3/1/2011
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SHOW NEWS – Astronaut is Keynote Speaker at Interwire
Retired astronaut Mike Mullane will be the keynote speaker at Interwire 2011.
The Wire Association International and the American Wire Producers Association will conduct events May 2-5, 2011, in conjunction with Interwire at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
AWPA will conduct its Supply Chain Symposium, on May 2-3.
Mullane was a mission specialist in the first group of Space Shuttle Astronauts in 1978. He completed three space missions before retiring from NASA and the Air Force in 1990. He authored a children’s book, Liftoff! An Astronaut’s Dream; a space fact book, Do Your Ears Pop In Space?; and a memoir, Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut.
Kazunari Yoshida, professor of precision mechanics at Tokai University, Japan, will give the annual Mordica Lecture on his 35 years of wiredrawing research.
Interwire’s technical program include more than 30 scheduled paper presentations over three days. WAI’s technical program content, which will be presented May 3-5, will be divided into three new theme days: Metals & Materials; Manufacturing Best Practices; and Green Initiatives.
The Interwire schedule includes more than 400 exhibiting companies; plant tours of Southwire’s Carrollton facility; on-floor production solutions demonstrations; productivity and fundamentals of wire manufacturing workshops; and a new concurrent Global Continuous Casting Forum for copper.
Interwire is held biennially for the wire and cable manufacturing industry. Initiated in 1981, Interwire offers an anticipated and timely meeting point for suppliers, manufacturers, buyers, researchers, and industry luminaries from around the globe. Web: wirenet.org ©2011 GlobalFastenerNews.com
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