Finolex Cables Limited manufactures electrical and communication cables in India.
Segments
The company operates in two main business segments, Electrical Cables and Communication Cables. The company manufactures Continuous Cast Copper Rods (CCC rods) for captive consumption. It also manufactures PVC Sheets for various applications like roofing, signage, and interiors.
Electrical cables segment
Electrical cables can be further categorised into light duty electrical cables, power, and control...
Finolex Cables Limited manufactures electrical and communication cables in India.
Segments
The company operates in two main business segments, Electrical Cables and Communication Cables. The company manufactures Continuous Cast Copper Rods (CCC rods) for captive consumption. It also manufactures PVC Sheets for various applications like roofing, signage, and interiors.
Electrical cables segment
Electrical cables can be further categorised into light duty electrical cables, power, and control cables.
Light duty electrical cables include electrical wires used for lighting. The main product of this category is 1100 volts PVC insulated wires, which find application in electrification of residential, commercial, and industrial establishments; electrical panel wiring; and consumer electrical goods.
The motor of the submersible pump is wound with the winding wire and the pump is powered through a three core flat cable. Both these products are manufactured by the company for sale within the country, as well as for exports. UPS cables are battery backup cables used for providing power from UPS to the consumption points.
The other category of electrical cable's, such as power and control cables are also manufactured by the company. In power cable category, with addition of new unit commissioned at Urse recently, the company has the ability to manufacture such cables within the range 3.3 KV to 66 KV. These cables are either low voltage or high voltage cables depending upon their applications. Power and control cables upto 3.3 KV rating are used for connecting user point to the main supply of power. Power cables above 3.3 KV rating are meant for use in underground application for intra-city electricity distribution network. The company manufactures insulated power cables only.
Communication Cables segment
The Communication Cables comprise communication cables and traditional telephone cables.
The communication cables are either copper based or glass based. The copper based cables include LAN cables, coaxial cables, PE insulated Switchboard cables, and V-SAT cables. These cables are used for last mile connectivity.
LAN cables are used in high speed networks, coaxial cables are used to provide content input to TV receiving sets. PE insulated switchboard cables are used to connect telephone instruments to an EPABX system and V-SAT cables find their application in V-SAT towers to connect the dish to the base station.
Optic fibre cables are glass based cables and they have the maximum bandwidth and speed. Certain cable designs used as trunk cables in long distance networks, while other designs, are used in distribution, whether by telecom companies, or multi-service organizations of other service providers.
Traditional telephone cables include JFTCs which are laid underground-and are used for connecting land line telephones.to exchanges. These are copper based cables.
The company would continue to manufacture JFTCs especially with broadband features for public sector and private sector telecom companies.
Joint Ventures
Finolex J-Power Systems Pvt. Ltd
Finolex Gables Ltd. together with J-Power Systems Corp. established an equally owned joint venture between Hitachi Cable, Ltd. and Sumitomo Electric Industries,, Ltd.
The Joint Venture is to be established near Pune, in Maharashtra for the manufacture and sale of high voltage power cables up to 500 kV grade. The JV also offers services of Turnkey installation and connectorization of the complete circuit along with the supply of Power Cables and Accessories (Jointing Kits).
History
Finolex Cables Limited was founded in 1958.