Corning opens optical cable manufacturing plant in North Carolina
CORNING, NY Corning Integrated as we speak formally opened its latest optical cable manufacturing campus in Hickory, North Carolina. The brand new manufacturing middle will assist speed up U.S. buildouts of high-speed fiber broadband networks and join the unconnected.
With the campuss two new services, Corning will assist present U.S. community operators with the cable they should deliver high-speed fiber connectivity to underserved communities, significantly in rural America. These superior manufacturing services will add a whole lot of jobs to Cornings current North Carolina workforce of greater than 5,000. The brand new campus is a part of a sequence of investments by Corning totaling greater than $500 million since 2020, serving to to satisfy rising fiber and cable demand and robust buyer commitments.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo, whose company is spearheading the nationwide Web for All initiative, joined the services opening ceremonies together with North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and Stephen Milner, CEO of Planters Broadband Cooperative, on behalf of NTCA The Rural Broadband Affiliation.
Private and non-private investments proceed to drive a big, multi-year wave of progress for fiber-based networks. Corning, because the inventor of optical fiber and the trade chief, is uniquely positioned to assist these community buildouts.
Corning just lately launched a strategic provide collaboration with NTCA to assist rural community buildouts, offering NTCA members with a specifically reserved provide of cable and connectivity options.
Corning has manufactured optical fiber and cable in North Carolina for greater than 40 years. With the opening of the Trivium campus, Corning will manufacture optical cable at two websites in Hickory and at websites in Newton and Winston-Salem. The corporate manufactures optical fiber in Harmony and Wilmington. Charlotte is residence to Cornings Optical Communications headquarters.
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