Wire and cable buyers across the Finger Lakes.

Rochester: optics, imaging and precision

Rochester's engineering base was built on optics, imaging and precision manufacturing, and the supply chain that grew around it still runs clean rooms, coating lines, test benches and machine shops. That work consumes instrumentation cable, control cable, servo and VFD cable, and clean-room power distribution.

The city also carries a legacy of very large former manufacturing sites. Where buildings have been cleared or converted, the electrical demolition releases feeder and distribution cable in quantity — heavier, dirtier and usually undocumented, but still worth reviewing as recovery material.

Agriculture, food and the lake towns

Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Wayne and Yates counties are agricultural and food-processing country: cold storage, dairy, canning, wineries and packing houses. These operations run refrigeration, pumps and process lines on medium voltage and heavy motor circuits, and they replace cable when equipment is upgraded.

Batavia adds agricultural equipment manufacturing and a growing industrial park. Geneva and Canandaigua combine food processing with colleges and hospitals, which produce the small, well-documented lots that come from laboratory and plant-room work.

• Optics, imaging and coating operations in Rochester
• Machine shops and precision manufacturing across Monroe County
• Cold storage, dairy and food processing in the lake counties
• Agricultural equipment manufacturing in Batavia
• College and hospital plant work in Geneva and Canandaigua