NEWSLETTER JULY 2009

Major Sponsors

In the last 8 months since our conference on the Gold Coast, we have witnessed significant changes in the business landscape. Small to medium wire enterprises, as well as fencing companies have not been isolated from the difficulties being experienced in the wider business community.

Many businesses are experiencing slower payments by their debtors and uncertainty in framing budgets for next year.

The Association is currently finalising the format for this year’s AWIA conference to be held in Melbourne on:

- Friday 16th and Saturday 17th of October 2009.

We are planning to include a number of business topics that will help you navigate through these difficult times.
A conscious effort is being made to keep the conference costs down and still provide an array of presenters that will provide relevant and timely information to make your businesses more successful.
Members are urged to note the dates and make airline bookings to Melbourne taking advantage of the cheaper flights currently being offered.

Sam Dermody
AWIA President

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National Manufacturing Week
   - 12-15th May 2009 Report

Thanks to our AWIA members who exhibited at National Manufacturing Week in Melbourne.
 
This year some of our members decided not to exhibit at NMW, a trend that has been seen in exhibitions throughout the world due to the economic circumstances.
However, feedback from our members is positive, reporting a good number of quality leads.

Despite a decline in overall visitor numbers, NMW and Austech attracted a high quality audience, with significant levels of decision-makers in attendance. The category of Director / CEO / MD / GM / Owner made up 23.3% of trade visitors – demonstrating the purchasing power of a large proportion of NMW 09 visitors. NB. These figures are only preliminary, and Reed Exhibitions will be sending out to our exhibitors a fully audited result in the next 3 months.

This year there was a number of parallel events, including the Manufacturers Monthly Endeavour Awards, Ai Group’s Careers Advice Workshop, the SMCBA workshops and the WTIA Annual Awards Dinner and numerous other seminars and networking functions.
The ‘Manufacturing Outlook’ panel discussions also proved to be a popular addition to National Manufacturing Week, and Reeds are planning to expanded this program at NMW 2010.

                      Jubilee Springs                                                             Better Springs

Reed Exhibitions wishes to thank our members for exhibiting and their contribution to NMW 2009. They look forward to working with us again at NMW 2010 in Sydney.

Remember, all members of the AWIA are entitled to a discount of the exhibition stand prices. If you are interested in more information for NMW 2010, contact Malcolm Michael on  02 9484-9856 or malcolm@wireassociation.com.au

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AWIA Sponsor Profile

A very important part of our organisation is the role of our major sponsors. Without our sponsors we would not be able to operate and in appreciation we wish to present over the next few newsletters details on each of our major sponsors.
The order in which we are doing this was selected randomly.

Castle International Trading

Company Profile

Castle International Trading supplies specialty metals to Steel Distributors and wire and strip to Wireworkers and Spring Manufacturers in Australia and New Zealand.

Established in 1999 our staff has over 15 years experience in International Trading and 25 years in the Speciality Metals and Wire Industries.
Our company’s growth has been attributed to providing our customers competitive prices, and more so, reliability in quality and delivery.  We have focused on and have expertise in the supply of wire and speciality metals from powerful industrialised countries like China, Korea, Taiwan, India and Japan.

Services: Market Investigation, Product Development, Market Development, Trading Expertise, Finance, Logistics and Local Storage. 

• For our suppliers we provide a variety of services including Market Investigation, Product Development and Market Development and are active Representative Mill Agents.  Our aim with our suppliers is to build long term business, repeat orders and close friendships.

• We provide our customers flexibility in supply.  Commonly we supply a mill rolling on indent or purchasing from stock held in Australia against your order for delivery by J.I.T.  We also stock stainless steel wire and spring wire in Australia.

• Our customers benefit as we provide services with Trading Expertise, Finance, Logistics and Local Storage.  These services assist our customers in achieving their goals.  Our customers see us an important business partner.

Steel Products: Speciality Metals for Steels Distributors; Wire and Strip for Wireworkers and Spring Manufacturers in Australia and New Zealand. 

The company is owned by Graham Brown who is very well known in the industry. Graham has been a member of the AWIA for many years and decided to show his appreciation and support to the wire industry by sponsoring the AWIA.

Graham is ably supported by Clayton McInnes who has been with Castle International for 3 years. Recently, Jake Hill has joined Castle International as Sales Manager for the Engineering Steel Division.
   
For more detail on the above, go to www.castleinternational.com.au

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New AWIA/ACLFA/ATFA/RSMA Web Sites
            -  Coming Soon

Since we first designed the AWIA web site plus the associated fencing and reinforcing web sites, internet technology has moved on in leaps and bounds.
The Association is currently working with Digital Catalysts, our strategic partner for internet and web services, to update the layout and navigation of our web sites.

The following are the new key points

• We will start off with the AWIA web site and then update the Chain Link, Temporary Fencing and Reinforcing web sites.

• Our web sites receive a lot of hits and we will make it easier for members and in particular for visiting customers to obtain information. Visitors will be able to find the right member product/service group and  access member information more directly. There will be an expanded search facility of our members contact details, products and services.

• This will enable us to show visitors just what products and services each member provides. For instance the current web site fencing manufacturers and installers in the one group.
  

• The new web sites can be edited easily allowing AWIA staff to update all parts of the web site without relying on outside sources with specialist knowledge.

• Included will be a new section only accessible by current members. This section will include technical data and information just for members use.

• Current sections such as Company Profiles will be enhanced to enable pictures, colour, indents etc as per a Word document to provide a much better presentation than the current black text only pages.

• Sponsors will also have an expanded area including flash icons plus a link to their own web pages written specifically for our web sites.

• Product information and newsletters will also be easier to produce and send out including high quality publications, all of which can be personalised. 

We will be sending out to all members a form to fill in to show just what products and services you supply and also to provide more information for the area in COMPANY PROFILES – More details….

NB. Some of our members have made good use of this section, some have a bit of information and a number have no information at all!

This will be the opportunity to revisit this section and make your products and services stand out. The more information we have on the web site, the better it is for you as our members and your customers.

You are welcome to start producing information for this section now.

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New AWIA Members

We are pleased to welcome our most recent new members who have joined the AWIA and the other associations.

In alphabetical order:

We also have a number of other applicants being considered at this time.

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New AWIA Sponsor

In addition to becoming a member of our association again, Sanwa has also become a major sponsor.  We are delighted to have Sanwa supporting our association and look forward to them being further involved with our members. 

Sanwa is a major materials supplier including spring wire, low carbon wire, stainless steel, reinforcing wire etc.

We will do a feature article on Sanwa in a future newsletter. To see their range of product and services now go to www.sanwa.com.au

As for all of our sponsors, we ask all our members to support the companies who support us.

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AWIA 2010 Diaries
       – including a new section with industry based technical data
 

Following the success of the AWIA 2009 diary we are pleased to confirm we are currently producing the 2010 edition. These will be available in October 2009.

As well as the information included in the 2009 diary we are also adding in a technical data section which will cover materials such as wire, pipe, rod etc to give everyone access to data regularly uses in our industry.

We will put our a specific letter on these confirming how many each member company will receive free of charge and the cost for additional copies should a member wish to have more.

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 SMI Springs Magazine
           - now available to AWIA spring manufacturers
 

The Spring Manufacturers Institute (SMI) based in the USA  has been affiliated with us for a number of years. We now receive a number of their magazines which have excellent technical and topical articles and these will be distributed to all of our spring manufacturers.
We thanks SMI for this service.

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Training Course for Spring and Wire Form Manufacturers

We continue to receive requests from our spring and wire forming members for an updated training course. Discussions have been ongoing with overseas companies to provide us facilities to update our past courses.

This information will be discussed with members from the spring and wire group with the aim to have a new course available in 2010.

Information on the training course will be available at the AWIA 2009 Conference.

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New Fencing Group for WA

New members ATF Fencing Perth and Ready Fencing Perth have undertaken to establish a fencing group based in Perth for the promotion of services of our temporary fencing members. Main markets will be builders and statutory bodies and councils.

Other potential members will be targeted in the next few weeks.  The Association will provide help in the form of secretarial support and use of our facilities to assist with attracting new members and with the promotional material and distribution.

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AWIA 2009 Conference, 16th/17th October
    (15th and 18th optional activities, see below)

We are looking forward to welcome you to our next conference being held at the Novotel on Collins in Melbourne

Situated in the Australia on Collins shopping arcade, we have access to excellent conference facilities in the heart of Melbourne CBD.

As mentioned at the beginning of this newsletter, we have worked hard to reduce the costs this year to make it more attractive to all of our members.

We will have an excellent range of general business topics plus topics specific to our various industry groups.

Program Outline

Full conference details including prices will soon be posted on our web site at www.wireassociation.com.au

Take this opportunity to put these dates into your diary and for those travelling to Melbourne to book your air fares at the best price.

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 Upcoming Events

 

October 13-15, 2009-07-02
Wire Southeast Asia
Bangkok, Thailand
The last major wire show for 2009, Wire Southeast Asia is the closest major wire exhibition for Australia and New Zealand.
For further information go to www.wire-southeastasia.com


American Fence Association
February 17-19, 2010
Fencetech 2010
Orlando, Florida, USA
Fencetech is the largest exhibition for fencing products and machinery and is held every year.
For more information go to www.fencetech.com

April 12-16, 2010
Wire 2010
Dusseldorf, Germany
The worlds premier wire and tube exhibition display an outstanding range of materials and equipment.
It is also held the week Bauma 2010 making it very convenient for the reinforcing industry to visit both.
For further information go to www.wire.de
 

April 19-25, 2010
Bauma 2010
Munich, Germany
Held every 3rd year Bauma is the worlds major exhibition for machinery for the construction, building and mining industries.
This is the week after Wire 2010 (Dusseldorf)
For further information go to www.bauma.de




September 21-24, 2010
Wire China 2010
Shanghai, China
This is the largest Asian exhibition for wire and tube. For further information go to www.wirechina.net





November 18-20, 2010
Wire & Cable India 2010
Mumbai, India
This will be the 3rd Wire & Cable India conference. For further information go to www.wireindia.com

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Regards,

Malcolm Michael
Director/Secretary
Australasian Wire Industry Association
Ph  +61 (0)2 9484 9856 
Email:  malcolm@wireassociation.com.au