VII . MANUFACTURING 



There are several manufacturers of E-M cable in the United States. 

 Foreign manufacturers supply the majority of the market of E-M seafloor 

 cables. 



USA 



Simplex Wire and Cable Company 



United States Steel Company 



Vector Cable Company (Division of Schlumberger 



Technology Company) 

 South Bay Cable Company (Division of Consolidated 



Products Corporation) 

 Rochester Corporation 



Boston Insulated Wire and Cable Company 

 International Telephone and Telegraph 

 General Cable Corporation 

 Phelps Dodge Copper Products Company 

 Anaconda Wire and Cable Company 



Foreign 



General Wire and Cable Companv, Ltd. (Canada) 

 Universal Wire and Cable Company, Ltd. (Canada) 

 Pirelli General Cable Works (England, Italy) 

 Standard Telephone and Cable (England) (Subsidiary 



of IT&T) 

 British Insulated Callender's Cable, Ltd. (England) 

 AEI Cables (England) 

 Sumitomo Electric (Japan) 

 Furukawa (Japan) 

 Showa (Japan) 

 Fujikura (Japan) 



American companies have supplied all types of F-M cables, i.e., ocean, 

 working, and structural, on special order. Some manufacturers do list 

 standard types of cables in their catalogs but these are designs which 

 are available and can be supplied by that manufacturer but very few cable 

 applications are standardized enough for the manufacturer to stock large 

 quantities of electro-mechanical cable. 



Foreign Manufacturers 



The manufacturing of E-M cable had its inception in Europe. Some of 

 the larger cable companies in Europe have produced cable for many more 

 years than any American manufacturer. This fact, in some instances, has 

 proved detrimental to the European cable industry. The major manufacturers 

 tend to be hesitant to change the old methods of manufacturing cable. Some 

 manufacturers are still using materials which American manufacturers have 

 stopped using ten or fifteen years ago. On the other hand, the European 



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