63rd IWCS Conference
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2014
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2014
AlphaGary Corporation
Sponsor Level: Partner
Developer and manufacturer of compounds including specialty vinyl alloy SMOKEGUARD®, halogen-free MEGOLON®, and thermoplastic elastomer (vinyl, olefinic, styrenic) GARAFLEX®. Manufacturing sites in the US, UK, Mexico and Colombia.

Cable Components Group
Sponsor Level: Partner
Cable Components Group has over 10 years of expertise manufacturing high performance cable fillers, extrusions, fibers and yarns for the wire and cable fiber optic industries as well as other industrial nonwoven and textile markets.

CommScope, Inc.
Sponsor Level: Partner
CommScope is a global leader in connectivity solutions for communications networks. We provide infrastructure solutions for wireless, business enterprise, residential broadband and carrier wire line networks with industry-leading brands such as Andrew®, SYSTIMAX® and HELIAX®. Founded in Hickory, North Carolina more than 30 years ago, CommScope and its worldwide team of more than 13,000 employees create infrastructure solutions for communications networks in more than 130 countries.

Corning Cable Systems
Sponsor Level: Partner
With more than 160 years of science and engineering knowledge, Corning Incorporated creates keystone components for high-technology systems in consumer electronics, mobile emissions control and life sciences. Our Optical Communications segment delivers connectivity to every edge of the network, from optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment to fully-optimized solutions.

Dow Electrical & Telecommunications
Sponsor Level: Partner
Dow Electrical & Telecommunications, a supplier of insulation and jacketing materials to the telecommunications industry for over 40 years, is growing and diversifying through its unique capability to translate end-user unmet needs into tangible material science solutions.

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
Sponsor Level: Partner
DuPont is the premier supplier of high performance fluoropolymer resins and films. Our Teflon® and Tefzel® products have been helping the wire and cable industry meet their most demanding applications for over 75 years.

Chase / NEPTCO
Sponsor Level: Partner
Chase / NEPTCO offer the most comprehensive range of cable component materials of any global supplier. Products include a wide range of flexible and rigid strength elements with and without water blocking properties for fiber optic cables and multi-ply shielding tapes; heat-seal and pressure-sensitive coated films and laminates; foil free edged tapes; screening tapes; separator tapes; barrier/binder tapes; slit films; printed marker identification; water blocking tapes and yarns; and a full range of woven and nonwoven nonconductive and semi-conductive power cable tapes and strand fill compound for MV to EHV power cable designs.

OFS
Sponsor Level: Partner
OFS is a world-leading designer, manufacturer and provider of optical fiber, optical fiber cable, FTTX, optical connectivity and specialty photonics products. Our manufacturing and research divisions work together to provide innovative products and solutions that traverse many different applications as they link people and machines worldwide. Between continents, between cities, around neighborhoods, and into homes and businesses of digital consumers we provide the right optical fiber, optical cable and components for efficient, cost-effective transmission.
OFS's corporate lineage dates back to 1876 and includes technology powerhouses such as AT&T and Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel-Lucent). Today, OFS is owned by Furukawa Electric, a multi-billion dollar global leader in optical communications.
Headquartered in Norcross (near Atlanta) Georgia, U.S., OFS is a global provider with facilities in Denmark, Germany, Russia and the United States.

Prysmian Cables and Systems
Sponsor Level: Partner
Prysmian Group is world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry. With sales of some 7 billion (pro-forma 2010 Prysmian/Draka) and 22,000 employees across 50 countries and 98 plants, the Group is strongly positioned in high-tech markets and provides the widest range of products, services, technologies and know-how. In the Energy sector, Prysmian Group operates in the business of underground and submarine power transmission cables and systems, special cables for applications in many different industrial sectors and medium and low voltage cables for the construction and infrastructure industry. In the Telecom sector, the Group manufactures cables and accessories for the voice, video and data transmission industry, producing optical fibres, optical cables and connectivity. Prysmian is listed on the Milan Stock Exchange in the Blue Chip index.

Solvay S.A.
Sponsor Level: Platinum
Solvey Solexis offers Halar®, Solef®, Hylar®, Hyflon® , melt processable fluoropolymers, Algoflon® PTFE for wire and cable applications in telecommunications, microelectronics, oil and gas, automotive and other industries.

Teijin Aramid
Sponsor Level: Platinum
Para-aramid yards, standard and water-blocking finishes.

Teknor Apex Company
Sponsor Level: Platinum
Teknor Apex Company, a supplier of thermoplastic compounds to the wire and cable industry offers a full range of RoHS-complaint, UL-Recognized extrusion and molding compounds.

Web Industries
Sponsor Level: Platinum
Web Industries is a global leader in specialty film extrusion and a pioneer in producing foamed and fibrillated tapes. Our wire and cable product portfolio includes the SuperBulk® cable filler family as well as identification, isolation, and binder tapes. We use our proprietary systems and best-practice methodologies to deliver high-quality, next-generation cable components that are found in some of the world's most advanced wire and cable products. We combine end-to-end design, development, converting, and manufacturing services with innovative thinking and creative problem solving to help our partners speed products to market, reduce costs, and maximize product success.

Wire & Cable Technology International
Sponsor Level: Platinum
Official Magazine of the IWCS ConferenceTM.

The Lubrizol Corp.
Sponsor Level: Gold
Lubrizol is one of the largest manufacturers of thermoplastic polyurethane with over 50 years of innovative specialty TPU development. Our Estane® engineered polymers for wire and cable jacketing can help extend product life through excellent abrasion and cut through resistance, high flex life, low temperature flexibility, and flame retardancy.

Miltec UV
Sponsor Level: Gold
Miltec UV is the leading manufacturer of high performance UV curing systems used in optical fiber draw towers for coating, coloring, and cable marking. For over 20 years, we have provided the industry with superior quality and service, serving both domestic and international markets.

Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
Sponsor Level: Donor
Underwriters Laboratories has the expertise, testing capability, brand recognition and global presence needed to provide a full portfolio of wire and cable testing services for Fire Safety, Performance Verification, Component Cabling and Compound Performance to the industry. Our investigation services are supported by one of the most comprehensive Follow-Up Programs in the third-party certification industry that helps users, specifiers, distributors and manufacturers identify cabling products that meet nationally recognized safety requirements as well as industry specifications for performance and quality.
