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INDEXwiredInUSA - October 2013
Colorado wire flying high
Colorado Wire & Cable Co has provided
wireand tray cable for themultimilliondollar
“High Roller” Ferris wheel, in Las Vegas.
The wheel, which is 100 feet taller than
the London Eye, 30 feet taller than China's
Star of Nanchang and 9 feet taller than
the Singapore Flyer, will carry 3.5 million
pounds of steel and feature 1,500 LED
lights. Located between the Flamingo
and Harrah's hotel-casino, it is expected
to be the main attraction of Caesars
Entertainment Corporation’s outdoor Linq
project when it becomes operational in
early 2014.
With the outer shell of the wheel now
complete, builders are preparing for the
next phase of construction, the installation
of 28 glass-enclosed cabins. Denver-based
Colorado Wire & Cable Co supplied the
electrical wire and control cable that
will help power each of the 44,000lb
observation pods.
The pods, which will include multiple
flat screen TVs and iPod docks, have
been manufactured and assembled by
Grand Junction’s Leitener Poma factory
with a majority of American parts,
including Colorado Wire & Cable Co’s
instrumentation cable and control cable.
Visitors will be able to hold events in the
cabins, while the wheel rotates one foot
per second. Installation of the cabins,
which feature 300 square feet of laminate
glass, will begin before the end of the year.
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