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Happy new year! Barcelona, Spain, was the
setting for the 50
th
anniversary celebrations of die
manufacturer Esteves.
The company invited a number of guests to a
night of football and food at the Camp Nou, and
enjoyed the spectacle as Barcelona beat Seville 5-1
with Messi netting a hat-trick to break the Spanish
Primera League scoring record. You can read the
full story on page 10.
American reel manufacturer Reelex is continuing
its anti-counterfeit measures to protect its
products and licensees. Full details can be found
on page 12.
It’s full steam ahead for Prysmian after being
awarded a €26m contract to supply signalling
cables to the Swiss Federal Railways company.
Head to page 17 to read the story.
In our technology section, Zumbach has launched
a new generation of spark testers, ensuring that
quality standards are maintained during the
extruding or rewinding process. Full details of this
can be found on page 30.
And you can also catch up with news of a new
liquid-based quench technology from US
company Thermcraft that can replace the existing
hazardous technologies of molten lead, molten
salts and sand-based uidised beds. Full details
are on page 33.
Also keep an eye out for the March issue of
EuroWire, which will feature details of the TEL fair
in Istanbul, Turkey; and Interwire, the largest wire
and cable trade exhibition in the USA, which is
held every two years.
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January, and our advertising deadline closes
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February.
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