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November 13, 2026

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Optical Fibre Cables More Fibre, Tighter Engineering

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India’s optical fibre industry is expanding capacity while engineering cables for denser networks, tighter installation constraints and more demanding qualification requirements. The competitive equation now rests on manufacturing depth, integration, quality, utilisation and application-specific engineering. India’s optical fibre market is being shaped by several network requirements at once. FTTH continues......
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Polycab Transforming OFC Manufacturing For Emerging Needs

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India’s optical fibre cable industry is moving beyond conventional volume-driven manufacturing as FTTH, 5G, BharatNet and data-centre applications create increasingly differentiated requirements for fibre count, cable construction, deployment and performance. BharatNet Phase III, in particular, is driving demand for high-core-count underground armoured OFC, ADSS aerial cables and bend-insensitive FTTH solutions......
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HFCL Spotlights the Ability to Pivot Between Telecom & Data Centre-Grade Fibre-Count Products

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After serving decades of applications in the conventional telecom industry, the optical fibre cable finds itself in a transitory role, wherein a manufacturer’s ability to pivot between telecom-grade and data-centre-grade high-fibre-count products, establishes their presence in the market. For HFCL, that means building across both ends of the market —......
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Paramount Communications on Turning India’s OFC Scale into Global Capability

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India has spent the past few years building scale in optical fibre cable manufacturing; the more important question now is what the industry does with that capacity. As applications become more differentiated and customers place greater emphasis on consistency, traceability, lifecycle performance and application-specific designs, the competitive equation is moving......
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Finolex Cables Takes a 4-Pronged Approach to Advancing OFC Manufacturing

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As OFC manufacturing becomes increasingly technology- and quality-intensive, the competitive equation is shifting from simply adding capacity to building greater control across the manufacturing value chain. Backward integration into fibre drawing and preforms, tighter quality assurance, application-specific engineering, and the ability to maintain supply continuity at scale are emerging as......
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Birla Furukawa Fibre Optics Sees Higher Capacity Networks as Essential to OFC Evolution

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With the wire and cable industry running at par with the demands of the nation, Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) increasingly stands out as a key driver across multiple application segments, including FTTH, BharatNet and data centres. Moving beyond its primary demand driver—the telecom industry—OFC is finding an increasingly important place......
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West Coast Optilinks Points OFC’s Shift from ‘Capacity Game to Capability Game’

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The optical fibre cable market is no longer being shaped by a single dominant application or a straightforward capacity expansion cycle. As fibre moves deeper into data centres, AI infrastructure, enterprise networks, defence and utility applications, the definition of a competitive OFC manufacturer is changing with it. In an exclusive......
Industry Trends

Cromwell Ebeam Solutions Working on a New 1,200 km per day Capacity Machine for Smaller Sized Cables

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Growth in Indian Wire and Cable Industry- The Way ForwardThe Indian wire and cable industry is on a really exciting growth path. Everywhere you look—whether it’s new infrastructure, renewable energy, metro projects, or even the 5G rollout—there’s demand for cables. What’s encouraging is that this isn’t just a short-term trend.......
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Vedanta Aluminium to Increase Aluminium Wire Rods Production to Meet Rising 5G, Infrastructure Demand

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Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO), a Vedanta Aluminium unit, is expanding its aluminium wire rod capacity as part of its 1 million TPA overall expansion, doubling smelter capacity from 0.57 to 1 million TPA. In FY25 it produced over 2,00,000 MTPA BIS‑certified wire rods, fully serving domestic telecom, power, automotive and infrastructure demand.......
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Prysmian Inches Closer to Becoming Digital Solutions Provider With Acquisition of Channell worth USD 950 Million

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The combined portfolio of Prysmian and Channell will support the development of Prysmian’s North American footprint. Channell will be included in Prysmian’s digital solutions, which is part of its broader synergistic portfolio, including energy solutions. Apr 4, 2025 Global cable manufacturer Prysmian S.p.A has given a major push to its......
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