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More than 4,080 wire and cable industry
professionals from 53 countries were out
in force at Interwire 2015 at the World
Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Organisers the Wire Association
International (WAI) reported a successful
result from its biennial Interwire trade
show, its 85th Annual Convention, and
the concurrent assembly of its 2nd Global
Continuous Casting Forum (GCCF), at the
end of April.
“Interwire is an excellent resource for
North America, with strong value for
many sectors of our industry. As a cable
manufacturer, it is our best chance to
spend time with our supplier partners and
network with industry leaders,” said WAI
president William Reichert.
Mike Abrashoff, former Naval
Commander of the USS Benfold, and
author of the New York Times bestseller
“It’s Your Ship”, shared lessons from
“The Leadership Roadmap” in his
keynote address describing how his
system of management techniques
helped him overcome the challenge of
low morale and high turnover. Many
exhibitors were excited by the strong
turnout of key decision makers in the
sold-out exhibit hall, which featured
operating machinery, supplies and
ancillary equipment from more than 400
exhibiting companies, 54 of which were
new to Interwire 2015.
Several new conference segments gave
visitors the chance to learn innovative
wire and cable manufacturing methods
and investigate new technology.
Applications, dust control, staffing, and
capital expenditure topics were featured.
The Manufacturing Management
workshop provided operations managers
with practical leadership tools. Visitors
chose from conference activities
including 20 technical presentations, a
Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing
workshop, three production solutions
demonstrations, and a plant tour of the
Southwire SCR mill.
The concurrent Global Continuous
Casting Forum, organised by Gary Spence,
of Encore Wire, and Richard Baker, of
General Cable Co, drew 200 international
casting practitioners from both the
copper and aluminium segments of
the industry. Separate and combined
programme tracks were featured with
time within the schedule for participants
to see the Interwire exhibits.
Members of WAI’s board of directors also
welcomed the largest crowd in recent
Interwire history to the popular opening
reception, which was held at Atlanta’s
new College Football Hall of Fame.
Wire Association International – USA
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Surge of activity at successful Interwire
▲ ▲ And the doors are open…Interwire 2015 gets underway
▲ ▲ The SW6-14 on show at Interwire
Windak, together with Axjo America,
had a combined booth at Interwire,
offering new packaging solutions and
new modern spool designs.
The stand proved very popular during
the show, with more than 100 visitors
from 40 countries visiting.
Windak displayed SW6-14, a dual head
spooler developed for fully automatic
packaging of cable and wire products
onto spools between 165mm (6.5") and
360mm (14") in overall diameter.
Spools are automatically loaded and
unloaded into/from the spooling head.
Outer ends are secured with stretch
wrap. All operational parameters and
mechanical settings are controlled in
order to reduce time between product
and spool changeovers. The output
of the new spooler is three spools per
minute.
The company said that Interwire
showed it that trade shows are very
important for business development,
industry knowledge and co-operation,
and that it is expecting a lot of new
orders related to the show.
Windak Group – Estonia
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Visitors frommore than 40 countries