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Custom wire & cable · Naples, Florida · Since 1969

Wire, engineered
to the application.

For more than fifty years, engineers have brought us the places standard wire can’t survive: extreme heat, cryogenic cold, tight spaces, constant flexing. We design and build the wire that does.

Conductor
7 × Nichrome 80
Insulation
PTFE, blue
Braid
Fiberglass
Built
To your spec
  • Since 1969

    Five decades of wire engineering

  • 100% employee-owned

    Every order has an owner

  • ISO 9001:2015

    Certified quality system

  • ISO/IEC 17025

    ANAB-accredited calibration lab

  • ISO certified
  • ANAB logo

Engineer it

Bring us the application.
We’ll build the wire.

Resistance, sensing, shielding, weight, flex life, temperature. Tell us what the wire has to survive, and our engineers design the construction, prototype it and take it to production.

  • No standard print required
  • Prototype quantities
  • Fine gauge to production scale

Ship it today

3,115 parts in stock

Premium wire,
ready to ship.

Resistance, thermocouple and custom wire from our ON-DEMAND stock, with inventory updated daily from our warehouse.

Anatomy of a custom wire

Every layer is
a decision.

Most wire failures trace back to one wrong choice of alloy, gauge, insulation or jacket. We make those choices with you, and test the result in our own lab.

  1. 01

    Conductor · Alloy

    Choose the metal

    Nichrome, copper, nickel and thermocouple alloys, matched to resistance, conductivity or EMF.

  2. 02

    Stranding · 1 / 7 / 19

    Build it to flex

    Solid for stability, stranded for flex life, fine gauge for tight spaces.

  3. 03

    Insulation · PTFE

    Protect it from heat

    Fluoropolymers, polyimide, silicone and fiberglass, rated to the environment.

  4. 04

    Braid · Fiberglass

    Armour it

    Braids and shields against abrasion, handling and EMI.

  5. 05

    Jacket · Silicone

    Bring it together

    Jackets and multi-conductor constructions that route as one cable.

  • Resistance wire
  • Thermocouple wire
  • Heating wire
  • Custom cable
  • Fine gauge
  • RTD cable

What we make

Three families.
Endless constructions.

Pick a family to see how it’s built. Our engineers take it from there.

  1. 01 · Resistance & heating

    Resistance & heating wire

    Precise ohms per foot for heaters, de-icing, medical and industrial heat, in bare, stranded, ribbon and insulated constructions.

    Alloys:
    Nichrome, FeCrAl, copper-nickel
    Forms:
    Solid · Stranded · Ribbon
    Insulation:
    PTFE, polyimide, fiberglass
    Resistance wire →
  2. 02 · Temperature sensing

    Thermocouple & RTD wire

    Accurate measurement from cryogenic cold to extreme heat, with ANSI colour-coded insulation and matched pairs.

    Types:
    K · J · T · E · N
    Grades:
    Standard & special limits
    Also:
    RTD cables
    Thermocouple wire →
  3. 03 · Built to order

    Custom wire & cable

    Multi-conductor, shielded, fine-gauge and hybrid constructions, built to your print or to no print at all.

    Builds:
    Pairs, multi-conductor, shielded
    Gauges:
    Fine gauge to production scale
    Runs:
    Prototype to production
    Custom capabilities →

How we work

From first sketch
to full production.

  1. Step 1 / 4

    Application

    Tell us the environment, the constraints and the performance you need. A drawing helps; it isn’t required.

  2. Step 2 / 4

    Construction

    Our engineers specify alloy, gauge, stranding, insulation and jacket, and explain the trade-offs.

  3. Step 3 / 4

    Prototype

    Short runs prove the design before you commit, tested and documented.

  4. Step 4 / 4

    Production

    Scaled manufacturing with the same people and the same data behind every spool.

Employee-owned

Driven by values.
Wired for it.

Pelican Wire is 100% employee-owned. The people who draw, insulate, test and ship your wire own the company, so every spool carries someone’s name.

We don’t sell pre-made solutions. We’re a custom wire shop with no standard print, and that’s how we like it.

Founded
1969
Employee-owned
100%