Planes, Trains & Heroes: A Story of Warner Robins and the Robins Region

CUSTOM CABLE
ASSEMBLIES
Although its customer base and footprint is
now global, Custom Cable Assemblies, Inc., is a
family business in the truest sense.
It was built from the ground up by husbandand-wife-team
Joe and Thérèse Di Diego and has
expanded exponentially with the addition of a
second generation of Di Diegos as well as a
number of long-time employees that have become
more like extended family than employees.
Specializing in providing its growing customer
base with all types of flexible, semi-rigid and semiflexible
coaxial cable assemblies, Custom Cable
Assemblies (CCA) actually got its start in 1985 on
Long Island, New York, where the Di Diegos lived;
however, when an opportunity to further advance
the business in Warner Robins came about in
1989, they packed up the business and their four
young sons and journeyed nearly a thousand miles
to the place they would soon call home.
The company was incorporated as a Georgia
company in January 1990 and started out with
a lean, but dynamic workforce of three—Joe
and Thérèse Di Diego and their first-ever
Georgia hire, Randy Francis. Now the
company’s quality/process manager, Francis
celebrates his thirtieth anniversary with CCA in
2019. Another longtime employee, Tina Ward,
joined the company in 1996 and currently
serves as lead technician and inspector.
As teenagers, even the Di Diego’s sons—
Christopher, Paul, Brian, and Anthony—
pitched in, working diligently during school
breaks and holidays. Anthony, however, was the
only one who chose to make CCA his career and
joined the company full-time in 2001.
Joe and Thérèse are quick to credit their
veteran employees as well as their sons as central
to their company’s success after its relocation to
Warner Robins. They also point to son Anthony
and his wife, Anne, as being instrumental in the
explosive growth the company has experienced
over the last two decades. Anthony Di Diego,
now a full partner in the company, doubles as
sales and production manager, while Anne, who
joined on in 2003, serves as inventory manager
and is fondly describe by the CCA family as the
company’s “right hand.”
Outgrowing its facilities twice over the years,
the company currently has a 7,000-square-foot
manufacturing facility and home office located
at 105 Whiting Way in Warner Robins. It
employs fifteen full-time staffers and serves
clients in the U.S. Department of Defense and
other areas of government as well as clients in
the aerospace, telecom, wireless and scientific
industries worldwide.
And, yet, it remains a family business; a family
business that may very well be training up its
third generation as Anthony and Anne Di Diego’s
teenage children, Allie and AJ, follow in their dad’s
and uncles’ footsteps spending their summer and
school vacations learning the CCA ropes.
Together, all the Di Diegos and the CCA
family plan to keep growing and serving their
clients as well as the Warner Robins community;
a community which has become their home and
the canvas upon which they have created a
successful local business with a global impact.
For more information on CCA, please visit
www.customcableinc.com.
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