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B3 Cable Solutions or B3 are a company who manufacture and supply Telecommunications, Rail and...

B3 Cable Solutions or B3 are a company who manufacture and supply Telecommunications, Rail and Energy Cables in the United Kingdom, the Republic Of Ireland and Spain. Their head office and UK manufacturing plant are based in Blackley, Manchester, in the United Kingdom. The company also has manufacturing plants in Longford in the Republic Of Ireland and in Santander in Spain. The company was formed in March 2006 following a management buyout of the former Belden UK Telecom Cable manufacturing plant. The Manchester plant has manufactured cables for over 100 years, firstly as Connolly's (Blackley) Limited, then as part of the former world leading BICC Cables in the 1960s. As part of BICC Cables the plant led the way in telecommunications cable products, it had the first Optical Fibre cable production facility in the UK. Production of Optical Fibre cables was transferred to a purpose built factory in Whiston, Merseyside in the late 1980s and the Blackley factory was made into the sole manufacturing plant for copper telecommunications cables soon after, as BICC closed both the Helsby, Cheshire and Prescot, Merseyside factories in the early 1990s. The factory continued as part of BICC