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Private company Doughty Hanson is supposed to have appointed bankers UBS to look at disposal for the Enterprise options makes the clips and fasteners for cables.

Sources said trade buyers could include the Illinois Tool Works and Hubbell United States-based.

Other private equity firms may also be interested in a takeover, with banks Bridgepoint and Montagu tipping as potential bidders.

Although a trade sale is the preferred route, HellermannTyton flotation is a possibility, according to people familiar with the matter.

Doughty Hanson purchased HellermannTyton business telecommunications Spirent 288 million from ￡ in 2005.

The last potential sale of the business news comes in the midst of a wave of interest in the UK industry to foreign buyers.

Earlier this year, former "Canon rolls conglomerate Tomkins was sold to almost ￡ 3 to a consortium of Canadian investment Onex groups and Canada, pension plan and U.S. giant Emerson Electric also almost paid ￡ billion for chloride, the UPS manufacturer.

Doughty Hanson has refused to comment.

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