Troup, Muscogee, Harris, Carroll, Coweta, Heard, Meriwether
Regional coverage
Wire and cable buyers in West Georgia and Columbus
The Kia supplier cluster, wire manufacturing and the Chattahoochee Valley's industrial base. Surplus, obsolete and scrap material, reviewed on construction and footage.
- Utility and plant material
- 4 city markets
- Troup and beyond
01The market
What West Georgia and Columbus generates
West Georgia is the state’s automotive corridor. The Kia plant at West Point and its supplier cluster in Troup, Harris and Meriwether counties run stamping, injection moulding, seating and assembly operations that depend on drives, robots and substation capacity. Carrollton adds something unusual for a region this size: Southwire, one of North America’s largest wire and cable manufacturers, is headquartered there.
The material that comes out of this corridor is industrial rather than commercial — motor lead, VFD cable, robot dress packs, control and safety cable, and medium voltage distribution from plant substations. Suppliers here also hold new surplus: cable bought for a programme that changed model year before the reels were opened.
02Cities
City markets in this region
03Materials
Material reviewed here
- Transmission conductorBare overhead conductor from 69 kV through 500 kV lines
- Substation bus wireBus, jumper, strain bus and station post conductor
- Medium voltage cable5 kV to 35 kV shielded power cable
- Tray cableTC and TC-ER, 600 V to 2 kV
- Control cableMulti-conductor control cable, 600 V
- VFD cableVariable-frequency drive cable with symetrical grounds
- Copper wireCopper building wire, feeder and bus
04Questions
West Georgia and Columbus questions
Why does Carrollton matter to a wire buyer?
Southwire is headquartered there, which makes the town a wire town as well as a manufacturing one. Conductor and cable turn up in the region through manufacturing, contractor and utility channels rather than only through plant closures.
Do automotive suppliers sell surplus cable?
Yes. Programme changes, cancelled model years and line rebalancing leave sealed reels of drive, control and motor cable that were bought for work that no longer exists.
What is the most common lot in this region?
Motor lead and VFD cable from line rebuilds, followed by medium voltage feeder from plant substation work and mixed control cable from panel upgrades.
Send the West Georgia and Columbus lot details
The city, the family, the footage and how a truck reaches the reels.