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It gave me great pleasure to present the prizes for
the best technical papers given at the CabWire World
Conference in Düsseldorf last November. From the
wide range of papers, the prize for the ferrous subjects
was awarded to Dr Veroniker Geinitz and Mr Ruediger
Lux from the Ilmenau Technical University for their
paper on “The Manufacture of Highly Loaded Springs
Through the Optimisation of Tempering”.
Dr.Ing. Horst Scheid of Siebe Engineering GmbH
was awarded the non-ferrous prize for his paper on a
device for the interpretation of colours in multi-core
cables which are not always recognised by the human
eye.
The IWMA has an Educational Trust Fund for the
training and further education of up to $24,000 for
those employed in the wire industry. I was pleased to
announce that Professor Emmanuel De Moor of the
Colorado School of Mines was nearing the end of the
two-year award and had presented a paper on his
research of Boron Alloying of High Carbon Wire at the
CabWire Conference.
This year a new award has been granted to Ben
Turner of Wintwire Ltd to fund his study for an
MBA.
From my conversations with many exhibitors, in spite
of the current global economic climate, the quality of
visitors attending the exhibition was high.
Whitelegg Machines Ltd, UK, added: “The visitors came
in batches – sometimes it was very quiet and other times
there were too many at once but in general we received
a good number of enquiries for all branches of our
production programme.”
Spring Tooling Ltd, also from the UK commented:
“A satisfactory exhibition. This year at the exhibition,
the manufacturers of spring machines advised us of
their increasing demand for tooling due to their greatly
growing order books. We also opened several new
accounts for tooling.”
Steve Mepsted, managing director of PWM, said: “This
year’s show proved extremely successful for us. Visitor
traffic was excellent and visitor quality impressive.
We received numerous solid sales leads, particularly
from Middle East manufacturers. Our large rod welders
generated a lot of interest: The sale of the P1000 rod
welder exhibited on the stand is under negotiation with
a manufacturer in the automotive sector, and the EP500
rod welder was sold to a Czech company.
“We also sold the portable HP100 air/hydraulic cold
welder direct from the stand. The mood amongst existing
and potential customers appeared positive and buoyant
throughout, and the turnout certainly exceeded our
expectations.”
UK-based Locton Ltd said: “We had an excellent
exhibition with a number of very important large
companies placing their first orders for wire pull-in dogs.
Many existing clients also visited our stand.”
S S Dr Veroniker Geinitz and Mr Ruediger Lux from the Ilmenau Technical
University with their award for their paper on “The Manufacture of Highly
Loaded Springs Through the Optimisation of Tempering”
S S Dr -Ing. Horst Scheid of Siebe Engineering GmbH receiving the non-ferrous
award from Colin Dawson, right
S S Colin Dawson, IWMA president; Steve Rika, chairman; Joachim Schaefer and
Friedrich Kehrer, both of Messe Düsseldorf, are pictured with winners of the
IWMA Educational Trust John C Hogg Travel award, on the association’s stand
at wire 2012