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The anniversary dinner attracted more than 270 members
and VIP guests, including the one surviving founder of the
WMA (the original name of the IWMA) Bill Merchant, who
was the guest of honour.
In his speech at the dinner IWMA chairman Stephen Wood
recognised and paid tribute to the representatives of
other important industry organisations, to the travel award
winners and to Messe Düsseldorf’s key personnel. Together
with Technical Sub-Committee (TSC) chairman Don Tucker
he presented the 2010 Harry W Bennett Non-Ferrous and
Ferrous speaker awards respectively to:
Sean Harrington, Ceeco Bartell Machinery Systems, •
Canada, for his paper at the Istanbul Cable & Wire
conference in November last year: “Reducing cost in
manufacturing compact conductors using roll form
stranding”
C Coffin, D King, H Depamelaere, W van Raemdonck •
(who collected the award on behalf of all the
co-authors), NV Bekaert sa, Belgium, for their paper
also at Istanbul last year: “Evaluation of high
temperature behaviour of Zn and ZnAl coatings on
core wires and strands for ACSR, ACSS and alike
overhead power conductors.”
In a moving tribute that produced a standing ovation
Stephen Wood made a special presentation to Don
Tucker for his 40 years involvement with the IWMA and his
many years of service on the Executive Board, as a past
chairman (1980-83) and as chairman of the TSC (since
1984). Don first became involved with the IWMA through
his then employer and IWMA founder member Warbrick
(Engineering Specialities) Ltd before setting up his own
business, TM Associates, in 1981.
Düsseldorf 2010 was a very eventful exhibition – in more
ways than one. The next edition, wire/Tube Düsseldorf
2012, will be held slightly earlier in the year from 26th to
30th March 2012. Within days of the end of this year’s
trade fair the IWMA was already receiving requests for
reservations of space in the association’s exhibitor group
area, clearly demonstrating the continuing importance
of this exhibition and that it will take much more than
volcanic dust to diminish wire Düsseldorf’s reputation as
the pre-eminent show for the wire industry.
wire/Tube Düsseldorf 2010
Don Tucker, recipient of a special award from the IWMA for 40 years of ▲ ▲
outstanding service to the association
Friedrich Kehrer (left) and Joachim Schafer (centre) of Messe Düsseldorf help ▲ ▲
IWMA chairman Stephen Wood cut the birthday cake they presented to the
association at its wire Düsseldorf anniversary dinner
IWMA Technical Sub-Committee chairman Don Tucker (left) with chairman ▲ ▲
Stephen Wood and Walter Niehoff Ferrous Trophy Award winner Walther van
Raemdonck (right), representing NV Bekaert at the anniversary dinner
Sean Harrington of Ceeco Bartell Machinery Systems, winner of the Walter ▲ ▲
Niehoff Non-Ferrous Trophy