Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable Joint Stock

What Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable Joint Stock does

Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company (YOFC), founded in 1988 and headquartered in Wuhan, China, is a publicly listed manufacturer of optical fibre preforms, optical fibres, and optical fibre cables. The company is dual-listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (601869.SH) and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (06869.HK), employs over 10,000 people globally, and has held the top-ranked global market share in optical preforms, fibre, and cable for ten consecutive years. YOFC is the only company in the world that has independently industrialized all three mainstream optical preform manufacturing technologies — PCVD, VAD, and OVD — and houses the State Key Laboratory of Optical Fibre and Cable Manufacturing Technology, with a portfolio exceeding 2,600 patents.

YOFC's technology spans the full optical communications value chain, from upstream raw materials (high-purity silicon tetrachloride, LARMOR coatings) through preforms, single-mode and multimode fibre brands (FarBand, EasyBand, FullBand, HIPOSH, MaxBand), cable products, specialty fibres, optical transceivers, and structured cabling (iCONEC). Its cutting-edge HollowBand hollow-core fibre achieves a world-record 0.04 dB/km attenuation with 31% lower latency and 47% faster transmission than conventional solid-core fibre, and was used in the world's first commercial HCF wavelength-division-multiplexing field trial achieving 51.3 Tb/s over 206.5 km without signal regeneration. The company operates nine overseas production facilities across six countries (Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil, Poland, Germany, Mexico) and serves more than 100 markets worldwide.

Revenue is generated primarily through B2B hardware sales to telecom operators, data center and cloud providers, transportation infrastructure operators, industrial laser customers, power grid operators, and submarine cable system integrators, with multi-year contract pricing negotiated per project. Reported revenue grew approximately 22% in 2025, supported by overseas revenue sustained above 30% of total sales for four consecutive years. YOFC has pursued inorganic expansion through the acquisitions of RFS Germany and RFS Suzhou (April 2024), Penta Laser (2025), and the launch of the Hubei YOFC Angel Investment Fund (2025), alongside strategic investments such as PsiBot's $280M embodied AI round (March 2026).

Name

Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable Joint Stock

Legal name

Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company

Website

https://en.yofc.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

YOFC is a Chinese, dual-listed (Shanghai and Hong Kong) global manufacturer of optical fibre preforms, fibres, and cables, serving telecom operators, data centers, and industrial customers across 100+ countries with nine production facilities in six countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Optical Fibre and Cable Manufacturing

NAICS

Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing (335921), Communications Equipment Manufacturing (3342)

SIC

Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment (3663), Communications Equipment, Nec (3669), Computer Communications Equipment (3576)

akta.pro primary industry

Data, Communications & Fiber Optic Cable (IMADAMAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Subsea Cable System Supply & Manufacturing (Wet Plant: Cable/Repeaters/Branching Units) (HDAIALAE), Optical Transponders & Muxponders (Coherent/Pluggable) (HDAFADAB), Cable Assemblies & Patch Cords (Copper/Fiber) (HDAFALAF), Utility Fiber Backbone & Transport Networks (OTN/MPLS, DWDM) (EUADAIAA), Active Optical Cables (AOC) & Optical Interconnects (HDAFAEAG)

Keywords

• Optical fibre manufacturing
• Optical fibre cables
• Submarine cable systems
• Optical preform production
• Structured cabling solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Wuhan

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Optical Fibre and Cable Products: Core business generating revenue from manufacturing and selling optical fibre preforms, optical fibres, and optical cables for telecom, data center, and industrial applications. YOFC maintains top-ranking market share in optical preforms, optical fibre, and optical cable for 10 consecutive years.
2. Specialty Fibre Products: Revenue from specialty fibres including polarization maintaining fibre, multimode fibre, and specialty optical fibre components and modules used in quantum communication, aerospace, sensing, and industrial applications.
3. Submarine Cable Systems: Integrated submarine optical and power cable systems for transoceanic communications and offshore energy transmission.
4. Coaxial Cable and RF Products: RF coaxial cables, leaky coaxial cables, and accessories for mobile communication base stations, wireless communication systems, and indoor signal coverage.
5. Optical Transceivers and Structured Cabling: High-speed optical transceivers (400G, 200G, 100G, 50G, 40G, 25G, 10G) and structured cabling solutions for data centers and enterprise networks.
6. Industrial Diversification Revenue Streams: Revenue from diversified businesses including EverProX Technologies (optical interconnect components), industrial lasers (Everfoton), YOFC Marine (submarine and offshore engineering), YOFC Quartz (semiconductor materials), and robotics (Changzhi Embodied Intelligence).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

YOFC manufactures and sells optical fibre preforms, optical fibres (single-mode, multimode, specialty, and hollow-core), and a wide range of optical fibre cables, submarine cables, RF coaxial cables, structured cabling (iCONEC), and high-speed optical transceivers. Its products serve telecom operators, data centre and cloud providers, transportation, industrial laser, power grid, submarine communication, consumer, and materials customers. The company also offers integrated solutions for AI Intelligent Computing Centers and All-Optical Smart Vehicle Networks built around its hollow-core fibre technology.

Product overview

YOFC operates as a global optical communications technology provider offering a comprehensive portfolio spanning the entire optical fibre value chain. The product portfolio includes: raw materials (Optical Fibre Preform, Silicon Tetrachloride, Coating products under the LARMOR® brand); communication optical fibres (single-mode fibres under FarBand®, EasyBand®, FullBand®, HIPOSH® and LAPOSH® brands, and multimode fibres under the MaxBand® series); cable products (air-blown micro cables, optical cables for various applications, OPGW, submarine cables); specialty fibres; structured cabling solutions under the iCONEC® brand; optical transceivers (ranging from 1.25G to 400G and PON series); and coaxial cables (RF and leaky coaxial cables with accessories). The company has also developed cutting-edge hollow-core fibre technology branded as HollowBand®, which achieves significantly lower latency and higher transmission speeds than conventional fibre. YOFC's products serve eight market segments: Telecom, Data Communication, Transportation, Industrial Laser, Power Grid, Submarine Communication, Consumer, and Materials.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• YOFC: Company short name and primary brand identity
• FarBand
• EasyBand
• FullBand
• HIPOSH
• LAPOSH
• MaxBand
• LARMOR
• HollowBand
• iCONEC
• SmartCarbon

Products and services

• Silicon Tetrachloride (SiCl4) High-purity fibre-grade silicon tetrachloride manufactured by YOFC via multi-column continuous distillation and molecular sieve adsorption; serves as the primary raw material for optical fibre preforms in OVD, VAD, PCVD, and electronic grades for upstream fibre producers and semiconductor materials customers.
• LARMOR Coating Products LARMOR brand fibre coating line including primary coating (YP-037), secondary coating (YSL-017), UV-LED colouring ink (YIL series), standard colouring ink (YI series) and ribbon matrix (YR-003), used in optical fibre colouring and drawing processes for cable manufacturers.
• FarBand Ultra Low Loss and Large Effective Area Fibre FarBand ultra low loss single-mode fibre with large effective area for long-haul, high-capacity transmission and reduced nonlinear effects in backbone networks.
• EasyBand Plus Bending Insensitive Single-mode Fibre Bending insensitive single-mode fibre optimised for FTTx deployments, with enhanced bend resistance for tight installation spaces in access networks.
• FullBand Low Water Peak Single-mode Fibre Low water peak single-mode fibre for full-spectrum operation across telecom wavelengths, including FullBand Ultra Low Loss and FullBand Plus Low Loss variants.
• HIPOSH High Capacity Low Slope Dispersion Shifted Single-mode Fibre Dispersion shifted single-mode fibre with low slope designed for high-capacity, long-distance transmission.
• MaxBand OM4 Pro Bending Insensitive Multimode Fibre High-performance OM4 multimode fibre with enhanced bending performance for data centre applications supporting 40G, 100G, and 400G Ethernet.
• MaxBand WideBand OM5 Bending Insensitive Multimode Fibre Wideband OM5 multimode fibre supporting short-wavelength division multiplexing (SWDM) for expanded bandwidth in data centre environments.
• HollowBand Hollow-Core Fibre Anti-resonant hollow-core fibre in which light propagates through air rather than glass, achieving 0.04 dB/km attenuation, near-zero nonlinearity, and 1.2 Tb/s per wavelength transmission over ultra-long unrepeatered spans for AI-era data centre and telecom backbones.
• Submarine Fibre-optic Cable Series Submarine optical cable products for transoceanic communications infrastructure used by submarine cable system operators and offshore energy projects.
• Optical Transceiver Series High-speed optical transceivers including 400G, 200G, 100G, 50G, 40G, 25G, 10G SFP+, 10G XFP, 2.5G, 1.25G and PON series for equipment interconnection across access networks, transmission networks, data centres, and wireless networks.
• RF Coaxial Cable RF coaxial cables in 1/2\", 7/8\", 1 1/4\" and 1 5/8\" sizes including superflexible variants for mobile communication base stations, wireless communication systems and indoor wireless signal coverage.
• Leaky Coaxial Cable Dual-function RF transmission and antenna radiating cables for metro, railway tunnel, highway tunnel, and large building indoor coverage applications.
• Data Center Solutions High-density, scalable optical fibre products for data centres including MPO/MTP pre-terminated trunk cables, fibre optic patch panels, and modules supporting 40G, 100G and 400G network upgrades.
• iCONEC Structured Cabling Solutions iCONEC brand copper and fibre optic structured cabling systems including Category 6A, Category 6, and Category 5e products, patch cords, modules, and information panels for building and campus infrastructure.
• AI Intelligent Computing Center Connectivity Solutions Integrated AI computing centre solutions combining hollow-core fibre, multi-core fibre, high-performance multimode fibre, and 800G/1.6T high-speed optical transceivers with environmentally responsible cabling for efficient, low-latency data transmission between computing clusters.
• All-Optical Smart Vehicle Networks High-speed in-vehicle fibre networks supporting real-time communication between vehicles, road infrastructure, and cloud platforms for autonomous driving systems and traffic efficiency.

Quantifiable outcome

• 31% lower latency vs conventional solid-core fibre
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• China TelecomcoreTechnology or Integration · 29 June 2026China Telecom collaborated with YOFC and Dekoli on the world's first field trial of hollow-core fibre WDM achieving 51.3 Tb/s transmission over 128 miles (206.5 km) without signal regeneration.
• DekolicoreTechnology or Integration · 29 June 2026Dekoli partnered with YOFC and China Telecom to conduct the world's first field trial of hollow-core fibre achieving 1.2 Tb/s per wavelength over 206.5 km without signal repeaters.
• INFINITE-2030 Initiative Partners (Telecom operators, Cloud providers, Industry partners)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 March 2026Initiative through which YOFC plans to collaborate with global industry partners to accelerate hollow-core fibre adoption. Focus on building an open ecosystem alliance, advancing international technical standards, and implementing 50+ commercial and pilot HCF projects worldwide.
• Radio Frequency Systems GmbH (RFS Germany)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 April 2024YOFC completed the acquisition of RFS Germany as part of its global expansion strategy. The acquisition aims to enhance YOFC's international production capacity and market presence in the cable industry.
• RFS SuzhoucoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 April 2024YOFC completed the acquisition of RFS Suzhou as part of its global expansion strategy, extending YOFC's international presence and increasing its overseas production capacity.
• State Key Laboratory of Optical Fibre and Cable Manufacturing TechnologycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerYOFC's State Key Laboratory works with leading international partners and published more than 50 papers at major industry conferences. Key research institution supporting hollow-core fibre development and optical communications innovation.
• Penta LasercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcquisition of Penta Laser enabled integrated capabilities across fibres, laser sources, and equipment in the industrial laser segment.

Scale indicators19 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Prysmian Group: Global cable manufacturer with deep presence in fibre-optic cables, submarine cables, and structured cabling solutions. Competes with YOFC in submarine telecom systems and terrestrial fibre cables across telecom, subsea and energy markets.
• Furukawa Electric: Japanese industrial group producing optical fibre, cable, and photonic components for telecom and data centre markets. Direct product overlap with YOFC in single-mode and specialty fibres, and serves a comparable global operator customer base.
• Fujikura Ltd. Japanese manufacturer of optical fibres (including specialty and polarization-maintaining fibres) and cables. Competes with YOFC in telecom single-mode fibre and holds combined ~43% PMF market share with YOFC and Sumitomo.
• ZTT Group: Chinese manufacturer of optical fibre, optical cable, submarine cable, and structured cabling products. Competes with YOFC across fibre preforms, terrestrial cables, and increasingly in international markets.
• CommScope Holding: US-based provider of connectivity solutions including fibre-optic cabling, structured cabling, and data centre infrastructure. Directly competes with YOFC's iCONEC structured cabling and fibre solutions for enterprise and data centre customers.
• Hengtong Optic-Electric: China-based competitor producing optical fibre preforms, fibres, cables, and submarine cable systems. Closest domestic peer to YOFC, serving the same Chinese operator customers and exporting to international markets.
• Sterlite Technologies: India-based global provider of optical fibre, cable, and integrated digital networks. Comparable product mix focused on telecom operators and hyperscale data centres, competing with YOFC in emerging markets and HCF pilots.
• Corning Incorporated: US-listed leader in optical fibre, cable and connectivity solutions, competing head-to-head with YOFC across single-mode fibre, multi-mode fibre, and increasingly in hollow-core fibre development. Direct match on product category, customers (telco operators and hyperscalers), and global scale.
• Sumitomo Electric Industries: Japanese diversified industrial with a leading optical fibre and cable business, plus submarine cable systems. Directly comparable product portfolio and customer base, including active development of hollow-core fibre.

Broad incumbents

• Nexans: Global cable and connectivity leader with submarine cable and fibre-optic cable businesses overlapping YOFC's portfolio. Larger and more diversified across power and telecom cabling, serving as a broad incumbent in YOFC's space.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A2 records

Investments1 record

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