Leviton is putting $100 million into its global network cabling factories over the next five years, and that spending plan touches one of the largest copper cable manufacturing plants in the country right here in Lancaster County. The New Holland facility, which produces structured LAN copper cables used in data centers and commercial buildings, has been under Leviton's ownership since the company bought former operator Berk-Tek in 2020.
The $100 million capital investment program spans 2026 through 2030 across all of Leviton's global Network Solutions manufacturing facilities, with major funding allocated to U.S. plants to boost Category 6A cabling and fiber optic output, according to Converge Digest. The plan builds on an earlier $80 million five-year capital program the company completed, as reported by the Central Penn Business Journal. Leviton President and CEO Daryoush Larizadeh said the new commitment underscores the company's determination to lead through innovation, manufacturing excellence and customer partnership, per the outlet.
How Leviton Landed in New Holland
Leviton's presence in Lancaster County traces back to its $202 million acquisition of New Holland-based Berk-Tek LLC from French cable maker Nexans in September 2020, a deal detailed by CEPRO. Berk-Tek had generated roughly $163 million in net sales in 2019 before the sale, per the same outlet. The company had operated as an independent cabling brand for more than 60 years after its 1961 founding, and Leviton fully folded the Berk-Tek name into its global brand in 2024, integrating the Lancaster County production line into Leviton Network Solutions.
The New Holland plant remains one of the largest dedicated four-pair copper cabling manufacturing facilities in the United States, according to Penn State University, which produces structured LAN copper cables for data centers and commercial buildings. Leviton has also invested in the local workforce pipeline beyond the factory floor: the company established a $25,000 endowed scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology in March 2024 to support students from Lancaster and surrounding central Pennsylvania counties pursuing industrial engineering degrees, with preference given to those in polymer engineering and mechatronics automation programs, per Penn State.
What the New Money Targets
The initiative includes investments across all of Leviton's Network Solutions factories, covering fiber optic and copper end-to-end systems, according to the Central Penn Business Journal. The company plans to expand Category 6A cabling and connector capacity to support demand for smart building infrastructure, while also growing fiber optic cabling and connectivity manufacturing capacity to meet rising enterprise and data center bandwidth requirements and speed up project deployment timelines, the outlet reports.
Ross Goldman, chief operating officer of Leviton Network Solutions, said the company believes this is the right time to invest despite volatile raw material and energy costs, according to the Central Penn Business Journal. He said AI, smart buildings and high-performance networks are expanding at an unprecedented pace, and that capital investments build long-term capability and service in addition to adding capacity. Goldman added that Leviton's customers are planning infrastructure for decades of AI-driven growth, and the company intends to match that with investment in world-class manufacturing, per the outlet.
Leviton has not publicly itemized how much of the new $100 million will land specifically in New Holland versus its fiber plant in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, or its other facilities, which span Washington, Illinois, Florida and Scotland in addition to Pennsylvania and North Carolina, according to Leviton Network Solutions. The Glenrothes, Scotland site joined the network through Leviton's 2015 acquisition of Brand-Rex, the company notes.
A Preview From the Last Expansion Round
Leviton's previous capital program expanded global production capacity and doubled the size of the Fuquay-Varina facility, strengthening end-to-end copper and fiber capabilities and helping the company meet what it described as extraordinary demand across data center and smart building network applications, per the Central Penn Business Journal. That North Carolina expansion, completed in April 2025 at a cost of $25 million, added 94,000 square feet and doubled the plant's optical fiber cabling capacity, according to Residential Systems. The facility produces single-mode and multimode optical fiber assemblies.
The spending comes as data center construction accelerates across the country. Operational data center capacity in the Americas reached 50.3 gigawatts in the first half of 2026, with another 37.7 gigawatts under active construction, and the United States accounts for 94.1 percent of that operational capacity, according to Cushman & Wakefield. Global infrastructure investment in data centers is projected to reach $6.7 trillion by 2030, with AI workloads expected to make up as much as 70 percent of new capacity additions, per Avid Solutions, which also projects data center power and networking demand to grow 17 percent annually through 2028.
A Company Marking 120 Years
The investment lands as New York-based Leviton marked its 120th anniversary in January, having grown from a 1906 Lower East Side gas mantle manufacturer founded by Isidor Leviton into a privately held company with more than 25,000 products, according to Wikipedia. For Lancaster County, the open question is how much of the new five-year, $100 million commitment translates into local production volume and hiring at the New Holland plant, given that Leviton has not broken out site-by-site figures and raw material costs like copper remain a variable the company itself has acknowledged.
