Fushi Copperweld
The power of two
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| Private | |
| Industry | Electrical conductors |
| Founded |
Rankin, Pennsylvania, United States (August 16, 1915) as "The Copper-Clad Steel Company" |
| Headquarters | Beijing, People's Republic of China |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Fu Li (Chairman and Co-CEO) Joseph J. Longever (Co-CEO) Wenbing "Chris" Wang (President) Craig H. Studwell (CFO) |
| Products | Copperweld® brand copper clad steel (CCS) wire and cable copper clad aluminum (CCA) wire and cable |
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Number of employees
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649 (2010) |
| Subsidiaries | Fushi International (Dalian) Bimetallic Cable Co. Ltd. Copperweld Bimetallics LLC Copperweld Bimetallic Products UK Ltd. Dalian Jinchan Electric Cable Co. Ltd. Fushi International (Jiangsu) Bimetallic Cable Co., Ltd. Copperweld Tubing SPRL |
| Website | http://fushicopperweld.com |
Fushi Copperweld, Inc. (Simplified Chinese: 傅氏科普威) is a Sino-American company based in Beijing, China. It was formed from the acquisition of an American wire company, Copperweld Bimetallics LLC, by Chinese manufacturer Fushi International in October 2007. The combined company is the largest manufacturer and supplier of bimetallic electrical conductor products in the world by volume. Its main products are wire, stranded cable, and busbar made from its Copperweld® brand copper-clad steel ("CCS") or copper-clad aluminium ("CCA"). In addition to its Chinese and American operations, Fushi Copperweld maintains a production facility in Telford, England, and a distribution hub in Liège, Belgium.
A group of engineers (S. E. Bramer, Jacob Roth, F. R. S. Kaplan, Simon Loeb and William Smith, Sr.) in the Pittsburgh industrial town of Rankin, Pennsylvania first created a permanent metallurgical bond between copper and steel in 1915. This bond originally was made under a molten weld process. Their product, a CCS wire patented under the brand name Copperweld®, was soon adopted as an alternative to solid copper wire in many conductor applications, particularly those where copper would be too ductile or would not offer the breaking strength of steel. The original use, however, was for watch springs: the copper cladding prevented corrosion. The company was originally founded as the Copper-Clad Steel Company, but in 1924, changed its name to the Copperweld Steel Company.
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