Finolex Cables

Finolex Cables is an Indian manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, best known for wires and cables. Its product range has expanded beyond cables to include lighting products, switches and switchgear, fans, water heaters, electrical conduits and fittings, and selected home appliances. The company’s website also presents smart-home offerings, including smart switches and smart door locks. Its history page describes the Finolex name as a combination of “Fine” and “Flexibles,” reflecting the company’s early flexible-cable activity. The company traces its beginnings to brothers P.P. Chhabria and K.P. Chhabria, who moved from Karachi to Pune in 1945 and established a small electrical-cable shop. A government or Defence Department order for wire harnesses in the mid-1950s encouraged them to begin manufacturing cables. The company’s history page dates the start of its small-scale industrial unit to 1956, while its About page gives 1958 as the founding year; the available company material therefore presents more than one date for the enterprise’s early manufacturing history. Its first stated manufacturing focus was PVC-insulated cables for the automobile industry. Finolex Cables describes itself as a diversified cable company and emphasizes quality, technology, customer service, and manufacturing capability. Its website identifies plants in Pimpri and Urse in Pune, Goa, and Roorkee, Uttarakhand. The company’s timeline also records manufacturing and facility development in locations including Verna, Goa, Shirwal, Maharashtra, and Roorkee, along with optical-fibre and telephone-cable operations. The company became a limited company in 1972 and made a public offering in July 1983, according to its history page. It subsequently expanded and modernized its operations and product range. Its current offering includes industrial cables, winding wires, flat cables, electrical installation products, and consumer-facing electrical and home products. Finolex Cables continues to present itself as an active Indian business serving electrical and related markets; the supplied company pages do not specify a corporate headquarters address, current ownership structure, or named current executives.

Finolex Cables’ company history begins with P.P. Chhabria and K.P. Chhabria, who moved from Karachi to Pune in July 1945. The company’s homepage says they opened a small shop selling electrical cables within six months. Its dedicated history page likewise describes a small cable shop, and says a significant Defence Department order for wire harnesses in the mid-1950s helped persuade the brothers to manufacture cables themselves. The company’s pages do not give a single consistent founding date. The History page says a small-scale industrial unit began operating in 1956, initially making PVC-insulated cables for the automobile industry. The About page instead says the company was founded in 1958 and describes its early role as a copper-cable manufacturer that diversified into PVC-insulated automotive cables. The company attributes the Finolex name to “Fine” and “Flexibles,” associating it with the production of fine copper and flexible cables. These accounts support describing 1956 as the start of the small-scale industrial unit while preserving 1958 as an alternate date stated on the company’s About page. Finolex Cables says the enterprise became a limited company in 1972. Its history page dates a public offering to July 1983 and says the company then continued a process of expansion and modernization, becoming a leading manufacturer of wires and telecom cables in India. The company’s timeline lists subsequent investments and operating developments, including cable and optical-fibre facilities, a copper-rod plant through a joint venture, and manufacturing facilities for telephone cables, switches, and lighting. The timeline excerpt supplied here does not associate most of those developments with dates, so individual years cannot be assigned reliably. Over time, Finolex broadened its commercial range beyond wires and cables. The company now describes offerings that include PVC-insulated industrial cables, flexible and flat cables, winding wires, lighting, switches, switchgear, fans, water heaters, conduits, fittings, and home appliances. It has also introduced smart switches and smart door locks, positioning these as part of its response to interest in smart products and contemporary design. The company identifies manufacturing plants in Pimpri and Urse in Pune, Goa, and Roorkee in Uttarakhand. Its website presents Finolex Cables as an active, diversified Indian manufacturer, but the supplied pages do not establish a headquarters address, current executives, or detailed ownership information.

• 1983

  Public offering

• 1972

  Company becomes a limited company

• 1958

  Alternate founding year stated on the About page

• 1956

  Small-scale cable manufacturing unit begins

• 1945

  The founding brothers move to Pune and open a cable shop

• Expansion into electrical and home products

An Indian diversified cable and electrical-products company that highlights manufacturing breadth, quality, technology, and customer service, while extending its range into consumer electrical and smart-home products.

• Wires and cables

  The company’s core and historically established product area, including industrial cables, flexible cables, winding wires, and flat cables.

• Electrical and home products

  The company lists lighting, switches, switchgear, fans, water heaters, conduits and fittings, and home appliances.

• Smart-home products

  The company says it has introduced smart switches and smart door locks.

• Expand from retailing cables into cable manufacturingOther

• Diversify into electrical and smart-home productsOther

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2. 2Discover the History of Finolex Cables | Finolex Cables.finolex.com
3. 3About Finolex Cables | Finolex Cables.finolex.com
4. 4Company Milestones | Finolex Cables.finolex.com