The Optical Fibre manufacturing plant at Waluj, Aurangabad, recently won the prestigious Frost & Sullivan India Manufacturing Excellence Award (IMEA) 2015 Gold Certificate. The award honours Indian manufacturing capabilities and assesses its global competitiveness while acting as the premier platform to identify Future Ready Factories in India.

The Waluj plant is India’s only fully integrated optical fibre producer and one of the largest suppliers of optical fibres to China, Europe and South East Asia. The assessment team identified the current standing of the facility on the software driven model and the resultant charts capture extent and balance of growth, the alignment of strategic & implementation achievements, and actual comparative metrics within the industry sector.