Press Release

Brantford, December 19 - Wire & Cable Industry suppliers form association.

A group of Canadian company executives met this past Friday in Kitchener Ontario to form, the Canadian Wire & Cable Industry Suppliers Association (CWCISA) an associatiion of Canadian companies that supply wire and cable manufacturers.

CWCISA's purpose is to promote its members' products, interface and liaison with federal and provincial government agencies in order to develop a better Canadian industry profile at international wire and cable trade shows and conferences.
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CWCISA hope to create opportunities for joint representation abroad and to create technical networking opportunities among its members.

CWCISA, headquartered in Brantford Ontario, is a nonprofit corporate membership organization open to Canadian suppliers of wire and cable machinery and equipment, process materials and accessories.

Elected to the board of directors were:
• Ulf Svensson, Unicode Inc, President,
• Paul Douwes, WireWorld Internet, Executive Director,
• Henry Zwolak, Automation Kinetics Inc, Vice President,
• Willy Hauer, Hower Equipment Inc, Director
• Louis Kalmar, Kalmark Integrated Systems Ltd, Director.

CWCISA newly elected president Ulf Svensson CEO of Unicode, told reporters at a press conference following the inauguration meeting that a truly Canadian association was long overdue.

Our member companies all operate globally and are often technological trailblazers in their areas of expertise. The time is long gone when our members could live on business from customers in Hamilton and Montreal and occasional export orders from customers in Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Svensson said.

At a luncheon following the meeting Mr. Willy Hauer described a new plasma cleaning process for steel rod that was being developed and entertained the members reminiscing about installing equipment in The Gabon, Zambia and Angola.

Louis Kalmar spoke about the current business climate in the middle east and a project in Iran his company was working on and Paul Douwes just back from Mumbai India talked about his impression of the Wire India 2006 exhibition.

Few industries are more multinational than the CWCISA member companies, "I venture to suggest that there are few countries our members do not do business in", the Executive Director of the association told reporters.