JDS Uniphase unveil new factory

17 Jun 2002

JDS Uniphase Corporation announced this week the opening of a new 42,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Plymouth, England designed to manufacture fused fiber components for optical networking systems.

This new facility will double the manufacturing space available to the operation formerly known as SIFAM Fibre Optics Limited (Torquay, England).

Products manufactured at this site include fused couplers, pump-signal WDMs, tap couplers, Raman WDMs and gain flattening filters used in optical amplifier applications.

SIFAM had approximately 180 employees when it was acquired in November 1999. At the end of calendar 2000, this business unit is expected to employ over 1,200 people at its locations in Torquay and Plymouth.