WiredInUSA June 2016

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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 18,000ft 2 of production space.

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