Furukawa Electric Europe, a publicly owned company and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Furukawa Electric Company of Japan, is headquartered in the UK. Founded in 1991, the company, which employs approximately 50 individuals, established its London sales and service center in 1998 to serve the European, African, and Middle Eastern markets. Functioning as a provider of telecoms solutions, the company is organized by product group, comprising sales divisions handling NT Alloy, Green Trough, MCPET, and Optical components. It also includes an Interconnectivity Division specializing in Fusion Splicers and MT Connectors.
On May 22, 2026, Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd improved its S179 fusion splicer to S179+, adding features such as cleave angle compensation (ACCS) and automatic arc calibration (Fluid Arc System - FAS) to address AI-driven demand in high-speed data transmission. This followed the company's announcement on May 12, 2026, that its Green Trough product would be exhibited at Rail Live via a distributor. Earlier, on February 5, 2026, the company highlighted Multicore Fiber (MCF) technology as a viable pathway to overcome limitations in conventional single-core optical fiber systems. The company stated that MCF technology substantially enhances transmission capacity, energy efficiency, and network scalability in response to the exponential increase in global data traffic driven by cloud computing, IoT, AI, and 5G.
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