Rome Cable, Rome, N.Y., for years a well known name in the wire industry, has closed its doors, just two months after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on July 30.
An announcement on the home page of the company’s Web site said simply, “The Rome Cable Corporation, after many years of great service, has filed for Chapter 7 liquidation and is liquidating all inventory of finished goods and raw materials. Click on the following links to view the inventory that is currently being liquidated: Finished Inventory (and) Raw Materials.”
For more than 60 years Rome Cable designed, manufactured and supplied wire and cable products for industrial, utility, commercial, original equipment manufacturers, fire alarm, security, traffic control and mining markets. Over the years, the company, which had $200 million in sales according to a fact sheet on its Web site, has had a number of owners and gone through business cycle ups and downs. The current ownership group, headed by David E. Harvey, came on board in 1988.
Besides the 800,000-square-foot Rome plant, the company had a facility in Leominster, Mass.