Industry solution
Turnkey fiber-optic cable manufacturing plants
For operators, governments and investors who want to make optical cable in their own country, ZeroLine plans and delivers the plant: secondary coating, stranding, sheathing, armouring, drop-cable and patch-cord lines and a test lab. Process know-how and long-term fiber supply come from Optics Valley, the world’s largest base for optical fiber and cable.
- Of the world's optical fiber and cable comes from the Optics Valley cluster
- ≈ 25%
- Cable families built and tested to the standard
- IEC 60794
- Process training for your engineers before start-up
- In Wuhan
- Lines, lab, raw materials and start-up
- One contract
Scope
What a plant includes
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Loose-tube production
- Fiber coloring and rewinding
- Secondary coating (loose-tube) lines
- Gel filling and tube take-up
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Cabling
- SZ stranding lines
- PE and LSZH sheathing lines
- Steel-tape armouring
- ADSS and figure-8 lines
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FTTH products
- Flat and round drop-cable lines
- Patch-cord and pigtail assembly
- Connector polishing and end-face inspection
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Test lab
- OTDR and attenuation measurement
- Tensile, crush, impact and bend tests
- Temperature-cycling chamber
- Insertion- and return-loss testers
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Materials and supply
- G.652.D and G.657 fiber under long-term contract
- PBT, PE, LSZH, gel, yarns and tapes
- Reels and packaging
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Plant
- Product mix and capacity plan
- Building layout and utilities
- Installation, start-up and operator training
How it runs
How a plant project runs
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Market and mix
Which cables your market buys, in what volumes, and which to make first.
Weeks 1–4
- 02
Plant design
Line list, layout, utilities, staffing, raw-material plan and a priced proposal.
Weeks 4–10
- 03
Build and acceptance
Lines built and run in China with your engineers present for acceptance.
Typically 4–7 months
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Training
Your process and quality team trains on running lines in Optics Valley.
2–6 weeks, in parallel
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Install and start up
Installation, first production, type tests and ramp-up support on site.
Typically 2–4 months
Projects
Typical projects
The scope, scale and schedule of projects like this. Ask us for references in your country.
- Typical scope
Optical cable plant for a national market
A first plant making the drop, duct and ADSS cable a country imports today, with fiber supplied from Optics Valley.
- Products
- Drop, duct and ADSS cable
- Lines
- Coloring, loose tube, stranding, sheathing
- Lab
- Optical, mechanical and climate tests
- Schedule
- ≈ 9–14 months to first cable
- Market and product-mix study
- Plant layout and utilities
- Lines and test lab
- Training in Wuhan
- Long-term fiber supply
Typical markets · Africa, Middle East, Central Asia
- Typical scope
Patch-cord and pigtail assembly plant
A compact plant assembling and testing patch cords, pigtails and pre-connectorised drops for local operators.
- Products
- Patch cords, pigtails, drops
- Equipment
- Polishing, end-face and IL/RL test
- Space
- Fits an existing light-industrial unit
- Schedule
- ≈ 3–5 months to production
- Workstation layout
- Polishing and test equipment
- Connectors and cable supply
- Operator training
- Quality procedures
Typical markets · Africa, Latin America, South Asia
Services
Services that come with it
- Installation and training Engineers on your site until it runs at rate, and a team that can run it after.
- Factory acceptance and inspection Nothing ships before it has run. You watch the test, then you pay.
- Payment terms and trade finance Letters of credit, payment after acceptance, and insured deferred terms.
- Spare parts and support Spare parts, video support, service partners and upgrades for the life of the equipment.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask
Do we need to draw our own fiber?
No. Most new cable plants buy fiber on reels, then color it, put it into tubes and make cable from it. Preform and fiber drawing is a much larger investment that few markets need at the start. We can supply fiber from Optics Valley under a long-term contract.
Which cables should a new plant make first?
Usually the ones your operators buy most and import today: drop cable, duct cable and ADSS. We size the first lines to that demand and leave space to add more.
How long until first production?
For a plant in an existing building, typically 9 to 14 months from contract to first cable, depending on the line mix and site works.
Who trains our team?
Engineers from cable plants in Optics Valley train your process and quality staff on running lines in Wuhan, then support start-up on your site.
Start a project
Plan your cable plant
An empty plant, a part, a network or a product idea. Tell us where you are starting. An engineer replies with a plan and a quote.
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- OfficeWuhan, Hubei, China