Solapur, Maharashtra | August 2026, As a preferred engineering partner to several of the world’s leading telecom antenna manufacturers, Arihant Profile Extrusion has spent decades solving one of the industry’s least visible – but increasingly important – engineering challenges: designing and manufacturing precision radome profiles that protect modern wireless infrastructure. Today, as global networks evolve toward 5G Advanced and future 6G technologies, the company is expanding its research and development efforts to address the next generation of radome design, materials and manufacturing technologies.
The telecommunications industry is entering a new phase of technological evolution. While the transition from 4G to 5G is often associated with faster mobile connectivity, its most significant impact is taking place behind the scenes – in the engineering of the physical infrastructure that enables modern communication networks. According to Ericsson’s latest Mobility Reports, operators worldwide continue accelerating the deployment of 5G Standalone networks while preparing for AI-enabled services, enterprise applications and the gradual evolution toward AI-native 6G architectures. These developments are transforming mobile networks into intelligent digital infrastructure capable of supporting everything from industrial automation and connected cities to autonomous systems and advanced enterprise connectivity.
For Arihant, this evolution is fundamentally changing what telecom manufacturers expect from a radome.
Modern 5G deployments increasingly rely on Massive MIMO antenna systems that integrate significantly more radio elements within a single antenna than previous generations. As antennas become larger, mechanically more sophisticated and capable of handling greater network capacity, the radome protecting them must evolve as well. Beyond shielding sensitive antenna systems from years of exposure to sunlight, rain, wind and temperature extremes, modern radomes are expected to maintain precise dimensional stability, withstand demanding environmental conditions and allow radio-frequency signals to pass with minimal interference. Achieving all of these requirements simultaneously has transformed radome engineering into one of the most technically demanding applications in precision polymer extrusion.
The commercial implications are equally significant. Larger antennas increase structural loading on telecom towers, require greater transportation and installation effort, and place additional demands on long-term reliability. Every improvement in structural efficiency simplifies deployment. Every reduction in unnecessary weight improves tower loading. Every advancement in manufacturing precision contributes to more consistent field performance. As network infrastructure becomes increasingly sophisticated, customers are no longer evaluating radomes simply as protective covers – they are evaluating them as engineered components that contribute directly to network performance, deployment efficiency and operational reliability.
These changing expectations are reshaping Arihant’s engineering priorities.
Over the past three decades, the company has continuously refined its expertise in precision profile extrusion, developing manufacturing equipment capable of producing highly engineered polymer profiles with exceptional dimensional consistency and material stability. While Arihant today serves more than ten industrial sectors, Telecom represents one of its most technically demanding engineering disciplines, where even microscopic variations in wall thickness, material behaviour or profile geometry can influence downstream assembly, structural integrity and long-term product performance.
Producing advanced telecom radome profiles therefore requires considerably more than conventional extrusion. It demands precise control over polymer formulation, tooling design, thermal behaviour, cooling dynamics, shrinkage characteristics, dimensional tolerances and process stability throughout continuous production. As performance expectations continue to increase, extrusion itself has evolved into a multidisciplinary engineering process where materials science, manufacturing automation and precision process control collectively determine the final product’s success.
This capability has positioned Arihant among the preferred suppliers for several globally recognised telecom antenna manufacturers, including CommScope, Rosenberger, Andrew Telecom, Amphenol, SPX, etc. Today, the company has developed more than 35 specialised telecom radome profiles, supplying over 1.2 million meters annually while consistently maintaining quality performance below 500 parts per million (PPM). These capabilities are supported by close collaboration with global customers whose evolving product requirements continue to guide Arihant’s long-term research and engineering priorities.
The direction of that research closely reflects the direction of the telecom industry itself.
Public engineering priorities published by leading telecom infrastructure companies increasingly focus on reducing antenna weight, improving structural efficiency, lowering wind loading, enhancing sustainability and simplifying deployment without compromising radio performance. Industry research also points toward denser network architectures, increasing uplink traffic, AI-enabled applications and future 6G technologies that will place even greater demands on physical network infrastructure. For Arihant, these trends reinforce a clear engineering objective: the next generation of radomes must become lighter, stronger, more sustainable and more precisely manufactured than ever before while continuing to meet increasingly demanding RF and environmental performance requirements. This alignment between industry direction and Arihant’s engineering roadmap continues to shape the company’s investment in advanced manufacturing, materials development and product design.
To address these emerging requirements, Arihant has established a long-term research programme focused on the future of telecom radome engineering. Current initiatives include lightweight alternatives to conventional FRP constructions, next-generation double-wall radome architectures, advanced engineering polymer systems, recyclable material platforms and extrusion technologies capable of supporting increasingly sophisticated antenna designs. Rather than responding only to today’s market requirements, these programmes are intended to prepare customers for the engineering demands expected over the next decade of wireless infrastructure development.
Supporting these initiatives is Arihant’s Industry 4.0 manufacturing campus in Solapur, commissioned with an annual production capacity of 6,000 metric tonnes across 170,000 square feet of manufacturing infrastructure. End-to-end automation – from raw material handling and intelligent compounding to extrusion, quality inspection, packaging and dispatch – provides the manufacturing consistency required for technically demanding applications while creating the flexibility to scale future material innovations into commercial production.
“Every kilogram removed from an antenna assembly reduces tower loading. Every improvement in structural efficiency simplifies deployment. Every advancement in manufacturing precision contributes to long-term network reliability,” said Anish Shah, Director – Engineering, Arihant Profile Extrusion. “Those are no longer manufacturing objectives; they are engineering requirements shaping the future of telecommunications. At Arihant, our research is focused on advancing radome design, polymer engineering and precision extrusion technologies that help customers build lighter, stronger and more efficient network infrastructure.”
As Telecom continues its evolution toward AI-native networks and future 6G technologies, innovation will increasingly depend on the integration of wireless engineering, advanced materials and precision manufacturing. By combining more than three decades of extrusion expertise with continued investment in polymer science, product design and advanced manufacturing, Arihant is helping shape the next generation of telecom infrastructure – one engineered profile at a time.
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