LS Cable & System Completes Construction of Its First Plant in Africa

The company is expanding in overseas markets by making direct investments in regional economic blocks around the world. It has started supplying cables to Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company for the new power grids being built for upcoming towns.

January 14, 2021

LS Cable & System’s President  & CEO, Mr. Myung Roe-Hyun has announced that the company has completed construction of its first African cable plant in Egypt.

The company has established a joint venture (LSMC: LS MAN Cable) with a local cable installation company, MAN, in an industrial city (10th of Ramadan City) near Cairo on January 2020. It will produce overhead transmission lines that are mostly installed on the pylons between power plants and substation..

LS Cable & System recently signed a contract with the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company to supply cables for the new power grids being built for new towns currently under construction, and began mass-production as soon as it completed the new plant.

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Expressing his concern over how export barriers have been rising due to the forming of regional economic blocks around the world, Mr. Myung Roe-Hyun mentioned that the company will reinforce its competitiveness by directly investing in key hub countries.

The Egyptian cable market is growing by more than 5% annually due not only to population growth but also due to construction of a new administrative capital and the ongoing need to replace and upgrade old power grids.

There is a high demand for power cables in Africa, including Egypt, but export barriers are high due to the high tariffs (about 20%) and logistics costs. LS Cable is planning to secure price competitiveness through local production and use the customer networks of its partners to get the business on the right track as soon as possible.

The company is planning to expand its market presence to East African and Middle Eastern countries, which have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Egypt.

With the addition of the Egyptian subsidiary, LS Cable & System now has a total of eleven overseas production subsidiaries around the world including those in the US, China, Vietnam and Poland.