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Minnesota Wire & Cable designs and manufactures electrical interconnect solutions with rapid design-to-delivery of custom interconnect solutions. The company maintains a 30,000-square-foot headquarters in St. Paul, Minn., and a 30,000-square-foot production facility in Eau Claire, Wis. Minnesota Wire & Cable has more than 200 employees to provide services, such as in-house design, engineering and test lab services, which include rapid prototyping and complete tooling and extrusion. The company started as Wagner Consultants Corporation (WCC), a manufacturer s representative firm for general electronic components. After wire and cable products were added to its line in the 1970s, WCC was renamed Minnesota Wire & Cable in 1978. The company added molding machines, a tooling department and extrusion lines. Minnesota Wire & Cable has clients in industries, such as medical devices, defense contracting and telecommunications. Minnesota Bramstedt Surgical, a subsidiary of the company, repairs surgical instruments and is a United States distributor.