Nexans S.A. is a global company in the cable and optical fibre industry headquartered in Paris, France. The group is active in four main business areas: buildings and territories, high voltage and projects, data and telecoms, data transmission, FTTx, LAN cabling, renewable energies, petroleum, railways and rolling stock, aeronautical and automation. It is the world's second largest manufacturer of cables after Prysmian S.p.A. In 2017 the Group operated in 34 countries with over 26,000 employees and sales of around €6.4 billion. Nexans was founded in 2000 as a business unit of the telecommunications firm Alcatel after its acquisition of a number of companies in the cable sector. It was spun out and listed on the Paris stock exchange the following year. It is currently listed on Euronext Paris, Compartment A. In 2012, Nexans completed acquisition of Australian cable maker Olex to become Nexans Olex. Nexans currently operate the Lillydale, Victoria cable manufacturing plant which is Australia's second largest cable production plant after Prysmian's in Liverpool, NSW. Wikipedia