Schedule

June 6

Thursday

Time
Event
6:30am - 7:45am
Breakfast
8:00am - 9:00am
Tour and Q&A: CCA & CCS Manufacturing and Metallurgical Materials Product Lab
9:15am - 10:00am
“The Reintroduction of CCA”Presenters:
Peter Graser and Greg Olsen
10:15am - 11:00am
"Codes & Standards Compliance"
Presenter: John Kovacik
11:15am - 12:15pm
"Copper-Clad Aluminum Conductors"
Presenter: Chuck Mello
12:15 - 12:45pm
Shuttles to Lunch
12:45 - 1:30pm
Lunch
2:00 - 4:00pm
Tour and Q&A: Building Wire Plants & Building Wire Compliance Lab
4:30 - 5:30pm
Site Visit and Q&A: Product Reliability & Performance Lab
7:00pm
Bluegrass BBQ

Copperweld is ICC Preferred Education Provider #2697

8 total education contact hours, eligible for .8 CEUs

Wednesday, June 5

Huntsville International Airport (HSV)

  • Shuttles will take guests from the airport to Hampton Inn & Suites in Fayetteville, TN
  • Time:  Flights arriving throughout the day
  • Destination:  110 Redstone Dr., Fayetteville, TN 37334

Dinner at Las Trojas Cantina

  • Las Trojas Cantina is in walking distance from the hotel
  • Time:  7:00pm - 9:00pm
  • Destination:  112 Redstone Dr., Fayetteville, TN 37334

    Thursday, June 6

    Breakfast

    • Complementary breakfast will be served at Copperweld's Cottonmill plant
    • Time:  6:30am - 7:45 am
    • Destination:  254 Cottonmill Rd., Fayetteville, TN 37334

    Copperweld Tour – Cotton Mill

    • Shuttle will take guests to Copperweld's flagship plant for tours and educational events
    • Time:  8:00am
    • Destination:  254 Cottonmill Rd., Fayetteville, TN 37334

    Lunch and Copperweld Tour – East Park

    • Shuttles will take guests to Copperweld's Building Wire plants for tours and educational events
    • Time:  12:15pm
    • Destination:  40 East Park Dr., Fayetteville, TN 37334

    Product Reliability & Performance Lab

    • Shuttles will take guests to Copperweld's newly expanded test lab
    • Time:  4:00pm

    Bluegrass BBQ – Sponsored by American Bimetallic Assocation

    • Outdoor BBQ dinner will feature Tennessee-style, award-winning BBQ and live, down-home bluegrass music
    • Time:  7:00pm
    • Destination:  82 Rambo Rd, Fayetteville, TN 37334

    Hampton Inn & Suites

    • Shuttles will return guests to the hotel for the evening
    • Time:  9:00pm
    • Destination:  110 Redstone Dr., Fayetteville, TN 37334

    Friday, June 7

    Huntsville International Airport (HSV)

    • Shuttles will take guests from Hampton Inn & Suites to the airport
    • Time:  Shuttles will run throughout the morning to accommodate travel schedules
    • Destination:  1000 Glenn Hearn Blvd SW, Huntsville, AL 35824

    Hampton Inn & Suites – Fayetteville

    110 Redstone Drive
    Fayetteville, TN 37334

    • Shuttles will transport attendees to and from Hampton Inn to the event venues
    • Amenities: fitness center, pool, business center

    Copperweld Manufacturing Facilities

    Cotton Mill Road Facility

    Participants will view the Cotton Mill Road Manufacturing Facility, where the operation of aluminum rod and of steel rod are clad with copper. Here, clad rod is drawn down into Copper-Clad Aluminum (CCA) and Copper-Clad Steel (CCS) wire.

    49 and 40 East Park Facilities

    Copperweld’s newest manufacturing locations are located nearby the Cotton Mill Road facility. In 2018, recognizing the impending world shortage of copper supplies, Copperweld brought Copper-Clad Aluminum (CCA) small-circuit wire back to the U.S. residential home-building market.

    Copperweld Laboratories

    Building Wire Compliance Lab

    See where Copperweld batch tests its building wire products.

    Metallurgical Materials Product Lab

    Explore Copperweld’s state-of-the-art metallography lab. Quality checks necessary to meet ASTM requirements are performed, and all tests are conducted per ASTM standards. This lab is also ISO certified for automotive product testing.

    Product Reliability & Performance Lab

    View the product reliability and performance lab whose mission is to ensure public safety and to learn the limits of electrical products in general.