Volume 2, Issue 2 - August 2009
The Supplier
WUE Update
WUE was recently recognized by Electrical Wholesaling magazine as the 94th largest electrical distributor in the country as measured by total sales.
WUE was also recognized as the top distributor (#1) in the country as measured by sales per employee.
Mark your calendars for September 10th. Western United will host an Open House at their Brighton facility with displays by most of their vendors and an afternoon cook-out.
WUE will be returning over $3.6 million to their members in cash and patronage certificates for purchases made during FY 2009 (ending June 30th). See your WUE representative for a summary of your coop’s percentage return based on total purchases last fiscal year.
A member deadstock/overstock summary is being published. Please feel free to negotiate the price of any product you may want to purchase on the list from another member with that member. Contact Western United to arrange for shipping.
PRODUCT CHAMPIONS ANNOUNCED BY WUE
Due to the emergence of new technical products as well as the addition of several new vendors (with technical products) by WUE, WUE has responded to customer’s needs for technical support by naming the following WUE employees as Product Champions. The Product Champions are available to answer any technical questions regarding the listed products. Please don’t hesitate to contact them.
Avian Protection
An investor owned electric utility in Wyoming was heavily fined recently due to several raptors being killed when they came in contact with the utility’s lines. The old expression “kill a bird, fix the pole” is not going to prevent a fine in the future. Rather a good avian protection plan is required in order to keep your utility from incurring expensive fines.
WUE can provide a full range of cover-up protection products that will help to prevent wildlife deaths and line outages.
Please see your WUE inside or outside sales representative for more literature on these products.
“Hubbell” cutout cover, line cover and bushing covers.
“Hendrix” protective line guard, perch preventer, wildlife guards, covered tie wire, insulated ground wire, covered tap wire.
“Salisbury” bushing cover, line cover.
“Kaddas” line and bushing bird-guards; cutout, switch, arrester, bushing covers; deadend shoe cover, substation covers, and anti-perch triangles.
“Raychem” capacitor, cover, bushing cover, bus squirrel guard, busbar heatshrink, and link insulating tape.
“3M” tape, bus bar tubing and bushing animal guard.
“Coyote Enterprises” crossarm raptor guards.
“Insulboot” cutout cover, bushing cover, substation cover, specialty covers.
“Central Maloney” bushing cover, arrester mounting bracket cover, equipment mounting cover.
LED LIGHTING PRODUCTS
Additional LED Lighting Products are being introduced into the marketplace at a very fast pace. Following are some new products currently available.
See your WUE sales representative for more information!
“Evluma” retrofit bulb with wide optics converts a standard MV or HPS security light to an LED fixture.
“Relume” offers a retrofit post top bulb able to convert most decorative post top fixtures to LED.
“American Electric” offers a retrofit post top bulb kit able to convert the Granville decorative post top fixture to LED.
“Cooper” currently offers a retrofit cobra head style bulb to convert a HPS fixture to LED.