WCN Spring 2009

Despite global economic situation, Interwire 2009 looks solid Interwireisthelargestandlongest-running wire and cable trade show in the Americas. Interwire 2009 will take place from April 25 th to 30 th at the I-X Center, Cleveland, Ohio, providing four of the industry’s most anticipated and concentrated business days of the year highlighted by exhibits, technical presentations and networking events. Introducedin1981,Interwireisrecognised by Tradeshow Week magazine as one of the 200 largest trade shows in the US, affording all participants a common meeting place and focus for international business. The collective interaction and commerce at each event attracts visitors and exhibitors, buyers, sellers, importers and exporters, speakers and students who focus their attention on the newest products, technology, and trends in the wire- and cable-making industry. Plant managers, purchasing, operations and quality assurance personnel, researchers, engineers, executive level decision makers and business owners comprise the thousands of repeat participants who come from more than 50 countries to the biennial Interwire. This year’s event includes more than 500 exhibiting companies representing more than 150 product types. Exhibiting companies typically fall into several groups: suppliers to the wire making industry (such as wiredrawing machinery, insulation, raw materials); manufacturers of wire; or processors of the wire end product (for example wire bending, forming for baskets, hooks, fasteners). at Interwire are steel wire and insulated wire and cable. Steel wire products include, but are not limited to, concrete reinforcement wire, bridge wire, welding wire, fasteners, nails, fencing, and tyre cord. Insulated wire and cable products include, but are not limited to, telecommunications, building wire, magnet wire, power wire, and electronic wire. The fastener segment of the industry will be duly represented, with the co-location of the International Fastener Exhibition. Interwire 2009 will feature more than 30 technical paper presentations. A pair of multiple-paper theme sessions is planned; one will focus on dies, the other on coolants and filtration. Primary industries represented

Additional topics of interest include fractures, wire rope, spring wire, bead wire, plastic deformation, steel tyre cord, tandem drawing, surface oxides, copper alloys, caster water, ink adhesion, rod porosity, straightening, resistance heating, ceramics and shape-memory wire. The exhibition hours are: Monday, April 27 th 12:30 pm – 5:00 pm Tuesday, April 28 th 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Wednesday, April 29 th 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Thursday, April 30 th 10:00 am – 3:00 pm IWMA has long been a supporter of the Interwire exhibition and will have a fully equipped information booth providing important services for IWMA member organisations, exhibiting or visiting, at stand 2422. For the convention schedule, programme updates, and registration information, please visit: www.wirenet. org/events/interwire/index.htm Bangkok technical conference on eve of wire Southeast Asia 2009 The IWMA is organising a suppor- ting one-day conference on Monday, 12 th October 2009, the eve of the wire Southeast Asia exhibition. ‘Latest Wire Technology’ will take place in the well– appointed conference room on the first floor of the Bangkok International Exhibition Centre (BITEC), the venue for the wire exhibition. The conference is sponsored by Messe Düsseldorf Asia, organisers of wire Southeast Asia 2009. A number of exhibiting companies will take up the opportunity to present their latest developments including the influential Institute of Spring Technology (IST). Mark Hayes from the IST is a well known and award winning speaker at wire conferences and will present a paper titled ‘Quality requirements for spring wire.’ The paper will set the scene for a Spring Manufacturing Technology training course, to be run by Mark Hayes, on 13 th October in the same venue. The conference is not confined to springmanufacture;wireorganisations interested in offering papers for Bangkok are invited to contact the IWMA for more details. The conference is sure to be seen as an attractive additional reason for potential visitors to come to wire Southeast Asia 2009.

Celebrating a year in Chattanooga

Madem Reels USA Inc, located in Chattanooga, TN has successfully completed one year since their first machines arrived in the US for commissioning. Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield, Hamilton County MayorClaudeRamsey,otherauthorities and business partners commemorated one year of Madem activities with a ribbon cutting ceremony (see photo below).

Madem’s plant in Chattanooga has 70 employees in the 145,000ft 2 facility with second shift production. In addition to the Chattanooga production, assembly and recycling operation Madem Reels has nine other warehouses in the USA: Chattanooga, TN – plant, service centre & recycling Culloden, WV – service centre & recycling West Chester, OH – service centre & recycling Cinnaminson, NJ – service centre Houston, TX – service centre & recycling Dallas, TX – service centre & recycling Taylorsville, NC – service centre Atlanta, GA – recycling Madem Reels USA is a subsidiary company of Madem SA Brazil, a leading nailed wooden reels producer. The company has forests, sawmills and manufacturing plants in Brazil, USA, Spain, Bahrain, and Romania withmore than 1,000 employees and produces more than 600 containers of knock Sikeston, MO – service centre Hawesville, KY – service centre

down reels per month. Madem Reels – Brazil Fax : +55 54 3462 5900

Email : madem@madem.com.br Website : www.mademreels.com

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WIRE & CABLE NEWS • Issue N° 40 • Spring 2009 • www.iwma.org