CommScope Celebrates its Catawba, N.C. Facility’s Golden Anniversary
October 23 2017 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
Before there was a company called CommScope, there was the
Superior Continental Corporation, a manufacturer of coaxial cable
for small independent telephone companies. One of the products
manufactured in Superior’s Catawba, N.C. facility, which opened in
1967, was a struggling product line called Comm/Scope.
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As CommScope observes the Catawba, N.C.
facility's 50th anniversary, it is the largest hybrid fiber-coaxial
facility for broadband networks in the world. (Photo: Business
Wire)
In 1976, Frank Drendel led a group of investors to acquire the
Comm/Scope coaxial cable division from Superior and founded the
company that today is known as CommScope in Hickory, N.C. Drendel
focused his early efforts on the fledgling cable television
industry. The CommScope coaxial cable produced in Catawba would
later help change the face of the cable television industry.
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Facility’s Golden Anniversary.
As it observes its 50th anniversary, the Catawba facility is the
largest hybrid fiber-coaxial facility for broadband networks in the
world. Today, CommScope’s solutions can be found in:
- The world’s largest buildings, stadiums
and outdoor spaces
- Data centers of all shapes, sizes and
complexity
- Cellular sites on towers, rooftops,
streetlights and indoors
- Cable broadband networks around the
globe
“The history of CommScope starts in Catawba,” said Eddie
Edwards, president and chief executive officer, CommScope. “The
cable television industry became one of the most powerful
communication industries in the late 20th century, and CommScope’s
success there led it to establish leading positions in serving
building enterprises in 2004, the wireless industry in 2007 and the
fiber connectivity market in 2015. Who would have guessed that the
company that was founded in the Catawba valley in 1976 would
transform itself from a local company making cable to a world
leader in infrastructure solutions for communications
networks.”
As part of the facility’s golden anniversary, employees were
treated to a party attended by some of CommScope’s current and
former executives, long serving employees and local and Catawba
County, N.C. officials.
This ISO9001-certified 1 million-square foot facility employs
more than 500 people and produces more than 344,000 miles of cable
every year—enough to circle the earth more than 8 times. Employee
longevity is a cornerstone to the facility’s success. The average
year of service at Catawba is more than 20 years, with a total of
more than 12,000 years of experience employed.
As the telecommunication industry evolved, Catawba’s role
evolved as well. CommScope’s research and development, located at
the facility, stayed ahead of industry needs by developing cabling
solutions that would later become industry standards for the cable
television market such as the Parameter III (P3) and the Quantum
Reach (QR)—both still being used today.
Today, Catawba is one of CommScope’s main manufacturing and
product development facilities for its connectivity and mobility
divisions including:
- Electrical to Optical (E2O) product
line: a highly customizable solution that combines coaxial cable,
optical fiber and/or microducts all inside a single ruggedized
sheath.
- Heliax Fiber Feed fiber-to-the-antenna
(FTTA) solution: a solution helping service providers achieve
higher efficiency with your remote radio unites and FTTA
deployments while also preparing them for future growth for their
cell towers.
- HomeConnect RF solutions: a complete
family of residential solutions like cables, amplifiers, splitters,
couplers, and ground blocks.
- Cable in Conduit: a solution of
pre-installed coaxial and/or fiber cables inside high-density
polyethylene continuous conduit to simplify installations.
“CommScope is thankful to all the Catawba employees that
continue to deliver superior technology, solutions and services to
our customers and partners,” Edwards added.
Besides manufacturing innovative network solutions, Catawba is
also proud of being “green.” Established in 1988, the site’s
award-winning ReelSmart Recycling Program enables CommScope to save
more than 20,000 trees by reusing more than 100,000 cable reels
every year.
Edwards added that the demand for CommScope solutions continues
to be driven by the rapid growth of data traffic and need for
bandwidth.
“CommScope enables communication through a constant focus on
innovation, agility and integrity,” Edwards said. “We continue to
drive innovation in networks and technologies with
high-performance, high-quality products and many of those products
are manufactured here in Catawba.”
Watch this video showcasing the Catawba facility.
About CommScope
CommScope (NASDAQ: COMM) helps design, build and manage wired
and wireless networks around the world. As a communications
infrastructure leader, we shape the always-on networks of tomorrow.
For more than 40 years, our global team of greater than 20,000
employees, innovators and technologists have empowered customers in
all regions of the world to anticipate what’s next and push the
boundaries of what’s possible. Discover more at
http://www.commscope.com/
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