Meeting: 'From rod to wire and wire products'

摘要

"Joining forces is the key not only for surviving, but also in order to strengthen competitiveness". With these words, Pier Paolo Celeste, Director of ICE (Istituto per il Commercio Estero - Institute for Foreign Commerce) in Milan, opened officially the works of the international meeting "From rod to wire and wire products", which took place at Stresa from 19 to 22 October 2003. Therefore, for three days Stresa has been the capital of wire. The meeting has been the result of an intensive organizing work, which has lasted three years and has been carried out by the most prestigious associations of the world in the domain of wire and cable: Wai (The Wire Association International), Iwma (International Wire and Machinery Association), Acimaf (Associazione Costruttori Italiani Macchine per il Filo - Italian Producers of Machines of Wire Association), Cet (Comite Europeen de la Trefilerie - European Association of Drawing), with the collaboration of Aim (Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia - Italian Metallurgy Association). The choice of an Italian town for the meeting is not incidental: as a matter of fact, this event is always organized in the Country where the newly-elected President of Wai Association was born. At present, the new President is the engineer Giulio Properzi (Continuus S.p.A. - Properzi International Inc.), who is also one of the counselors of Acimaf. During three days, a complete picture of the main problems which the domain of wire and cable encounters today has been offered to the participants: research, industrial applications, tendencies of the market. Two days have been devoted to the technical-scientific presentations, subdivided in two sections: ferrous materials and non-ferrous ones. The meeting ended with two guided tours to the plants of two famous companies of this sector. In addition, a "Suppliers' Corner" has been prepared, where the companies which were interested in this project have shown their catalogues and given information about their products.