WCA July 2010

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Kamatics acquisition is confirmed

Keir Manufacturing Inc has completed the acquisition of the wire products business unit of Kamatics Corporation, a Kaman company. All wire products production will be relocated from Bloomfield, CT to the Keir Manufacturing facility and headquarters in Brevard, NC. The purchase includes all assets and intellectual property of Kamatics wire products business only. Kamatics has designed and produced composite flyer bows for twenty years, introducing composite flyer bows in 1990 and later combining aerospace proven materials with triaxial braiding, to produce superior strength and durability in a lightweight structure. In 2005 Kamatics introduced the BackBone ® flyer bow design to the industry. Keir is a US-based manufacturer of engineered technical ceramic products. Keir’s products for the worldwide wire and cable industry include high purity ceramic guides, and the Frontiersman line of air wipes. David Watkins, president of Keir Manufacturing, is very optimistic about the acquisition and business outlook in general. “The Kamatics composite flyer bow acquisition combines two highly regarded manufacturers with brand name recognition into one company…and greatly broadens our state-of-the-art technical product offering.” Pave Automation, which designs and manufactures high performance wire forming machines, found that wire 2010 exceeded expectations. “The stand was busy throughout the show, and the fair proved an excellent opportunity to meet clients and make new contacts,” said Pave’s managing director, Tony Perna. “We had a lot of visitors from Europe and the Baltic states, as well as from India, who were looking to acquire reliable, high output, low cost wire forming units for a variety of applications. The event provided an ideal platform to showcase our innovative user-friendly touch screen technology which reduces downtime and operator training costs, and we obtained some solid leads and requests for trial runs of our competitively-priced machines.” Solid leads from this year’s show Keir Manufacturing Inc – USA Email : sales@keirmfg.com Fax : +1 828 884 7494 Website : www.keirmfg.com British company Pressure Welding Machines (PWM), which designs and manufactures high performance cold pressure welding equipment and dies for the world market, reported excellent visitor traffic and sales at wire 2010. Steve Mepsted, managing director of PWM, said: “Visitor traffic was much better and more consistent than we had anticipated and the quality was excellent. We noted a marked increase in the number of visitors from India, Iran and Turkey. Our large EP500 and P1500 rod welders attracted a high level of enquiries from manufacturers looking for a reliable, energy efficient method of welding large copper and aluminium rod sections. “We sold the EP500 rod welder at the exhibition to a Brazilian wire and cable company, and have received orders for two more machines from Turkey. The P1500 machine was purchased by Solidal, a leading Portuguese producer of aluminium cables and conductors. “Our versatile portable models, especially the M101 and HP100, also proved popular with buyers. The show generated a substantial number of positive sales leads which we are now following up.” Sales success at wire 2010 Pave Automation Ltd – UK Email : pave@enterprise.net Fax : +44 1733 563500 Website : www.pave-wire.com

Pressure Welding Machines – UK Email : pwm@btinternet.com

Fax : +44 1233 820591 Website : www.pwmltd.co.uk

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