wiredinUSA October 2015

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Growing plant

Southwire’s Huntersville cable plant, recently bought from ABB, is already ear-marked for expansion. The company plans to add at least 20 employees to the existing staff at the facility within the next two years, said Charlie Murrah, president of the Southwire energy division. “We bought this plant to grow this facility,” Mr Murrah said, speaking at an open house in September that was streamed live to other Southwire plants.

The $90 million high voltage cable plant, with its distinctive 430-foot cable insulation cooling tower, is located about 15 miles north of Charlotte. It was opened three years ago. The Huntersville plant will serve as a sister facility to a Southwire high voltage cable plant in Heflin, Alabama. Southwire, with 2014 revenue of $5.4 billion, is North America’s largest electrical wire manufacturer with a wide range of cable products.

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