UL/CUL-listed retractile, curly, and coiled power cords engineered in North Branford, Connecticut and shipped to Georgia aerospace, EV and automotive, poultry and food-processing, paper and packaging, and logistics manufacturers since 1947. Direct factory pricing, no minimum order quantity, custom builds in 4–6 weeks, and only 2–3 business days by ground from our dock to yours.
Georgia 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 only 2 to 3 business days of ground transit. From business-jet completions at Gulfstream in Savannah to EV final assembly at the Hyundai Metaplant near Ellabell, from C-130 and F-35 lines at Lockheed Martin in Marietta to high-speed poultry-processing lines across the Gainesville corridor, Autac cordage shows up on Georgia 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. Georgia buyers talk to engineering and place orders directly with our Connecticut manufacturing team.
400+ stock catalog part numbers with full lot traceability. OSHA-recognized listings and documentation for Georgia OEM audits.
The only 100% woman-owned UL-listed retractile cord manufacturer in the industry. Counts toward diversity-spend targets at large Georgia OEMs.
Prototype runs as small as one piece — ideal for Georgia's fast-ramping EV and battery plants. Same factory team handles pilot builds and full production volumes.
Georgia is one of the fastest-growing manufacturing economies in the Southeast, with five distinct clusters that all generate steady demand for industrial retractile, curly, and coiled cordage. Aerospace and defense anchor Savannah and Marietta. A booming EV-and-automotive cluster now spans Ellabell, West Point, Commerce, and Bartow County. Poultry and food processing dominate the Gainesville corridor and run statewide. Paper and packaging, headquartered in Atlanta, operate mills and converting plants across the state. And the Port of Savannah — the largest single-terminal container facility in North America — has made logistics and distribution a major sector in its own right. 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.
Georgia hosts two of the most significant aerospace manufacturing sites in the Southeast. Gulfstream Aerospace (a General Dynamics company) builds, completes, and supports its business-jet fleet across more than four million square feet in Savannah, where it is the area's largest private employer. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics runs C-130J Super Hercules final assembly and F-35 Lightning II center-wing assembly at Air Force Plant 6 in Marietta. Robins Air Force Base near Warner Robins anchors a deep MRO and defense-sustainment ecosystem, and suppliers such as Triumph Group and Thrush Aircraft in Albany round out the state's aerospace base. These operations share a common engineering challenge: durable, traceable power and signal delivery to assembly fixtures, completions bays, clean-bench work areas, and ground support equipment that must satisfy AS9100, ITAR, and federal supplier-quality requirements.
Typical Georgia 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 and completions-bay drops; custom retracted lengths from 18" to 36" are standard. Step up to 10 AWG / 20A for higher-current GSE and depot 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.
Georgia has become the center of gravity for electric-vehicle and battery manufacturing in the Southeast. The Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Ellabell (Bryan County) reached full production in late 2024 on a $7.6 billion EV assembly campus. Kia Georgia has built vehicles in West Point since 2009 and produces the three-row EV9 there. SK Battery America runs gigawatt-scale EV-cell production in Commerce, and the Hyundai–SK On battery joint venture is building a multibillion-dollar cell plant in Bartow County. Rivian has a planned assembly campus near Social Circle east of Atlanta. Battery and EV manufacturing carries demanding electrical requirements: high-current assembly drops for cell-pack assembly, drive-cycle dynamometer cabling, and high-voltage test-cell power feeds rated for repeated thermal and electrical cycling.
Typical Georgia applications in this segment:
Recommended Autac products: 10 AWG / 20A retractile configurations handle the higher-current loads typical of battery assembly and drive-cycle test cells. TPR and Auta-Prene jackets resist the cutting fluids, coolants, and battery-electrolyte residues common in EV production. Browse the Retractile Cords hub for stock high-current configurations, and use Build Your Cord to specify retracted length, extension ratio, and termination for your line. With no minimum order quantity, the same factory team can turn a pilot build into a production order as a new Georgia line ramps.
Georgia is the top broiler-producing state in the country, and the Gainesville–Hall County corridor is widely regarded as the poultry capital of the world. Pilgrim's Pride, Fieldale Farms, Mar-Jac Poultry, and Wayne-Sanderson Farms run high-throughput processing plants across North Georgia, while Tyson Foods operates in the metro-Atlanta and Cumming area. The Coca-Cola Company anchors beverage operations from its Atlanta headquarters, and consumer-goods makers such as Frito-Lay and dozens of co-packers run packaging and palletizing lines around the clock. These operations share a common environment: wash-down sanitation cycles, chemical and food-acid exposure, dust and particulate from feed and grain handling, and zero tolerance for line downtime during peak runs.
Typical Georgia 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 aggressive cleaning chemistries and food-acid exposures common in poultry and beverage operations. For dust-heavy feed and grain handling, 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.
Georgia is a national center for the pulp, paper, and packaging industry. Georgia-Pacific (a Koch company) is headquartered in Atlanta and operates tissue, containerboard, and building-products mills statewide. WestRock (now part of Smurfit WestRock) maintains major operations in the Atlanta area and runs containerboard and corrugated-packaging plants across the Southeast. Graphic Packaging International is headquartered in Atlanta and operates paperboard and folding-carton facilities, and International Paper and Interfor run additional mill and converting capacity in the state. Mill and converting environments share demanding requirements: high heat near dryers and presses, paper dust and fiber, vibration from rolling stock, and the need for power and signal cordage that holds up to constant motion on winders, palletizers, and converting equipment.
Typical Georgia applications in this segment:
Recommended Autac products: 12 AWG and 14 AWG retractile cords in TPR and Auta-Prene jackets stand up to the heat, dust, and abrasion of mill and converting floors. For control and signal applications on winders and converting lines, 16 AWG and 18 AWG shielded retractile and curly configurations resist EMI from variable-frequency drives. Browse the Retractile Cords hub and Coiled Cords for shielded multi-conductor builds, and use Build Your Cord to specify retracted length and termination.
The Port of Savannah, operated by the Georgia Ports Authority, is the largest single-terminal container facility in North America and one of the busiest in the country, anchoring a distribution boom that stretches from Savannah to Atlanta. The Home Depot operates large distribution centers in Savannah and across metro Atlanta, UPS is headquartered in Sandy Springs and runs major hub operations, and retailers and 3PLs fill millions of square feet of warehousing near the port and along I-16, I-75, and I-85. Distribution and material-handling environments share a common need: power and signal cordage that retracts cleanly out of aisles and trip paths, holds up to constant motion on lift equipment and conveyor lines, and stands up to dust and temperature swings in high-bay facilities.
Typical Georgia applications in this segment:
Recommended Autac products: 14 AWG and 12 AWG retractile cords in TPR jackets are the workhorse for conveyor, sortation, and workstation drops, with custom retracted lengths from 24" to 48" that pull cleanly out of aisles. For scanner, sensor, and control signal applications, 18 AWG and 16 AWG curly and shielded retractile cords support millions of flex cycles. Browse Retractile Cords and Cord Sets for custom-terminated, ready-to-install assemblies, and check the color charts for facility-standard wiring schemes.
Every Autac product family ships from the same North Branford facility on the same lead times, whether your purchase order originates in Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, or Athens. 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? Georgia product designers, EV-line and battery-plant engineers, and aerospace 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 Georgia's fast-ramping EV, battery, and aerospace programs.
From North Branford to Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Athens, Marietta, Gainesville, West Point, Commerce, Ellabell, and every Georgia 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 Georgia stock orders runs 3 to 4 business days end-to-end. For time-critical projects — EV-line startups, aerospace program tooling, peak-season distribution builds — 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 crosses the Port of Savannah in container traffic. For high-volume Georgia accounts, we coordinate scheduled releases against blanket POs to keep production lines stocked without distributor lead-time stack-up. Smaller Georgia 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 Georgia 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 material-content documentation requests as part of standard onboarding. Existing Autac customers expanding into Georgia 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.
Georgia OEM engineers and startup 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 Georgia destinations are 2 to 3 business days by ground, with expedited air available for rush programs.