[·] ICB Profile
Industrias Cunha Barros is the largest Fibre Optic Cable manufacturer in Portugal, distinction that is assured by its commercial position and due to the fact that it is the only manufacturer in the Iberian Peninsula that produces its own fibre optic.
ICB was founded in 1938 and nowadays it has one well developed cable production unit. ICB was the first worldwide manufacturer producing cross-linked polyethylene insulated cables and it is the only Portuguese manufacturer able to produce fibre optic cables in unique lengths of 25 km.
Headquarters exterior view Plant inside view
[·] Organization
Nowadays, ICB Group includes:
Industrias Cunha Barros the mother company of the Group;
RETELPOR - Energia e Telecomunicações, S.A. devoted to the manufacturing of Telecom cables;
LUSCAB - Material Eléctrico, S.A. trading of electrical products.
ICB is a certified manufacturer of Power Cables by EDP-Electricidade de Portugal, the main portuguese electrical distributor operator, and by Portugal Telecom for Telecom Copper and Fibre Optic Cables .
The business activity in Spain has been growing over the last years, which led to the constitution of LUSCAB, located in Galicia in which ICB holds a 94% share. In Spain, our Power Cables are certified by Iberdrola, Unión Fenosa and Sevillana de Electricidad .
Warehouse inside view
[·] Facilities
ICB holds a factory unit of 100.000 m2, 28.000m2 of which are covered area, employing about 180 people.
ICB has a yearly installed capacity of:
14.000 tons of Power Cables .
1.000.000 km pairs of Telecom Copper Cables .
300.000 km Telecom Fibre Optic Cables .
The facilities from the air
[·] Technologies
The use of the most advanced production equipment, leads ICB to a distinct place in terms of productivity levels, quality and environment and efficiency, obtained through:
º the integral supervision of all production lines as well as auxiliary ones, through an online available data system;
º its own PVC compounds production and necessary nitrogen for the manufacturing operations;
º the integration of several manufacturing operations in one sole operation and the incorporation of the materials with parameters automatic correction.
As a result of this position, the ICB Group has been assuring the homologation of its products in the different markets and close to the companies that are a referential in the several business areas or products.
ICB has, therefore, nowadays a diversified customers’ list where big energy and Telecom operators are included from Europe and Latin America.
[·] R & D
The need of penetration in new markets as well as operators, maintaining at the same time high levels of competitiveness naturally originated an attitude in favour of the Research and Development, supported by an engineering department with the objective of carrying out the design, development and implementation of new products and materials.
ICB also has a department of Innovation and Systems Development IDS, with a duly specialized staff, responsible for implementation and maintenance of all information system of the company, including the design, either in terms of hardware or software, of the online observation system of all relevant information over all manufacturing equipment universe.
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Industrias Cunha Barros is the largest Fibre Optic Cable manufacturer in Portugal, distinction that is assured by its commercial position and due to the fact that it is the only manufacturer in the Iberian Peninsula that produces its own fibre optic.
ICB was founded in 1938 and nowadays it has one well developed cable production unit. ICB was the first worldwide manufacturer producing cross-linked polyethylene insulated cables and it is the only Portuguese manufacturer able to produce fibre optic cables in unique lengths of 25 km.
Headquarters exterior view Plant inside view
[·] Organization
Nowadays, ICB Group includes:
Industrias Cunha Barros the mother company of the Group;
RETELPOR - Energia e Telecomunicações, S.A. devoted to the manufacturing of Telecom cables;
LUSCAB - Material Eléctrico, S.A. trading of electrical products.
ICB is a certified manufacturer of Power Cables by EDP-Electricidade de Portugal, the main portuguese electrical distributor operator, and by Portugal Telecom for Telecom Copper and Fibre Optic Cables .
The business activity in Spain has been growing over the last years, which led to the constitution of LUSCAB, located in Galicia in which ICB holds a 94% share. In Spain, our Power Cables are certified by Iberdrola, Unión Fenosa and Sevillana de Electricidad .
Warehouse inside view
[·] Facilities
ICB holds a factory unit of 100.000 m2, 28.000m2 of which are covered area, employing about 180 people.
ICB has a yearly installed capacity of:
14.000 tons of Power Cables .
1.000.000 km pairs of Telecom Copper Cables .
300.000 km Telecom Fibre Optic Cables .
The facilities from the air
[·] Technologies
The use of the most advanced production equipment, leads ICB to a distinct place in terms of productivity levels, quality and environment and efficiency, obtained through:
º the integral supervision of all production lines as well as auxiliary ones, through an online available data system;
º its own PVC compounds production and necessary nitrogen for the manufacturing operations;
º the integration of several manufacturing operations in one sole operation and the incorporation of the materials with parameters automatic correction.
As a result of this position, the ICB Group has been assuring the homologation of its products in the different markets and close to the companies that are a referential in the several business areas or products.
ICB has, therefore, nowadays a diversified customers’ list where big energy and Telecom operators are included from Europe and Latin America.
[·] R & D
The need of penetration in new markets as well as operators, maintaining at the same time high levels of competitiveness naturally originated an attitude in favour of the Research and Development, supported by an engineering department with the objective of carrying out the design, development and implementation of new products and materials.
ICB also has a department of Innovation and Systems Development IDS, with a duly specialized staff, responsible for implementation and maintenance of all information system of the company, including the design, either in terms of hardware or software, of the online observation system of all relevant information over all manufacturing equipment universe.
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