WCA November 2007

Industry news

Three more years for WCISA president

Getting wired! CableOrganizer.com, one of the leading purveyors of cable, wire and equipment management- related products for use in business and at home, has been named in the 26 th annual 500 list of fastest growing private companies in America, in the September issue of Inc magazine. The company ranked in the top third of companies named on the coveted list after an astounding three-year sales growth of 1,413%! CableOrganizer.com landed a coveted spot on Internet Retailer magazine’s ‘Top 500 Retail websites’ list – the one and only ranking of America’s 500 largest e-retail businesses based on 2006 online sales. CableOrganizer.com Inc – USA Fax : +1 954 861 2001 Email : sales@cableorganizer.com Website : www.cableorganizer.com

Thomas Copp, president of Reelex Packaging Solutions, and current WCISA president, has been elected to a second, three-year term as the organisation’s chief. The following existing WCISA board members were elected to new three- year terms: William E Crowle, president, QED Wire Lines Inc; David Kiddoo, global business manager, AlphaGary Corp; Mike Patel, industry man-ager, Wire & Cable Compounds, Teknor Apex Co; Rahul Sachdev, vice- president sales and marketing, Wire & Plastic Machinery Corp; Joseph Snee, sales manager, Huestis Industrial; and John Zachow, business area manager, Davis-Standard Corp. Long time board members, Bob Fulop, president, Wire Lab Company, and Jeff Swinchatt, president, Sikora International Corporation, decided not to seek re-election.

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members: Neville Crabbe, president, Leoni Wire Inc; John Falls, sales representative, Fiber-Line Inc; Rob Fulop, vice president and general manager, Wire Lab Company; Rene Mayer, technical sales, Mossberg Reel LLC; and Terri Terry, senior marketing specialist, CommScope BiMetals

Product Group. WCISA – USA

Fax : +1 330 864 5298 Email : info@wcisa.org Website : www.wcisa.org

The following have been elected to three-year terms as new WCISA board

l Record levels for fibre optics in 2007 – CRU

Cable market analysis group, CRU, UK, has reported that the fibre optic cable market has recovered from the collapse of 2001.

CRU’s wire and cable team, which includes newly acquired KMI Research, has documented double-digit growth in demand for 2005 and 2006.

Fibre demand in 2007 is likely to exceed the previous peak year, 2001. Quarter- by-quarter analysis of markets for fibre and cable is given in CRU’s bi-monthly Optical Fibre and Fibre Optic Cable Monitor.

The recent surge has been driven by local-loop upgrades, mainly to provide faster Internet access and new services, such as IPTV.

CRU concludes that the current rise in the market is more solidly based than the telecom bubble that burst in 2001.

In the last boom too many competing telecom carriers invested to serve the same geographic markets. Carriers are now funding network upgrades without excessive borrowing, keeping capital expenditures within safer limits. New in-depth reports from CRU-KMI, such as Worldwide Optical Fibre and Cable Markets and Markets for Fibreoptics in Broadband Access Networks, show that FTTx (fibre to the curb, home or node) will account for most demand growth over the next five years. In North America, where AT&T and Verizon have massive projects underway, FTTx already accounts for more than half of single-mode demand. In other regions, FTTx is a smaller percentage of demand, but is growing fast.

The amount of fibre installed for FTTx globally will increase with 23% CAGR from 2006 to 2010. This contrasts with only 3% CAGR for fibre in other applications.

CRU the Independent Authority – UK Fax : +44 207 903 2152 Email : sarah.webster@crugroup.com

Website : www.crumonitor.com

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