EoW January 2013

A new year and a new calendar of events for companies in the wire and cable industry. It may well only be the rst month of 2013 but minds are already moving to what promises to be a busy year ahead in the exhibition schedule. First up in April is Interwire, the largest of the US exhibitions, being staged in Atlanta, Georgia; then attention turns to Russia with wire Russia being staged in Moscow in June. It’s then further East as Thailand capital Bangkok stages wire SE Asia in September, rapidly followed by wire South America in São Paulo, Brazil, in October. Rest assured that we will be keeping you up-to-date with any developments for these exhibitions. In this issue of EuroWire we focus on the opening of Bridon’s new Neptune Quay plant, opened by UK Business Minister Michael Fallon, and capable of building the largest wire ropes in the world. You can nd this story on page 9. In technological advances, Germany’s Uhing provides the lead story with the launch of the next generation of ange detecting systems for rolling ring drives. See page 26. The nest equipment in the safest of operator’s hands is called into action with our feature on testing and measuring for wire, cable and bre optics on page 36. And we explore countries from both Austria and Switzerland in our ‘Focus On’ feature, which this month starts on page 40. For those of you who also make the best use of social networking sites, you can now also join up to the Wire and Cable News group on LinkedIn. New year and a hectic year ahead for us all

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