UL/CUL-listed retractile, curly, and coiled power cords engineered in North Branford, Connecticut and shipped to Texas oil-and-gas, aerospace-and-defense, semiconductor, automotive, and food-processing manufacturers since 1947. Direct factory pricing, no minimum order quantity, custom builds in 4–6 weeks, with 3–4 business day ground transit to the Lone Star State.
Texas 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 regional distributor markup, no surprise lead times, no import delays. From F-35 and V-280 assembly lines at Lockheed Martin and Bell in Fort Worth to wafer-fab tool drops at Samsung in Taylor and Texas Instruments in Sherman, from Tundra body-shop tooling at Toyota in San Antonio to pressure-control assembly at NOV and SLB in Houston, Autac cordage shows up on Texas OEM bills of materials because it is built to spec, listed for compliance, and shipped on a schedule you can plan around.
No regional distributor markup. Texas 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 Texas OEM and AHJ audits.
The only 100% woman-owned UL-listed retractile cord manufacturer in the industry. Counts toward diversity-spend targets at large Texas OEMs.
Prototype runs as small as one piece — ideal for Texas's energy-equipment and oilfield-tool engineering teams. Same factory team handles pilots and full production volumes.
Texas is the second-largest manufacturing economy in the United States and one of the deepest, with six distinct clusters that all generate steady demand for industrial retractile, curly, and coiled cordage. Oil-and-gas and energy equipment anchor Houston and the Permian Basin supply chain. Aerospace and defense dominate Fort Worth, Dallas, and Greenville. A fast-growing semiconductor cluster spans Taylor, Sherman, Richardson, and Austin. Automotive assembly runs in San Antonio and the Austin area. The greater Houston petrochemical and energy-services complex is the largest in the country. And Texas's food, beverage, and snack-processing base — centered on the I-35 corridor and Brazos Valley — runs 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 six.
Houston is the global capital of oil-and-gas equipment and oilfield services. SLB (Schlumberger) runs pressure-control and completions manufacturing from its Houston campus, and Cameron, an SLB Company builds blowout preventers, valves, and flow-control systems in Houston. Halliburton (Houston) is the market leader in pressure pumping and well cementing. Baker Hughes and NOV (National Oilwell Varco) both manufacture rig systems, drilling components, and artificial-lift equipment in Houston. These operations build heavy capital equipment and field-service tooling that must endure vibration, hydraulic fluids, drilling muds, and continuous duty cycles on assembly floors and test stands.
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Recommended Autac products: SOW and SJOW UL types provide oil and water resistance for the hydraulic fluids and drilling muds common in energy-equipment fabrication. Our Auta-Prene thermoset rubber jacket compound handles abrasion and chemical exposure on heavy-equipment build cells. For higher-current welding and test-stand drops, step up to 10 AWG / 20A retractile configurations. Browse the Retractile Cords hub for stock high-current part numbers, or use the Build Your Cord tool to specify a custom configuration for your line.
North Texas hosts one of the densest aerospace-and-defense manufacturing clusters in the country. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics builds the F-35 Lightning II and F-16 in Fort Worth, employing more than 22,000 people in the region. Bell (Bell Textron), headquartered in Fort Worth, manufactures military rotorcraft in Fort Worth and Amarillo and is building a new facility in Alliance for the V-280 / MV-75 program. L3Harris performs ISR aircraft modifications in Greenville, and RTX (Raytheon) operates a 6,000-person campus in Richardson working on radar, electro-optics, and high-energy lasers. These programs share a common engineering challenge: durable, traceable power and signal delivery to test stands, 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-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 on F-35 and V-280 work.
Texas has become the leading US hub for new semiconductor fabrication. Samsung is bringing online a multi-billion-dollar advanced fab in Taylor. Texas Instruments operates analog fabs in Richardson and Dallas and is building a large 300mm wafer-fab complex in Sherman. NXP Semiconductors runs two automotive-chip fabs in Austin, and GlobiTech (Sherman) and other suppliers round out the cluster. Semiconductor capital equipment carries some of the most demanding cordage requirements in any industry: ESD-safe materials, ultra-clean jacket compounds, vacuum-compatible outgassing characteristics, high-flex life for wafer-handling robots, and EMI shielding for variable-frequency-drive and RF-process environments.
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Recommended Autac products: 18 AWG and 16 AWG shielded retractile and curly configurations dominate wafer-handling and metrology applications, with retracted lengths from 12" to 24". For ESD-safe and low-outgassing requirements, contact engineering directly to specify a jacket compound that meets your fab's particle and contamination spec. Browse Curly Cords for high-flex signal builds and Coiled Cords for shielded multi-conductor assemblies suited to VFD-rich environments.
Texas is a growing automotive-manufacturing center. Tesla builds the Model Y and Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas east of Austin. Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas assembles the Tundra full-size pickup and Sequoia SUV in San Antonio, anchored by an on-site supplier park. Navistar International and a cluster of Tier-1 suppliers operate around San Antonio's South Side automotive corridor. Vehicle and battery manufacturing carries its own electrical requirements: high-current assembly drops for body and pack assembly, paint-shop and weld-cell tool power, and test-cell cabling rated for repeated thermal and electrical cycling.
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Recommended Autac products: 12 AWG and 10 AWG / 20A retractile configurations handle the higher-current loads typical of body-shop and battery-assembly tooling. TPR and Auta-Prene jackets resist the cutting fluids, coolants, and weld spatter common in automotive 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.
The Houston Ship Channel and Gulf Coast form the largest petrochemical and refining complex in the United States. ExxonMobil operates refining and chemical plants in Baytown and Beaumont, Dow runs major operations in Freeport, LyondellBasell manufactures in the Houston and Channelview corridor, and Phillips 66 refines along the coast. Surrounding these plants is a vast ecosystem of fabrication shops, turnaround contractors, and equipment-rebuild facilities. These environments demand cordage rated for oil, chemical exposure, abrasion, and continuous service in fabrication yards and equipment shops.
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Recommended Autac products: SOW and SJOW UL types deliver the oil and water resistance required around refining and chemical fabrication, and Auta-Prene thermoset rubber handles abrasion in rugged yard environments. For high-current welding drops, 10 AWG / 20A retractile configurations pull cleanly out of the work area between uses. Browse Coiled Cords for rugged multi-conductor variants and the Cord Sets page for custom-terminated assemblies, and check the conductor color charts for plant-standard color coding.
Texas runs a large food, beverage, and snack-processing base concentrated along the I-35 corridor and Brazos Valley. Frito-Lay (a PepsiCo company headquartered in Plano) operates snack-manufacturing plants across the state. Keurig Dr Pepper anchors beverage production with roots in Plano, and Blue Bell Creameries manufactures ice cream in Brenham. Sysco (Houston) and H-E-B commissaries run high-volume packaging and distribution operations. These plants share a common environment: wash-down sanitation cycles, chemical and food-acid exposure, dust and particulate from grain and snack handling, and zero tolerance for line downtime during peak runs.
Typical Texas 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 dairy, beverage, and bottling operations. For dust-heavy snack and grain 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 Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Fort Worth, or El Paso. 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? Texas product designers, energy-equipment engineers, and aerospace and automotive 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 Texas's energy-equipment, oilfield-tool, and semiconductor capital-equipment programs.
From North Branford to Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Fort Worth, El Paso, Plano, Sherman, Taylor, Greenville, Beaumont, and every Texas destination in between, Autac ships standard ground freight in 3 to 4 business days. Stock catalog cords typically leave our Connecticut dock within one business day of order entry. Total door-to-door turnaround for Texas stock orders runs 4 to 6 business days end-to-end. For time-critical projects — defense-program tooling, semiconductor fab startups, oilfield-equipment rebuilds — expedited air freight can compress door-to-door turnaround to 2 to 3 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 Houston or Laredo in container and cross-border traffic. For high-volume Texas accounts, we coordinate scheduled releases against blanket POs to keep production lines stocked without distributor lead-time stack-up. Smaller Texas 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 Texas 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), W-9 or diversity-certification documentation, and Texas-specific paperwork (resale and exemption certificates, material-content documentation requests) as part of standard onboarding. Existing Autac customers expanding into Texas 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.
Texas OEM engineers and energy-equipment 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 Texas destinations are 3 to 4 business days by ground, with expedited air available for rush programs.