EoW September 2008

The International Magazine for the Wire and Cable Industries

The world under one roof Welcome to the September issue of EuroWire, compiled during the heat of the summer but with an eye to the autumn. Well, when I say heat I mean the occasional glint of sunshine through rain clouds; much of the UK has toiled under a damp, grey start to the holiday season. However, let’s look beyond the domestic and raise our eyes to the East. This year, China is playing host to two notable events. By the time this magazine lands in readers’ hands the first event will be over, but many of our readers will be eagerly anticipating the second. The two events are of quite different orders of magnitude. The first, the Olympic Games, is aworld sporting event that brings together sportsmen and women in a spirit of friendly competition, bound by a common passion and mutual focus. The second, wire China 2008, is a rather smaller affair that probably won’t make it to either the front or back pages of any national newspaper, but it’s an important event to readers of this journal and within the wire and cable sector across the world. The Olympic Games at one extreme, wire China at the other, but both bringing nations together under one roof in a spirit of competition, cooperation and discovery. This issue includes a list of confirmed exhibitors. It’s not intended to replace the wire China catalogue, but we thought that visitors and non-visitors would be interested to see who will be there. It’s an interesting mix, with exhibitors from Taiwan to Turkey, India to Italy, Ukraine to the USA. wire China will represent a world industry willing to talk and work together regardless of cultural, religious and political differences. Maybe it doesn’t have the glamour of the Olympics but it is cooperation, and through cooperation comes understanding on both sides. Perhaps where sport and industry lead, hearts andminds can follow.

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