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Global players from all over world at wire and Tube 2024

the previous MBO in 2013. Working our way up in the business, we have seen first-hand what the employee ownership scheme has meant and the sense of commitment and pride it brings. “It was a natural decision to use our own MBO to include the new members of staff and get all 33 employees on the same scheme.” Mr Mander added, “There’s a real togetherness across the business, with employees also enjoying a renewed profit share, dividends and [health insurance] membership. Customers even comment about the family atmosphere when they visit.” Alloy Wire International manufactures round, flat and profile wire in more than 60 exotic alloys, such as Inconel, Monel, Hastelloy, Nimonic and Waspaloy. Founded in 1946 by John Stockdale in an old ambulance station, the firm now operates across 15 different market sectors and, despite global supply chain disruption, is still delivering material in four weeks from the order being placed. Alloy Wire International www.alloywire.com technologies and for spring making technology, including end products such as screws, grooves, eyelets and technical springs. Heavy, space-consuming mesh welding machines will be located in the central hall 17. Tube 2024 will occupy halls 1 to 7a. Tube accessories, tube manufacturing and the tube trade will be located in halls 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7a. A new feature is the special area for plastic tubes in hall 1. Forming and bending technology will be found in halls 5 and 6, and pipe processing technology in halls 6 and 7a. Machinery and equipment will be in hall 7a. Hall 7 is again reserved for Chinese pipe producers and pipe processors. Messe Düsseldorf GmbH www.messe-duesseldorf.de

As well as themes such as machinery and equipment for wire, cable and tube production, processing and end products, wire and Tube place a strong focus on topics that include stainless steel, hydrogen, plastic tubes, cutting and slitting technologies and e-mobility. In addition, fastening and joining technologies, spring manufacturing tech- nology and glass fibre technologies are gaining interest. The main industries involved are the chemical, oil and gas sectors, the automotive industry, the construction sector and the entire telecommunications sector. wire 2024 will occupy exhibition halls 9 to 17. Wire, cable, wire products and technologies are scheduled in halls 9 to 12 and hall 15; China’s expertise will be found in hall 14; and hall 16 will be a special venue for fastening and fixing

With more than 2,000 exhibitors from 65 countries, wire and Tube 2024 will once again assert their position as leading international trade fairs for the key industries of wire, cable, tubes, pipes and their supplier industries. Over 100,000 square metres of the Düsseldorf Fairgrounds will be occupied, as trade visitors from all over the world are expected. Exhibitors come mainly from the strong European production countries, the USA, Central and South America, Asia and Africa. “The Düsseldorf trade fair venue is the absolute front-place for the wire and tube sectors when it comes to presenting innovations from the relevant industries to a broad, international audience,” commented Daniel Ryfisch, director of wire/Tube and flow technologies at show organiser Messe Düsseldorf.

AWI extends employee ownership scheme All staff at a UK manufacturer of round, flat and profile wire are now shareholders, following a recently completed management buy-out (MBO). This has been a long-term commitment that first started in 1999, when Bill Graham fulfilled a 23-year vision of putting staff at the heart of the business by giving them share ownership and the same opportunity to benefit from its growth.

Alloy Wire International (AWI), which has two sites in the West Midlands and Yorkshire, was purchased by directors Tom Mander, Andrew Du Plessis and Adam Shaw in January, with the new management team immediately ex- tending the firm’s employee ownership scheme to include all 33 employees.

Managing director Tom Mander com- mented, “Bill’s decision at the start of the millennium gave us a distinctive edge to our business and this was something Mark Venables took on when he led

Two of AWI’s manufacturing staff, Stuart Hardwick (left) and Daniel Holyhead

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