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Southwest Wire Rope"s Engineering Services Department provides engineered lifting devices, lift plans, and engineered load testing services under the leadership of experienced Professional Engineers with extensive experience in heavy lifting.

• Tensile Strengths are determined in accordance with Cordage Institute 1500.2. Test Methods for Fiber Rope. Minimum Tensile Strength (MTS) published assumes spliced eye tenninations at each end of the rope. Weights actually calculated at linear density under state preloaded (200d’J plus 4%. Diameter and circumference size published is nominal and reflects rope size after loading (10 cycles) to 50% ofMTS. See reverse side for application and safety information .

Plasma® 12 strand is the highest strength synthetic rope available. Plasma® 12 strand is manufactured from High Modulus Polyethylene (HMPE) that has been enhanced by Cortland’s patented recrystallization process. This process is especially effective in medium to large diameter ropes where strengths are over 50% higher and creep is significantly less than that of standard Spectra® 12 strand.

Since 1966 Southwest Wire Rope has expanded to become a recognized global wire rope supplier serving diversified markets with material handling, lifting & mooring products at five full-service locations. Large, full-range inventory includes their trademark “Gold Strand” wire rope; bright, galvanized, stainless steel & vinyl coated cable; plus wire rope slings & a variety of fittings & hardware.

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Manufacturer of material handling, lifting and mooring products required by industries along the Gulf Coast. The company"s products include wire rope slings, nylon slings, round slings, chain, shackles, thimbles, sockets and other related products.

Many of the bridge"s cables are to be replaced soon, a job that will eat up 184,000 feet - almost 35 miles - of the product that Mr. Paulson and his industrial colleagues produce: wire rope, or, as it is more commonly known, cable.

Under a ""Buy American"" provision of New York State law, only domestically made products can be used. ""I want that job,"" said Mr. Paulson, the 73-year-old chairman of the Paulson Wire Rope Company, as he glanced down at the bridge from his luncheon table at the Windows on the World restaurant on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center.

He has a good chance of getting it -if he can keep his 60-year-old family business afloat until the contract is given in the fall. Paulson Wire Rope, at one point a moderately profitable company, has operated at a loss every month since June 1982. And it is still one of the industry"s luckier members.

Fifteen years ago, about 25 companies, employing 20,000 people, would have qualified as bidders on the Brooklyn Bridge job. This year, only eight of those companies remain in the wire rope business, and they employ a mere 4,500 people.

Those remaining companies are being besieged from all sides. Although many states have Buy American policies, private-sector companies - the main customers for wire rope - do not. The domestic industry thus has been decimated by a decade of imports, mainly from South Korea. Although the Government last month finally capped those imports, the industry says it will not help much.

The wire rope companies are now in for a bout of domestic pressure, as well. In May, the Federal Trade Commission served subpoenas on each of them. Although the commission would not confirm its investigation, a copy of the subpoena shows that the commission is requesting documents that refer to ""prices, pricing plans, price competition, and price cutting."" That seems to indicate an investigation into price fixing.

This new development, combined with intense pressure from imports and from balance sheets overwhelmed by red ink, may force several of the surviving wire rope companies to close as well. F OR the small producers, many of which are family-owned, the last two decades have produced a depressing casualty list. Keystone Consolidated Industries, Leschen Wire Rope and Pacific Wire Rope died. The American Chain and Cable Company and Jones & Laughlin Wire Rope were purchased by a British company, the Bridon Corporation, which closed their plants. The Wickwire Rope Company folded, as did E. H. Edwards.

Even earlier, one of the most famous wire rope companies disappeared: The John A. Roebling Sons Company, the first United States producer of wire rope.

""Many of the small businesses have closed because they could not operate on the narrow profit margins or because they merged with another wire rope firm,"" said the industry"s unofficial historian, Donald Sayenga, the director of Bethlehem"s Wire Rope Division, who resigned as of July 1.

The industry-wide blood bath continues. The 106-year-old Broderick & Bascomb Rope Company sold its assets in February 1984. One month later the United States Steel Corporation closed the last of its three wire rope plants.

The fate of the wire rope divisions of two other major steel producers, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and Armco Inc., is uncertain. ""If we were not part of a larger organization, I"m not sure we"d still be in business,"" said Ronald G. Dull, manager of engineering services at Armco"s wire rope division, Union Wire Rope. ""We"ve lost money since 1981."" Both steel companies have put former controllers in charge of their wire rope groups - executives who are unfamiliar with the product, but who know how to liquidate assets.

This is not the industry"s first run-in with the F.T.C. In 1943, the commission issued a cease-and-desist order against 16 wire rope companies, charging them with participating in an ""agreement to fix and maintain uniform prices,"" said Daniel P. Ducore, the deputy assistant director for compliance in the commission"s Bureau of Competition. He concedes that the F.T.C. often re-examines industries it once targeted. ""Orders don"t terminate - they are as current as if they were issued last year,"" he said.

Over all, a cloud of gloom has settled on the wire rope makers. The future? ""There"s no other way to describe it,"" said Mr. Sayenga. ""It"s just bleak."" T HE current nadir in fortunes is a sharp contrast to the industry"s formerly bright prospects. Wire rope technology spawned the Brooklyn Bridge, the Otis Elevator Company and the oil boom in the Southwest in the early 1900"s. The product, a highly engineered mass of wire, twisted into tight strands and then lubricated and bound together to form ropes of varying widths, supports enormous amounts of tension and pressure. The industry calls wire rope the ""cheapest, strongest product that will go around a corner to connect two points.""

In its finished form, wire rope is used in equipment that activates elevators, mines for coal, drills for oil, operates ocean vessels and airplanes. It is used on submarines, on construction sites and even in the brakes of the family car. It is, quite literally, everywhere.

But the problem for the American industry is that these days it seems to be made everywhere, too. Imports have risen phenomenally. They accounted in 1984 for almost 75,000 tons, 52.6 percent of domestic consumption, from just under 40,000 tons, or 18 percent, in 1976. That situation is unlikely to change because the domestic companies, much like the rest of the steel industry, continue to wrestle with a strong dollar, obsolete factories, high labor costs, and the high cost of wire rod, a raw material for rope that is itself under various import restrictions.

Although many heavy users of wire rope, including the construction and automotive industries, have rebounded from the recession, the domestic wire rope producers have not. While domestic use was up almost 19 percent in 1984, United States producers registered only a meager 5 percent jump in sales. The probable reason: Domestic wire rope sells for about $1,600 a ton, while Korean rope can be purchased and delivered for half that. Even the Department of Defense, a significant user of wire rope, buys mostly imported rope.

Domestic producers have spent more than a decade and millions of dollars filing petitions to have limits and tariffs placed on imports. In 1973, the Treasury Department found Japanese manufacturers of wire rope guilty of dumping - selling their product for less in the United States than in their own country to increase market share. Japanese exports were to be slapped with an 11 percent to 13 percent duty, but American producers say the order was not enforced until 1981.

""The Korean wire rope producers have been under a microscope since 1977-1978,"" said N. David Palmeter, an attorney with the Washington firm of Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Ferdon, which represents several Korean industries. ""The U.S. hasn"t been able to pin anything on them.""

In the recently completed negotiations, the United States trade representative finalized an agreement that will, for five years, hold wire rope imports from South Korea to 50,000 tons a year, only slightly less than the 53,000 tons Korea sent to this country in 1984. That quantity represented nearly a third of total domestic shipments of wire cable and about 70 percent of all imports.

The line-item treatment, Mr. Harris said, was a coup. In fact, he said, ""The negotiations centered on the big-ticket items of basic steel, and giving consideration at all to wire rope was a major breakthrough."" I F more severe import restrictions on the Koreans had been won, the wire rope industry says it could have taken a deep breath and started to rebuild. In a brief filed with the United States trade representative, the members of the domestic committee listed several steps they would take ""to firmly re-establish their competitive position."" They included:

But as negotiated, the agreement ""will not provide any substantial relief for the industry,"" Mr. Harris said. And a spokesman for Senator John C. Danforth, Republican of Missouri who has several wire rope plants in his state, said, ""They got their quota and they got a line item. But the bottom line remains to be seen.""

""The industry feels it has been sacrificed,"" said Charles W. Salanski, executive vice president of the Wire Rope Corporation of America. ""Our only hope is that we can survive until the trade laws are renegotiated.""

Mr. Sayenga of Bethlehem Steel says the low-cost producers - generally independents whose entire business is wire rope and who have the most modern plants - will probably be able to compete for the next five years. ""After that, they are in just as difficult a situation as the high-cost manufacturers,"" he said.

Without the technology of wire rope, the Brooklyn Bridge would not have been built. And because the bridge was constructed in the mid-1800"s -the heyday of Boss William Marcy Tweed and Tammany Hall - the wire rope it used could not have escaped involvement in some sort of scandal.

In 1878, writes David McCullough in his book ""The Great Bridge,"" the Brooklyn Bridge"s chief engineer, William A. Roebling, discovered that the wire rope contractor, J. Lloyd Haigh, was shipping reels of wire rope that had been rejected by the bridge"s inspectors.

""The distressing point of this affair is that all the rejected wire which has come to the bridge has been worked into the cables, and cannot be removed,"" Mr. Roebling said in a letter to the bridge"s board.

A few years after the Brooklyn Bridge scandal, the City of New York faced another wire rope issue, this time with the Williamsburg Bridge, which was completed in 1903. Because the Brooklyn Bridge had cost $16 million, an enormous amount for the day, the city chose to save money by using wire that was not coated with zinc, then the standard method of protection.

The John A. Roebling Wire Company, which had been awarded the contract, did not want to use the non-coated wire, but the city insisted that coating the wire with graphite and oil was much cheaper, and just as safe.

But the wires have not stood up as well as those on the Brooklyn Bridge, although they are still considered good enough to keep the Williamsburg open. In 1989, however, the state plans to spend $72 million to replace all the bridge"s cables, including the four that stretch across the East River.

Rope serves a wide variety of industries all over the world, but it is especially useful in the rigging, safety, arborist, construction, products manufacturing, recreation, hobby, marine (watercraft mooring), defense contracting, and sporting goods industries.

We’re not sure when rope first came into being. The earliest evidence we have of what is likely rope made by humans comes from Europe about 28,000 years ago. This evidence is simply the impression of cordage on pit fired pottery. Another example of prehistoric rope was found in the famous Lascaux Cave in France. There, archaeologists discovered fossilized fragments of two-ply rope that was about 7 mm in diameter. It dates back to about 15,000 BC. Prehistoric people hand twisted and braided very early rope like this from plant materials, like grass and vines.

The first people to really develop ropemaking as a craft were the ancient Egyptians. Between around 4000 and 3500 BC, they used special tools to construct ropes made from a variety of materials. This tool consisted of what was likely a weighted wooden object, such as a paddle, tied to a stick. To use it, ropemakers tied fibers to the weighted object and spun it around the stick. This allowed the fibers to twist into strands. They would then spin the new strands in the opposite direction, in order to twist them together into rope. The Badarian culture of Upper Egypt made the earliest of these ropes from water reed fibers. Other fiber materials that Egyptians used to make cordage include date palm, papyrus, rushes, wild reeds, halfa grass, esparto grass, and flax. Occasionally, they used animal fibers like camel hair or leather. Egyptians used their ropes for a variety of tasks, but they’re most well-known for using hoist rope to lift stones during monument building.

The next people to make secure a line in rope history were the ancient Chinese. They popularized the hemp rope, which they first started making around 2800 BC. By around 1000 AD, the native peoples of the modern-day American Southwest were also making rope. They used a process quite similar to that of the Egyptians.

During the Middle Ages, people used rope extensively. We do not know a lot about their methods, though, because they were made by guilds that guarded their craft as secrets. Based on an artist’s rendition of ropemaking from 1393, we believe that the first step to ropemaking at this time was spinning yarn. We do know many of the applications for which they used rope, though. Some of the most common rope applications of the Middle Ages and Renaissance included rope bridges, ropewalks, and sailing. Also, by this time, sailors and shipping merchants knew how to splice ropes.

In 1792, British inventor Edmund Cartwright invented the Cordelier, a ropemaking machine. His invention was not an isolated idea, though, and many other people of the Industrial Revolution made their own rope machines.

Since then, rope continues to be important. One of the biggest differences between modern rope and rope of earlier times is the fact that manufacturers can make it with so many different materials. While natural ropes are still somewhat common, steadily since the 1950s, they have largely been replaced by ropes made with synthetic materials designed to better weather their applications. Modern rope materials can resist all sorts of perils, like rot, corrosion, unraveling, and weakening from the sun. Modern ropes are also quite strong and light.

Rope suppliers craft rope from a variety of different synthetic and natural fibers. Examples of synthetic rope fibers include nylon, polyethylene, polyester, polypropylene, Kevlar and the like, and examples of natural fibers include sisal, jute, manila, linen, and cotton. They can also be made from metal wire. Material variety like this allows rope suppliers to make ropes that fit many different application requirements related to stretch, resilience, and chemical and exposure resistance.

There are two main types of rope construction: braiding and twisting. Though historically twisting has been the most common form of rope construction, over time, rope braiding has risen to the top spot. This popularity is due to its ability to stay true to its form, rather than spin or untwist, while holding a load. Rope may be braided using one of these styles: diamond with cores, hollow diamond, and solid braid. A diamond braid core is solid material positioned in rope’s center, underneath its braid, that increases rope strength.

Hollow diamond braid ropes do not have this core, but are rather manufactured simply through the weaving of strands over and under each other. Solid braided rope has a tightly woven lock-stitched construction that resists unraveling, even when cut. Finally, double braided ropes have both a braided rope and core. They are the strongest and most expensive braided rope available.

Note that neither solid braid nor diamond braid cores can be spliced. The second rope construction method, twisting, involves coiling, or twisting, three-plus strands tightly in the same direction, using strand fibers that are twisted in the opposite direction. Counter-twisting is healthful, reinforcing strength and creating a balanced rope that will hold together without kinking. After the strands are twisted, rope suppliers fuse each rope end to deter unraveling.

When designing rope or helping customers select a rope, manufacturers consider application specifications like the physical environment in which you will use the rope (in saltwater, during mountain climbing, in the hot sun, etc.), how you plan to use the rope (hoisting, tying, anchoring, etc.), how often you will use the rope, the maximum and minimum loads you will put on your rope, and the safety requirements of your rope. Based on these specifications, they will decide on things like rope material, elasticity (static rope vs dynamic rope), rope construction, rope weight, and rope length.

Nylon rope, not be confused with elvenhair rope, offers high elasticity, good shock absorption, high strength, and longevity. In addition, it is resistant to damage from the sun, chemicals, and abrasive action. For these reasons, it’s quite popular with applications related to lifting and towing.

Polyester rope is less elastic, less shock absorbent, and has a shorter lifespan than nylon rope. However, since polyester has a superior chemical damage resistance, weathering resistance, and abrasion resistance, polyester rope is one of the most commonly used ropes in the boating industry.

Polypropylene rope stands alone as the only synthetic rope variety that floats, and is therefore used widely in watersports, light watercraft mooring, and in pools. However, polypropylene rope cannot be used for more heavy-duty tasks because propylene has the lowest melting point and UV resistance of all rope material types.

Polyethylene rope is a synthetic rope known for resistance to abrasion, and similar to polypropylene rope, its ability to float. It is mainly used in fishing.

Sisal rope is a medium tensile strength natural fiber rope made from agave fibers. It is used for gardening, bundling, and other knot-holding related applications.

Manila rope, made from abaca leaf fibers, is much stronger than sisal rope. Because it is hard, resistant to sunlight, stretches minimally, and does not melt, it is very popular in construction. It’s also very resistant to saltwater, which lends it to some marine tasks.

Cotton rope is weaker than most other ropes, both natural and synthetic. However, it is soft, pliable, and easy to handle, making it perfect for small and light-duty applications.

Wire rope is a type of rope made from metal alloys like steel. Steel wire rope is the most common wire rope type, as most alloys in the steel family are strong and corrosion resistant. To qualify as wire rope, the rope must be at least ⅜ inch. If it is any smaller than this, then you should call it a cord or a cable. Also, to qualify as wire rope, it must meet certain lbs weight restrictions.

Rope suppliers manufacturer some speciality ropes that are application-specific, rather than fiber specific, such as twine, marine rope, elastic cord, and stair rope.

Twine, or rope twine, is a thin, twist rope usually made from natural fibers like linen or cotton. Twine is commonly found around the house as clothesline or package typing rope and at butcher shops, where it is used to tie stuffed poultry together. It may also be used to make sporting goods like basketball nets.

Marine rope is used for water, most often saltwater, related applications, like docking, boating, and pontooning. A good example of marine rope is watercraft mooring rope. Marine rope must be made from material that stands up against salt, water, and other elements, like nylon.

Stair rope is rope used for bannister or handrail applications. It may help people climb stairs, or it may just be there for decoration (e.g. rope lights). If the stair rope is made from metal, it may be called a cable railing.

To offer you the best service possible, ropes come with a variety of accessory products. Examples of these products include rope clips, rope storage bags, and steel carabiners.

To make sure a rope lasts and maintains both its usefulness and its safety, users must treat it with proper care. Care for your rope, and it will prove itself time and time again. Proper care for ropes entails a number of things, including proper usage, storage, and damage checks.

• Usage—Never put an amount of strain on your rope for which it is not equipped. Likewise, do not use your rope in environments for which it was not designed to endure.

• Storage—Always store your rope products in a dry and dark environment, up off of the ground. Prolonged exposure to either moisture or sunlight can weaken your rope over time or cause damage. When you store it, in order to avoid tangles, make sure to fold it in gentle loops; never just shove it in a corner.

• Damage Checks—Whenever you get out your rope, take some time to check it over for damage. Damage could be any number of things, but some of the common issues you may encounter are cuts, breakages, rot, or unraveling strands. If the cuts are small, you can likely still use your rope, but you may need to repair it first. To fix a cut rope, you can remove the damaged section with a knife or a pair of sharp scissors, or you can melt the cut with a candle or lighter. However, if your rope has a cut in the middle, you will likely have to replace it.

Ropes are subject to different safety, quality, and characteristic standards, per their application and the location(s) in which they will be used. ASTM International, for example, puts out standards in regards to the characteristics of stranded carbon steel wire rope used for general applications. In the European Union, ropes must have the CE mark. In the United States, rope used for emergency services must be certified by the NFPA (National Fire and Protection Association). Also, in the U.S., ropes used in the workplace must also meet the standard requirements of OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration). To learn about what safety standards your rope must meet, talk to your industry leaders and applicable governmental offices.

To get rope that is safe and meets your standard requirements, you need to work with an experienced rope manufacturer, such as those we’ve listed on this page. The best way to approach your search is to start by writing down your specifications, requirements, questions and concerns. Don’t forget to include aspects like your budget, when you need the rope, and your delivery preferences. Once you’ve got your list, browse the rope suppliers we’ve sandwiched in between these information paragraphs. Based on your list, pick out three or four that you think could be right for you. Discuss your application with each of them, compare and contrast your conversations, and pick the one with whom you want to work. It’s as simple as that.

Southwest Steel has worked on 10 jobs in the last 12 months. Subs and vendors reported being paid on-time on 100% of projects. This contractor scores a C for payment and ranks in the top 70% of small U.S. contractors.

There are no reported instances of slow payment in the last 12 months for Southwest Steel. You can continue to browse their payment performance and typical contract terms.

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