Wesco Features New entroCIM Platform at Annual Pulp & Paper Industry Committee Technical Conference

Summary

PITTSBURGH, PA, Aug. 7, 2025 – Wesco International, a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, recently showcased its entroCIM Central Intelligence Manager (CIM), at the Annual Pulp & Paper Industry Committee Technical Conference. Designed to simplify and optimize building operations, entroCIM centralizes the entire IT and OT facility technology stack in a single view, empowering users with the insight needed to improve operational efficiency, reduce energy and deployments costs and increase smart facility capabilities. This new platform augments the company’s existing suite of services and solutions purpose-built to help electrical engineers and stakeholders within the pulp and paper industry transform their operations. 

The pulp and paper industry faces significant headwinds from an unpredictable supply chain to an increasing shortage in skilled labor. These challenges, coupled with the arduous task of navigating occupational health and safety standards, pose a threat to successfully maintaining productive and profitable operations. This is why some of the largest pulp and paper companies rely on Wesco to keep their operations running smoothly, safely and profitably. 

From automation to MRO, safety to wire and cable, Wesco’s industry-specific services and solutions help electrical contractors and engineers in the paper mill industry achieve engineered efficiencies, process improvements, workplace safety, facility optimization and more as they navigate their digital transformation journey. The entroCIM platform helps such decision makers connect their building’s disparate systems and devices to best optimize their building operations.

The number of connected facility devices and systems in today’s digital infrastructure landscape is growing. End users today are challenged with disparate systems from HVAC and lighting to surveillance and access control that prevent simple, centralized command-and-control of building operations. entroCIM helps solve this issue, collecting data from every monitoring system and instantly make sense of it. Now, end users are empowered with essential insights such as room utilization, capacity and device health and functionality to make better, more informed business decisions.

The entroCIM platform features out of the box connectivity with 50+ available APIs and over 120 software integrations, ready to use dashboards with visualization and predictive insights and proven scalability to support the growing needs of today’s pulp and paper mills. Additional Wesco services and solutions purpose built to manage all phases of paper production include:

• Automation and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) services: Wesco helps organizations make informed decisions on where to improve and invest, especially as they contend with dated infrastructure and a widening skills gap. By employing a multi-resource solution, customers in pulp and paper can unlock the value of data from disparate systems, processes and people to optimize operations, empower the workforce and manage risk.
• Industrial lighting solutions: Paper mill sites are challenged by nuanced and highly technical operating environments that require high visibility and robust engineering. Wesco offers comprehensive lighting solutions that can help paper mill professionals increase energy efficiency, reduce operating costs and ensure safer interior and exterior environments.
• Electrical safety solutions: In a high hazard industry, building and maintaining a robust safety program is paramount to ensuring employees return home safely each night. Navigating occupational health and safety standards can be complex, and can challenge a business’s ability to maintain productive, profitable operations if not properly addressed. Wesco’s safety experts work closely with customers to develop and implement tailored, comprehensive safety solutions that solve your business challenges.
• Electrical infrastructure modernization and maintenance: As the call for electrification increases, Wesco provides a complete package of grid services to modernize electricity onsite.

“With more than 100 years serving this industry, we deeply understand the challenges facing paper mill professionals today. Our suite of real-world solutions has helped some of the largest pulp and paper companies in the world save money, reduce labor costs and optimize their supply chain,” said Dan Furrow, Senior Vice President, Global Accounts and International Markets, Wesco. “Now, with entroCIM as the central hub bringing together all OT and IT systems into a single platform, customers are empowered with the operational intelligence needed to manage energy use, reduce maintenance costs, optimize space, improve safety and increase productivity.”

About Wesco

Wesco International (NYSE: WCC) builds, connects, powers and protects the world. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wesco is a FORTUNE 500® company with approximately $22 billion in annual sales in 2024 and a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions. Wesco offers a best-in-class product and services portfolio of Electrical and Electronic Solutions, Communications and Security Solutions and Utility and Broadband Solutions. The Company employs approximately 20,000 people, partners with the industry's premier suppliers and serves thousands of customers around the world. With millions of products, end-to-end supply chain services and leading digital capabilities, Wesco provides innovative solutions to meet customer needs across commercial and industrial businesses, contractors, educational institutions, government agencies, technology companies, telecommunications providers and utilities.