Our History
Thomas A.Edison
Samuel F.B Morse
1878
The Okonite Company was founded in 1878 making it one of the original insulators of electrical wire and cable in the United States.
Earliest customers included Samuel F.B. Morse for his telegraph network and Thomas A. Edison for the Pearl Street Generating Station, the nation’s first, built in New York City in 1882 using Okonite cable.
The original Passaic Plant
1900-1920
Industrial Railroad Signal Cable
Okonite officers in a strategy meeting 1905
Passaic R&D lab 1910
The Paterson Plant as it looked in the 1920's
Okonite Basketball team 1930's
One of the many ads from this era
1940-1960
An Army-Navy award is presented at our Wilkes-Barre plant in 1943
Announcing the opening of our North Brunswick Plant for 1957
Passaic headquarters in 1946
Installing the Puget Sound cable and the Life cover
Okonite received the Century Award from PSE&G in 1978
Groundbreaking Santa Maria Plant in 1967
1960-1980
Funding for Okonite’s start of the ESOT, presented to Victor Viggiano, Okonite’s President by Congressman Robert A. Roe on June 30, 1976
Okoguard EPR Insulation was first introduced in 1967
Okonite supplied all the shipboard cables for the largest peacetime construction of naval vessels
1980-2000
Okonite received the prestigious quality award in 1985
Groundbreaking at Orangeburg facility in 1991
The Statue of Liberty is powered by Okonite Submarine Cable
Okonite reached a milestone in 1997 when we were Certified ISO Compliant
The Orangeburg facility 1993
2000-Present
Years of Expansion
Richmond, KY
Paterson, NJ
Santa Maria, CA
Orangeburg, SC
Cumberland, RI
Kansas City, KAPittsburgh, PAHouston, TX
Portland, OR New Orleans, LA
One World Trade Center
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