Australian owned communications company Eylex, based in Castle Hill, NSW, launched their newly upgraded cable manufacturing facility last week.
The upgrade was in response to the company's growth on the back of providing cable systems to the Australian Defence industry and the global market, reportedly having doubled their cable production workforce over the past 18 months.
In early 2020, Eylex were selected by Kongsberg Defence Australia as the cable system provider for their key subsystems of the National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System (NASAMS) capability being delivered to the Australian Army under Land 19 Phase 7B. In June 2021, it was announced that Eylex was selected by KONGSBERG to provide cable systems for an International NASAMS program.
This critical business has enabled Eylex to further invest in their production capability and capacity, doubling their usable cable assembly space as well as acquiring an additional facility in the same commercial complex. Other areas of investment include purchasing new cable production and specialist test equipment.
The growth in the business has also seen Eylex create and implement a new Training and Development System to meet the ongoing training and development needs of their technical workforce.
Eylex General Manager Ross Stevens, said he was pleased to be investing in the facility, improving their capabilities across several business areas.
“Over the past eight months we have improved several business areas relating to production," Stevens said. "We’ve completely redesigned our office space to provide an open plan environment with additional capacity for our engineers and supply chain team, as well as focusing on our production and stores areas to increase capacity and improve efficiency.
"We were fortunate that a unit in the same industrial complex became available which allowed us to move our service and maintenance business activities to create more space for cable production.”