Business setup

Hanif Girach and the late Abdul Latif Girach, leading enterprenuers and Zakir H. Girach, a Chartered Certified Accountant, founded Cable Manufacturers. They saw the need to increase Malawi’s industrial base by locally producing cables which at the time were imported.

The manufacturing plant was commissioned in the early 1990’s in the well known Chirimba Industrial Area in the city of Blantyre, with an initial workforce of a few and today the company employs hundreds of workers. This has resulted in considerable foreign currency savings for the country in addition to creating the much needed employment.

They produced Malawi’s first stranded copper conductors as far back as 1996 and the country’s first Aluminium Conductor in 1998.

Business Expansion

CM expanded its manufacturing activities from a small factory to several buildings within its 5 acre plot. The company manufactures a range of cables from Power to Electronics and Telecommunications.

In 2001 CM commissioned its full plant of Underground Armoured Cables. In 2011, CM installed a large armoured cable plant that produces shaped armoured cables of sizes up to 500 sq mm. Today CM is the country’s undisputed leader in the manufacture and supply of power cables, Aluminium Overhead Conductors, Bare Copper Wire, House Wiring and Flexible Cables.