A cornerstone of the company’s success has always been understanding the current challenges related to the construction of various forms of cable and flexible pipe, and then overcoming them through innovative machine design. Some of these innovations, which have helped shape the industry, are listed below:

1967
Mr. Andre Varga, previously Plant and Project Engineer with Canada Wire Company, founds the business Ceeco. The objective of the new venture is to design and manufacture innovative equipment for the wire and cable industry.

1968
The new designs and ideas of the new company are accepted by the industry and Ceeco is awarded two major contracts to equip the new plants of Alcan Wire and Cable in Bracebridge, Ontario, and of Reynolds Aluminum in Malvern, Arkansas, U.S.A.

1970
Ceeco designs and delivers the first successful encircling bearing type tubular strander manufactured in North America; this type of precision machine was only supplied at that time by Krupp and Stolberger, the two leading German manufacturers and by Hanson and Edwards in Great Britain. Volumes are expanding rapidly and Ceeco moves to a new 20,000 sq.ft. plant in Concord, Ontario.

1971
Ceeco confirms its reputation for innovative design, introducing a new interlocked armouring machine (BX) that operates at speeds three times higher than the best competitive equipment and increases productivity over 400%; so drastic is the innovation that competition drops our of this market, and a few years later Ceeco is the only supplier of BX machines in the world. Volumes continue to grow and Ceeco expands twice its floor space to reach 40,000 sq.ft.

1972
Ceeco supplies the first tubular strander using unsplit bearings and develops a new aligning procedure based on the use of a laser beam; both innovations become standards of the industry.

1977
Ceeco accelerates its development programs and introduces a new safety bobbin carrying device, the Spin-Safe Cradle, and advance in the state of the art that makes tubular stranders virtually immune from the catastrophic accidents that historically had plagues this type of machine. With this development, Ceeco becomes a world leader in tubular strander design and obtains patent protection for its invention. Ceeco sells its first tubular stranders for steel wire rope applications.

1978
A PAIT development program is obtained from the Canadian Government for the development of a revolutionary machine of new design, the Orbital Strander; value of the total project over @1,500,000. Ceeco exhibits the prototype at the 1978 Interwire in Basle, Switzerland. Patent protection is obtained. Significant orbital strander orders are obtained. The first significant sales contract is obtained in Europe; it covers 14 twinners for a value of over $800,000 U.S. Ceeco obtains a third Government grant for the development of a large planetary lay-up machine used for steel wire rope, equipment for which no source is available in North America; value of the project is $2,000,000.

1980
Ceeco more than doubles its capacity by moving into a new 122,000 sq.ft.

1981
The financial situation of the company is very healthy and Ceeco purchases the building at 65 Basaltic Road (123,000 sq.ft.).

1984
Ceeco develops and patents a new method to produce compact conductors with double twist equipment. To date it is the most effective and productive way to produce highly compact conductors (96% metal content).

1985
Ceeco receives the first Chinese orders for a Drum Twisting line and an Interlocked Armouring line; the successful completion of these orders makes possible a continuous stream of orders from China. Ceeco is asked to develop from scratch a series of machines for underwater flexible pipe. Ceeco becomes the owner of the pipe technology developed. This technology is the prime reason for landing a contract for 8.5 million U.S.$ with Dunlop, England. Numerous contracts have since followed for the oil industry around the world.

1986
Ceeco develops a new version of Group Twinner for General Cable Corporation; 156 heads are sold on this first contract. The design is so successful that up to the present about 2500heads have been sold in various configurations. The units take advantage of the patented Fleet-O-Matic® payoff and cannot be copied in the optimum configuration.

1991
Ceeco is selected by Southwire to participate in the High Score development project; from this comes the development of the manufacturing cell concepts, putting together several machines and lines to sustain a complete production cycle (1800 Double Twist Strander, 36" Coilers, AVC, etc.)

1992
Ceeco receives a large order from Siecor (approximately 7 million dollars) covering novel equipment for the manufacture of large fiber count ribbon cables (4000 fibers). The successful completion of this contract leads to a patented insertion system and opens the door to future large continuous business with Siecor and licensees (rotating equipment, ribbon liner, buffering line, etc.)

1993
Ceeco is also approached by selected customers to develop equipment to produce twinned copper data cables. Important development work leads to the achievement of reliable production equipment and method. To date more than 90 lines have been sold.

1995
Ceeco becomes part of the Nokia-Mailefer, later to be known as Nextrom. It developed the synergies with it’s sister companies to help Nextrom become a leading supplier of the ‘complete solution’ to the cable industry throughout the world.

1998
Ceeco introduces the patented Backtwist twinning module for data cable. This brings a degree of future proofing into the production of the higher quality data cable. To date more than 40 lines have been sold.

2000
Ceeco patents new length metering system for the production of control cable with fillers.

2001
Ceeco continues to provide high quality innovative solutions to meet the product needs of its customers worldwide.