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Company Profile :

In 1895, Alexander Barrie had the vision to begin building a company that would meet the needs of the electrical and telephone industries, which were then in their infancy. His company eventually became part of the multi-billion dollar telecommunications giant Northern Telecom (now NORTEL). In 1996, NORTEL sold its cable group to Cable Design Technologies (CDT), creating NORDX/CDT - one of the leading manufacturers of communications wire and cable in the world. Here's how we got there.

1895: Alexander Barrie begins cabling manufacturing firm.

1899: Bell Telephone purchases Barrie & Johnson Manufacturing Wire & Cable Company.

1914: Imperial Wire & Cable Company amalgamates with Northern Electric & Manufacturing Company.

1946: Northern Electric constructs 300,000 sq. ft. wire cable manufacturing facility in Montreal.
1959: Northern Electric establishes independent R&D laboratories.
1966: Introduces pulp insulation, enabling the manufacture of over 7000 varieties of wire.
1982: Introduces first UTP cable to support 16 Mbps token ring.
1986: Northern Telecom debuts structured wiring concepts.
1991: Leads the standards committees with proposals which are later adopted for TIA specifications for Category 3,4 and 5 cables.
1992: Introduces first end-to-end Category 5 components.
1995: Northern Telecom changes its name to NORTEL reflecting a new global positioning.

1996: NORTEL Cable Group becomes part of Cable Design Technologies (CDT), forming one of the largest structured cabling suppliers in the world - NORDX/CDT.

2002: NORDX/CDT leads the way in the new millennium. NORDX now manufactures and markets over 2,000 different products, including the cables, connectors and patch panels of the IBDN structured cabling system and communications cables for outside plant needs.

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