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INDUSTRY NEWS a part of the wire industry process. The contact at Cortinovis America, LLC is Tony DeRosa. www.cortinovisamerica.com Madem is the largest wood cable reels producer in the world with plants in Brazil, Spain and the USA, and with new plants opening in 2008 in the Middle East and eastern Europe. Products include wood and plywood cable reels. The contact at Madem Reels USA is Leandro Mazzoccato, President. www.mademreels.com Bayshore Vinyl Compounds Inc. is Bayshore Vinyl can also provide customers with PVC resins and plasticizers. Bayshore Vinyl also provides recycling services. Many industries are served including the wire and cable industry. The contact at Bayshore Vinyl Compounds is Mark S. Garretson, National Accounts Manager. www.bayshorevinyl.com Delta Ulbrich Precision Metals is a wire products. Delta provides precisino plating of rounds, squares and flats in gold, silver, nickel, copper and tin. Delta can also supply material on various spools, cut lengths, coils, precision wound and other custom requirements. The contacts for more information at Delta are Ted Davis and Doug Napoli. www.ulbrich.com WCISA is a nonprofit corporate membership organization of North American-based suppliers of machinery, materials and accessories used for making all types of wire and cable. www.wcisaonline.com day-to-Wednesday schedule, a guided tour of Wire Expo 2008 and special presentations. The updated WireDrawing 101 course also features a special workbook with practical process design for work-a-day formats and continuing study. Timely special presentations included in the course cover dies, lubricants and machinery. June 10-11, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, during Wire Expo 2008 vidual members in 58 countries around the globe. The association serves the educational needs of the wire and cable manufacturing industry through a variety of products and services. www.wirenet.org World Wire & Cable Event for Senior Execs WireDrawing 101 ® WireDrawing 101 will be held in a location near the Wire Expo 2008 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Registration fees for registrations made on or before May 30, 2008, are: Individual Registration: US$595; Group Registrations: one for US$1100, three for May 30, 2008, add US$100. Each registration includes the course, reference materials, lunches, coffee breaks, a Wire Expo 2008 and a guided tour of the show. To register for the course, visit: www.wiretech.com The full WireDrawing 101 course outline may be viewed by visiting: www.rnwinc.com CRU Events, London, UK, has announced its second annual wire and cable conference event, which is scheduled to take place in Barcelona, Spain, from June 1 to 3, 2008. Following on last year’s successful wire and cable conference event, which M. Edward Fenton (1928 – 2007) M. Edward Fenton, 79, long time resident of Rome, NY, USA and Lake Monticello, VA, USA, passed away November 14, 2007, from complications related to prostate cancer. Born in Oswego, NY, USA, Fenton was the son of Daniel M. and Frances Haag Fenton. He moved with his family to Rome, NY, where he lived for 59 years before retiring to Virginia. He graduated from Rome Free Academy in 1945 and received his accounting degree from Bryant College in 1951. M. Edward Fenton served with honor in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1946-1948. With almost four decades in the wire and cable industry, he began his career at Rome Cable Corp., later joining M. Edward Fenton Camden Wire Co. in the was VP, Finance. Fenton then continued a consulting career in the industry taking assignments with Amercable, Spargo Wire Co. and many of industry suppliers.M. Edward Fenton is survived by his wife Rose Louise Schneible Fenton of Lake Monticello, VA; three children, M. Edward Fenton, Jr., Laurie Fenton Ambrose and Andrew Scott Fenton. Ed Fenton Jr. serves as chairman of the Wire & Cable Manufacturers Alliance, Inc. Also surviving are a brother, Frederick Fenton, and sister, Rita Koronowski. His deceased brother, Richard Fenton, was the former Plant Superintendent at Camden Wire Co. A Mass of Christian Burial was held in Virginia on November 16, 2007, and a private service was held in Rome on December 8, 2007. Gifts can be made to Hospice of the Piedmont, 2200 Old Ivy Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22903, or Lake Monticello Fire & Rescue, 10 Slice Rd., Palmyra, VA 22963. Continued Interwire 2009 Adds Fastener Exhibits Presented and developed by Roger N. Wright, Inc. and Wire & Cable Technology International magazine, WireDrawing 101® will be June 10 to 11, 2008, during the Wire Expo 2008 show in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. WireDrawing 101 is the original and updated two-day course that teaches the fundamentals of wire drawing to producers and users of both ferrous and nonferrous wire. The course is a practical and basic introduction to modern wire drawing engineering with an emphasis on questions, answers and WireDrawing 101 includes a Tues12 Next WireDrawing 101® During Wire Expo 2008 The Wire Association International (WAI), Inc., Guilford, CT, USA, and the International Fastener Machinery & Suppliers Association (IFMSA), Danbury, CT, USA, have announced plans to colocate their respective trade events—Interwire 2009 and the IFE 2009—at the I-X Center, Cleveland, OH, USA, April 27 to 30, 2009. With WAI’s educational and annual convention functions the complete Interwire event will run April 25 to 30, 2009. Interwire ranks among the top 200 trade shows in the USA and is the largest of its kind in the Americas. This coordinated event will once again bring the two shows together for wire and cable, and fastener segments of the industry. Attendees will have the opportunity to tour both shows for the cost of one registration. Founded in 1930, the WAI is a not- Wire & Cable Technology International/January 2008 http://www.cortinovisamerica.com http://www.wirenet.org http://www.mademreels.com http://www.bayshorevinyl.com http://www.wiretech.com http://www.rnwinc.com http://www.ulbrich.com http://www.wcisaonline.com

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Wire & Cable Technology International - January/February 2008 Editorial Wire & Cable Events Industry News Global Economy Drives Specialty Cable Demand Corporate News Change is Tough! Top Products of 2007 New Magnesium Hydroxides Enabling Low-Smoke Cable Compounds Straight From the Show - IWCS Conference™ A History of Long-Term Thinking Ensures a Pioneering Spirit Expediency of Roller Dies Application in Wire Drawing - Part 1 WireDrawing 101 Strain Rate Transforming Our Ideas Into Your Success Straight From The Show - Wire Southeast ASIA 2007 Capstans, Dancers, Accumulators Roundup Spotlight On Quality Control Pioneering Virtual Technology for Extrusion Electrically Heated Furnace Cuts Energy Costs/Reduces Carbon Footprint Machinery Accessories Materials Polymer Developments in the Cables Industry Wire & Connector Top Products of 2007 Just Load, Click and Print Superior Flame Resistance for Minimal Smoke, CO & Acid Gas High-Flex Round Cable Added to On-Line Design Tools Failed Bridge Cables Replaced With Smaller, Stronger Ones Advertisers Index Classified Advertising Internet Spotlight Editorial Index

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