# NEXANS

Summary updated: 2026-10-04T14:40:54.871997Z
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## Overview

Nexans is a France-based global electrification company that designs and supplies cable, power-transmission, grid and connection solutions. Its activities are organized around PWR-Transmission, PWR-Grid and PWR-Connect, serving electricity infrastructure needs including high-voltage, cross-border and offshore transmission. [1](https://www.nexans.com/group/)[2](https://www.nexans.com/electrification-solutions/markets/transmission/)

The company’s stated purpose is “Electrify the future.” With roots dating to 1879, Nexans describes its 2021 strategic shift toward electrification as a defining milestone. Its 2025 corporate presentation reported 28,500 employees and industrial operations in 41 countries. For 2025, sales were €6.1 billion at standard metal prices and €7.8 billion at current metal prices. [1](https://www.nexans.com/group/)[3](https://www.nexans.com/app/uploads/2025/07/nexans-group-presentation-2025.pdf)[4](https://www.nexans.com/regulated-informations/full-year-2025-financial-results/)
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## Products & services

Nexans’ cable and accessory products span power transmission, electricity grids, buildings, renewables and rail. Its grid portfolio includes medium- and low-voltage cables rated 700 V–72 kV and accessories rated 1 kV–145 kV, including connectors, bushings, terminations, joints and splices. The company also supplies cables and accessories for solar and wind generation, building energy-optimization products, heating cables and rolling-stock cables. [7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P104130947)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T8049568)

For high-voltage and offshore projects, Nexans offers HVDC subsea export and onshore cables, with reported 525 kV AC technology capability. A 2025 RTE agreement covered supply, installation and commissioning of 450 km of subsea and 280 km of onshore HVDC cables for offshore wind connections; Nexans also describes project-level engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) capabilities. Its related services include cable-system engineering, specialist installation training, installation supervision, extended warranties, and support for network operation and maintenance. [9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P68528593)[10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P76428820)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T4072007)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P104130947)

Other stated capabilities include Low Fire Hazard cable technologies designed to limit fire propagation and toxic emissions. In FY2025, standard sales were reported as 38% PWR-Connect, 27% PWR-Transmission, 22% PWR-Grid and 13% Others, mainly metallurgy. [12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P95884945)[13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P21279263)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P31072863)
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## Geographic presence

Nexans describes its industrial footprint as spanning 41 countries, with operations across Europe, South America, the Middle East and Africa, North America, and Asia-Pacific. Its locations page separately reports more than 60 plants in 39 countries and 12,830 employees; these sources give different country counts, and the employee figure is aggregate rather than regional. [15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T339919)[3](https://www.nexans.com/app/uploads/2025/07/nexans-group-presentation-2025.pdf)[16](https://www.nexans.com/group/locations/)

The 2025 Universal Registration Document lists Nexans entities in, among other countries, Canada and the United States; Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico; Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand and South Korea; and Chile, Peru and Lebanon. This subsidiary listing is not a comprehensive inventory of operating locations. The reviewed sources do not provide a regional or country breakdown of revenue, or an employee distribution by geography. [17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T10848970)[18](https://www.nexans.com/app/uploads/2026/04/2025-nexans-universal-registration-document.pdf)
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## Business segments

Nexans’ reported business structure distinguishes two IFRS 8 reportable segments: PWR-Grid & Connect, comprising PWR-Grid and PWR-Connect, and PWR-Transmission. In its business performance reporting, the company presents those three PWR groups separately, alongside Other activities. The segments are defined by products, applications and markets rather than geography. [19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P117881223)[20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P50076203)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P37980391)[22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P75897931)[23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P118185975)

Using H1 2026 standard sales of €3,248.6 million, the approximate contribution was PWR-Transmission €776.8 million (23.9%), PWR-Grid €701.9 million (21.6%), PWR-Connect €1,374.9 million (42.3%), and Other activities €395.0 million (12.2%). Other activities is calculated as the residual after subtracting the three PWR groups from total standard sales. [24](https://www.nexans.com/app/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-29-pr-nexans-h1-2026-earnings.pdf)[25](https://www.nexans.com/regulated-informations/h1-2026-financial-results/)

PWR-Transmission provides cabling solutions and related services for offshore wind, subsea interconnections, onshore high-voltage networks and subsea data transmission. [23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P118185975) PWR-Grid supplies cables for electricity distribution networks, with a focus on grid resilience and advanced, tailored solutions for network operators. [20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P50076203)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P37980391) PWR-Connect focuses on building and equipment cables, including solutions for specialized projects and buildings with demanding safety requirements. [22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P75897931)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P49262742) Other activities includes centralized group activities and the Electrical Wires business; its scope can vary with portfolio and reporting changes. [27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P62497934)[28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P113871490)[29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P100241295)
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## Company history

Nexans traces its origins to 1879, when François Borel and Édouard Berthoud developed a waterproof electric cable. Their business was followed by the creation of Société française des câbles électriques in 1897. [30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P6784809)[31](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P98101361)[32](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P62089573) In 1912, CGE took a majority stake in the cable business; after subsequent industrial combinations and expansion, the cable activities were renamed Alcatel Cable in 1991. [33](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P56602435)[34](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P34222696)[35](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P107988831)

Alcatel announced a spin-off of Alcatel Cable under the Nexans name in 2000. Nexans went public on the Paris Stock Exchange in June 2001, and Alcatel fully exited its shareholding in 2005. [36](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P26146223)[37](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P38499929)[38](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P77358553) The company expanded internationally through acquisitions including Australian cable maker Olex in 2006, Madeco’s cable assets in Latin America in 2008, and AmerCable and Shandong Yanggu in 2012. [39](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P10277696)[40](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P113883064)[41](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P87877154)

Later milestones included the acquisition of Centelsa in 2022 and REKA Cables in 2023. [42](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P32872118)[43](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P4583080) In 2024, Nexans completed its acquisition of La Triveneta Cavi and announced plans to separate its specialty industrial cables activities as Lynxeo; the sale of Lynxeo to Latour Capital was completed in 2025. [44](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P32745714)[45](https://www.nexans.com/regulated-informations/nexans-completes-the-sale-of-lynxeo-to-latour-capital/) Nexans also announced the acquisition of Spain’s Cables RCT in 2025. [46](https://www.nexans.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Nexans_H1-2025-earnings-Press-release-1.pdf)
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