Taihan Cable & Solution Co. (Taihan Cable) held a completion ceremony on Sept. 9 at its new optical fiber plant, Taihan Kuwait, located in the Mina Abdullah Industrial Area, southeast of Kuwait City.

Per a report in Yonhap, the factory spans 5,000 sq m, with production facilities and testing equipment identical to those at Taihan’s Dangjin cable factory. The Kuwait plant will help Taihan Cable expand into the Middle East market. The project was done through a partnership with a local builder, Rank General Trading and Contracting Co.

Taihan Kuwait was scheduled to start full-scale production of certified production in September. With the addition of the Kuwaiti plant, Taihan Cable has seven production facilities, the others include three in South Korea, one in Saudi Arabia, one in South Africa and one in Vietnam. The ceremony included speeches, a report on the establishment of the corporation and a tour of the factory.

The article said that Taihan Cable aims to dominate the Kuwaiti optical cable market, which has relied entirely on imports. Demand for optical cables is expected to rapidly grow in line with the launch of “New Kuwait 2035,” a mid-to-long-term national development plan. “Taihan plans to secure the Kuwaiti market and expand into neighboring GCC countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, leveraging its network which has been supplying cables throughout the Middle East for over 50 years.”

“Establishing production infrastructure in Kuwait, following our Dangjin cable factory, will allow us to respond actively to the growing global demand for optical fiber cables,” said Taihan Cable Vice Chairman Song Jong Min. “We will continue to enhance national competitiveness by expanding global operations through continuous localization of production.”