Thursday, November 12, 2009
TOUR REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.
Don’t miss this opportunity to visit area manufacturing facilities and service providers for a look at what’s new in pole and cable technology, as well as hot-dip galvanizing facilities at some sites!
Tours are FREE for Full Registrants, but advance registration is required by September 30, 2009, and space is limited.*
YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY TOUR! ON-SITE REGISTRATION WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE. All tour participants must sign an Agreement & Release Form, which will be emailed to you after you register online. You must sign the Form and email it back to the email address indicated on the Form. If you register using the standard Registration Form, there is a line for your signature approving the language of the Agreement & Release Form.
All tours are scheduled for Thursday, November 12 so as not to conflict with attendance at the technical sessions. The schedule has been designed to allow attendees to participate in a morning tour, followed by a tour of a different facility in the afternoon.
Participants must travel to the tour site on the buses provided by the tour sponsor, private transportation is not permitted. A tour may be cancelled if there is insufficient participation. Confirmation of tour selection and notification of cancellations will be emailed prior to the start of the Conference.
Companies sponsoring tours reserve the right to refuse admission to any individual for possible breach of safe practice or company policy.
*Due to the approval process required to admit tour registrants on a particular tour and to limited space, it is not possible allow switching from one tour to another. Once a registrant is approved by a certain tour sponsor and has received his or her final tour assignment, it is expected that the registrant will participate in that tour. Tour sponsors contract for bus transportation based upon the number of approved participants on their lists, and constant switching by participants makes it impossible to have an accurate number. Our tour sponsors also have been generous enough to offer food on their tours and must be afforded the courtesy of an accurate count for planning purposes
View the schedule of tours. TOUR REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.
SEI thanks the following companies who have generously offered to open their doors to Conference participants.
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Tour 1: 12:45 - 4:00 p.m. (includes lunch onsite)
Falcon Steel Company invites you to tour our Fort
Worth, Texas manufacturing facility. Our quality and service-minded organization has been designing and fabricating quality steel structures for more than 40 years.
Our Fort Worth product line specializes in all types of substation structures including but not limited to A-Frames, H-Frames, bus supports, switch stands, etc. And we are eager to introduce to you our one-of-a-kind fully automated robot!
Meet our team members who keep providing you with custom engineered solutions, technical advice, and outstanding customer service. We are one company with one vision, offering the best in solutions, supply, and service.
For more information about our company please visit us at www.falconsteel.com.
Special Requirements: Closed toe shoes, no photos allowed. Eye protection will be provided onsite.
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Tour 1: 8:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (includes morning coffee/refreshments and barbecue lunch onsite)
Tour 2: 12:30 – 4:00 p.m. (includes barbecue lunch onsite)
Since 1959, FWT, Inc. has been a leader in innovative solutions for the steel fabrication industry. FWT, Inc. is one of the largest, most well known, and respected manufacturers of utility infrastructure in North America.
FWT, Inc. has participated in many of the largest tubular steel transmission pole projects in the U.S. with voltages up to 500kV. Our company’s product line includes transmission and distribution poles, lattice transmission structures, wood pole equivalents, substation structures, and the PowerMount® (cell on utility) antenna mount. Additional product details may be found at our Web site www.fwtinc.com.
Please join us as we showcase our newly expanded 210,000-sq.ft. tubular pole facility.
Special Requirements: Closed toe shoes, no heels. Hearing and eye protection with hard hats will be provided onsite.
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7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. (includes coffee on bus and lunch onsite)
Please note that due to the distance, only one tour will be offered. General Cable is located approximately three hours from Ft. Worth.
General Cable’s Marshall, Texas manufacturing facility draws and strands Overhead Bare Distribution and Transmission conductors, while also extruding insulation over aluminum for Low-Voltage Aluminum and 15kV to 35kV Medium-Voltage Underground cable using true Triple Troester® extrusion technology. Marshall has produced more than 300 million feet of energy conductor in the past year, including “TransPowr® T-2®” Twisted ACSR conductor up to 2518 kcmil.
The Marshall Technology Center, located on the same campus, boasts the largest test facility of its type, performing accelerated cable life testing, field failure analysis, materials testing for commercial insulation material suppliers, and testing for industry research agencies (EPRI). Upon arrival at the facility, participants will tour the plant, then break for lunch. A visit to the adjacent Technology Center is scheduled for the afternoon. Please visit our Web site at www.generalcable.com for more information on our company.
Special Requirements: Closed toe shoes, jeans encouraged. Hearing and eye protection will be provided onsite. Participants must sign company confidentiality agreement.
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Tour 1: 7:30 – 11:00 a.m. (includes breakfast onsite)
Tour 2: 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (includes lunch onsite) CANCELLED
Tour 3: 1:30 – 5:15 p.m. (includes refreshment break onsite)
Sabre Tubular Structures is your full service project partner, designing and manufacturing structures for use in transmission, distribution, and substation applications.
We would like to invite you to tour our facilities and meet our experienced professional team. Our new industrial complex includes a state-of-the-art steel pole manufacturing plant and one of the largest and most environmentally-friendly hot-dip galvanizers in North America. We will be offering morning, mid-day, and afternoon tours with breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks included.
We hope you will make plans to come out and tour our new facilities. For more information on Sabre Tubular Structures and our products, please visit our website at: www.SabreTubularStructures.com.
Special Requirements: Closed toe shoes, no photos allowed. Hearing and eye protection will be provided onsite.
Tour 1: 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (includes breakfast onsite)
Tour 2: 12:45 – 4:00 p.m. (includes lunch onsite)
Valmont-Newmark, a division of Valmont Industries, invites you to tour our Mansfield, Texas manufacturing plant! Come and see where the Patented Hybrid Pole, Muscle Pole,TM and Broken–over-Round design solutions were born. Meet the welders who built the famous mouse-head pole.
Mansfield is one of nine steel pole and six concrete pole plants operated by Valmont-Newmark in North America. We are your one-stop solution for steel, concrete, and hybrid structures to meet all your power delivery needs, whether it’s transmission, distribution, or substation applications.
Our motto is “The Right Stuff, at The Right Place, at The Right Time.” To learn more about our company visit us at http://www.valmont.com.
Special Requirements: Closed toe shoes, no heels. Safety glasses and hard hats will be provided onsite.
Tour Schedule (includes travel time) TOUR REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.
Morning Tours
7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. General Cable-BICC, Inc. (only one tour offered)
7:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Sabre Tubular Structures (includes breakfast)
8:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. FWT, Inc. (includes morning coffee/refreshments and lunch)
8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Valmont Industries, Inc. (includes breakfast)
10:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Sabre Tubular Structures (includes lunch) CANCELLED
Afternoon Tours
12:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. FWT, Inc. (includes lunch)
12:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Valmont Industries, Inc. (includes lunch)
12:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Falcon Steel Company (includes lunch)
1:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m. Sabre Tubular Structures (includes refreshments)