Industrial Cables - CBi Electric Telecom Cables (Pty) Ltd

CBi Telecom is Africa’s largest original equipment manufacturer of copper and optical fibre cable solutions for applications in the Process, Instrumentation & Control, Telemetry and Industrial Data Collations market segments.

With a modern, world class manufacturing facility coupled with a long history of manufacturing expertise, CBi Telecom has the ability to offer a comprehensive and innovative industrial product portfolio that can meet the most diverse market and stringent environmental requirements.

The international standard EN 50288 forms the foundation of CBi Telecom instrumentation and
control cable product range, describing single or multi-element cables with copper conductors which
can be individually or overall screened and optionally may incorporate armouring and/or moisture or
environmental protection layers. The application of EN 50288 offers end users and engineers a unified
standard approach to specifying instrumentation cables ensuring cost competitiveness, clarity in
performance expectations and rapid deployment practices.

CBi Telecom supplies copper and optical fibre industrial solutions to the following industrial sectors in Africa and other markets :

PETROCHEMICAL – Cables supplied to support the need to process critical signal requirements in harsh environments, in a cost effective manner.

POWER GENERATION – Cable solutions supplied to all environments, such as nuclear, gas and coal power generation plants.

TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS – Cables supplied to support control and telemetry for high speed transport systems.

MINING – Specialist products to accommodate the harsh mining environment, which includes cables needed to communicate down in deep mining shafts, to radiating cables underground, to instrumentation and control cables in process plants.

OTHER – CBi Telecom also serves significant sectors in the water supply, pulp and paper, steel and pharmaceutical industries, as well as supplying solutions to their process control and telemetry needs.