About us
Our company
IDEA OPTICAL is the French leading company in optical fiber cable connectivity and cable management, with more than 18 years of expertise.
We partner major contractors in the Telecom, Energy and Railway sectors, essentially on the EMEA Market.
Every client is provided with personalized advice and support, in order to exceed your expectations and fully respect the five strategic imperatives: Quality, Cost, Service, Delivery and Maintenance.
Our Sales representatives (Fluen in: French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and Russian) regularly invite customers to the showroom based in Voisins-le-Bretonneux (dept. 78, France) to present our solutions to them in natural conditions.
The premises based in Lannion (dept. 22, France), withe a 9,500 m² production space, a Supply chain warehouse, administration services, our design office and quality control.
At the heart of our production site, our integrated design office develops innovative solutions and constantly works on upgrading our products to perfectly meet market needs.
A subsidiary of the ACOME Group since 2015, Idea Optical has strengthened the group’s optical connectivity product expertise to put French industrial know-how at the service of Very High Speed Broadband everywhere and for everyone.
The ACOME Group
ACOME is a French industrial group specialising in high-tech cables and components in highly competitive, strategic and growth sectors: data and telecommunication networks and the automotive industry.
With a turnover of 592 million euros in 2022 of which over 59% in exports, and almost 2,000 employees, ACOME Group supports the challenges of its clients in the midst of their technological transformation, whether for the sustainability of FttH networks and their contribution to reducing the impact on the environment, the perspectives offered by 5G, mobile coverage inside smart buildings, or the electrification and connectivity of vehicles for vehicle manufacturers.
The Group, which celebrated its 90th birthday in 2022, is present on four continents. A European reference player on the telecommunications infrastructure market, ACOME has a modern and effective industrial tool that has a production capacity of 10 million kilometres of cabled optical fibre. Almost a third of the optical fibre installed in France comes from the ACOME factories (cables that can contain up to 1,000 fibres).
ACOME is also the leading cooperative and participative company (Scop) in France, its cooperative governance guarantees its long-term strategy.
2000 employees worldwide
Idea Optical sites
EMEA 80% (whose 72% are base in France, 15% in China, 5% in Brazil)
12 factories
7 factorises in France, 3 in Chine, 1 factory in Brazil, 1 factory in Morocco
Sales locations in 6 countries
France, Germany, Italy, UK, China, Brazil.
6 logistics platforms worldwide
EMEA, South America, ASIA
1 expertise & technology group center
France
3 tech centers
France (Romagny, Lannion), China
The headquarters
Paris, France
Our values
Commitment
We are committed to protecting the environment (EcoVadis Silver, ISO 14001) and we are also committed to providing all our employees with a healthy and quality working environment, regardless of their field of activity.
Excellence
We seek to build ever more innovative products at the cutting edge of technology. Innovation is at the heart of all our product development.
Respect
Respect is a fundamental value. The company is committed to ensuring that every employee is respected within the company without any discrimination related to gender, age, sexual preference or religion. We also make it a point of honour to apply gender equality in our teams.
Our know-how
Expertise and advice
As an active member of ARCEP’s fibre expert committee, our company contributes to the definition of tomorrow’s telecom network engineering.
In direct contact with all national commercial operators and third party providers, our sales team supports and advises contracting authorities in their choice of solutions adapted to existing engineering.
Product design
To meet our clients’ specific needs and to continuously improve our product range, our design office designs, models and develops new solutions.
Our high product design standards mean we are perfectly in line with market needs, while taking into account feedback from the field.
Production
The assembly and integration of our cabling solutions are entirely manufactured at our production site in Lannion where our workshop cover 3,000 m².
This organization gives us complete control over the production chain, but also makes us highly responsive to support you effectively in your deployment projects.
Key figures
MILLION OF
INTEGRATED PIGTAILS
PER YEAR
M€ TURNOVER
in 2023
M² OPERATION AREA
EMPLOYEES
