WCA July 2016

Industry news

Expanding sales and service in China

SCHMOLZ + Bickenbach is expanding its sales and services network in China. In January the company began operating a new warehouse for special steel with a first focus on tool steel in Chongqing. The 2,000m² facility is equipped with sawing technologies and high-tech milling machines. Customers benefit from shorter delivery times and tailor-made cutting services for the tool steels from the group’s own production. The product portfolio includes cold-work and high-speed steel grades, steel for plastic moulding and hot work steel from the Schmolz + Bickenbach companies Deutsche Edelstahlwerke, Germany, and Finkl Steel (USA). With expanded sales and service capacities, Schmolz + Bickenbach International is now also able to meet the needs of local companies in the automotive and plastic moulding industries from a central location in China. The Chongqing-Chengdu area represents between 10 and 15 per cent of the total Chinese tool steel demand. Jack Huan, former sales manager of the Ninghai (Zhejiang) warehouse, is appointed manager of the new warehouse. He has many years of experience in senior management in the Chinese tool steel business and with his team will

❍ With the new warehouse for special steel in Chongqing, China, the company is able to meet the needs of local manufacturers of automotive components and plastic moulds

Shanghai. The group will now be able to provide service and support to the most important industrial areas in China. Schmolz + Bickenbach International GmbH – Switzerland Website : www.schmolz-bickenbach.com

provide local customers with the necessary technical support to benefit from the group’s product quality. Other warehousing and commercial platforms of Schmolz + Bickenbach International in China are located in Dongguan (Guangdong), in Taicang (Jiangsu), in Ninghai (Zhejiang) and in

Free monthly webinars The IWCS International Cable & Connectivity Symposium has launched a free monthly webinar series of peer-reviewed presentations on technologies and trends in wire, cable and connectivity for the communications, data, electronics, power, industrial, automotive and aerospace industries. Held on the third Friday of every month at 10.30am Eastern USA time, the webinars run for 45 minutes and include an interactive question-and-answer period. A webinar recording is available on www.iwcs.org in the Webinar Archive about two weeks after each live presentation. Launched in November 2015, the month following the IWCS 2015 Symposium, the IWCS Webinar Series presents technical topics of interest to those in the industry. An example of a popular recent topic from March is Development of a Totally Dry Aerial Dielectric Self Support Cable Family, which was presented by Tim Goddard of OFS. IWCS – USA Website : www.iwcs.org

It’s all in a name! DS Brookes Ltd, Davis-Standard’s subsidiary in the West Midlands, UK, will now be called Davis-Standard Limited. The modification is in name only, better reflecting Davis-Standard’s global market position and current activities. Davis-Standard Ltd will continue supplying screws and barrels associated with the DS Brookes brand, and will remain Davis-Standard’s key supplier of extrusion systems for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region. This includes support of aftermarket and spare parts activities across all product platforms. “The name change better aligns with Davis-Standard’s corporate uniformity in serving customers worldwide,” said Mark Woodgate, managing director of Davis-Standard Ltd. “In addition to this development, we are pleased to announce that our facility is Davis-Standard’s European service centre for blown film, servicing the recently acquired Gloucester Engineering product range.” Davis-Standard LLC – USA Website : www.davis-standard.com

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