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To Our Valued Customers Copper has been erratic over the past several weeks but is overall significantly higher to the previous quarter. We are issuing an increase of ~7% to your current nets, effective Friday, February 24th. For specific details, please contact your local agent. Thank you for your understanding. Read more »

To Our Valued Customers Copper has continued to climb steadily since our last increase. To address this additional material cost as well as higher associated processing costs, our distributor net cable price is increasing by about 6% effective Thursday, January 26th. Read more »

To Our Valued Customers Copper comex continues to climb along with a large increase to its fabrication charge driven by higher energy costs. Effective Friday, January 13th, we are increasing our pricing across all cable products by 7% from current nets. Read more »

To Our Valued Customers The price of copper continues to climb as do other materials including reels, nylon and mylar; therefore, we are forced to realign our market pricing for all cable products. Effective Friday, December 9th, we are increasing our cable pricing by 8% from current nets. Read more »

To Our Valued Customers With the increase in copper, as well as the continued pressure on other materials and services such as reels, nylon, mylar and freight surcharges, we need to address and realign our market pricing for all cable products. Read more »

To Our Valued Customers With copper’s rapid decline in mid-July and then rebound at the end of the month, market level pricing eroded well in excess of any justification. Read more »

To Our Valued Customers With copper’s increase from the lows we’ve seen over the past few weeks and the disproportionate drop in market levels while also faced with continued pressure on other material and freight costs, we need to issue a 6% increase on all cable products effective Thursday, May 26th. Read more »

To Our Valued Customers With copper continuing to rise this week, we have to issue an additional increase of 5% on all cable products, effective Tuesday, March 8th. We will be watching volume intake and limiting orders placed to your typical average weekly demand. For specific details, please contact your local agent. Read more »

To Our Valued Customers To address the continuing rise of aluminum and copper, as well as freight transportation costs, we are issuing a 5% increase on all cable products, effective Friday, March 4th. We will be watching volume intake and limiting orders placed to your typical average weekly demand. Read more »

To Our Valued Customers To address rising costs to copper and aluminum, as well as personnel limitations, freight costs and transportation availability factors, we are issuing a 7% increase on all cable products, effective Friday, February 11th. Read more »

With continued stress on production capacity related to manpower limitations, as well as increased plant production costs and added costs for freight, steel, aluminum and other raw materials such as resins and packaging, we are issuing a 10% increase on all of our flex and LiquidTuff products. Read more »

With copper’s dramatic upward move in conjunction with continued rising transportation costs and scheduling delays, we must issue an increase which reflects about a 5% rise in price levels for our cable products effective Monday, October 18th. Read more »

3% to 5% Cable Products Price Increase
September 8, 2021
To Our Valued Customer:
Due to continued inflation specific to PVC resins, steel, aluminum, and wooden reels, compounded by increased freight and continued labor shortages, we can no longer absorb the full impact alone and are forced to issue a price increase on

Pressure on materials continues. We’re hit with a significant increase on aluminum to both material cost as well as a very hefty increase to the Midwest Premium and freight. We’re also hit with more steel inflation and are seeing copper trend higher than July as we move into August. Read more »

With the pressure on materials for all non-copper related commodities including steel, aluminum, PVC resins, wooden pallets and reels, as well as freight costs, we need to issue an increase to address these headwinds. This price increase is effective Tuesday, June 8th and represents a rise of just under 3%. Read more »

We continue to see copper move up and we’re also faced with new increases for aluminum as well as steel. We have to issue a price increase effective Tuesday, May 11th which represents an additional rise of about 3%. The new price file is CC75 5-11-21. Read more »

Price increase effective Tuesday, April 27th Copper continues to move higher and we’re also facing increases again on resin used for our wire insulation, as well as further increases on wood, affecting our reel and pallet costs. We’re issuing a price increase effective Tuesday, April 27th. Read more »

Material cost increases on all product components continue to move higher. We are issuing an increase to reflect these realities. This increase will take effect Monday morning, April 12th. Read more »

Since our increase announcement last week, copper has continued to rise along with all other materials. Copper alone has risen an additional 22 cents.  That puts copper 59% higher than it was back in October when it was $2.61, with it now at $4.14. Read more »

This is a follow up increase to our Cable increase announcement of January 8th.  As mentioned in that increase, we’re experiencing unprecedented rises in all raw materials.  Again, besides copper, since October, we’ve seen increases on steel, aluminum, zinc, PVC, reels and freight. Read more »

Copper’s upward movement shows no slowing, and we continue to face rising costs on steel, aluminum, PVC, Zinc, freight and reels.  Today, copper is at over $3.68 and was trading as high as $3.70 earlier.  Our last increase was issued on November 30th and we were facing copper levels of $3. Read more »

We continue to see material costs increase. Copper has risen by 22 cents since our last increase issued back on August 31st. Today, it’s sitting at just under $3.20, 6.9% higher. In addition to copper, costs are rising on steel, aluminum and PVC, as well as a 50% rise in cost of plywood reels. Read more »

Our last increase was effective July 17th, as we watched copper climb from a June average of $2.60 to July’s $2.87.  It continues its trend upward, today sitting at over $3.03, a further increase of over 5.6%.  We need to address copper’s rising cost, as well as the increases in aluminum. Read more »

Copper continues an aggressive upward trend. Since our last increase in June, it’s now up an additional 21 cents or 8%. To cover this rise, we are moving our cable pricing up in the range of 5%. In support of this increase, we are issuing this new price file, JL22 7-17-20, which reflects a 12-2 MC price of $355. Read more »

We continue to see market level price erosion while all materials, especially copper, are rising. Looking at copper alone, if we look back to April versus now, it’s up 12% and is trending into July to be up 16% compared to that same period. We’re issuing an increase to cover these cost changes. Read more »

With the deterioration of cable pricing, coupled by the increase in average monthly copper, we have to raise our prices 5% effective June 1st. For specific details, please contact your local agent. Read more »

As we all know, cable pricing has deteriorated during these current market conditions even though material costs, specifically on copper, have risen over the past several weeks. Read more »

With copper steadily rising, market conditions have deteriorated cable pricing to levels out of line with current material costs. To realign to current costs, we are issuing a 4% increase on our cable product offerings. This increase will take effect on Wednesday, April 22nd. Read more »

Copper continues to climb. In addition, also trending upward are aluminum, steel, zinc and freight. We’re issuing an increase to take effect at the close of business Friday, January 17th. For specific details, please contact your local agent. Read more »

As a result of the continued upward trend in copper costs, we are raising our prices on cable products. We’re issuing this increase to take effect at the close of business Wednesday, December 11th. For specific details, please contact your local agent. Read more »

Copper’s average cost continues to rise. We need to address this with an increase effective close of business Tuesday, October 29th. For specific details, please contact your local agent. Read more »

DISTRIBUTOR NOTICE The average cost of copper has been steadily rising over the past several weeks. With that said, we need to address this and issue an increase effective close of business Tuesday, September 17th. For specific details, please contact your local agent. Read more »

With the monthly average cost of copper as well as other material and freight costs continuing to rise, we must issue an increase effective close of business Friday, April 5th. Read more »

Copper has continued to rise since our last increase. This steady upswing is coupled with increases in aluminum, steel, zinc and freight. This necessitates the need to initiate another increase to be effective close of business Tuesday, February 26th. Read more »

With copper’s steady rise as well as continued pressure on other materials and freight, we’re announcing an increase to be effective close of business Tuesday, February 5th. Read more »

We're announcing an increase on cable products effective close of business Monday, September 24th. Read more »

Freight Prepaid Policy Change Effective July 16, 2018 To Be Revised Immediately Per Below We continue to see freight increases in the 18% to 23% range.  With fuel surcharges and carrier availability issues, the impact of freight continues to drive higher costs. Read more »

The volatility of copper over the past couple of weeks has driven pricing lower than justified. Read more »

With freight increases in the 18% to 23% range, along with fuel surcharges and shortages of available trucks, the impact of freight is weighing heavily on all transactions. We, therefore, find it necessary to implement a new policy for our prepaid terms. Read more »

With the weakening of the dollar, as well as a possible strike at the world’s largest copper mine, copper comex has spiked by more than $0.18 in the last 4 days. Read more »