UL/CUL-listed retractile, curly, and coiled power cords engineered in North Branford, Connecticut and shipped to Florida aerospace, space-launch, defense, medical-device, marine, and food-processing manufacturers since 1947. Direct factory pricing, no minimum order quantity, custom builds in 4–6 weeks, with most stock orders arriving in 2–3 business days by ground.
Florida manufacturers source retractile, curly, and coiled cords from Autac because we sell direct from the same Connecticut factory where every cord is engineered, jacketed, heat-set, and tested — no Southeast distributor markup, no surprise lead times, and a short two-to-three-day ground freight lane straight down I-95. From rocket-assembly drops at Blue Origin on Merritt Island to missile and simulation work at Lockheed Martin in Orlando, from cleanroom signal cables at Arthrex in Naples to lamination and rigging lines at Boston Whaler in Edgewater, Autac cordage shows up on Florida OEM bills of materials because it is built to spec, listed for compliance, and shipped on a schedule you can plan around.
No Southeast distributor markup. Florida buyers talk to engineering and place orders directly with our Connecticut manufacturing team.
400+ stock catalog part numbers with full lot traceability. UL-recognized listings and documentation for Florida OEM audits.
The only 100% woman-owned UL-listed retractile cord manufacturer in the industry. Counts toward diversity-spend targets at large Florida OEMs.
Prototype runs as small as one piece — ideal for Florida's Space Coast launch and defense-program engineering teams. Same factory team handles pilots and production volumes.
Florida is one of the fastest-growing manufacturing economies in the country, anchored by five clusters that all generate steady demand for industrial retractile, curly, and coiled cordage. The Space Coast in Brevard County has become the center of gravity for American commercial spaceflight. Orlando anchors a globally significant simulation, missiles, and defense cluster. Medical-device manufacturing concentrates around Naples, Jacksonville, and the I-4 corridor. Marine and boatbuilding runs deep from Edgewater and Merritt Island through Orlando. And Florida's food, beverage, and citrus-processing base — from Bradenton to Kissimmee — runs packaging and filling lines around the clock. Each cluster carries its own engineering requirements — current rating, jacket compound, flex life, shielding, environmental exposure — and the Autac product line maps directly to all five.
Florida's Space Coast hosts the most active launch and space-manufacturing ecosystem in the country. Blue Origin builds New Glenn rockets and engines at its Exploration Park and Merritt Island facilities in Brevard County and is mid-way through a major manufacturing expansion. SpaceX is building Starship manufacturing and launch infrastructure on the Space Coast alongside its Falcon launch operations at Cape Canaveral. Boeing assembles the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft at a former shuttle-processing facility at Kennedy Space Center. Lockheed Martin supports deep-space and Orion work out of Titusville, Northrop Grumman operates Space Coast facilities, and OneWeb Satellites builds satellites at Exploration Park. These programs share a common engineering challenge: durable, traceable power and signal delivery to test stands, assembly fixtures, clean-bench work areas, and ground support equipment that must satisfy AS9100, ITAR, and federal supplier-quality requirements.
Typical Florida applications in this segment:
Recommended Autac products: TPR-jacketed retractile cords in 14 AWG and 12 AWG, 3-conductor / 15A configurations cover most assembly-line drops; custom retracted lengths from 18" to 36" are standard. Step up to 10 AWG / 20A for higher-current test-stand and GSE applications. Browse the Retractile Cords hub for stock part numbers, or use the Build Your Cord tool to specify a custom configuration for your program. Autac is a US-only manufacturer with a US supply chain, which simplifies ITAR-program supplier qualification.
Greater Orlando is one of the largest defense-and-simulation clusters in the United States. Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control designs and manufactures precision-engagement systems at its Orlando campus, while Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems runs training, logistics, and mission-systems work in the same region — together employing more than 14,000 people. Northrop Grumman operates military-satellite and C4I facilities in Orlando and Apopka. L3Harris Technologies produces missile-tracking satellites and electronic systems at its expanded Satellite Integration and Test facility in Palm Bay near Melbourne. The simulation and training ecosystem clustered around the Central Florida Research Park supports a deep supplier base. Defense manufacturing carries demanding requirements: AS9100 and ITAR supplier-quality documentation, EMI shielding, lot traceability, and a US-only supply chain.
Typical Florida applications in this segment:
Recommended Autac products: 18 AWG and 16 AWG shielded retractile and curly configurations support signal and control applications on test and simulation benches, while 14 AWG and 12 AWG TPR-jacketed retractile cords handle assembly-line power drops. Browse Curly Cords for high-flex signal builds and Coiled Cords for shielded multi-conductor assemblies. Lot traceability and material-content documentation support AS9100-adjacent and ITAR supplier qualification.
Florida is a major medical-device manufacturing state, with clusters around Naples, Jacksonville, and the I-4 corridor. Arthrex develops and manufactures more than 1,000 orthopedic and arthroscopic products at its corporate campus and manufacturing facilities in Naples and across Collier County. Medtronic runs Surgical Technologies manufacturing in Jacksonville. Becton Dickinson (BD) operates production and operations facilities in the Miami-Dade, Stuart, and Tampa areas. Medical-device manufacturing carries its own constraints: ISO Class 7 and Class 8 cleanroom controls, sterilization-compatible jacket compounds, FDA Design History File traceability, and biocompatibility documentation.
Typical Florida applications in this segment:
Recommended Autac products: Our Auta-Prene thermoset rubber and TPR jacket compounds resist the cleaning and sterilization chemistries common in medical manufacturing. For signal applications, 18 AWG and 16 AWG shielded retractile and curly configurations support millions of flex cycles in surgical-instrument and end-effector cables. Browse Curly Cords for high-flex signal builds and Coiled Cords for shielded multi-conductor configurations. Lot traceability documentation is available for FDA Design History File submissions.
Florida is the largest recreational-boatbuilding state in the country. Boston Whaler manufactures its full line of unsinkable boats in Edgewater. Nautique Boat Company, owned by Correct Craft, builds ski and wakeboard boats at its Orlando facility, which includes private test lakes. Regal Boats builds cruisers and sport boats in Orlando and operates a manufacturing plant in Merritt Island acquired from MasterCraft. These operations share a common environment: humidity, salt exposure, resin and lamination chemistries, and constant flexing on rigging, hoist, and assembly lines. Marine assembly lines need cordage that resists oil, moisture, and abrasion while pulling cleanly out of the work area between cycles.
Typical Florida applications in this segment:
Recommended Autac products: SJOW and SOW UL types provide the oil, water, and abrasion resistance that marine assembly and outfitting bays demand. 14 AWG and 12 AWG retractile configurations with custom retracted lengths from 24" to 48" keep hand-tool power off the floor in rigging and lamination areas. Browse the Retractile Cords hub for stock configurations, Coiled Cords for oil- and water-resistant variants, and Cord Sets for custom-terminated assemblies.
Florida's food, beverage, and citrus-processing base runs packaging and filling lines around the clock. Tropicana operates the world's largest branded-juice plant in Bradenton, processing tens of millions of oranges a day. PepsiCo and Gatorade run major production in Kissimmee and Tampa, while Frito-Lay produces snacks in the Orlando area. These operations share a common environment: wash-down sanitation cycles, chemical and food-acid exposure, citrus and produce residues, and zero tolerance for line downtime during peak runs.
Typical Florida applications in this segment:
Recommended Autac products: SJOW and SOW UL types provide oil and water resistance for wash-down environments. Our Auta-Prene thermoset rubber jacket compound handles the cleaning chemistries and food-acid exposures common in juice, beverage, and dairy operations. For dust-heavy snack and produce processing, shielded retractile configurations protect signal integrity on inspection and quality-monitoring equipment. Browse Coiled Cords for wash-down rated and shielded multi-conductor variants, and check the conductor color charts for plant-standard color coding.
Every Autac product family ships from the same North Branford facility on the same lead times, whether your purchase order originates in Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale, or St. Petersburg. Use these category hubs to browse stock catalog part numbers, application notes, and engineering specs:
Need a configuration that is not in the standard catalog? Florida product designers, Space Coast launch and defense-program engineers, and medical-device development teams regularly use our Build Your Cord tool to specify prototype cords for new equipment platforms. Specify conductor count (2 to 10), gauge (26 AWG to 10 AWG), voltage and current rating, retracted length (12" to 48" and beyond), extension ratio (1:3 to 1:7), jacket compound and color, optional shielding, and termination type — and we handle design, tooling, and manufacturing from a single Connecticut facility. Quote turnaround on a custom build is typically one to three business days; most custom orders ship in 4 to 6 weeks. There is no minimum order quantity, which makes it practical to validate a design with a 5- or 10-piece pilot before committing to a production run — a pattern that works especially well for Florida's launch, defense, and life-sciences engineering teams.
From North Branford to Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale, St. Petersburg, Naples, Melbourne, Merritt Island, Edgewater, Bradenton, Kissimmee, and every Florida destination in between, Autac ships standard ground freight in 2 to 3 business days. Stock catalog cords typically leave our Connecticut dock within one business day of order entry. Total door-to-door turnaround for Florida stock orders runs 3 to 4 business days end-to-end. For time-critical projects — rocket-launch program tooling, defense-line builds, medical-device pilot runs — expedited air freight can compress door-to-door turnaround to 1 to 2 business days. Custom-engineered cords ship as soon as production completes, typically 4 to 6 weeks from design sign-off.
Domestic-only freight means no customs paperwork, no broker fees, no cross-border delays, and no surprises at the receiving dock — a meaningful advantage over imported cordage that arrives through the ports of Miami, Jacksonville, or Tampa in container traffic. For high-volume Florida accounts, we coordinate scheduled releases against blanket POs to keep production lines stocked without distributor lead-time stack-up. Smaller Florida OEMs, startups, and contract manufacturers get the same direct-from-factory pricing as the largest accounts — pricing is based on configuration and volume, not customer-tier negotiations.
Setting up a Florida account takes a single phone call or quote request. Our sales team handles credit-application paperwork, vendor-onboarding submissions, supplier-quality surveys (PPAP, FAI, ISO 9001, AS9100-adjacent documentation, FDA DHF support), W-9 or diversity-certification documentation, and Florida-specific paperwork (resale certificates, material-content documentation requests) as part of standard onboarding. Existing Autac customers expanding into Florida operations can extend their account to additional ship-to addresses without re-qualifying. Contact our sales team at 800.243.3161 or quote@autacusa.com to begin onboarding.
Florida OEM engineers and Space Coast program teams regularly use Build Your Cord to spec prototype cords for new equipment platforms — any gauge, conductor count, length, jacket compound, color, and termination. No MOQ.
Request a quote on any catalog cord, or specify a custom build for your line. Stock orders ship from Connecticut within one business day — most Florida destinations are 2 to 3 business days by ground, with expedited air available for rush programs.