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Surge of activity at successful Interwire

More than 4,080 wire and cable industry professionals from 53 countries were out in force at Interwire 2015 at the World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Association International (WAI) reported a successful result from its biennial Interwire trade show, its 85 th Annual Convention, and the concurrent assembly of its 2 nd Global Continuous Casting Forum (GCCF), at the end of April. “Interwire is an excellent resource for North America, with strong value for many sectors of our industry. As a cable manufacturer, it is our best chance to spend time with our supplier partners and network with industry leaders,” said WAI president William Reichert. Naval Commander of the USS Benfold , and author of the New York Times bestseller “It’s Your Ship”, shared lessons from “The Leadership Roadmap” in his Organisers the Wire Mike Abrashoff, former

▲ ▲ And the doors are open…Interwire 2015 gets underway

low morale and high turnover. Many exhibitors were excited by the strong turnout of key decision makers in the sold-out exhibit hall, which featured operating machinery, supplies and ancillary equipment from more than 400 exhibiting companies, 54 of which were new to Interwire 2015. Several new conference segments gave visitors the chance to learn innovative wire and cable manufacturing methods and investigate new technology. Applications, dust control, staffing, and capital expenditure topics were featured. Management workshop provided operations managers with practical leadership tools. Visitors chose from conference activities including 20 technical presentations, a Fundamentals of Wire Manufacturing workshop, three production solutions demonstrations, and a plant tour of the Southwire SCR mill. Continuous Casting Forum, organised by Gary Spence, of Encore Wire, and Richard Baker, of General Cable Co, drew 200 international casting practitioners from both the copper and aluminium segments of the industry. Separate and combined programme tracks were featured with time within the schedule for participants to see the Interwire exhibits. Members of WAI’s board of directors also welcomed the largest crowd in recent Interwire history to the popular opening reception, which was held at Atlanta’s new College Football Hall of Fame. The Manufacturing The concurrent Global

keynote address describing how his system of management techniques helped him overcome the challenge of

▲ ▲ The SW6-14 on show at Interwire

Visitors frommore than 40 countries

Outer ends are secured with stretch wrap. All operational parameters and mechanical settings are controlled in order to reduce time between product and spool changeovers. The output of the new spooler is three spools per minute. The company said that Interwire showed it that trade shows are very important for business development, industry knowledge and co-operation, and that it is expecting a lot of new orders related to the show. Windak Group – Estonia Website : www.windakgroup.com

Windak, together with Axjo America, had a combined booth at Interwire, offering new packaging solutions and new modern spool designs. The stand proved very popular during the show, with more than 100 visitors from 40 countries visiting. Windak displayed SW6-14, a dual head spooler developed for fully automatic packaging of cable and wire products onto spools between 165mm (6.5") and 360mm (14") in overall diameter. Spools are automatically loaded and unloaded into/from the spooling head.

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