founded sweden stockholm 1987 headquarters stockholm key people uwe b ttcher founder products fusion splicing equipment website www.nyfors.com nyfors teknologi ab is a high end supplier of advanced optical fiber handling equipment based in stockholm sweden . the company develops and manufactures equipment used in optical fiber fusion splicing including products for stripping and preparation testing and analysing and fiber end face inspection but is most well known for its automated optical fiber recoating and fiber cleaving systems . nyfors products are sold internationally to customers within a wide range of industrial sectors and to public and private research institutions . the company has its origin in the telecommunications industry and was founded in 1987 by uwe b ttcher the former head of fusion splicing development and production at lm ericsson fiber optics in stockholm . nyfors first commercial product was an optical fiber recoater launched in 1988 . contents 1 recoating 2 references 3 external links 4 see also recoating edit optical fiber recoating is the process of restoring the primary coating to stripped optical fiber sections after fusion splicing . the polymer comprising the recoat is usually similar in composition to the original fiber polymer coating . nyfors optical fiber recoaters are designed to restore the primary coating on spliced optical fibers with acrylate coatings . due to the mould design the restored part of the coating has a diameter and other properties such as eccentricity and roundness that are almost identical to the original fiber . one of the first major projects in which nyfors participated was the submarine optical fiber cable between the swedish mainland and gotland in the baltic sea . the project was carried out in close collaboration between alcatel and the public telephone company televerket with nyfors providing the on board optical fiber recoaters . partly as a result of the technological development carried out during this project the company was able to launch its first commercial optical fiber recoater in 1988 . references edit m ndez alexis and t.f. morse 2007 speciality optical fibers burlington ma academic press . rogers alan 2009 essentials of photonics boca raton fl crc press . shizhuo yin ruffin paul b. yu francis t. s. 2008 fiber optic sensors boca raton fl crc press . yablon andrew d. 2005 optical fiber fusion splicing berlin springer . external links edit nyfors see also edit list of swedish companies recoating stripping fiber fusion splicing optical communication optical fiber cleave fiber fiber optic communications retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nyfors & oldid 647132490 categories technology companies of sweden navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 18 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view