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The Sentral Group has acquired
TennesseeWire Technologies in a
move to extend its manufactur-
ing capabilities and locations.
Tennessee Wire Technologies
is among leading suppliers of
wire harnesses, wire leads and
control panels into the industrial
and HVAC markets.
“Regional manufacturing is an
initiative we started over a year
ago to expand our capacity
while dramatically enhancing
our ability to respond quickly our
customers' changing demands,”
said Sentral president David
Ritland. “The industrial and
environmental markets serviced
so well by Tennessee Wire are a
perfect complement to our core
competencies and diversified
customer base,” he continued.
As part of the Tennessee Wire
acquisition, Sentral also forms
a joint venture with Sinbon
Electronics, based in Taipei, Taiwan.
The venture enhances Sentral’s
ability to provide competitive
pricing on high-volume repetitive
products augmented with local
warehousing support.
The Sentral Group now has over
165,000ft2 of manufacturing
space in the United States, and
over 300 full-time employees.
Sentral Assemblies, founded
in 1990, is a manufacturer of
custom wire harnesses, cable
assemblies, tubing assemblies and
electro-mechanical assemblies
and is among the largest
privately-owned cable assembly
companies in the US.
Expanding wire
harnesses
Texas grid
sets record
Changes on
the board
The Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Council
Americas, a non-profit organization
of nearly 300 companies and
organizations dedicated to ex-
panding the availability of ultra high
speed broadband, has elected
three industry executives to its board
of directors for 2013.
In recent voting, thecouncil elected
Walt Donovan, vice-president of
telecom business development for
Quanta Services, and Scott Jackson,
business development manager
of Smart Grid for Graybar Electric
Company, to three-year terms on
the nine-member board. Re-elected
to a three-year term on the board
was Kevin Morgan, director of
marketing for ADTRAN.
Serving as chairman of the board
in 2013 will be Kevin Bourg, senior
director of global market develop-
ment for Aurora Networks. He has
been active in the FTTH Council
over the years serving on the tech-
nology and planning committees
as well as chairperson for the 2012
FTTH Conference & Expo in Dallas.
Texas set anewrecord inNovember,
for the percentage of electricity
generated by wind power – 26% of
total supply across the state’s main
grid system. On 10th November,
wind turbines generated 8,521MW
of electricity. This total was enough
to power 4.3 million average Texas
homes and represented 85 % of the
state’s optimal wind generation
output, according to the Electric
Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
ERCOT manages the grid for 85%
of the state’s total electric load,
matching supply and demand for
23 million customers across 40,500
miles of transmission lines. Texas
already has the most installed wind
capacity of any state in America
with a total of 10,929MW and
10,000MW within the ERCOT system.
Roughly 21,000MW of new wind
turbines are currently under review
by ERCOT, and the state is nearing
the completion of several massive
transmission projects designed to
move wind power from West Texas
to eastern metropolitan areas
where demand is highest.
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