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20 Wire & Cable ASIA – July/August 2016
Industrynews
IDEAL Networks celebrates the 100th
birthday of parent company Ideal
Industries Inc, which has been
designing tools and solutions that
make a true difference for millions of
professional tradesmen.
100 years ago, founder J Walter
Becker launched the Ideal
Commutator Dresser Company from
his mother’s kitchen with the belief that
every product should be worth more
than its price. Service, he said, is part
of the product.
Since then, Ideal Industries has grown
into an authority on electrical
installation and testing. In its 100 years
of business it has acquired several
other companies including the LAN
tester division of Acterna (formally
Wavetek), and a major ATM, xDSL,
SDH/Sonet, Gigabit Ethernet, and IP
hand-held testing equipment provider,
Trend Communications.
Ideal Industries has achieved many
industry firsts and was proud to launch
the market’s first hand-held Cat 5
cable certifier (LANTech 100) in 1993.
Since then it has released the first
tester for Class F/FA, the first
dedicated tester for Cat 6A cabling,
the first tester to include a tone
generator and colour screen, and the
first tester to have an autotest button
on the remote to save time.
Today, it continues to develop the
iconic products and practical
technology demanded by critical
industries like data communications,
aerospace, electrical, wire processing,
automotive, construction and more.
There are now eight companies in the
Ideal group, trading worldwide across
six continents.
Many important sectors have Ideal to
thank in part for their progress. For
example, its wire strippers have been
used on many commercial jets flying
today; and its products have even
been to the moon as part of the critical
equipment on NASA missions.
In the past 100 years, Ideal has grown
to become a major manufacturer of
portable test equipment with true
heritage and expertise in both LAN and
WAN installation and maintenance.
Through its Networks brand it now
supplies data cable testers, network
testers and telecom/enterprise testers
all over the world.
“Innovation and quality have been
central to everything Ideal Industries
has done over the past century. As we
reach this important milestone, Ideal
Networks continues its commitment to
offering both a range of unique,
effective products and leading
customer service,” said Tim
Widdershoven, global marketing
manager for Ideal Networks.
Ideal Industries – USA
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Centenary celebrations for Ideal
❍ A glance through the past 100 years at Ideal Industries
Hatebur’s deal for Calvi
The Swiss forming machinery
specialist, Hatebur Umformmaschinen
AG, has agreed to buy Carlo Salvi SpA,
a cold forming machine builder based
in Garlate, Italy. The two firms
explained that Hatebur will buy all the
shares of privately held Carlo Salvi, and
that the organisation’s locations and
employees will continue unchanged.
Carlo Salvi develops and manufactures
cold forming machines. It has 92
employees, operating from facilities in
Italy, China, the USA and UK.
Hatebur Metalforming Equipment
Ltd – Switzerland
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