Breaking Equipment & Supply-Chain Analysis•Equipment & Product NewsAmazon Is Installing Prysmian Cable Made With ELYSIS Aluminum. Electrical Contractors Should Watch the Spec Sheet.Prysmian and Rio Tinto say electrical cable made with ELYSIS inert-anode aluminum has been contracted for installation at an Amazon data center near Columbus, Ohio—the first known use of the material in a data center. The immediate contractor story is not a residential wire change. It is the way owner-driven material requirements can move from raw-material sourcing into electrical submittals, distribution and estimating.TradeVulcan Dispatch Editorial Desk•Sep 18, 2026•13 min
Breaking Equipment & Supply-Chain Analysis•Equipment & Product NewsHitachi Energy Is Spending $528 Million on a Mississippi Transformer Factory. Electricians Won’t Feel the Relief Until 2029.Hitachi Energy is committing $528 million to a new Mississippi transformer plant that will more than double capacity at its local operation. The investment is a major response to the U.S. transformer shortage—but production is not scheduled to begin until 2029, leaving contractors, utilities, builders and developers with a procurement problem that still has years to run.TradeVulcan Dispatch Editorial Desk•Sep 15, 2026•13 min
Breaking M&A Analysis•M&A and Private EquityPrysmian’s $3.8 Billion Atkore Deal Clears U.S. Antitrust. Electrical Contractors Should Watch the Supply Chain.Prysmian’s proposed $3.8 billion acquisition of Atkore cleared its U.S. Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period after it expired September 14. The deal is not closed yet, but it would put cable, conduit, strut, cable management and other electrical-infrastructure products deeper inside one global supplier—and that is worth watching from the supply-house counter to the jobsite.TradeVulcan Dispatch Editorial Desk•Sep 15, 2026•14 min