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Superior Essex Inc., a FORTUNE 1000 company, is one of the largest wire and cable manufacturers in North America and a global leader in communications cable and magnet wire/winding wire. Headquartered in Atlanta, Superior Essex employs more than 4,000 people around the world. Our businesses in North America and Europe generated nearly $1.8 billion in revenues in 2005, and in 2006, we will complete our expansion into China.

Magnet Wire
Superior Essex, Inc. is the largest manufacturer of magnet wire/winding wire worldwide through Essex Group Inc. and Essex Nexans. Essex Group Inc. operates in North America and has developing operations in China. Essex Nexans is a joint venture between Superior Essex and Nexans with operations throughout Europe.

Our magnet wire products are a critical component of the motors, generators, and transformers that power automobiles, home appliances, commercial machinery and millions of other items we use every day. Superior Essex offers the industry's most comprehensive line of magnet wire/winding wire products - more than 500 types for virtually every application required.

With a customer base that includes a wide array of global manufacturers, Superior Essex has become the most trusted name in magnet wire. We support our growing customer base through our multiple, global manufacturing facilities, and we continue to achieve customer satisfaction through one of the most extensive distribution networks in the industry, Essex Brownell. Our Essex Brownell business unit serves the entire OEM and motor repair industry with magnet wire and an extensive selection of electrical insulation products.

Communications Cable
Superior Essex communications cables carry the voice and data traffic for many of the world's largest telecommunications service providers, as well as for thousands of private and public communications networks. Today, Superior Essex Communications LP is the largest manufacturer in the world of outside plant (OSP) copper communications cables.

Our product portfolio includes the most extensive offering available of copper and fiber optic communications cables for aerial, buried, in-duct and indoors environments, with performance levels ranging from voice-grade to the highest data speeds commercially possible today.