EuroWire January 2015

Happy new year! Barcelona, Spain, was the setting for the 50 th anniversary celebrations of die manufacturer Esteves. The company invited a number of guests to a night of football and food at the Camp Nou, and enjoyed the spectacle as Barcelona beat Seville 5-1 with Messi netting a hat-trick to break the Spanish Primera League scoring record. You can read the full story on page 10. American reel manufacturer Reelex is continuing its anti-counterfeit measures to protect its products and licensees. Full details can be found on page 12. It’s full steam ahead for Prysmian after being awarded a €26m contract to supply signalling cables to the Swiss Federal Railways company. Head to page 17 to read the story. In our technology section, Zumbach has launched a new generation of spark testers, ensuring that quality standards are maintained during the extruding or rewinding process. Full details of this can be found on page 30. And you can also catch up with news of a new liquid-based quench technology from US company Thermcraft that can replace the existing hazardous technologies of molten lead, molten salts and sand-based uidised beds. Full details are on page 33. Also keep an eye out for the March issue of EuroWire, which will feature details of the TEL fair in Istanbul, Turkey; and Interwire, the largest wire and cable trade exhibition in the USA, which is held every two years. Don’t forget to send in your editorial by 19 th January, and our advertising deadline closes on 3 rd February. Half a century milestone for Esteves

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