象作为美国经济基础的电力工业那样,美国电线电缆工业已经成熟,某些发展情况良好,如厂商渐渐把他们的注意力转移到了新兴技术和高速增长的次级市场,但为避免财政灾难必须大规模地改组和联合时就不那么令人满意了。工业高度周期性地紧密依附国民生产总值的回旋,在以往的经济衰退期间,已失去了它的复原力,先前的恢复过程表示只有部分能力振兴。不景气的铜价和随之而来的毛利减少使销售额明显地逐渐减少;然而,工业界已感受到了市场比输入价格更为重要。由导致有效地拉平工业总体上所希望获得的今后任何显著增长的许多因素造成了电线电缆主要依靠的基本市场的长期衰退(受经济好转轻度掩盖)。已达到的“进程”是:供电话和电力用的电线电缆线路已敷设到了全国各地,尤其电 Like the electric power industry that is the foundation of the U.S. economy, the U.S. wire and cable industry has matured and certain developments are in good conditions. If manufacturers gradually shift their attention to emerging technologies and high-growth submarkets, they must be large in order to avoid financial disasters. Reorganization and integration on a scale are less satisfactory. The industry is highly cyclical and closely linked to the GNP, which has lost its resilience during the previous economic recession. The previous recovery process indicated that only part of the capacity was revitalized. The sluggish copper price and the attendant reduction in gross profit have caused the sales volume to gradually decrease; however, the industry has felt that the market is more important than the input price. The many factors that led to an effective leveling out of any significant future growth in the industry as a whole have led to a long-term recession in the basic markets on which wire and cable relied (light economic cover up). The “process” that has been achieved is that the wire and cable lines for telephones and electricity have been laid all over the country, especially electricity.