Prysmian detailed roughly $1.25 billion in U.S. fiber and optical-cable projects across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, with plans to add about 600 jobs and expand domestic capacity.
Japan’s Fujikura plans to launch a U.S. fiber-optic cable plant by 2030, part of up to $1.6 billion in capacity expansion, with full-scale production targeted for fiscal 2035, per Nikkei.
Southwire will expand its Starkville, Mississippi, plant with a more than $256 million project adding about 380,000 sq ft. The plan is expected to create 128 jobs, with construction starting in late 2026.
Somnigroup’s approximately $2.5 billion all-stock acquisition of Leggett & Platt, announced in April, was expected to close as soon as September. Leggett’s restructuring spared wire operations as sales pressure persisted.
Essex Solutions has folded its Fort Wayne, Indiana, chemical-processing facility into the IVA Insulations network as IVA USA, tightening vertical integration of wire-enamel production for magnet-wire manufacturing.
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