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Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Industry News . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Asian Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Fiber Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Fastener Update . . . . . . . . . . 26 WAI News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Chapter Corner . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Integer Research Report: Part 1 . . . .36 This section presents excerpts from Wire & Cable Focus Report: Middle East and orth Africa Markets, a report

by U.K.-based Integer Research that reviews the prospects and opportunities in the wire and cable industry in both the GCC and North Africa. Part 1 looks at the Middle East region. Part 2, in the August issue, will look at the North African region.

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Career Opportunities . . . . . . . 75

For those who could not attend Interwire 2013 in Atlanta, this feature presents a range of some of the equipment that was displayed at the event, which is North America’s largest trade show for wire and cable.

Advertisers’ Index . . . . . . . . . 79

Next issue August 2013 • Brazil Outlook • Preview: wire South America • Preview: wire Southeast Asia • Wrapup: wire Russia

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T ECHNICAL P APERS IWCS Paper: M Cable Insulation Service Life Prediction Using Materials Degredation Kinetics Hsinjin Edwin Yang, Li-Ju Lil an Chen, Fan He, Pravinray Gandhi and J. Thomas Chapin . . . . . . . . . .58 IWCS Paper: From Optical Cable to Optical Wire An Evolutionary Approach Wayne Kachmar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Cover: Among the companies that displayed equipment at Interwire 2013 were Italy’s Gimax Srl, Germany’s Lucas GmbH and U.S./Germany’s Niehoff.

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Denmark’s nkt cables has supplied two continuous submarine cables, each 31-km long, for use on the U.K.’s West of Duddon Sands offshore windfarm. The company noted that while those long cables were a noteworthy technical accomplishment, nkt is able to produce similar continuous cables more than double that length.

As ever, companies that exhibited equipment on the show floor at Interwire found it easier to draw attention, such as from this 2013 attendee who stopped by the MGS Group booth. The biennial event saw equipment displayed from wiredrawing systems and wire benders to welders and stranders.

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Membership growth a tale of support and succes A picture has been said to be worth a thousand words, but for the Wire Association International, a recent chart I saw on our membership growth over the past year is worth even more.

It was just over a year ago that WAI’s Board of Directors set the goal of reaching 3,000 members. As membership at the time was hovering around 2,000, this was no small challenge. It could be easy to think of it as an impossible one too, as in recent years the industry has contracted, “leaned” and automated its way to producing a lot more with fewer people. Where would these new members come from?

Southwire Company’s Richard Miller, at the time WAI’s First Vice President, chose to look at it from a different perspective. He said that the Association needed new blood to carry out its mission. General Cable’s Mark Thackeray agreed, declaring that “being bold with the goal will be the best thing that may happen to the Association.”

With the target set, it was up to the WAI’s Member Relations Committee, led by Southwire Company’s Tom Heberling and General Cable Corporation’s Tim Wampler, to figure out how to make it work.

What happened during that board meeting and at subsequent stages of this ambitious project was impressive to say the least.

The committee set a two-pronged approach: challenge and define the membership value proposition and make one-on-one contacts throughout the industry. There was a shared focus, with tasks divvied up by committee members. Hundreds of personal contacts were made.

The role of membership has also become more of a core focus, both at wirenet.org and as a key planning component of our events. We are constantly looking for new products that will offer more value to WAI members. We have also made it easier to join, renew and manage memberships, with much of this progress directly attributed to the efforts of Heberling and Wampler, who masterminded what must be the most farreaching project that the Association has ever undertaken.

At the end of the day (and year), the WAI did not reach the 3,000 goal, but it did increase membership by 25%, a staggering accomplishment. We realize that it is not just up to the committee members to build upon that base, but up to all of us to find tangible reasons to make individuals in the wire and cable industry want to join.

We are confident that we are headed in the right direction. And if you want to know how it happened, I can tell you more about a board meeting I was at a year ago where there was a wake-up call with an improbable goal and a lot of volunteers who really believed that they could get it done.

Steve Fetteroll WAI Executive Director

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Publisher | Steven J. Fetteroll Editor-in-Chief | Mark Marselli Senior Graphic Designer | Bill Branch Director of Sales | Robert Xeller Advertising Sales | Anna Bzowski Director of Marketing & Corporate Communications | Janice E. Swindells Proofreader | Livia Jacobs Publications Committee Dane Armendariz Ferruccio Bellina | TKT Group/President ACIMAF, Italy Malcolm Michael | AWIA Australia Don Schollin | Q-S Technologies, USA Ralph Skalleberg | Skaltek USA Dave Stackpole | Nutmeg Wire, USA Giulio Properzi | Continuus Properzi, Italy Robert Wild | Niehoff Endex North America, USA Technical Advisors John Drummond | Scotia Group R. M. Shemenski | RMS Consulting, Inc.

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CALENDAR Sept. 17-19, 2013: wire Southeast Asia Bangkok, Thailand. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, fax 312-781-5188, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

Sept. 19-22, 2013: Cable & Wire Turkey Istanbul, Turkey, To be held at the CNR Expo Center.

Contact: tel. 90-0212- 465-74-74/3227, re.koc@cnr.net, www.cnrexpo.com.

Oct. 1-3, 2013: wire South America 2013 São Paulo, Brazil. Messe Düsseldorf and Grupo Cipa will stage this event at the Imigrantes Exposicoes Exhibition Centre. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel.

312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com. ov. 4-5, 2013: CabWire World Conference 2013 Milan, Italy. To be held at the Palazzo Turati, this technical conference is again being put on by ACIMAF, CET, IWCEA, IWMA and WAI. For more details, go to www.cabwire.com. ov. 10-13, 2013: 62nd IWCS ConferenceTM Charlotte, orth Carolina, USA. To be held at the Charlotte Convention Center. Contact: Pat Hudak, IWCS, tel. 717-993-9500, phudak@iwcs.org, www.iwcs.org.

April 7-11, 2014: wire Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany. This biennial event will be held at the Messe fairgrounds. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf

North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

May 6-7, 2014: WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. This WAI event will be held at the Indiana Convention Center, including its trade show, technical programs and WAI’s 84th Annual Convention. It will be co-located with AISTech.

June 16-18, 2014: 14th Guangzhou International Metal Plate, Bar, Wire, Metal Processing & Setting Equipment Exhibition Guangzhou, China. Contact: Guangzhou Julang Exhibition Design Co. Contact: tel. 86-20-38621071, expo@julang.com.cn, www.metalchina-gz.com.

Sept. 24-27, 2014: wire China 2014 Shanghai, China. To be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC). Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

Oct. 28-30, 2014: Wire & Cable India Mumbai, India. This event will be held at the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre. Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America, tel. 312-781-5180, info@mdna.com, www.mdna.com.

W IRE ASSOCIATION I NTERNATIONAL E VENTS For more information, contact the WAI, USA. Tel. 001-203-453-2777; fax 001-203-453-8384; www.wirenet.org.

Aug. 1, 2013: Ohio Valley Chapter 11th Annual Golf Tournament Solon, Ohio, USA. The chapter will return to the Grantwood Golf Course in Solon, Ohio, USA. Contact: Ron Fulop at r.fulop@wirelab.com.

Sept. 9, 2013: ew England Chapter 19th Annual Golf Tournament Ellington, Connecticut, USA. The chapter will return to the Ellington Ridge Country Club. Contact: John Rivers, tel. 860-896-476, johnr@dms-inc.com.

Oct. 21, 2013: Western Chapter 13th Annual Wild West Shootout Fontana, California, USA. The chapter will play at the Sierra Lakes Golf Course. Contact: John Stevens, tel.

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909-476-9776 or jstevens@emc-wire.com; or WAI’s Steve Fetteroll at tel. 203-453-1748, sfetteroll@wirenet.org.

Oct. 24, 2013: The Vannais Southeast Chapter 12th Annual Golf Tournament Conover, orth Carolina, USA. The chapter will return to the Rock Barn Golf and Spa. Contact: Art Deming, tel. 252-955-9451, art.deming@nexans.com.

May 6-7, 2014: WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. This WAI event will be held at the Indiana Convention Center, including its trade show, technical programs and WAI’s 84th Annual Convention. It will be co-located with AISTech.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS nkt cables completes U.K. submarine cable network for offshore windfarm

Nexans to supply EHV power link for hydroelectric project in Ecuador

Denmark’s nkt cables reports that the company has supplied two continuous submarine cables, each 31-km long, for use on the West of Duddon Sands (WoDS) offshore windfarm project in the U.K., a joint venture between Dong Energy and Scottish Power Renewables.

Nexans reports that it has been awarded a contract by China’s Sinohydro Corporation to supply the extra highvoltage (EHV) power cable link for Ecuador’s 1500 MW Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric project, which is currently under construction in the Amazon Basin.

A press release said that Nexans will supply 7 km of single-core 500 kV XLPE (cross-linked) insulated power cable, with a 1,600-sq-mm copper cross-section, together with associated accessories, to transmit power generated from the new dam on the Coca River to the local substation for distribution into Ecuador’s power grid. The cable, it said, will be made this year and delivered in 2014.

“This 500 kV contract with Sinohydro is a very important development for Nexans as it is an important reference in the EHV sector with this key Chinese contractor,” the release said, citing the company’s innovative EHV cable solutions and staff competency for getting the order.

The release said that the Coca Codo Sinclair Project, located in Ecuador’s Napo Province, will house eight generation units with a total installed capacity of 1500 MW, and that its annual energy output of 8.8 billion kWh will meet one third of the power demand in Ecuador.

Looking at the overall capabilities of Nexans, the release noted that Nexans Yanggu New Rihui, the company’s recently acquired power cable business of Shandong Yanggu Cables Group, “strengthens the Group position in China, by serving both the Chinese market and its customers with low-, medium- and high-voltage power cables.”

Denmark’s nkt cables produced two continuous length 31-km submarine cables for the WoDS windfarm project.

nkt cables reports that the two parallel systems for WoDS each have a total overall cable length of 40 km as they include an additional 9 km of cable to meet customer requirements associated with installation at the landfall of the cables. “Of course, what we are really proud of is the fact of being able to supply a 31-km stretch in a single piece, although we think the overall distance of 40 km is quite impressive, too,” a company spokesman told WJI. A press release said that the new windfarm, located off the coast of Cumbria and Lancashire in Northwest England, will have a capacity of 389 MW when completed. The power, it said, will be exported to the shore via submarine export cables that also are supplied by nkt cables. The export cable has a three-core design with 1000-sq-mm copper conductors and integrated fiber optics, and each cable is capable of transmitting more than 200 MVA, it said. In total, nkt cables is supplying in excess of 80 km of submarine export cable for the WoDS windfarm project, it said.

The release said that being able to supply such a long continuous cable reduces offshore installation time and risk during installation, “thereby providing significant cost benefits to the offshore windfarm developers.” It added that nkt cables “has the capability and infrastructure at its deepwater Logistics Centre in Rotterdam to provide continuous lengths of the same kind of cable size more than double that length.”

POSCO bolsters wire rod production with its new plant in South Korea South Korea’s POSCO has completed the construction of a plant that has annual capacity of 700,000 metric tons, which will make the company the world’s third-largest producer of wire rod.

Yonhao News Agency reports that the new plant, in South Korea, will raise the company’s capacity to 2.8 million metric tons. It said that POSCO notes that country imports about one million tons of wire rods annually to meet its demand for 3.2 million tons of wire rods. The plant, in Pohang, 374 km southeast of Seoul, will also produce high-strength springs and wire used for deepwater exploitation, it said.

The story also reported that POSCO has completed the construction of a plant that produces ferrosilicon, an alloy of iron and silicon that is used for making silicon steel and high-silicon cast iron. The plant has annual production of 35,000 metric tons, it said.

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Rizhao Steel completes the final leg of its 3-stage wire rod project

HELUKABEL® reports that it has invested $50 million in a new global logistics center in Hemmingen, near Stuttgart, that will more than double the company’s warehousing capacity and allow it to be ready for future growth.

A press release said that the expansion of the existing site built in 2001 will allow HELUKABEL “to continue to provide rapid order delivery and maintain its role as a valued supplier in the global market.” It said that “the heart” of the approximately 1.85 million-sq-ft complex is the fully automated, high-bay storage and retrieval warehouse, adding that the expansion adds 23,900 pallet locations to the existing 16,600 stock locations in the high-bay racks. “Using state-of-the-art conveyor and control systems, the high-bay warehouse offers a high degree of automation that speeds up material flow and guarantees on-time deliveries,” it said.

“This new building is a milestone in the history of our company,” said HELUKABEL Managing Director Helmut Luksch. “What this means for our U.S. and Canadian customers is that our Chicago and Toronto-based warehouses are constantly supported by our just-in-time warehouse, which stores our 33,000-plus line items, to greatly enhance their stock availability. With the logistics network that we have in place, items can arrive from Germany in a time frame comparable to shipments from Chicago or Toronto.”

China’s Rizhao Steel Holding Group Co. announced that initial production of wire rod has begun at the company’s high-speed wire rod operation in the Liaoning Province, which is designed for annual production of 700,000 metric tons.

Steel Orbis reports that the first batch results at the plant, located in Yingkou, were successful for the operation, which represents the third part of an overall project. Each of those three elements, it noted, represents 700,000 metric tons’ capacity.

The Steel Orbis report said that the construction work was carried out by MCC Tiangong Construction Group, a subsidiary of Beijing-based, state-owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation.

An exterior and an interior view of HELUKABEL’s new global logistics center.

The new automated small parts stocking area offers 33,400 locations for HELUKABEL’s cable accessory business as well as a staging area for pre-packed order items, the release said. Heavy cable drums with a weight of up to four tons can be placed in the heavy load storage area, with 670 bays built in a silo configuration, it noted, adding that order picking and packing stations have also been enhanced with anatomically designed handling equipment for improved efficiency.

The warehouse, the release said, was designed with energy saving measures that include motion detectors throughout the building that control lighting, heat provided by a local biogas supplier, green space irrigation from an 8,000gallon water cistern fed by surface water, 2,800 solar modules on the roof, green roofing material and an energy recovery system for the electric motors in the plant.

Prysmian reports that New York ‘Hudson’project is largely completed The Prysmian Group reports that it has substantially completed the $175 million “Hudson Project,” a strategic underground and submarine power link between New York City and the New Jersey transmission grid that it said is now in commercial operation.

A press release said that the project it won in November 2011 from Hudson Transmission Partner, LLC, called for Prysmian to install a bundle of three high-voltage submarine cables and two optical fiber data transmission cables under a portion of the Hudson River. The company, using its cable-laying ship, the Giulio Verne, buried the submarine cable system below the river bottom at depths ranging from 10 to 15 feet using Prysmian’s designed hydro-plow machine, it said The submarine cables, it noted, were produced at Prysmian’s plant in Arco Felice, Italy.

The project, the release said, is part of a larger contract awarded to the consortium of Prysmian and Siemens Energy that calls for the design, supply and installation of a 345 kV High Voltage Alternate Current (HVAC) land and submarine transmission line running along a total route of approximately 7.5 miles to transfer 660 MW of existing power from the transmission grid in Ridgefield, New Jersey, to New York City. It said that Siemens built the back-toback converter station in Ridgefield, New Jersey.

The high-voltage land cables were produced at Prysmian’s new factory in Abbeville, South Carolina, and installed by Prysmian’s installation services group in New Jersey, the release said. It noted that the U.S. project content from Prysmian includes the supply and installation of land fiber cables that were produced in the company’s Lexington fiber optic cabling facility. The underground cable system was installed under the New York City streets for approximately 0.4 miles to the ConEd West 49th Street substation, it said.

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resources that may be retired over the next several years as well as strengthen the overall reliability of the power supply system in NYC as a long-term infrastructure asset, it said.

The Hudson Project is the second major power transmission infrastructure project built by Prysmian in the New York and New Jersey areas in recent years, following the 2007 completion of the 500 kV Neptune project. In the U.S., also in 2010, Prysmian completed successfully the construction of the Trans Bay Cable project, a 200 kV HVDC submarine power link in California.

“We are proud of this new achievement that sums up to our already long-standing track record of activity in New York City,” said Marcello Del Brenna, CEO of Prysmian Powerlink, the Group’s HV and Submarine arm.

IEWC plans to buy Almo Wire & Cable U.S.-based IEWC announced that it has agreed to buy the assets of Almo Wire & Cable (Almo), a stocking supplier of marine wire, industrial battery cable and military specialty products in the United States.

A press release said that the purchase of Almo, scheduled to take place May 31, represents a “highly-focused product line expansion (that) will enable IEWC to offer enhanced support of in-demand niche products and solutions to its growing customer base.” It noted that Almo has “strong partnerships with several of the industry’s leading manufacturers including Prestolite Wire, General Cable, Kalas and Southwire. Coupled with a customer-centric approach to distribution, Almo is a natural fit within the IEWC family and a great enhancement to IEWC’s growing global presence and product offerings.”

The release said that Almo’s sales team will join IEWC under the leadership of Almo’s Jim Manney, based out of a new IEWC sales office located in the greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area. This investment “enhances IEWC’s ongoing global commitment to both the marine market and the military and defense markets,” said IEWC CCO Paul Bryant.

Counterfeit power cable claims lead to ‘nuclear’ ousters in South Korea A series of stories about counterfeit power cables and forged documents led to a major shake-up in leadership of nuclear power plants in South Korea, where two plants were shut down and plans to open two other plants were delayed.

Multiple news reports said that Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) President Kim Kyun-Seop, who led the state-run company that oversees the country’s 23 nuclear reactors, was fired, and that KEPCO Engineering and Construction CEO An Seung-Kyoo, who headed the South Korean nuclear-power-plant design-and-technology company, was expected to be fired over the scandal. The story unfolded last year as revelations led to reports that thousands of components used in nuclear plants had falsified quality certificates. Dozens of KEPCO employees

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were prosecuted for taking bribes from contractors to accept substandard parts and machinery.

The resulting investigation, reported multiple media, found that four commercial nuclear power reactors had power cables supplied with counterfeit certificates.

Reuters reported that the cables with forged documents, worth US$5.35 million, were provided in 2008. It was not clear if that number referred to the value of the cables solely for the four reactors, and the producers of the power cables were not identified.

A report by Associated Press writer Youkyung said that the falsified cables, which were responsible for cooling nuclear fuel or preventing the release of radioactive materials during an emergency, failed nine of 12 key tests related performance for a “loss of coolant accident.”

An article in The Times of India said that President Park Geun-Hye demanded action over what she called “unpardonable” corruption in the nuclear power sector. It said that state prosecutors launched an extensive probe into the case that found eight suppliers faked warranties covering thousands of items used in a number of reactors. The Shin-Kori No. 2 and Shin-Wolsong No. 1 reactors were shut down for replacement of the power cables while two others remain closed pending replacement of their power cables it said.

Initial ITC finding: there is harm from certain imported rail tie wire The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) reports that there is a reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports of pre-stressed concrete steel rail tie wire from China, Mexico, and Thailand that are allegedly sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.

A press release said that due to the commission’s unanimous (6-0) determination, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) will continue to conduct its investigations of the imports. “As a result of the Commission’s affirmative determinations, the U.S. Department of Commerce will continue to conduct its investigations on imports of these products, with its preliminary antidumping duty determinations due on or about September 30, 2013.”

The release said that the petitioners for the probe were Insteel Wire Products Company and Davis Wire Corporation. It noted that in 2012, imports of PC tie wire from China, Mexico and Thailand were valued at an estimated $35.6 million, $14.7 million and $373,000, respectively. The products covered by the scope of these investigations, the release said, is high-carbon steel wire; stress relieved or low relaxation; indented or otherwise deformed; meeting at a minimum the ASTM A881/ A881M specification; regardless of shape, size, or other alloy element levels; suitable for use as prestressed tendons in concrete railroad ties.

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Corning to provide optic cable for 754-mile Miami-to Atlanta network U.S.-based Corning Incorporated announced that it has been selected as the optical cable supplier for the Miamito-Atlanta segment of Allied Fiber’s network-neutral system build, a 754-mile, Miami-to-Atlanta route that it said is expected to be completed by the end of 2013.

A press release said that the network-neutral system is intended to provide an abundant supply of next-generation fiber available for lease, as legacy backhaul network infrastructures can no longer support the exponential growth occurring in the industry. The end users for these physical-layer services include submarine cable systems, large wire line and wireless carriers and network operators, private enterprises, cooperatives, cable television companies, and data center operators. It noted that longterm plans call for the Allied Fiber network to expand to encircle the U.S., with more than 11,500 route miles.

Corning, the release said, will supply its 528-fiber SSTUltraRibbon™ Cable containing Corning® SMF-28e+® and Corning LEAF® optical fibers. The SMF-28e+ optical fiber, which offers comprehensive single-mode fiber performance for metro and access networks, is optimized for long-haul and metro networks, it said.

EUROFER: a literal call for ‘closure’ by some European steel companies The focus may be “European big steel,” but the trickledown effect of recent comments by EUROFER President Wolfgang Eder are cause for concern, as the industry veteran believes that the current supply-demand balance is so far off that the industry faces destruction if mills do not cut overcapacity.

Cited in multiple wire stories, Eder, who is CEO of Voestalpine AG, said that conditions are such that companies must take action to control falling prices. “There is enormous danger for the whole industry. The plants need to be closed. The larger groups are destroying their businesses by keeping all the plants going.”

In the reports, Eder observed that steel prices have fallen from the combination of Europe’s economic crisis and slower Chinese growth in demand. Europe, which has annual capacity of about 200 million metric tons of steel a year, needs to close plants capable of producing about 40 million to 50 million tons in the next three years, he said. He noted that stock prices for the European steel industry have fallen nearly 20% this year, and that ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steel producer, reports that European demand is expected to drop to a low this year before rebounding.

Politicians and labor unions need to respect the decisions of company owners when it comes to closing plants, Eder said, adding that, “Interfering makes things worse.”

EUROFER, founded in 1976, and located in Brussels, notes that it represents 100 percent of steel production in

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Nexans launches FTTA cable solutions for mobile network sites Nexans reports that it has launched an innovative range of FTTA (Fiber to the Antenna) solutions developed specifically to provide the vital fast data connection between the base transmitter station (BTS) and the antennas or remote radio units (RRUs) as telecom operators roll out their new 4G/LTE mobile networks.

A press release said that optical fiber is ideally suited to providing the fast data connection link between the BTS and the antenna, and that Nexans has built on its extensive experience “to develop a comprehensive range of FTTA cables and components, including both copper power supply and optical fiber data links, for use in both new build and upgrading projects. Typical installations will include pylons or masts, on buildings or on water towers.” The solutions, it said, are designed to ensure reliability and long service life in demanding outdoor conditions, including resistance to UV exposure and extreme temperatures from -40°C to +85°C. “Depending on the specific application needs, such as creating a new site or upgrading an existing site, the FTTA range offers three main solutions,” the release said.

It noted that those include the following: hybrid cable incorporating the power and optical fiber elements in a single cable cross-section; separate optical fiber and power cables; and a reusable feeder that reuses coaxial cables that are already in place to carry the power while a new fiber optic data cable is fed through the existing central duct.

The FTTA solutions, the release said, focus on ease of use and installation, especially when working in restricted spaces to keep site work and interruptions to a minimum, reducing the need for long and expensive civil works,

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the European Union (EU). The organization notes that its members are steel companies and national steel federations throughout the EU, and that major steel companies and national steel federations in Switzerland and Turkey are associate members.

Eder’s comments follow those of a similar vein in the June WJI issue made by Gerdau CEO Andrew Gerdau Johannpeter, who during a conference call said that 27% of the steel sector’s installed sector capacity will not be used this year, compared to an average of 17%.

Also worth noting is a recent report in The Wall Street Journal on how Chinese steel is increasingly being sold in the U.S., bolstered by steel-heavy construction projects such as bridges. Production capacity for U.S. steel mills as of June 15 had dropped to 76.7% of capacity, down from 78.8% a year earlier.

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such as the need to deploy specialized lifters. For example, it said, for upgrading an existing site, such as a water tower or building, the fiber’s low friction design means that the site engineer can simply feed it in from the top connection of the antenna or RRU, usually 50 to 100 meters above ground, so after a short length has been inserted, the cable will fall under its own weight.

Alcatel to supply submarine cable for 8,000 km Bay of Bengal project Alcatel-Lucent reported that it has won a contract to deploy an 8,000 km, 100G submarine cable for the Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG), a project that calls for the cable to connect Oman, UAE, India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Alcatel-Lucent is part of the BBG consortium that it said includes Vodafone, Dialog Axiata, Etisalat, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Omantel and Telekom Malaysia.

The project, the release said, is expected to start operating commercially by the end of 2014 and be lit as 100G at launch. AlcatelLucent will install cable and repeaters, along with its submarine network management system and be in charge of project management, system design, marine operations and system commissioning, it said.

Creonix assets bought Sparton Electronic Devices, LLC, a subsidiary of Sparton Corporation, reports that it has acquired certain assets of Creonix in an all-cash transaction.

A press release said that Creonix, located in Bradenton, Florida, primarily manufactures complex electromechanical devices, and engineers and manufactures cables and wire harnesses for the industrial, military and aerospace markets. It added that “the company has a northeast sales office in New Milford, Connecticut, and a solid new business development pipeline of new and existing customers.”

“The addition of Creonix meets the criteria of our growth strategy by providing the additional capability of cable and wire harness engineering and assembly, further expansion into the industrial and military and aeronautic markets, diversification of our customer base, and the increased utilization of our existing assets,” Sparton Corporation President and CEO Cary B. Wood said in the press release.

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Telecom New Zealand, Vodafone and Telstra have issued an official tender for the construction of the Tasman Global Access (TGA) cable that will connect New Zealand and Australia.

A report in capacitymagazine.com said that earlier this year, the three companies signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the TGA, which will span Sydney and Auckland. It noted that the TGA will consist of 2,300 km of undersea cable, deploying 100G technology, and is due to be operational in early 2015.

Two landing options on the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island, the report said, are being considered by the companies, one north of Auckland and one south. It added that a number of other sites in northern and southern Sydney are being investigated for the Australian landing port.

A report in zdnet.com said that undersea cable will include three fiber pairs with a design capacity of 30 terabits per second, which is approximately 300 times the current internet data demand out of New Zealand. It noted that “several international submarine cable contractors were invited to tender, with all indicating a strong interest in participating.” A contract is expected to be in place by year’s end, with initial construction commencing in 2014, it said.

ing more than 40 sales representatives at sales offices in Mexico. … U.S.-based Allied Wire & Cable (Allied) reports that it is one of 10 companies now with Qualified Products Lists (QPL) approval for manufacturing many constructions of M27500 cable (per WC27500-2012) for a wide variety of constructions in sizes from 30 to 4/0 AWG. All QPL-approved manufacturers must be compli-

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ant with WC27500-2012 Rev A by Oct. 1, 2013, but because the company has met all requirements for the standard, QPL M27500 cables are available now from Allied, it said. “This is a great achievement for Allied,”

Allied Wire & Cable now has QPL approval.

said Allied co-owner Tim Flynn. QPLs are also known as approved products lists. The U.S. federal government maintains a list, while most states maintain their own qualified products list, which are resources for contrac-

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tors, manufacturers, and distributors. … U.S.-based SEA Wire and Cable, Inc., reports that it has received approval from Naval Air Command to manufacture products in accordance with WC 27500-2012. “The SEA team has worked diligently to acquire this certification to satisfy our customer’s needs for flexible solutions,” said company President and COO Marty Clark. “More importantly, it demonstrates that SEA is committed to maintaining its position as a world-class mil-spec cable supplier.”

The approval applies to all products produced in the Madison, Alabama facility for groups 1, 6, 8, 10, and 12. … Corning Cable Systems LLC reports that it recently was presented with Graybar’s Supplier Excellence Award.

A press release said that the award is presented semiannually to recognize a product manufacturer that has collaborated with Graybar in an exceptional manner, allowing the companies to jointly grow profitable business together. “Corning Cable Systems continues to lead by example in our industry with their product innovation, sales coverage and technical expertise. They truly support Graybar’s sales and marketing strategy, and we have a shared focus on working to the advantage of our mutual customers,” said Kathleen M. Mazzarella, Graybar’s chairman, president and CEO.

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ASIAN FOCUS China’s $100 billion plan for power generation a test on multiple levels State Grid Corp of China has ambitious plans to expand the country’s long-distance transmission of electricity, a project that could collectively could cost $100 billion, which would make it one of the most expensive such efforts ever proposed in China. Such a project would be a boon to producers of high-voltage power cables, but the story is not that simple.

A report by Brian Spegele in The Wall Street Journal observed that there are many reasons to support the initiative of President Xi Jinping. Building a nationwide network of ultra-high voltage transmission lines will reduce power losses when transporting electricity over long distances, the report said. That, in turn, will enable power producers to use coal-burning power stations located near mines, cutting urban air pollution while allowing the lines to use renewable wind and hydro resources in remote regions.

Ironically, China’s investment in renewable wind energy makes its power grid plans that much more costly. The World Nuclear Association reports that maintaining a “backup” power source for wind power is 90% of the primary source’s capacity. It notes that grid-level system costs for dispatchable technologies can reach up to $40/MWh for onshore wind, up to $45/MWh for offshore wind and up to $80/MWh for solar. Also, the greater the penetration of intermittent renewables, the higher the system costs, it said.

The WSJ story said that there are questions about the high cost as well as uncertainties of the state monopoly itself. It notes that there are some who believe that the investment further strengthens the position of State Grid at a time when more believe that it should be broken up to allow electricity pricing to become more market-oriented. At issue is whether state businesses are in the best long-term interest, it said. Corruption and inefficiency are both concerns, and there are few entities as large as State Grid, which provides power to 1.1 billion people and has more than $350 billion in assets and 1.9 million employees, it said.

The country’s banking industry has faced similar concerns, and there have been calls for more competition to encourage improvements, the WSJ story said. It noted that China’s railways have also been the target of such calls, adding that, “Breaking up the once-powerful ministry, which had sagged beneath heavy debt and been stung by corruption allegations, was seen by analysts as a step toward introducing greater competition in the sector.” It also pointed out that the government has even made a modest move in liberalizing the telecom industry, which is largely controlled by three state-run providers, requiring them to lease out services on their networks to private companies.

From 2010 to last year, China added around 180 gigawatts

of power-generating capacity, more than Germany’s overall capacity in 2010, the WSJ story said. State Grid has made ultra-high voltage transmission a priority, operating three ultra high-voltage lines in recent years and having four others under construction, it said. To further that path, State Grid is seeking approval for at least 14 more lines that would cost approximately $55 billion, with overall investment for its proposed ultrahigh-voltage network topping $95 billion, it said.

The WSJ story explained that electricity supply and how the grid is overhauled is a vital issue for China’s powerintensive industries, which are key contributors to the country’s economic success.

During China’s annual parliamentary session in March, State Grid Chairman Liu Zhenya supported the use of ultrahigh voltage technology to reduce hazardous levels of fine particulate matter in the air, the WSJ story said. This, it noted, would also allow cutting back on train shipments of coal from the less densely populated North and West to power plants in population centers of the East.

State Grid covers huge areas, from remote Tibetan communities in the Himalayas to manufacturing centers on the East Coast. The WSJ story said that a second company, China Southern Power Grid Co., controls transmission and distribution in parts of southern China. Over the past decade, it has consolidated its dominant position as it extended its network to keep pace with breakneck economic growth and soaring power production, it said.

As a monopoly, State Grid buys and sells electricity across most of the country, and can justify charging higher electricity prices by how it states its transmission and distribution costs, which is not easy for regulators to determine, the story said, observing that a rational pricing structure requires knowing what State Grid’s actual costs are.

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Sumitomo Electric gets certification, starts production of world’s thinnest ‘Thunderbolt’ cable Japan’s Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., Fujikura Ltd. and the International Superconductivity Technology Center (ISTEC) report that they have developed large-current, lowloss 66kV superconducting power cables that greatly reduced power transmission loss.

An article in Tech-On, an on-line publication of Japan’s Nikkei Business Publications, cited the use of yttrium (Y)based high-temperature superconducting wire materials in the cable developed by Fujikura that enabled the reduction of power transmission loss (in consideration of cooling efficiency) by 75% or more.

The story said that Sumitomo Electric established a 15-mlong, 66kV three-core cable system using an Y-based superconducting wire material with three high-temperature superconducting cable cores stored in one insulated pipe. The resulting cable, it said, has the world’s highest power transmission density, and can be stored in a 150-mm pipe line.

Sumitomo Electric, the story said, did a long-term electric current application test equivalent to 30 years of use that confirmed the system’s stability. The alternating-current loss was 2W/m or less per phase when the current is 5kA. The

company also developed technologies that help commercialize superconducting cable systems, such as a current lead for the terminal connection part (for high-current connection) and a technology for interconnection, it said.

Fujikura, the story said, formed a 20 m-long 66kV superconducting cable that has a critical current of 500A/cm or higher. It applied a current of 5kA and confirmed that its power loss is 1W/m or less per phase in a condition close to real environment. When the alternating-current loss is 1W/m or less per phase with a current of 5kA, it is possible to reduce power transmission loss by 75% or more (in consideration of cooling efficiency), compared with existing superconducting power cables, Fujikura said.

Rizhao Steel completes 3-stage wire rod project China’s Rizhao Steel Holding Group Co. announced that initial production has begun at the company’s high-speed wire rod operation in the Liaoning Province, which is designed for annual production of 700,000 metric tons.

Steel Orbis reports that the first batch results at the plant, located in Yingkou, were successful for the operation, which represents the third part of an overall project. Each of those three elements, it noted, represents 700,000 metric tons capacity. It reported that the construction work was carried out by MCC Tiangong Construction Group (CMTCC Group), a subsidiary of Beijing-based state-owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation.

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PEOPLE Rick Vinzant has joined the Vinyl Division of Teknor Apex Company as a sales representative for the central region, managing sales and marketing activities in Florida, Georgia, eastern Tennessee and most of Alabama. He has more than 25 years of plastic processing experience, having spent most of his career at Vytron Corporation, a custom plastics profile extrusion company, where he managed all aspects of sales, engineering, purchasing, tooling, and customer servRick Vinzant ice. Based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA, the Vinyl Division of Teknor Apex Company is a leading manufacturer of PVCbased compounds.

from January 2010 to January 2013, when he decided to return home with his family to Malaysia. In his new position, Shahrin will provide technical and sales support throughout Southeast Asia to Metalube’s local agent, Meltech Resources. He holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from The University of Manchester. He became an Associate Mohd Shahrin Member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (AMIChemE) in 2011 and was awarded The International Wire and Machinery (IWMA) John C. Hogg Travel Award to Wire Dusseldorf in 2012. Based in the U.K., Metalube is a supplier of lubricants to the wire and tube drawing industry.

Metalube Ltd. reports that Mohd Shahrin Abu Bakar (Shahrin), a former employee, has returned to the company and will serve as technical sales engineer for Southeast Asia. He had worked as a development chemist for the company at its laboratory in Manchester, U.K.,

Gibbs Wire & Steel Co., Inc., reported a number of changes related to the addition of a new position. The company named Don Hennon as a vice president, based in the St. Louis area, where he will be responsible for the Southwest region, Mexico and Latin America. He previ-

OBITUARY John A. Maltas, a long-time wire and cable industry veteran and WAI Life Member who was known for both his industry knowledge and his willingness to share it, died May 30 at age 87.

A resident of Trumbull, Connecticut, Maltas served as a flight navigator on patrol bomber planes for the U.S. Navy during World War II. He earned a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 1951 from the Rhode Island School of Design, and had a long, successful career as a design engineer and sales manager. His career started in John A. Maltas Connecticut as a design engineer for Gyromat Corporation. He then became assistant chief engineer at Coulter and McKenzie Machine Co. He was promoted to chief engineer and directed the manufacture of Coulter products by Reliance Gear Co. in the U.K., returning in 1962 to the office in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he was named vice president of sales. He later served as vice president and sales manager of Sjogren Tool and Machine Company in Auburn, Massachusetts. He left there in 1982 to start his own sales business, Maltas Associates, which represented companies that included Sjogren, Die Quip and Glen Carbide.

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“John was known as the ambassador of the wire industry,” said Die Quip founder Tom Maxwell, Sr. “He always took the time to mentor people coming into the wire industry by introducing them to his many contacts along with sharing his vast knowledge.”

“We had similar contacts in the wire industry and he was well respected by our mutual customers and colleagues,” recalled Jack Hall of Aztech Lubricants, who knew Maltas from WAI events and while visiting the same customers. “If we attended a wire convention or industry related event, he always took the time to look me up and to find out how things were going. I respected that, and always enjoyed his optimistic outlook on almost everything. John always appeared calm, confident in a very quiet kind of way.”

Added Ken Glen, Glen Carbide, “John was the ultimate gentleman and a sharp well-groomed dresser. He was on the road most of the time yet always looked like he was in a fashion magazine.”

Maltas was active with the Wire Association, where he served in various capacities, including oversight of WJI and the annual Reference Guide. He was very active at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, serving as its president in 1960. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Mildred Girgasky Maltas; children Julie Koss, Jay Maltas, Tiffany Vlandis and Judy Abbatiello Maltas; nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Christopher L. Ayers has been named president and CEO of WireCo® WorldGroup. He has a solid track record in achieving operational excellence and financial

performance, previously serving as executive vice president, president of global primary products at Alcoa, where he oversaw the company’s aluminum businesses.

Prior to that, he was president of the PCC Forgings Division of Precision Castparts Corporation, and president of Wyman Gordon Forgings from 2004–2006. He replaces interim CEO Stephan Kessel. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, WireCo WorldGroup is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of steel and synthetic lifting products.

Elgin Fastener Group (EFG) has named Carl Ondraka as general manager-Cleveland Operations, responsible for EFG’s manufacturing operations at Chandler Products, Quality Bolt & Screw and Telefast Industries. He holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Western Michigan University and an MBA degree from Indiana University at South Bend. The company also named Jeff Hepner as director of distributor sales. He most recently served as president of Telefast Industries, which was recently acquired by EFG.He has extensive experience in cold heading. Based in Batesville, Indiana, USA, the Elgin Fastener Group, a business of Audax Group, includes nine domestic specialty fastener manufacturers and a metal finishing facility.

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ously held key marketing and sales positions with Allegheny Ludlum, Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals and Ulbrich Solar Technologies. The addition has allowed the company to realign its sales management into its astern, Southwestern and Midwestern regions. Vice President of Sales and Regional Sales Manager Don Gibbs Don Hennon will now be responsible for sales management in the Eastern and Southeastern territories, which include Gibbs’s operations in Connecticut and North Carolina, as well as remain active with large corporate accounts. Tom Nichols has been promoted to vice president of sales and regional sales manager of the Midwest and Canada, and will be responsible for sales management in the territories served by operations in Indiana and Canada. Based in Southington, Connecticut, USA, Gibbs Wire & Steel is a distributor and custom processor of steel wire and strip.

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FIBER WATCH Indonesian submarine cable project to include a fiber optic component VISCAS Corporation announced that it has won an order in Indonesia from Indonesia’s PT. PLN (PLN), the nation’s national power company, for a project involving three local companies to run a 150kV high-voltage, optical fiber composite submarine cable between Batam and Bintan islands.

A press release said that the goal of the project, worth an estimated US$35 million, is to deliver surplus power generated in Batam—located within the Riau Islands of northern Indonesia—to Bintan, an island known as a resort destination that is also undergoing industrialization.

A joint corporation of the power business divisions of Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. and Fujikura Ltd., VISCAS manufactures underground power cables, overhead power supply lines and power distribution cables for domestic and overseas use. The release said that VISCAS will deliver a 150kV triplex, cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) insulated cable that includes an optical fiber cable.

The release said that “VISCAS has already contributed

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to developing power supply networks with submarine cables within the nation, and we believe that this latest contract is the result of the high acclaim achieved through VISCAS’ experience in supplying high-voltage submarine power cables and its ability to execute projects.”

The release noted that the Republic of Indonesia is currently sustaining economic growth at an annual rate of over 6%, and is enhancing its power facilities owing to vigorous demand for power. “As one of the world’s largest island nations, Indonesia also has multiple plans to connect its islands with submarine cables.”

ASEAN nations, the release said, are also planning a project to run power supply lines throughout their member states with the aim of achieving mutual power collaboration, which includes within its vision the construction of a power line between Batam and Singapore using submarine power cables.

Per Wikipedia, Batam is a small (45km x 25km) Batam is an island, municipality, and the largest city (on the island) in Riau Islands Province of Indonesia, while Bintan, is the largest among the 3,200 islands of Riau Archipelago and is located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of the Batam Island.

FASTENER UPDATE

FASTENER UPDATE This data-driven ‘turn of the screw’ is no mystery for installing fasteners How a fastener is made obviously matters, but just how a fastener is installed also can make a big difference, a concept that has been pursued by manufacturers such as Raytheon, which have turned to “big data” to determine the optimum number of times a screw should be tightended.

A recent story in The Wall Street Journal by James Hagerty said that companies have been turning to “big data”—collecting and crunching ever larger amounts of information—as a way to measure millions of little things in factories, such as how many times each screw is turned.

Raytheon Co., the story said, determined that a screw used at its missle plant should be turned 13 times after it is inserted; if it is turned more or less, a warning is issued and production halts.

The company, the story said, reports that it uses manufacturing execution systems (MES) software to gather and analyze factory-floor data. As factory equipment has become “smarter,” allowing manufacturers to trace problems, it said, that the cost of computers, scanners and other hardware has also come down, and technology for storing

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and moving data has improved. The result is that Raytheon is catching more flaws as they occur, instead of discovering them in later inspections or not catching them at all, it said.

Screws may be small in terms of a system but they are extremely important to the defense industry, the story said.

The failure to use the right fastener or to attach it correctly could lead to a system malfunction, the story said. It noted that “millions of dollars have been spent across this industry to rework, repair and replace” screws, bolts or other fasteners that were either not installed right or did not meet specifications.

The technology can also help Raytheon learn from its mistakes, the story said. The company “can keep data for each missile automatically, including the names of all the machine operators who worked on any part of it and the humidity and temperature at each stage of production. That could help the company go back and figure out what went wrong if flaws emerge,” it said.

The system is designed to prevent any operator from performing a process for which he or she is not certified, the story said, adding that it also knows exactly how much torque should be applied by any wrench or screwdriver, and operators are not permitted to use the wrong wrench.

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Q: What does your company do?

A: Mid-South Wire is a steel wire manufacturer headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. We specialize in a wide range of carbon steel and galvanized wire products for numerous industries and end-uses.

Q: What is your role there?

A: Officially, I am the chemical engineer and safety director, but I wear many other “hats.” That includes helping evaluate new processes and ways to lower costs and improve quality while maintaining the safest possible work environment, a not-so-easy challenge.

Q: What do you like best about your position?

A: Problem solving and employee interaction. As an engineer, there is a great sense of accomplishment in solving a production issue or implementing a new process, that achieves or exceeds the expected results.

I also have direct contact with every employee. Those relationships embody our “family-owned” culture and values, and I feel personally responsible to their safety.

Q: How has the industry most changed?

A: I’d say that it’s the technological improvements and the continued globalization of our industry. The advances in innovation never cease to amaze me as does the speed at which our industry continues to change. Whether that globalization manifests itself in the form of competition or cooperation, the world seems to get smaller by the day.

Q: How does your company remain competitive?

A: Customer service and continual improvement. Our ownership realizes that customer service is paramount and is commited to investing in new technology and emphasizing continual improvement in every aspect of our business. That bodes well for our future and our ability to thrive in an increasingly competitive industry.

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Josh Backman Chemical Engineer Mid-South Wire Co Inc

William Fleming Engineering Technician Materion - Brush Performance Alloys

Chris Bearden Wiredrawing CAP Technologies LLC Philip J Brain Sales Metal Technician Nucor Cold Finish Dianne Burger President CPW America Co

Russell A Follis Process Engineer Southwire Co James Fritz Sourcing Manager RSCC Wire

Randy Cochran Sales TMS Specialties Manufacturing Co Chester F Crone President Cleveland Wire Cloth Mario A Davidson Process Engineer Tokusen USA Inc Thomas M Faison Manufacturing Engineering Manager TE Connectivity

Kevin Hurst Inside Sales TMS Specialties Mfg David Obed Jarrett Process Engineer Corning Optical Fiber and Cable

Anand Kakar Process Engineer Perryman Co

Harry Camp Secretary/Treasurer Better Bilt Products, Inc

Christopher Charles Cantwell Director PowerCantwell

David J Hudson Sales Manager ArcelorMittal Hamilton East Inc

Douglas R Johnson Regional Sales Manager American Kuhne Inc

Wally Byrd General Manager CAP Technologies LLC

Christian Castro Plant Foreman Mid-South Wire Co Inc

Wei Huang Senior Metallurgist Southwire Co

Scott M Karels Engineering Manager Kester Inc

Matthew S Gailey Sales Development Manager EMD Chemicals Chad Gainey Supervisor Mar-Mac Wire Inc Mark Joseph Gilroy Director of Industrial Operations Southwire Co Leandro Aguiar Guimaraes Sales Area Manager NAFTA Sandvik Wire & Heating Technology James W Hadden Senior Process Engineer SUPERIOR ESSEX Communications LP

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The following individuals recently joined Wire Association International.

Catherine McFaddin Global Communications Manager Apex Tool Group

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William L Riggins Production Manager Southwire Co

Eric Toutant Metallurgist Sivaco Wire Group

August Melchior Senior Lead ADTS Engineer PolyOne Corp

Jeffrey A Sharp Sales Manager - Specialty Products National-Standard LLC

Gregory Ujcich Quality Manager StrandTech Martin Inc

Fernando Anthony Morales Production Manager Gerard Daniel Worldwide Rob Mourad Purchasing Manager Leggett & Platt Automotive Group

Mark Snelling President Greenleaf Metals

Richard Wagner VP General Manager Concrete Reinforcing Insteel Industries Inc

Vic Stirnaman President Keystone Steel & Wire Co

Charles Warren Supervisor Southwire Co Richard Webb Wiredrawing CAP Technologies LLC

Jim ewton Quality Assurance Manager Mid-South Wire Co Inc

Bobby Wolfe Maintenance Manager Mid-South Wire Co Inc

Adam Osekoski VP Sales & Marketing Refractron Technologies Corp Mark Frederick Palmer Sales Director, Wire ArcelorMittal Mukesh “Mike” Patel Industry Manager Teknor Apex Co Erica Pehmoellr Process Material Ulbrich Shaped Wire Inc Andrew J Piotrowski President DTEC Inc Rodney Puckett Manufacturing Manager Southwire Co William Rayfield Maintenance Manager Southwire Co Matthew Reinoehl Proc Metal SDI La Farga LLC

Steve Word Production Manager Scott City Mid-South Wire Graham Stratford Sr Lubrication and Surface Chemist General Cable Corp Andrew Sumner Quote Anaylst Southwire Co Anthony Szot Engineering Manager SUPERIOR ESSEX YanQing Tang Process Engineering Manager Sigmund Cohn Corp Abdulhadi Tariq Engineer Al Qahtani Nails & Galvanized Wire Factory Patricia Tournai General Manager Better Bilt Products, Inc.

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Danny Yates Technical & Quality Manager Bekaert Corp

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2013 Webinar schedule: 2 cooperative programs held, new one set for August The focus will be on the key electrical concepts when Delphi staffer Larry Powell presents WAI’s next webinar at 11 am on Thursday, August 8.

Powell, the Cable & Copper Alloys Sr. Technical Lead at U.S.-based Delphi, will present Electrical Overview, an introduction to key foundational electrical concepts. This webinar will include discussion of basic terminology (DC versus AC, resistance, conductivity, impedance, reactance); conductor metals (copper properties versus aluminum); refining of copper; plating; drawing; and stranding. For more details, go to www.wirenet.org.

In June, the WAI offered two webinars hosted by ANTAAC (Asociación Nacional de Transformadores de Acero AC). The Mexican body has made the programs, presented in both English and Spanish, available to WAI Members. The programs included: Technical Concepts of Steel Wiredrawing Dies and Equipment to Polish and Recuperate/Conceptos sobre dados de trefilado y equipo pulirlos y acondicionarlos (June 6); and Concepts of Heat Treatment of Steel Wire on Fluidized Bed Furnaces (June

13/Conceptos sobre tratamientos térmicos (patentado-recocido) de alambres de acero en horn de lecho fluidizado.

“This is one more way we’re looking to expand the range of webinars we can offer,” WAI Director of Education Marc Murray said. He noted that the WAI is continuing to work

Webinars was one of the topics at the WAI’s Education Committee meeting at Interwire. on schedules to be offered later this year. The goal, he said, is not just to offer webinars but to collectively offer them as a comprehensive online course in wire and cable manufacturing. They will cover more than 30 topics that collectively

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As a WAI member it’s easy to stay informed. Likewise, you won’t have to dig too deeply to uncover the industry’s rich history and accepted certainties.

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WAI membership update: numbers up more than 25% since 2012 initiative WAI has seen its membership numbers grow from about 2,000 to approximately 2,500 since a major push was announced a little more than a year ago at Wire Expo.

“We’re thrilled to report that the effort put in by the Member Relations Committee has seen very impressive results,” said WAI Executive Director Steve Fetteroll, who wrote on the topic in the editorial on p. 6. He praised the

At the back of the table, Member Relations Committee co-chairs Tom Heberling, Southwire Company, and Tim Wampler, General Cable Corporation, discussed membership drive results and future plans during their meeting at Interwire 2013. efforts of committee co-chairs Tom Heberling, Southwire Company, and Tim Wampler, General Cable Corporation, who pressed a membership drive that saw committee members making lots of personal contacts.

The drive was championed by WAI President Richard Miller, who a year earlier had called for a campaign to achieve 3,000 members. The biggest gains were in the ranks of manufacturers. The drive actually garnered about 700 new members, although the net gain was about 500 due to drops (retirements, out of field, etc.) during that period.

At Interwire, the committee focused on ways to offer more value to encourage individuals to want to join the Association. Future announcements to that effect are expected to be made this year.

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are intended to serve as useful training for newcomers to the industry as well as for those trying to expand their scope, he said.

Murray said that the program will be organized into tracks for ferrous, nonferrous, electrical, and special interest topics. The overall program, he noted, follows a logical progression from beginning to end, but attendees may sign up for one topic at a time so they are free to choose whichever combination of topics is right for them. “They can follow some or all topics in one track, jump to topics in another track, or just view the recorded video versions as they are added to the archive,” he said.

For more details, go to www.wirenet.org/technical.

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CHAPTER CORNER Winners of 8 college scholarships announced for 3 chapter programs A total of eight students have been named the winners of college scholarships for WAI’s New England, Southeast and Midwest chapters.

New England Chapter • Cameryn Richards. The daughter of David Richards, chief operating officer of RichardsApex, Cameryn will be studying graphic design at Drexel University.

• Matthew and Bryan Kos. The sons of Michael Kos, Operations Manager of CNA Technologies LLC, Matthew will be studying engineering at North Carolina State University and Bryan will be studying industrial technology at East Carolina University.

Midwest Chapter • Meghan Moline. The daughter of Kelly Moline, president of TechStrand, Meghan will be studying psychology at the University of Arkansas.

• Ana Urbina. The daughter of Eugenio Urbina, engineering team leader of General Cable Corporation, Ana will be studying biology at Bates College.

• Matthew Walton. The son of Stewart Walton, president of Sheaves, Inc., Matt will be studying engineering at the University of Vermont.

• Alexander Cooper. The son of Mark Cooper, account manager of PolyOne, Alex will be studying chemical engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Southeast Chapter • Emily Robinson. The daughter of Cynthia Shontz, director of strategic sourcing at Southwire Company, she will be attending the University of Georgia with a major in pre-veterinary.

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3 chapter golf tourneys upcoming The WAI New England Chapter will host its 19th annual Golf Tournament on Monday, Sept. 9, when it returns to the Ellington Ridge Country Club in Ellington, Connecticut.

Contact John Rivers at johnr@dms-inc.com or WAI’s Anna Bzowski at abzowski@wirenet.org.

The Western Chapter will stage its 13th Annual “Wild West Shootout” on Monday, Oct. 21, at the Sierra Lakes Golf Course in Fontana, California. Contact Shootout Chairman John Stevens at jstevens@emc-wire.com, or WAI’s Steve Fetteroll at sfetteroll@wirenet.org.

The Vannais Southeast Chapter’s 12th Annual Golf Tournament will be held Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Rock Barn Golf and Spa in Conover, North Carolina. For more information, contact Nexans’s Art Deming, tel. 252-9559451, art.deming@ nexans.com.

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CCCA’s Frank Peri will be the speaker at Oct. 17 New England Chapter event The WAI New England Chapter announced that the role of the Communications Cable and Connectivity Association (CCCA) will be the keynote topic for a fall education event on October 17 at The Beechwood Hotel in Worcester, Massachusetts.

CCCA Executive Director Frank Peri will discuss the organization’s mission as well as information on technologies and products to support networking, IT and communications. The nonprofit organization is proactive at codes and standards influencing policy for cabling infrastructure, and has been featured in numerous WJI articles where it has emphasized the dangers of cables that are either fraudulent and/or counterfeit.

More details will follow as they become available.

SPECIAL REPORT

Integer Report: part 1 The below information from U.K.-based Integer Research is excerpted from one of the company’s latest publications: Wire & Cable Focus Report: Middle East and North Africa Markets. The report provides the

The wire and cable market in the GCC Middle East countries—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudia Arabia and UAE—experienced a period of extraordinary growth from the early 2000s until 2008. This was mainly driven by a boom in construction throughout the region, which in turn was fuelled by strong oil prices. We saw demand dropping in 2009 as a consequence of the economic crisis, which wreaked havoc in the construction-driven economy of Dubai in particular and deeply affected local cable producers. In the last few years Integer has been constantly monitoring the evolution of the cable industry in the GCC, and analysing the way it has adapted to new market conditions.

Overall, total cable consumption in the GCC increased on average by 5.5% per annum in gross weight terms over 2007 to 2012, peaking at 1.2 million tonnes in 2012.

However, we estimate that cable consumption contracted by 13.2% year-on-year in 2009. Between just 2009 and 2012, GCC consumption is estimated to have grown at a rate of 7.8% per annum, reflecting some recovery in volumes since the downturn. The strongest growth in consumption was experienced in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, whose markets grew by 10.3% and 6.7% per annum over 2007 to 2012.

Saudi Arabia became the fastest-growing market after the financial crisis.

The economic outlook for the GCC countries looks positive as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is forecast to increase steadily over 2012-2017, and as a result, so is regional wire and cable demand. However, before the financial crisis in 2008/09 the massive boom in demand was mainly driven by the UAE’s construction market, but now we are increasingly seeing signals suggesting that

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prospects and opportunities in the wire and cable industry in both the GCC and North Africa. Part 1 looks at the Middle East region and Part 2, in the August issue, will look at the North Africa region.

Saudi Arabia will underpin growth in the next few years.

At the same time, looking at the project pipeline for the major wire and cable end-use sectors, we are witnessing a change in the drivers of demand for wire and cable in the GCC. For instance, although the oil and gas projects’ pipeline in the GCC is still sizeable (US$455 billion up to 2018), we are seeing a slowdown in new projects being announced. The seven-year pipeline is down 20% compared with 2010, when total oil and gas projects under construction or planned totalled US$564 billion. This drop is even steeper if we take out of this number downstream oil and gas projects such as chemicals, fertilizers, and olefins & aromatics, with a 30% decrease in the last two years. However, some national markets are proving more dynamic than others (notably Saudi Arabia).

At the same time, the Arab Spring has acted as a catalyst for change in the region’s construction sector, even in countries that were only marginally affected by the unrest. The GCC countries can count on significant trade surpluses which they are planning to invest in order to diversify their economies’ dependence on oil revenues and also to satisfy the demands of their people following the Arab Spring. As a result, the focus within the project pipeline will be on investing in infrastructure, including power, rail, roads, education, health and low cost housing.

We accounted for all these factors in order to build our forecast of wire and cable consumption in the GCC up to 2017. We expect to see total cable consumption in the GCC reach almost 1.5 million tonnes by 2017 (or

SPECIAL REPORT Comparison of actual/projected cable capacity and consumption for GCC countries from 2007-17. Integer chart.

850,000 conductor tonnes). Market size should grow from US$10.8 billion in 2012 to US$11.7 billion in 2017. As in our previous 2010 Middle East Wire & Cable report, we still see the GCC being affected by a situation of overcapacity, which especially in the last couple of years has created bitter competition in some sectors (notably for low voltage power cable and building wire). However, we see this situation being partially reversed after 2015, as cable expansions are apparently going to slow down, and demand in the GCC as a whole will have time to catch up with capacity.

Interestingly, due to the shrinking project pipeline in the oil and gas sector and recent expansion in cable makerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s product portfolios we see some overcapacity developing in the near future for signal and control

Integer Research notes that its report on the prospects and opportunities in the wire and cable industry in both the Gulf Cooperation Council (GGC) countries and North Africa delivers accurate and detailed data that have been gathered directly from the field in this fast growing market. It includes cable capacity, consumption

cables. The situation might change, however, until a future increase in oil prices which could stimulate new investments.

There is still a gap in the market for EHV power cables, which are mostly being imported from well-established producers in Europe, Japan, and Korea. A few local manufacturers have stepped into this high-value market in the last couple of years, but the learning curve is steep, and local power authorities have shown a tendency to trust better-known producers from outside the GCC. Overcapacity in LV power cable and building wire has also prompted GCC producers to look increasingly at new export markets, with North Africa in particular attracting interest, given its proximity and growth.

and trade, split by product for every single cable maker in the region. The countries covered are: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. For more information on this report, contact Ali Asaadi at tel. +44-207-503-1265, ali.asaadi@integer-research.com.

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nterwire 2013 featured equipment, products and services from more than 400

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the exhibitors that displayed equipment at Atlanta.

AIM, Inc. U.S. AIM presented the newest innovation in wire bending: the patented “Synchro Bender.” The world’s most versatile wire bender was demonstrating complex and simple wire forms without the need of robotic intervention and different tool configurations. Three rotary heads and

turret technology are employed to form virtually any wire form you can throw at it. The new Accuweld series model coupled to our 2D series benders demonstrated automated welding and the new “offline” mode. The offline mode, another innovation from AIM, allows the user to utilize the welder while the bender is forming another part.

Entron controls, DC mid-frequency power, fine tune mechanical adjustments and automatic download and upload of welding schedules allow ease of use, resulting in quicker changeover and faster product output. Finally, our AFC Compact series was joined with a Fanuc LR Mate 200ic robot for complex forming and pick-andplace operations. This robotic cell carries a small footprint with full automation capabilities. The flexible cell allows the user to take wire off the machine and place it into unlimited secondary operation. www.aimmachines.com.

Davis-Standard Corporation U.S.

From l-r at Interwire 2013: Matt Lisnich, sales executive; Peter Cison, engineering; Ashley Brown, reception; and Constantine Grapsas, CEO.

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At Interwire, Davis-Standard displayed two high-temp extruders (a 1.25 in. model and a 1.50 in. model) for tandem extrusion of cross-linked ETFE, which is used in the production of aerospace wire and cables. As wire performance standards escalate, Davis-Standard has seen growth in the production of Spec 55 wire used in aerospace applications. Several components for manufacturing dual and single wall Spec 55 wire were displayed at Davis-Standard’s booth. Spec 55 wire incorporates a radi-

At Interwire 2013, Domeks Makine displayed its Quadromatik 400 model, a new multi-purpose, wide production range coil/spool packing line. The company notes that investment cost is always very important to cable producers, but especially so now given the world economic situation. One investment that would make sense is a system that would enable a cable producer who needs both a coil packing line and a spool packing line to be able to use just one system that can do both, including processing small or large cables. Domeksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Quadromatik 400 can do just that. The double-head coil/spool packing line automatically palletizes product for high-speed coiling or spooling of single wire and multi-cores cables with diameters from 2.5 mm to 12 mm. It can process 150 mm Davis-Standard System Sales Engineer John Doherty by two high-temp extruders at Interwire.

ation-cross-linked, ETFE insulation system. This wire has a dual-wall minimum insulation thickness of .008 inches and single-wall thickness of .005 inches. It is durable and abuse-resistant enough for the most environmentally demanding applications. It also is flame resistant and unaffected by all known aircraft fluids, as well as humidity. Aerospace wire has two layers, so during inspection if there is any chafing of the outside layer, the inner layer will show through before there are any consequences.

As the wire and cable extrusion leader for more than 60 years, Davis-Standard supplies high-speed systems for aerospace, automotive, datacomm, energy, construction/building, power, high temperature and specialty wire processing applications. This includes a wide range of payoffs and take-ups to suit a variety of applications.

The company also offers regional production and service capabilities worldwide to support customers around the globe. www.davis-standard.com.

The Domeks Makine staff at Interwire, where the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s display included its Quadromatik 400 system.

inner-diameter coil types with outer diameters from 210 mm to 400 mm and coil heights from 30 mm to 190 mm; and 80 mm inner diameter spool types with outer diameters from 140 mm to 350 mm and heights of 40 mm to 250 mm. www.domeksmakine.com.

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Gimax Srl Italy Gimax Srl launched the company’s revolutionary fully automated REV respooler several years ago and since then it has undergone several updates that saw it increase the level of flexibility and line speed. The concept, totally

Gimax Srl Managing Director Gianluca Marangoni and Sales & Marketing Director Enrico Romagnolo by the company’s REV respooler.

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different to the traditional respooling machine, was designed to reduce downtime to a minimum between one spool and the next. The REV can handle 4 in. and/or 8 in. plastic spools of various widths, and in the past few years has been used to respool solid welding wire (steel and aluminum) as well as tubular wire (flux cored wire), both random and precision layer wound. The overall line speed has been increased to 4000 ft/min, producing on average about two small four in. spools per min, or one 8-in. spool. The REV line uses a standard Gimax driven payoff for reels and incorporates a dancer as well as automatic feeding of the spools onto the machine. The design also reduces floor space to a minimum to avoid having to stretch out the line, as often happens with other respooling systems. The “tie-off” of the wire to the spool can be one of several different systems, depending on the characteristics of the wire as well as the more traditional “bending and hooking” of the wire to a hole in the spool. There are more delicate systems that are appropriate for either high-tensile strength wires or very delicate wires. Being fully automated, the line does not require an operator, and one person can generally supervise up to five machines. www.gimaxgroup.com.

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At Interwire, Germany’s Hüttner Maschinenfabrik, represented in the U.S. by Wire Machine Systems, Inc., displayed a barrel coiler for insulated or bare wire that can be used either off-line for re-packing or on-line with an extruder. It has significant features for CV and/or PVC lines and can handle a wide range of diameters. Barrel height variations from full to half size or smaller are automatically adjusted and pit/foundation work is not necessary. The head is well balanced to allow for multiple speed ranges. There are no multiple cable loops on the coiling head, thus no crossovers during descent into the drum. Pressure fingers to hold loops on the head are not needed, so time is not lost making adjustments for size changes.

A cable is transported via an encircling belt.

The cable-tocapstan contact is very short to prevent heat build-up or the cable sticking to the capstan.

Hüttner’s unique oscillating coiling head and barrel vibration system lay a defined rosette A Hüttner barrel coiler. petal lay and cable distribution in the drum, avoiding tangles. A double accumulator separates scrap at full speed while still collecting good material in the rosette petal lay mode, which avoids clumping when good material is dropped into the drum after removal of scrap. Finally, a pre-haul-off capstan at cable entry provides for transport of the cable from the extruder to the coiler. www.wiremachine.com.

Ideal Welding Systems Germany/U.S. At Interwire, Ideal Welding Systems exhibited the company’s most advanced CNC jig welder ever built out of Germany: the IDEAL CSR102 VERSAWELD. The model has automated positioning with a welding system suitable for resistance welding both sheet metal and wire components on the same machine. Keeping in line with our range of “Green” welding equipment, the CSR102 jig welder is equipped with MFDC (Medium Frequency Direct Current) welding, the most efficient welding technology available today, along with the latest efficient servo motors and drives from Siemens, which “push”

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At Interwire, Kalmark Integrated Systems, Ltd., displayed a new 50 mm continuous interlock strip armoring machine together with a 1200 mm contact length belt type caterpuller. These are used in the production of specialty interlock armored cables, such as: metal clad cables; round and flat submersible pump cables; fireproof telecommunications and instrumentation cables; liquidtight flexible conduit; mechanical conduits and hoses; mechanical push-pull cables; and more. The 50 mm interlock machine as displayed has numerous features that are standard on all Kalmark interlock machines up to 150 mm diameter range: gentle strip guide system; stable strip tension from full to empty coil; strip coil may be changed within one minute without the use of any tools for the operation of the coil chuck; fast and repeatable product diameter set up. The company also displayed a

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Kinrei of America U.S. Kalmark President Louis Kalmar and Dan Purdy, general manager of Inflex Inc., Kalmar’s sister company.

61-wire roll-form strander, a new breed of stranding machines that produces a compact power cable with up to 61 shaped input wires. Recently, there has been growing interest directed towards our re-designed roll-form singletwist and double-twist stranding lines that boast stability; state-of-the-art controls; faster install and start-up times; and higher production rates. We offer a full range of serv-

At Interwire 2013, Kinrei of America showed the company’s TU5-12 model, part of the company’s line of ultra-fast wire tubular stranders for twisting of wires as fine as 0.012 mm (AWG 56) and cross sectional areas of 0.0014 mm (AWG 44) at speeds up to 5000 twists per minute, in various materials, in seven or 19-wire constructions. These machines provide a rotating tube with permanently sealed, high-speed, low-friction bearings lubricated by a closed-loop pressurized oil system.

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ices from production consulting and project management to plant relocation services, foundation design, detail manufacturing drawings, installation supervision, laser alignment, through to commissioning and after sale service. All systems are pre-commissioned at our newly expanded 44,000-sq-ft factory located in Simcoe, Ontario.

All Kalmark equipment is pre-wired and interconnected via ducts and conduit. Machines may be field installed and running within one day. Factory tested parameter recipes may be reloaded to produce the same pre-commissioned cable products at a customer’s facility anywhere in the world. www.kalmarkltd.com.

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Kinrei of America’s TU5-12 model tubular strander. cantilevered shafts. The take-up bobbin sizes are available in sizes up to 200 mm. Lay length is controlled by operator input on a touch screen while starting and stopping are done by means of a frequency inverter. An over-twisting device can be provided for 0-40% over-twisting of conductors. These machines are designed to service a wide variety of industries including micro mini coaxial cables,

Italy’s Lesmo Group had a very successful presence at Interwire 2013, where it had one booth for its own products and another one for those it represents in North America. There was huge interest in company’s exhibited machine, a double-twist strander suitable for take-up reels (1250 mm). Two of these units were sold and following the event more units have been booked. The machine, model DTO-1250-CM, has a renewed design that makes it stronger, less prone to vibrations and capable of processing a broader range of products. It sports an innovative transmission system between the two flyers that does not require a transmission shaft to sit on the lower frame. The machine uses the latest in electronics, with two main options (Siemens and Allen Bradley) as well as several options, each dedicated to specific products (bunching of bare flexible wires, stranding rigid compressed or compacted strands, cabling of insulated conductors, etc.). The Lesmo Group has sold hundreds of double-twist machines, including the world’s largest

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Germany’s Lukas Anlagenbau, which has 50 years of experience in the field of hydro-power and wire and cable engineering, displayed a vertical taping and sintering line

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at Interwire that included a payoff, a taping unit, a sintering oven and a take-up. Due to its vertical orientation, the line is characterized by a very space-saving configuration.

The control of the taping heads by an innovative closed loop in conjunction with the electronic coupling of the top-mounted capstan allows line speeds of up to 50 m/min and a high precision of the taping pitch. The taping unit is alternatively available with one or two individually controlled taping heads. The vertical infra-red sintering oven is equipped with up to six separately controllable heating elements. Each heating element consists of a gold-plated, slotted infra-red glass emitter. Thus the elements are very energy efficient and quick-reacting to make a very precise control of the sintering process possible. Lukas provides all components, including for other shapes and configurations, such as a horizontal orientation, pintal type payoffs and take-ups. This, together with additional equipment (such as paper feeding units, air conditioners, stroboscopes, diameter detection systems, process visualization) allows the company to offer customer tailored configurations for a wide range of applications. www.lukas-antagenbau.de.

MGS Manufacturing/MGS Group U.S. MGS Manufacturing has continued its automatic packaging and robotic handling focus, which can be seen in its new dual automatic take-up system, which is ideally

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NIEHOFF Group/NIEHOFF ENDEX North America Germany/U.S. At Interwire, Niehoff showcased three systems, one of which was its model D 1001 type single-bow double twist bunching machine (pictured). The system can manufacture strands of up to 50 mm² (1/0) cross section for copper and up to 60 mm² (3/0) cross section for aluminum

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suited for high volume productivity as well as for ease of changing products and reels. The fully automated system will produce pallets of finished product, individually wrapped, labeled and ready for shipment. The system is rugged, reliable and consistent. The dual-automatic reel packaging system includes: fully automatic dual take-up; automatic labeling on flange and/or under stretch wrap, using real time labeling; an integrated counter, various testing and real time printing just before winding; dual payoffs with CE safety enclosures, ultrasonic sensing of reel build-down, tail catching and quick payoff reel change; a gantry robot for loading empty spools from pallet as received from a supplier; a gantry robot palletizing full reels; a pallet dispenser with motorized conveyor system; and an automatic full pallet stretch wrap (finished product ready for shipping). www.themgsgroup.com.

NIEHOFF ENDEX President & CEO Robert Wild by the company’s D1001 double-twist buncher at Interwire. conductors with a maximum lay length of 300 mm (11.8 in.) and a maximum rotational speed of 3,200 twists/min.

The D 1001 represents the result of experience in designing productive and operator friendly wire bunching and cable stranding machines which Niehoff has gathered

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since the early 1970s. Due to the one-bow design, the D series machines’ energy consumption and noise emission are less than conventional bunching machines. The company also showed a 24-carrier lever arm rotary braiding machine, BMV 124, a heavier version of the BMV 24 model that has a central passage of 55 mm and can carry spools with a weight of up to 5.5 kg. They can process round or flat wire of bare or coated copper, aluminum and stainless steel with a single-wire diameter from 0.05 to 0.3 mm as well as artificial yarn and fibers. Also showcased was a multiwire drawing machine, model MMH 121, that can draw 16 wires with a final diameter of up to 0.20 mm (32 AWG). The wire can be processed to intermediate multiwire bundles so it is possible to directly fill one spool with seven wires to be stranded into a 19-wire construction. Spool handling is simplified and fewer payoff stations are needed, resulting in capital investment savings. www.niehoff-usa.com.www.niehoff-usa.com.

NUMALLIANCE France At Interwire 2013, NUMALLIANCE displayed its leading technology that included the company’s FTX10 wire bender, which was shown to the U.S. public for the first time. Beyond the complexity of the bends it can make

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NUMALLIANCE COO Ludovic Vallet by the company’s FTX wire bender at Interwire 2013. and the speed of the machine, attendees were impressed that this fine equipment could also run tube and flat stock. The system, like all those offered by NUMALLIANCE as part of the company’s Touch and Form Series, is built on a modular platform that enables

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easy integration of secondary operation in the field. It also features an exceptionally user-friendly HMI, with real life simulation and “teach-in” pendant. Other systems displayed included the F45 S, an electric CNC wire bender that offers accuracy and speed that further pushes the limits of the industry; and the FRX04, a well-known and respected wire former that is capable of bending torsion, extension and compression spring without tooling changes. At Interwire, the company also teamed up with Germany’s Aicon to demonstrate its TubeInspect HD, a touch-less video based solution that flawlessly measures 3D parts in a blink of an eye. Connected to the company’s Touch and Form series, this equipment can produce a copy of a sample within minutes or less. This is a great time saver for set up as the benders accept automatic feedback on bending correction from the measuring device, but it also is a great step forward for quality as an operator can randomly pick a part and the bender will autonomously “tweak itself.” www.numalliance.com.

OMCG SpA/OMCG North America Italy/U.S. At Interwire, OMCG North America OMCG exhibited the MINIMALIST 6 CNC, one of the company’s new “Mini” wire forming systems for wire and strip. Features are fast forming, simple tooling with multiple bend radii

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OMCG’s “mini” wire bender. capability plus generation for rings and large radii. Wire sizes can range from 1 mm to 6.5 mm. The machines are equipped with modems for off-site diagnostics and programming is very easy using a standard Windows based PC and the EP3 EZ program. The systems feature simple tooling and three to six bend radii capability plus generation for rings and large radii. The system can process the different wire sizes by using an off-site diagnostic modem. Also, programming is easy. A standard Windowsbased PC and the EZ program writes the program to form the part, draws it on screen in 3D, simulates the forming

SAMP SISTEMI/SAMP USA Italy/U.S SAMP has responded to customer demands for multiwire drawing machines able to process more wires and larger exit wire diameters with systems that are also more energy-efficient. The results could be seen at Interwire, where the company displayed its DM105 multiwire drawing line, which also included the company’s AN 250 M amp annealer and DS800 spooler. The display focused on offering more energy-efficient systems in terms both of reduction of the absorbed power and in a better use of the power itself (Power Factor, PF > 0.90-0.95) through the

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on screen prior to production and estimates the time to complete production. Just design the part by CAD and down-load the DXF file and the EZ software will convert the program and you can form the part. Another program method allows the part coordinates to be entered as length, bend angle and orientation of angle. The program can then creates the bending program to control the machine production. For high production, OMCG offers a line of CNC slide-forming machines (along with mechanical slide-forming machines) that will allow some parts to be produced at speeds to of up to 300 parts per minute.

Optional units for welding, cold heading, chamfering, assembly, threading, coining, tube bending can be added. www.omcg.com.

SAMP USA Vice President of Sales Marco Gerardo by the company’s DM105 multiwire system. use of the Siemens TIA platform and SAMP’s electronic equipment. SAMP’s annealer platform (AN Platform) is divided into three segments (entry level, flexibility and production) depending on the application (building wire, automotive wire, home appliances, etc.). These segments include annealers—from 700 up to 7000 Amps; contact rings from 120 mm to 350 mm; 8 to 56 wires; and diameters from 0.05 mm to 1.35 mm—developed both for

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red copper wire and electroplated wire (tinned, silver or nickel plated) and aluminum. The AN 250 M annealer, a good compromise between the flexibility and mass production segments, was in a configuration suitable for annealing a maximum of 24 copper wires (between 34 and 22 AWG) at a speed up to 38 m/s. The annealer is coupled to an electronic control that enables PF > 0.9 performance in all working conditions, with high process stability for both bare and coated wire. The annealing furnace is continuously tested and optimized to maximize wire cooling and subsequent drying, and the drying systems can easily be changed for a smaller wire diameter to reduce the use of compressed air. www.sampinc.com.

offers custom production wire flattening and shaping mills. The multistand mill (pictured) can run at speeds up to 1,500 fpm. The mill can make flat sections from 0.150 in. round inlet wire (stainless steel, high-carbon steel and oil-tempered steel). The line includes the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2-hi

SPX/Fenn Division U.S. At Interwire, the Fenn Division of SPX displayed a new generation Torin FZ series 11-6 axis CNC spring coiler that incorporates a Windows 7 graphical user interface.

The versatile FZ 11-6 spring coiler is capable of making compression, extension, torsion, gun magazine, belting, rings and wire forms all on a single machine, with constant force also available. Fenn offers a full range of FZ series spring coilers, ranging in wire size from .003 in. to .750 in. in diameter, to fit a variety of coiling needs across several industries. The division notes that it also

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An overview of a multistand mill from SPX Fenn. rolling mills and a 4TH high-speed Turks head with double-drum capstan. The rolling millsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rolls are sized to adjust for decreasing wire thickness during the process.

The line has a 1,000-lb capacity payoff and a 1,200-lb traversing pintle take-up. Volmer thickness and width gauges provide valuable system feedback and work in

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tandem with a servo screw-down motor on the fourth mill for an accurate final product. The touchscreen HMI gives the operator optimal efficiency and control for the wire flattening process. For more details, contact SPX/Fenn at precision.fenn@spx.com. www.spx.com.

WAFIOS AG Germany WAFIOS Machinery Corporation U.S. At Interwire, WAFIOS displayed its B3 CNC wire bender, part of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s series family of single-head, wire-bending machines that provides versatility, precision and dependability at an affordable price. The B Series is designed for the production of two- and three-dimensional wire parts, based on components and tools that have been tried and proven for years. The base machine includes six CNC axes and a robust feeding unit for advancing and rotating the wire, together in combination with the roller straightener. Super-fast bending and coiling are achieved with a versatile bending head allowing flexible application possibilities by infinitely rotating bending and mandrel axes in combination with large up/down strokes. Feed and bending tools are compatible with the well-known BM Series machines (multi-radii and four-pin tool). Cutting is achieved by a fast, cycletime optimized CNC-controlled cutting unit.The user-

WAFIOS displayed its B3 CNC wire bender at Interwire. friendly WPS 3 operator interface offers intuitive graphics for plain-text programming of part lengths, angles or coordinates. Process enhancement is provided via the

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iQbend Function allowing for automatic optimization of the CNC program sequences for superior output rates, and iQwire software allowing for simulation and quotingfunctionality. Additionally, WAFIOS WEB Support allows for immediate “connectivity” to the machine by one of our factory-trained service engineers. The B Series is available in two models, the B 3, which has a working range of .079-.256 in (2.0-6.5 mm), and the larger B 5, which has a working range of .157-.394 in (4.0-10.0 mm). www.wafios.com.

Wardwell/Spirka U.S./Germany At Interwire, Wardwell, a business of Germany’s Spirka, displayed the W16-W150-FW, a 16-carrier deflector model that is part of the company’s line of Speedmaster braiders. The braider, which is used for shielding wire and cable products, features vertical axis operation, a capstan take-off system, 16- and 24carrier round braider constructions, an integrated drive motor and control, an integrated take-up and payoff or up to 36-in. reels, a head guard for safe operation, a take-up pressure roller, a broken end detector and a durable tubular steel frame construction. The unit comes

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in three sizes: the Speedmaster 150, which has a rotation speed of between 120 to 150 rpm, a pull-off capstan diameter of 457 mm, a central passage of 19 mm and a maximum braid diameter of 15 mm; and two Speedmaster 100 models, each of which has a rotation speed of between The Wardwell Speedmaster 150 80 to 100 rpm, a braider was shown at Interwire. pull-off capstan diameter of 610 mm, a central passage of 28 mm and a maximum braid diameter of 22 mm. All three models have a jog speed of 30 rpm, use a reel size of 800 to 1000 mm and have a rated a noise level of 78 dB(A) with the optional sound enclosure. Other options include: an empty bobbin detec-

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tor; a central lubrication system (recommended); a keel lubricator (recommended); an advance display, variable speed; a longitudinal tape applicator; a motor-driven capstan; a double-deck braiding system; and specially coated parts for increased performance. www.wardwell.com.

Windak AB/Windak Inc. Sweden/U.S. At Interwire 2013, Windak introduced the company’s new fully automatic reeler line, AR18-DB, developed for automatic packaging of cable and wire products on spools or reels between 216-460 mm (8.5-18 in.) in overall diameter. The system can be run both in-line (direct connection with extruder) and off-line (with a driven payoff or flyer). All operational parameters and settings are recipe controlled in order to reduce time between product and reel changeovers. The dual-spooling heads reduce stop time and maximize output. Full line integration can include an automatic palletizer, a film unit, a pallet conveyor, reel labeler, test equipment and meter marking on the cable. The AR18-DB automatically loads and

Windak’s Dan Shelander by the company’s AR18-DB packaging line. unloads the reels and includes stretch-wrapping of the reel to contain the cable end. The dual head reeler’s maximum line speed is 365 meters per minute (1200 fpm), with output of two reels per minute. The line, which will minimize floor space requirements, reduce material handling and save labor costs, provides the industry’s widest range of cable diameters and reel sizes in the smallest footprint. The specs are as follows: reel diameter, 216 mm-460 mm (8.5-18 in.; reel width, 101 mm-406mm (4 in.-16 in.); cable diameter, 3 mm-19 mm (0.12 in.-0.75 in.); maximum line speed, 365 mpm (1200 fpm); maximum reel weight, 45 kg (100 lb); output, two reels per minute. www.windakusa.com.

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PRODUCTS & MEDIA PRODUCTS Break detector can safeguard production in tubular stranders At Interwire 2013, U.S.-based Yield Management Corporation (YMC) released a new product for detecting wire breaks in tubular stranding machines.

A press release said that the new development from YMC—which notes that it introduced the original strand counting system for cabling machines in 2008 and has an installed base worldwide—applies to fine wire and rotational speeds far greater than the original system. The system, it said, can verify the correct number of wires at the collecting die at speed up to 7000 RPM. The release explained the need for the technology as follows. Traditional “ground bar” detection techniques are not 100% reliable, particularly with fine wire. Rather than wait for a break to occur and hope it is detected, the YMC system verifies the product integrity each machine revolution. Essentially, it is fail-safe. The operator enters the expected number of wires and the system counts the actual wires each revolution; if the actual count varies from the set point the machine is shut down. The center wire integrity is verified by monitoring the internal spool rotation by an optical sensor outside the stranding tube.

YMC developed the spool monitoring principle for detecting wire breaks in 2007 and continues to apply this technique in several of its wire and tape break detection products, the release said. The kit, it noted, is simple to install and operate and allows for “lights out” manufacturing with confidence. That functionality, which was displayed at Interwire, resulted in many good visits at Interwire, said company President Robert Brown. “We received immediate orders and have successfully installed the system in two companies to date.”

Contact: Robert Brown, Yield Management Corp., tel. 413-283-7773, sales@yieldmanagementcorp.com, www.yieldmanagementcorp.com.

Dual-reel take-up offers companies multiple options for production U.S.-based Lloyd & Bouvier is offering a new 72-in. shaftless dual-reel take-up design to complement the company’s Dual 50 design that it introduced in 2011.

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A press release said that the take-up consists of two individual 72 in. heavy-duty welded plate frames that are bolted together, with a common traverse mounted on dual linear bearings and a continuous belt drive activated with a servo motor. An optional clamp and pulley feature can be incorporated into the traverse system to direct and hold the wire during crossover, as well as a catapuller feed to supply the necessary product length to each reel at crossover. The take-up accepts reel diameters from 72 in. to 36 in. and reel widths from 48 in. to 16 in.

The release also noted the following about the take-up: reel lifting is accomplished through pneumatically loaded cylinders that can lift reels up to 15,000 lb.

Gate arm positioning for various reel widths is accomplished through an AC gear motor with automatic centering via Acme threaded rod activation. Take-up is powered by individual 20 HP AC motors with in-line reducers to provide maximum torque. A NEMA panel is provided, housing the 20 HP AC Vector main drives and all related electrical components. Operator controls are mounted on both sides and center of frame for easy access by the operator. Pintles and drive rotors are provided and customized to individual customer requirements. The take-up can be provided with optional touch screen controls, and integrated with an accumulator to provide the customer with final packaging capabilities at extrusion.

Contact: Mike McKee, Lloyd & Bouvier, tel. 978-3655700, sales@lloydbouvier.com.

Upgraded rigid strander allows use of larger reels for overhead conductors At Interwire 2013, Spain’s C.M. Caballe, SA, reported attendee interest in the company’s rigid stranding line, which has been upgraded for overhead conductors.

A press release said that the company now offers upgraded rigid stranders, intended for aluminum wire, that allows the use of larger DIN reels. It noted that overhead conductors are normally stranded in a 630 DIN MM rigid stranding line, but that Caballé recognized that such machines are underutilized when stranding aluminum wires due to the low weight of the full reels. Production is limited by the reel volume, not weight, which led to the company’s boosting the rigid strander to allow the use of 800 mm DIN reels. The rigid frame was redesigned and recalculated, using the latest engineering tools (3D Cad,

Line of VFD custom cables are good for heavy-duty industrial applications U.S.-based Northwire, Inc. (NWI) has introduced variable frequency drive (VFD) custom cables in sizes ranging from 30 AWG to 6 AWG that meet or exceed the requirements for severe-duty applications in industrial plant environments.

A press release said that the company’s severe duty VFD custom cable and composite solutions reduce labor installation, increase equipment up-time, minimize energy waste and achieve highly controlled electricals, saving valuable time and money. The high-flex cables resist oil, impact, crush, sunlight and rodents, and provide “rigorous physi-

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finite element analysis, etc.) and the company’s experience, to allow the use of larger size reels at high speeds.

The 800 mm reels, the release said, hold twice the wire length, which translates to double the production of produced conductor per reel. “This is especially useful when producing big conductor with thick wires,” it said. It noted that the larger DIN 800 rigid strander rotates slower than the DIN 630 model, but as down time for loading/unloading is much less, the average result is higher output. Further, the automatic loading system can guarantee a complete loading cycle in just 12 minutes, it said.

The release said that three of the 800 mm rigid stranding lines have already been sold to the American market.

Contact: C.M. Caballe, SA, tel. 34-93-460-14-13, caballe@cmcaballe.com, www.cmcaballe.com.

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cal and highly controlled electrical properties to ensure maximum up-time and the longest life expectancy,” said Northwire Director of Operations and Engineering Steve Kedrowski. He noted that the custom cable assembly solutions meet or exceed VFD, UL, CSA and AWM standards and the CE Mark approval.

The cables, the release said, have been tested to 10 million flex cycles and are easier to install. It noted that costcompetitive custom composite signal and power constructions combine several separate cables configured into one smaller solution, which reduces the installation cost and increases the length of the cable run. Further, the VFD suite of cables meets the requirements of over 15 major OEMs; data in noisy environments are protected via robust shielding and grounding and low resistance to ground offers strong protection against low frequency interference, it said, adding that with options, the cables are compliant to RoHS2 and REACH standards.

Contact: Northwire, Inc., tel. 800-468-1516, cableinfo@northwire.com, www.northwire.com.

New system available as standalone unit for measuring wire temperatures Germany’s Sikora AG reports that its new WIRE-TEMP 6010 system can be ordered as a single standalone unit for precise online measurement of wire temperature.

A press release said that the WIRE-TEMP 6010 continually measures the temperature of metallic conductors as well as the surface temperature of insulated conductors on a non-contact base.

Designed for diameters from 0.004 in. to 0.04 in. (0.1 mm to 10 mm), and alternatively from 0.006 in. to 3.94 in. (0.15 mm to 100 mm), the WIRE-TEMP 6010 is appropriate for product temperatures up to 302°F (150°C), optionally up to 392°F (200°C). The measurement of the temperature, it noted, is independent of the cross section, the material and the structure of the conductor surface. The ability for the model to be available as a stand-alone unit—in addition to an already installed preheater—is that it can ensure that insulation preheating is optimized for adhesion to the conductor and that insulation foaming is stable, which is especially important for high-frequency and data transmission, it said.

The release said that one big advantage the WIRETEMP 6010 has over conventional systems is that the temperature measurement is continually made by means of a thermal image sensor in an infrared camera that reliably detects the conductor with its wide measuring range.

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measuring values are transferred to a Sikora processor system, the line control or a laptop, it said.

For a complete wire preheating, temperature measurement and control solution, Sikora notes that it offers the PREHEATER 6015 TC. Contact: Sikora AG, sales@sikora.net, www.sikora.net.

In the U.S., Sikora International Corp., sales@sikora-usa.com, www.sikora-usa.com.

Cable is the thinnest ‘thunderbolt’ Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., reports that it has started mass production of ultra-thin “Thunderbolt” cables, which it said were recently certified by Intel Corporation.

A press release said that the cables are used for high-speed data transmission at 10 Gbps between a PC and peripheral (and display) devices by connecting them in a daisy chain, represent a record in terms of their size.

The cables have an approximately 25% smaller outer diameter (3.3 mm versus 4.2 mm of standard size) and a 42% smaller sectional area, and the size has resulted in improved flexibility and user friendliness, it said. The cable has two channels, each with 10 Gbps capacity, for combined transmission capacity of 20 G/bps. “Transmission data rates are not compromised by this thin construction, and can reliably maintain high speed 10 Gbps standards for this high technology cable,” it said.

The cable, the release said, based on Intel’s Thunderbolt technology, will be available in lengths of 0.3 m, 0.5 m, 1.0 m and 2.0 m, and in black and white color. It added that “the variety of these eight new items will be added to the existing 15 products (12 metal cables and three optical cables).”

Contact: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., http://global-sei.com/.

Wire stripper can cost-effectively recycle range of copper cable sizes China’s Allance reports that its wire stripper can help cable manufacturers recycle copper without changing the shape of the wire.

A press release said that the company’s machine uses a cutter to directly rip off an opening on the surface of the insulator so that the copper wire inside it can be brought out without changing the shape of the copper wire. That, it noted, means that the resulting copper wire will be the same length, which can prevent some problems and allow

Book presents generalized specs for low-voltage wire and cable

the copper core to be used for other special needs.

The wire stripper can be used with different shaped input holes, such as a flat wire hole, a round wire hole and a square wire hole. The copper wire stripper has a wide application range as it can process wire diameters from 1 mm to 100 mm. Finally, the unit is especially good for small volumes as it is easy to move to where it is needed, it said.

Contact: Allance, tel.: 86-037-65950319, http://www.copperwiregranulator.com/.

Marc Stringer, an industry product management veteran with two-plus decades of experience, has published Public Cable 1.0, a 198-page book that presents generalized specifications for low-voltage wire and cable, “normalizing” more than 2,100 manufacturer’s part numbers from four major manufacturers in some specifications and associated tables.

A press release said that each cable has been assigned a brand-neutral designation as well, making it possible for engineers to specify a detailed design without necessarily expressing a brand preference and limiting suppliers’ options. The 80 specifications, it said, include nonplenum rated and plenum rated cables for CCTV, CATV, SDI coax, RGBHV constructions, and a wide variety of multi-conductor and paired cables.

The release said that the book includes the following elements: a building specification section, electronic wire and cable, general cable specifications, and execution sections as well as a non-descript low-voltage systems’

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Special Applications or Integrated Systems project section.

The book by Stringer, product director for Tappan Wire & Cable, can be purchased at Amazon and Barnes & Noble ($20 for a paperback/$65 hardcover), and as an e-book for PCs at Google for $10.

Editable files are also available, contact the author.

Contact: Marc Stringer, marc.w.stringer@gmail.com or via LinkedIn.

DESIGNERS D ESIGNERS & M MANUFACTURERS ANUFACTURERS ISO9001 ISO 9001 OF OF P PAYOFF AYOFF & TTENSION ENSION C CONTROL ONTROL REGISTERED EQUIPMENT FOR WIRE & CABLE CABLE

ANSI/NEMA MW 1000-2013 is latest standard update for magnet wire U.S.-based National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has published ANSI/NEMA MW 1000-2013 for magnet wire, which presents general requirements, product specifications, and test procedures for the manufacture and packaging of magnet wire.

A press release said that the standard, which presents all existing NEMA standards for magnet wire, MW 10002013, covers round, rectangular and square-film insulated and/or fibrous-covered copper and aluminum magnet wire. MW 1000-2013, it said, includes definitions, type designations, dimensions, constructions, performance and test methods for magnet wire generally used in the winding of coils for electrical apparatus.

The release noted that the NEMA Magnet Wire Section Technical Committee continually develops and maintains standards to ensure that specifications and test procedures reflect evolving magnet wire end user requirements and state-of-the-art magnet wire manufacturing technologies.

A hard or electronic copy may be purchased for $128 at the NEMA website.

Contact: NEMA, www.nema.org.

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Please contact Antonio Ayala at 1953ayala@gmail.com.

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Contacts: Peter Carino, pcarino@ wireresources.com or at www. linked in.com/in/petercarino1, or Jack Cutler, jcutler@wireresources.com.

Wire Resources Inc, 522 E Putnam Ave, Greenwich, CT 06830, tel. (203) 622-3000 or (800) 394-WIRE. Visit our website at www.wireresources. com.

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

Fair prices/excellent lead times.

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WWW.URBANOASSOCIATES. COM. For New (Hakusan Heat Pressure Welders, Ferrous & NonFerrous; Marldon Rolling Ring Traverses) & Used Wire & Cable Equipment (buttwelders, coldwelders, color-o-meters and pointers). Tel: 727-

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MEDIA THE ROEBLING LEGACY. This 288-page indexed book by Clifford W. Zink presents a different perspective of the Roebling legacy. “But it’s all wire,”

Morgan-Koch Corporation Morgan-Koch will hire an outstanding sales engineer-sales manager. Job location is our Worcester, MA facility.

Essential Responsibilities • Market & sell ferrous wire processing equipment to customers in the entire USA & Canada • Make drafting / machine size designs, computer test results, to meet product specification • Manage & increase the volume for the sale of spare parts for the equipment we support • Sell upgrades for existing equipment • Provide value added improvements for our customers’ processes

Desired Skills & Experience Requirements • • • • •

Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering 3 + years successful capital equipment sales Good self-organizational and time management skills (self-motivated) 50% solo travel Ability to put good written descriptions of our customer’s needs to our factory’s personnel.

Desired Skills/Competencies • Excellent written and oral communication skills • Team player who will assume responsibilities Morgan-Koch www.morgan-koch.com is a Massachusetts Corporation wholly owned by the German Corporation; Ernst Koch the premier ferrous wire machinery innovator and manufacturer www.koch-ihmert.de . Please send a letter describing yourself with your resume to straussrl@morgan-koch.com.

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SIX SIGMA AND OTHER IMPROVEMENT TOOLS FOR THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE PROCESS CAPABILITY STUDY. Creating a universal language for problem solving, this 135-page indexed book (2011) is by industry expert Douglas B. Relyea, founder of Quality Principle Associates, a New Englandbased consulting firm specializing in the education and application of data analysis techniques to industrial problem solving.

The book delineates the process capability study, a powerful tool that, when understood and implemented, provides benefits to every department in a manufacturing organization. With easy to read, step-by-step flow diagrams on how to perform process capability studies and measurement process analyses, the book includes: the benefits of statistical process control over statistical product control; real-world industrial examples and case studies showing how to use the techniques; ways for management to determine if the investment in process capability studies is providing an appropriate return; methods to correct lack of stability and capability once either condition has been identified, such as the ANOVA technique and the simple three-factor designed experiment; and a flow chart that enables machine operators to execute a process capability study. The list price is $45, $40 for WAI members, plus shipping. To purchase, go to wirenet.org and click on The WAI Store.

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proclaimed a 1950s Roebling Company brochure about its product line, which included wire rope, copper magnet and electrical wire, screens and hardware cloth, aircord and aircraft strand, flat and braided wire, PC wire and strand, galvanized bridge wire, among others. To maximize quality, the Roeblings started drawing their own wire in the 1850s, rolling bars into rods in the 1870s, and making their own steel in the 1900s. Wire is the binding thread through 125 years of Roebling and American industrial history chronicled in The Roebling Legacy. The price is $75, $50 for WAI members, plus shipping. To purchase, go to wirenet.org and click on The WAI Store.

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It’s time to let the Joneses keep up with you.

Exhibit sales for WAI’s next wire & cable adventure begin September 26th.

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for a head start, find the Wire Expo 2014 exhihibit floor map and points meeting details at www.wirenet.org.

Indiana Convention Center Indianapolis, Indiana || May 6-7, 2014

Artifact: 50 years ago race car driver Parnelli Jones won the Indy 500. During his victory lap in the pace car, the ceremonial hat he was wearing blew away in a gust of wind.

This year the hat was returned to him. Link to the video on WAI’s Facebook page or on www.indystar.com.

Co-located with AISTech 2014

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Wind up with an Amacoil/Uhing assembly for perfect pitch every time Pitch is adjustable (10:1) without requiring gear changes or adjusting motor speed. A single Amacoil/Uhing assembly may be used for winding many different diameter materials. Automatic reversal of the traverse is mechanically controlled – without clutches, cams or gears. No electronics or programming needed.

FEATURES • Zero backlash.

• Automatically synchronizes pitch with take-up reel rotational speed.

• Traverse drives with up to 800 lbs. axial thrust.

• Smooth, unthreaded shaft won't clog or jam – no bellows assembly needed.

• One inexpensive, unidirectional motor drives both the traverse and take-up reel.

• Free movement lever – no need to "jog" system on and off to position linear drive.

• Options and accessories for every winding situation.

• Light, medium and heavy-duty systems.

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