Reels of cable on timber flanges stacked in a yard, steel lattice structures behind

Louisiana buying desk · surplus, obsolete and removed cable

We buy the cable your plant has finished with.

From a refinery turnaround in St. Charles Parish to a decommissioned 69 kV line in Caddo, Louisiana holds more surplus conductor than it can use. Send the construction, the footage and the location, and a buyer will review the lot.

Request a Quote

Call or text 614-715-3047

64parishes covered

30cable families

35city markets

Start here 01

Six facts are enough to start

Wire type, conductor metal, voltage class, gauge or MCM, footage or reel count, and condition. Everything else is a follow-up question, and nothing is agreed until the terms are written down.

A buyer reads every submission, not a queue
Plant, contractor and demolition material all reviewed
Call or text 614-715-3047 if the form is easier to skip

Photographs of reel tags and jacket print can follow by text to 614-715-3047 or email to saleselectricalbuyers@gmail.com.

Send the lot details

Six details are enough to start.

Name *

Company

Phone *

City or town

Parish

ZIP

Wire or cable type

Conductor metal

Voltage class

Gauge / MCM and count

Footage or reel count

Conductor type (if known)

Condition

Notes

No fee and no obligation. Or call 614-715-3047. Nothing is bought, moved or scheduled until written lot terms are agreed.

What this is 02

A buying desk for Louisiana's industrial cable

Louisiana does not produce surplus cable the way other states do. It produces it at the end of a turnaround, when a unit comes back up and the balance of the instrument cable goes back to stores. It produces it when an LNG train finishes and a specification changes. It produces it when a paper machine is rebuilt, a shipyard delivers a hull, or a utility retires a line and the conductor comes off the structures.

That material is technical, documented and usually sitting in a room somebody needs to clear. Our work is to read it properly: identify the construction, verify the length, describe the condition honestly, and agree terms that both sides can live with.

We do not sell cable. Everything on this site is written for the person holding it.

Reels of cable along a gravel drive in low afternoon sun — Reels of cable along a gravel drive, waiting to be reviewed

What we buy 03

Six families that carry most of the value

Every family has its own page, its own identification rules and its own honest limits.

Medium voltage cable

5 kV to 35 kV shielded power cable. Screens, shield and documentation decide the read, not the copper alone.

Open 02

Instrumentation & thermocouple

Multi-pair signal cable and thermocouple extension. The most technical small cable in any plant store.

Open 03

Tray cable

TC and TC-ER power and control cable, rated and printed, from mills, plants and fabrication yards.

Open 04

XHHW & building wire

The everyday material: full reels, partial reels and job remainders across every parish.

Open 05

ACSR, AAAC & bare conductor

Overhead line conductor from utilities, cooperatives and their contractors, read on strand and reel.

Open 06

Partial reels & job remainders

The half-used reels nobody wants to count. Measured remainders are inventory, not clutter.

Open

Who we buy from 04

Four people call us most often

A plant engineer with turnaround surplus. The unit is back up, the return-to-stores report exists, and a room full of reels needs a decision. The file is the review.

An instrumentation tech clearing a warehouse. Boxes of multi-pair cable, some tagged and some not, and nobody left who remembers what the untagged ones were bought for. The print on the jacket is the answer.

A utility or cooperative with decommissioned conductor. Retired line, released cable, and a records trail that has to be respected. Voltage class and test records carry the read.

A demolition or electrical contractor with a pile. Copper separated from aluminium, or not. One consolidated lot beats forty arguments about coils.

Two men standing beside large timber reels in a warehouse — Two people beside large timber reels during a review

How it works 05

Four steps, and you can stop at any of them

Send what you have
The form above, a call to 614-715-3047, or an email with photographs of the reel tags. Six facts is enough; photographs make it faster.
A buyer reviews the lot
We identify the construction, check the footage against the tag or a measurement, and ask about the things that are missing. If the lot is not one we buy, we say so.
Terms are written down
What is being bought, at what quantity, with what condition stated, plus freight, loading and pickup. No purchase exists until both sides accept the same document.
Pickup and payment
Collection is scheduled around your site's access rules. Payment is by cheque or wire transfer, on terms agreed for that lot.

The work 06

What Louisiana cable looks like

Every photograph on this site is from the yard and the warehouse, not a stock library.

Timber reels on gravel beside substation equipment

Copper conductor visible on the drum ends

Reels stored indoors on a concrete floor

By industry 07

Where the material comes from

Louisiana's cable is produced by a short list of industries, and each one leaves a different kind of lot behind. A refinery turnaround returns instrument cable and heat trace; an LNG site returns specification-locked power cable; a shipyard returns welding lead and marine cable; a utility returns bare conductor and bus.

Twenty-nine plant and utility pages describe those flows, so a seller can find the one that matches the room they are standing in.

All plant and utility cable