Carroll County · Metro Atlanta
We buy wire and cable in Carrollton, Georgia
Carrollton makes wire. Southwire is headquartered and manufactures here, which means this market reads a reel tag the way other towns read a parts number, and it produces the surplus to match.
- Carroll County
- Wire manufacturing
- Municipal electric utility
- Southwire is headquartered and manufactures in Carrollton
- Carrollton is the Carroll County seat, west of Atlanta via I-20
- Carrollton Utilities supplies the city with electric, water and gas
01Local market
Selling a lot in Carrollton
A city that manufactures cable also consumes it. Drawing, stranding, insulation and jacketing lines run on drives, pay-offs, take-ups and ovens, and keeping them running takes control cable, VFD cable, heat-resistant lead and a good deal of ordinary building wire. When a line is rebuilt or a standard changes, the material that was bought for the old arrangement stays in the storehouse. That is the local surplus stream, and it is larger here than in a town of the same size without a wire plant.
The wider county adds the rest. Carrollton Utilities runs its own distribution, so reconductor work, transformer changes and service upgrades release conductor, transformer lead and URD. The industrial base around the city holds cable for projects that were deferred, and contractors working the courthouse square and the college corridor leave part reels behind. Bare copper, cut lengths and obsolete constructions all turn up in the same conversation here.
02Industries
Where Carroll County cable comes from
Wire and cable manufacturing
Lines, drives and material handling equipment at the Carrollton plants are rebuilt and replaced. Line upgrades release control, drive and heating cable, and storehouses hold material for standards that have moved on.
Municipal electric distribution
The city runs its own electric system, so reconductor work and transformer changes release covered conductor, transformer lead, URD and service cable in batches rather than one reel at a time.
Plant and contractor surplus
West Georgia plants and commercial contractors hold cable long after a project closes. Part reels of building wire, tray cable and feeder sit in store rooms until someone decides to clear them.
03Materials
Cable families we review in Carrollton
- Medium voltage cable5 kV to 35 kV shielded power cable
- THHN and THWN wire600 V nylon-jacketed building wire
- XHHW and XHHW-2 wireCross-linked polyethylene building wire
- Tray cableTC and TC-ER, 600 V to 2 kV
- ACSR conductorAluminium conductor steel reinforced, distribution to transmission
- Control cableMulti-conductor control cable, 600 V
- Welding cableFlexible single-conductor lead cable
- URD cableUnderground residential distribution cable
- Copper wireCopper building wire, feeder and bus
- Substation bus wireBus, jumper, strain bus and station post conductor
Local material pages
04Logistics
Pickup and access in Carroll County
Carrollton is reached by US-27 from the north and by I-20 at Villa Rica to the east. Neither is a problem for a loaded trailer, but the roads west and south of the city narrow quickly, and a storehouse at the end of a county road is a slower job than the map suggests.
Mill and plant yards often have rail spurs and gantry cranes, which helps. The difficulty is access around stored material: a reel at the back of a storehouse may need three pallets moved before it can be lifted, and that work belongs to the seller, not the truck.
06Questions
Carrollton wire buying questions
Do you buy obsolete constructions from a wire plant?
Yes. Cable made to a specification that is no longer used is a normal lot in Carrollton. The printed legend and the reel tag matter more than the age, because they say what the construction actually is.
Can you review bare copper and cut lengths?
Yes. Bare copper is reviewed on strand, temper and condition, and cut lengths are reviewed for what they can still serve. Mixed offcuts are handled as a separate lot from full reels.
What paperwork helps with a city utility lot?
The release or retirement record, the conductor size and the construction. City material that came off a reconductor job is usually identifiable from those three things alone.
Do you cover Villa Rica, Bowdon and Temple?
Yes. The county and its neighbours on the I-20 side are covered from the same desk, and a lot can be looked at on the way to another pickup.
Send the Carrollton storehouse list
Reel tags, constructions, footage and what stands between the door and the reels. That is what a buyer needs to plan a visit.