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A new year and a new calendar of events for
companies in the wire and cable industry.
It may well only be the rst month of 2013 but
minds are already moving to what promises to be
a busy year ahead in the exhibition schedule.
First up in April is Interwire, the largest of the US
exhibitions, being staged in Atlanta, Georgia; then
attention turns to Russia with wire Russia being
staged in Moscow in June.
It’s then further East as Thailand capital Bangkok
stages wire SE Asia in September, rapidly followed
by wire South America in São Paulo, Brazil, in
October. Rest assured that we will be keeping
you up-to-date with any developments for these
exhibitions.
In this issue of
EuroWire
we focus on the opening
of Bridon’s new Neptune Quay plant, opened by
UK Business Minister Michael Fallon, and capable
of building the largest wire ropes in the world. You
can nd this story on page 9.
In technological advances, Germany’s Uhing
provides the lead story with the launch of the next
generation of ange detecting systems for rolling
ring drives. See page 26.
The nest equipment in the safest of operator’s
hands is called into action with our feature on
testing and measuring for wire, cable and bre
optics on page 36.
And we explore countries from both Austria and
Switzerland in our ‘Focus On’ feature, which this
month starts on page 40.
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