Special Feature

1 OFS Activities,
Our North American Hub
The Global Contributions of Fiber Optics
Corporate Profile
OFS has one of the longest and most respectable corporate
lineages in American business going back to Alexander Graham
Bell and including the fertile minds of AT&T, Western Electric,
Bell Labs and a rich history of industry-changing technologies.
OFS holds hundreds of patents in fiber and cable technologies
and is responsible for developments as fundamental to the fiber
optic industry as the development of the Erbium-doped fiber
amplifiers (EDFA), totally gel-free cable structures, Polarization
mode dispersion (PMD) mitigation techniques, and Zero Water
Peak (ZWP) fibers. In 2001, OFS became a member of theFurukawa Group, and with regular collaboration between
Furukawa Electric Japan and FEL in Brazil, supplies the largest
and most technologically advanced telecommunications
operators in the world.
OFS recently won the Technology and Engineering Emmy®
Award sponsored by the Academy of Television and Arts andSciences of America for contributions toward the “Pioneering
Invention and Development of Optical Fiber Cable.”(November 2016)

Manufacturing Locations

Global NetworkThe OFS mission is to be thepremier global provider of added
value optical fiber based solutions.
OFS, headquartered in the UnitedStates, operates manufacturing,sales and research centers aroundthe world (see figure) including theconstruction of Furukawa Electric’s
first African factory in Morocco.

OFS

FEL

FEC

Brondby(Denmark)
Sturbridge
Somerset

Avon

OFS

Carrollton Norcross (U.S.A)

Augsburg(Germany)

Voronezh(Russia)

Tânger (Morocco)

FEC

Xi'an (China)
Suzuhou (China)
Verna (India)

Mie (Japan)

Samuit Prakarn(Thailand)

Palmyra(Colombia)
Tangerang(Indonesia)

Sorocaba
Curitiba (Brasil)

FELBerasategui(Argentina)

Fiber’s Contribution to
the World Today
Fiber optic networks have changed the world.
From global transoceanic ultra-high capacity routes
to fiber in the home, networks powered by OFS fiber,
cable, and components bring us closer together,every day. Today’s networks transfer the world’s
information, including voice, video, and data.
Previously impossible dreams, from remote surgery
to rich social networks, all travel around the world at
the speed of light. Today’s networks are just thebeginning. Tomorrow’s networks bring the promiseof even greater improvement to our lives, including
the Internet of things. For now and the future, OFS
networks will be there to carry the load.

10FURUKAWA ELECTRIC GROUP SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2017

Business Overview
OFS is a world-leading designer,
manufacturer and provider of opticalfiber, fiber optic cable, connectivity,
FTTx and specialty optical fiber
solutions for Communications,
Medical, Industrial Networking,Sensing, Aerospace and Defense
industries.

Social Contribution
As global citizens, we value the opportunity tosupport the communities in which we reside.

For the past several years, OFS
employees have contributed soap,
toothpaste, and personal items toresidents of homeless shelters.

Hundreds of coats
are donated.
OFS employees donated thousandsof toys for children in need during theholiday season.

Over the past 8 years,
OFS employees havedonated more than 500
pints of blood.

OFS involvementin the localcommunity

OFS continues to support thedevelopment of next
generation talent by offeringsummer internships tostudents from local colleges/universities. Students engage
in real work experience which
ma y include a s sis ting in
manufacturing operations,conducting equipment tests,to supporting recruitment job
fairs. The success of theinternships has been
worthwhile as some of theinterns have become OFS
employees, working in theirchosen academic field ofstudy.

For the past six years OFS Denmark has worked with
the Vestegnen Job & Activity Center to provide
employment to disabled individuals. In 2012 OFS
Denmark was selected as the company of the year inBrØndby for its work in this area.

FURUKAWA ELECTRIC GROUP SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 201711