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Barcel Wire & Cable

Barcel Wire & Cable designs and manufactures specialty electronic data transmission cables and network structured wiring systems for aerospace industry. Barcel/CDT, a subsidiary of Cable Design Technologies, manufactures military/aerospace wire and cable, medical wire & cable using silicone and specialty products. Provider of wire and cable for aerospace industry. The company also manufactures electronic data cables. CABLE DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (CDT) had quickly developed into a major force in the wire and cable market with the acquisitions that it has made over the past few years. Many of these companies focus on various types of low-voltage wire and cable for datacom, security, fire-alarm, robotics, sound and video and other specialized applications. Cable Design Technologies Corp. is a designer and manufacturer of electronic data transmission cables, used to link electronic equipment for LAN, WAN, high-speed multi-media communications, building automation, computer interconnectivity and security system applications. In 2004 Belden company merged with Cable Design Technologies (CDT) forming Belden CDT Inc. (now Belden Inc.) and since then the company has been headquartered in St. Louis.

Barcel Wire & Cable was acquired by Cable Design Technologies on September 10, 1997. Barcel Wire & Cable, an Irvine manufacturer of aerospace products acquired by Cable Design Technologies, a Cleveland-based manufacturing company, for an undisclosed amount of cash and notes. Founded in 1972, Barcel manufactures high-performance wire and cable for the aerospace industry. The company has 110 employees in Irvine and 20 at its Santa Fe Textiles subsidiary in Santa Ana, which makes specialty braided products for the aerospace, electronics and medical industries. Banner is a manufacturer of aerospace products, mechanical components, engineered materials and water treatment equipment.

Barcel supplies high-performance cable to the aerospace industry. Its business folded into Thermax and other Belden CDT operations. Belden Incorporated is an American manufacturer of networking, connectivity, and cable products. The company designs, manufactures, and markets signal transmission products for demanding applications. These products serve the industrial automation, enterprise, security, transportation, infrastructure, and residential markets. Belden is one of the largest U.S.-based manufacturers of high-speed electronic cables primarily used in industrial, enterprise, and broadcast markets.

Cable Design Technologies is a leading manufacturer of technologically advanced electronic data transmission cables for network, communications, specialty electronics, and automation and process control applications, including complete voice and data wiring solutions, fiber optic connective solutions and other components required to build high performance telecommunications infrastructures. The Company's products are manufactured or distributed under the trade names Montrose/CDT, Phalo/CDT, West Penn/CDT, Mohawk/CDT, Manhattan/CDT, X-Mark/CDT, Dearborn/CDT, Thermax/CDT, Barcel/CDT, NORDX/CDT and NORCOM/CDT in Canada, NEK/CDT and Orebro/CDT in Sweden, Anglo American/CDT and Raydex/CDT in the U.K., and Cekan/CDT in Denmark, and HEW/CDT in Germany.