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EuroWire – March 2008 16
english corporate news
InterWire Products (IWP) has opened a
new facility in Mexico to accommodate
significant business growth and the
demand for high quality ferrous and non-
ferrous wire.
The new 30,000 square foot facility will
service the wire markets in the Mexican
region.
“We are very excited to officially open the
doors to InterWire Mexico after so many
months of preparation,”said Frank Cardile Jr,
president of IWP.
“I’m confident that customers will find
our wire products of high quality, our
customer service excellent and our prices
reasonable.”
Pete Rosa has been appointed general
manager of IWP Mexico. Pete has
been with the company for more than
15 years and has played an important
role in managing the growth of IWP’s
Connecticut division.
This event follows IWP’s recent expansion
in North Carolina with a 54,000ft2 facility
and Michigan with an 80,000ft2 facility
servicing the Western Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Michigan markets.
The addition of these new locations to
the existing distribution centres now
provides IWP, the largest distributor of
fine quality wire, with a total of 500,000ft 2
of warehousing throughout the United
States and Mexico.
The new, state-of-the-art IWP facility
is located at Tepeyac 1420-D, Parque
Industrial Odonnell-Aeropuerto, El
Marques, Queretaro, CP 76250 Mexico.
InterWire Group – USA
Fax: +1 914 273 6848
Email:
Website:
InterWire’s new facility in Mexico ▲
InterWire Group opens a new
facility in Mexico
Tenova Strip Processing has been awarded an order for a new
silicon steel line for the Frydek-Mistek plant upgrade in the Czech
Republic.
Tenova has acquired an order from Valcovny Plechu, of the
Arcelor-Mittal group, for the first of six operations planned as
part of the project to upgrade the plant in Frydek-Mistek, 30km
from the city of Ostrava.
The order is relevant to the supply of a complete silicon steel line.
This line is a medium size installation for the application of a
magnesium-based thermal insulator on grain-oriented steel
plate with magnetic properties.
Tenova will provide all the mechanical, electrical and hydraulic
engineering, assembly supervision and plant start-up.
Installation will begin in March with start-up scheduled before
summer. The line will deliver an annual production of 73,000
tons of steel with magnetic properties, to be used for electrical
applications.
This order is in addition to the three plants currently under
construction – one in Novolipetsk, Russia, for NLMK and two in
Wuhan, China, for WISCO.
Tenova – Italy Fax : +39 02 469 3026
Email :
Website:
Website for Chinese market
SPI Lasers, a designer and manufacturer of fibre lasers, has
launched a new website – – for the
Chinese market.
The new website provides information on SPI Lasers’ entire range
in the Chinese language for the first time, as well as the capability
to book evaluations, download datasheets and application notes,
book samples into the applications laboratory, find contact details
of the relevant sales and customer support team and more.
SPI Lasers – UK Fax : +44 1489 779698
Email : Website:
Czech upgrade for Tenova