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ETCO was incorporated in 1947 to take advantage of a patent by Rene Martines who founded the company with Joe Dunn.

Rene’s idea was to put blades as we call them (you know them as the part you plug into the wall) in a strip and on reels so they could be crimped to a wire two at a time instead of being soldered one at a time by hand. This increased production speed tenfold and reduced labor for our two major customers at the time – Belden Wire and Cable and American Insulated Wire Corp.

Still a Good Idea
Today ETCO follows the same philosophy using our ability to put electric terminals in strip form and design equipment to help our customer increase productivity.

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