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EWI is pleased to welcome STI-CO® as a new member company. STI-CO custom designs and manufactures antenna solutions for specific applications, including covert, concealed, interoperable, public safety, rail, and transit antennas, as well as the Flexi-Whip Antenna. The company has been supplying custom antenna solutions since 1967 and is based in Orchard Park, N.Y.

Dynetics Technical Solutions, Inc. (DTS) has joined EWI membership. The company offers in-house machining equipment and expertise for precision machining and fabrication used for rapid development of hardware for R&D, prototyping, and limited production. Headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, DTS services aerospace, defense, automotive, medical, and other industries.

Stator windings in traction motors for electric vehicles are created by joining multiple short copper wire sections. Current joining approaches for these multiple copper wire sections lack the productivity for high volume manufacturing, require an increased amount of copper for assembly, and risk reduced joint strength due to softened copper from extended thermal cycles. In...