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CTC Global Has Cemented Its Position As A Market Leader in The Utility Industry
CTC Global Has Cemented Its Position As A Market Leader in The Utility Industry
CTC Global has been improving ing thermal sag and improving con num without a weight or diameter
the efficiency, capacity, reliability ductor efficiency." penalty, and be utilized to reduce
and resilience of the world's electric Based in Irvine, Calif., CTC Global thermal sag, increase spans between
power grid since 2005 with the intro is a privately held Delaware Corpo fewer structures, carry more cur
duction of ACCC® conductor. "CTC ration that began research and de rent, reduce line losses and improve
Global essentially created an entirely velopment in early 2003 to develop grid reliability.
new market by creating something a conductor that could be used to CTC Global commercialized
that previously didn't exist," Vice upgrade existing transmission cor its initial product line in 2005 and
President of Commercial Opera ridors without structural modifi the company went on to develop
tions Anne McDowell says. "Market cations. The objective relied on the ISO-certified manufacturing tech
need drove us to innovate. We be incorporation of highly evolved aero niques and tooling in 2006 to allow
gan developing the patented ACCC space technology and materials sci for the cost-effective and continuous
conductor when we recognized the ence to create a new higher strength, production of the pultruded com
enormous challenge of increasing lighter weight core that could incor posite core. To date, the company
transmission line capacity, mitigat- porate additional conductive alumi- has supplied more than 200 elec- »