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It's celebration time for more than one reason this month.
Obviously there are the 4
th
July celebrations which will be
staged all over the US, and we are also having our own little
celebration for wiredInUSA – it is now two years since we
started bringing you the news in the ezine that caters for the
US wire and cable industry.
Headline news in this issue is that a fault in an underground
cable was responsible for blowing manhole covers off,
shooting flames four to five feet in the air, power outages
and forcing evacuations from surrounding buildings in
Des Moines. Residents from the Kirkwood Hotel and Elliot
Apartments were allowed to return later in the day but were
without power throughout the afternoon. You can read the
full story on page 9.
It is also celebration time for Martin Tennie, manager of
research and development and technical support for
Creasorb, part of theEvonikCorporation. His technical paper
'Superabsorbent polymers as water-blocking components
in cables' was awarded best presentation to Subcommittee
A (cable construction and design) at the IEEE Power and
Energy Society's insulated conductors committee in the Fall
last year. It's all on page 26 for you to read.
Finally, please feel free to forward your copy of wiredInUSA to
a colleague or friend in the industry and help us to continue
to grow as we enter our third year.
David Bell
Editor
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