Cables form one of the basic inputs for the industrial sector as a whole. Cables & wires are primarily made of copper, aluminium or other non-ferrous materials. Cables find its application in industries like power, steel, cement, refineries, petro-chemicals, fertilizers and communication sector as well as railways including metro rail. Sterlite Technology is...more

Cables form one of the basic inputs for the industrial sector as a whole. Cables & wires are primarily made of copper, aluminium or other non-ferrous materials. Cables find its application in industries like power, steel, cement, refineries, petro-chemicals, fertilizers and communication sector as well as railways including metro rail. Sterlite Technology is India's leading global provider of Power Transmission Conductors, Telecommunication Cables, and Telecom Integration & Managed Services. The Indian Cable Industry is characterised as uneven with large number of cable producers. The majority of these companies are small-scale cable producers. However, one of the major drawbacks was limited consolidation amongst the major players in the industry as major players preferred to grow organically, rather than acquisition of peer companies. Historically, the demand in the cable industry has been characterized by its cyclical pattern. The Cable Industry is de-licensed with approval for Foreign Direct Investment up to 100 percent. The cable market is primarily fragmented into two types of users: Industrial and Domestic. The Industrial users mainly comprise of Power, Communication, Cement, Steel, Railways & Petro-Chemicals sectors. Power cables are divided into high, medium and low-tension cables. Industrial cables include control and instrumentation, LT cables, HT cables and speciality cables whereas telecom cables are fragmented as high capacity cables (Optical Fibre Cables -OFCS) and Low capacity cables (Jelly Filled Telecom Cables - JFTCS).  hide