 In 2002, Pirelli, who acquired the Erith plant from General Cable announced the closure of part of the site and the transfer of the production of oil-filled cable to their Eastleigh works in Hampshire.In 2020 the BICC Cables name continued in use at the former BICC Egypt power cable plant in Giza.This was an amateur brass band, active between 1898 and 1961, of which all members were employees of Callender's at Erith.