[EDITOR’S NOTE] Upcoming Events
As I write this note and fi nal touches are concluding on this issue, the fi rst day of spring is here. Most of the United States has experienced an unusually warm winter; it has felt like spring if not even closer to summer in some places for quite some time now. While many businesses are heating up faster than usual this time of year, some are taking to spring with reinvention of time-tested practices. In this issue of the Exchange, we highlight people and businesses that dream big and dare the impossible. We meet individuals who take good ideas, make them better, and, ultimately, represent those who are building the visionary roads to advance our businesses forward.
We start with a business that can trace their history to biblical times. T e use of chain has been part of Man’s history since almost the beginning. T e earliest known metal chain was made around 225 BC. T is combination of a series of rings and links was connected to a bucket in order to draw water from a well. Even Leonardo da Vinci was interested in the properties of chain. Da Vinci left behind many drawings depicting the process of making steel chain. In this issue of the Wire Rope Exchange, we feature Peerless Industrial Group.
Needless to say, they don’t believe the value and viability of chain is going away anytime soon. T eir business holds a strong foundation in their base product of manufacturing chain; however recently, their regional footprint is making a global splash. T rough multiple acquisitions and expansion of their core base, this company is one to watch. We also remember T.Y. Lin, one of the greatest structural engineers of his time who fathomed incredible projects and progressed our constructing approaches. We provide a retrospective look back at his past projects and how they’re still shaping our future today. We also get an update on how Southern Weaving continues to evolve in the fi bers and synthetics markets. Featuring their dynamic capability to apply new materials to age- old processes, we see how this company’s previous years’ investments are already paying dividends today – and how fi bers are going where they’ve never been before. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel to move forward. But that doesn’t mean that
you can’t build a better wheel to get you there faster! Enjoy the issue and stay in touch to let us know the latest with your business!
SC&RA Annual Meeting April 17 -21 Austin, TX
www.scranet.org
NASCC / The Steel Conference April 18 – 20 Grapevine, TX
www.aisc.org
AWRF Spring Meeting April 22-25, 2012 Atlanta, GA
www.awrf.org
OTC 2012
April 30 – May 3, 2012 Houston, TX
www.otcnet.org
ACRP Annual Meeting May 6 – 11, 2012 Cleveland, OH
www.acrp.net
Cordage Institute Annual Conference May 9 – 11, 2012 Palm Beach Gardens, FL
www.ropecord.com
CRC / ICHC May 23 – 24 New Orleans, LA
www.craneandriggingconference.com
International Cranes & Transport, Latin America May 28th
Sao Paulo, Brazil
www.khl.com/ctla
Melissa Hood, Editor | Wire Rope Exchange P.O. Box 159323, Nashville, TN, 37215 Email:
mhood@wireropeexchange.com
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CONEXPO – CON/AGG May 29 – June 2 Russia
www.conexpoconagg.com
Windpower Expo June 3 – 6 Atlanta, GA
www.windpowerexpo.org
WSTDA June 5-7, 2012
Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
www.wstda.com
2 MARCH-APRIL 2012 WIRE ROPE EXCHANGE
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