ADC India Communications Ltd

ADC India Communications Limited was jointly promoted by Krone, Germany, the Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation and M L Thukral and his associates. The Company was erstwhile incorporated as Krone Communications Limited in July 1988 and the name of the Company was changed to ADC India Communications Limited in February 2010. The Company is engaged in providing versatile, reliable and cost effective connectivity solutions to suit individual enterprise and telecom service provider requirements. The Company provides copper and fiber physical connectivity in telecommunications and data networking solutions including structured cabling. The company's collaborator Krone, Germany, holds a 51% equity stake. The company manufactures telephone connectors including back panel connectors and allied products for use in telecommunication cable network and commercial/industrial cabling systems. Earlier, KCL was just a telecom products company, but has, off late, transformed itself into a total solution provider. In only 10 years, it has established its pre-eminence in the manufacturing and supply of MDF and associated external plant products. More than 6 million lines stand installed with Krone products, through every single technology - Siemens', Ericson's, Alcatel's and Lucent's apart from C-DOT. KCL also provide technical and marketing support for copper and fiber optic telecommunication networks, structured cabling systems and wireless local loop systems. In Jul.'99, Krone AGs' has been acquired by the US based GenTek Group. With this acquisition, Krone is confident about the unique market position in cable manufacturing business. Krone has launched a unique high end cabling system 'TrueNet' in Nov-99. The new LSA NT high density MDF launched last year saw wide acceptance in the market and almost 230K line were successfully delivered during the year. Tyco Electronics Ltd (renamed as TE Connectivity Ltd) acquired ADC Group globally. For realigning the operations of the Company the Marketing and Sales personnel were transferred to Tyco Electronics Corp (I) Pvt. Ltd. (TECIL) with effect from May 1, 2011. By acquiring the Broadband Network Solutions Business Unit of TE Connectivity Limited by CommScope, the Company became part of CommScope in 2016.