WCA July 2017

Quality throughout industry If the importance of the American market needed highlighting, it was left to this year’s Interwire to drive the message home to both exhibitors and visitors alike. “This was one of the best Interwires on record,” exclaimed one exhibitor; “Interwire 2017 was a solid show and provided us with good leads,” hailed another. The Wire Association International – organisers of the three-day exhibition and annual convention – were also enthused by attendance figures at its workshops, with a number being standing room only. WAI president David Hawker was rightly enthusiastic about the event, staged at Atlanta, Georgia’s World Congress Center. “We had a sold-out exhibit floor, tremendous involvement of corpo- rate sponsors, and incredible level of volunteer participation, which all point to the health and commitment of WAI’s support network,” said Mr Hawker. “The level and stature of the attendees confirm that Interwire is a core event in our industry.” Our review starts on page 52. Quality also seems to be a keyword for a number of companies in this issue, with Leoni being singled out as the Germany-headquartered business celebrates its 100 th anniversary.

The company – with sales last year of some €4.4 billion – launched a successful reorgani- sation of its wiring systems divisions in China, Mexico and India last year, and acquired a 51 per cent stake in the Chinese wiring systems manufacturer Wuhan Hengtong Automotive. For full details, turn to page 20. David Bell Editor

Photo credit: bigstockphoto.com, “Bangkok City downtown, Thailand”, Photographer: Kittikorn14

When and where 2017 19–21 September: wire Southeast Asia – 2017 3-5 October: wire South America –

2017 8–11 October: IWCS Technical Symposium – conference and exhibition – Orlando, Florida, USA Organisers : IWCS Tel : +1 717 993 9500 Email : phudak@iwcs.org Website : www.iwcs.org

2017 7 November: CabWire 2017 – conference – Düsseldorf, Germany Organisers : IWMA

trade exhibition – São Paulo, Brazil Organisers :

trade exhibition – Bangkok, Thailand Organisers : Messe Düsseldorf Asia Pte Ltd Fax : +65 6337 4633 Email : wire@mda.com.sg Website : www. wire-southeastasia.com

Messe Düsseldorf GmbH Fax : +49 211 4560 668 Email : info@ wire-south-america.com Website : www. wire-south-america.com

Fax : +44 121 781 7404 Email : info@iwma.org Website : www.iwma.org

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