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Ken Vandenberghe named Top Safety Professional of the Year – 2009

Congratulations to Ken Vandenberghe, OTR/L, CEES, CIPS, MBA, Corporate Health & Safety Manager for Rea Magnet Wire Company. Ken has been named Safety Professional of the Year for 2009 by J.J. Keller Online*. This is the second year that he has won this award; the first being in 2005. This ...

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EIS has Recognized Rea for Top Performance

At the 2010 EIS Supplier Fair in Mobile, AL, EIS recognized Rea for contributing to their success. Larry Griffin of EIS, in making the award, noted: “Among those in the forefront is Rea Magnet Wire – EIS’ largest supplier. Rea Magnet Wire, and specifically, Rich Nagel, is recognized for an ...

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Ergonomic Design – Avoiding Common Mistakes

Ken Vandenberghe, Rea Magnet Wire Company’s manager of Health and Safety has published an article in EHS Today on common mistakes to avoid when addressing ergonomic design and injury reduction. The full article can be found here. In the article, Ken addresses three common mistakes to avoid, that when not ...

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Achieving interoperability in factory automation

John Haydock, Rea Magnet Wire Company’s manager of control systems engineering discusses Rea’s protocol for factory automation interoperability in a whitepaper published by the International Society for Automation in it’s on-line news letter InTech. The whitepaper can be found here.

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Rea Magnet Wire to Sell Selected Assets to Elektrisola, Inc.

FORT WAYNE, Indiana, March 20, 2009 Rea Magnet Wire Company, a privately held corporation and #1 producer of magnet wire products in North America, announced today it has agreed to sell selected assets of its Rea Diversified Products Division (RDP) to Elektrisola, Inc., of Boscawen, New Hampshire. Assets included in ...

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Rea Energy and Petro Chemical Surcharge

Effective with shipments of January 1, 2009 through March 31, 2009, Rea will be temporarily suspending the implementation of the Rea Energy and Petro-Chemical Surcharge Index. As you know, this surcharge was initiated to address material cost increases in the petrochemical commodities markets that were beyond our control. We knew ...

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Rea Magnet Wire Company Named Top Supplier by Emerson

Rea Magnet Wire Company, Inc. has been named a Marquee Supplier by St. Louis-based Emerson, a global leader in technology and engineering. Emerson’s Marquee Supplier award, in its second year and presented at a dinner ceremony October 7, 2008, recognizes the contributions and achievements of the top 38 global suppliers ...

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Rea Magnet Wire Celebrates 75th Anniversary

Fort Wayne, IN – June 30, 2008 Founded in 1933 by Victor Rea, the Rea Magnet Wire Company; a Fort Wayne- headquartered company with two local manufacturing plants, has grown into an international operation with thirteen manufacturing facilities in the United States, Mexico, and China. “I think Victor would be ...

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Rea and Tongling Jingda form two joint ventures in China

Tongling Jingda of the Peoples Republic of China, and Rea Magnet Wire Inc., of America announce the establishment of two joint ventures in the Chinese province of Anhui in the city of Tongling. With an estimated annual capacity of 36,000 tons, the Tongling Jingda Rea Special Enameled Wire Company joint ...

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