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Several wire industry trends have dramatically shaped the company’s development over the past ten years. Perhaps the most dramatic has been the ever-growing trend for wire drawers to outsource their finished die requirements. As this has caused wire drawers to be become somewhat more dependent on die suppliers, great pressure has been placed on Paramount to increase capacity for die finishing, to reduce finished die costs, and to improve lead times. Paramount Die Company has been able to reduce die costs by standardizing on cost-effective carbide inserts and by increasing quality and capacity through automation. The company is working to take the human factor out of the manufacturing process. Many of its highly automated machines now run on “Lights Out Operation” meaning that they will continue to produce product as long as there is raw material being fed into the system. This not only improves production output, but also the quality (eliminating the human aspect). Paramount’s highly automated production equipment combines high volume speed and efficiency with superior accuracy and repeatability. Average lead times have been reduced from three weeks to just less than five days by investing heavily in finished inventory. Paramount is leading the way on another industry trend, “Eco-Friendly Products”. It is a leader in supplying eco-friendly products to the wire industry and its die design allows

The product families available fromMaillefer are energy cables including manufacturing solutions for producing automotive, building, LV, MV, HV and EHV cables; fiber optic cable manufacturing solutions for buffering and jacketing fiber optic cables; plastic pipe manufacturing technology; solutions for producing heating and plumbing, medical, automotive, irrigation, water and gas pipes; and telecom cable making including solutions for producing telecom, LAN, coax and specialty signal cables. Maillefer has sales and service support, production facilities, development and testingcapabilities inFinlandandSwitzerland. Regional sales and service offices are established in China, Egypt, India, Russia and the USA, in addition to a worldwide agent network. Maillefer Extrusion OY – Finland Website: www.mailleferextrusion.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Paramount Die Company Stand 1017 Paramount Die offers expertise in all areas of the wire industry with sales engineers averagingmore than 20 years in the industry.

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