WiredInUSA June 2016

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9 wiredInUSA - June 2016
MAKING
THENEWS
New assembly facility
Fiber optic and copper cable
production and marketing company,
Zero Connect has announced that
the company will launch operations
in Pickens County, South Carolina,
following a $1.3 million investment that
will create 72 new jobs.
“Our expansion to Pickens County
in South Carolina will allow Zero
Connect to be within a one-day
ground shipment of the majority of
our customers,” said Zero Connect’s
president, Larry Kendall.
“Our rapidly increasing fiber optic
cable assembly business dictated that
we find an area with a dedicated and
skilled workforce. We feel our new
Easley facility will allow us to maintain
our leadership in the copper and fiber
optic cable assembly and data center
businesses.”
The new jobs will be for custom cable
assembly positions. Zero Connect
produces and distributes off-the-shelf
fiber and copper products used in the
voice, data and video fields.
The Pickens County plant will be
housed in a renovated section of an
existing facility and will have 18,000ft2
of production space.