Cobb County · Metro Atlanta
We buy wire and cable for Marietta and Cobb County
Two employers set the pace in Marietta: Lockheed Martin's aircraft plant and Dobbins ARB. Around them sits a layer of machine shops, older plants and Cobb County contractors, and that layer is where the cable changes hands.
- Cobb County
- Aerospace suppliers
- I-75 and I-575
- Lockheed Martin's Marietta plant builds the C-130J and F-35 center wings
- Dobbins ARB shares its airfield with the Lockheed plant
- I-75 and I-575 cross Cobb County, with freight on Cobb Parkway
01Local market
Selling a lot in Marietta
Aerospace work does not release cable the way a mill does. The Lockheed building is not going to sell off a storehouse of conductor. What the plant and its suppliers release is the cable that hangs off machine tools and test equipment: control cable from panel changes, VFD cable from drive replacements, welding lead and high-temperature lead from tooling work. Cobb County has a deep bench of machine shops and tool rooms, and each one turns over equipment on its own schedule.
The rest of the market is ordinary Cobb County construction. Offices, medical buildings and schools along Cobb Parkway and Barrett Parkway buy MC, THHN and feeder by the pallet, and the last reel of a job tends to stay in the contractor's yard. Expect a mix: sealed reels of new building wire beside a drum of shielded medium voltage cable pulled out of an older plant, and a scattering of SOOW drops. Footage on the tag decides more of these lots than the metal does.
02Industries
Where Marietta cable comes from
Aerospace and defense suppliers
Machine shops, tool rooms and composites suppliers working around the Lockheed plant and Dobbins. Equipment moves and replacements release control cable, VFD cable, servo lead and high-temperature wire, usually in short lengths.
Plant maintenance and motor replacement
Older Cobb industrial buildings still run cable sizes that are no longer stocked. A motor or panel change can leave a drum of shielded cable and a box of lugs with nothing left to serve.
Commercial construction in Cobb
Contractors working Cobb Parkway, Barrett and the East Cobb medical corridor finish jobs with partial reels of THHN, XHHW, MC and SER. Those lots are worth sorting before they are sent anywhere.
03Materials
Cable families we review in Marietta
- 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
04Logistics
Pickup and access around Marietta
Access splits by site. A defense-adjacent building means a visitor pass, an escort and a window booked ahead; a truck that arrives without one waits at the gate. The industrial parks off Cobb Parkway and Canton Road are easier, though many of the yards behind them are tight enough that a 53-foot trailer will not turn.
North Cobb reels often stand in a fenced lot behind a shop rather than at a dock. Say whether the reel has to come off a rack, be lifted over a wall or be rolled out on its flange, because that decides the truck and the crew.
06Questions
Marietta wire buying questions
Do you buy cable from machine shops around Dobbins?
Yes. Shops and tool rooms turn over equipment, and the cable that came off the old machine usually stays in the building. Single drums and part reels are reviewed together when they come from the same shop.
What changes when the site is defense-adjacent?
Access. Expect badging, an escort and an approved removal window, and expect the lot to need a signature from someone with authority over the property. Give us the site rules when you send photographs.
Is old building wire from Cobb plants worth pulling?
Sometimes. THHN and XHHW that has stayed indoors and dry is often still serviceable. Cable from a shed, a flooded basement or an open rack is a scrap lot rather than a reuse lot, and it should be described that way.
Can you take one reel from a Marietta job?
Yes. One partial reel of 4/0 or a single drum of medium voltage cable is a normal enquiry. The real constraint is usually what a truck can justify, not the cable itself.
Send the Marietta lot details
The cable family, the footage, the site rules and how a truck reaches the reels. A buyer reads it and comes back with questions or a basis for the lot.