Fifty-five years of getting cable in the ground and up the tower.
CBS Products was established in 1971 in Oakham, Rutland. It has been designing and manufacturing cable installation equipment there ever since.
Jointing equipment in Oakham
The company starts out designing and manufacturing cable jointing equipment, then diversifies into winching equipment for the power transmission industry.
Fibre along the power lines
Electricity de-regulation sends power companies into telecoms, installing fibre optic cable along transmission networks. CBS builds pullers, tensioners and running-out blocks for high-production cable placing.
ISO 9001 and the Tornado
The company achieves BS EN ISO 9001. The Tornado fibre blowing machine out-performs every competitor in BT's evaluation and CBS becomes BT's exclusive supplier of cable blowing equipment.
Joining forces with GMP
A partnership with GMP Tools of the USA extends the global reach of both companies' outside-plant equipment.
Part of Klein Tools
GMP and CBS are acquired by Klein Tools. Renamed CBS Products (KT) Ltd, with the same engineering team and the financial backing of a major American tool maker.
Fifty years
CBS celebrates its 50th anniversary, still in Oakham, still building for telecoms, CATV and transmission line contractors worldwide.
9001
Quality management, certified by SGSEvery machine leaves Oakham under a certified quality system. Check our listing in the SGS certified client directory.
A Klein Tools companyEngineering and manufacturing resources of one of the world's largest hand-tool makers behind every CBS product.
Made in RutlandDesign, manufacture, service and spares from Pillings Road, Oakham. Visits welcome by appointment.
Why contractors choose CBS
Our equipment has installed fibre in some of the harshest climates and terrain on earth. That track record is one reason to talk to us. The other is your bottom line: faster installation, less damaged cable and machines that are still working twenty years on.
Talk to the team