WCA November 2008

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Wire machinery supplied into Jiangsu Deyang Jiechuang Wire & Cable Machinery Company (JCDOFAMA), specialists in non-ferrous metal wire production lines, recently announced that an aluminium breakdown machine with continuous annealer, for com- pound conductive wire, supplied to Jiangsu East Far Cable Company has finished its test run and is in use. The machine can produce round aluminium wire and two types of aluminium profile wire. In May of this year, JCDOFAMA sold another type of profile wire drawing machine to Jiangsu Zhongtian Technology Company; this is already in use and a second machine ordered. This model has redesigned transmission and lubricant systems, adopting a multi-motor transmission. It is mainly used for producing aluminium profile wires and round wires. This model can also be used for manufacturing compound conductive wire and compressed conductive wire. It is compact, highly automated and designed for easy operation. Deyang Jiechuang Wire & Cable Machinery Co Ltd – China Fax : +86 838 2800877 Email : jcdofama@163.com Madem Group has announced several developments for the next six months. In Brazil, Madem SA has completed a new plywood plant representing a US$8,000,000 investment. The plant, located in southern Brazil will produce 70 containers per month of plywood reels flanges. All machinery was custom developed for Madem and the special plywood will be in the market by October 2008. Madem SA has three plants in Brazil, 800 employees, 30,000 acres of renewable pine forests, two sawmills and one recycling operation. In the United States, Madem Reels USA Inc in Chattanooga is launching a second shift as well as opening its first warehouse and recycling centre in West Virginia. Another ten warehouses will be opened by 2010.

WAI’s support from US Department of Commerce The Wire Association International (WAI), Inc has announced that Interwire has been selected to participate in the US Department of Commerce (DOC) 2009 International Buyer Program (IBP). Offered through the International Trade Administration, the US Commercial Service IBP programme offers export counselling to exhibitors as well as assistance to international buyers to help meet their purchasing and representation objectives. The programme is committed to promoting exports by attracting international buyers to leading US trade events and helping them connect with US exhibitors before, during and after the show. Interwire, the largest wire and cable industry event in the Americas, ranks among Tradeshow Week’s top 200 largest tradeshows in the US; it runs from 25 th to 30 th April 2009, at the I-X Center in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Sikora’s 500 th celebration Sikora AG has produced the 500 th X-Ray 8000 in Bremen. The jubilee measuring system of the X-Ray 8000 NXT series, for permanent quality control in CV-lines, was delivered to a customer in Russia at the end of August. On the occasion of the jubilee, all Sikora employees and families met for an open-air summer party at the Sikora premises in Bremen on 11 th July, where activities with musical and culinary accompaniment and attractions such as a bouncy castle and a Rodeo simulator contributed to the successful event. “We are not only celebrating the 500 th X-Ray 8000, but the extremely positive business development of our company at mid-year 2008. I am proud that our measuring device has proved reliable in production lines for high voltage cables for 15 years,” said Harry Prunk, chairman of Sikora AG. Sikora AG – Germany Email : sales@sikora.net Fax : +49 421 48900 90 Website : www.sikora.net

Wire Association International – USA Fax : +1 203 453 8384 Website : www.wirenet.org

Global expansion plans for Madem

Madem is ISO 9000 and ISO 14.000 compliant in Brazil and will begin ISO implementation in Spain and USA in January 2009. “Madem has invested US$45,000,000 in the last five years in new plants, software, quality systems, machinery and warehouses. “With our new plants in Bahrain and Romania, Madem will be processing 30,000m 3 of lumber per month (750 trucks of lumber/month) and sell our products to over 150 customers in more than 40 countries,” said Leandro Mazzoccato, Madem group sales director.

Madem already services customers from the Chattanooga plant. In the Middle East, Madem Gulf WLL, located in Kingdom of Bahrain, has nearly completed a new plant where production is expected to begin by January 2009. Madem is anticipating another new plant project for Middle East region in 2010. In Spain, Euromadem Spain SL launched a second shift in September 2008 at its Calaf, Barcelona plant. Already selling in Spain and Portugal, Euromadem is set to penetrate markets in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. In Eastern Europe, Madem Romania SRL is anticipating the launch of a production operation projected to start up in December 2008.

Madem Reels – Brazil Fax : +55 54 3462 5900

Email : madem@madem.com.br Website : www.mademreels.com

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