Insatiable Demand for Fibre Broadband Drives Emtelle UK Expansion

Scotland-based Emtelle, which is a global manufacturer of blown fibre and ducted network solutions for the industry, has announced that they’re expanding their UK based facilities to support the “unprecedented demand in passive network” solutions coming from the country’s many full fibre broadband networks.

At present around 30% of UK premises can already access a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) ISP network and that’s expected to increase considerably over the next few years. All of this is thanks to the combination of both commercial deployments from a hundred different networks (Summary of Full Fibre Builds) and also the government’s £5bn Project Gigabit rollout programme for rural areas.

Naturally, all that building is fuelling an ever increasingly demand from key manufacturers, such as Emtelle. In response, the company has announced that they will be expanding their UK based manufacturing facilities to Wrexham in North Wales. The move will see Emtelle utilise space within its sister company factory, Mainetti, to provide localised access to its solutions for UK network operators.

Tony Rodgers, Emtelle Group CEO, said:

“With the recently announced overseas investment in capacity, it is also important to show commitment to our UK customer base. This expansion of the UK manufacturing facilities supports our customers and their ambitions to participate in the unprecedented demand for passive network solutions across the UK, where targets are set for at least 85% of premises to have access to gigabit broadband in the next five years.

The expansion will improve efficiencies and facilitate improved capacity for our UK customers to support their ambitious network rollouts.”

Emtelle currently supplies UK ISPs from B4RN to Ogi, Virgin Media and many more with various fibre products and related services.