Nexans S.A. is a global company in the cable and optical fibre industry headquartered in Paris, France. The group is active in four main business areas: buildings and territories, high voltage and projects, data and telecoms, data transmission, FTTx, LAN cabling, renewable energies, petroleum, railways and rolling stock, aeronautical and automation. It is the world's second largest manufacturer of cables after Prysmian S.p.A. In 2017, the Group had industrial presence within 34 countries with over 26,000 employees and sales of around €6.4 billion. Nexans was founded in the year 2000 as a business unit of the telecommunications firm Alcatel after its acquisition of a number of companies in the cable sector. It was spun out and listed on the Paris stock exchange the following year. It is currently listed on Euronext Paris, Compartment A. Nexans will supply and install HVDC cables for EuroAsia Interconnector, the longest and the deepest HVDC subsea cable project ever, with bi-pole cables of 2x900km. Wikipedia