Casting light on aluminum and copper:

Based on its global appeal, this is WAI’s third offering of this masterfully crafted program for aluminum and copper continuous casting practitioners.

Experts from all regions unite to share the latest industry developments. The forum features a combined general session, separate tracks for each discipline, a total of 38 presentations, ‘nextworking’ events, and time to see the Interwire exhibits.

If you are involved with continuous casting of aluminum or copper, this concentrated program is for you.

About WAI:

Show Organizer:

The Wire Association International (WAI), Inc., founded in 1930, is a worldwide technical society for wire and cable industry professionals that is governed by volunteers from around the world. Based in Madison, Connecticut, USA, WAI promotes, collects, and disseminates technical, manufacturing, and general business information to the ferrous, nonferrous, electrical, fiber optic, and fastener segments of the wire and cable industry.

Why Exhibit at Interwire?

Interwire is the largest and longest-running wire and cable marketplace in the Americas.

Hosted biennially, Interwire is an international trade event that includes exhibiting companies, speakers, and visitors from more than 50 countries. When industry professionals look for new wire and cable technology, supplies, and equipment they choose Interwire, the benchmark for wire business in the Americas.

Information is exchanged at Interwire. Machinery is debuted, reviewed, and sold at Interwire. And the promise of international networking on the Americas’ stage continues to excite visitors to this vital forum. The show crosses dozens of vertical industries including automotive, construction, aerospace, transportation, and communications, among others. Interwire is held in conjunction with WAI’s Annual Convention.

Visitors:

Interwire attracts visitors from throughout the world with a concentration from the Americas. These attendees, 90% of whom have purchasing influence, represent the hundreds of companies that plan for a wide range of capital expenditures in the ferrous, nonferrous, and electrical segments of the industry. Attendees come from numerous fields and several industries allied to wire and cable including: automotive, manufacturing, environmental and reclamation, appliance, building, furnishings, housewares, communications, medical instrumentation, fasteners, electronics, energy and more!

Organizer:

The Wire Association International, Inc., founded in 1930, is a worldwide technical society for wire and cable industry professionals dedicated to the promotion, collection, and dissemination of technical, manufacturing, and general business information and trends in the industry. Throughout the year WAI organizes events such as Interwire and the WAI Operations Summit & Wire Expo trade shows, technical workshops and symposiums, an online trade show, and annual International Technical Conference.

Are you ready to promote your business to the global wire and cable market?

There's a reason exhibit space sells quickly at Interwire. Companies know that Interwire is the best place to generate sales leads, build an industry presence, demonstrate new technologies and products, and meet customers and new clients.

GCCF Sponsors:

The Wire Association International, Inc. would like to acknowledge the generous support of its sponsors for Global Continuous Casting Forum!

Hot spots:

1. Cost-saving panels
Listen in on two separate panels as casting experts discuss cost-savings methods in management and technology.

2. Global copper market outlook
It is widely assumed that the rising dollar, coupled with international trade issues, is weighing on copper prices. This presentation reveals how the market is likely to evolve.

3. Melter furnace technologies for the aluminum industry
Learn about furnace types for typical melting applications, including environmental aspects, importance of correct combustion system management, and controls for a melter furnace.

4. Running a copper rod line: A tricky business
This presentation details the hidden issues that make CCR lines so tricky to operate and reveals how to achieve better results on a consistent and repeatable basis.

5. New technology
A new high-speed eddy current testing system handles round, ovate, and fine wire; improves flaw detection and minimizes false rejects. Find out how the system can be used in-line during production, or adapted for off-line testing.

6. Business challenges for copper continuous casting
Glimpse a vision of the future for the sector with emphasis on eco-sustainability. See how soft skills and technological know-how have to coexist for the business model to be successful.

Access these following, with your registration:

1. Global Continuous Casting Forum (GCCF) sessions
Aluminum or copper, the GCCF has a comprehensive track for both.

2. Course materials
Each GCCF registrant receives a printed binder of course handouts and a thumb drive with materials in digital format.

3.Interwire and IFME exhibits
You will see more than 400 companies exhibiting at the Interwire Exposition and dozens more exhibits at the International Fastener Manufacturing Exposition, adjacent to Interwire.

4. Production solutions demos
Learn how to tackle manufacturing challenges such as wire breaks and other common problems from the experts who have succeeded.

5. Champion’s Code presentation
Best-selling author Ross Bernstein’s is an award-winning business speaker whose program is all about the DNA of what makes champions in sports so unique and how that relates to business.

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