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The Romanian factory in Slatina has recently started to
manufacture optical fibre cables in its new telecom cables
facility, allowing the site to expand production from its
existing base of low/medium voltage power cables and
ADSL telecom cables. The Slatina plant was originally
acquired from Siemens in the 1990s by Pirelli Cavi, which
carried out the first work allowing it to manufacture copper
telecom cables. Subsequently, in 2007 Prysmian approved
the SLOPTCA project (SLatina OPTical CAbles) to build a
new facility on the same site in order to expand annual
production to about 1 million km of optical fibre cables (OFC)
with the possibility of reaching a maximum of 3 million km.
Construction work and machinery purchases started in 2008;
in 2010, the old site started to produce the first optical
fibre cables (manufacturing 243,000 km by the end of the
year), while work was completed on the new facility, which
commenced production in October 2012.
Thanks to its extension and upgrade, the Slatina factory
now joins the ranks of strategic sites for OFC production in
Europe.
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