2 LS Cable Acquired the Global No.1 magnet wire supplier Superior Essex Essex s.a.s is the largest European magnet wire manufacturer. Essex Europe is owned by Superior Essex Inc. which is one of the largest wire and cable manufacturers in the world. In August 2008, LS Cable acquired Superior Essex to enhance the global leadership creating a wire and cable industry leader with a strong product portfolio and capabilities in power cable, magnet wire, communication cable and copper rod. LS Cable is a leading cable manufacturer. This transaction made LS Cable and Superior Essex strong global competitors at the forefront of the ongoing wire and cable industry consolidation. Together, LS Cable and Superior Essex will have worldwide reach through diverse network of manufacturing and distribution facilities. Given the highly complementary geographic locations of two companies, this combination greatly expands the global presence and captures synergies between the two businesses.
3 Essex is well known as the global reference for winding wire, and is synonymous with quality and service. With 300.000 tons produced in America, Europe and Asia, we are in a position to follow your expansions and ambitions. Essex thrives through men and women committed to provide you the best in class supply. In Europe, more than 1.000 people work together within a network spanning the continent. Essex has the unique ability to engineer its own equipment and to develop its enamels. Supported by an experienced R&D department, we can respond to your specific requirements efficiently. Essex is known as the global leader in the winding wire industry and will continue to grow. Superior Essex, the parent of Essex, will support Essex in its efforts to expand and innovate. Essex has implemented an ambitious and significant investment industrial program to renew its equipment. Essex will continuously work on offering you the most competitive solutions through up to date operations. Essex will also respond to growing markets demands, such as those in the energy segment. Essex has a unique ability to follow your needs. The Essex management team assures you of the commitment of all 1.000 employees to fully satisfy your expectations.
SUPERIOR ESSEX, THE WORLD S LARGEST PRODUCER OF WINDING WIRE Canada, Mexico & USA 4 France, Germany, Italy, Portugal & U.K China Superior Essex is a global leader in the design, manufacture and supply of communications cables and winding wire, an insulated copper or aluminium conductor. The group s heritage and experience spans more than eight decades. It traces its history back to 1930, when Essex Wire Corporation was founded. In 1998, Superior TeleCom acquired Essex International. The combination of these two companies is the business now known as Superior Essex, in Atlanta, Georgia. In the past years, Superior Essex has sustained a strong and focused development strategy driven by major acquisitions and investments worldwide and more specifically in Europe, in the USA and in China. Today, Superior Essex operates 20 manufacturing facilities in nine countries on three continents and works along with more than 3,900 employees around the world.
SUPERIOR ESSEX, A GLOBAL PRESENCE TO ACCOMPANY CUSTOMERS WORLDWIDE WINDING WIRE AND DISTRIBUTION North America Superior Essex manufactures a comprehensive portfolio of winding wire products in facilities strategically located across North America. Vertically integrated, the company is able to produce a large majority of its own enamels and copper rod used for world-class winding wire products. Through Essex Brownell, Superior Essex distributes its own manufactured winding wire. Europe Superior Essex is known as the largest producer of winding wire. The European division capitalizes on more than 80 years of experience to provide winding wire solutions for all Customers and offers a wide range of products, from ultra-fine, used mainly in electronic applications, to large flat wires, used in the energy sector. 5 Asia Pacific As the world becomes more global and Customers require winding wire in the Asia Pacific region, Superior Essex expanded into China in 2006 by investing in state of the art equipment, making available a great potential output and implementing US manufacturing best practices. The Tianjin facility, which produces flat and Continuously Transposed Cable (CTC) wire benefits from more than 10 years experience. COMMUNICATIONS CABLE As the world s largest manufacturer of outside plant copper telephone cable and as a leader in the production of local area network copper and fibre optic cables, Superior Essex is a supplier to many major communications service providers, universities, hospitals, military facilities and businesses.
ESSEX, A EUROPEAN LEADER ON THE WINDING WIRE BUSINESS HUYTON BRAMSCHE AROLSEN COMPIEGNE, HQ QUATTORDIO VIANA DO CASTELO Fine Wire Flat Wire and CTC 6 Round Wire Essex benefits from a large presence across Europe through its manufacturing facilities, its fully integrated enamel manufacturer, its sales and distribution workforce present in many European countries. Essex proposes the broadest product offering on the European market, from ultra-fine wire to flat wire and offers a high performance logistic service to meet its Customer s most demanding requirements. ISO TS 16949 ISO 9001 ISO 14001 All wire applications require high technical performances and quality guarantees, made possible by numerous R&D Projects, rigorous control procedures, and an agressive investment program. Essex fully meets international norms: all locations are certified to ISO 9001, ISO TS 16949 and ISO 14001. Moreover, Essex has a strong experience in the Automotive industry thanks to appropriate Quality systems and logistics as well as a leading position in the Transformers business worldwide.
AN IN-HOUSE EXPERTISE TO MEET TOMORROW S TRENDS Essex designs and develops much of its own machinery for winding manufacture and produces an entire range of specialized enamels and varnishes with superior characteristics to satisfy Customer demand. Steadily over the years, Essex has been improving process and winding wire characteristics. Process innovation Create innovative enamelling facilities from entire machines to constituents alone, such as drawing machines or spoolers but also break new ground in terms of Process Survey: Essex adapts and develops all its machines according to Customer product specifications. Ensure Quality control at every step to certify the best product characteristics in terms of lifetime, insulation properties, solderability and windability: all products are tested during and after production to ensure the best quality of wire. Product innovation Offer new solutions thanks to a Specialized Research and Development Centre dedicated to all Essex specialties from Ultra-Fine Wire to Flat Wire and CTC many projects are lead to improve product features. Develop innovative enamels: Essex owns a laboratory fully dedicated to the creation of new formulas as well as an application laboratory including enamelling pilot lines. Essex competencies are embodied by a multidisciplinary and multinational R&D team. Essex favours a close cooperation with Customers in order to improve product line productivity and product quality and follows Customer product innovation, based on Knowledge-Sharing and Technical Support.
A BROAD PRODUCT OFFERING TO PROVIDE GREATER WINDING WIRE SOLUTIONS Through its extensive, complementary and flexible manufacturing network, Essex offers the broadest product range on the European Market. Wires can be produced in any diameter or shape: round from 0.016 mm to 6mm, flat or CTC - using aluminium or copper as raw material, with different characteristics such as bondable wires or wires resistant to high temperatures. PRODUCT RANGE Bramsche Arolsen Quattordio I Huyton Arolsen Quattordio II 8 Viana 0,016mm 0,12mm 0,4mm 0,6mm 0,8mm 1mm 5mm 6mm Flat/CTC Covered Conductors MAGNESOL Solderable Wires MAGNESOL UN 180, the most commonly used solderable wire, insures electrical connection in a couple of seconds when plunged into a 390 C tin bath. This solderable property is used mainly with ultra-fine and fine wires, enhances Customer s productivity and windability thanks to a nylon overcoat. MAGNETEMP High Temperature Wires Magnetemp wires comply with all new international standards, thanks to their thermal grades spread from 200 C to 240 C. Insulation is made from Polyesterimide and Polyamide-Imide. MAGNETEMP CA 200 is considered as a standard on the wire market since its lifetime is estimated at 20.000 hours when exposed at a temperature of 200 C. MAGNEBOND Bondable Wires This new product altered the winding business with its innovative property, which is to bond wires together in reduced time, once the winding is over. They act as a substitute for all Customers impregnation operations with additional insulation, operations that are in general time consuming, costly and dangerous. Also, these wires guarantee decreased size, costs and eliminate all supports for winding manufacturers. MAGNEFORM Wire for Transformers Essex is a world reference for MAGNEFORM varnishes and wires. Indeed, this kind of wire was first to win recognition on the transformers business place thanks to its particular resistance to hydrolysis and transformer oil. It also became essential in the production of bigger and more sophisticated wires such as Continuously Transposed Cables.
A SPECIALTY FITTED FOR ALL APPLICATIONS Continuously Transposed Cables offer decisive advantages in the design of transformers compared to the conventional paper-insulated solid conductors. - Shorted winding time during the production process - Increased space factors resulting in decreased size and costs of transformer - Reduced electrical loses CORDEX CTC is a special transposed conductor, known as the best paperless CTC for transformer windings. Flat wire products To fullfill the requirements of our industrial customers, Essex offers a full range of flat wire specialities: Paper Kapton insulated, Fiber Glass, Daglas, Mica. 9 Fine and Ultra fine wires are used in several specialty markets and applications such as extremely delicate instruments and electronic devices. - Perfect adaptation to Hi Tech Constraints - Excellent windability at high speed - Long product life expectancy Self-bonding wires are used for high speed electrical motors, power tools and appliances. A special thermal coating uses AC or DC current to melt and bond the wires permanently. - Eliminates a step in motor production process - Long lasting and extremely cost-effective Aluminium Wire is commonly used on the US market and Essex is known as the expert in that specialty segment across Atlantic. More recently introduced in Europe, Aluminium is showing a large potential for copper substituting and Essex is ready to follow its customers through such a promising market evolution.
A COMMITTED, RELIABLE AND FLEXIBLE PARTNER FOR WIRE SUPPLY 1 0 Essex provides a world class service based on a close relationship and partnership with Customers. Essex is fully devoted to achieve excellence by identifying and meeting Customer s requirements on time, without error through a sustainable performance. Indeed, Essex offers an efficient and flexible Customer and logistic support thanks to integrated tools such as the Electronic Data Interchange, a European planning department and many more features: A dedicated contact person for each Customer that ensures efficient responses A great flexibility for handling Customer demand fluctuations and urgent orders A guaranteed product availability by coordinating current and future stock levels, using regularly updated six week projections A fast delivery from warehouses located near Customers An optimized and high-grade packaging return management service PLAN Vendor Management inventory Optimized Stock Levels S&OP Meetings Optimized Transports Production Line Replenishment Packaging Returns Management DELIVER Copper Contact Management High Quality Raw Material (Rod, Varnish, Packaging...) SOURCE ORDER Dedicated Customer service Representive EDI transmission of Orders & Invoices Order Confirmation & Shipment Notice
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