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- Finolex Cables Limited manufactures electrical wires and cables, communication cables, and electrical products in India. The company produces PVC insulated industrial cables, FinoGreen PVC insulated industrial cables, FR-LSH PVC insulated industrial cables, PVC insulated single core and multicore flexible industrial cables, rodent repellent multicore flexible industrial cables, PVC insulated winding wires, 3 core flat cables, XLPE 3 core flat cables, power and control cables, high voltage power cables up to 33 kV, polyethylene insulated jelly filled telephone cables, auto and battery cables, coaxial and CATV cables, LAN cables, switchboard cables, fibre optic cables, solar cables; it also offers lighting products, water heaters, fans, switches, switchgear, home appliances, electrical conduits, smart switches, and smart door locks. Finolex Cables Limited, founded in 1958 and headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra, operates manufacturing facilities in Pimpri and Urse in Pune, Goa, and Roorkee in Uttarakhand; it maintains a partnership with J-Power Systems Corporation of Japan for EHV cable systems and produces continuous cast copper rods at its Goa plant to support operations. The company recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Maharashtra in February 2024 for a Rs 580 crore investment to more than double its optic fibre cable capacity to 10 million fibre km per year, including new fibre draw towers and backward integration into glass preforms production; it expanded automobile wire capacity by 50% to 87,000 km per month across Urse and Roorkee facilities by October 2024 with Rs 200 crore capex at Urse, introduced CAT6A, CAT6 FTP, double-sheathed CAT6, armoured CCTV cables, and economy-class CCTV cables, and entered the smart switches and smart door locks market.