Company Profile
We, together with our subsidiaries, manufacture and market wire products, including bare and tin-plated copper wire, engineered products and high performance conductors for other wire suppliers and original equipment manufacturers or "OEM's". Our products include a broad spectrum of copper wire configurations and gauges with a variety of electrical and conductive characteristics and are utilized by a wide variety of customers primarily in the aerospace, appliance, automotive, electronics and data communications, general industrial/energy and medical device industries. We manufacture and distribute our products from facilities located in the United States, Belgium, France and Italy. We operate our business in the following three segments:
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Bare Wire Products. Our bare and tin-plated copper wire products (or conductors) are used to transmit digital, video and audio signals or conduct electricity and are sold to a diverse customer base of over 1,000 insulated wire manufacturers and various industrial OEM's for use in computer and data communications products, general industrial, energy, appliances, automobiles and other applications. |
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Engineered Products - Europe. Our bare copper wire products are engineered and used to conduct electricity either for power or for grounding purposes and are sold to a diverse customer base of various OEM's for use in electrical appliances, power supply, aircraft and railway and automotive.
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High Performance Conductors. Our high performance conductors segment manufacturers specialty high performance conductors which include tin, nickel and silver plated copper and copper alloy conductors including high and low temperature standard and customized conductors as well as specialty film insulated conductors and miniature tubing products. This segment resulted from our acquisition of Phelps Dodge High Performance Conductors of SC & GA, Inc. ("HPC") on March 31, 2006. |
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