wiredinUSA October 2011

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Cable jobs for Blairsville

US fastener imports/exports

Optical fiber cleaver

Agiltron Inc has launched a coated optical fiber cleaver. Compatible with the Agiltron PermLock™ fiberoptic splice kit, the fiber cleaver is designed to make thousands of cuts through high-performance polyimide-coated optical fiber before a blade change. The cleave leaves no residual torn polyimide to interfere with low optical loss splicing. Used in conjunction with the PermLock™ splice tool low-loss, reliable splices can be obtained in industrial, military, aerospace, mining, and oil exploration environments.

The Industrial Fasteners Institute (IFI) has reported that US fastener imports increased 29.9 per cent in value to $2.09 billion, with a growth of 23.7% to 1.43 billion pounds in volume during the first six months of 2011. US fastener exports also posted strong gains during the first half of 2011, rising 16.9% in value to $1.44 billion, but fastener exports declined 30.4% by weight to 793,315,558 pounds. IFI attributed this decline primarily to lower shipments to Canada. Exports to Canada jumped 12.9 per cent in value while

The north Georgia town of Blairsville has been chosen as the site for a new manufacturing facility, creating 60 jobs and investing $4.2 million in the community. According to reports from the Georgia department of economic development, Advanced Digital Cable (ADC) is purchasing an existing building in Blairsville Airport Regional Industrial Park where it will manufacture larger cables for instrumentation and control, QPL cables, PV cables for solar arrays and flat cabling for pumping and irrigation. Advanced Digital Cable (ADC) manufactures a broad range of communications and industrial cables.

down 40.2 per cent in weight during the first six months of the year. “Excluding Canada, weight exported (from the US) is 22% higher,” the IFI reports.

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