UL/CUL-listed retractile, curly, and coiled power cords engineered in North Branford, Connecticut and shipped to Indiana RV, automotive, engine, pharmaceutical, medical-device, aerospace, and steel manufacturers since 1947. Direct factory pricing, no minimum order quantity, custom builds in 4–6 weeks — with about 2 business days of ground transit to most Indiana docks.
Indiana 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 Midwest distributor markup, no surprise lead times, and only about two business days of domestic ground transit. From travel-trailer assembly lines at Thor Industries and Forest River in Elkhart to diesel-engine test cells at Cummins in Columbus, from Subaru body-shop tooling in Lafayette to orthopedic-device cleanrooms at Zimmer Biomet in Warsaw, Autac cordage shows up on Indiana OEM bills of materials because it is built to spec, listed for compliance, and shipped on a schedule you can plan around.
No Midwest distributor markup. Indiana 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 Indiana OEM audits.
The only 100% woman-owned UL-listed retractile cord manufacturer in the industry. Counts toward diversity-spend targets at large Indiana OEMs.
Prototype runs as small as one piece — ideal for Indiana's RV-and-towable plants in Elkhart County that iterate floorplans and electrical harnesses every model year. Same factory team handles pilots and production volumes.
Indiana is one of the most manufacturing-intensive states in the country by share of GDP, with five distinct clusters that all generate steady demand for industrial retractile, curly, and coiled cordage. The Elkhart County region builds roughly 80 percent of the recreational vehicles made in North America. Automotive and engine production spans Columbus, Lafayette, Princeton, and Greensburg. Pharmaceuticals and life sciences anchor Indianapolis and a deep orthopedic-device cluster in Warsaw and Bloomington. Aerospace and defense propulsion concentrates in Indianapolis. And the Calumet Region around Gary and Burns Harbor remains one of the largest integrated steelmaking centers in the United States. 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.
Elkhart County is the RV Capital of the World, where roughly 80 percent of North America's recreational vehicles are built. Thor Industries is headquartered in Elkhart and builds Airstream, Heartland, and Keystone product through its subsidiaries. Forest River, a Berkshire Hathaway company, runs more than 100 plants out of Elkhart. Jayco assembles travel trailers, fifth wheels, and motorhomes in Middlebury, and Grand Design RV, Alliance RV, and Winnebago's towables operations add to the cluster. Tier-one suppliers Lippert and Patrick Industries in Elkhart feed chassis, furniture, and component lines. RV assembly runs on fast-moving lines with frequent floorplan changes, and electrical sub-assembly stations need power and signal cordage that retracts cleanly out of the work area between cycles.
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Recommended Autac products: TPR-jacketed retractile cords in 14 AWG and 12 AWG, 3-conductor / 15A configurations cover most assembly-line tool drops, with custom retracted lengths from 18" to 48" so cords pull cleanly off the line. PVC and TPR curly cords in 18 AWG to 14 AWG suit lighter sub-assembly stations. Browse the Retractile Cords hub for stock part numbers, or use the Build Your Cord tool to specify a custom configuration for your line. With no minimum order quantity, it is practical to qualify a new cord for a single model-year floorplan change.
Indiana sits in the heart of the auto-and-engine corridor. Cummins is headquartered in Columbus, where it designs and tests diesel and natural-gas engines and powertrains. Subaru of Indiana Automotive assembles the Ascent, Crosstrek, Forester, and Outback in Lafayette, producing roughly half of all Subarus sold in North America. Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana builds the Highlander and Grand Highlander in Princeton, Honda assembles the Civic and CR-V in Greensburg, and Allison Transmission builds commercial-duty automatic transmissions in Indianapolis. Vehicle and engine plants run high-current assembly drops, test-cell power feeds, and inspection-station cordage that must survive cutting fluids, coolants, and constant flexing.
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Recommended Autac products: 12 AWG and 10 AWG / 20A retractile configurations handle the higher-current loads of engine test cells and high-torque fastening stations. Auta-Prene thermoset rubber and TPR jackets resist the cutting fluids, coolants, and oils common in automotive and engine production. Browse the Retractile Cords hub for stock high-current configurations and Cord Sets for custom-terminated assemblies. PPAP and FAI documentation is available to support automotive supplier-quality requirements.
Indiana is a global pharmaceutical and orthopedic-device center. Eli Lilly is headquartered in Indianapolis, where it manufactures and is investing billions in new production capacity, including the LEAP district in Lebanon. Roche Diagnostics operates its North American headquarters and manufacturing in Indianapolis. Warsaw is the Orthopedic Capital of the World, anchored by Zimmer Biomet, with a deep supplier base building joint replacements and surgical instruments. Cook Medical manufactures minimally invasive devices in Bloomington. Pharmaceutical and 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.
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Recommended Autac products: Our Auta-Prene thermoset rubber and TPR jacket compounds resist the cleaning and sterilization chemistries common in pharma and medical manufacturing. For signal applications, 18 AWG and 16 AWG shielded retractile and curly configurations support millions of flex cycles on lab-automation and inspection equipment. 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.
Indianapolis hosts one of the largest aerospace-propulsion operations in the country. Rolls-Royce designs, manufactures, and tests aircraft and defense engines in Indianapolis, including the AE family of turbine engines and hybrid-electric propulsion R&D. Allison Transmission supplies defense and tactical-vehicle drivelines, Raytheon maintains Indiana manufacturing operations, and a dense base of machining, plating, and assembly suppliers supports the propulsion supply chain. Aerospace and defense programs share a common engineering challenge: durable, traceable power and signal delivery to engine test cells, assembly fixtures, and ground support equipment that must satisfy AS9100, ITAR, and federal supplier-quality requirements.
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Recommended Autac products: TPR-jacketed retractile cords in 14 AWG and 12 AWG, 3-conductor / 15A configurations cover most assembly-fixture drops; step up to 10 AWG / 20A for higher-current test-cell and GSE applications. Custom retracted lengths from 18" to 36" are standard. Browse the Retractile Cords hub for stock part numbers, or use Build Your Cord to specify a custom configuration. Autac is a US-only manufacturer with a US supply chain, which simplifies ITAR-program supplier qualification.
The Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana is one of the largest integrated steelmaking centers in North America. Cleveland-Cliffs operates the Burns Harbor and Indiana Harbor (East Chicago) complexes, and U.S. Steel runs Gary Works, one of the oldest and largest integrated mills in the country. NLMK Indiana in Portage and Steel Dynamics add to the region's flat-rolled and finishing capacity, and downstream fabricators, service centers, and tube mills across the Region depend on the same mills. Heavy-industry environments share a common set of conditions: heat, oil and scale, abrasion, and constant duty cycles that punish ordinary cordage.
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Recommended Autac products: SOW and SJOW UL types in 12 AWG and 10 AWG provide oil, water, and abrasion resistance for mill and fabrication environments. Auta-Prene thermoset rubber jackets stand up to the heat and scale exposure typical of steelmaking and metal fabrication. For higher-current maintenance and welding-cell drops, 10 AWG / 20A retractile configurations keep heavy leads off the floor. Browse Coiled Cords for rugged shielded and 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 Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Elkhart, Evansville, South Bend, Columbus, Lafayette, or Gary. 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? Indiana RV product engineers, automotive and engine development teams, and medical-device designers 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 Elkhart County's model-year-driven RV plants and Indiana's automotive and life-sciences development teams.
From North Branford to Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Elkhart, Evansville, South Bend, Columbus, Lafayette, Bloomington, Warsaw, Gary, and every Indiana destination in between, Autac ships standard ground freight in about 2 business days. Stock catalog cords typically leave our Connecticut dock within one business day of order entry. Total door-to-door turnaround for Indiana stock orders runs 3 to 4 business days end-to-end. For time-critical projects — RV-line model-year launches, engine-test-cell startups, medical-device pilot 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 Pacific in container traffic before it ever reaches a Midwest distribution center. For high-volume Indiana accounts, we coordinate scheduled releases against blanket POs to keep production lines stocked without distributor lead-time stack-up. Smaller Indiana OEMs, RV suppliers, 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 an Indiana 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 resale-certificate paperwork as part of standard onboarding. Existing Autac customers expanding into Indiana 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.
Indiana OEM engineers and RV product 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 Indiana destinations are about 2 business days by ground, with expedited air available for rush programs.