Discover Temporary Power with Southwire Tools
When you need power at your jobsite, go with the industry’s leader in temporary power. Engineered utilizing the latest in GFCI technology, Southwire’s iconic yellow temporary power boxes have been providing contractors, electricians, and engineers with the highest level of electrical safety for over 35 years. When combined with our specialty boxes and carts, Southwire product can be used to enable easy connections of temporary setups from any size power source to tools, heaters, chillers, de-humidifiers, welders, sound systems, lighting, and control systems.
Southwire has an extensive line of electrical safety product that ensures protection from dangerous current leakage that can cause electrical shock and possible electrocution. Our patented technologies enable you to protect people, property and equipment.
Southwire’s electrical safety products are everyday electrical safety devices for use at home, the office, construction sites, refineries, mining, factories, portable equipment or wherever people use portable electrical equipment. The devices are required to be used throughout the world and we have products that are in accordance with the following standards:
NEC – Article 590.6
OSHA standard for general industry 29 CFR 1910
OSHA standard for construction industry 29 CFR 1926.404
UL 943
cULus 1640
About Southwire
Southwire's roots extend to 1937, when Richards, then a young 25 years old, started Richards & Associates (R&A) to erect power poles with the ultimate purpose of bringing electric light to his grandmother’s home.
Richards was a recent graduate of Georgia Tech, and while the promise of jobs paying $80 a month lured most of his classmates to New York, Richards chose to stay in Carroll County, a commitment he kept even after Southwire grew into a leading player in the wire and cable industry.
During its first two and a half years, R&A strung 3,500 miles of cable, becoming the nation’s second-largest Rural Electrification Act (REA) contractor. As World War II halted all REA construction, Richards was called up into the U.S. Army, eventually reaching the rank of captain.