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Quartz OVS

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2024: Establishing a Company

On July 22, 2024, information appeared on the creation in Russia of the first factory for the production of preforms - a key component for the manufacture of fiber optic cables. The implementation of the project of JSC Optical Fiber Systems (OBS) will significantly increase the level of localization of production of strategically important products.

According to Kommersant, the plant will be built by 2027. To implement the project, on July 10, 2024, OVS Kvartz LLC was created - a subsidiary of OVS, the only Russian fiber manufacturer. An informed source of the newspaper estimates the construction budget, depending on the configuration of production, at 10-20 billion rubles.

In Russia, they
begin to build the first factory for the production of preforms, from which raw materials for fiber optic cables are made. It will cost 20 billion rubles

The construction of the preform plant is a strategically important step for the development of the domestic industry in the field of fiber optic cable production. In 2024, the preforms from which optical fiber is made are imported into Russia from China and India. The creation of own production will reduce dependence on foreign suppliers and increase the competitiveness of Russian products.

Maxim Tretyakov, President of the Electrokabel Association, noted that the Russian fiber market is relatively small by world standards and is about 6 million km per year. With such volumes, it is difficult to provide a product cost comparable to Chinese counterparts, since the technology for the production of preforms and fiber is designed for volumes of tens of millions of kilometers.

Despite the fact that the quality of Russian fiber reaches the world level, its price remains higher than its imported counterparts. This is due to low production volumes, which, in turn, are due to low demand from large telecom operators. Domestic fiber optic cable, made from Russian fiber, is purchased mainly for the implementation of state projects, such as "Elimination of digital inequality" and the construction of the Trans-Eurasian communication line.

According to TK Solutions, in 2023, 2.9 thousand km of fiber-optic cables were produced in Russia. At the same time, there has been a tendency to reduce the consumption of fiber in the Russian market over the past three years.[1]

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