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CONTENTS

Volume 48 | Number 9 | September 2015

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

FEATURES

Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Industry News. . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Asian Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Fiber Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Fastener Update . . . . . . . . . . 23

Preview: IWCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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

IWCS heads to Atlanta with its new director, a full technical program and high hopes.

Chapter Corner . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Preview: wire South America . . 38

Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Messe Düsseldorf, the largest organizer of wire and cable industry trade shows, returns to São Paulo, Brazil, for its second staging of wire South America.

Technical Papers . . . . . . 72-83 Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Career Opportunities . . . . . . 85

Compounds and Colorants . . . . 48 Suppliers of compounds and colorants share their thoughts on the industry as well as some of the latest products they offer wire and cable manufacturers.

Advertisers’ Index . . . . . . . . 87

TECHNICAL PAPERS

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Cover: Compounds and colorants, two of the industry basics, continue to evolve as do standards and the needs of customers. Cover image from SACO Polymers.

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TECH (CONTINUES) TO RULE AT IWCS . 34 Led by its new high-energy leader, Dave Kiddoo, IWCS will continue to offer a comprehensive educational program for the wire and cable industry when the event is staged for the 64th time on Monday, Oct. 5, through Thursday, Oct. 8, at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia.

The event, we are assured, maintains its technical soul while offering more for attendees.

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WIRE SOUTH AMERICA . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Messe Dßsseldorf, organizers of wire South America, observes that there is much potential in Brazil’s construction, automotive and consumer electronics industries, which in turn makes wire South America 2015 an ideal platform for international companies to access these growing markets when the event is held next month.

The event is supported by the International Wire & Machinery Association (IWMA), the Wire and Cable Industry Suppliers Association (WCISA) and the Italian Wire Machinery Manufacturers Association (ACIMAF).

EDITORIAL EDITORIAL

No dim bulbs when it comes to energy savings This is not a wire and cable industry story, but it’s a reminder that popular perception, a collective sense of what seems to read and feel right, doesn’t always work.

Consider that July 2015 has been declared the hottest month, globally, since records were first recorded by climatologists in 1880. Records likely were also set for the numbers of people who cranked up their AC, but something didn’t happen this summer, or the last half-dozen or so, all of which were smolderingly miserable: there have not been waves of rolling brown-outs. Far from it, there was no 2015 energy shortage reported by PJM Interconnection LLC, an RTO that oversees the U.S.’s largest single power grid, serving some 61 million customers. Further, carbon dioxide emissions from electricity producers in 2013 declined by 15% to 2.17 billion metric tons (bmt) from 2005, and in 2014 those emissions dropped to 2.043 bmt.

If one had to guess what happened, one might point to the collective inflow of alternative energy, but that wasn’t the case. Per consulting firm Wood Mackenzie, Ltd., one of the unheralded keys was far simpler: the switchover from fluorescent light bulbs to LEDs. “It’s a total bulb revolution,” Prajit Ghosh, director of power and renewables research at Wood Mackenzie, said in an interview with Bloomberg. “The decline in load growth from both macroeconomic factors and energy-efficiency gains is by far the biggest reason carbon emissions fell. At least for the last five years, a majority of these savings came from lighting.” Contributing to the picture were also more efficient washing machines and air conditioners as well as televisions and computer monitors, but the lowly light bulb was singled out. Turns out, the new LED bulbs aren’t so lowly. They use 75 to 80% less energy and last as much as 25 times longer. Their cost has also fallen, up to 85% in the last six years.

The basic light bulb accounts for 5% of a home’s electrical use, which doesn’t seem like a lot, but once the changeover to LEDs is completed, it should save enough electricity to power 20 million American homes, notes the U.S. Energy Department. Those savings would meet half of the emissions cuts sought under the Clean Power Plan. Grid operators Duke Energy Corp. and American Electric Power, Co., among others, have also recognized energy efficiencies as helping them reduce carbon emissions.

Renewable energy, also a contributor, inevitably will become more so in the U.S., but for now, declares Wood Mackenzie, the LED remains the shining light.

All of which serves to show that perception, which cuts across a lot of everyday work and life turf, may not always be as illuminating as we think.

Mark Marselli Editor-in-chief

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CALENDAR Sept. 16-18, 2015: wire Southeast Asia 2015 Bangkok, Thailand. To be held in the Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC).

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. Contact: Pat Hudak, IWCS, tel. 717-9939500, phudak@iwcs.org, iwcs.org. See p. 34.

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. See p. 38.

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 7-9, 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.

Sept. 26-29, 2016: wire China 2016 Shanghai, China. The 7th All China International Wire & Cable Industry Trade Fair will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC). Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

Oct. 5-7, 2016: Spring World 2016 Rosemont, Illinois, USA. To be held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, this event is organized by CASMI (Chicago Association of Spring Manufacturers, Inc.) Contact: CASMI Office, tel. 847-447-1087, info@ casmi-springworld.org

WIRE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL EVENTS For more information, contact the WAI, USA. Tel. 001-203-453-2777; fax 001-203-453-8384; www.wirenet.org.

Sept. 14, 2015: New England Chapter 21st Annual Golf Tournament Ellington, Connecticut. USA. The chapter will return to the Ellington Ridge Country Club. Contact: Anna Bzowski, tel. 203-453-2777, abzowski@wirenet.org.

Sept. 17, 2015: Ohio Valley 12th Annual Golf Tournament, Solon, Ohio, USA. The chapter will return to the Grantwood Golf Course. Contact: Steve Fetteroll at sfetteroll@wirenet.org, tel. 203-453-1748.

Oct. 5, 2015: Western Chapter’s 15th Annual Golf Tournament Fontana, California, USA. The chapter will return to the Sierra Lakes Golf Course. Contact: John Stevens, tel.

905-851-5633, jstevens@emc-wire.com.

Oct. 15, 2015: The Vannais Southeast Chapter’s 14th Annual Golf Tournament Conover, North Carolina, USA. The Southeast Chapter will return to the Rock Barn Golf and Spa. Contact: Art Deming, tel. 252-955-9451, art.deming@nexans.com.

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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, CET and the WAI. More details to follow at www.cabwire.com.

June 7-9, 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.

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INDUSTRY NEWS Leoni opens new wiring systems plant in China to supply automotive client Germany’s Leoni, which has been active in China for more than 20 years, reports that it has opened its fifth wire systems production plant in Tieling, northern China, where it will develop and manufacture products for several vehicle models for BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd. (BBA).

A press release said that BBA is a joint venture between BMW AG of Germany and its Chinese partner Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd. Leoni is investing a total of €35 million in equipment and the new building, which has more than 25,000 sq m of space and room for up to 2,000 employees when running at full capacity, said Dr. Andreas Brand, a Leoni board member who is in charge of the Wiring Systems Division (WSD). Serial production is scheduled to commence in early 2016.

tive, industry, medical technology, household appliances and photo-voltaic. Overall, the Leoni Group now employs more than 9,000 people in 12 plants in the country.

Mexico sets dumping penalties for steel wire producers from 3 countries

Mexico has concluded a preliminary anti-dumping investigation into imports of prestressing steel wire from Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese companies, assessing dumping penalties as high as 147%.

An article in tax-news.com said that on Feb. 16, 2015, the government began its investigation that had been requested by Mexican manufacturers. The inquiry covered the period from May 1, 2011, to April 30, 2014.

Per the article, Mexico’s Secretariat of Economy said that there was sufficient evidence to suggest that, during the period under investigation, imports of prestressing wire from the three countries in question entered Mexico at below market “dumped” prices. Mexico assessed dumping margins of 147.04% and 45.13% for Chinese and Portuguese exports, respectively. A dumping margin of 14.49% was found for Spanish company Global Special, while all other Spanish exports of prestressing wire would be subject to anti-dumping duties at a rate based on a dumping margin of 28.62%.

Prysmian Group to supply cables for offshore Belwind 2 wind farm Leoni’s new plant in China will serve a joint venture of BMW and its Chinese partner.

“We are delighted to have significantly expanded our production capacity in China with this plant in Tieling and from there to be able to supply BBA as a new customer,” Brand said at the opening ceremony. “The facility underscores that Leoni continues to see promise in the growth market of China and is able to broaden its business with additional contracts.”

The release said that with the new plant, the WSD division now has five production facilities, the others located in Shanghai, Jining, Penglai and Langfang, with total employment of about 6,300 people. All the plants produce cable harnesses and wiring systems for the car and commercial vehicle industry, also supplying local manufacturers in addition to customers based in Europe and the Americas. Leoni WSD also has a location with operational units in Changchun.

Leoni’s other division, Wire & Cable Solutions (WCS), operates seven plants in China, with about 2,800 employees who produce wires and strands, optical fibers, special cables and cable solutions for such markets as automo-

The Prysmian Group reports that it has won a contract from Nobelwind to supply inter-array cables for the 181.5 MW Belwind 2 offshore wind farm off the coast of Zeebrugge in Belgium.

A press release said that Prysmian will design and supply 33kV submarine cables with various cross-sections to connect the 55 turbines and an offshore high voltage substation (OHVS) near the existing OHVS of Belwind1. Further, a 33kV coupling cable will be supplied for use as a back-up connection between the Belwind1 OHVS and the Bligh Bank OHVS, it said.

Prysmian will supply cables for the Belwind 2 offshore wind farm.

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Bekaert expects rebuilding of Georgia plant to be done by end of November Last year, Bekaert Corporation had already begun a $29 million upgrade of its plant in Rome, Georgia, when the site suffered major damage in a Nov. 19 fire.

Now, the company is closing in on completion of the upgrade.

Per media reports, Bekaert Plant Manager Gary Downey recently told Rome Rotarians that he hoped that none of them would ever have to go through a fire like the one that devastated the plant, destroying close to 80,000 sq ft of production space. He said that reconstruction and installation of new technology, which was slated to happen before the fire, is expected to be complete by the end of November, with the Belgium-based parent company investing an addi-

Google view of Bekaert’s plant in Rome, Georgia.

3D printer technology to take over? ... rule may not ‘connect’ for fasteners 3D Printer technology may be the media darling, but it is not necessarily a given that it will grasp all fields… especially when it comes to potential uses for fasteners.

PR Newswire reported that a business survey from FMW Fasteners found that customers “are fairly clear they do not see 3D printers as a viable option to produce their future supplies.” Of those surveyed, nearly 60% said they were unlikely or very unlikely to turn to 3D printing as an alternative to purchasing fasteners from specialists. Of the remainder, 30% were unsure, and just 10% were likely or very likely to see 3D printing as a viable option, it said.

“These results surprised us,” said FMW Marketing Director Steve Baker, “There’s a lot of noise Fasteners produced by a 3D printer. around 3D printers so we thought it was prudent to gauge what our customers thought about them, whether they could foresee a future where they could create their own fasteners with their 3D printer.” He noted that about 60% of FMW’s customers run their own business or are self-employed, with 40% of purchases coming from DIY enthusiasts.

“Our results are a pretty definite ‘no’ from all our customers,” Baker said. “Fasteners have got to be strong – they’ve got to be able to be robust enough to not fail under stress. Is plastic that strong and robust? Until we can see genuine strength from a fastener produced from a 3D printer, the trust will not be there to go ahead and mass produce.”

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The company will also provide the offshore cable termination and testing services for the project.

The cables will be produced in Prysmian’s facility in Drammen, Norway, and installation works are scheduled to be completed by the first half of 2017, the release said. It added that the installation will be done by DeepOcean.

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tional $16 million into the facility. The investment, he said, will retain 120 jobs at the 301 Darlington Drive plant.

Downey met with the Rome Floyd County Development Authority and told them that the steel wire manufacturer planned to increase its original reinvestment in the plant.

This not only will ensure the Rome plant will be more efficient and cost-effective, but further strengthen the company’s bonds to the Greater Rome community, he said in a media release.

Billionaire Warren Buffett expands his empire with acquisition of PCC Billionaire Warren Buffett has scored a major coup with its $37.2 billion acquisition of Precision Castparts Corp. (PCC), a mammoth enterprise that employs some 30,000 people in three segments: investment cast products, forged products, and airframe products, the last of which includes fasteners in its product range.

The deal by Buffett, via his Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., business, was especially noteworthy as PCC itself has made some 30 acquisitions since CEO Mark Donegan took over in 2002. The airframe products segment develops and manufactures engineered fasteners, fastener systems, aero structures and precision components. Its products can be found on “nearly every aircraft in the sky,” including Boeing, Airbus, GE, Rolls-Royce and other manufacturers.

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Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett at the company’s annual meeting. Reuters photo/Rick Wilking.

Per an article in Bloomberg, Donegan has overseen at least $8.1 billion in acquisitions since becoming CEO, based on 12 deals. Through the purchases, Donegan has been able to maintain annual operating margins of at least 22% since 2008 and gross margins of 30% or more since 2010, it said. PCC reported a profit of $1.53 billion on net sales of $10 billion for its latest fiscal year.

At its website, PCC Fastener Products notes that, dating back to the founding of SPS Technologies in 1903, “it

Sevkabel supplies cable products for use in a nuclear plant in Belarus The Russian Group of Companies, Sevkabel, has supplied cable products for a nuclear power plant that is being built in Belarus.

A report in the Belarusian News said that Sevkabel won the contract earlier this year from Belelektromontazh Company to deliver cable and wire products for the nuclear power plant. Per Alexei Kaukiajnen, Sevkabel’s acting commercial director, some of the products delivered, with three more shipments to be made by this October. The AES-2006 type nuclear power plant, which is located 18 km from Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast, will have two power-generating units with the total output capacity of up to 2,400 MW, it said.

Sevkabel was described as one of the largest Russian cable companies, producing more than 20,000 types of cables and wires. Per its website, the company is the third largest cable producer in Russia. Its products are sold in the Russian regions, CIS and EU countries.

ABB completes divestment of U.S. cable factory to Southwire ABB reports that it has completed the divestment of its U.S. high-voltage/extra-high-voltage cable factory in Huntersville, North Carolina, to Southwire Company.

A press release said that the selling of the 240,000-sqft facility, which was opened in 2012, was “in line with ABB’s Next Level strategy to continuously optimize portfolio and to build strategic partnerships.” It said that the parties, which mutually agreed not to disclose the financial terms of the transaction, will pursue a business relationship to leverage the facility for the land cable portion of certain HVDC projects.

ABB remains fully committed to the North American market and to the high-voltage cables business, said the release, which noted that the company the ABB Group of companies operates in roughly 100 countries and employs about 140,000 people.

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has focused on critical components, creating new materials, designs, and manufacturing practices to satisfy an ever-changing aerospace industry—from the first generation of propeller-driven military aircraft to today’s higher temperature gas turbine engines and composite airframes.”

“I’ve admired PCC’s operation for a long time,” Buffett said in a statement. “For good reasons, it is the supplier of choice for the world’s aerospace industry, one of the largest sources of American exports.”

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PCCS deployment bolsters bandwidth for Caribbean and Central America

A member of the consortium behind the Pacific Caribbean Cable System (PCCS) reports that the submarine cable, which was commissioned by Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks, represents a big plus in terms of providing reliable broadband service.

An element of the PCCS system.

A press release from Telefónica, which partnered with C&W Networks, Telconet, Setar and United Telecommunication Services (UTS), has strengthened its infrastructure in the Americas with deployment of the submarine cable that links the U.S. with Ecuador. The cable is designed to provide transmission capacity of up to 80 Tbps, which links Jacksonville, Florida, with Manta in Ecuador. The overall PCCS, 6,000 km, also connects the islands of Tortola, Puerto Rico, Aruba and Curacao, as well as Cartagena in Colombia and Maria Chiquita and Balboa in Panama.

“With a total capacity of 80 Tbps the new cable substantially increases connectivity and the availability of broadband services, thus addressing the exponential data transmission demand generated by Telefónica’s corporate clients, telco operators, internet companies and consumers,” the release said. “The PCCS helps increase the reliability of communications, reducing the risk of interruptions by providing diverse routing options and alternative access to other broadband cables in the region.

The new cable also offers great flexibility and scalability to deliver multiple transmission speed options ... (and) is able to increase its capacity transparently, without interruption to traffic.”

Telefónica notes that its international network consists of more than 65,000 km of fiber optic cables deployed on a terrestrial and submarine infrastructure that connects the U.S., Americas and Europe. One of its main assets is the Sam-1, a submarine cable system deployed in 2000, which forms a 25,000-km ring linking the U.S., Central America and South America. Telefónica also uses the Unisur cable that connects Uruguay with Las Toninas in Argentina.

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Prysmian expands optical fiber plant in Brazil as part of investment plan The Prysmian Group has inaugurated a newly expanded optical fiber production facility in Sorocaba, São Paulo, as part of a major five-year plan that runs through 2016 aimed at boosting the company’s market share and production capacity for fiber-optic network products.

A press release said that Prysmian is investing more than €100 million in its telecom R&D activities and optical fiber plants worldwide. A two-stage effort at the plant in Brazil has seen the first part completed as the Sorocaba plant, one of five company “excellence centers,” can now produce 4.5 million km of fiber preforms per year, it said.

The ongoing second phase will see the plant undergo further upgrade of its manufacturing processes “to provide the South American market with the most advanced fiber solutions and also further increase capacity if market demand requires it.”

The Brazilian project, the release said, is part of an ongoing global scheme that calls for improvements to the Group’s optical products and manufacturing processes, along with other excellence centers in the U.S., France, Italy and the Netherlands.

“The quality of the passive elements of an optical infrastructure is absolutely key to guarantee the sustainability of the telecom service and also to optimize the total cost of ownership of the network,” said Philippe Vanhille, executive vice president, telecom, at Prysmian Group.

“The closer the fiber gets to the premises, the more passive components quality becomes critical to avoid service disruptions and high cost of ownership. We consistently keep on investing in optical innovation…to permanently improve the performance of our products and processes.

Our mission is to provide the market with the best solutions, creating concrete value for our customers, both in Brazil and globally.”

Deployment commences for cable system going from Ireland to U.S. When completed, the America Europe Connect (AEConnect) subsea cable system will span some 5,400 kilometers, and the first stage of that process recently took place in Ireland, where the cable arrived for the process that will see it deployed to reach its final destination in the U.S. Per multiple media reports, the AEConnect system to be owned and operated by fiber optic Irish company Aqua Comms, should be ready for service in the next five or six months. The cable is from TE SubCom, which notes that it now has supplied more than 490,000 km of undersea cable, enough to circle the globe 12 times.

It becomes the latest transatlantic subsea cable system to connect North America to Europe, stretching from Killala, Ireland, to Shirley, New York, with stubbed branching units for future landings. It will also use CeltixConnect, an Irish Sea subsea cable wholly owned

Eurolls reports significant equipment order from producer of marine wire Italy’s Eurolls SpA reports that it has received an important equipment order from a wire manufacturer that specializes in marine applications.

A press release said that Eurolls, which has vast experience in wire payoff and take-up systems, developed a custom solution with a dedicated accumulator system to guarantee a nonstop payoff and take-up operation for

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by AquaComms, to provide extended connectivity to London and greater Europe.

The $300 million cable, which will include three sections, is designed to have the capacity to carry a third of all the telephone calls in the world and, simultaneously, 1.6 million ultra high definition video channels and 32 million 4G telephone calls. It is expected to be able to transmit data in either direction is 53.8 milliseconds, a major selling point for financial operations as well as to bandwidth users such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Paypal, Facebook and more.

“This allows Ireland to move with the digital changes that are happening worldwide,” Kenny said at a gathering marking the event. “The majority of the world’s IT firms have invested in Ireland and need technology at this level. Ireland and Killala were at the vanguard of fulfilling this need.”

Italian equipment supplier Eurolls has reported further sales. manufacturing 26-mm-high carbon wire. The company said that delivery is scheduled by the first quarter of 2016.

Further, this will be “the first of a series of supplies for other non-stop payoff and take-up systems for either large diameter single wire or multiple wire strands.”

Eurolls notes that it has successfully installed various multi-wire static and rotating payoff and take-up systems worldwide for spools and coils for non-stop operation in conjunction with lines for annealing, patenting, galvanizing, copper coating, bead wire, etc. Companies belonging to the Eurolls Group include Team Meccanica, Teurema and Vitari, which are known for their drawing/cold rolling wire production lines and wire treatment lines.

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Alcatel-Lucent and partner to build a submarine cable system in Alaska

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Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) and Per the release, the system will consist of three fiber pairs Quintillion Subsea Holdings, LLC, have entered into capable of carrying 100 wavelengths, each of which can a turnkey contract for the design and construction of a support 100 gigabits-per-second of data capacity. Phase 1 submarine cable system from Prudhoe Bay to Nome. will be a 1,850-km segment linking the Alaskan communiA press release said that ASN has started marine route ties of Nome, Kotzebue, Wainwright, Point Hope, Barrow, survey and installation activities for the implementation of and Prudhoe Bay and will provide for future extensions to the system, which will have a capacity of at least 10 teraAsia and Europe. Scheduled for completion by the end of bits-per-second (Tbps) per fiber pair. The system, it said, 2016, Phase 1 will incorporate advanced routing and burial will enable the delivery of advanced services, including techniques to protect the cable and enhance the integrity of the system.

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Report: HV power cable market good through 2019 A report from Ireland’s Research and Markets, Global High-voltage Power Cable Market 2015-2019, projects that the global high-voltage power cables market will grow at a CAGR of 7.25% through 2019.

A press release said that the report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global high-voltage power cable market during the period 2015-2019.

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station, he managed to wrestle away some 80 meters of cabling, for which he later got about $75.

Six East Coast services from Leeds had to be cancelled and a further seven had to stop short of Nottinghamshire, most of which were Grand Central services. The domino effect caused other problems, and in the end, a total of 129 trains were disrupted. The estimated value of that disruption?

Per Network Rail, it cost more than $908,000, the vast majority of that being lost revenue, as well as much angst from unhappy riders. At his hearing, Yates told magistrates: “I thought it was a dead piece of track because there were barriers at the end of it.”

IEWC acquires U.K. cable distributor

U.S.-based IEWC reports that it has acquired Premier Cables Limited (PCL), a distributor of cable and accessories that has four U.K.-based facilities with some 50 employees.

A press release said that PCL focuses on various building projects, infrastructure, broadcast and communications and alternative energy projects, directly and through wholesalers. The company, owned and operated by three business partners (Jeff Weinstein, Ray Weinstein and Anthony Hopkins), has seen significant growth over the years, it said, adding that they will continue to lead the business.

“This is an exciting time (for us),” said Jeff Weinstein, managing director of IEWC’s newly formed Infrastructure Division. “Our business model has found solid favor in the U.K. market and the business is looking forward to opportunities to extend its service offering throughout other parts of the world.”

$75 U.K. cable theft a costly rail nightmare Stories about cable theft are commonplace, but a recent incident in England stands out for the sheer enormity such petty thefts can have.

Per multiple media reports, on April 12, Richard Alan Yates, 22, a Boughton resident, removed bricks from the top of a barrier wall to gain access to rail cables in Retford.

About 300 meters from the train

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energy into electrical grid systems. Various types of efficient power cables are required for the transmission of power generated from these alternative sources. Vendors are focused on developing new technology that enables high-voltage power transmission over long distances while minimizing energy loss. Since the market is highly competitive, vendors are working to launch new products to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Therefore, the increased investment in R&D is expected to encourage market growth through to 2019.

For further details, contact Research and Markets at www.researchandmarkets.com.

ASIAN FOCUS

ASIAN FOCUS Rising Asian entity seeks to gain more by working closer together

and distributed and sold throughout Southeast Asia. The AEC aims to “transform Asean into a region with free movement of goods, services, labor and free movement While China dominates news from Asia, the Asean of capital.” It will also enhance connectivity throughout countries of Indonesia—Malaysia, the Philippines, the region. An Asean highway network is a priority projSingapore, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar ect, while improved maritime links are promoted. Air (Burma) and Vietnam—are seeking to form a new entiservices are being liberalized and rail connectivity has ty, known as the Asean Community (AC), by year’s end. also been planned.

However, the process may not be easy because of variChina’s initiative in establishing an Asian ous challenges that exist. Below are edited excerpts on Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is significant this endeavor from an article published in The Straits as a source of funding for infrastructure throughout Time by Barry Decker, a Distinguished Fellow and the region. The emergence of the AC is a giant leap Bakrie Professor of Southeast Asia Policy, S. Rajaratnam forward from the 1960s, when Southeast Asia was School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological regarded as the Balkans of Asia, riven by inter-state University. and intra-state conflicts in the region. The Cold War was raging and Southeast Asia was a zone of contenThe AC represents the highest form of regional cooption. The Vietnam War was at its height following the eration among the 10 Asean member states, and can be U.S. intervention and spilled over into Cambodia and seen as the culmination of a few decades of Asean’s role Laos. Myanmar was beset with multiple rebellions and in fostering positive inter-state relations. To be formalThailand and the Philippines with communist insurgenized by the Asean heads of government in November, cies. Indonesia was engaged in Konfrontasi, an undethe AC will comprise the three pillars of the Asean clared war with Malaysia, which included Singapore.

Economic Community (AEC), the Political-Security Malaysia-Philippines relations were ruptured over the Community (APSC) and Social-Cultural Community Philippine claim to Sabah, while Malaysia-Singapore (ASCC), relations were which were embittered envisaged following by the Asean Singapore’s Summits of separa2003 and tion from 2005 Malaysia The Asean in 1965. countries had Southeast a combined Asia’s future gross domeslooked bleak tic product and uncertain.

(GDP) of The situation US$3 trillion in the region (S$4.2 trilunderwent lion) in 2013, a dramatic representing transformathe third-largtion since est GDP in Asean’s forAsia, after mation.

China and Today, The 10 Asean countries are seeking to become more of a collective global power.

Japan. With however, a a population big challenge for the Asean countries is whether the of 600 million, Asean GDP is projected to grow by more ambitions of its proponents surpass their capacity to than 5% a year over the next five years, with intra-Asedeliver. The focus of governments will be on buildan trade exceeding US$1 trillion. AEC will seek to creing strong states and maintaining their hold on power. ate a single production and distribution base, one where Framing the AC, whose three pillars are political-seproducts can be manufactured anywhere in the region curity, economic and socio-cultural, draws attention to

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PEOPLE Teknor Apex Company has appointed Natalie Schere hasDavid joinedBraun Carris as wire and cable industry manager for the Reels as a customer carecomparepresenny’s Vinyl Division.tative He will direct all marketing at the company’s facilityand in business development activitiesNorth for theCarolina, Division’s Statesville, responwire and cable products. more customer than 20 years sible He for has handling calls and of management experience in and wirecollaborating and cable, includinquiries, with maning sales, marketing,ufacturing business development, top operations. Sheand previously executive positions. worked He mostinrecently worked for the textile and furniture Cable Components, manufacturing LLC, which heindustries joined in as 2007 a managas vice president in charge of abusiness development er and as work process/scheduling and for the past fourcoordinator. years has served as vice She will reportpresito Betty Schere dent and managing director. entered theoffice wire manager, and Reynolds,Hepurchasing/ cable in 1992 when he joined NEPTCO Inc., for theindustry Carris Reels North Carolina operations.

She will beginning as acompany’s sales engineer subsequently be one of the sevenand customer service serving staffers as product manager and thenthe business unit in manager. who are located throughout U.S. Based Proctor, He holds an MBA degree from Bryantspecialty University in Vermont, USA, Carris Reels supplies packaging Smithfield, RI and BSc degree chemical for applications thata include wire in and cable. engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

HeGranite is a member of the International Wire and Falls Furnace and R&D Plastics haveCable named Symposium Committee and wasoperations, the 2012 chairman.

K. Donnie Hitt vice president, for both of He also active in BICSI and serves on the board of the isprivately owned businesses.

He previously worked the Connectivity Association for Communications 27 years at InsteelCable Wire & Products in various positions ranging from, most recently, business unit analyst. Prior to that he served as facilities general manager of the company’s plant in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and other

(CCCA). is the to holder of two patents relating to positionsHerelated materials mancable technology.

Basedquality in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, agement, production, and USA, Teknor Apex isPrior a supplier of cable concentrates inventory control. to joining and colorants.

Insteel Wire Products, he worked at Rochester Cable for eight years General Cable Corporation has filled several execin various manufacturing related utive positions, including two promotions. Emerson positions. Based in Granite Falls, C.North Moser was named viceFalls president, general Carolina, USA,senior Granite counsel and corporate secretary and a member of the Furnace manufactures high- and Operating Committee.

Hewire was prodpreviously assistant low-carbon drawn steel general assistant secretary and had Hitt been ucts ascounsel well as and various annealed serving as the company’s interim chief legal offiwire products. cer since last July. Sonya Reed has been promoted to executive vice president, human Markchief Durana hasresources joined Breen officer. She was previously the company’s Color Concentrates as senior the company’s vice president in that Midwest department.

Kurt Sales L. Drake Regional Manager, has joined the company as senior vice president, based in Independence, Ohio. He chief compliance officer be30 a member of the has and morewill than years of sales Operating Committee.experience, In the newly created with the laststandalone 20 years in position, he will report toindustry President thedirectly polymer in and colorCEO conGregory B. Kenny. He has19 years ofPVC international centrates, rubber, resins, PVC experience in compliance and finance.

He has held compounds and specialty engineered materials areas for companies that include Borden Chemicals, PolyOne, Formosa and Mexichem Specialty Durana

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The Montalvo Corporation has named Richard Smart as the company’s new electrical engineer. He most recently worked as an electrical engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor. He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern Maine. Based in Gorham, Maine, USA, the Smart Montalvo Corporation supplies a wide range of tension control products for a variety of industries.

John Malack has joined Laboratory Testing Inc. (LTI) as a customer service representative, helping both new and existing customers who place orders for materials testing, nondestructive testing and calibration services. He has 20 years of related experience to his position, including previous Malack employment with customers of LTI in the steel tubing and fastener fields. He most recently was employed by Penn Stainless Products, and prior to that worked at Hewlett Packard and B&G Manufacturing. He holds a B.A. degree in business and history from Gwynedd Mercy College. The company notes that within the last two years, it has hired three inside sales reps, two outside sales reps and a second coordinator in the sales/customer service department. Based in Hatfied, Pennsylvania, USA, Laboratory Testing, Inc., is a family-owned independent testing and metrology laboratory. n

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EVRAZ North America has appointed Mike Carroll as director of rod and bar sales, responsible for overseeing strategy and sales for the company’s coiled rod and rebar business. He has 27 years of sales and management experience, most recently serving as vice president and general manager of Heico Wire Group’s Davis Wire plant in Pueblo, Colorado. He holds a B.S. degree in business from the University of Wyoming.

Based in Chicago, Illinois, USA, EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel operates four manufacturing facilities, including its wire rod and coiled reinforcing bar mill in Pueblo, Colorado.

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Resins. Based in Lambertville, New Jersey, USA, Breen Color Concentrates supplies colorants to the wire and cable industry.

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CHINA

“the growth of any country is possible only if the number of employed persons grows” is satisfied, India will be the next territory that we must serve intensively with our Russian business has begun to deploy equipment and technology. Of course, the basic infrasome 2,000 km of fiber structures are presently not optical sufficient and not adequate toRussian permit the harmonious growth of this giant.

Carmelo national operator Rostelecom has started the Maria Brocato, Continuus-Properzi. deployment of the submarine fiber optical cable which will connect the Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Magadan China across is and will remain the regions the Okhotsk Sea.most important BRICS member country, despite slowing growth. Brazil is lookPer multiple media reports, the subsea section coning more like India, mired in corruption scandals, while necting Magadan and Okha was due to be completed India at this point under a new regime holds the most this month, whilewhether the section Okha and Ustpromise.

Again, the connecting reforms promised by the Bolsheretsk is due for completion by December.

The projnew government in India lead to rapid growth remains ect is being carried out in cooperation with Huawei. to be seen. Russia will continue to have problems and it Simultaneously, the coastal telecommunications infrawill take several years to recover from Western-imposed structure being prepared for inter-connection with the sanctions.is Not much has been heard from South Africa, subsea of the whole new DWDM line will thoughline. it is The nowlength officially a member. total around km, and total to 400 I think that 2,000 the BRICS are capacity going to will continue beGbps, relevant.

Whilethetheopportunity pace of GDP growth it may slow a few with to expand to up to for eight Tbpsyears in the due to political and socio-economic factors or sanctions, future. etc., these news, remainRostelecom temporary roadblocks at best.

40% In other reported that it hasAsdeployed of the world’s population resides in these countries, is 600 km of fiber optic lines in Siberia in the period itfrom inevitable that at some point in the future they will produce January to June. Telecom services from the operator have and consume the majority of thehouseholds. world’s output. become accessible for 370,000 TheRahul most Sachdev, Wire & Plastic Machinery. significant network expansion, the reports said, has been seen in the Irkutsk and Novosibirsk regions, as well as in Russia faced economic and political distresses in 2014 Buryatia republic.

Themay national operator used GPON and but now the situation be back to normal in a very

SOUTH AFRICA

short time. India is a huge country, a place with a technologies multitude of in reliFTTB Siberia. gions/cultures, and from Rostelecom is one of the biggest national telecom coman industrial point panies in Russia andofEurope, with a presence in every view it’s of notthe possible to segment telecommunications services market and generalize into a single coverage of more than 34 million households in Russia. evaluation. What is certain is that India is a land Pakistan seeks its share of fiber that has thousands of opportunities, does—to Pakistan’s as Trans World Associates (TWA) has inked an a lesser extent andthe allSEA-ME-WE-5 the agreement to join consortium, which differences considered aims to build and operate a new 20,000 km international —South Compafiber opticAfrica. route with a design capacityBellina of 24 Tbps. nies in South African are Per a report in The Nation, Pakistan wishes to have focusing on quality and innovation and our Group is layaccess the fiber optic the undersea there. cable, ing thetogroundwork for technology a big marketofdevelopment which is scheduled to be active by the end of 2016, linkBrazil, the world’s sixth largest economy—even though ing countries inItaly southeast Asia, thesome Middle East and it is18 very far from and presents customs clearwestern ance andEurope. trade policies issues—is a market increasingly ‘The SEA-ME-WE-5 investment

by TWA is a result of important for our strategic framework. positive andthought: goal-oriented policies which will One other the BRICS acronym wasenhance originally socio-economic development and spur by the aeconomused to define countries characterized developing economic situation, strong growth in GDP, large popic growth via a moreaconnected Pakistan,” saida TWA ulation, a Kamran vast territory abundant natural President Malik.and TWA currently ownsresources. and In 2015, the we Pakistani can’t talk section of themofany as “developing operates themore Transworld (TW1) countries” but as superpowers that, together the G7 system connecting the country with the Unitedwith Arab countries,(UAE) dominate worldwide market. Fabio BelliEmirates and the Oman. n na, TKT Group.

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FASTENER UPDATE Erico Global agrees to be sold U.S.-based Erico Global Co., a manufacturer of fasteners and electrical equipment, has agreed to be acquired for $1.8 billion by U.K.-based Pentair PLC, a $6.7 billion conglomerate that supplies industrial pumps, valves, water and filtration equipment.

A press release said that Erico Global is best known for its Caddy brand of fixing and fastening products, its Erico electrical grounding and connective products and its Lenton line of coupling systems for construction rebar. Erico generates about $570 million in annual sales, $150 million in profits and has 1,200 employees across 30 countries, including factories in the U.S., Netherlands, China and France.

Erico Global will join Pentair’s technical solutions division, which makes electrical enclosures and thermal heating and cooling systems for factories and for products transported by rail, the release said. The division is the second smallest of Pentair’s four such units, but accounts for 25% the company’s total revenue and 35% of its profits.

Once integrated, Pentair expects to save about $18 million a year in synergies by 2018 after eliminating duplicative back office operations, the release said.

But the main thrust of this deal was described in media accounts as “growth, not cost cutting.” The acquisition was also seen as helping Pentair better weather the slumping oil and gas sector.

“This is a bolt-on acquisition—granted a big bolton,” Pentair CEO Randy Hogan said. “We have similar cultures and serve similar industries with complementary products, which will create a broader and stronger offering for our end users. Erico has a strong global business and valued brands, making it a perfect fit for Pentair.”

AIT acquires Atlantic Fasteners U.S.-based Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT) announced it has acquired Atlantic Fasteners, a distributor of commercial and aerospace fasteners based in Massachusetts, for an undisclosed price.

Atlantic Fasteners can help AIT enhance its product lines for a broad array of industrial customers,” said AIT CEO Neil Schrimsher. “They are an ideal fit with our business strategy and growth plans.” Founded in 1923, AIT notes that it distributes “more than five million parts to serve the needs of MRO and OEM customers in virtually every industry.”

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SPOTLIGHT This section introduces a new WAI member each issue.

Derek Ham Senior Process Engineer SDI La Farga

Q: What does your company do?

A: SDI La Farga refines various types of reclaimed copper to produce Cu-FRHC (fire-refined, high-conductivity) products that meet or exceed ASTM B-49 standards.

Q: What is your role there?

A: I am the senior process engineer, a composite of many other roles, from metallurgist to operations engineer.

I oversee furnace operations and copper quality from when reclaimed copper is received until it goes to the caster.

Q: What do you like best about your position?

A: The wide range of responsibilities and the interaction with the operations group. I get to work on projects that are mechanical in nature but often times have very significant processing impacts. There are many challenges, from the mundane to ground-breaking production/ quality control discoveries which ultimately effect SDI La Farga’s success. In my role, I get to work with top notch administrative, engineering and operations groups.

Q: How does your company remain competitive?

A: With the variability in the copper markets, efficiency and minimizing operating and raw material costs are key to staying competitive. SDI La Farga makes a continuous effort to be innovative in its operations, looking for new ideas and concepts to increase efficiency and minimize costs. The combination of the Steel Dynamics operating mentality and the innovation of the La Farga Group has made this operation a truly unique facility. The group has made continuous advances in its sales base and has been able to match this with increased safe production.

Q: Why did you recently join WAI? A: WAI is a great way for me to get to know this industry. In previous jobs, I have been with other societies, most recently SME, and have enjoyed those interactions. They allow for great insight into what is new and fresh in the industry and how other operations react to various industrial, governmental and business situations. I look forward to a long and exciting membership with WAI!

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“Spider-Men,” the growing thatPenn, spends almost The 2015 representative wasarmy Gareth a shift superevery night suspended high above the ground to mainintendent at Tata Steel Europe’s rod mill in Scunthorpe, tain railway overhead lines.

U.K. He toured companies in the U.S. and attended After midnight, when local high-speed trains come Interwire. to halt, climbs thin wires six meters “I aleft forMiao the airport ononto Friday morning with a wealth of above Laibin City of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang new knowledge and a hat full of new experiences that very Autonomous Region.

Carrying a pair of pliers, he “It few people in our business will ever get,” Penn wrote. checks whether screws are in place and the lines are was two weeks of my life that I will truly never forget.” properly connected.

The 2014 representative was Renee Earley, a process “My job is toMP/DFT guarantee that high-speed operate engineer at the Department of Forttrains Wayne properly in the daytime,” the 24-year-old says.

“I have Metals. She toured companies in the U.K. and attended to be very careful because a single trivial mistake could wire Düsseldorf. cause a major accident.”

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“I gained an immense depth of information overseas and saw things that opened my eyes to an entirely different world, both culturally and in the aspects of industry and business,” Earley wrote. “In the end, I think what I enjoyed most was seeing the overall culture of the wire industry; it really is just one big family–one I hope to Renee Earley and Chris Barker stay in.” at Tata Steel’s Scunthorpe rod Candidates for mill, part of her 2014 trip. the 2016 Wire Workers fastenLink electric wires in a rural area in China.

Scholarship must Photo by Song Weixing/China Daily. have been employed in the industry for more than two years, beisable Europe forwho two meet weeksthe in Miao onetooftravel manyto Spider-Men April 2016, demand and at the of application be a member increasing fortime overhead line maintenance as the ofdevelopment WAI. For more details, e-mail WAIcontinues Director on the of high-speed railways offast Education & Member track. This group of Services workers Marc came Murray into the at spotlight mmurray@wirenet.org. recently, when the Chinese financial newspaper, the Economic Daily, featured Miao.

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John Scott, a longtime U.K. industry executive, will serve as the 2015 Clockwinder.

Scott served as sales and marketing director for Twil Ltd. from 1987 to 1991, in different key posts for Bekaert from 1991 to 2011, and since then as an independent consultant. He is currently based in Texas, and is working for Accent Wire, a provider of baling wire and wire tier technology.

Scott is now based in the U.S., but will don his U.K. bowler when he continues the clockwinding tradition on Oct. 13 at WAI’s office in Madison, Connecticut. The tradition originated when John Rigby and Sons, Ltd., of Manchester, England, presented the Wire Association with a 400-day grandfather clock at its Annual Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 20, 1948. The gesture was made in appreciation of the support given by the U.S. wire industry to Great Britain during World War II. Each year a representative from the U.K. makes the trip to the U.S. to participate in the annual ceremony that commemorates the friendship and communication between the two nations. The clock resides at the headquarters of the Wire Association International, which earlier this year relocated from Guilford, Connecticut, to nearby Madison.

Reminder: Points Meeting for WAI’s 2016 event to take place this month

The Points Meeting, the official kickoff to the 2016 staging of the WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo, will take place Thursday, Sept. 24, at the Association’s headquarters in Connecticut.

& The Points Meeting will see the initial allocation of booth positions for the event, which will be held for the first time at the Mohegan Sun Resort Center in Uncasville, Connecticut.

During the Points Meeting, exhibitors can follow the process on-line as it is conducted by WAI volunteers and staff. Two years ago, a total of 131 of 196 available booths were allocated at the Points Meeting for the 2014 event at the Indiana Convention Center. After the Points Meeting, booths are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. For more details on reserving a booth, e-mail sales@ wirenet.org.

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Clockwinder tradition will continue this October at WAI headquarters

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CHAPTER CORNER Southeast Chapter reports 3 scholarship winners for 2015

New England Chapter to visit Marmon Group’s Innovation Center on Nov. 5

The WAI’s Southeast Chapter has announced the names of three students who have been chosen as scholarship winners for 2015.

The recipients include:

Members of the WAI’s New England Chapter will tour the Marmon Group’s Innovation Center in East Granby, Connecticut, on Thursday, Nov. 5.

A dinner is also being scheduled in connection with the event, which will see chapter members tour the 16,000sq-ft facility that officially opened in November 2013.

The site serves as an R&D resource for the top engineering and scientific minds of the 14 Marmon cable companies that comprise the Marmon Engineered Wire & Cable group of companies. The Innovation and Technology

• Blake Connell is the son of Brian Connell, director of plastics operations, Carris Reels Inc. He will attend the University of Virginia, studying psychology.

Connell

• Elizabeth Hammontree is the daugher of Joe Hammontree, vice president, Temple Terrace Industries, Inc. She will attend Florida College, studying pre-health occupational therapy.

Hammontree

• Sydney Nuckles is the daughter of Kim Nuckles, senior product engineer, Southwire. She will attend the University of Georgia, studying biochemical engineering.

Nuckles “From top to bottom we had the strongest field of applicants ever this year,” said Jim Purdue, a key chapter selection committee member. “This year there were more than three outstanding candidates, but the three we selected were clear choices.”

Purdue said that while the golf tourney remains the chapter’s biggest single activity, what’s more important is that it provides the main funding for the scholarships. “To create scholarships for the families of chapter members is widely recognized as an important endeavor,” he said.

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An interior view of Marmon Group’s Innovation Center, which focuses on development of proprietary materials and extrusion projects to support customers.

Center allows these companies to enhance relationships with their customers involved in developing cables for high-performance and harsh environment applications.

The tour will take place at 3 pm, followed by dinner at 5:30 pm at the Mill on the River in South Windsor. The cost, $85 for chapter members and $95 for all others, includes the tour, dinner and one drink. The tour is limited, so chapter members will be added to the list on a first-come, first-served basis. Sponsorships are also available: Gold, $300, which includes two company employee registrations; Silver: $200; which includes one company employee registration; and Bronze, $100.

For more details, including sponsorships, contact WAI’s Anna Bzowski, tel. 203-453-2777, ext. 126, abzowski@ wirenet.org.

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4 chapter golf outings remain It’s likely far too late to sign up now, but for the record the New England Chapter will stage its 21st Annual Golf Tournament, on Monday, Sept. 14, at the Ellington Ridge Country Club in Ellington, Connecticut.

Next up, just a few days later, will be the Ohio Chapter’s 12th Annual Golf Tournament, to be held Thursday, Sept. 17, at the Grantwood Golf Course in Solon, Ohio. Contact: WAI’s Steve Fetteroll, tel. 203453-1748, sfetteroll@wirenet.org.

Then it will be the Western Chapter’s 15th Annual Wild West Shootout, to be held Monday, Oct. 5, at the Sierra Lakes Golf course in Fontana, California.

Contact: John Stevens, jstevens@emc-wire.com, tel.

909-476-9776, ext. 21, or WAI’s Steve Fetteroll, tel.

203-453-1748, sfetteroll@wirenet.org.

The final event will be the Vannais Southeast Chapter’s 13th Annual Golf Tournament, to be held Thursday, Oct. 15, at the Rock Barn Golf and Spa, Conover, North Carolina. Contact: Art Deming, tel.

252-955-9451, art.deming@nexans.com.

Each event offers multiple opportunities for company sponsorships, from individual holes to specific challeng-

From l-r, the 2014 Southeast Chapter winners: Jason Watts, Tim O’Haren, Delton Smith and Danny Crouse, with Chapter President Art Deming. es for putting, driving and more. Each event includes a raffle, and donations from companies/individuals are always welcome. For more details, contact the above individuals.

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PREVIEW IWCS travels to Atlanta to stage its 64th annual event The IWCS International Cable • Connectivity Symposium (IWCS) heads to the Hyatt Regency Atlanta with a full technical program, professional development courses, presentations by industry experts, a keynote speaker, tabletop displays from industry suppliers and more, to be presented Monday, Oct. 5, through Thursday, Oct. 8.

The annual event will be the first one with its new leader—David B. Kiddoo, a long-time IWCS volunteer—at the helm as CEO/Director.

Having the hotel rooms and the Conference under one roof will make logistics convenient for exhibitors, speakers and attendees. What will not change is the technical focus, a hallmark of the annual event that was first held in 1952 at Asbury Park in New Jersey.

The event leads off on Monday, which is devoted to Professional Development Courses. For the 11th year, IWCS will present the core courses of Copper 101, Fiber 101 and Materials 101. From 8 am to noon, the courses include: Fundamentals of Copper Conductors & Metallic Cable Design and Applications; Fundamentals of Optical Fibers and FO Cable Design & Application; Selection & Use of Materials in Wire & Cable; and The Art and Science of Extrusion for Wire and Cable - Part 1. From 1 pm to 5 pm, the classes include: Bend Resistant SingleMode and Multimode Fibers; The Art and Science of

IWCS attendees can sit in on presentations in copper, fiber and materials.

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Extrusion for Wire and Cable – Part II; Copper Cabling Technology - Advanced Transmission Line Theory and Measurements; and Advanced Balunless Measurements.

The main attraction at IWCS remains tech, and this year the schedule includes more than 130 technical papers and presentations in 18 sessions over three full days. The tracks will feature speakers and topics of interest to general and commercial management, with a focus on supply chain issues. The Suppliers’ Exhibition™, which is held Tuesday, from 2 pm to 6 pm, and includes the popular New Product Introductions, which are held from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm. It returns on Wednesday from 10 am to 6 pm. Refreshments will be offered on the show floor from 5 pm to 6 pm on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The single largest event, the keynote presentation and awards lunch, starts Tuesday at noon. Michael A. Bell, PE, senior vice president & general manager, Optical Connectivity Solutions, Corning Optical Communications, who will speak about solutions to meet the future demands of “the internet of things.”

Starting off the presentations on Tuesday is Session 1, which draws the largest crowd: the Executive Track, chaired by Robert Canny, RSCC Wire & Cable LLC. The track will feature speakers who will focus on topics

DuPont Economist Robert Fry, a frequent speaker at IWCS, is known for his ability to explain global events on an understandable level.

INDUSTRY EVENT The New Products Introduction session continues to draw good crowds. of interest to general and commercial management, with a focus on supply chain issues. The topics include: The Global Fiber Optics Market: Running Faster than 40,000 km per Hour; A Review of the Metallic Cable Market with a Focus on China; Global Supply Trends for Plastics; Strategic Planning/Analysis; Implication of Bandwidth

Growth on Network Deployment; Power Delivery Over HDBaseT; Perspective on the Future of Power Over Ethernet; and Economic Outlook. Also of note is the Poster Session on Wednesday, Oct. 8, which will see some two dozen papers posted up for review by attendees at the back of the tabletop displays from 4 pm to 6 pm.

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Proton Products International/U.K.

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

At Interwire, Proton Products International showcased the company’s InteliSENS SL series speed and length gauges, which it noted are saving cable manufacturers 15, Codes and Standards; Session 16, Focusing on the traditional technical serious money every day around the world.

High Density Optical Fiber Cable & papers, they begin Tuesday after the As cable manufacturers purchase raw materials by the Aerial Cable; Session 17, Ensuring a Executive Track, with Session 2, FTTX ton&and then sell by length, it’s extremely important to Reliable Optical Network; and Session Active Components; followed by 18, Flame Retardant Technology.

Session Coatings. make sure3,that when you sell a reel of cable at 1000 IWCS sponsors include, Partner The resume Wednesday ft, its is papers not 1003 ft oron 1005 ft, essentially giving away Level: AlphaGary Corporation, Cable at 8 am with Session 4, Special 0.3% or 0.5% for free, which can be typical in many Components Group, Chase/Neptco, Applications; Session 5, Power production facilities. The InteliSENS SL Series gauges The Chemours Company, CommScope, Over Communications Cable are calibrated to 0.03%, and with no moving parts to Inc., Corning Cable Systems, Dow Considerations and Copper Design/ wear and non-contact operation eliminating slippage, Electrical Telecommunications, the Modeling; Session 6, Fiber Design, weMeasurements are extremely toProperties; work with our customers Lapp Group, OFS, Prysmian Cables & proud Preform and provide a gauge thatApplications truly helps save money and and Systems, and Teijin Aramid; Session 7; Commercial improve profitability.

Platinum Level: Solvay Specialty for Materials & Processes; Session 8, Polymers, Teknor Apex Company, FiberDGK Connectivity Splicing; Session The Series of&gauges have no moving parts and Web Industries and Wire & Cable 9, FTTXthe & diameter Network; an andamazing Session 10, measure 10,000 times per secTechnology International; Gold Level: Data Center Multimode ond, per axis.& Available as Fiber. eitherThe a dual- or triple-axis Hitachi Products.

Cable America, Inc., The papers continue at 8 am on Thursday, Grant Latimer, Proton gauge, the Super Fast Processing Technology analyzes Lubrizol Corp., and Miltec UV; Donor Oct. 8, with Session 11, Copper Cable upBalance, to 30,000 measurements per second to display and Level: our SICCET Srl,exhibition Underwriters Shielding, Measurement It was without doubt busiest and our full communicate diameter, ovality, Laboratories, Inc., and Wonderful & Modeling; Session 12, Cable lumps and neckdowns. team of agents and employees were on hand to take care The company also showed full range IWCS of products CEO/Director David B. Kiddoo Hi-Tech.

Insulation & Jacket Materials;a Session of our customers.”

Grant Latimer, managing director, including testers, capacitance and maylump be new to his post, but the indusFor more details, contact IWCS 13, Cablespark Manufacturing Processes gauges, g.latimer@protonproducts.com. try gauges veteran and has been a volunteer fixOperations Manager Pat Hudak, tel. & Measurements; Microneck detectors, preSession heaters,14, speed & length cable Design & Installation; Session

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ture at the event the last 20 years.

717-993-9500, atphudak@iwcs.org.

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EVENT PREVIEW Representatives from industry associations supporting wire South America and its sister tube show at the opening of the 2013 event included IWMA Chairman Steve Rika, IWMA Executive Board Member Stephen Wood, ACIMAF Chairman Ferruccio Bellina, ABINOX Executive Director Arturo Chao Maceiras, ITA Managing Director Peter Byroslawsky, ABITAM Executive Director José Adolfo Siqueira, Messe Düsseldorf GmbH Managing Director Joachim Schäfer and Grupo Cipa Operations Director José Roberto Sevieri.

Preview: wire South America 2015 Two years ago, Germany’s Messe Düsseldorf staged its first wire South America at the Exposições Imigrantes exhibition centre in São Paulo. Best known best for hosting wire Düsseldorf, the world’s largest such trade show for wire and cable, the event organizer was pleased with the initial results of wire South America and fully expects that it will be even better when it— and its partner, Grupo Cipa Fieras & Congresso—return for the second staging of the biennial event on Oct. 6–8, 2015, at the Imigrantes Exhibition Centre in São Paulo, Brazil.

The event will be supported by the International Wire & Machinery Association (IWMA), the Wire and Cable Industry Suppliers Association (WCISA) and the Italian Wire Machinery Manufacturers Association (ACIMAF).

The main exhibit categories at wire South America 2015 will include wire manufacturing and finishing machinery,

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process technology tools, auxiliary process technology materials, special wires and cables as well as measuring and control technology and test engineering.

Evolved from WiCAB—an event that was staged in 2011 by Messe

Düsseldorf and Grupo Cipa, its Brazilian partner, at the same site and approximate time frame—wire South America will feature group ventures from the United States, Italy, Austria

and China, the release said.

While Brazil has gone through some challenging internal times, the organizers note that there are positives to focus on, such as Brazil’s boom in the construction, automotive and consumer electronics industries that have led to a marked increase in the demand for wire and cable products. wire South America 2015, it said, will provide an ideal platform for international companies to access this growing market.

At the first staging of wire South America in 2013, 173 exhibitors from 26 countries showcased their latest technologies for the sector.

Together with the concurrently held TUBOTECH trade fair, wire South America attracted about 15,000 trade visitors.

For information about visiting or exhibiting at wire South America 2015, contact Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180; info@ mdna.com; www.mdna.com.

Below are some listings for wire South America. An alpha list is on p. 46. For the latest, go to www.wire-southamerica.com, and see the Show Program at the event.

AICON 3D Systems GmbH Booth 605B AICON 3D Systems is one of the world’s leading providers of optical 3D metrology. The main product lines are MoveInspect Technology, TubeInspect and 3D scanners.

Anbao Wire & Mesh Booth 720 Anbao is a manufacturer and exporter of steel wire and mesh products. We provide galvanized steel wire and strands, Galfan wire and strands, including ACSR wire and strand, overhead ground wire and message strand, message/ guy/stay/span wire and strand, aluminum-clad steel wire and strand, armoring cable wire, braiding wire. Stainless steel wire for weaving, braiding, knitting, lashing wire etc. And we are also engaged in various metal wire mesh products.

Böllinghaus Steel GmbH Booth 606 With the experience of 125 years, we manufacture top quality stainless steel profiles in various grades.

Borealis/Borouge Booth 1008

Borealis and Borouge will be “Bringing Energy All Around” at wire South America this year. For over 50 years, Borealis has been a leading provider of polyolefin compounds for the global wire and cable industry.

Its large portfolio of products and services is based on unique and pro-

prietary technologies that create real value for customers and enable step-change innovations. A broad range of sophisticated extra-high, high and medium voltage cable applications as well as semi-conductive products are made possible

by Borealis’ Borlink™ technology. Borealis’ Visico™/Ambicat™ technology is used in low voltage energy transmission and distribution cable solutions, where it helps extend the lifetime of cable systems.

With their increasing commitment to the growing South American market, both companies are proud to be represented together at the fair along with their premier brands, including Borlink MV, Visico LV, and Borstar.

BOW TECHNOLOGY

by Gauder Group Booth 1006 With over 500 bow designs on offer (560 up to 2500 mm, molded, flat,

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high carbon steels or phosphated steels; and VICAFIL SANTALE 6 T, a borax-free soap, offering exceptional performance on the most demanding high carbon steel wire applications.

Also, for Brazilian market, CONDAT offers local reactivity with its production unit located in the suburb of Sao Paolo (Bom Jesus Dos Perdoes), which can supply wire drawing soaps and surface treatments, neat oils and soluble lubricants.

DALOO Booth 1006

brands). The C2S engineering and commissioning team has recently been reinforced with ex-Lesmo and ex-Cortinovis engineers. More than 50 people are glad to participate in making wire and cable producers’ life easier, all over the world. C2S will be present at the Gauder Group stand, just in front of the Reichenbach Equipamentos booth, the local representative and partner of the brand.

CONDAT Booth 532 cants closed-design, metallic, rod, special, etc.) available for 25+ well-known brands of machines, the BOW TECHNOLOGY department of the Gauder Group helps cable makers optimize double-twist machine operations. The division is the patent owner of the power saving and multi-use “GreenBow2” (1 bow fiber, 3 wire paths, an exclusive design enabling up to 30% energy savings on bow motorization). BOW TECHNOLOGY will be present at the Gauder Group stand, just in front of the Reichenbach Equipamentos booth, the local representative and partner of the brand.

Cable Services & Systems Booth 1006 C2S, a member of the Gauder Group, is the key partner to maintain, restore or improve cable equipment. The division is being assigned upgrading projects, services for cable makers, and a wide spare parts portfolio (all

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CONDAT will present its latest developments in lubricants and products for wire drawing industries, including: VICAFIL®, the industry’s most complete range of wiredrawing lubricants, and STEELSKIN®, specialty lubricants for the most demanding applications. CONDAT continues to develop advanced solutions to meet the increasingly stringent requirements for environmental and health & safety regulations, including: reduction of dust in workshops (OSHA Directive), and SDS updates (GHS system – June 2015). CONDAT will promote several recently developed new products including: VICAFIL TF 1669, a new and very versatile mixed-basis soap for high speed drawing of galvanized

DALOO, the Chinese member of the Gauder Group, offers medium-cost machinery with European quality to produce insulated power cable and overhead conductors. Its rigid stranders, tubular stranders, taping lines, rewinding lines, payoffs and take-ups and pulling caterpillars are manufactured under French management following strict criteria (quality control, critical components sourcing, etc.).

DALOO will be present at the Gauder Group stand, just in front of the Reichenbach Equipamentos booth, the local representative and brand partner.

Eurobend GmbH Booth 705A An innovative, progressive company, Eurobend produced wire and rebar processing machinery for wire, construction and pre-cast concrete industries.

Fuhr GmbH & Co. KG Booth 706A FUHR develops and manufactures wire rolling machines that are being used worldwide in the automotive, food, textile, building and energy industry.

Gauder Booth 1006 Creating solutions together with GAUDER grants access to the largest stock of second-hand machines in Europe (25,000 sq m premises with

HMP Heinrich Müller Maschinenfabrik GmbH Booth 702 HMP manufactures high performance machines for metal forming by hot and cold rolling, rotary swaging, drawing and axial forming.

Henrich GmbH Booth 704 From the very beginning, HENRICH succeeded in establishing itself as a reliable supplier of wire drawing equipment to the domestic and international wire and cable producers.

IDEAL-Werk Booth 701A

iiM AG measurement + engineering Booth 706B For more than 15 years iiM AG specializes with its brand VisioCablePro® in producing innovative devices for geometrical cable measurement engineering (EN 60811).

KIESELSTEIN International GmbH Booth 701B Kieselstein, which supplies wire drawing machines, is a world leader in draw-peeling (shaving) plants.

Ernst Koch GmbH & Co. KG Booth 604 As a system supplier, KOCH plans, supplies and installs complete machine lines for the production of wire, cou-

pled with comprehensive customer service. Our reps will be pleased to further discuss your requirements.

Maillefer Booth 631

Maillefer’s product portfolio has been developed around one central theme – customer value. It is not a new idea, but rather a growing priority. Our portfolio includes over 50 technologies. To better answer the diverse needs of wire and cable manufacturers worldwide, our portfolio is organized in three different solution levels − /Enter, //Extend and ///Explore. These solutions vary in capacity, cost, automation, flexibility, product range, space requirements and maintenance needs. Our wire and cable production solutions are available for building and automotive wires, dry or jelly filled fiber optic cables, low, medium, high and extra high voltage cables, rubber cables, telecom, LAN, and coaxial cables. From the widest services in the industry, you can always find the ideal match to your lifecycle needs. We deliver versatile maintenance, performance and upgrade solutions, as well as continuous service level agreements and even 24/7 support to our clients. Stop by to learn more about our new Fiber Optic Secondary Coating Line OEL 40///Explore which takes your produc-

Since 1923 the name IDEAL stands for innovation and progress in the production of Welding Machines and Automation – for perfection and quality. Apart from standard machines, tailor made machine solutions according to the customers’ requirements will be

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1000+ machines) as well as to the 2,700 sq m fully-equipped workshop for equipment reconditioning and testing before delivery. View immediately available equipment for the production of non-ferrous and ferrous products and any new entries in real time at www. gauderonline.com. GAUDER also has new MAPRÉ multi-compounds extruders (38 up to 150 mm) with L/D ratio 25. It will be at the Gauder Group stand, just in front of the Reichenbach Equipamentos booth, the local representative and partner of the brand.

designed and manufactured. With a wide range of different welding solutions and technologies, IDEAL is covering lots of possibilities. Flexibility and supreme quality of the final product are IDEAL’s long-time standards. With the highest level of engineering and project planning from concept to the final solution, IDEAL provides complete support customer. At the show, IDEAL presents welding solutions for wire products, gratings, wire joining, conductors, cables and automotive applications. We are happy to exhibit our butt welders for wire and stranded conductors. Our sales team and technical consultants will be there to meet, discuss customers’ requirements for equipment and inform about the latest technology.

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NDC Technologies USA Booth 805A

tivity to an unprecedented level with production speeds of 800-900 m/min.

As the market leader in medium, high and extra high voltage cable manufacturing technology we will display the latest innovations in this field and how it benefits you in both, productivity and cable quality. In the very raw material intensive manufacturing of low voltage cables we will present the possibilities

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to control and save in raw material usage, bringing sizeable cost benefits to the table. Our offering is much more than just manufacturing lines; one of the latest additions to the component upgrade family is our newly developed Dual Automatic Take-up EKP 8 that offers high change-over reliability at an affordable price.

NDC Technologies exhibits its complete line of Beta LaserMike measurement systems for wire and cable to improve quality, increase productivity and reduce manufacturing costs.

Latest in-process measurement systems include the new AccuScan 6012 four-axis 6012 four-axis diameter & ovality gauge, new LN Series three-ax is lump & neckdown detectors and latest LayScan lay length measure ment system. Automated cable testing systems include the new DCM Model ES-2G for testing LAN/Data twisted-pair cables to 2.2 GHz and new DCM SCS-700 for testing cables to 700 MHz and lower frequencies.

POURTIER Booth 1006 power

POURTIER, a member of the Gauder Group, along with SETIC, is a worldwide leader in rotating machines for nonferrous cable, offering the widest range of twisting/stranding solutions to cable makers. POURTIER develops and produces heavy-duty rotating machines for the production of all types of power cable, especially HV and EHV, from overhead cable to insulated cable. The company is also active in the market of submarine and umbilical cables with a complete range of stranding/paper lapping/cabling and armoring machine as well as oil pump cable. POURTIER will be present at the Gauder Group stand, just in front of the Reichenbach Equipamentos booth, the local representative and partner of the brand.

Queins Machines GmbH Booth 703 Manufacturer of first-class stranding machines for the production of electrical cables, steel wire ropes, umbilicals or continuously transposed conductors.

Machines made in Germany.

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QUEINS Machines GmbH Niehoff/Niehoff-Herborn Máquinas Ltda.

(NHM) Booth 612/713 Niehoff and its Brazilian subsidiary, NHM, will show an MMH 121 type multiwire drawing machine, an SNH 801 type spooler and a D 631 type double-twist bunching machine with ARP 630 payoff. All machines were built by NHM under Niehoff license. The MMH 121 is designed to simultaneously draw 28 wires with a final diameter of 0.51 to 0.20 mm at a maximum speed of 36 m/s. More than 1,100 of the lines are working world-wide. The SNH 801 dynamic single spooler is designed for wires with an individual wire diameter of 0.15 to 4.50 mm or multi-wire bundles with a cross section of 0.018 mm² to 5.50 mm² at speeds to 50 m/s. The D 631 model can produce strands for a 0.09 to 6.00 mm² cross section and a steplessly variable lay length of 6 to 100 mm up 6,500 twists/min, with a maximum production speed of 300 m/min. Co-exhibitors will include Bühler Würz Kaltwalztechnik (cold rolling mills), Strecker (wire welding machines), HFSAB (lead extruders and cable repair and recovery systems) and Reber Systematik (filtration systems).

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SETIC, combined with POURTIER (both members of the Gauder Group), is a worldwide leader in rotating machines for nonferrous cable offering the widest range of twisting/ stranding solutions to cable makers. SETIC designs and manufactures high quality double-twist bunchers/stranders for power cable (LV conductors and cables, building wires) and automotive industry as well as complete solutions to produce special, LAN, control, instrumentation, data and telephone cables with enhanced performances. SETIC will be present at Gauder Group stand, just in front of the Reichenbach Equipamentos booth, the local representative and partner of the brand.

SIKORA AG Booth 602B SIKORA is a manufacturer and supplier of measuring, control, testing and sorting technology for the wire and cable, hose and tube as well as optical fiber and plastic industry.

Sinoleader Industries Booth 814 Sinoleader Industries is a professional supplier of various cable and plastic equipment and other related materials, including Cu/AL rod continuous casting line, drawing machine, twister, laying-up, metal tube corrugating machine, lead extruder, sheathing line, etc. We also supply high-quality galvanized steel wire, galvanized stranded steel wire, galvanized steel tape, Al/steel composite tape, CCA/CCS. SKET GmbH Booth 704 First class stranding with all the advances associated with the name SKET. Stolberger GmbH Booth 703 STOLBERGER, a Germany pioneer in manufacturing of first-class machinery for the wire and cable industry, will display large pictures of delivered machines to the rope and cable industry. Main products are all kinds of high-speed stranding machines (armouring and screening), payoffs/take-ups, taping heads, disc- and belt-type caterpillars. It owns the following machine brands: KMB, Niehaus, Bager, Klasrepohl and Kurt Scheller Kabelmaschinen. Original drawings for delivered machines are available and spare parts for these can be provided. Products and services: high-speed stranding

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machines, payoffs/take-up’s, taping heads, disc- and belttype caterpillars. Also, machines for manufacturing CTCstrands (continuously transposed conductors), umbilicals and steel wire ropes; and more.

TROESTER GmbH Booth 705B TROESTER is a world-leading supplier of machines and complete lines for the cable manufacturing and rubber processing industry, comprising CV lines for XLPE and rubber cables, silane lines, sheathing and insulation lines.

We present information and new developments in the field of: high-voltage CCV and VCV line concepts for XLPE power cables up to 1000 kV; low- and medium-voltage CCV lines for XLPE/rubber power cables 1 - 66 kV; sheathing lines for medium and high-voltage cables; and upgrade solutions for existing CV and insulation lines.

X-Compound, a new Troester Group company, will be at the booth to present its kneader technology for the continuous compounding of HFFR, PVC, XLPE, semiconductive materials and EPR/EPDM. Visitors are welcome to stop by to learn more about the state-of-the-art technology and to discuss their latest requirements.

Wagener GmbH & Co. KG Booth 603B Wagener GmbH is a German wire drawing company with a history of 140 years. It manufactures high-carbon steel wires for technical springs and steel wire ropes mainly used in automotive and various other technical applications.

Production is to current national and international standards, using highly developed technologies and modern technology for the highest quality and precision. The diameter range is from 0.3 mm up to 10 mm. The surface can be phosphated or zinc coated.

Wagner will present samples of products and pictures of the production facilities. The competence in the production of steel wires for various applications will be explained to the visitors.

Windak Group Booth 816 Windak OÜ and Axjo welcome all visitors. The Windak Group specializes in automatic packaging solutions, with offices in Sweden, U.S., Australia and Estonia. We will show our very popular automatic spooler, AR24, a dualhead unit for fully automatic packaging, and our SW6-14 system, which automatically loads and unloads spools, the cut ends secured with stretch wrap. Also, other machines, such as coilers, spoolers, accumulators, rewind ® systems, take-ups and payoffs. AXJO is a well-known trademark and company in Europe that delivers spools and drums in polymer materials to all large cable works in Europe and to users in Asia, Brazil and Africa. It now also has a U.S. production factory in North Carolina. 

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Alpha list of exhibitors AEI Compounds Ltd. .................................................................712 AGAPE Industrial, Inc. ...............................................................714 Agena Resinas E ColaS LTDA ...................................................507 AICON 3D Systems GmbH .................................................... 605B Anbao Qinhuangdao International Corp. ..................................720 Axjo America Inc. ......................................................................816 Aymak Makine Mühendislik Hiz. San. ve Tic. Ltd. Sti............1015 B. S. Shakti Steel Pvt. Ltd. ........................................................647 Bansal Wire Industries Ltd. .......................................................818 Beijing Holland Trading Co., Ltd. ..............................................635 Beijing Tongdaxinming International Trading Co., Ltd. ...........829 Bergandi Machinery Co. Inc......................................................804 Böllinghaus Steel GmbH ...........................................................606 Borealis Poliolefinas Da America Do Sul Ltd .........................1008 BWE Ltd. ....................................................................................710 Cheng I Drawing Machinery Co., Ltd. ......................................714 Chhaperia International Company.............................................825 Comsuc Technology Development Ltd. ...................................824 Condat Lubrifiants .....................................................................532 Conflandey Industries SAS .......................................................724 Conoptica A.S. ...........................................................................848 D&D Manufatureira Ltda ..........................................................501 Dongguan Gemwell Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd. ................. TBA Ernst Koch GmbH & Co. KG .....................................................604 Eurobend GmbH ..................................................................... 705A Fisk Alloy Inc............................................................................. TBA Flymca & Flyro...........................................................................823 Fuhr GmbH & Co. KG............................................................. 706A Gauder & Co. S.A. ...................................................................1006 GMP Slovakia s.r.o. ...................................................................708 Golden Technologies Wire & Cable Equipment Co., Ltd. ........629 Hamex Hardmetallverktyg A/B ..................................................808 Heinze & Streng GmbH .............................................................821 Henan Mi-Tel Imp. & Exp. Trading Co., Ltd. ............................812 Henrich Maschinenfabrik GmbH...............................................704 HMP Heinrich Müller Maschinenfabrik GmbH .........................702 IDEAL-Werk C.+ E. Jungeblodt GmbH + Co. KG .................. 701A iiM AG measurement + engineering ...................................... 706B Inosym Ltd.................................................................................626 Intras Ltd....................................................................................725 Kablomar Kablo Ve Hammaddeleri San. ve Tic. Ltd. Sti..........820 Kieselstein International GmbH.............................................. 701B Maillefer Extrusion Oy ...............................................................631 MFL Group .................................................................................620 Mixer SPA ................................................................................. TBA Moltech AH Kft. .........................................................................813 Nantong Lili Hardware Products Co., Ltd.................................828 NDC Technologies (Beta LaserMike Products) ....................... TBA

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Nuhtel Makina San. ve Tic. Ltd. Sti...........................................806 Numalliance ...............................................................................608 Ozyasar Tel ve Galvanizleme San. A.S......................................716 Paramount Die Company ..........................................................610 Proton Products International Ltd. ...........................................626 Queins Machines GmbH ...........................................................703 Rainbow Plastics India Ltd........................................................825 Rautomead Limited .................................................................. TBA Reichenbach Equipamentos Industria E Comercio ...... 1001/1001A RichardsApex, Inc. ................................................................... TBA Rosendahl Nextrom GmbH ...................................................... TBA Sar Medya Altan Kilinc ..............................................................534 Schlater Do Brasil ......................................................................515 Shanghai HOSN Machinery Technology Co., Ltd. ...................711 Shanghai JNL Industry Co., Ltd................................................834 Shree Jay Jagdamba Stainless Steel Ltd. ................................802 Sikora AG ................................................................................ 602B Sinoleader Industries Group Co., Ltd. ......................................814 SKET Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH...........................................704 Sneham International ................................................................627 SPAJIC d.o.o..............................................................................522 Stappert Deutschland GmbH ................................................. 605A Stolberger GmbH/Wardwell Braiding Co..................................703 Sulamericana De Feiras Industria E Comercio Ltda.................507 Suzhou Star Materials Co., Ltd. ................................................827 Synergychem Pte. Ltd. ..............................................................845 TRAXIT International GmbH .................................................. 603A Troester GmbH & Co. KG ...................................................... 705B Uefa Comercial Ltda Epp................................................... 450/448 Unigel (U.K.) Ltd. .......................................................................628 Upcast Oy...................................................................................538 Wagener GmbH & Co. KG Stahldrahtwerk ........................... 603B Windak Inc. ................................................................................816 WiTechs GmbH .........................................................................604 Wuxi Pingsheng Science & Technology Co., Ltd. ...................836 X-Compound GmbH............................................................... 705B Xuzhou Lint Top Cable Technology Co., Ltd. ...........................841 Yangzhou Havet Machinery Co., Ltd. .......................................832 Zhangjiagang SanFeng Mchry & Electric Development Co. ....728 Zhejiang Harbor Mechanical & Electrical Equipment Group ...840 Zhejiang Tenglong Stainless Steel Products Co., Ltd. ............ TBA

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Compounds & Colorants A cable design is only as good as the materials that go into making it. Below, suppliers of two key elements, compounds and colorants, discuss their field, and what they are focusing on. The feature also looks at a new UL certification program for HF and LSHF cables (p. 50), the perspective of an ink supplier (p. 56) and an assortment of products (p. 66.)

WJI: The wire and cable industry as a whole, like the global economy, has continued to struggle: how has this affected dealings with your customer?

Teknor Apex looks for ways to help customers reduce costs and develop new products, both of which result in increased profitability for them. This includes developing lower-cost alternatives to existing materials, as in the case Mike Patel, Teknor Apex. of new low-cost HFFR jacket compounds; and new HFFR TPEs that are more flexible and easier to process than highly filled HFFR polyolefins. Another way we support customers is by helping them navigate the maze of regulatory compliance. Mike Patel, director of marketing and business development, Teknor Apex.

CCG runs the business the same as always: expect cycles, run lean, anticipate customer needs, re-invest cash in new equipment and remember that sales don’t happen without customers. Charlie Glew, president, Cable Components Group, LLC (CCG), www.cablecomponents.com.

Our success hinges upon our ability to provide solutions that deliver value to our customers and then to continuously improve that value proposition throughout all levels of the customer interface. A close working business partnership has been a cornerstone of that effort which we will continue going forward. Of course product cost/performance is critical but our customers also highly value our customer service, our ability to fill orders quickly, and technical support. We maintain inventory to ensure the product is there when the customer needs it. A machine that is not running because the compound was unable to deliver is not making any

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money for our customers. We provide tech service not only from our various lab facilities but in the field at our customers manufacturing locations. Our account managers are highly trained and support process optimization. Increased line speed, lower scrap and longer production runs all contribute to the bottom line for our customers. Last but not least cost control is critical. Our core products, which are moisture cured cross linkable polyethylene compounds used under UL 44 (such as XHHW-2), face stiff competition from other suppliers/ alternate constructions. We have ongoing efforts to control raw material and manufacturing costs of our products. Luca Saggese, vice president of sales and marketing, SACO Polymers, www.sacopolymers.com.

Because of the soft economy there has been more demand on cost and more over cost reductions. We have had to negotiate lower cost with our supplier to offer those cost saving to our customers in order to maintain the same level of business. OTECH Corp., www.otechcompounds.com.

Because our customers are seeking new avenues for growth, there is a bit more urgency with new product development. Most customers also have very little visibility around future demand and as a result purchase orders arrive and quick turnaround is a necessity. Inventories have been reduced, so as a material supplier we need to be able to support new product development and provide very quick and reliable service.

Chris O’Connell, vice president sales and marketing, Sylvin Technologies, Inc., Chris O’Connell, Sylvin www.sylvin.com.

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First, many international customers are seeking ways to remain competitive given the change in currency value and continue to look for ways to cut cost and add value. This works well to Breen Color’s technical strengths as we are doing more formulation work aimed at cost reduction in international customer’s color portfolio, but at the same time maintaining their color’s performance required to meet more stringent regulatory or industry specifications. This has been particularly true in the automotive industry that has set higher performance standards for PVC based colors and in the telecommunication industry where new specifications are calling for colors with 20 year UV stability.

Our formulation capabilities and testing stretches beyond color matching and enables us to find alternative lower cost elements, or means to simplify the formulation, and to complete testing and certification to the required performance standards.

Breen Color Vice President and Doing formula- CTO Paul Legnetti and Business tion and testing Development Manager Lori Parent. in one location enables effective communications and faster turnaround in the needed solutions. JIT delivery has become more critical and electronic connectivity with international customers enables more accurate forecast of color (continued on p. 52.)

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UL update: 1st certifications for new HF & LSHF standards Interest has increased in the U.S. for halogen-free (HF) and low-smoke halogen free (LSHF) compounds and cables, but even though many such products are offered, until recently there was no applicable single standard for the U.S. industry to follow. UL Wire & Cable, a division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL), reports that it now offers certification for such cable compounds and cable products as spec’d by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Below, Steve Galan, UL Global Director - Wire & Cable, Commercial & Industrial, discusses the new certification.

WJI: Products have long been sold in the U.S. with HF and LSHF designations. Does that mean that those products essentially have been marketed on an honor system?

Galan: Manufacturers have been making halogen claims Steve Galan for years, and mostly those would have to be considered self-declaration. That doesn’t mean that the products weren’t good, only that there was no certainty about the minimum specifications to which they were being made to meet.

WJI: How did your new certification program come about?

Galan: First, we have to look closer at what was happening. A lot of wire and cable manufacturers were offering products under different names, from “Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZH)” to “Flame Retardant Halogen Free (FRHF).”

These claims are backed by different standards and test methodologies, and those inconsistencies created confusion for end-users and specifiers seeking an LSHF cable. Europe has had a lot more activity in this field, but it too has had similar concerns. Most of that had to do with the low smoke and halogen content of cable and materials, primarily because IEC 60754-1, the applicable standard used there, does not include test methods to determine or

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give reference to content levels for halogens such as fluorine, chlorine and bromine. Instead, it provides a method to determine relative combustion gas acidity. Now, the base IEC 60754 series of standards was helpful as it provided us a common framework of compliance so our Component Recognition Program (CRP) could offer an independent assessment of acidity and conductivity, but it limited our ability to offer HF or LSHF testing and product markings. That situation changed when IEC introduced its 62821 standard in February 2015.

WJI: How does that standard work?

Galan: The collective IEC 62821 series provides us the specific testing requirements we need to assess halogen content. Once individual combustible cable components comply with the HF requirements of IEC 62821-1 & -2, we can extend an “HF” component material recognition designation, and add the product to our Recognition Program that is published in our UL2885 Outline of Requirements under the AATJ2 category control number. If HF-certified components used in a complete cable also pass IEC61034-2 requirements, an “-LSHF” marking can be authorized for the complete cable, such as CMR-LSHF, OFNR-LSHF, TC-LSHF, etc.

WJI: Have any companies been certified so far to IEC 62821?

Galan: We just saw two recent successes. SACO Polymers, Inc., was the first compound supplier to be certified. Its polymeric materials have been evaluated as HF materials and can be used by cable

makers for applicable insulations and overall jackets of cables. We have also certified Superior Essex as the first cable company for its LSFH Communications Riser (CMR) product. The polymeric components of these cables, such as insulation, overall jacket and color concentrate compounds, meet the standard of minimal low-level smoke generation under fire conditions. The LSHF designation we certified means that it meets all existing standards and tests for such cables as well as some additional requirements. The standard is valid not only for the cable but also for any compounds or materials used in the cable.

WJI: How big a deal is this?

Galan: We think it’s pretty big. Our Recognized Component program enables manufacturers, designers and other key stakeholders to substantiate their safety claims with UL’s trusted third-party certification. It also helps them differentiate their product from other competitors, and increases confidence and peace of mind of end users, installers and brand owners. This advance was driven not so much by us, UL, as it was by demand we saw from compound and cable manufacturers wanting to demonstrate product compliance through third-party testing. This helps create more clarity and transparency in both industries. Instead of UL creating a specific test program, we supported the development by industry for a transparent Certification Program, which is what the industry has. I expect this standard to become more and more accepted as well as expected.

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releases and allow us to match the volume to the proper line capacity to hold down cost and production of excess material. Though we can’t control the economy our ability to react to customer’s needs in this environment enables us to grow and gain market share. Tom Taylor, vice president of sales, Breen Color Concentrates, www.breencolor.com.

We are constantly reminded by wire/cable convertors that they are in a tough competitive environment.

However this has worked in our favor as Holland Colours’ brand new Holcoprill colorants have a much lower dosing rate, down to 0.3%, versus competitive masterbatch colorants which average about 2%. We are able

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to present sizable savings on the purchase cost of color, present a significant reduction in the amount of color used per lineal foot, and provide reductions in logistical and inventory costs. You might say that we entered the market at the right time.

While good products at a low usage cost are important, convertors still require great support and ongoing attention, and our success has been built on service. We stay in touch with our customers on an almost daily basis. We’ve built flexibility into our production schedules to react to emergencies, and when a customer or prospect has a problem, we get involved and act as fast as possible. Even if it is not a color problem we feel we need to help with solutions because anything we can do to support our customers’ is a positive reflection on us. Dwight Marshall, sales and marketing manager, Holland Colours Americas, Inc., www.hollandcolours.com.

WJI: To what degree, if any, do changing directives (that may affect the status of using certain chemicals or even how they must be listed) disrupt your operations?

Do you have one person who is responsible for keeping up with these (and any other) directives?

The introduction of new materials has never been greater in both the North American market and the global wire, cable and fiber optic market. REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals), RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances), CPR (Construction Product Regulation),

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The regulatory demands are increasing and they can be very disruptive to our operations - from purchasing, production, product development to customer service. For example when DINP, a common plasticizer used in PVC compound formulations went on the California Prop 65 list of chemicals, we needed to develop new compound formulations away from DINP, so our customers wouldn’t need to place the Prop 65 label on the products sold in California. For another product group that was UL 94 listed we had to submit new formulations to UL at significant cost. In general, when we consider all of the regulatory directive changes together, it does require significant investment in terms of time and money to be compliant.

Sylvin has one person who is responsible but many in the organization work to keep the company and our customers informed about new or updated regulations. Chris O’Connell, Sylvin Technologies, Inc. Regulatory compliance and emerging environmental pressures play a critical role in our wire and cable business. The industry is becoming more global and North American producers need to be aware of regulations and directives that may emerge in Europe or elsewhere that affect their ability to sell products on a worldwide basis.

SACO Polymers maintains a team of environmental and regulatory professionals whose jobs include monitoring directives such as REACH and RoHS and to be prepared when chemicals come under scrutiny. When specific brominated flame retardants (PBDPEs) were placed on the

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CA Prop 65, and POE (Power Over Ethernet) are some of the many forces/directives of positive change. All of these standards push the development of new materials to be more responsive to environmental concerns, reducing the combustible footprint for flame and smoke generation, Charlie Glew, Cable as well as improving the cable life-cycle with Components Group, LLC. higher temperature ratings via improved thermal stability.

The recently adopted European CPR (Construction Product Regulation) is a hierarchy of fire retardancy that will have a monumental effect on improving materials in the next decade, and it is another example of the global opportunity for material development and change. The North American plenum cable standard for communication cabling is by far the most stringent standard and sets the bar for limiting flame spread and smoke generation.

The tough 300,000 BTU horizontal flame test limits flame spread to five feet and smoke generation to average less than 0.15 and a peak smoke of 0.50. Charlie Glew, Cable Components Group, LLC.

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RoHS list, SACO Polymers was ready with a compliant product using an alternate flame retardant system.

Earlier this year specific UV stabilizers were placed on the REACH SVHC list and SACO Polymers responded by redesigning our compounds to remain compliant. Today major OEMs such as Apple, Dell, HP and Google are leading the way towards the elimiLuca Saggese, SACO nation of PVC and bromiPolymers. nated FRs (BFRs) and are pushing their supply chain to develop alternative products to support that goal. SACO Polymers has invested heavily in the development of HFFR compounds to support the conversion away from PVC and BFRs. One example of our efforts can be seen in response to UL recent publication to clarify the definition of halogen-free and low-smoke compounds. We are proud to be the first compounder to receive recognition under UL 2885. Luca Saggese, SACO Polymers.

The continuously changing regulatory environment presents a tremendous challenge for our technical group in having to validate new raw materials performance to replace longstanding ones which find themselves on some restricted list. This is also quite disruptive for our customers, who have to obtain new safety and performance approvals for numerous legacy products. Closely linked with this is the ever-increasing demand from end users for full disclosure of compound composition. This is our intellectual property and the foundation around which our business is based, so it is not something that can be readily disclosed; yet the information is required by customers as part of their regulatory compliance.

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conflicting agendas while consuming a tremendous amount of time and resources. The enormous number of regulatory requests from customers across all our divisions has necessitated growth in our regulatory department. Mike Patel, Teknor Apex.

The RoHs and REACH directives have not been a major disruption to our day to day business. We have aggressively pursued changes to our formulations to be a head of the regulation curve. We do have one individual responsible for keeping up on these directives which are constantly changing and evolving month to month.

Also, last December at Color Resource we made a global change to our plasticizer choice to use only phthalate-free plasticizers which fortifies our compliance with REACH, RoHs and Prop 65. OTECH Corp.

The biggest change of late for us has been the new SDS format and required labeling. We must make sure all of our compounds are in compliance with the new safety data sheet format and with the required shipping labels. It is important that we meet all of the requirements and are up to date in all of these areas. We have

a specific individual at T & T who is responsible for ensuring our documentation is in compliance. These types of changes are not necessarily a disruption, but do require us to complete the necessary research and make appropriate changes to existing documentation. Jessica Hoogendoorn, T&T Marketing.

Keeping up with the constant changes in the regulatory landscape requires a high level of attention and resources. At Breen, we monitor what is happen-

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Beyond compounds & colorants: the fit with inks Compounds and colorants are the focus of the September feature, but another element that also plays a role is the ink that is used to mark cables. Below, Rick Elmer, director of ink technology, and Ramona Krogman, marketing manager at Gem Gravure, Co., Inc., discuss this relationship with WJI.

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WJI: How do concepts for new products come about?

Elmer/Krogman: Product concepts start from several paths. We have continuous contact with our customers who are under pressure to work better and faster.

That leads them to ask us for better performance, and often that is in the form of better adhesion or faster dry times. It can also lead the elimination of a raw material that has become cause for concern but that doesn’t happen very often any more.

Our raw materials fall within RoHS compliance, which is very helpful on the regulatory front. There are projects in contact inks that relate to new color requirements, but some of the most exciting development projects are for a new application that no one is doing. That’s when we look into our crystal ball and visualize a product that will fulfill our customers’ needs.

There are always a few of those in process.

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WJI: How is a new ink created?

Elmer/Krogman: The fastest way to produce a new ink is to work with familiar raw materials and systems.

When you are working with 60+ years of institutional ink knowledge, you have a wide range of familiar systems to work from. We start with the closest match and begin experimentation. A critical part of development is knowing when a system has reached its limits and you need to start from scratch.

WJI: In developing a new ink, how many variations might you try before getting the final version?

Elmer/Krogman: The development team can go through hundreds of formula versions before being satisfied with the final product, especially with ink jet fluids.

When it comes to these high tech products, developers have to consider the stability, cost and availability of each raw

material. If the ink works perfectly but is too expensive or difficult to manufacture, the efforts are in vain. If the ink works perfectly but is only stable for a few days, it’s not a useful product. Then there is the reality that ink jet inks are charged, recycled and forced through a tiny nozzle opening repeatedly during normal use, without changing properties from the original design. That’s a lot to take into account while formulating.

WJI: Will the final product be demonstrably different from the other variations?

Elmer/Krogman: Knowing to add a small amount of a key raw material can spell success for an ink and its designer. Small differences can have an effect on the performance of a formula.

Combinations of raw materials in the right ratio can create ink characteristics not evident when only one is added. Dialing in the ratios takes time and experience.

WJI: Is this pure science or is there a degree of art as well? Do you ever have a “Eureka!” moment?

Elmer/Krogman: Inks, particularly ink jet inks, are a combination of science and art. Science is the starting point. Come up with a theory about which materials should do the required job and be compatible with each other, then work from there.

Unfortunately, things do not always go as expected. Developing inks is an art form in some ways. Since it is still a relatively new when compared to paint or other coatings, there are still surprises. There are “Eureka!” moments…unexpected leaps forward in the development process as the result of an educated guess.

WJI: Can this take days? Weeks?

Months? Years?

Elmer/Krogman: New ink products typically take months or a year.

Small variations in a product may be possible in weeks. Once the formula has been established, it has to prove itself in testing. For ink jet, that means operational testing in the printer under a variety of environmental conditions. Testing extends to the customer’s manufacturing floor. Unless a product can withstand use under actual customer conditions, it will not be successful. If we are working on a new breakthrough product, we may have development efforts going on for years as basic research before creating a final ink product.

WJI: Do you ever get close to a final product but have to give up because you realize the final desired properties will not be forthcoming?

Elmer/Krogman: That does happen but not often. A product may go

back into a basic research phase.

That means canceling a launch window and roll-out plan, but continuing to work with new materials and combinations to create the desired product. Chemists are a driven group. They rarely give up on ideas, luckily.

WJI: So how does the cable jacket/colorants fit into the mix?

Elmer/Krogman: Ah, cable jackets make the whole process interesting! It’s not just the material of the jacket; it is the materials that leach out and affect adhesion after the wire is completed.

It’s the effects of resident heat working on the ink after the wire is coiled on the spool. It’s the speed of the production line, the additives in the cooling troughs and the points of contact on the wire line that make designing inks for wire and cable tough but rewarding.

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Proving you have them correct requires testing. Critical raw materials have to balance and must stay balanced when the ink is subjected to a manufacturing environment by the end user.

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ing on the global stage; this is imperative because we and our customers sell globally. Customers rely upon Breen as an expert resource on compliance matters. The SVHC Candidate list is updated twice a year; substances are regularly added to the various global chemical inventories, such as California Proposition 65; the Conflict Minerals declaration needs to be updated yearly; and customers seek to use color concentrates Colors by Breen Color Concentrates. in new applications or regions.

Providing the required service level is not really “disruptive,” but you do have to assign the resources to get information to customers in a timely manner. Substance restrictions have not yet affected our ability to create compliant products that meet a customer’s economic, performance and regulatory needs. Paul Legnetti, vice president and CTO, Breen Color Concentrates.

We have seen no disruption at all. We are a global company producing on multiple continents and have been able to stay abreast of requirements and needs. And to

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address these issues, we have people in each of our business regions (Americas/EU/Asia) that are responsible for monitoring and acting on any changes. Dwight Marshall, Holland Colours Americas, Inc. WJI: Looking forward, what are you focusing on to remain competitive in the coming years?

To reduce the cost of manufacturing compounds, Teknor Apex is continually looking for alternative ingredients and for enhancements to the compounding process. At the same time, we invest significantly in R&D geared toward providing compounds that offer improved cost-performance in existing applications. Finally, we strive to be ahead of the curve in developing cable compound technologies for emerging applications like wind turbines, solar energy, and electric vehicle chargers. Mike Patel, Teknor Apex.

T & T is constantly adapting. Over the past 27 years, we have grown from a consulting business into a sales representation and distribution outfit, and most recently have added compound development to our portfolio. Our bread and butter is still distributing materials for our many suppliers. However, we have developed compounds to fulfill certain customer needs. T & T compounds don’t compete directly with those of our suppliers. We do development work when a customer has a special need or a problem we feel T & T can solve.

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To stay competitive we plan to continue to adapt by listening to our customers and by keeping a close eye on the industry. Customers have always been our number one priority. We will remain competitive by continuing to follow our mission statement, which is to achieve success by meeting our customers’ needs by providing high-quality products and exceptional service. The customer is usually open about what we need to do in order to stay competitive, so we do our best to listen and address those concerns. Jessica Hoogendoorn, T&T Marketing.

We will continue listening to our customers and aligning our products and services with their changing needs. There are internal company-wide initiatives to remain competitive including Lean manufacturing, better purchasing and developing new products and services.

Hiring talented associates and developing an ongoing continuing education program throughout our organization is also a major focus to ensure the organization is competitive and growing. We have also invested in some new marketing initiatives around our website and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). We now have a “New Products” section on our website which showcases the

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Compounds supplied by Sylvin Technologies. many new and niche compound formulations that we develop to satisfy a wide variety of end use applications.

Chris O’Connell, Sylvin Technologies, Inc. We recognize several trends and have invested in technologies, partnerships and people in order to be prepared. In automotive arena OEMs are pushing for higher temperature use ratings as well as demanding better electrical performance as more and more electronics are being designed into automobiles. This has raised the performance bar for existing compound solutions.

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companies around the world. So we have expanded our polymer technology base, formulation expertise and technical response capabilities. The acquisition of AEI Compounds and our partnership with Mixer SpA are examples. AEI was a leader in HFFR thermoplastic and thermoset technology and Mixer brings us EPDM as well as specialty compounds for wire and cable. Luca Saggese, SACO Polymers.

CCG has made a commitment to focus on development of innovative new materials in North America for which halogen-based (chlorine, bromine and fluorine) materials continue to dominate. A parallel path of development is similarly being focused upon in Europe where cable manufacturers continue to lean toward halogen-free materials, albeit the overall standards for wire and cable fire retardancy, low smoke characteristics and thermal stability are less stringent than North America, especially as they relate to communications cables. Charlie Glew, Cable Components Group, LLC (CCG).

We are in the final stages of a complete plant automation project. We expect it to be completed and implemented by October 2015. This will afford us higher quality, less down time and improved output.

We are also developing a wide range of non-vinyl compounds that are flame retardant and non-halogen.

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We employ a multi-faceted approach: We are always trying to find new and better raw materials that will improve performance such as color dosing or dispersion, that allow us to reduce costs that can be transferred through to the customer, and that enable faster or more efficient processing such as Cycle Time Reduction.

As an example of the latter, we are currently running production trials that can measurably improve color changeover time versus the current masterbatch products available.

Additionally we are very active in new product development. We are looking at new polymers to color and the possible inclusion of other additives with color to create a “one-pack” approach that makes dosing and processing easier for convertors. Within Holland Colours operation, over 15% of our people are employed in R&D and laboratory functions. Dwight Marshall, Holland Colours Americas, Inc. WJI: Are there any new, noticeable trends you see in cable manufacturing?

Low smoke zero halogen (LSZH) has been widely talked about for the last few years but, it has yet to gain the traction in the U.S. that it has in Europe. However, customers are still asking about LSZH products and we are continuing to develop compounds in this area. Overall, customers continue to search for new ways to make the most economical and quality cable possible. Sometimes

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Most recently we have expanded our capabilities in EPDM based CV cured specialty compounds by our partnership with Mixer SpA of Italy. Going forward we will continue to expand our product offering and improve our product performance to meet the emerging needs of the market place. Luca Saggese, vice president of sales and marketing, SACO Polymers, www.sacopolymers.com.

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that means using materials that were not necessarily designed for a specific application, but enhance the cable in some way that was not originally anticipated. It is exciting when we have the opportunity to work with customers to enhance our compounds and help them find new ways to improve their cables and/or reduce their costs.

Another noticeable trend in wire and cable is the use of lean manufacturing principles, which requires justin-time deliveries of raw materials. Doing business with a supplier/distributer that is able to ship material from a nearby warehouse at short notice is a major benefit for some cable manufacturers. T & T has taken notice of this trend and therefore, has established warehouses that are strategically located across the U.S. and Canada.

T & T Marketing. Jessica Hoogendoorn, T&T Marketing.

WJI: How can your company support customers in their efforts to succeed in an increasingly tough competitive environment?

While developing new compounds with improved cost-performance is central to our strategy of market leadership, our service as a custom compounder does not end with shipment of these materials to the customer. It is to the customer’s advantage—and indeed our own!— to work with the customer to ensure proper processing of these compounds, so that their properties are fully developed and that the finished cable product fully complies with stringent requirements. Mike Patel, Teknor Apex.

New products enhance our value proposition. We TM have expanded our PEXIDAN product line with complementary products and offer our customers multiple compounds solutions now available from a single source. We have added CPE based jacketing compounds and a family of thermoplastic and thermoset low smoke zero halogen (LSZH/HFFR) compounds to meet the growing demand of this market segment.

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WJI: How will global wire, cable and fiber optic standards converge toward material development, with the burgeoning markets of China, South America and the Middle East? What standards or modified standards will they adopt?

Our goal is to anticipate this change and develop a range of materials with a global perspective. CCG’s path forward exemplifies one major overriding development concept: “What was once a solid material must be foamed to reduce the environmental and combustible footprint of plastic materials.” The issue of halogen versus non-halogen will be decided by the global market and balance of properties sought, application by application. Charlie Glew, Cable Components Group, LLC (CCG).

WJI: Color is a relatively minor component. Does it have that much impact?

While color is a small portion of a cable, it is highly visible and has a large impact and can even stop their production process. We deal with several convertors who were experiencing pin holes in their insulation when using a competitive color product. This required them to perform 100% inspection. Our colorant carrier which has superior melt dispersion (ability to flow) than masterbatch not only helped resolve the problem, but improved their production and reduced their labor cost. Dwight Marshall, Holland Colours Americas, Inc. WJI: As most privately held suppliers of PVC and TPR compounds have been acquired by big corporations reaching to global markets, how do you continue to compete?

We continue to focus on the qualities of being a medium sized supplier by driving our ability of offer fast turnarounds, custom optimized formulations, smaller quantities, stock programs on custom compounds and very competitive pricing. Customers get used to that level of service. All in all, customers still want to hear a voice on the other end of the phone when they have a crisis. OTECH Corp.

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PRODUCTS TECHNOLOGY The below companies, most of which are in the feature, were asked to highlight one or more products that best reflects their technology. Below are their responses.

Breen Color Concentrates Within the past few years, Breen has launched vinylbased and various olefin-based concentrates that meet the thermal stability and other requirements of ISO 6722 for 85ºC, 105ºC, 125ºC and 150ºC rated cables. We have recently made changes to improve the utility of our FEP and ETFE concentrates for thin wall, high speed extrusion applications. Fade resistant/Sunlight resistant color series have been launched, in response to customer needs for such products for TPU and various thermoplastic and cross-linked PE applications. Two such color concentrates lines that meet ISO 6722 requirements reflect the types of products that we supply to cable manufacturers.

The first series is a line of PVC color concentrates designed to meet the performance requirements of ISO 6722 Class T1 (85ºC) automotive cables. The concentrates meet 14 Munsell color designations (black, light blue, blue, brown, gray, light green, green, orange, pink, purple, red, tan, white and yellow), all with thermal stability @ 200ºC. Each color concentrate has been formu-

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lated and verified to provide minimum thermal stability of 70 minutes at 200ºC. The recommended letdown ratios are between 1% and 2%.

The second series is designed to meet the performance requirements of ISO 6722 Class T2 (105ºC). Each color concentrate has been formulated and verified to provide minimum thermal stability of 150 minutes at 200ºC. Recommended letdown ratios are between 1% and 2%.

For both series, customers are encouraged to perform tests in the specific compound(s) being used to determine the amount of color concentrate needed to attain the desired color. Custom matched color concentrates are available upon request.

The company’s products are made using 100% virgin raw materials, and substances of concern listed in EU directives 2002/95 and 2011/65 (ROHS), REACH Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) and conflict minerals are not intentionally used or present.

Contact: Breen Color Concentrates, tel. 609-3978200, info@breencolor.com, www.breencolor.com.

Cable Components Group (CCG) focuses on meeting the needs of cable manufacturers, whether their product lines are halogen-free or halogen-based.

The chart in the next column is a pyramid of products based on their thermal characteristic or temperature rating for which CCG offers chemically foamable pellets for insulation, fiber optic buffers, and/ or jacket extrusion. If cable fillers are needed, CCG will produce to your specifications, extruded tapes, crosswebs, monofilaments, fibers or tubes.

CCG specializes in high temperature materials such as fluoropolymers: PFA, FEP, MFA, ECTFE, ETFE, and PVDF, as well as the following engineered resins: PEEK, PPS, PPSU, PES and PSU. Additionally, CCG produces several polyolefin based non-halogenated grades especially developed to meet the new halogen free “HF” suffix and the “LSHF” suffix for halogen free and low smoke halogen free UL designation.

Our business model states, “If our customer can draw it… CCG can extrude it as a solid or foamed polymer. If

you want to extrude it, CCG can provide you foamable pellets to meet the market need!”

Contact: Cable Components Group, tel. 860-5995877, customerservice@cablecomponents.com, www.cablecomponents.com.

Dow Electrical & Telecommunications From proven cable compound to development for new cable and accessory applications, Dow Electrical & Telecommunications (Dow E&T) is directly involved in nearly all phases of medium-voltage (MV) underground (UG) systems.

Dow E&T, the inventor of water tree-retardant crosslinked polyethylene (TR-XLPE) insulation, also provides

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fully formulated compounds for semiconductive shields and jacketing materials. Now, Dow provides elastomeric resins for ethylene alkene copolymer (EAM) and ethylene propylene rubber (EPR) cable constructions. These same elastomers also are used in MV accessories that include separable connectors, splices and terminations.

Combining our latest TR-XLPE insulation, DOW ENDURANCE™ HFDC-4202 EC, with our supersmooth semiconducting conductor shield, low-strip insulation shield and multiple options for jacketing compounds, Dow E&T offers a complete system that demonstrates excellent moisture tolerance, enables simpler cable designs and enhances processing performance for more robust cable manufacturing.

Contact: Dow E&T, www.dow.com/electrical.

OW138 has been the product of choice for severe low temperature environments where chemical and oil resistance is required. We offer more than 100 UL-approved products including highly specialized flame retardant compounds, low-temperature compounds, and thermoplastic elastomer compounds.

OTECH Corp./Color Resource OTECH Corp., a niche compounder, is a leader in thermoplastic compounding and one of the largest vinyl compounders in the Midwest. We serve the wire and cable industry along with our sister company, Color Resources, a supplier of colorants.

OTECH has developed OW138, a polymer blend that has UL listing for 720 hrs sunlight, Oil I & II, FT4, 105ºC, and -40ºC impact. This compound has been found to be resistant to many chemicals and solutions.

Color Resource has embarked on a three-year development program to create color concentrates specifically for use with moisture cure cross-linked PE compounds.

Its new Quasar line of PE concentrates accommodate the higher-loaded FR compounds. The Quasar concentrates create more vibrant colors and are formulated to optimize performance to reduce or eliminate scorching of the compound during processing caused by other standard PE concentrates. The concentrates can also be used with standard PE compounds and FR urethanes and FR zero halogen compounds.

Color Resource delivers personal service. Whether it is pellet geometry, a color match in 24 hours, fast turnaround on small orders, or expedited shipping, Color Resource understands when color matters. You want it; we’ve got it, matched to your specifications, on time, every time.

Contact: OTECH Corp., tel. 219-778-8007, info@otechcompounds.com, www.otechcompounds.com.

Color Resource, tel. 978-537-3700, fax 978-401-4370, info@color-resource.com, www.color-resource.com.

S&E Specialty Polymers Earlier this year at Interwire 2015, S&E Specialty Polymers LLC, a leading producer of specialty plastic compounds, introduced their new Intumescent Flame Retardant Low Smoke Zero Halogen product line under the brand name TufFill™ GTPO 8291 IT. Initial cable testing has been positive. The uniqueness is the relationship between the low Specific Gravity (S.G.) versus Limited Oxygen Index (LOI). For example our TufFill™ GTPO 8291-47 IT, is a 105ºC rated compound with an S.G. of 1.13 and an LOI of 47.

S&E’s other brands of compounds for wire and cable applications include: TufFlex™, a series of flexible TPE compounds designed for wide temperature ranges especially for wire and cable applications, with some grades are formulated to provide superior chemical resistance; TufTech™, a series of superior vinyl-based compounds

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SACO Polymers

SACO Polymers remains focused on the development of Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZF) compounds for wire and cable users.

We are introducing an LSZH moisture-curable primary insulation compound that will meet the requirements set forth under UL 44.

This represents a significant breakthrough. PEXIDANTM HF X/T will give our customers a halogen free option for a 90ºC wet IR rated insulation compound. Customers and end users recognize the value of cable constructions that do not emit corrosive or toxic gases during combustion while still maintaining necessary FR performance to meet existing codes and standards but halogen free solutions pose difficult design challenges.

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Filtertech, Inc..............................1049 Enkotec Company Inc ..................108 Fine International Corporation.....332 Enshang Machinery Enterprise Co Ltd.......................666 Finoptics Inc ...............................1801 ER-Bakir Elektrolitik Bakir AS ...924 Fisk Alloy Inc .............................2140 ERA Wire Inc ...............................354 FLYMCA & FLYRO.................1907 Ernst Koch GmbH & Co............1358 FMS USA, Inc ..............................618 Esteves Group...............................806 Foerster Instruments Inc ..............1814 Etna Products, Inc ......................1706 Forever Cable Materials Group..512/03 Euroalpha Srl ................................558 Fort Wayne Wire Die, Inc..........1532 Eurobend GmbH ........................1058 Fortune Machinery .....................1053 Eurolls Spa....................................858 Fridea Srl ....................................1739 tance, high speed processability and overall physical designed for a variety of wire and cable applications; EuroWire ......................................132 FrigecoWe USA Inc programs ........................1739 and mechanical properties. have to TufGuard™, an E- series of flame retardant polyolefin George Evans Corp ......................711 USAand Inc ........................1739 address each of theseFrigerio challenges have leveraged compounds designed for wire and cable extrusion appliEVG Inc ........................................150 our existing technologies as Composites well as those our..215 cations, and include a line of TPE/CPE compounds; Frontier & from Castings AEI Compounds division in the U.K. Our materials are TufShield™, a series of premier Plenum compounds; Evolution Products, Inc ................133 FSP-One......................................2128 designed to run on conventional processing equipment and TufPrene™, a series of superior SBS Fabritex, & SEBS Inc com..................................616 Fuhr FT-2 GmbH ...................................752 and will be able to meet flame retardant perforpounds.

Fastener Engineers .....................2056 Gateway Recovery mance. We have other LSZH products .....................2158 in our develThe company has also expanded its custom compoundLLC....................................1955 opment pipeline including cross linkable oil resistant ing approach to include olefin-based flameFenn retardant Gauder/Gauder Group ..................424 jacketing compounds and thermoplastic compounds concentrates. By expanding its product line, S&E can FIB Belgium SA.........................1358 Gavlick Machinery Corp............1053 with improved FR performance for use in high speed now provide injection molding and extrusion customers Fil-Tec Inc ..................................1502 data communication.Gem Gravure Co Inc ....................706 with the ability to significantly improve their production Contact: SACO Polymers, www.sacopolymers.com. flexibility.

Contact: S&E Specialty Polymers, Visit our stand #711 at Interwire 2015 tel. 978-537-8261, sales@sespoly. com, www.sespoly.com.

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Sylvin Technologies As a PVC compound producer, Sylvin Technologies is constantly developing new formulations for very specific end-use applications.

TECHNOLOGIES Our purpose isn’t so much to force a standard compound to a customer application but to really understand the performance requirements of each end use application and to formulate the best candidate for each application. So in that sense we service custom, niche opportunities in PVC. From a regulatory compliance perspective, we recently developed our 7844 compound series. Sylvin developed this series for customers to be compliant with RoHS, REACH, and California Prop 65. It is a UL 94-HB listed compound for the electrical industry. End use applications are power supply cord plugs, connectors and strain reliefs. We have also developed a 5409-92 which is a 125C rated PVC jacketing compound for SAE J1127 and 1128 wire applications.

PVC historically has been limited to 105ºC rated wire applications so this development to a higher temperature rating is significant. The third product of note is we developed bio-based wire jacketing compound for wire and cable manufacturers looking for a lower carbon footprint material. The compound is Sylvin 6240-80. In developing the formulation we replaced a plasticizer that was derived from oil with one made from a plant.

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T & T Marketing, Inc. T & T Marketing distributes a variety of products, so it is difficult to say there is only one that exemplifies our focus. We prefer to think of our focus as being on our customers.

T & T Marketing offers practical, reliable solutions.

We have had success with several of our compounds.

One of those is PR 2003, a linear low-density polyolefin concentrate that is offered in both black and gray. When blended at 5% with HDPE base resin and various mois-

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ture cure resins, PR 2003 offers an excellent balance of ultraviolet protection and track resistance.

Blended with HDPE base resin, PR 2003 can be used as an insulating material for 5 to 15 kV Spacer Cable – Tree Wire. It may be used for primary and secondary wire insulation for overhead distribution. The blend of PR 2003 and HDPE is effective in preventing direct shorts and flashovers should tree limbs or other objects come into contact with the conductor.

Contact: Jessica Hoogendoorn, T & T Marketing, Inc., tel. 610-438-1452, jhoogendoorn@ttmarketinginc. com, www.ttmarketinginc.com.

Teknor Apex

The Halguard® 58300 Series halogen-free flame retardant jacketing compounds from the Vinyl Division of Teknor Apex for data center cables, control cables, energy cables, and other demanding applications exhibit a higher level of flame retardance than other high-performance HFFR materials without compromising physical or electrical properties.

These new HFFR compounds, with limiting oxygen indices in the 53-56% range, enable cables to pass the stringent UL1685 vertical tray test (CSA FT4 / IEEE 1202) and achieve a UL94 rating of V-0 with test spec-

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imens as thin as 1/40 in. (0.635 mm). The compounds provide this outstanding flame performance while exhibiting the same physical and electrical properties of other high-performance HFFR materials. Available grades are in the 48-52 Shore D hardness range.

Teknor Apex recommends Halguard 58300 Series compounds for copper and optical fiber cables used in data centers and other applications requiring exceptional flame retardance. One example is the extensive “server farms” operated by Internet companies.

Teknor Apex believes that Halguard 58300 Series compounds are the most flame-retardant HFFR products on the market. While modifying HFFR compounds to enhance their flame performance often involves sacrificing other properties, we have developed formulating and compounding innovations that avoid this tradeoff.

Contact: Mike Patel, Teknor Apex, tel. 401-642-3330 or 401-725-8000, mpatel@teknorapex.com, www.teknorapex.com.

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TECHNICAL PAPERS Copper scrap: an old challenge … and an opportunity of today The below 2013 CabWire presentation, which has been updated by the author, addresses the importance of being able to convert low-grade scrap into rod in a more efficient, sustainable, environmentally aware and user-friendly process that will better serve the world’s future needs for power.

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Electric energy – a vital lymph for growth and development Available data indicates world population reached 7.3 billion during the year 2014 while approximately 900 million people had very scarce access to food and more than 2.1 billion people were considered overweight. According to some research made available by ONU1, in 25 years from now the world population will reach 9 billion growing at an average rate of 1.4% per year.

It goes without saying that a country’s economy, and by that, the welfare of its people, depend on secure, reliable and up-to-date energy and communication networks in

Fig. 1. Chart of EE consumption 1990-2013.

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addition to access and availability of natural resources.

Electric energy (EE) plays a fundamental role.

The below chart2 displays the growth of EE consumption during the past 23 years (more precisely from 1990 through 2013) with reference to the main macro-geographic areas indicated as: Middle East, Africa, Pacific, Asia, CIS, Latin America, North America, Europe.

As we can see, during this period of observation (19902013) the demand/supply of EE has continued growing despite a minor setback in 2008-2009 as a consequence of the global crisis of the last quarter of 2008, jumping from 10,000 TWh (1990) to approximately 20,000 TWh in 2013; we could say that in 22 years it has almost doubled.

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Referring to the data available relevant to 2013, China– 1.35 billion people–has been the largest consumer of EE with an aggregated demand of approximately 4,600 TWh, followed by the USA—310 million people—with approximately 3,850 TWh. It is important to note the modest demand of India—920 TWh for 1.2 billion people—when compared with the demand of China since the two huge countries are comparable in population. Why so? Evidently this is due to the different levels of industrialization and urbanization and, among the others, we should not forget the fact that currently about 400 million people in India live without access to EE. However, several years ago, India instituted the Electricity Act 20033 that has liberalized the production of EE. In the sector of aluminium rod, this circumstance has encouraged the big players, Vedanta and Hindalco, to add an astounding aggregated amount of 800,000 tpy of rod to their existing production capacity.

Although we have now focused our attention on India, we should not forget that approximately 20% of the world’s population currently has no access to EE. According to the forecast of ExxonMobil4, in the next 25 years the aggregated demand of EE will reach 32,500 TWh with a growth of approximately 80%. It will take time, but the portion of population without access to EE will diminish remarkably in the coming years. We all hope that this growth will be environmentally and socially sustainable and, in our capacity as a supplier dedicated to this sector, we will have the tremendous responsibility and the unique privilege of contributing, with our equipment, products, technologies and services, to the success and swift realization of the dream…“electric power for everybody.”

Fig. 2. The historical Properzi rolling mill 6B.

The nonferrous rod; the backbone of electric energy transmission and utilization Continuus-Properzi started this mission almost seven decades ago bringing its technology and its equipment for producing rod for electrical applications—mainly aluminium rod at that time—to the major players of the Cable Industry worldwide. Fig. 2 displays the Properzi Rolling Mill Mod. 6B. We could say that this machine contributed to the electrification of our world during the period 1950-1960.

Just to put some reference numbers on the table, in that period the aggregated demand of EE worldwide went from 1,850 TWh in 1950 to 3,700 TWh in 19655. In 1960 the overall production of aluminium was in the range of 5 million tons and there were approximately 50 Properzi Al rod lines in operation in 19 countries. The total annual output of those 50 lines, optimistically, was in the range of 500,000 tons; five modern lines of 15 tph each, like the ones installed in India recently, can give the same output today!

Fig. 3 displays a modern Properzi Rod Mill sized for producing 13 tph.

Over the years, aluminium rod and copper rod have remained the basic semi-finished products concerned with the various utilization of electric energy (production, transportation, distribution, motors, transformers, etc.).

Fig. 3. View of the Al CCR line, 13 tph. Image courtesy of Alcoa Fjarðaál (Iceland).

Fig. 4. Trends of the demand of refined copper.

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At the end of 2012 Continuus-Properzi Marketing Department estimated the aggregated annual production of aluminium rod worldwide to be approximately 5.8 million tons, whereas the total production of primary aluminium was in the range of 45 million tons. Considering these figures, on a global basis the portion of aluminium transformed into rod is in the range of 12% of the total.

The scenario in the copper sector is completely different.

Fig. 46 displays the production of refined copper from 2006 through 2014.

Analyzing the data made available through Wood Mackenzie (Metals Market Insight, Nov. 2011), we can assume that 57% of copper goes for electrical applications while the balance (43%) is used for applications other than electrical.

Although the above analysis concerning the use of aluminium and copper for electrical applications might be affected by minor imprecisions or discrepancies, nonetheless this will give a reliable idea about the utilization of copper worldwide.

What follows will be related only to copper rod and the usable/available raw material for producing copper rod.

Possible raw material for producing copper rod Copper rod is available worldwide in the form of coils having a weight ranging from 3,000 kg to 5,000 kg and standardized geometrical dimensions. Currently, only two main technologies are used for producing copper rod: the UpCast unit and the Continuous Casting & Direct Rolling system either based on Wheel and Belt Caster or on TwinBelt Caster followed by three-roll rolling technology or two-roll technology.

The vast majority of copper rod producers use electrolytically refined cathodes as raw material to get either OF (Oxygen Free) rod or ETP (Electrolytic Tough Pitch) rod.

A valid alternative to the use of cathodes is the use of 100% copper scrap as raw material to produce, through proper refining technology and equipment, the wellknown FRHC (Fire Refined High Conductivity) rod.

Over the years several technical papers have illustrated the technology for going from scrap to rod in one step, skipping the costly phases (1) from scrap to anodes, (2)

Fig. 5. From scrap to rod.

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from anodes to cathodes, (3) from cathodes to rod, and the range of application for FRHC rod; therefore we will not revisit these topics again. It is however interesting to recall that Properzi started dealing with the technology of refining copper scrap in the late 1950s/early 1960s when the trials aimed at extending the Properzi system of continuous casting and direct rolling to the production of copper rod were begun.

In 1960 the overall production of refined copper was slightly less than 4 million tons. In the open market cathodes were not available; only wirebars were available.

Therefore the use of copper scrap was the only way to test and launch the “new” technology for copper. It should not be hard to imagine how difficult it must have been to set up a new technology using a raw material (bright copper from the drawing shop and old wires) to get molten metal with little chance for repeatability of chemical composition and oxygen content. In addition, the laboratory, as we know it today, was either non-existent or very rudimental.

Melting furnaces were static and fired by oil containing a high content of Sulphur! Scrap was refined bringing the oxygen content of the melt up to a range of 8,000 to 10,000 ppm without measuring the ppm but only by observing the manner in which a sample solidified and the color of the cracked sample.

Reduction of the oxygen content was done submerging an entire, fresh tree into the melt until the next copper sample seemed good enough. Despite the enormous difficulties that we have tried to briefly describe, the Properzi System was created and successfully delivered to the copper wire industry; can we say it was almost a miracle?

Meanwhile, during the 1970s copper producers made cathodes available to the open market and ETP copper rod became the winning commodity worldwide.

During the mid-1980s we had the chance of supplying to La Farga Lacambra, in Spain, a complete plant for the production of copper rod using scrap as raw material.

Feasibility trials were done in Turkey by adapting, in some way, a 20-ton holding furnace, part of a running ETP Properzi plant, for the refinement of copper scrap. This was the “hardware,” while the “software” was the updated experience accumulated during our pioneer trials in the 1960s, as explained above, and coupled with the experience of the Spanish company.

The entire project was a great adventure and finally a rewarding success. During the years La Farga increased their business, their technology and their products, eventually becoming one of the largest participants of the copper industry in Europe.

Improvements in the equipment

Fig. 6. CCR Cu rod line 30 tph. Image courtesy of SDILa Farga (USA).

Great work has been done by La Farga and Properzi as the FRHC rod of today is an economic commodity which, by resurrecting copper scrap of first, second and third quality, can comply with ASTM-B49 and EN1976 standards. It can be processed in high speed multiwire drawing machines down to 0.3 mm (0.25 mm and less for experienced producers) and used in many engineering applications other than fine wire, ultra-fine wire and magnet wire, as we have remarked.

The level and the kind of impurities into the scrap makes a big difference. When it is possible to buy high quality copper scrap, such scrap can be processed by using a continuous system of furnaces, including one modified shaft furnace with two refining/holding furnaces.

If a lowest quality of copper scrap (93%-96% Cu content) is available then the reclamation operation can only be performed through a tiltable reverberatory furnace. This kind of furnace has a great surface of the bath so the effect of the chemical reactions with the floating slag formed with special additives can work at the best.

When the refining furnace is used, then the FRHC copper rod is produced in a batch process (the basic input design considers 300 working days per year) meaning that each day the copper scraps are loaded into the empty refining furnace where the phases of melting and refining are completed in about 16-20 hours; this period of time depends on the refining steps and the casting rate of the downstream line. After that the furnace pours the liquid metal into the CCR rod line for transformation into 8mm rod or larger diameters up to 23mm, or even a billet of slab caster.

The following table displays the typical chemical composition and characteristics of FRHC rod.

In June 1988, the two companies formalized a cooperation agreement involving the license of La Farga refining know-how in combination with the sale of Properzi refining furnace and CCR plant. The Cold War was nearly over and, in one year or so, the world would have witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the birth of the era of globalization with the admission of China into the WTO. We all know that copper is recyclable, more than any other commercial engineering material, without incurring any major deterioration. Therefore, copper scrap can truly be considered as “the Bank of Energy” storing the precious energy that has been used to convert the ore into copper. Scrap is being consumed, where available, in both the supply and consumption chains so, if Value we look at the data available for 2014, it illusParameter Reference trates that the trade of scrap worldwide has Chemical Composition Cu+Ag % >99.90 surpassed 8 million tons7. However, approxPpm 150 ÷ 250 imately only 10% is converted into FRHC Oxygen rod solely using, at the present time, Properzi A100 % 45 ÷ 51 plants. We should also point out that alumi- Elongation A200 % 38 ÷ 43 num, the most aggressive competitor to cop2 per, is also recyclable, but in each step it loses Tensile Strength Kg/mm 22.8 ÷ 23.5 some of its electrical properties; therefore, it Conductivity IACS % 100.5 ÷ 101.3 is not used as raw material for producing elecNo 43 ÷ 50 trical conductors but is used mainly for billets, Twist Test to Failure ingots and, eventually, rod for de-oxidation of Best Drawability mm 0.25 steel for steel makers. Ångstrom 100 - 200 Continuus-Properzi’s commitment is to make POPS Test – Surface Oxides all reasonable efforts to render the use of scrap Re-crystallization Temperature °C 250 ÷ 280 for the production of copper rod more widespread by making the plants more and more Table 1. Typical chemical composition and characteristics of FRHC.

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user friendly and environmentally sustainable. Fig. 6 displays one of the most recent Properzi FRHC rod plants. It is installed in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, where it produces up to 75,000 tpy through a refining furnace of 250 t and a CCR rod line of 30 tph.

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ahead have been done in making the system easier and more profitable.

Below are the main points under development or already in production: a) The scrap should be shredded when placed on the conveyor belt. The cost of shredding is superseded by the thermal saving. b) The furnace must have our patented system for charging scrap from the roof and not from the side. c) The charging of scrap into the furnace must be done with a conveyor belt or a skip hoist machine and not by wheeled front loaders, for a faster and less energy intensive result, thereby keeping this phase near to a seven-hour period. d) The slagging operation should be facilitated by a dedicated device and should not be Fig. 5. View of the refining furnace 250 t patented by Continuustotally manual.

Properzi. e) The CCR line must be powerful enough to empty the furnace in a maximum of seven For more than 20 years, Continuus-Properzi has delivhours, instead of eight hours as previously preferred, ered and put into operation several dozen refining furnaces providing the opportunity for a refining phase that can and copper rod lines in many countries around the world, be up to ten hours, if so required by the circumstances. including Italy, Korea, Iran, China, India, the former Charging scrap, especially loose scrap, is an inefficient operSoviet Union, etc. The smallest plant has a capacity of ation in itself because of several reasons: difficulty in load10,000 tpy whereas the largest plant, recently commising, labour intensity, low thermal efficiency and pollution. sioned in the USA at the SDI-La Farga facility, has a As the furnace gets bigger, the charging operation capacity of 75,000 tpy. It is equipped with a revolutionary becomes more difficult. This is due to the fact that the refining furnace, patented by Giulio Properzi, which loads capacity of the charging machine or the front loader is the scrap from the top. limited by the size of the door and is further exacerbated It is part of the nature of business relationships that even because of the need to spread the scrap inside the furnace. the most consolidated ventures and cooperation agreeThis will cause several cycles of opening and closing of ments must be checked and revisited from time to time in the door: for instance, to feed one furnace with 150 tons of order to reflect the new strategic interest of both parties in loose scrap approximately 60-70 door openings are needa rapidly changing market. ed. This equates to almost two hours of fumes and heat loss Under such logical considerations, in November 2012, resulting from the opened door; two hours of the eight-hour after 24 years (!), La Farga and Properzi decided on the concharging/melting shift is 25% of the time! On the consensual termination of their previous cooperation agreement trary, now a belt conveyor can feed a furnace through the and agreed to proceed independently, although not excluddoor placed on the top with 10 t in less than two minutes! ing the possibility for collaboration on a case-by-case basis.

In other words, our current system of recyThis means that today the tremendous amount of La cling copper scrap into FRHC rod is more energy Farga proprietary refining know-how and also the comefficient, more user friendly, more environmentalplete expertise in scrap acquisition, rod production and ly friendly and dedicated to refining with less stress FRHC wire drawing and stranding is no more automatifor the operators. In summary, it is more profitable. cally linked to our lines but are still available to selected This new idea sounds simple, but one could also say companies that can be interested in such top level consulthat the vast majority of inventions sound simple once the tancy or license. inventor has explained how to do that which has never On the other hand, Continuus-Properzi, during the past been done before. few years, has further developed the range of furnaces for copper scrap in three families: the “off-line” furnaces 40-60 t/cycle to complete existing ETP rod facilities willing to Conclusions transform a percentage of “clean” scrap in addition to the “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” majority of cathodes; “Contimelt” or “Cosmelt” system for However, prominent sources forecast that in the next 25 “clean” scrap with 10-20 t hourly output; the “reverberatory, years—we could call it “vision 20-40”—the global populatilting furnaces” for “dirty” scrap with 40-250 t daily output. tion is expected to reach nine billion, and the total figure for Especially for the batch processes new ideas have been EE demand will be 32,500 TWh. developed and realized and we think that important steps

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References 1. United Nations; Department of Economic and Social Affairs; Population Division.

2. Enerdata, Global Energy Intelligence.

3. Review of the Electricity Act 2003.

4. ExxonMobil – The View for Energy 2040.

5. IEA 2009.

6. The World Copper Fact Book 2014; ICSG. 7. ICSG – Speech of Carlos R. Risopatron at Metal Bulletin Conference; Barcelona; June 2015.

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Wire and cable will play a fundamental role in the sustainability of such an increased demand for EE. Renewable energy will grow, especially solar and wind farm; the latter will cover approximately 20% of the extra demand from today’s figure. All telecommunication devices, including wireless devices, generate signals but, again, these signals need to be transported via wire and cable.

Copper rod and aluminium rod are and will remain the basic semi-finished material for producing wire and cable. Certainly new standards will be required for making the overall process of fabrication of cable and wire more economical.

In its capacity as the industry leader, Continuus-Properzi has the privilege and the responsibility of innovating the technologies and the equipment that have been designed and supplied to the industry for several decades.

In particular, Continuus-Properzi’s commitment will address the modernization of FRHC plants to exploit the refining technology for making rod from scrap more efficient, more sustainable and more and more environmentally and user friendly.

Our industry is sometimes invisible but always indispensable: imagine life without wires and cables!

Carmelo Maria Brocato making a presentation at the Global Continuous Casting Forum that was held in April 2015, colocated with Interwire 2015, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Carmelo Maria Brocato is vice-president of the board and commercial director of Continuus-Properzi SpA, Milan, Italy. He joined the company in 1998 and significantly contributed to the commercial success of ingot production plants originally developed by Continuus-Properzi in the early 1990s. He has more than 20 years of experience in international sales, which prior to joining Continuus-Properzi included working for a company that specialized in equipment for the pharmaceutical industry. His industry focus began with the design of air conditioning systems, and he later turned to equipment design for the on-site production of nitrogen and oxygen. He holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering (power station specialization) from the University Polytechnic in Milan. This presentation, originally made at CabWire 2013, Milan, Italy, was recently updated by the author.

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