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Spring 2015
A Karpat Ltd.............................................................p3
Advaris Informationssysteme GmbH......................p7
AESA Cortaillod.......................................................p6
Ajex & Turner Wire Dies Co....................................p5
Associated Engineers and Industrials Ltd...............p5
Assomac Machines Ltd ........................................p13
Braude Ltd.............................................................p18
Ceeco Bartell...........................................................p1
Cimteq Ltd.............................................................p21
CSM Metalurji Malat Sanayi Ve Muhendislik Ltd.....p5
Force Measuring Systems AG..............................p16
Gauder Group........................................................p11
GEO-Reinigungstechnik GmbH............................p19
GER SA.................................................................p10
Hiltex Technische Weefsels BV.............................p13
Inductotherm......................................................... p23
InnoVites BV..........................................................p23
ITSL.......................................................................p11
Maillefer SA............................................................p19
Marldon Ltd............................................................p18
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH............................p12
Metalube Ltd..........................................................p23
NDC Technologies.................................................p17
Nota Precision Engineering Company..................p21
Ormiston Wire Ltd....................................................p1
Plasmait GmbH.......................................................p9
Pourtier and Setic of America................................p11
Pressure Welding Machines Ltd...........................p11
PS Costruzioni Meccaniche Srl.............................p20
QED Wire Lines Inc ................................................p9
Rolf Schlicht GmbH...............................................p10
Shanghai Kingway Technology Group Limited.....p27
Shanghai Wangxun New Material Co Ltd.............p21
Sket Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH........................p20
Sneham International..............................................p7
Techna International Ltd........................................p22
Vinston US Corp ...................................................p17
Wintwire Ltd...........................................................p13
Wolco Sp zoo........................................................p12
Zumbach Electronic AG...........................................p3
CONTENTS
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Effects of niobium
additions to a
vanadium microalloyed
high carbon wire steel
By Emmanuel De Moor
and Stephanie L Miller, Advanced Steel
Processing and Products Research
Center, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Technical Article. ... 24
The International Wire & Machinery
Association (IWMA) – the world’s
largest corporate trade association
for the wire and cable industry – has
moved into new offices.
The association has taken up
residence at an office complex ideally
situated near Birmingham International
Airport, in the UK.
The move comes as part of the
association’s long-term expansion
plans to develop its membership and
grow internationally, and was passed
at an executive board meeting in
September 2014.
The IWMA was previously based
in the same building as Intras Ltd,
publishers of EuroWire, Wire & Cable
ASIA and wiredInUSA, in Leamington
Spa, Warwickshire, UK, and made the
move on 1st December last year.
Steven Rika, outgoing chairman of
the association, said: “This is both an
exciting and challenging time for the
IWMA, but one which we are very
much looking forward to. It is an ideal
opportunity for us to grow and we are
relishing the challenge.
“I would like to take this opportunity
of thanking Intras for the help and
assistance we have had over four
decades in building the IWMA into
what it is today.
“We have, and continue to maintain,
an excellent relationship with
everyone at Intras and I expect to see
us working closely together for the
foreseeable future.”
Caroline Sullens, managing director
of Intras, added: “Over the last two
years the IWMA has developed
exponentially under the direction of
the current executive committee and
new management team.
“Following on from a corporate
re-branding and new website in 2013 I
am delighted to see the IWMA take up
residence in its own premises which
has come about at precisely the right
time with the association in such good
hands.”
The new offices allow the IWMA
to offer its member companies a
meeting room should they need it, or
even to book the room as a meeting
point for members receiving guests.
Additional administrative duties are
also available.
Contact the IWMA on
or call +44 121 781 7367.
New offices for IWMA
Amanda takes over the helm
Amanda Shehab has taken over as
the new chairman of the IWMA, from
retiring chairman Mr Steven Rika.
Mrs Shehab, who started working
life as an engineering apprentice in
her father’s electrical engineering
company in Sheffield, UK, where she
learned how to rewind motors and
repair all kinds of industrial machinery.
Following her graduation from the
University of Bradford in 1991 with
an honours degree in electrical and
electronic engineering, she undertook
work placements with British
Aerospace and Ford Motor Company.
She has accumulated more than
24 years’ experience in the cable
manufacturing industry, following her
employment with BICC Cables as a
manufacturing systems engineer, and
later with General Cable and Pirelli.
Mrs Shehab has been a director
of Cimteq Ltd since 2007. The
Wrexham, Wales-based company
provides software products and
services to the cable manufacturing
industry that increase manufacturing
efficiency, improve quality, decrease
lead times and reduce costs.
A tutor in software engineering for
the Open University, she is also a
chartered engineer (CEng) and a
member of the IET.
S S Amanda Shehab, new chairman of the IWMA