Wires and Cables Industry in India: Market Size, Segments, Policies and Growth Outlook

03 January 2026

Why talk about wires and cables at all?

Let’s be honest.
When someone says “wires and cables industry,” it doesn’t sound exciting. It sounds like a commodity business. Copper, plastic, coils stacked in warehouses. 

That reaction is understandable, because wires and cables only get noticed when something goes wrong. When a building loses power. When a transformer trips. When a data center goes dark. Until then, they stay hidden behind walls, underground, or stretched across pylons far from view.

But that invisibility is exactly what makes this industry important.

Every unit of electricity generated in India — whether from coal, solar, wind, or hydro has to travel through wires and cables before it becomes usable. Every home that gets electrified, every factory that expands capacity, every metro line, data center, EV charger, or telecom tower adds more copper and aluminium into the system.

In that sense, wires and cables are not a “support industry.” They are the circulatory system of India’s infrastructure. And as India pushes harder on electrification, urbanisation, renewables, and digital connectivity, demand for this invisible backbone doesn’t spike once — it compounds quietly, year after year.

That’s why investors, policymakers, and manufacturers are paying closer attention to a sector that rarely makes headlines but sits at the centre of almost every growth story India is telling today.

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