At 50 years old, the CommScope Catawba plant is actually older than the publicly traded company that owns it. Opened in 1967 by Superior Continental Corp., the Catawba facility predates the formation of CommScope by almost a decade. “The history of CommScope starts in Catawba,” says Eddie Edwards, CEO of CommScope in Hickory. Former CEO Frank Drendel and a group of investors bought the cable division from Superior Continental in 1976 to create the Hickory-based company. The plant employees…
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