This year Wheatland Tube, a division of Zekelman Industries, created a scholarship award to continue to support education and give back to the community. The Wheatland Scholastic Achievement and Giving Back to your Community Award is in recognition of the work and unwavering commitment of our Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Barry Zek...
Read moreWe understand that consumers do have a choice and while many of our competitors have gone the route of shutting down their U.S. factories and sending jobs to China, we have stayed the course. We stood behind our hard-working employees and their families in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois and continued to reinvest in our business and employees that...
Read moreDon’t see a country of origin on your product for projects that require domestically made products? Don’t assume it’s American-made! Installing foreign product on a job that requires domestic materials can be costly. U.S. Customer and Border Protection requires markings indicating country of origin on steel and iron pipe a...
Read moreKevin McNulty, Sr. is the Executive Director for Midwest IEC, a chapter of the Independent Electrical Contractors Association representing the Chicago metropolitan area and Northwest Indiana. He h...
Read moreThere’s no better way to meet and network with your peers, and check out thousands of product and service solutions than at the National Electrical Contractor’s Association’s number one show for the electrical industry. Wheatland Tube was one of the many exhibitors that displayed products at NECA from October 3 – 6 in San Francisco, Califor...
Read moreSwitching from the familiar to the unfamiliar can be a difficult change for anyone, and it's no different for contractors when deciding to specify a new product for their next project. Sure, the unfamiliar is intimidating, but it also holds the potential to completely revolutionize the way you do business, complete projects, and save money. Sl...
Read moreWheatland Tube now offers expanded service to customers in Northern Illinois and Northwest Indiana. Our new, Chicago-based dedicated sales tea...
Read moreDid you know you can save 50% on connections cost when using 20-foot conduit? It’s true: 20-foot conduit reduces the number of connections and associated labor cost when installing, while performing up to the high manufacturing standards of 10-foot conduit. For long runs, jobs big and small, with volumes of all sizes, 20-foot conduit outperfor...
Read moreBelieve it or not, there are still some contractors who don’t realize the savings of 20 foot conduit and are hesitant to use it for applications like retail stores, warehouses, utilities, mass transportation infrastructure and other large runs. There are many projects where 20 foot conduit can save electrical contractors both time and money. Donâ...
Read moreFrom EC&M Ground fault circuit interrupters (GFCIs) are designed to disconnect power to a branch circuit whenever the unit detects an imbalance of current between the energized conductor and the neutral conductor. Since the 1970s, GFCIs have save...
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