EoW March 2008

english corporate news

InterWire Group opens a new facility in Mexico

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 54,000ft 2 facility and Michigan with an 80,000ft 2 facility servicing the Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan markets. The addition of these new locations to the existing distribution centres now

InterWire’s new facility in Mexico

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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

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Odonnell-Aeropuerto,

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Marques, Queretaro, CP 76250 Mexico.

InterWire Group – USA Fax : +1 914 273 6848

Email : info@interwiregroup.com Website : www.interwiregroup.com

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. Czech upgrade for Tenova 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. The order is relevant to the supply of a complete silicon steel line.

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 : tenova@tenovagroup.com Website : www.tenovagroup.com Website for Chinese market SPI Lasers, a designer and manufacturer of fibre lasers, has launched a new website – www.spilasers-china.cn – 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 : info@spilasers.com

Website : www.spilasers.com

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