EoW July 2014

News Corporate

Wire hire for Metro Richard Frank has been appointed sales consultant for Metro Wire and Cable, Iowa. He joins Metro after serving in several capacities within the wire and cable and electrical distribution industry, from warehouse and supply chain, to sales and operations. Mr Frank will be charged with working with customers in and around Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, as well as specialising in providing results to electrical contractors, fire and security companies, utilities, OEMs and other customer bases. He has a broad knowledge of electrical cable and accessories. Ryan Wesley, sales leader (Iowa City), said: “We are very excited to have Richard join our team. Richard brings experience in the industry and a strong foundation in consultative selling to our branch. We are growing, and we are excited Richard is part of this growth.” MetroWire and Cable – USA Website : www.metrowire.net Big demand for cables and wires in Europe

Niehoff quality standards, relieves the main factory and helps the Niehoff group to respond flexibly to market developments. In its news section the Niehoff Magazine reports about the celebration farewell of Heinz Rockenhäuser, who retired at the end of October 2013 after 20 years’ service as managing director. Further topics regard Niehoff’s new machining centre for large workpieces in the Schwabach factory and the visit of 70 participants of the Intercable Association General Assembly in the Czech capital Prague last November at Niehoff’s Czech subsidiary. Niehoff customers and friends twice a year with a wide range of ideas on how to improve the competitiveness of their businesses. The customer newspaper can be obtained from Niehoff headquarters in Germany or any Niehoff subsidiary and service office all over the world. It is also available at the website www.niehoff.de Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH & Co KG – Germany Website : www.niehoff.de The magazine provides

The most recent issue of Niehoff Magazine, the customer newspaper of the wire and cable machinery manufacturer Maschinenfabrik Niehoff, is now available. It contains articles in English and German with summaries in Chinese and Russian. The main article, ‘Energy and the future. Big demand for cables and wires in Europe’, deals with the importance of automotive technology for the wire and cable industry and the electricity supply in Europe. In an interview, Philipp Radbourne from the business consultancy and market research institute Integer Research explains details about the evaluation of business information and the derivation of market trends, while in the company portrait, the Er-Bakır company is presented. In a series of articles about the Niehoff group, Maschinenfabrik Niehoff (CZ), sro is introduced. The Czech Niehoff subsidiary manufactures individual components and mechanical assemblies which are completed and tested in the main factory in Schwabach, Germany. The factory, with more than 80 employees, operates according to the

And the winner is… Bill Lawrence, RCDD, NTS, WD, IT project manager principal at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is the winner of the Communications Cable and Connectivity Association’s CableCheck™ game and Kindle prize. Designed to be both fun and educational about spotting counterfeit cable, CCCA’S newest CableCheck game drew hundreds of participants from the structured cabling industry, in person during the BICSI Winter Conference in Orlando and online through newsletters and the CCCA website. Communications Cable and Connectivity Association – USA Website : www.cccassoc.org

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