology. Cerrini is able to design and supply any extrusion line tailored on the specific customer requirements. Visit us to discuss Cerrini flexibility and technical competencies to find the best successful solution for your unique needs.

Personnel: Edwin Pasterk, Allan Brown.

CERSA-MCI Tel. 33-4-4202-6044 www.cersa-mci.com/en/ sales@cersa-mci.com France Booth 1601

QUEINS Machines GmbH WHO WE ARE - WHAT WE OFFER We are a german company with generations of experience in manufacturing machines for the cable and rope industry. We develop and manufacture according to our customers‘ requirements and are the world‘s leading manufacturer for machines for CTC (continuous transposed conductors). Further we offer used or reconditioned cable and rope making machines.

Please take a look at our currently available used equipment at www.queins.com

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Central Wire Industries Ltd. (CWI) Tel. 613-267-3752 www.centralwire.com rfq@centralwire.com USA Booth 1818 Exhibiting: Drawing on innovation since 1955, CWI is pleased to be exhibiting at Interwire 2015. In addition to our internationally known high-quality stainless, nickel, copper, brass, bronze and zinc wire products, you will see our stranded cable and shape wire products. We are pleased to announce the acquisitions of Strandcore and Hempel Wire. Also, we have made advances in medical and energy products as well as in our bar and distribution capabilities. CWI is far more than wire. Stop by our booth to learn more about how we can grow our businesses together.

Personnel: Danny Bozart, Paul From, Tom Dodds, Tom Hanewald, Tom Cerreto, Jeff Martin.

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Exhibiting: Wire cleaning and plating equipment including: Candojet hot water/steam cleaning systems; ultrasonic and electrolytic; electroplating plants for Sn, Ag, Ni and Zn on copper alloy wire, Ni and Cu on stainless steel wire and Ni, Cu, Sn and Zn for steel wire; Copperjet high-speed copper coating plant for welding wire; and Candojet patented jet pickling.

Personnel: John Lindh.

OFFERED MACHINES Pay-offs and take-ups, all Tubular stranders designs Rigid stranders Belt-type caterpillar capstans Planetary stranders Single- and double disc Power cable drumtwisters capstans Armouring lines Rotating caterpillar capstans Bow/Skip stranders Single/Double twist bunchers Taping heads for plastic- and steel tapes Transposed wire machines

WANTED - PRE-OWNED MACHINES IN GOOD CONDITION • Tubular stranders - 1+6/630 mm, (24.8") • Rigid stranders - 54 or 61 wires/630 mm, (24.8") Please visit us at Interwire Atlanta on booth no. 1506

For contacts in USA:

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QUEINS Machines GmbH Hans-Georg-Weiss-Str. 12 52156 Monschau GERMANY Tel.: +49 2472 8080 Fax: +49 2472 3014 info@queins.com www.queins.com

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China Ruijin Fairs International Tel. 86-10- 62125964 www.crfi-expo.com pangrui5@163.com China Booth 966 Exhibiting: CRFI, an exhibition organizer that has independent legal personality, was established in 2014 to promote the trade and economic cooperation in wire and tube and oil equipment with foreign countries.

We keep in touch and cooperate with near 30 event organizers from 20 countries abroad. Events include Tekno Tube Arabia, Cabex Russia, PVP Africa, CIS Africa BORU Turkey, CNR KABLO Turkey, TUBE & WIRE Indonesia, INA Glass, INA Fenestration, Cable & Wire Arabia, Interwire, OTC Brazil and Rio Pipeline Brazil.

Personnel: Pang Rui. CM Furnaces Tel. 973-338-6500 www.cmfurnaces.com info@cmfurnaces.com USA Booth 654 Exhibiting: CM will be displaying its continuous line of wire annealing furnaces. These furnaces are utilized for wire, strand, strip, and tubing.

The annealing furnaces service a temperature range of 1000°F up to 3100°F. Process atmospheres include Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Argon. The furnaces have multiple tubes for higher output. They are complete systems with heating, cooling and atmosphere. Both standard and custom units shall be offered.

Personnel: Jim Neill, Jon Guibor.

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Exhibiting: High performance measuring instruments for fine wires, optical fiber and cable. Applications for in-line and laboratories.

Personnel: Jean-François Fardeau, David Miara.

COGEBI Inc. Tel. 603-749-6896 www.cogebi.com sales@cogebi.com USA Booth 372 Exhibiting: COGEBI is the world leader in the production of industrial mica-based products that are resistant to high voltage, and high temperatures. Firox M and Firox P cable tapes, are the most heat-resistant products bonded to an electrical grade glass cloth, and impregnated with a special high temperature resistant silicone. Please see us at our booth for more information.

Collari Machines Tel. 260-483-9269 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com Italy/USA Booth 1052 Exhibiting: Based in Italy and represented in the U.S. by Wire Machine Systems, Collari Machines offers high quality and economical equipment for winding and re-winding of ferrous and nonferrous bare wire. Collari’s equipment is highly suitable for superior quality re-winding wire from a coil or larger master spool in automatic and semi-automatic configurations.

Personnel: Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith, Larry Hughbanks.

Collins and Jewell Co., Inc. Tel. 860-887-8813 www.collins-jewell.com pponichtera@collins-jewell.com USA Booth 2149 Exhibiting: Written and video displays of Collins & Jewell’s history and examples of its capabilities.

Personnel: Christopher Jewell, Brian Dudek, Peter Ponichtera.

Cometo snc Tel. 39-0341-263090 www.cometo.eu s.rusconi@cometo.eu Italy Booth 1932 Exhibiting: Cometo, represented in the U.S. and Canada by Lesmo Machinery America, will display ita line of wire straightening, guiding and

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The NUMASLIDE was engineered by NUMALLIANCE to address those issues. The bed of the machine, designed vertically to ease the off-loading of parts, will host bending and press tooling from an existing slide-forming machine for wire or flat-stock material.

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Deyang Jiechuang Wire & Cable Machine Machinery Co., Ltd. Booth 512/07 Domeks Makine Ltd. Sti. Tel. 90-282747-60-93 www.domeksmakine.com info@domeksmakine.com Turkey Booth 1340 Exhibiting: Domeks Makine is one of the best-known companies in the world when it comes to supplying automatic

cable packing lines. It will showcase the company’s Quadromatik 400 Automatic Coiling and Spooling line with palletizer. Visitors will be able to see the line working with cable.

Personnel: Orhan Ozbaran, Dogan Ozbaran, Huseyin Ozturk, Umut Acikgoz, Omer Yilmaz, Cem Benden, Mustafa Sirkinti.

laminated in various layer configurations. Packages are available as pads, coils or traverse wound spools in customizable sizes. Customized packaging includes itemized identification and material description labels which clearly note all product parameters and manufacturing date for complete traceability.

Personnel: Gianluca Gabelli, Erminio Granata, Chris Hauer.

Effegidi International Spa Tel. 905-669-4010 www.effegidi.com or www. howarequipment.com sales@howarequipment.com Italy/Canada Booth 1320 Exhibiting: Laminated shielding tapes from Effegidi International Spa, represented in North America by Howar Equipment Inc., will be showcased at the booth. Effegidi specializes in manufacturing foil laminated tapes such as aluminum/polyester, copper/polyester, PVC, PE, Annealed Copper, Annealed Aluminum, Aluminum/PE, Copper/ PE and semi-conductive non-woven tapes. The tapes are supplied in multiple thickness arrays depending on customer application requirements, and may be

EJP Maschinen Tel. 260-483-9269 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com Germany/USA Booth 1052 Exhibiting: Based in Germany and represented in North America by Wire Machine Systems, EJP will exhibit a state-of-the-art two-roll straightener for cold finished bar that provides industry-leading straightness quality.

It offers the most innovative drawing technology for all ferrous and nonferrous cold-finished bar applications, including combined drawing systems, shotblasting, straighteners, payoffs, hydraulic impact shears and bundling and packaging systems. EJP’s process-

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feeding equipment. Having broadened their feeder unit range, on display will be a new modular structured wire processing machine for the straightening and cutting of wire with different profiles (round, square, triangular, rectangular and more). Machinery for welding wire processing is also available in this design, which is very versatile and allows one to change the positioning of components within minutes. Cut lengths are controlled by an encoder and fitted with electronic, hydraulic or pneumatic cutting units. Modular collector tray for cut material sections.

Personnel: P. Tocchetti, Allan Brown.

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Visit our stand #705 at Interwire 2015 ing and handling equipment is designed to maintain superior straightness and surface finish. Its bar-peeling systems produce the highest quality bar surface finish on the market.

Personnel: Terry Paraskavas, Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith.

Electrolock Inc. Booth 40 Electronic Drives & Controls, Inc. Tel. 973-428-0500 www.electronicdrives.com service@electronicdrives.com USA Booth 724 Exhibiting: Electronic Drives and Controls’s EDC Systems division provides drive and control systems for wire manufacturing processes such as: drawing/ annealing, stranding, jacketing and CV production.

Our state-of-the-art control systems utilize AC and DC drives, PLCs, HMIs, industrial communications and manufacturing intelligence software. Our 30+ years in the wire industry allows us to customize a solution for your facility, equipment and specific needs. Stop by our booth to talk with us about how we can modernize a line for you.

Personnel: Chuck Dillard.

Ernst Koch GmgH & Co. KG Booth 1358 EVG Tel. 212-697-0770 www.evg.com d.salmon@evg-usa.com Austria Booth 150 Exhibiting: EVG is a leading supplier of wire mesh welding plants and concrete rebar processing equipment. In addition, EVG manufactures and supplies equipment for the production of gratings, truss girders, wire drawing lines, cold rolling lines, wire straightening and cutting machines. At Interwire 2015 we will be displaying the EVG RA-XE wire straightening and cutting machine, designed with hyperbolic rollers for processing smooth and deformed wires with unsurpassed quality.

Personnel: Klaus Ritter, Donald Salmon, Karl Lind.

Fisk Alloy, Inc. Tel. 973-825-8500 info@fiskalloy.com www.fiskalloy.com USA Booth 2140 Exhibiting: Fisk manufacturers high-quality copper alloy wire for conductor and connector products.

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FUHR GmbH & Co. KG Tel. 49-5233-38360-0 www.fuhr-wire.com office@fuhr-wire.com Germany Booth 752 Exhibiting: Founded in 1946, FUHR today develops and produces rolling mills mainly for cold forming applications, e.g. the automotive, electrical, food, textile and building industry. The scope of delivery encompasses the entire range from stand-alone units to turn-key solutions for shaped, flat and round profiles made of ferrous and nonferrous wires, as well as stainless steels.

Personnel: Volker Gerth.

Gateway Recovery Tel. 704-883-8642 www. gatewayrecovery.net info@gatewayrecovery.net USA Booth 2158 Exhibiting: Gateway Recovery was founded by Chris Delzell and

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Charlie Rowe in 2000 as a full-service scrap metal recycling and processing facility. We annually process more than 20 million pounds of wire, both insulated and bare products. We service many of the leading wire and cable manufacturers.

With over 30 years of scrap metal buying and selling experience, you can be sure your scrap will be processed efficiently and safely.

Hafner & Krullmann GmbH Tel. 49-5208-7004-0 www.hafner-spools.com info@hafner-spools.com Germany Booth 370 Exhibiting: Häfner & Krullmann has been manufacturing plastic spools for over 80 years. Customers can choose from a product range of more than 1400 different spools in the range of 40 mm up to 1000 mm.

The company will display a selection of its wide production program,

including spools produced according to IEC (DIN)-standards, tape reels, processing reels. Personnel will help find customers the most suitable spools for their requirements.

Personnel: Jan Häfner, Andreas Kunze, Katharina Luckey.

Hangzhou Harbor Technology Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-571-87203732 www.hzharbor.com hzharbor@126.com China Booth 1512/11 Exhibiting: Hangzhou Harbor Technology Co. supplies a wide range of equipment for the wire and cable industry. This includes drawing machines and auxilliary equipment, take-ups and payoffs, spoolers and respoolers, roller guides, descaling and more.

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Henrich Booth 1506 HMP Heinrich Müller Maschinenfabrik Tel. 49-7231-3199-0 www.hmp.com info@hmp.com Germany Booth 670 Exhibiting: HMP will display samples of products made on their rolling mills and swaging machines.

Hormesa-Conticast Booth 64 Hüttner Maschinenfabrik Tel. 260-483-9269 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com Germany/USA Booth 1052 Exhibiting: Based in Germany and represented in North America by Wire Machine Systems, Hüttner will exhibit a barrel coiler suitable for insulated or bare wire that can be utilized either off-line for re-packaging or on-line with an extruder.

Hüttner has a complete line of coiling and packaging equipment, and rolling mills.

Personnel: Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith, Larry Hughbanks.

ICE Wire Line Equipment Tel. 514-388-2020 www.icewireline.com icegroup@bellnet.ca Canada Booth 1063 Exhibiting: ICE supplies steel wire processing equipment. Its product range includes fluidized bed annealing furnaces; acid-wave, wire pickling systems; immersion burners; galvanizing furnaces, and more.

Personnel: Tapan Ghosh, Kristina Vassiliounis, Alex Vassilounis.

Raman Saraf, Varun Saraf, Prateek Saraf, Seema Saradf, Palak Agarwal, Tanya Goel.

IDEAL-Werk/IDEAL Welding Systems Tel. 49-29-41-206-214

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www.ideal-werk.com weber@ideal-werk.com Germany/USA Booth 1024

Exhibiting: IDEAL-Werk is a world famous producer of mesh welding machinery. At Interwire 2015, IDEAL will exhibit its ultra-fast change-over machine for producing all types of mesh e.g., supermarket, wire displays and white-goods.

Owing to a fast change-over process and simple set-up, production of small batches can be manufactured economically. As automation is important for producers, the IDEAL GAM 116 mesh welder will be shown with line and cross wire magazines that are fully programmable.

This new, state-of-the art welding equipment is fitted with medium frequency 1,000 Hz transformers, for a “green” weld: no sparking and less power consumption. A brand new Siemens PLX energy saving drive interfaces with man and machine at high speed. It is easy for the operator to enter production data and do the necessary programming. The IDEAL GAM 116 is designed for high production but with easy maintenance in mind. It has proved popular with customers for over 10 years.

InnoVites El. 31-0-88-5000-150 www.innovites.com U.K.. Booth 1920 Exhibiting: InnoVites returns to Interwire, the biggest cable manufacturing trade show in the U.S., looking forward to catch up again with the wire and cable community from the Americas. InnoVites leverages a long history within the wire and cable industry with the innovative technology of Microsoft Dynamics AX. It resulted in the company’s

comprehensive CableERP solution that contains the best practices of the global wire and cable industry, and comes with the user-friendly screens of Microsoft Dynamics. CableERP is fully integrated with CableBuilder and CableMES from our partner, Cimteq, to provide a complete industry solution. You want to learn why cable manufacturers worldwide, including Kalas Manufacturing and Sumitomo US, benefit from our #1 CableERP software? Visit our stand 1920 for a demonstration of our industry-specific ERP solution and let’s discuss how we can help you improve your business!

Personnel: Albert Groothedde.

IWE Spools & Handling Tel. 260-483-9269 sales@wire-machine.com www.wire-machine.com Germany/USA Booth 1052 Exhibiting: Based in Germany and represented in North America by Wire Machine Systems, IWE will exhibit a full line of metal reels/ spools for all wire and cable applications. It supplies superior quality reels for bunching, stranding, drawing, annealing, cabling and extrusion applications. Reel sizes are up to 3200 mm diameter in standard sizes or customized to a customer’s specific needs. IWE also supplies reel/ spool handling equipment to lift or lift-and-tilt reels.

Personnel: Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith, Larry Hughbanks.

IWG/High Performance Conductors Tel. 864-472-9022 www.iwghpc.com USA Booth 240 Exhibiting: HPC manufactures silver, nickel, tin-plated copper and copper alloys for the military and commercial aerospace, medical, defense electronics, telecom, geophysical and industrial marketplace. Our designs include: single end, stranded, rope, bunched, tinsel and flat/round braid wire. The cop-

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NEW PRODUCT

It’s time to convert...your wire that is, via an off-line Galfan bath® Galfan® commonly is produced in-line with the galvanizing bath: after plunging the wire into zinc, they continue their way in the Galfan bath.

Consequently, such a line requires space but also imposes the use of one position per galfanized wire on your galvanizing line. FIB Belgium has developed a technology that allows a company to Galfanize “offline” galvanized wires. The system has several advantages. On top of saving space, the Galfanizing process may be done at an independent speed of the galvanizing that allows flexibility in the coating weight.

The system allows for existing galvanizers to extend their range of products by adding a separate specific Galfan unit without requiring the extension of the

length of their existing building. It also gives the possibility to totally fill up the galvanizing line without the constraints of “sacrificing” some positions to be galfanized. The technology of galfanizing bath Wire that can benefit by a may be delivered with metallic or ceramic baths. Galfan bath®.

Stop by the FIB Belgium booth to find out more details about how this technology can help your company’s operations.

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Jiangsu Huawang Science & Technology Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-519-68866610 www.js-hw.cn docs@hwwires.com China Booth 1512/19

Exhibiting: Our company’s main products include CCA wire, CCAM wire, CCS wire, enameled wire, tinned wire, stranded wire and CCA Bus-bar.

Personnel: Zhang Dongfang, Zhang Yi, Vicky Yin, Ken Liu. Jiangsu Naian Special Cable & Wire Co., Ltd. Booth 512/09 Kalmark Integrated Systems, Ltd. Tel. 519-442-4567 www.kalmarkltd.com louisk@kalmarkltd.com Canada Booth 1656 Exhibiting: Kalmark is the industry leader in the manufacture of rotating equipment for wire and cable, steel rope, conduit and flexible pipe industries. The products include singleand double-twist roll form stranding lines and interlock armoring lines.

Kalmark also provides customized solutions for cable manufacturers such as, upgrading of individual components, reconditioning, or inte-

grating new and existing lines. Its sister company, Inflex, Inc., is a specialty cable manufacturer producing Interlock armored cable products as well as providing armoring service to customer-supplied cables. Inflex, which uses Kalmark equipment, may armor cables ranging from 8 to 150 mm diameter.

Personnel: Louis Kalmar.

Alex Kalmar, Lily Zhang, Nick Hogewoning.

Kieselstein International GmbH Tel. 260-483-9269 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com USA/Germany Booth 1052 Exhibiting: Kieselstein, represented in the U.S. by Wire Machine Systems, is one of the most important manufacturers of modern wire drawing and shaving plants, supplying more than 600 customers in 50 countries to date. We are focused on offering tailor-made solutions individually engineered according to our

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per alloys include: Tensile Flex , Cad Copper, copper clad alum/ steel, as well as RoHS compliant ® ® ® CS95 , HPC 35EF and 80EF . All designed for light-weight/tight-tolerance constructions. We have two vertically integrated ISO certified manufacturing sites located in the U.S. We also offer polyimide and thermoplastic coatings and tubing for the medical market, as well as T/C and micro-diameter wire up to 56 awg. Inquiries: please contact our sales team at tel. 864-472-9022, ww.iwghpc.com.

Personnel: John Wirtz, Emilio Cerra, Thomas Rosen, Jose Gallegos, Kevin Wronoski, Sharon Thomas, Marty Dew.

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customers’ requests. As the worldwide leader in shaving technology, our substantial know-how in this technology results from the comprehensive R+D activities carried out on our own testing machine located in Chemnitz. The successor to former German brands Herborn+Breitenbach, SKET Gruena and others, we are able to supply spare

parts and modernization services for these machine, as well as the complete line of Kieselstein equipment.

Personnel: Jens Kieselstein, Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith, Larry Hughbanks.

Lenzig Plastics GmbH & Co. Booth 116

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KEIR - BackBone™

Flyer Bow

Features: • Improved bow strength (no holes) • Wire is out of the air stream • Bow shaped like a wing for improved aerodynamics and low cw factor • Wear strip eliminated and replaced by wear bushings with windows for easy inspection and dust cleaning • Wear bushings can be changed while bow is mounted on the rotor

Advantages: • Up to 40% lower power (amps) consumption and reduced noise • Higher TPM - maintaining wire quality • Reduced elongation @ higher TPM • Reduced bow breakage • Increased life on wear surfaces reducing downtimes and maintenance • Easy assembly and change out of wear bushings • Wire breaks are contained within the bow - extending bow life

US Patent #6,233,513 #5,809,703 and Other PatentsPending

KEIR Manufacturing, Inc. Phone Phone USA Fax E-mail: Website:

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+1.828.885.8444 800.992.2404 +1.828.884.7494 Sales@KEIRmfg.com www.BackBoneBows.com www.KEIRmfg.com

Lesmo Machinery America, Inc. Tel. 905-761-6165 www.lesmoamerica.com sales@lesmoamerica.com Canada Booth 1932 Exhibiting: Lesmo Machinery America will display a selection of equipment from world leader manufacturers: wire straightening, guiding and feeding equipment; wire and cable cutters/shears, rod straighteners and flat bar cutters; and a presentation of extrusion machinery demonstrating highly-engineered, value-added extrusion systems.

Personnel: Allan Brown, Edwin Pasterk.

Light Speed Cable Technology Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-755-28373676 www.lightspeedtm.com billwang@lightspeedtm.com China Booth 131 Exhibiting: We design, manufacture and market high performance coaxial and high data rate copper cable/cable assembly products. We serve a broad range of industries, such as high performance computing, military and civil radar system, aviation, medical, automotive, aerospace, semiconductor automatic test system/equipment (ATE system), test and measurement, smart phone/tablet, handheld devices, etc.

Personnel: Bill Wang.

R. Lisciani Trafilerie SpA Booth 1358 Magnetic Technologies, Ltd. Tel. 508-987-3303 www.magnetictech.com sales@magnetictech.com USA Booth 612 Exhibiting: Manufacturer of magnetic brakes and accessories for payoffs and take-ups on stranders, bunchers and twinners. Brakes are adjustable for extreme accurate tension control and come in numerous sizes to fit customers’ spools and reels.

Torque range from .11 inch ounces to 140 inch pounds is developed

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magnetically and will be the same year after year.

Single to multi-spool payoff stands are available.

Advantages include adjustability, portability and a minimum of floor space. Every brake or clutch is carefully engineered to give exceptional long life, for even the most demanding production standards. Our experts will be ready to discuss ways to help your company.

Personnel: Howard Schwerdlin.

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Metallurgical Council of CCPIT Tel. 86-10-65131905 www.mcchina.org.cn tian@mcchina.org.cn China Booth 658 Exhibiting: MC-CCPIT promotes international trade, economic and technological cooperation for China’s metallurgical industry. MC-CCPIT carries out a variety of international exchange activities under the governance of laws and regulations of PRC to promote international trade, economic and technological cooperation for the Chinese steel industry. Its business areas include organizing international exhibitions, conferences and technical exchanges in China; organizing enterprises to attend overseas exhibitions; and undertaking CISA’s foreign affairs.

Personnel: Tian Yonghong.

Microdia USA Tel. 860-495-5788 www.microdia.ch alban.adams@microdia.ch USA/Switzerland Booth 1922 Exhibiting: A range of the company’s extrusion technology, including: ECOMEX 30, a crosshead specially engineered to optimize the production speed of new ecological compounds sensitive to stress, mechanical friction, high pressure and overheating; ECOMEX 20 THRG, a thermostatic crosshead with CV curing tube attachment and gum space adjustment from the rear; MICROFLEX 9000 07 TL, a fine wire, triple-layer crosshead with a fixed center head with fine manual tuning for micro skin-foamskin, medical tubes and more; AVANTIS 50, a fixed center crosshead for power cable; and AVANTIS 10 FO, a fixed center crosshead for optical fiber buffering with injection jelly fitting and precision injection microtube centering, deploying an entry guiding plate to guarantee multiple fibers have perfect positioning and stability. Stop by our booth for more dedtails.

Personnel: Patrick Zacchia, Alban Adams, Jose Noriega.

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Mikrotec Booth 717 Mossberg Associates, Inc Tel. 401-334-2255 www.mossberg-reel.com info@mossberg-reel.com USA Booth 763

Mossberg Associates, Inc.

Exhibiting: Information will be available on small and large metal reels for all phases of wire processing and packaging. We will also have information on reel ancillary equipment.

Personnel: John Henschel, Rene Mayer.

Nanjing Xiandai Diamond Products Co., Ltd. Tel. 706-332-1812

http://xdjgs.1688.com/ naoki@asahi-san.com USA/China Booth 2014 Exhibiting: We are a wire die manufacture. We can create various types of dies for your needs. We are capable of producing carbide, diamond, extrusion dies, etc. Our manufacture is located in Nanjing, China, and our sales office for USA is located in Atlanta, Georgia. Our current customers are well-known wire manufacturers throughout the world.

Personnel: Naoki Kyobashi, Takeshi Komiya, Zhu Bin Jie. Nanjing Zhongchao New Materials Corp.

Booth 412/09 Nantong Siber Communication Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-513-68903296 www.sab-hey.com

siber-info@sab-hey.com China Booth 1512 Exhibiting: Nantong Siber Communication Co. is a manufacturer of cable materials, including water-blocking tapes, water-blockings yarn and polyester binder yarns. We hope to offer our low-cost but high-performance solutions to more customers worldwide.

NewTech Tel. 260-483-9269 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com USA/Italy Booth 1052 Exhibiting: Based in Italy and represented in the USA by Wire Machine Systems, NewTech Machinery offers innovative equipment for the magnet wire industry as well as taping lines for all wire and cable applications. Horizontal and vertical enameling lines as well as

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• Design, fabrication & installation • Thermoplastic & metal tanks • Plating, cleaning, pickling, galvanizing & coil processing lines • Exhaust systems • Wastewater treatment equipment • Modifications & repairs 877.615.6460 (toll free) www.pkgequipment.com

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CONTINUOUS EXTRUDER TAPING!

Niagara Composites International Inc. Tel. 905-788-4040 www.niagaracomposites.com sales@niagaracomposites.com Canada Booth 724 Exhibiting: For over 35 years, Niagara Composites has been supplying the wire and cable industry with high quality and innovative flyer bows.

Personnel: Roy Rymer, Lindsay Farrell, Ross Jordan.

NIMSCO/OMAS Tel. 563-391-0400 www.nimsco.com info@nimsco.com USA Booth 301

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Exhibiting: The company’s newest line of CNC feed-and-form machines, the CEB 200 MICRO, for high-speed production of formed parts from small wire diameters.

OMAS is also well known for the company’s innovative multi-slide wire and strip forming machines, including its BMX modular systems series, and its full range of machines for the production of welded rings from wire and strip stock.

Personnel: Jerry Ashdown, Jerry Jacques, Gilardi Loris.

OMAS s.r.l.

via Archimede,3 - 23881 AIRUNO (Lc) - ITALY - Tel. +39 039 99 43 551/2 - Fax +39 039 99 43 290 www.omaspiegatrici.it - commerciale@omaspiegatrici.it

NUMALLIANCE NORTH AMERICA Booth 732 Tel. 847-439-4500 www.numalliance.com numalliance@numalliance.com USA Booth 732 See p. 42!

Exhibiting: See the future of slide forming and twin-head wire bending.

NUMALLIANCE will unveil for the first time in the U.S. two newly engineered NUMASLIDE systems that were developed especially for this market. The NUMASLIDE allies speed and repeatability with the ROBOMAC 21XX line to enable slide forming to be done with top-quality results, even by entry-level operators. This is an ideal machine for large symmetrical parts with a short distance between the last two bends.

Personnel: Yann Simon, John Griffin, William Thesken, Alexis Morel.

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concentric and tangential taping machines for round and square wires and the full range of sizes for the cable industry. Taping capabilities available in Kapton, mica and PTFE. Personnel: Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith, Marino Casilli, Larry Hughbanks.

From start to finish, ENKOTEC now offers a complete in-line system For some years now, ENKOTEC has been working towards being able to offer complete in-line nail manufacturing systems, offering real competitive advantages. First, we developed a high-efficient thread rolling machine, which aroused big interest owing to its innovative features, such as a very accurate insertion principle. Then, we established a strategic alliance with BAUSSMANN, giving us exclusive rights to sell and service the German manufacturer’s high-efficient wire coil collator worldwide.

Presently, our in-house developed paper stick collator is finishing field testing, as is our new innovative feeder bowl. ENKOTEC’s unique paper collator comes equipped with an integrated cooling system and chiller for the nail heating system based on induction.

The machine has a very regular footprint, with all components integrated, and allows easy access to machine maintenance by removable front panels.

ENKOTEC’s in-line system.

ENKOTEC now also has exclusive rights to sell and service Italian VIBRON’s great nail cleaning systems all over the world. As we are the total supplier of our in-line manufacturing solutions, we guarantee the performance of the complete lines. Stop by our booth to learn more about what we can offer you, including spare parts and stellar service.

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Huestis Ceramic Air Miser™ Air Wipes Our ceramic air wipes are so good, we can’t make them fast enough!

Our customers love the fact that they don’t need to check alignment and worry about damage to the body.

What’s more, Huestis Ceramic Air Wipes deliver the same efficiency as the standard Air Miser™ Air Wipe while providing prolonged life to the unit. Just install, center the product and run...it’s that simple!

Huestis Industrial machines — our performance is legendary!

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For more details or to place an order, call us at 800-972-9222, or email us at sales@huestis.com www.huestisindustrial.com Air Wipes, Pay-offs, Take-ups, Buncher Pay-offs, Accumulators, Spoolers, Cold Pressure Welders, Cable Jacket Strippers, Custom Machinery BW_HUESTIS_SoGoodCantMakeFastEnough_WJI_halfHoriz_withShowInfo_v4_03092015_press.indd 1

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Oklahoma Steel and Wire Iowa Steel and Wire Tel. 800-654-4164 www.okbrandwire.com sales@oklahomasteel.com USA Booth 2007 Exhibiting: Oklahoma Steel and Wire and Iowa Steel and Wire offer a complete line in both agricultural and industrial wire products.

Providing products that meet or exceed industry standards, devising new industry products, or improving the functionality of existing products, they make products that can be depended on. Ask for the OK Brand.

Pan Chemical Booth 53 Plasticolor Booth 2111 Premier Wire Die Booth 2134 Productos de Alambre Simar, SA Tel. 52-3338-253009 www.si-mar.com ventas@si-mar.com Mexico Booth 62 Exhibiting: We manufacture aluminum wire in any size from 3/8” to 0.0063.”

Progressive Machinery, Inc. Tel. 905-788-2324 www.progmach.com emacs@progmach.com/ sales@progmach.com Canada Booth 724

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Exhibiting: Progressive Machinery, Inc. (PMI) provides complete extrusion lines and components and a wide assortment of cabling equipment for both wire and cable and optical fiber applications. PMI also provides continuous Al/Cu equipment, braiders, drawing machinery (rod breakdown to ultrafine), lead extruders, packaging systems, armoring machinery, recycling equipment and welding/corrugating lines. On display will be several wire stripping machines, a 1000 mm pintle-style powered payoff with dancer and a two-position waterblock yarn payoff.

Personnel: Erik Macs, Rob Rymer, Roy Rymer, Lindsay Farrell.

Promostar Tel. 39-0432-975752 www.promostar.it info@promostar.it Italy Booth 452

Exhibiting: Promostar is able to offer different solutions for the

realization of complete production lines, turnkey plants, machines, equipment and accessories for the production of concrete reinforcing wire. This includes cold rolling, straightening and cutting, stretching, and a fully automated double vertical spooler); thin steel wire (wiredrawing process with cassettes or dies); and lattice girder and electro-welded mesh lines for different industrial applications.

Raajratna Stainless Wire (USA) Inc. Tel. 847-923-8000 www.raajratna.com jaimirraj@raajratna.com USA/India Booth 453 Exhibiting: Raajratna Metal Industries Limited is an ISO 9001: 2008 accredited stainless steel wire manufacturer. It has become one of the most reliable source of stainless steel (SS) wires, SS bright bars, SS welding wire, SS spring wire and cold-heading wires. Our SS wire includes industrial wire, Tig-Mig wires, redrawing wires, spring wires, nail wires, spoke wires, wires for constructions, etc. Being one of the largest stainless steel wire manufacturers, having a huge capacity and continuous product innovation with regular upgrades of our stainless steel wire production process, Raajratna is able to serve customers having highly diversified requirements.

Personnel: Jaimir Sanghvi.

Reel Options by Vandor Corporation Tel. 765-966-7676 www.reeloptions.com sales@reeloptions.com USA Booth 449 Exhibiting: Reel Options, by Vandor Corporation, is a leading manufacturer

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

Personnel: Mark Elder, Gary Cox, Rick Brown, Adrienne Cowen, Jeff Creigmile.

and experience to manufacture plate, sheet, foil, rod and wire in several different compositions. Our materials are used in several different industries, such as defense and aerospace, semiconductor, medical devices, LEDs and others. Please visit our booth to get further information on our product lines.

Personnel: John Nichols.

Rhenium Alloys, Inc. Tel. 440-309-2076 www.rhenium.com john.nichols@rhenium.com USA Booth 1906 Exhibiting: Rhenium Alloys is a high-temperature powder metallurgy refractory metals raw material manufacturer. We have been in business since 1966, and have the technology

Saint-Gobain Ceramics Tel. 321-234-2699 www.refractories.saint-gobain.com julio.t.spadaccia@ saint-gobain.com USA Booth 664 Exhibiting: Refractory materials for galvanizing burners, copper melting furnaces and Induction furnaces.

Personnel: Julio Spadaccia.

RG Attachments/Tape Formers Booth 1602 Rosendahl Nextrom USA Inc. Booth 640

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Rainbow Rubber & Plastics Tel. 610-685-2800 www.rainbowbelts.com markmackimm@gmail.com USA Booth 1649 Exhibiting: Rainbow Rubber & Plastics Inc is a leading supplier of Truly Endless belts for caterpuller, capstans and haul off units. Working closely with end users and original equipment manufacturers, we have been proven in durability and reliability. Over the past 30 years Rainbow has become the leading supplier of original equipment and replacement belting.

Personnel: Frank Stuckey, Jonathan Rufe, Mark MacKimm.

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Vertical stranders stand tall for production of offshore power cables At Interwire, Germany’s SKET GmbH can update attendees about the latest advances in the company’s stranders, type MVD, for producing very long offshore power cables up to 350 mm.

During this development process, in addition to the conventional stranding of three-phase AC cables on cage-type stranding machines with back-twist, the principle of the vertical stranding machine, which had been used for many years in various areas of cable and rope production, forced its way back to the forefront of consideration. This principle makes possible the particularly cost effective and efficient manufacture of AC power cables.

In a second subsequent process, the stranded energy cable cores are armored with one or two layers of steel wire armor and provided with additional optic elements, tapes, yarn and bitumen. They are suitable for the stranding of three insulated round conductors into very long submarine cables in a variety of constructions.

The payoff side of a SKET MVD vertical strander.

Depending upon the construction, up to a further six elements such as glass fibers, communications or control cables and conductors can be fed into the stranding process from rotating payoffs along with diverse fillers taken from stationary payoffs. Stop by our booth to hear more.

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

Need a special pulley?

Got tension control issues?

Looking for the perfect pay-off?

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Wyrepak Industries has the answer for all of your manufacturing needs!

REGISTERED

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

68 Buttonwood Street, Bristol, Rhode Island 02809-0718 USA • tel: 800.972.9222 or 401.253.5500 fax: 401.253.7350 2C_WYREPAKHuestis_NeedASpecialPulley_WJI_halfHoriz_VariousCombos_withShowInfo_v3_03092015_press.indd 1

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processing of ferrous and nonferrous materials.

Schmale Machinery USA, LLC Telephone: 904 501 - 28 24 www.schmale-machinery.com walter.wieser@ schmale-machinery.com USA Booth 52 Exhibiting: If you want to speed up your wire bending process, come along and have a look. Get an update on the latest developments for swaging, pressing, threading and bending from a German machine builder.

Bring your parts or drawings with you and we will find a solution for your demand!

Personnel: Walter Wieser.

Schnell SpA Tel. 39-0721-878711 www.schnell.it sales@schnell.it Italy Booth 2152

Exhibiting: Reinforcement processing machinery: automatic stirrup benders, cutting/shaping machines, cage making/assembling machines, straighteners, wire processing plants, innovative software systems.

Personnel: Simone Bruscia.

Shanghai Kaibo Compounds Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-21-59122219 www.sh-kaibo.com xs@sh-kaibo.com China Booth 1512/15-17

Exhibiting: Shanghai Kaibo Compounds Co., founded in 1993, is a high-tech enterprise supported by the Shanghai Electric Cable Research Institute. Its main products include PE compounds, PVC compounds, silane cross-linkable PE

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High Performance Wire Dies Searching for expert help with reducing wire breaks, improving wire surface quality, or solving cast issues? Need help identifying optimal wire die size sequences and profiles for your machines?

Esteves Group wire die products and services are maximizing productivity and quality in wire manufacturing applications every day.

The traditional “one-profile fits all” wire die is not up to the challenge of today’s competitive market. To see how Esteves Group can help you, call 800-325-7989 Learn more at www.estevesgroup.com

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SAS Engineering and Planning Srl Tel. 39-031-655593 www.sas.it info@sas.it Italy Booth 1962 Exhibiting: SAS Engineering & Planning’s combined drawing lines and peeling lines mean technological value, reliability and ease of use. The SAS combined drawing machine can be supplied with the most advanced accessories in order to obtain a totally automated line: payoff group, pre-straightening device, draw bench, chamfering machine, bundle strapping, weighing and handling, etc. Everything is managed automatically. The company takes customers through each stage of the process, while technical staff can provide instructions and solve problems worldwide. Thanks to its long years of experience, SAS is an important partner for reaching top manufacturing targets in the

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insulation compounds and LSZH compounds used in wires and cables. The compounds, which are exported to countries such as Brazil, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and others, enjoy famous brand recognition in the cable industry.

Kaibo is also the main supplier for ACOME and the Prysmian Group.

Personnel: Wang Lei. Shanghai Kechen Wire & Cable Machinery Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-21-31562594 www.kcmachine.com.cn shkcmachine@vip.163.com China Booth 1512/01 Exhibiting: Shanghai Kechen Wire & Cable Machinery Co., founded in 1999, has grown up from an R&D dept. of a special purpose machine, CETC23, into one of the China’s most professional designers and manufacturers of machines for wire and cable production. We make lines for RF coaxial cable, LAN/SFP/HDMI cable, OFC, railway signal cable, aircraft and aerospace cable, power cable, fire-retardant cable and general equipment such as payoffs, take-ups, capstans, water troughs, etc.

Personnel: Yang Chi.

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Shanghai Resources Industrial & Trading Co. Ltd. Tel. 86-21-64280989/0995 www.shanghai-resources.com shr@shanghai-resources.com China Booth 1512/13 Exhibiting: Shanghai Resources Industrial & Trading Co. is the leading provider of cable raw materials solution. SHR’s main products are aluminum foil, aluminum wire and tape, FR tape, galvanized steel wire and tape, LSZH compound, mica tape, non-woven tape, plastic and steel reels and bobbins, polyester film, PP yarn, water-blocking tape and yarn, etc. We aim to meet and exceed your needs and satisfaction by providing high quality products and services.

Personnel: Susan Shan.

Shanghai Yajue Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-21-56198658 http://en.shyjdg.com sales@shyjdg.com China Booth 1512/14 Exhibiting: Shanghai Yajue Machinery Manufacturing Co. has independent core technology and an advanced manufacturing level derived from the experience of six decades of development. We depend on the theory of “credit, duty, respect, trust, team, winwin” and an “internal to manage, outside to create brand” business strategy of “focus on advantage project, joint related upstream and downstream products” and development goal of “specialization, seriation, matching” to provide customers with qualified technical services. Our products include the MFCCE series (300, 350, 400, 550,630) of continuous extruders; the HAD 50/100 series (8M,10M,12M) of drawing machines and the HAD50/S100-12 hydraulic drawing straightening machine, and more. We provide customers with one-stop service and the most advanced equipment.

Shikaree Stainless Steel Sesien Co., Ltd. Booth 912/02 Sivaco Quebec Tel. 514-473-3313 www.sivaco.com sivacovente@sivaco.com Canada Booth 258

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

Staku Surface Treatment Telephone: 260-403-0634 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com Germany/USA Booth 1052 Exhibiting: E-Systems, represented in the U.S. by Wire Machine Systems, offers state-of-the-art surface cleaning, pickeling and coating. The line includes E-clean, Ephos, E-copp, E-bead, E-galv models that provide for superior cleaning and coating while significantly reducing your day-to-day operating cost.

Personnel: Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith, Larry Hughbanks.

Star Materials Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-512-66678302 www.star-materials.com office@star-materials.com China Booth 1512/16-18 Exhibiting: A multinational manufacturing company, we specialize in manufacturing and delivering tapes, yarns, compounds and other covering materials used in industrial wire and cables to our customers around the globe. We offer reliable products at high standards to meet international demands, with a special focus on quality at all times, which is a fundamental part of our philosophy. We make sure there is fulfillment, from packaging to shipping, producing results that exceed even our customers’ best expectations. All our products conform to ISO9001-2008.

Peru Booth 234 Exhibiting: Tecnofil delivers high quality non-ferrous products all over the world. It offers the right mix of quality, value, relationships and customer service. Located in Lima, Peru, Tecnofil benefits from direct access to the highest quality metals such as copper and zinc; and produces with the latest technology in casting, drawing, rolling, annealing and extruding. This has allowed Tecnofil to expand into the most demanding markets of the world.

Our products range from copper wire, bus bar, flat wire and bars to our specialty alloys such as lead free brass, phosphorus bronze, silicon bronze, nickel silver and copper magnesium amongst others.

Personnel: Louis Rens, Salvador Majluf.

Tecnofil S.A. Tel. 51-1-6139200 www.tecnofil.com.pe sales@tecnofil.com.pe

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

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specific wires for the offshore oil and gas exploration markets.

Personnel: Richard Lebel, Marc Gladu, Scott Christophersen, Lawrence Pye, Tony Ortenzi, Steve Everetts, Denis Peloquin, Yves Lafontaine, Daniel Lessard, Jackie Cash, Jack Vanadia, Julie Hogg, Gary Allard.

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USA Booth 1066

Exhibiting: Teknikor provides fully integrated plant and facility management services. It offers mechanical and electrical engineering/ contracting/plant layout, machine shop, steel fabrication and erection, rigging and trucking, precision alignment, automation and controls, electrical maintenance and testing.

All services cater to our regional, national and global customers.

Personnel: Phil Pelletier, Craig DiSano, Ken Potvin.

Top Tapes Tel. 86-832-80982701 www.sinositec.com emma.sun@sinositec.com China Booth 123 Exhibiting: We sell our cable products under trade mark TOP tapes.

Products completely meet high customer needs and requests. With

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our complete range from this area, we can offer to cable manufacturers tapes for different cable designs.

We provide semi and nonconductive water-blocking tapes; separation, bedding, binding tapes; yarns and other cable materials.

Personnel: Patricija Korosec.

Tramev Srl 1932 Tel. 39-031-658511 www.tramev.com info@tramev.com Italy Booth 1932 Exhibiting: Tramev, represented in the U.S. and Canada by Lesmo Machinery America, is a world renowned producer of portable hand-held cutting tools for shearing, cut-off, bending and straightening of wire, cable, rod, bar, strip, strand, metal banding, bolts and nuts. We will display various tooling, including electro-hydraulic shears, battery rod cutters and rod straighteners as well as a hydraulic scissor shear for cable. Tramev’s

cable division has provided some of the largest manufacturers of power cables in the world, with technology able to shear cable up to 170 mm. The wire division tooling can cut, bend and straighten steel rod up to 50 mm in diameter. Also, butt welding machines, coil, vertical, horizontal and power driven payoffs as well as tube-drawing machinery for pipe, drawn wire.

Personnel: Tiberio Roda, Ottavio Roda, Allan Brown.

UPCAST OY Tel. 358-207-577-400 www.upcast.com Finland Booth 1856

Exhibiting: UPCAST OY Excellence through years of experience. The UPCASTÂŽ upward casting

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since 1915

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WEBER & SCHER MFG. CO., INC.

PO Box 366 • 1231 US Highway 22 East • Lebanon Borough, New Jersey USA 08833-0366 Tel: (908) 236-8484 • Fax: (908) 236-7001 • E-mail: webscher@webscher.com • Website: www.webscher.com

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concept of copper rod was invented in 1968 at Outokumpu’s Pori plant.

The technology has been further developed to meet the requirements of customers and markets. Today, it is a simple, reliable process with easy operation through an advanced control system resulting in a low life-cycle cost. Upcast Oy is clearly the leader in its field. The company’s ongoing R&D has resulted bigger line capacities, and more rod diameter sizes are possible.

The lines operate safely and reliably for years and years. As new applications for copper alloys are being developed, the utilization of UPCAST technology is rapidly increasing, too. Our R&D and focus on new features are aimed to: bring cost savings and guarantee the best possible cost efficiency; to ensure our customers have the technology they need to produce quality rod while continuing to seek further advances; and for our process to remain environmentally friendly, per our slogan, “Always greener.”

No harmful emissions or need for waste treatment mean a reduced environmental footprint along with low life-cycle costs.

Personnel: Juan Carlos Bodington, Janne Hosio, Hanna-Leena Makitalo.

Vinston US Corp.

Tel. 847-972-1098 www.vinstonus.com info@vinstonus.com USA Booth 564 Exhibiting: We are the authorized dealer of all Vinston Machinery, Ltd., merchandise sold in North America. We specialize in camless wire formers and benders.

Our Chicago office offers support for current and future customers, including demonstrations and machine servicing. Our highly trained technicians will customize machines to your specialized needs.

Quality and great customer support are our top priorities.

Personnel: John Ye, Billy Z. Lin, Kathy Ye, Ron Paliotta.

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Voge Composites LLC Tel. 260-483-9269 www.wire-machine.com sales@wire-machine.com USA Booth 1052 Exhibiting: Voge Composites LLC, distributed by Wire Machine Systems, offers low cost and innovative solutions for the flyer bow industry. See our WIDE SR-EDGE, the most innovative flyer bow to enter the market, for all SAMP bunchers. We offer I-Beam designs for larger format bows to reduce weight w/o sacrificing stiffness/ strength. AERO bows for Niehoff bunchers reduce energy costs with superior aerodynamics and “plug & play” use that requires no re-balancing of the machine. We supply bows for all makes and models of machines.

Personnel: Bo Knueppel, Jay Griffith, Doug Voge, Larry Hughbanks.

Wire World Tel. 519-754-0998 www.wireworld.com info@wireworld.com Canada Booth 2116 Exhibiting: Wire World is a global resource for the wire and cable industry. With weekly news, events, information and company information, users can stay in touch with the industry by visiting one website. You can submit your press releases, product releases to the site for more brand awareness. Now, www.wirelinks.com has been developed for makers of wire and cable.

Personnel: Paul Douwes, Jacqueline Douwes.

Wuxi Hengtai Cable Machinery Manufacture Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-510-83788512 www.hengtaiwx.com hengtai@hengtaiwx.com hjf@hengtaiwx.com China Booth 1512-05 Exhibiting: Wuxi Hengtai Cable Machinery Manufacture Co., founded in 2000, has quickly advanced to

become a professional world-famous designer and manufacturer of wire and cable machinery area. We specialize in rigid stranders, extruders, wire coiling and packing machine, take-ups and payoffs, etc. We are committed to innovation, and to provide all the needs of customers.

Personnel: Ma Haihong, Wu Zili.

Wuxi Quantong Cable Materials Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-510-85958218 www.qt-tapes.com qt@qt-tapes.com China Booth 1801 Exhibiting: Wuxi supplies a range of cable materials that include that include: aluminum/polyester tape, copolymer-coated aluminum tape, stainless-steel tape, plastic-clad steel tape, plastic-clad copper tape and bare copper tape.

Personnel: Denise Sun, Dong Ming.

Wuxi Xinrun Industrial Furnace Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-510-88222027 www.wx-xinrun.com.cn xinrun@vip.163.com China Booth 1512

Exhibiting: Wuxi Xinrun Industrial Furnace Co. specializes in the design and manufacture of annealing furnaces, hot-dip galvanizing furnaces and more for processing steel wire.

Yangzhou Havet Machinery Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-514-87658305 www.havet-china.com vivianglobe@hotmail.com China Booth 1512/20 Exhibiting: Located in Yangzhou City, we are a specialized reels and drums manufacturer. Our products passed ISO 9001:2008 certification.

We can make bobbins to either customer’s specifications or DIN Standards. Our products sell well in the domestic market, and we have had good response from customers

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Yield Management Corporation Tel. 413-283-7773 www.yieldmanagementcorp.com sales@yieldmanagementcorp.com USA Booth 2144 Exhibiting: YMC will exhibit its line of wire and tape break-detection solutions for cabling and stranding lines. The exhibit will include active machine models demonstrating YMC’s “fail safe” wire break detection retrofit kit for rigid frame cabling and tubular stranding machines. In addition to its quality monitoring products, YMC will present unique shielding and braiding machinery options and spare parts for Wardwell braiders.

Personnel: Robert Brown.

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to in Europe, South America, North America, Australia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

To win these markets, we provide better quality, better price and better worldwide service to our customers worldwide.

Personnel: Weiwei Wang.

Zhejiang Baichuan Conductor Technology Co., Ltd. Tel. 86-579-84311389 www.baichuanchina.com 2000bc@163.com China Booth 219 Exhibiting: Zhejiang Baichuan Conductor Technology Co. produces copper-clad steel wire, copper-clad aluminum and aluminum magnesium wire, silver-plated wire, tin-plated wire, galvanized steel wire, stranded wire and earth rod.

Zhejiang Tenglong Stainless Steel Products Co., Ltd. tel. 86-574-86232298 www.tenglongcn.com bmin@tenglonggroup.com bmin@tenglonggroup.com China Booth 1512/02-04 Exhibiting: Zhejiang Tenglong Stainless Steel Products is specialized in manufacturing of the stainless steel wire,with an output of 10,000 mt/month. This includes weaving wire, EPQ wire, cold heading wire, spring wire, welding wire, lashing wire, nail wire, fine wire. etc. covering diameterx ftom 0.10 mm to 20 mm.

Personnel: Le Yuemin.

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Alphabetical exhibitors list Ace Metal Inc ...............................650 ACIMAF.........................................70 ACM AB ....................................1320 Advaris GmbH .............................551 Aeroel Srl ...................................2150 AESA SA .....................................114 Agape Industry Inc .......................863 AIM, Inc .....................................1014 All Wire Forming Machinery, Inc ...........................770 Allied Mineral Products, Inc ......1804 Amacoil, Inc .................................713 Amaral Automation Associates .2136 American & Efird LLC ..............1556 American Kuhne ........................2050 Anbao (Qinhuangdao) Wire & Mesh Co, Ltd .........................753 Angle Systems LLC .................... 165 Anhui Herrman Impex Co, Ltd ................................. 912/04 Appleton Manufacturing ............2126 Assomac Machines Ltd ................864 ATE Applicazioni TermoElettroniche Srl .................63 AW Machinery LLC ..................1712 Axjo America Inc .......................1940 Aztech Lubricants LLC................964 B & H Tool Company LLC .........750 B & Z Galvanized Wire Ind ......1807 Bad Dog Tools ...............................41 Baicheng Fujia Technology Co, Ltd ............. 512/10 Balloffet Die Corporation ..........1708 Baum’s Castorine .......................2132 Beacon Reel Company .................145 Bechem Lubrication Technology.................................963 Beijing BIHI International Exhibition Co Ltd ........... 131, 1910 Beijing Orient Pengsheng Tech Co Ltd .............................1808 Bekaert ........................................2113 Bergandi Machinery Co ...............701 Beta LaserMike / NDC Technologies ....................631 Beta Steel ....................................2017

Blachford Corporation .................406 BLM Group USA Corporation ....224 Bloom Engineering ......................601 Bohl SPG Packaging Systems .....161 Bojin Cable Drum Manufacturer Co, Ltd .......... 912/04

Bongard & Co KG ....................1068 Boockmann Engineering GmbH .264 BOW TECHNOLOGY ................424 Boxy SpA/HOWAR Eqpt .........1320 Breen Color Concentrates Inc ......250 Brookfield Wire Co ......................549

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Bühler-Würz Kaltwalztchnik GmbH ...............740 Burster...........................................470 Butt Welders USA Inc ...............2148 BWE Ltd.......................................157 Caballe SA. ...................................312 Cable Consultants Corp ...............140 Cable Services & Systems ...........424 Calmec Precision Inc..................2117 Candor Sweden AB......................624 Canterbury Engineering ...............940 Carris Reels ................................1350 Ceeco Bartell/Bartell Machinery1351 Cemanco LC .................................606 Central Wire Industries Inc ........1818 Ceramtech .....................................606 Cerrini Srl ...................................1932 CERSA-MCI ..............................1601 Chase Wire & Cable Materials ....902 Chemetall, Inc ..............................400

Chengdu Centran Industrial Co, Ltd .....................1801 China Ruijin Fairs International ..966 Cimteq Ltd ..................................2019 Clifford Welding Systems ........1723 Clinton Instrument Company.......901 CM Furnaces Inc ..........................654 CMEC Int’l Exhibition.. 412/512/912 CN Wire Corp ..............................924 COGEBI Inc .................................372 Collari Machines ........................1052 Collins & Jewell .........................2149 Cometo........................................1932 Commission Brokers Inc..............719 Condat SA/Condat Corp ............1650 Conductix......................................969 Conneaut Industries, Inc ..............423 Conoptica AS ...............................870 Continuus-Properzi, SpA ...........1840 Custom Machining & Fabrications LLC .......................770

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DALOO ........................................424 Davis-Standard, LLC .................1524 DEM Wire Rolling Technology ..1824 Deyang Jiechuang Wire & Cable Machine Machinery Co ....... 512/07 Die Quip Corp ............................1003 Domeks Makine Ltd Sti .............1340 Dynamex Corporation ................1911 E-Beam Services Inc ....................141 Ebner Furnaces, Inc......................620 Effigi International SpA .............1320 EJP Maschinen GmbH ...............1052 Elco Enterprises (Wire Wizard)...765 Electrolock Inc ...............................40 Electron Beam Technologies, Inc .......................454 Electronic Drives & Controls, Inc ...............................724 EMSCO ......................................1912 Enercon Industries ......................1816 Engineered Machinery Group......218

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Enkotec Company Inc ..................108 Enshang Machinery Enterprise Co Ltd.......................666 ER-Bakir Elektrolitik Bakir AS ...924 ERA Wire Inc ...............................354 Ernst Koch GmbH & Co............1358 Esteves Group...............................806 Etna Products, Inc ......................1706 Euroalpha Srl ................................558 Eurobend GmbH ........................1058 Eurolls Spa....................................858 EuroWire ......................................132 George Evans Corp ......................711 EVG Inc ........................................150 Evolution Products, Inc ................133 Fabritex, Inc..................................616 Fastener Engineers .....................2056 Fenn LLC....................................1955 FIB Belgium SA.........................1358 Fil-Tec Inc ..................................1502

Filtertech, Inc..............................1049 Fine International Corporation.....332 Finoptics Inc ...............................1801 Fisk Alloy Inc .............................2140 FLYMCA & FLYRO.................1907 FMS USA, Inc ..............................618 Foerster Instruments Inc ..............1814 Forever Cable Materials Group..512/03 Fort Wayne Wire Die, Inc..........1532 Fortune Machinery .....................1053 Fridea Srl ....................................1739 Frigeco USA Inc ........................1739 Frigerio USA Inc ........................1739 Frontier Composites & Castings..215 FSP-One......................................2128 Fuhr GmbH...................................752 Gateway Recovery .....................2158 Gauder/Gauder Group ..................424 Gavlick Machinery Corp............1053 Gem Gravure Co Inc ....................706

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GENCA ........................................940 General Copper...........................2160 W Gillies Technologies, LLC ......958 Gimax Srl......................................140 GMP Slovakia Sro........................758 Golden Technologies Wire & Cable Equipment Co, Ltd .... 912/06 Granite Falls Furnace .................1562 Guangzhou Hanstar Fluoro-Plastic Insulated Wires Co, Ltd....... 412/07 Guill Tool & Engineering ............211 Guney Celik ..................................652 Hafner & Krulmann GmbH .........370 vom Hagen & Funke ....................140 Hall Industries ...........................1032 Handuk Ultrasonic Co, Ltd ........2011 Hangzhou Harbor Technology Co, Ltd ............................... 1512-11 Hangzhou JR Exhibition Co ..............

217/306/318/1917/1919 Hariton Machinery Co, Inc ..........147

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Heany Industries ...........................950 Hearl Heaton...............................1949 Heatbath Corporation .................2012 Heinrich Muller GmbH ................670 Henrich .......................................1506 Heritage Wire Die, Inc .................111 HFSAB (H Folke Sandelin AB) ..740 Hipo Electrix Science & Technology Co, Ltd......... 412/10 Holland Colors America, Inc .....1916 Hormesa-Conticast .........................64 Houghton International ..............1810 HOWAR Equipment Inc............1320 Huestis Industrial..........................124 Hüttner Maschinenfabrik ...........1052 IBA Industrial ...............................569 ICE Wire Line Equipment Inc ...1063 IDEAL Welding Systems ..........1024 iiM AG Measurement + Engineering .............................872 INFLEX Inc................................1656 Inhol LLC ...................................2124 Innovites .....................................1920 Inosym Ltd..................................1731 Integrated Control Technologies ............................1660 Interequip SA ...............................108 International Wire & Machinery Association (IWMA) .................602 Intras Ltd.......................................132 IP Automation ............................1860 Isotek Corporation An Isabellenhutte Company ...1800 IWE Spools & Handling ...........1052 IWG Group/High Performance Conductors .................................240 Jiangsu Dasheng Electron Accelerator Co, Ltd ..................318 Jiangsu FNC Wire & Cable Co, Ltd................... 512/06 Jiangsu Handing Machinery Co, Ltd ............... 912/01 Jiangsu Huawang Science & Technology Co, Ltd ........... 1512-19 Jiangsu Naian Special Cable & Wire Co Ltd .......... 512/09 Jiangsu Sunlit Equipment Co, Ltd ....................217

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Jiangsu Xinglong Metal Products Co, Ltd................... 412/06 Jiangsu Yonggao Wire Co...... 512/02 Jiangyin Kangrui Stainless Steel Products Co, Ltd.......... 912/08 Jin Yuan Bao International Co ....658 Joe Snee Associates.....................1355 JoeTools.......................................2130 Jouhsen-Bundgens Inc..................232 Kablosan Turkey - FBC..............2146 Kalmark Integrated Systems ......1656 KEIR Manufacturing, Inc.............703 Keystone Steel & Wire.................405 Kielselstein GmbH......................1052 King Steel Corp...........................1913 Kinrei of America.........................624 KMB GmbH................................1506 KMK..............................................606 Kopilowitz Engineering Ltd.........624 Kyocera Industrial Ceramics.......1904 Lake Michigan Metals, Inc.........2015 Lamnea Bruk AB..........................324 LaserLinc.....................................1503 Leggett & Platt Wire Group.........440 Lenzig Plastics GmbH & Co. ........ 116 Leoni Wire Inc..............................850 Lesmo Machinery America........1932 Lewis Machine............................2056 Light Speed Cable Technology (Shenzhen) Co, Ltd.....................131 Lint Top Cable Technology ... 912/03 R. Lisciani....................................1358 Lloyd & Bouvier Inc...................1832 Longvision (Shanghai) Cable Materials Co, Ltd ..........1917 Lubrimetal Corporation...............1956 Lukas Anlagenbau GmbH............116 M&E Machine + Engineering....1358 Madison Steel, Inc.........................360 Magnetic Technologies Ltd..........612 Maillefer Extrusion Oy.................932 Mario Frigerio SpA.....................1739 Mathiasen Machinery, Inc............139 Meltech........................................1655 Messe Dusseldorf N. America....1001 Metal Resource Solutions, Inc......358 Metalloid Corp............................2016 Metallurgical Council of China....658

Metavan NV/HOWAR Eqpt ......1320 MFL Group..................................1739 MGS Group/MGS Mfg Inc.........1032 Micro Products Company.............550 Microdia USA.............................1922 Mid-South Wire...........................1354 Mikrotek........................................717 Morgan-Koch Corporation..........1358 Mossberg Associates, Inc..............763 Mossberg Industries, Inc...............113 Nanjing Xiandai Diamond Products Co Ltd........................2014 Nanjing Zhongchao New Materials Corp...................... 412/09 Nano Diamond America, Inc......1806 Nantong Elite Metal Products Imp and Exp Co, Ltd............ 412/01 Nantong Siber Communication Co, Ltd.................................... 1512 NDC Technologies (Beta LaserMike Products).........631 NEPTCO........................................902 NewTech......................................1052 Nextrom Oy/Rosendahl.................640 Niagara Composites Industries.....724 Niehoff Endex North America, Inc................................740 NIMSCO/OMAS...........................301 Nirmal Wires...............................1063 Northampton Machinery ............1032 NUMALLIANCE.........................732 OEG GmbH/Weber & Scher......1731 Oklahoma Steel & Wire..............2007 OM Frigerio Srl/HOWAR Eqpt .1320 OMCG NA..................................1050 Otomec Srl...................................1932 Ozyasar Tel Ve Galvanizleme San As.......................................2018 P&R Specialty, Inc........................333 P/A Industries, Inc.........................119 Pan Chemical...................................53 Paramount Die Company, Inc.......340 Parkway-Kew Corporation.........1057 Pave CNC Wire Forming Systems.....................................1321 Pentre Group Ltd / Hearl Heaton..1949 Phifer Incorporated........................450 Pioneer USA..................................206 Pittsfield Plastics Engineering.......764

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PKG Equipment Inc .....................231 Plas-Ties, Co.................................112 Plasmait GmbH ..........................1320 Plastic Equip, LLC .....................2111 Plasticolor ...................................2111 Pneumatic Power Tools & Co .....352 POURTIER of America ...............424 Precision Die Technologies .........402 Precision Process ........................2162 Premier Wire Die .......................2134 PrintSafe .....................................1850 Process Control Corporation ......1805 Productos de Alambre Simar SA de CV ..........................62 Progressive Machinery Inc ..........724 Progress Maschinen & Automation AG .....................153 Promostar Srl ................................452 Properzi International, Inc..........1840 Proton Products ..........................1731 PWM Ltd ....................................1355

Q8Oil - Roloil...............................771 QED Wire Lines Inc ....................952 Queins Machines GmbH ............1506 R. Lisciane ..................................1358 Raajratna Stainless Wire Inc ........453 RAD-CON, Inc.............................457 Radyne Corp ...............................1912 Rainbow Rubber & Plastics .......1649 Rautomead Limited ....................1070 Reber Systematic GmbH..............740 Redex SA ......................................740 Reel-O-Matic Inc..........................464 Reel Options by Vandor Corp .....449 Refractron .....................................302 Rhenium Alloys, Inc ..................1906 RichardsApex, Inc ........................540 Rizzardi .......................................1328 RG Attachments/Tape Formers .1602 Rockford Manufacturing Group, Inc (RMG) ...................2056 Rosendahl GmbH .........................640

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Rosendahl Nextrom USA Inc ......640 Rosendahl Nextrom Technologies ..............................640 Roteq Machinery Inc ..................2032 RSD Group USA..........................958 RTD Manufacturing .....................612 S&E Specialty Polymers ..............331 Saco Polymers ..............................233 Saint Gobain Ceramics.................664 SAMP SpA/SAMP USA, Inc ....1328 SAMP SISTEMI ........................1328 Sarkuysan SA .............................2024 SAS Engineering and Planning Srl ..............................1962 Schlatter North America ............1314 Schmale Machinery USA LLC......52 Schmidt Maschinenbau GmbH ....740 Schnell SpA ................................2152 Scienscope International ............2005 SETIC of America........................424 Shanghai Jiajie Technology ......1919

Sivaco Quebec ..............................258 Sivaco Wire Group.......................258 Sjogren Industries .........................715 Skaltek...................................... 1900 SKET GmbH.............................. 712 Skyline ..........................................624 The Slover Group .........................264 Sneham International....................702 Sonoco Reels And Spools ............432 Spirka Schnellflechter GmbH ......712 Staku ...........................................1052 Star Materials Co, Ltd .....1512/16-18 Starrett-Bytewise ........................1702 Steel Cable Reels LLC .................270 Staku Surface Treatment ............1052 Stolberger Inc DBA Wardwell Braiding Co .....712 Stolberger KMBMaschinenfabrik ......................1506 Strecker GmbH & Co KG ...........906 Subec AB ....................................2136

Sudhir............................................624 Sylvin Technologies, Inc..............129 T & T Marketing, Inc .................1064 Talladega Castings & Machine Co ................................136 Tantec Est, Inc ............................1908 Tape Formers/RG Attachments .1602 Taubensee Steel & Wire Co ........749 Taymer International Inc..............849 Tecnofil SA...................................234 Tecnofil SpA.................................159 Tecvil ............................................120 Teknikor......................................1066 Teknor Apex Company ................212 Tensor Machinery Ltd................1750 Thermcraft Inc ............................1902 Thermoplastics Engineering Corp ..........................................2116 Tien Chen .....................................206 Top Tapes/TT Okroglica DD.......123 Trafco Cortinovis Sictra .............2156

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Shanghai JNL Industry Co, Ltd ..316 Shanghai Kaibo Compounds Co, Ltd ..........................1512/15-17 Shanghai Kechen Wire & Cable Machinery Co, Ltd ............. 1512-01 Shanghai Pudong Co ..................1512 Shanghai Resources Industrial & Trading Co Ltd .................. 1512-13 Shanghai Yajue Machinery Manufacturing Co, Ltd ...... 1512-14 Shaoxing Kaichen Mica Material Co, Ltd ................... 512/01 Shen Yang ..................................1358 Shenyang Jing Gong Cable Material Co Ltd..........................970 Shenzhen Ktyu Insulation Co ......570 Shikaree Stainless Steel Sesien Co Ltd ....................... 912/02 Siebe Engineering GmbH ..........1069 Sikora International Corporation .812 SIMPACKS ..................................206 Sirio Wire Srl..............................1358

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Global steel overcapacity Even if the heady increase in global steel production has slowed down, and may even reverse a bit, the reality of too much product seeking a home has made for harsh conditions that are not likely to subside anytime soon. This feature takes a look at the big picture of steel (China) from CRU International, one wire producer’s observations on what the numbers don’t tell, and more.

China continues to have the lead role in the global story of steel This is obviously causing some concern to the steel industry in these markets, especially for value-added exports, which have been encouraged by tax rebates. The foregoing trends have given rise to a spate of anti-dumping (AD) actions against Chinese imports into many marChina’s steel production and consumption both have riskets. According to the WTO, China has been the largest en with extraordinary growth rates, with CAGRs of more single subject of AD investigations in recent years. Also, than 14% between 2004 and 2013. China now accounts the EU has more trade-defense measures against China for a little more than 50% of global steel demand and than any other country apart from India. production. China has 20% of global population, which China’s domestic demand is forecast to slow due to the suggests these levels of steel production and consumption economic slowdown. With the existing spare capacity, are not sustainable. depending on its competitiveness, there is the possibility Chinese production has outpaced demand since the that even more production may be exported in the coming mid-2000s, leading to rising steel exports. Steel exports years. Trade flows also are related to comparative market increased to a record level of 81 million tonnes (mt) performance and the price differential with overseas marin 2014, after falling during the global financial crisis. kets, which was wide in 2014.

China’s 2014 steel exports as a percent of production, During 2014, overcapacity and low utilization rates meant however, were just 8%. This is one way that China’s steel that Chinese prices were considerably lower than overseas industry measures its own performance. In Japan, the prices, providing China’s steelmakers with incentives and world’s second largest steel exporter, this percentage is opportunities to export more. Chinese relative competiabout 25%. Nonetheless, China’s 2014 percentage of 8% tiveness also benefitted from higher scrap prices, which is still amounts to enormous volumes. much less important in China.

So, where have all these exports been going? Asia has The competitiveness been taking the biggest of Chinese mills is quite share – 60% in 2014. mixed, but the ChiNotable export markets nese industry’s overall include Korea, Vietcompetitiveness is still nam, Philippines, India, expected to be mainand Thailand. China’s tained over the next exports to Asia were few years. This relative 72% of total exports in competitiveness could 2004, but this percentsupport high export age is down in recent volumes (other things years, suggesting that being equal), however China has diversified we think this should be its export markets. This offset by a reduction is reflected in China’s in the price differential exports to the Middle with overseas, which East, Africa, and South should fall over time as America, which have capacity falls and utiliexpanded by more than zation rates rise.

50 times 2004 levels, More offsetting factors and now account for should limit exports.

27% of exports (19 mt). An overview of China’s steel export picture over a 10-year period.

China is finally coming Below are edited excerpts from a report made by John Johnson, CEO, CRU China, that was presented at CRU’s World Steel Conference 2015, held in February in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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The ’China Effect’ on steel Below are brief comments from three manufacturers about the impacted of global steel overcapacity.

• Bekaert: Bekaert is performing very well in Europe but is faced with more difficult market conditions elsewhere.

The Chinese overcapacity is not only hurting Chinese prices but also creates cheap imports in some other regions. Additional measures are being put into action but with three regions out of four having difficult market conditions, a clear earnings driver is not obvious.

• ArcelorMittal: The world’s largest steelmaker reported more than a U.S. $1 billion loss for 2014. Per one story, its operations face challenges that include factors such as currency exchange rates and competition from countries such as China where workers are paid $35 a day, including food and housing.

• Nucor: The U.S. steel industry provides an excellent example of how trade policies impact American companies and their workers. Our industry is facing a real crisis as steel imports have reached historically high levels.

This import surge is forcing many companies in the United States to idle facilities and lay off workers.

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to grips with the overcapacity issue with various plans for steel mill closures – some of which have occurred already (27 mtb in 2014). There are plans for more closures over the next five years (80 mt), and there should be no more new production facilities beyond those that are currently planned. Another factor is environmental concerns, which may lead to China producing more overseas through outward investment in polluting industries rather than focusing on heavier polluting and energy intensive industry domestically.

So what does the foregoing mean for overall capacity, production and domestic utilization rates? We forecast that total capacity will slow diminish from the estimated current capacity of 1.2 billion tonnes. China will have the opportunity to export while excess capacity exists, but this is expected to diminish over time due to lower capacity, higher prices and various self imposed constraints on exports. However, if mills seek to raise utilization rates to 85% or export 10% of total production, exports could be a little higher. Therefore, although exports could be slightly higher than 2014 levels they are unlikely to go much beyond these levels and are more likely to slow down going forward. That could be considered good news, since exports from China are unlikely to get much worse and should decrease gradually.

FEATURE

The numbers don't add up: so where has all the wire gone?

Industry veteran John Martin III, is president and CEO of Mar-Mac Wire, Inc., a South Carolina steel wire company, and past president of the American Wire Producers Association. He made a presentation at a Feb. 2, 2015, Steel Orbis conference in Nevada, about conditions that face U.S. steel wire producers. Since then, he notes that there has been a dramatic fall of scrap and rod prices at the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015 that is very uncharacteristic of normal market patterns.

Further, at this time domestic rod mills are somewhat competitive in price with foreign mills, but it is too soon to see how the downstream market (which is what this speech is about) will be affected. Below are his edited comments.

First I want to make it clear, I am not a mathematician, nor am I a statistician. I have used other people’s sources of numbers and their opinions to build everything I am presenting. Doug King and Walt Robertson, both fellow members of the AWPA, have for many years tracked what they call U.S. Equivalent Rod Demand (ERD). The calculation has three components: Domestic Wire Rod Shipments, which include internal use and external sales; Imported Wire Rod; and an AIS measurement of imported wire and wire products. Chart 1 shows the collective sums of those elements.

If you look at the three components shown in Chart 2 as a percent of total rod demand, you see obvious trends. Domestic rod shipments and import rod are directly related: when one is up the other is down and vice versa. What is only obvious by applying trend lines is that as a percent of the total, they are both shrinking at a similar rate. What is also obvious is that known imported wire and wire products are taking a bigger and bigger percent of the pie.

For many years King and Robertson have maintained that there is an invisible growing component: wire rod, wire and wire products that are used in the manufacture of finished goods being imported into the U.S. in ever increasing numbers. While to my knowledge King and Robertson have never tried to calculate that number, they suggest it can be inferred by looking at a growing GDP. In Chart 3, I have attempted to correlate known wire rod

Chart 1. Components of Equivalent Rod Demand (ERD).

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and equivalents demand as a percent of GDP. You see that from 1985 through 2000, that correlation shows that demand growing in relationship to GDP. In 2001 you see a deflection point or turning point. That is the year that China joined the WTO and the trend is obviously a declining percent of GDP.

John Martin speaking at an AWPA meeting that was co-located with Interwire in 2013.

Chart 4 attempts to quantify the missing component using a 2001 inflation adjusted GDP. While Robertson believes there is a missing two million tons of rod-based material, my calculation estimates the missing amount at close to three million tons. These are tons that have disappeared off our radar screen. These are tons not being produced by U.S. rod mills, tons not imported by US traders, and tons lost to American manufacturers of finished and semi-finished goods. We are losing this battle.

Why trade actions have not been very helpful There are currently 30 steel products affected by antidumping duties (AD) and countervailing duties (CVD), many of which are initiated by U.S. steel mills, some initiated by down-stream manufacturers. Generally, one can assume that if a particular steel product is imported

Chart 2. Breakdown of total ERD demand.

FEATURE Chart 3. ERD as a percentage of GDP.

Chart 4. Disparity between ERD and GDP.

in rising quantities, a trade case will eventually get filed.

Some people feel that U.S. steel mill efforts are so successful, when taken in a broader view, that they have been largely able to insulate the U.S. market from global steel price dynamics. To take wire rod as an example, one finds that there are AD/CVD duties against the most serious/ offending exporting countries.

Over the past year, global wire rod prices have fallen substantially, following the cooling of some economies and decline of iron ore prices. Chinese rods prices actually fell by $170/mt in that time period. In a functioning market one should expect that U.S. rod prices would have largely followed that trend. Yet, U.S. domestic rods prices moved only about $55/ton.

This leaves the downstream U.S. rods user in a difficult situation. Compared to his foreign competition, his raw material prices have gone up and he will find it harder and harder to compete against imported finished goods.

In recent years, we have seen a number of downstream wire and wire products manufacturers begin to bring trade cases. In some cases it is possible to file AD/CVD cases against such products, such as what happened for nails and coat hangers. However, there is a multitude of products requiring a multitude of individual trade cases.

We have many wire drawers and wire products manufacturers who are not able to cope with the high costs and amount of time needed to file such cases for even a single

product. Even if one were to venture down that road, in a global economy an AD/CVD case only fixes yesterday’s problems. By nature, and at best, there will always be new competitors coming up, so drawers will quickly find themselves running out of fingers to plug the new holes in the sinking ship. On top of that, many foreign producers are involved in circumvention. In addition to the difficulties encountered in a system where everyone plays by the rules, we find ourselves in competition with those who do not follow the rules.

The result for the U.S. wire drawing industry remains the same. The mixed bag of laws, irregular enforcement, political considerations, and a bureaucratic government bear down on our industry from start to finish. These factors erode the mills and the whole downstream steel industry and with it thousands of jobs relying on it.

One alternative to giving up is to re-locate production abroad. Some of us have already done that. Others of us have become pure importers.

Many of us in wire and wire products manufacturing find ourselves on both sides of the questions. We may benefit from lower-priced imported rod, yet find ourselves competing against lower-priced finished products. Many in the industry will not even call the laws “protectionist.” They call them “fairness” laws. Theoretically, you must prove you have been treated unfairly before you get protection.

Often you must show and prove you have been damaged

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to the point of annihilation before getting protection.

It would be quite welcome if our industry and the government were to move beyond just “saving the day” to a more sustainable approach of creating an environment where we can successfully compete while producing in the United States.

Why patriotic intentions can be very unpatriotic The Buy American Act is the major domestic preference statute governing procurement by the federal government. Passed in 1933, it has been changed substantively only four times since. Nevertheless, every Congress in the intervening years has seen fit to enact some form of additional domestic preference legislation, including other domestic preference statutes, known as “Little Buy American Acts.” The latest of these little Buy American acts were included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Globally this is another common form of protectionism. Speaking frankly it is, like anti-dumping and countervailing duty laws, market distorting. The fact of the matter though is that protectionism in any form usually has the effect of raising prices.

For one large producer of construction related products, there is a bright line between the Buy American segment of the market and the non-Buy American segment. While they formally certify only about 35% of their shipments as Buy American (BA) they have many customers who produce for both end markets and frequently, they aren’t interested in maintaining dual inventories. Therefore BA considerations cause them to purchase more like 70% domestic, 30% foreign in most market environments.

Outside of the construction industry, and specifically where construction is paid for or subsidized by the government, Buy American provisions are few and far between. In those cases, the effects of low-cost imported wire rod normally boosts profits, and allows those industries to be more competitive with the imports of finished products coming into the U.S. For Mar-Mac, Buy American was a boon. We saw demand for our “made and melted in the U.S.” wire grow.

But, the percentage of rebar or structural steel by weight on a construction job is large compared to rebar tie wire or fasteners. If a contractor buys American on his rebar or structural steel, he may have complied with Buy American for 95% (by weight) on the job. But since all the other accessory items comprise such a small percentage by weight of a total job, the bureaucrats excluded these from Buy American. One of our main products, rebar tie wire, was excluded. We did not know that until after it happened. As a result, sales for our Made in the USA business have fallen sharply. I must ask myself, could I have been more politically astute, and might have more diligence in protecting my advantage been time well spent? One thinks of watching for legislative changes in the law, but it is far harder to monitor all the regulating agencies that might affect your business.

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Relationship between trade sanctions & BA provisions I have asked several other business leaders how they felt the trade laws and the Buy American laws interact.

Not one of them made this connection or felt there was a relationship. It seems to me that the complexity of the Buy American laws requires a full time legal staff person to research and monitor.

There are differences in “Made in America,” “Manufactured in America,” and in the case of steel, “Melted in America.” You must understand which Buy American iteration or Little Buy American law applies to you. I find myself being confused due to the common legal language of circumvention cases, like “substantial transformation” and the same concept in Buy American dealing with percent of work performed.

I also find myself and my customers trying to balance the double inventory cost versus the double inventory value question in keeping on hand both imported and domestic rod and imported and domestic finished inventory. I feel that due to the range of “purity” in the various Buy American laws, and the source material a company might use due to trade laws interact to give different answers to similar questions to individual companies in our industry.

The cost of justice and what is lost Justice may be blind, but it is expensive. By being expensive, it is available only to those who can afford it. In reality, justice may very well be blind, because she never sees those who cannot afford her. A large consumer may be able to protect his market by filing AD/CVD cases themselves. However, only a few larger consumers are capable of carrying such a cost.

How about the difference in effect of imported rod on the small and larges? When the Chinese were shut out, I was affected very little. Not so for the big guys. The only time I was dramatically affected by the price of imported rod was in 2008 when the market crashed and I had a quantity of imported rod on order. I chose to honor my contracts and did not make a profit for 18 months.

Navigating U.S. laws and regulations, including trade laws and Buy American laws, is not for the faint of heart.

Our trade laws are really dysfunctional given the global nature of trade. In addition, we see China using governmental regulation, for the purpose of building state power at the expense of rival national powers. While several Chinese finished products have U.S. dumping orders, and Chinese wire rod now has a dumping order, we are still confronted with the damage of Chinese practices since they are delivering dumped and subsidized rod to downstream producers in MENA, Southeast Asia and South America. The trade laws have certainly not moved as fast as the market has moved. The perpetrator still benefits from bad behavior despite losing U.S. trade cases.

Looking back over the last decade or so, I feel that for Mar-Mac Wire, our battle has been one that is both frustrating and, at times, futile, but it is one that we feel we cannot ignore.

The two companies, whose product lines include wire rod, each have their own listed flagships. Anshan is owned by the central government, while Benxi by the provincial government.

Industry concentration, measured by the combined market share of the top 10 players, has actually fallen, not risen, the article said. Industry regulator the National Development and Reform Commission, which has the power to approve large new projects, said in 2005 it wanted the top 10 producers to have at least 50% of the domestic market by 2010, and over 70% by 2020. While the 2010 target was almost achieved, with the market share of the top 10 at 48.6% that year, the figure had since fallen to 36.6% at the end of last year, MIIT, which also has influence on industry policymaking, said in February.

In 2011, China set an ambitious goal for industry consolidation, a target that was largely missed: now, it plans to continue that path, with the timeframe extended by a decade, and a focus on creating a limited number of “super companies” to lead the way.

Per articles in People’s Daily Online and South China Morning Post, the industry goal had been for the nation’s top 10 steel producers to represent at least 60% of the market by the end of 2015. However, the reality is that the industry has actually become more fragmented than ever, it reported. Part of the new goal is for China, the world’s largest producer and consumer of steel, to boost its production utilization rate to more than 80% by 2017, Xinhua quoted the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) as saying in a draft of a revised restructuring plan.

Some question whether Beijing can succeed in this quest as regional companies are more focused on their own needs. “The main barrier for more progress in industry consolidation has been the fear of job and tax revenue losses of local governments,” Xu Xiangchun, the chief analyst at Beijing-based consultancy Mysteel, told the South China Morning Post. “For new jobs to be created and tax gaps to be filled, we need faster expansion of higher-end manufacturing and the services sector, but this takes time and it can only be initiated by the companies themselves ... if we let market forces play their role, the transformation will happen.”

In a consultation document released by MIIT at the weekend, besides the revised consolidation goal, the ministry also suggested that by 2025 the industry should have three to five globally competitive “super large” steelmakers, Xinhua reported. It also wanted the steel industry to have a “basically reasonable” operating scale by 2017, with average plant utilization of over 80%, and return rates recovering to “reasonable levels,” it added, without giving figures.

Merging companies does not necessarily result in meaningful change, the report said. It noted that Anshan Iron and Steel Group and Benxi Iron and Steel Group, both of which are based in Liaoning Province, were merged in 2005, but since then there has been little asset integration.

Anshan Iron and Steel Group notes that it is the third largest steel maker in mainland China by output.

A labourer walks on coils of steel wire at a steel market in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. Photo Reuters/Sheng Li.

In a development blueprint issued late in 2011 on the steel industry, MIIT said it wanted the market share of the top 10 to rise to 60 per cent by this year. Much of this was a result of expansion of medium-sized plants in the few years after Beijing launched an infrastructure-heavy 4 trillion yuan economic stimulus programme in 2009, especially in Hebei province, which accounts for a quarter of the nation’s steel output.

About a quarter of the nation’s 1.2 billion tonnes of crude steel capacity is not put to use amid weak demand even though prices have fallen to their lowest in 12 years as raw material prices fell.

China Iron and Steel Association deputy secretary-general Li Xinchuang recently projected that the nation’s steel output to fall 1% this year to 814 million tonnes.The top 20 most profitable producers made 92% of the industry’s profit last year, according to the association.

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TECHNICAL PAPERS Modeling centerline damage with DEFORM® The DEFORM® metalworking modeling system can be applied to the development of centerline damage, by way of the Cockcroft and Latham workability criterion, and this paper summarizes such recent work at Rensselaer. Near-centerline flow in the absence and presence of an inclusion has been modeled, and comparisons have been made to Cockcroft and Latham projections from tensile testing. Beyond this, shear strain modeling has been undertaken, both for shear strains at the “equator” of spherical inclusions and for chevron-shaped shear strain fields.

By Christian A. Regalado and Roger N. Wright

The research presented in this paper is primarily motivated by a desire to understand how die geometry and other related parameters affect deformation behavior along the central axis (or centerline) of a wire during drawing.

Understanding centerline deformation mechanics is of primary significance because of the large number of wire breakages that appear to begin at the center of the wire, particularly at or near sizable nonmetallic inclusions.

While an exact failure criterion is yet to be determined, it is generally advised that centerline damage remain as low as possible. This paper will repeatedly refer to two types of damage: shear strain and the Cockcroft and Latham “damage” integral. The Cockcroft and Latham damage integral, D, is defined1: (Eq. 1)

Fig. 1. Simulated wire during the third of five drawing passes. The inclusion/die appear only as gray outlines; the color gradient denotes local damage values.

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σ∗ are the first principal stress given it is positive (zero if negative), and c is a material constant that denotes the rupture threshold. For the sake of brevity and clarity, all mentions of the word “damage” from this point forward refer specifically to Cockcroft and Latham damage and not shear strain. Additionally, all data regarding damage are displayed as a fraction of the material’s flow stress.

All simulations were performed using DEFORM® 2D, a finite element analysis program designed primarily for forming by the Scientific Forming Technologies Corporation. Wire segments with initial lengths and diameters of 10 and 2 in. (25.4 and 5.08 cm), respectively, were used for each simulation; dies and inclusions were considered perfectly rigid. Figs. 1 and 2 show screenshots of the program during and after a drawing pass.

Fig. 2. Simulated wire after five drawing passes with damage color gradient. The black line along the left side indicates points sampled; the chart to the left shows damage values along the black line.

TECHNICAL PAPERS Fig. 3. Chart of the relationship between ∆ and centerline damage for three different friction coefficients. The data seem to organize into lines of four by area reduction, appearing to converge near a ∆ of 0.8 and a damage of 0.075.

Wire without inclusions Before modeling wires containing inclusions, a matrix of 60 different die conditions (five area reductions by four die semiangles by three friction coefficients) was modeled in DEFORM® to determine how changes in the coulombic friction coefficient, µ, and the deformation zone parameter, ∆, affect damage. The ∆ parameter equals (α/r)[1 + (1-r)1⁄2]2, where α is the die semiangle in radians and r is the decimal reduction. The area reductions simulated were 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25%; the die semiangles were 4◦, 6◦, 8◦ and 10◦; and the coulombic friction coefficients were 0, 0.03 and 0.10. The wire was modeled as a perfectly plastic material with a flow stress of 100 ksi (689 MPa), zero work hardenability, and 5000 nodes. The simulations modeled a two-dimensional slice of the wire from the center outward instead of modeling a whole three-dimensional wire; this axisymmetric consideration made the simulations more resource-efficient and greatly accelerated data collection.

Cockcroft & Latham damage Fig. 3 illustrates the relationship between ∆ and the damage incurred by one pass with a defect-free wire. This chart demonstrates that the single variable ∆ does not, in this case, suffice to adequately determine the ensuing centerline damage: without knowledge of both the area reduction and die semiangle, the damage for a drawing pass with a ∆ value of around 2.5 can only be approximated to within half an order of magnitude for typical geometries. Passes with 5% area reduction limit damage for all die angles (5% area reduction corresponds to the four data points forming a horizontal line at D=0.075), but higher reductions begin to exhibit a stronger angular dependence. The damage does not appear to increase

Fig. 4. Chart of the relationship between ∆ and the centerline damage-to-reduction ratio for three different friction coefficients. significantly as a result of friction except at low ∆ values, where die contact area becomes exceedingly large.

If these damage measurements are normalized for the amount of area reduction in each pass as is done in Fig. 4, the information follows a more discernible trend, one that closely mirrors the maximum centerline tension seen in Fig. 5. This information suggests that smaller ∆ values are best to prevent damage. Interestingly, the information also suggests there may be a maximum damage accumulation rate at a ∆ of approximately 6.5, a feature that does not appear in the centerline tension plot.

Redundant work factor Another important parameter worth consideration is the redundant work factor, Φ, which is defined as the ratio of actual work done to a wire (uniform + redundant) over the minimum amount of work required to cause a given reduction (uniform). While work hardening is not accounted for in this study, it is nevertheless important to consider that unnecessary work done to a wire will cause it to work-harden sooner and require more subsequent annealings, increasing production costs. The redundant work factor was calculated by first taking the total work done per unit volume (dimensional analysis in Eqs. 2 and 3 shows this is equal to the draw stress) and subtracting the work per unit volume lost to friction (where σa is the material flow stress)2: (Eq. 2) (Eq. 3)

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This yields the amount of work done to the wire. This value was divided by the calculated uniform work to arrive at a recursive definition for the redundant work factor (Eq. 5) which can be solved to give an expression for the redundant work factor in terms of draw stress and controlled drawing parameters: (Eq. 6) Compared to classical estimates provided by Wistreich (Φ=0.8+∆/4.4)3,4, Fig. 6 shows that the model gives consistently lower redundant work factors, especially at larger values of ∆. Also unaccounted for in the classical model is the slight dependence on friction; since work lost to heat from friction is removed from the calculation, this dependence suggests there may be a fundamental difference in how the near-surface part of the wire deforms as friction is changed.

Wire containing inclusions The second part of the study was concerned with the deformation behavior of a perfectly plastic metal wire with a perfectly rigid inclusion located at its center, particularly the evolution of damage and shear strain fields around the rigid inclusion. In the first set of simulations, the wire was given five consecutive 15% area reductions with all die semiangles set to 6◦ and friction coefficient set to 0.03. Four different inclusion sizes, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20%, were tested. These percentages represent the relative diameters of the inclusions compared to the 88 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Fig. 6. Chart of the relationship between ∆ and the redundant work factor Φ for three different friction coefficients. Unlike in classical models, a dependence on friction is visible. original undeformed wire diameter. The following paragraphs will refer to different parts of the wire by names such as “equator” and “chevron”; for clarity, these features are labeled in Fig. 7.

The equator refers to the roughly toroidal region of wire that is in contact with the inclusion; the highest levels of strain and damage do not necessarily lie exactly at the inclusion’s equator or directly on the interior surface of the wire, but tend to form slightly upstream. Nevertheless, the highest shear strains and damages Fig. 7. Picture of were always recorded, regardless a simulated wire of their position in the equatorial around an inclusion region. The chevron is a feature with important found only as a shear strain field features labeled; the and manifests as a cone that orig- wire is drawn in the inates at the tip of the upstream up direction. void and fades gradually into the bulk of the wire from there; the chevron is of interest because of its similarity in shape to a center burst, a common failure mechanism in drawn wire.

Equatorial Damage Fig. 8 shows the evolution of damage in the equatorial region of a wire over the course of five reductions. It is believed the anomalous behavior of the 10%-sized inclusion, particularly the dip between passes three and four, is an artifact of automatic remeshing operations used by DEFORM®. Surprisingly, this information shows that while an inclusion definitely causes areas of concentrated damage in its vicinity, the actual size of the inclusion (at

TECHNICAL PAPERS Fig. 8. Chart showing the evolution of equatorial damage over five consecutive 15% area reductions for wires containing centerline inclusions of various sizes.

Fig. 10. Chart showing the effect of an initial 5% reduction on the evolution of damage in included wire after subsequent 15% passes for three different die semiangles. least within the 5%-to-20% range) bears little significance as far as the amount of damage caused.

For the 20%-sized inclusion, the simulation was run once more, but with the work hardening exponent “n” set to 0.1. Among the variables tested, equatorial damage was by far the most affected (see Fig. 9); both equatorial and chevron strains were virtually unchanged. While work hardenability was shown to have an affect on damage, the effect was considered too small to warrant the nearly twofold increase in computing time; all subsequent simulations were run with a work hardening exponent of zero. This approximation should be acceptable because it causes an overestimate of the damage, resulting in a built-in factor of safety in the final failure criterion that will be developed in later studies.

A final set of simulations was conducted to determine the lasting effects, if any, an initial low reduction pass had on the evolution of damage and shear strain in

Fig. 9. Chart of the relationship between work hardening exponent, n, and the evolution of equatorial damage in a wire with a 20%-sized inclusion.

Fig. 11. Chart showing the evolution of shear strain in the chevron region of wires containing centerline inclusions of various sizes over the course of five consecutive 15% area reductions. included wires after further reductions. These simulations once again used a coulombic friction coefficient of 0.03. The 20%-sized inclusion was used in order to have a high nodal resolution in the regions of interest. Three different die semiangles (3◦, 4.5◦ and 6◦) were tested.

Each angle tested was run two different ways; the first method consisted of five consecutive 15% reductions (labeled 15r in Fig. 10); the second method involved four consecutive 15% reductions after an initial 5% reduction (labeled 5+15r in Fig. 10). As indicated by the graph in Fig. 10, equatorial damage is irreparably elevated after the initial 5% reduction; the damage never returns to the 15%-only reference line, even after several additional passes.

Shear strain Returning to the previously mentioned set of simulations in which different inclusion sizes were tested,

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Fig. 13. Chart showing the effect of an initial 5% reduction on the evolution of equatorial shear strain in included wire after subsequent 15% passes for three different die semiangles.

shear strains were highly concentrated in two regions surrounding the inclusion (the equator and chevron), but as was the case with damage, inclusion size had little to do with the strain values. The notable exception to this was the inclusion of 5% size, around which shear strain was lower than in the other cases, as shown in Fig. 11.

This hints at the possibility of a threshold between 5% and 10% inclusion sizes where a change in deformation behavior occurs, leading to the maximum observed in the chart. This threshold may also exist for damage, but is likely below the 5% inclusion size.

In Fig. 12, a chart depicting chevron shear strain as a function of true uniform strain for various low-semiangle geometries, it is clear that higher angles seem to induce the most strain on the chevron region of the wire. Unlike what was encountered in the damage figures, the low-reduction initial pass actually lowered the accumulated amount of shear strain compared to the 15%-only treatment after sufficient passes, with a crossover point occurring somewhere between true uniform strains of 0.4 and 0.6.

Fig. 13 indicates that around the equator of the inclusion, shear strain behaves very differently than at the chevron. A cursory extrapolation of the angular dependence suggests there is a maximum in the equatorial shear strain for die geometries with semiangles of approximately 4◦. Even more pronounced than in the chevron region is the lowering of accumulated shear strain with an initial low-reduction pass. The crossover point between each same-angle pair occurs in the range of 0.45 to 0.50 true uniform strain. Depending on whether damage or shear strain is more indicative of these wires’ potential to fail, an initial low-reduction pass could either be a way to prevent these failures, or a primary cause of them.

Comparison of real wire breakages and the data suggests that the equator is the more likely of the two strain fields to induce a center burst and eventual failure. Failure at or near the inclusion equator is more consistent with the

appearance of the reallife breakages in which the male end of the cup and cone obscures one hemisphere of the inclusion. See Fig. 14. While the chevron strain field following Fig. 14. Scanning electron the inclusion has micrograph of the cone end of the characteristic a wire break with an inclusion shape of a typistill lodged in it. Its appearance cal center burst, is consistent with failure in the the strain values equatorial region. are significantly lower than those of the equator and are unlikely to be the source of these failures. Future research will develop a fracture criterion that depends on an interpretation of damage and shear strain values.

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Summary In conclusion, this study has furthered the understanding of how shear strain and damage fields evolve along the centerline of wires both with and without rigid inclusions.

Unfortunately, shear strain and Cockcroft and Latham damage do not always parallel each other, and in some cases, certain drawing practices (such as the low-reduction initial pass) will actually minimize one at the expense of the other. As a result, it cannot be determined at this time how given drawing practices will affect the probability of failure; the development of a fracture criterion in upcoming studies, however, will significantly increase the utility of this information, at which time inferences about better drawing practices can be made.

The support of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, as well as the continued generous support of our corporate sponsor, KISWIRE Ltd., Pohang City, Gyeongbuk, Korea, are all gratefully acknowledged.

References 1. M. G. Cockcroft and D. J. Latham, Journal of the Institute of Metals, 96, 1968. 33.

2. R. N. Wright, Wire Technology: Process Engineering and Metallurgy, Elsevier, Burlington, MA, 2011, 33.

3. J. G. Wistreich, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 169. 1955. 654.

4. R. N. Wright, Wire Technology, 4. 5, 1976, 57.

Professor Roger N. Wright, who joined the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1974, has contributed broadly to the literature in the areas of metallurgy and metals processing, and is active as a short-course lecturer and consultant. Prior to joining Rensselaer, he Wright worked at Westinghouse Electric and Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation.

He holds B.S. and Sc.D. degrees in metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Wright has received the WAI’s Mordica Memorial Award, and is a four-time winner of the Marshall V. Yokelson Memorial Medal. He is a registered professional engineer and a fellow of ASMI and SME. Christian A. Regalado, University of Florida, is a graduate student currently finishing a doctorate in Materials Science Regalado and Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to his work in ferrous wire, he developed niobium-rich titanium aluminide alloys for high-temperature applications with the late Dr. Fereshteh Ebrahimi at the University of Florida. This paper was presented at WAI’s 83rd Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 2013.

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TECHNICAL PAPERS Inline wire diagnosis The production of wire is defined worldwide by two parameters: quality and quantity. Quantity can be achieved simply with a high number of drawing machines and a high drawing speed.

Quality and the production process depend significantly on the properties of the process material and require coordinated production equipment, dies and media. In particular the geometrical and mechanical properties of the wire and their tolerances over its length have a strong impact.

Unlike quantity, there is nothing simple about producing quality!

By Marcus Paech and Walther Van Raemdonck

High-tech wire and its products are subject to high requirements in terms of reject rate and achieving a defined geometry. The only way to influence these parameters positively is with properties which are constant over the wire's length. In practice, constant properties over length are verifiable only with limitations. On wire drawing machines, for example, only the wire diameter might typically being monitored continuously.

As for the wire's mechanical properties, directives specify quantitative parameters which must be determined after the wire drawing process by discontinuous and destructive means in tensile tests according to DIN EN 10002. The state of the art is to perform the tensile test on up to five wire offcuts or samples. The results of the tensile test are then regarded as representative of the entire reel or the entire coil and are presented to the customer or wire processor in the form of a certificate.

With the Inline Wire Diagnosis it is aimed to provide an alternative certificate based on the continuous and non-destructive determination and documentation of changes to a wire's strength over its length. Here the focus is not on a change of tensile strength Rm, which in various standards concerning the terms of delivery for long products is considered as the only relevant tension parameter, but on a change of the technical yield point Rp0.2. A change of the technical yield point is more important than tensile strength for technical and commercial objectives because it is decisive for the elastic-plastic forming processes which follow the wire drawing process.

a simulation calculation. Each simulation calculation is carried out with different discrete values of the variation parameters. The variation parameters are the wire diameter d and the technical yield point Rp0.2, i.e. the target values of the Inline Wire Diagnosis. Using the nominal value of the wire diameter and the nominal value of the technical yield point as reference, the variation limits of the variation parameters are defined by the permissible deviations according to the relevant directive or the relevant terms of delivery. Spring steel wire, for example, is governed by the directive DIN EN 10270-1. Each simulation calculation considers not only the data of the wire process material but also the geometrical data of a diagnosis unit which is similar in layout to a roll straightening unit. Other physical elements of the process are a straightening system upstream from the diagnosis unit (Fig. 1) and a device for identifying the wire diameter.

Process The structure of the Inline Wire Diagnosis process has two levels. On a preparatory level, a process simulator uses mathematical-physical models to simulate a forming process1. The process simulator carries out a variation calculation, which in effect is a repeat performance of 92 | WIRE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Fig. 1. Straightening system and diagnosis unit.

TECHNICAL PAPERS Fig. 2. Physical element of the process with parameters.

The straightening units of the straightening system and the diagnosis unit use rolls with defined adjustability as tools for configuring the straightening processes and for configuring the diagnosis process.

Fig. 2 presents a number of the wire's geometrical parameters and shows by way of example the parameters of those physical elements of the process which are equipped with rolls. The adjustment ai of the rolls i (i = 1-7) during the wire's pass subjects it to elastic-plastic alternating deformations which are the basis for the change of the wire's geometrical parameters and also the basis for the diagnosis of the wire over its length.

Each roll-equipped physical element of the process has an identical straightening or deformation range Δ which is defined by the pitch T (the distance between the rolls) and the diameter of the rolls D. See Fig. 2.

In accordance with these data, the straightening and deformation range has a permissible limit for the minimum wire diameter dmin and the maximum wire diameter dmax to be processed. dmin ≤ Δ ≤ dmax" (Eq. 1) Given straightening units with a process-compatible configuration and a diagnosis unit with a process compatible configuration, then the deformation processes will be defined by the reciprocal value of the curvature radius r or the curvature and material properties of the wire at specified actual values of the wire diameter and the technical yield point. Any impact of the curvature in the diagnosis unit is ruled out by a special adjustment method or early smoothing of the wire curvature2 in the straightening system upstream from the diagnosis unit. For the diagnosis unit this results in a relationship between the parameters of the wire and the target values of the Inline Wire Diagnosis (diameter, technical yield point) and the diagnosis process parameter roll force FRi3 which, uninfluenced by the curvature, is mapped by a relationship matrix as the result of the variation calculation.

Fig. 3 presents by way of example a relationship matrix for a bezinal wire of grade SH with nominal diameter dN = 2.1 mm and nominal yield point Rp0.2N = 1700 MPa. The variation limits of the variation parameters are defined in accordance with directive DIN EN 10270-1 with equation 2 and 3.

2.075 ≤ dN ≤ 2.125 mm" 1625 ≤ Rp0.2N ≤ 1775 MPa"

(Eq. 2) (Eq. 3)

Fig. 3. Relationship matrix as a result of the variation calculation.

The information content of the relationship matrix describes for discrete values of the variation parameters the relationship to the diagnosis process parameter roll force. Using the data of the relationship matrix, a functional relationship is derived on the process preparation level with the help of assessment statistics methods. For the dependence documented in Fig. 3 there are the three random variables x1, x2 and y. The parameters a, b1 and b2 in equation 4 are estimated by multiple linear regression. ŷ = a + b1 · x1 + b2 ·x2"

(Eq. 4.)

For the estimation ŷ it is aimed to achieve a good adjustment to all the values of the random variable y. The quality of the adjustment is reflected by the degree of determination B. The closer the degree of determination to the value 1, the greater the conformance between y and ŷ.

Eq. 5 describes the estimation for the example according to equation 2 and 3 and Fig. 3. Ȓp0.2 = 191688 - 11355·d + 14.4777 ·FRi" B = 0.9881" (Eq. 5) On the implementation level of the process, the actual value of the wire diameter and the measured roll force thus result in the estimated value for the technical yield point Ȓp0.2. A continuous and non-destructive estimation of the technical yield point over the wire's length is achieved accordingly from continuous identification of the wire diameter and the roll force.

Static tests, which are performed as part of a verification process and indicate a relative error of +/- 3%, document the quality of the process simulator. The error is determined from the expected value of the roll force from the simulation on the one hand and from the exact value of the roll force or the measured roller force on the other hand.

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Fig. 5. Elastic-plastic deformation of the wire in the diagnosis unit.

Fig. 6. Measured values of the roll force, diameter and speed of the wire.

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in the form of a table and a diagram. All data are saved in TDMS format together with verbal notes on the project.

The test run is performed at a wire speed of 5.8 m/s for four finished reels on a Bekaert dry drawing machine under production conditions. The straightening system and the diagnosis unit are installed in the area of the last drawing machine block. The wire passes from the lower capstan of the last block through the straightening system and the diagnosis unit to a deflector roller which deflects the wire onto the upper capstan.

Directly after the upper capstan the wire passes through the unit for identifying the wire diameter. The offset between the diagnosis unit and the diameter measuring device is defined and taken into account by the Inline Wire Diagnosis. The running direction of the wire from left to right (Fig. 1) enables the roll force to be measured in the diagnosis unit on the discharge side. The measuring frequency for all the previously mentioned parameters and variables equals 5 kHz. The rolls of the straightening system and the diagnosis unit are set with defined adjustments for the elastic-plastic deformation of the wire (Fig. 5). The adjustment of the rolls in the diagnosis unit corresponds to 1.4 times the maximum elastic adjustment. This goes hand in hand with an only small change of wire curvature through deformations in the diagnosis unit, which is changed by a downstream straightening system into the desired constant residual curvature.

Fig. 6 shows by way of example the characteristic curve of the parameters and variables as a function of time or wire length. During the acceleration and deceleration of the wire, the roll force displays high dynamics. This is caused by a non-constant difference in force between the drawing force and the backpull force during the acceleration and deceleration phase. It can be influenced by the drawing machine design, the drawing machine control system, the control parameters and the drawing process configuration. For example, higher numbers of turns on the lower and upper capstan will help to improve the constancy of the difference in force between drawing and backpull force, which will also be reflected in the time-related characteristic curve of the wire speed. Between the acceleration and deceleration phase, the roll force has a characteristic curve which can be used for the Inline Wire Diagnosis. Like the roll force, the wire diameter also displays high dynamics in the area of the acceleration and deceleration phase. The causes are unknown and need to be discussed. They cannot be derived from the laser measuring principle. For this reason it should be noted that the quality of diameter measurement

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is hardly adaptable to the requirements of dry wire drawing under production conditions.

Wire vibrations and above all dirt deposits formed from e.g. drawing soap and coating chips have a negative effect on inline measurement of the diameter. As can be seen in Fig. 6, the dirt accumulations soon cause the diameter measurement signal to signal fail. The splash guard and air curtain provided by the manufacturer of the diameter measuring device do not produce an improvement which leads to a permanently reliable signal. Certainly, the maintenance recommended by the manufacturer – namely regular cleaning of the measuring windows – does help to enable the temporary use of the device, but maintenance intervals of five minutes are hardly viable for the operator Fig. 7. Time-related characteristic and histogram of the yield point for of a drawing machine. project #18 (finished reel #4/1).

In view of these disadvantageous boundary conditions, the Inline Wire Diagnosis test run is restricted to a time and wire zone which is not only uninfluenced by the wire acceleration and deceleration but also based on a plausible diameter measuring signal. On the implementation level of the Inline Wire Diagnosis, the characteristic curves of the roll force and diameter presented in Fig. 6 result in a characteristic curve of the technical yield point in accordance with Fig. 7. The area of the estimated value of the yield point which is highlighted in black has been evaluated and results in the assigned histogram. The standard deviation and the median of the technical yield point can be used to evaluate the wire and to compare projects or wire reels.

The projects or wire reels are classified on the basis of the standard deviation Fig. 8: Time-related characteristic and histogram of the yield point for of the estimated value of the technical project #12 (finished reel 2/1). yield point and assigned to one of the in Fig. 8 indicates a poor level of wire quality. The stanfollowing arbitrary defined quality grades: Very Good, dard deviation of the technical yield point in project #12 Good, Satisfactory, Adequate or Poor. The class limits are is approx. 109 % greater. This is owed to accordingly illustrated by the equations 6 to 10. large standard deviations of the wire diameter and the 40 ≤ VERY GOOD < 50 MPa" (Eq. 6) roll force, which in project #12 are approx. 200 % and 50 ≤ GOOD < 60 MPa" (Eq. 7) approx. 75 % greater than in project #18.

60 ≤ SATISFACTORY < 70 MPa" (Eq. 8) To assess the plausibility of the time-related charac70 ≤ ADEQUATE < 80 MPa" (Eq. 9) teristic of the wire diameter and the estimated value of 80 ≤ POOR ≤ 90 MPa" (Eq. 10) the technical yield point, the wire diameter is measured and tensile tests in accordance with DIN EN 10002 are Accordingly, project #18 in Fig. 7 reflects a very good performed after the test run on select wire sections of the constancy of the technical yield point while project #12 projects and finished reels. Table 1 presents the results of

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Project/ Reel/

BEKAERT

WITELS-ALBERT & BEKAERT

d [mm]

Rp0.2 [MPa]

MEDIAN d [mm]

STD d [mm]

MEDIAN FRi [N]

STD FRi [N]

MEDIAN Rp0.2 [MPa]

STD Rp0.2 [MPa]

#10/#1/1

2.099

1704

2.114

0.0052

445.7

3.51

1630

70.4

#11/#1/2

2.099

1694

2.111

0.0044

448.8

4.10

1680

75.1

#12/#2/1

2.098

1716

2.111

0.0039

453.9

4.86

1746

88.2

#14/#3/1

2.095

1699

2.109

0.0047

451.0

3.40

1737

69.9

#15/#3/2

2.094

1733

2.111

0.0028

465.6

2.54

1928

50.3

#18/#4/1

2.097

1686

2.105

0.0013

446.6

2.78

1729

42.1

#19/#4/2

2.100

1693

2.106

0.0019

448.0

2.73

1742

42.9

Table 1. Tensile test (Bekaert) versus Inline Wire Diagnosis (Witels-Albert & Bekaert). the Inline Wire Diagnosis test run along with the results of the wire diameter measurements and the tensile tests.

The wire diameter determined on the wire sections before the tensile tests lies below the respective median of the wire diameter which results from the Inline Wire Diagnosis. The results of the test run are largely confirmed by the results of the tensile test, which in all cases satisfy the directive DIN EN 10270-1. Only in project #15 (finished reel #3/2) is the technical yield point determined with the Inline Wire Diagnosis distinctly greater than the comparative value from the tensile test. The reasons for this and for the large spectrum of standard deviations of the technical yield point from the Inline Wire Diagnosis could not be sufficiently identified in the context of the test run. It is thought that the drawing machine and the drawing process as well as specific states of the drawing machine and the drawing process may have an influence.

For example, there is a correlation between the results of the project #15 (finished reel #3/2) and a significant increase in the tensile strength as a result of a temporarily blocked capstan cooling. In this connection it should be pointed out that the purpose of the Inline Wire Diagnosis is not to determine the actual technical yield point but to identify changes in the technical yield point.

Conclusion The Inline Wire Diagnosis is designed to determine changes of the technical yield point. It is based on identifying the wire diameter, on measuring the roll force, and on relevant mechanical laws of the model of the three-fold statically undefined bend, which is assumed to be valid for the deformation process performed with a diagnosis unit.

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The project contributes to the assessment and adjustment of a wire product's quality. The continuous availability of information about changes in the wire's diameter and the technical yield point creates a new system of values for the classification of wire grades, which focuses on permanently determining the constancy of these properties and their correlating technical and economic aspects. For users such as wire drawing or processing companies, this opens up the innovative possibility of marketing their products on the basis of a consistently verifiable quality and of adjusting the quality selectively and continuously, e.g. through their choice of tools, the control system of the drawing or processing machine, the control parameters, and the configuration of the drawing or processing process.

Further studies will consider how to increase the robustness of the Inline Wire Diagnosis, in particular the need to reduce the influence of the non-constant difference in force between the drawing and backpull force. The results obtained so far indicate that both the identification of the roll force and the identification of the wire diameter are influenced by the non-constant difference in force between the drawing and backpull force.

If the need for the Inline Wire Diagnosis is questioned, then so must that of diameter measurement: the difference in the standard deviation of the wire diameter are significantly higher than the differences in the standard deviation of the roll force. In this connection it should be asked why the contactless measurement of wire diameter has become so widespread, particularly considering that the results over the wire length are uncertain, are not continuously identified and documented, and are not made available in useful form for subsequent processes.

Literature 1. W. Guericke, M. Paech, and E. Albert, “Simulation of the wire straightening process,” Wire Industry, 8, 1996, pp.

613-620.

2. Paech, M. “Roller straightening process and peripherals,” Wire, 51, 2001, 2, pp. 76-82.

3. M. Paech, “Advanced semi-automatic straightening technology,” Wire Journal International, July 2008, pp.

74-79.

Marcus Paech is technical managing director at Witels-Albert GmbH, Berlin, Germany, a position he has held since 2002. Prior to that he was research and development manager. He previously was a member of the scientific staff in the department of machinery and drive engineering at Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany. He studied Paech engineering at Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg. Walther Van Raemdonck has been senior technology manager global processes in the Applied Technology and Manufacturing Department of NV Bekaert SA, Zwevegem, Belgium, since 2012. He joined the company in 1986 and has since been involved in numerous product and process development projVan Raemdonck ects for steel cord and wire. He earned a PhD degree in metallurgy and applied materials science from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. This paper was presented at CabWire World Conference, Milan, Italy, Nov. 2013.

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Further studies are concerned with the influence of adjustments to the rolls of the straightening system and to the rolls of the diagnosis unit. It is very likely that roll adjustments which affect a greater elastic-plastic deformation of the wire lead to an increase in the robustness of the Inline Wire Diagnosis and to a reduction of the influence of the non-constant difference in force between the drawing and backpull force. It is proposed to increase the adjustment of the rolls of the diagnosis unit step by step to double the maximum elastic adjustment. An accordingly modified diagnosis unit is used in parallel to measure the transport force in the wire passing direction and to assess the static relationship to the roll force. The empirical covariance and the correlation coefficient will qualify indications of the correlation between the forces and specific roll adjustments for the straightening system and for the diagnosis unit for the Inline Wire Diagnosis.

Further wire materials and wire grades must be investigated in addition in an extended test run. Alternatives to the contactless measurement of wire diameter are being considered.

Finally, the authors would like to point out that they look on the exchange of information on the process material wire as a major element of the new, knowledge-based wire industry. The path to a more open phase of cooperation needs to be laid for the sustained development of the wire industry. Although more efforts have to be spent to make the Inline Wire Diagnosis more robust and the interpretation more reliable, the authors are convinced that the process of the Inline Wire Diagnosis is a promising tool to monitor the consistency of drawn wire mechanical properties, helping to fine tune the processing and to better understand the intrinsic material characteristics.

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Visit our stand #719 at Interwire 2015

FOR SALE

1 - OMA 48-Carrier Braider w/Caterpuller, 2012 1 - HACOBA Model DF24 24-Carrier Braider 12 - WARDWELL 24-Carrier Braiders 8 - WARDWELL 12-Carrier Braiders 1 - NEB 72-C #2 Braider, Long Legs, Motor 1 - REEL-O-MATIC 24” Caterpuller Capstan 2 - FARRIS 22”, 30” Caterpuller Capstans 2 - ROYLE 24” Belt Wrap Capstans 1 - VITECK 36” Belt Wrap Capstan, CBW-36-D 2 - NEB 12-Wire 8” Vertical Planetary Cablers 1 - ALLARD 30” S.T. Closer 2 - DAVIS STANDARD 4.5” 24:1 Extruders 1 - DAVIS STANDARD 3.5” Rubber Extruder 2 - DAVIS STANDARD 2”, 2.5” Hi-Temp Extruders

2 - TEC 2-Position 16” Powered Payoffs 1 - DYNAMEX Tape Payoff, Model TPB30-2-D 2 - 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 7 - KINREI 560mm D.T. Twisters 1 - METEOR Model ME301 3-Head Winder 1 - TEC Model DTC630 D.T. Twister 1 - ENTWISTLE 4WDT24 4-W 24” D.T. Twisters 2 - NEWMCO 16” D.T. Quadders 1 - METRONIC AlphaJet C Inkjet Printer, 2005 1 - HALL Tape Accumulator 1 - WARBRICK “Chalkmaster” Talc Applicator 1 - EUBANKS Model 4000-04 C/S Machine

1 - ENTWISTLE 2” 24:1 Extruder 1 - DAVIS STANDARD 1” 24:1 Extruder 1 - AFA 84” Portal Payoff 2 - TULSA 96” Payoffs, Model CTPO-30, 2005 1 - SKALTEK 1600mm Payoff, Model A16-4K

1 - SCHLEUNIGER Model UC3750 Cutter 1 - SCHLEUNIGER Model HS4500 Hot Stamper 1 - SCHLEUNIGER Model CT32, CT42 Crimpers 2 - IMCS Bulk Bag Unloaders, 4,000lb capacity 1 - Overhead Payoff/Take-up Accumulator, 36”

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benefits will be offered. Please send resume to info@ttmarketinginc.com.

PERSONNEL SERVICES “LET OUR SUCCESS BE YOUR SUCCESS” Wire Resources is the foremost recruiting firm in the Wire & Cable Industry. Since 1967 we have partnered with industry Manufacturers to secure the services of executives, managers, and thousands of key individual contributors. Contact: Peter Carino, pcarino@ wireresources.com or online at www.linkedin.com/in/petercarino1/ Wire Resources Inc., PO Box 593, Riverside, CT 06878, tel. 203-6223000. www.wireresources.com.

DIES APOLLO DIA-CARB COMPANY Sells Natural/PCD diamond dies.

Fair prices/excellent lead times.

Contact Paulette, Owner/Sales Tel. #1 (508) 226-0946 E-mail: apollodie@comcast.net.

MACHINERY 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.

MEDIA THE SMALL SHOP. This book, 327 pages, by Gary Conner describes Six Sigma and how it is used by smaller companies. Published by SMA, it costs Price, $95, $75 for WAI members, plus shipping. To purchase, go to wirenet. org and click on The WAI Store.

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AlphaGary Corp ...........................................Cover 2

W Gillies Technologies LLC ................................73

Amaral Automation Associates ..........................25

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ADVERTISERS’ INDEX ADVERTISER ............................ PAGE Properzi International Inc ....................................49 Proton Products International Ltd ................50, 81 Queins Machines GmbH ......................................39

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Rainbow Rubber & Plastics Inc ............................2 REELEX Packaging Solutions Inc ......................71 Sanxin Wire Die Inc ..............................................13 Sheaves Inc...........................................................83 SIKORA AG .............................................................7 Sjogren Industries Inc ....................................42-43 Joe Snee Associates............................................59 Steel Cable Reels .................................................62 August Strecker GmbH & Co KG........................79 Talladega Castings and Machine Co Inc..............4 Tecnofil SA ............................................................76 Teknikor ................................................................15 Teknor Apex Co ....................................................37 Trafco Srl ...............................................................64 Tubular Products Co ............................................21 Unitek/Howar Equipment.....................................12 United Wire Co Inc ...............................................30 Vandor Corporation .............................................17 WAFIOS Machinery Corp ............................Cover 3 Weber & Scher Mfg Co Inc ..................................65 Windak Group .........................................................5 Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp .............................9 Wirex Dies and Steel Pvt Ltd...............................16 Wire Lab Co ..........................................................19 Witels Albert USA Ltd ..........................................70 Woodburn Diamond Die Inc ................................44 Wyrepak Industries ........................................22, 60 Zumbach Electronics Corp .................................45

WIRE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL ADS WAI Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Interwire 2015 Registration Form . . . . . . . . . . 78 Interwire 2015 Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Global Continuous Casting Forum Sponsors . . 68

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