Wire Expo 2024: why attend?

Wire Expo 2024: why attend?As of press time, some two months after the Points Meeting for Wire Expo, nearly 70% of the floor space has been reserved. Of note, 10% of the exhibitors are new to Wire Expo. Below, WAI Sales Director Shannon Timme shares thoughts on why attending Wire Expo makes sense. A lack […]

Time getting tighter for companies to send nomination for 2024 WAI Scholar

The deadline is getting closer for sending in a nomination for WAI’s 2024 Wire Link Traveling Scholarship, a program that sends a wire professional to Europe where he or she can see how different companies operate as well as attend the wire Düsseldorf show in Germany in April 15-19, 2024. Applications need to be received […]

WAI draws 200+ participants to its International Technical Conference and Suppliers Market in Monterrey, Mexico Madison, Connecticut, USA

Madison, Connecticut, USA – November 16, 2023 – The Wire Association International (WAI), Inc. reports it completed another popular educational program and Suppliers Market in Monterrey, Mexico, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, November 13-15, 2023, which marks the fourth staging of the event in Monterrey. Commenting on the occasion, 2009 WAI Past President Antonio Ayala […]

Wire Expo 2024 Points Meeting results in 102 units taken for Connecticut event

The WAI reports that 102 floor spaces (units), representing more than 60% of the available booth space, was sold at the Points Meeting for Wire Expo 2024, which will be held at the Mohegan Sun Casino. A total of 91 companies took part in the Points Meeting, held Oct. 11 at WAI’s headquarters. By comparison, […]

Clockwinding event celebrates tradition and its evolving role in changing times

Elizabeth Bonfield proved to be a most competent and congenial representative from the U.K. as she continued the Clockwinding Ceremony that was first held on Oct. 20, 1948. At that time, British representatives of their country’s wire industry—headed by John Rigby—presented the grandfather’s clock in thanks for support during World War II. Ever since, it […]