EoW May 2008

english corporate news

Spooling line for New Zealand

PS Costruzioni Meccaniche Srl has recently installed a fully automatic spooling line at General Cables Company, New Zealand. The line can work both in tandem with the extruder and off line, as an independent unit, together with two Portal Pay Off systems, which avoid stopping the line during the reel change. When working in tandem with the extruder, the machine can reach a linear speed of 300 metres per minute. Through its post-sales customer assistance centres in Australia, located in Sydney and Melbourne, PS Costruzioni Meccaniche has become a steady presence in the Australian and New Zealand markets, and ten automatic spooling lines have already been sold and installed in the area. Two assistance centres can supply customers with spare parts and can also provide specialised technicians, who follow all the start-up operations at the customer’s premises. PS Costruzioni Meccaniche Srl – Italy Fax : +39 03968 98769 Email : ps@pscostruzioni.com Website : www.pscostruzioni.com

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“the international meeting point for specialists“ – wire 2008 show report

France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, India, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain. Visitor surveys indicate that most wire visitors were interested in machines and systems for wire production and processing, materials, speciality wire and cables, testing technology, measuring and control technology as well as process engineering tools. The visitors were mainly from the industry (80%), retail (8%) and the trades sector (4%). New areas premiered at wire, environmental technology and energy efficiency and logistics were a success, assessed as important by 10% of visitors. As we go to press the dates for wire and Tube 2010 have yet to be confirmed, pending the further results of exhibitor and visitor surveys. Messe Düsseldorf GmbH – Germany Fax : +49 211 4560 87 541 Email : hartmannp@messe-duesseldorf.de Website : www.wire.de

Spirits were high at the end of wire 2008, after five days of lively activity across all halls. “Every two years, Düsseldorf becomes the international meeting point for specialists from the wire, cable and tube industry. Here, they can meet face to face and fill their order books,“ commented Werner M Dornscheidt, chairman of the management board of Messe Düsseldorf. Around 2,200 exhibitors at wire (1,129 companies) and Tube (1,028 companies) occupied a display area of over 95,000 square metres, receiving 73,600 trade visitors from more than 90 countries. Joachim Schäfer, managing director of Messe Düsseldorf, is delighted with the feedback he has received, “The exhibiting companies and visiting trade fair guests were truly enthusiastic with the results of the fair. Many large and medium-sized businesses have told me of new, promising business contacts.“ Of the two shows, wire attracted the most visitors from France, India, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Italy, the USA, Poland, Brazil and Belgium. Tube visitors travelled from Italy,

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EuroWire – May 2008