Our Markets


General Cable is the leader in the New Zealand domestic market and has earned a reputation for success in competitive export markets.

Our energy cables are used throughout the building and construction sector, from domestic to large industrial applications.  Major projects in New Zealand include thermal generation developments and industrial projects such as the Kinleith Pulp and Paper Plant Upgrade.

Other projects include large retail complexes and some of the country’s most recognised buildings, such as Auckland’s Sky Tower, Parliament Buildings and Te Papa, The Museum of New Zealand.

Communications projects include the development of a nationwide backbone of Fibre Optic Cables, and central city fibre networks for Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Outside of New Zealand, the company’s cable products and accessories can be found transmitting energy for a satellite earth station in the Antarctic, runway lights in the Pacific Islands and oil refineries in Asia.

Other exports include telecommunications cable into China and the South Pacific region, and energy, control and instrumentation cable into Hong Kong, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and the Pacific Islands.

General Cable has the expertise to design and supply cables that meet specific customer requirements.

Engineering to world standards enables the company to provide complementary production resources within General Cable’s worldwide cable network.