EoW May 2009

english corporate news

Harness contract Leoni has won a large contract with engine manufacturer Cummins. For five years, Leoni will equip a variety of diesel engines with wiring harnesses. Cummins is among global power leaders in the design, manufacture, sales and service of diesel engines and related technology around the world, and Leoni has been supplying the company, headquartered in Columbus, USA, with several types of wiring systems for over ten years. Recently, both companies signed a new sourcing agreement. According to this, Leoni will supply wiring harnesses globally for several Cummins product series until 2012. and Cummins has existed since 1997, when Leoni purchased the Cummins Electronics Division harness business. Ever since, there has been a strong technical and engineering relationship. Cooperation between Leoni

MPI range sold worldwide

The Wire & Cable Manufacturers’ Alliance (WCMA) announced Don Shaw, director of sales and marketing for Daikin America, as the recipient of a 2009 Distinguished Career award. The annual awards dinner and investiture ceremony was held on 18 th April 2009 in Windsor, Connecticut. Don began his career in field sales with Ausimont USA, and went on to become the national sales manager for the PTFE, melt fluoropolymer and tecnoflon fluoroelastomer businesses. Don left Ausimont in 1993 to work for Daikin America in field sales, and in less than three years had helped the company’s US sales grow from $80 million to $300 million. In 1995 he was promoted to wire and cable sales manager and eventually to director of sales and marketing for the polymer and fluoroelastomer businesses run by Daikin in the US. Daikin America – USA Website : www.daikin-america.com Distinguished career rewarded

MPI was established in 1979 to manufacture high quality wire and cable machines, and has completed thirty years of continuous development and service to the wire, power and telecom cable industries. The company is proud to have developed into a leading manufacturer of machines and has successfully commissioned equipment at cable factories in India, the Middle East and Europe. The manufacturing range includes wire-drawing machines; rigid and planetary stranders; wire, strip and tape armouring machines; drum twisters; laying up and rewinding machines, and cable sheathing lines. MPI has recently received a bulk order from Middle East cable companies for the supply of a variety of cable manufacturing machines. MPI Machines Ltd – India Fax : +91 751 2366974 Website : www.mpigwl.com

Leoni AG – Germany Fax : +49 911 2023 231 Email : info@leoni.com Website : www.leoni.com

Lamnea Bruk AB 610 10 Ljusfallshammar Sweden

Ph +46 122 23200 Fax +46 122 232 99 info@lamnea.se www.lamnea.se

Lämneå Bruk, your reliable supplier of semi- and fully automatic Precision layer winders for Co2, Flux Cored, Sub-ARC and stainless

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EuroWire – May 2009