Product Fact Sheet

About Dow Wire & Cable
Power
Telecommunications
Specialty Products Including Flame Retardant
Elastomers

About Dow Wire & Cable

As a world-leading provider of technology-driven solutions for the wire and cable industry, Dow Wire & Cable brings more than 60 years of experience to power, telecommunications and specialty cable applications. Dow Wire & Cable, a global market-facing business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) and its subsidiaries, provides plastics-enhanced materials used as insulation, semiconductive, flame retardant (FR) and jacketing materials, providing a unique combination of mechanical strength, flexibility, electrical properties, aging stability and processability. In addition, Dow Wire & Cable creates value for global customers by supplying material and compounding solutions that are backed by solid research, product development, engineering and market validation expertise.

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Power

Dow Wire & Cable provides a broad range of materials for power cables and a systems approach to ensure long-life power cable performance and reduce total life-cycle costs. Power cable markets served include:

• Underground low (LV), medium (MV), high and extra-high voltage power cable
• Overhead LV and MV power cable
• Electric utilities, rural electric cooperatives and municipal electric companies for power transmission and distribution

Some of the benefits delivered by power cable compounds from Dow Wire & Cable include:

• Proven tree retardant (TR) MV insulation
• Extra-clean, state-of-the-art, crosslinkable polyethylene (XLPE) for insulation
• Excellent environmental stress crack resistance, flexibility, toughness and superior moisture barrier properties for jacketing
• Supersmooth, extra-clean semiconductive shields

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Telecommunications

Dow Wire & Cable offers a broad portfolio of materials that meet the highest quality and performance standards for telecommunications applications. This portfolio provides consistent products that help maximize value and attain lower system costs for the following markets:

• Copper cable for telephone and local area network (LAN) applications
• Fiber optic and ocean cable
• Coaxial cable for television and wireless telephone

Some of the benefits delivered by telecommunications cable materials from Dow Wire & Cable include:

• Highly stabilized foam/skin twisted pair insulation system meeting global pedestal requirements
• High-speed insulation materials with excellent surface smoothness
• Low shrink, high-speed insulation materials for Category 5 and 6 LAN applications
• Proven performance of low-loss physical foaming compounds for coaxial cable applications
• Black jacket materials with outstanding processability, die-drool resistance and excellent carbon black dispersion
• Low shrink fiber optic cable jacketing materials with excellent balance of physical and electrical properties and proven performance
• Broad range of new polymer technologies featuring high melt strength for high-speed insulation and high stiffness and toughness for fiber optic loose buffer tubes
• Broad range of coated metals providing superior environmental and physical protection

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Specialty Products Including FR

Dow Wire & Cable provides high-quality compounds and products to the fast-growing specialty products market for wire and cable (for example, a cross web separator compound for plenum Category 6 cable applications). Dow Wire & Cable also serves the FR wire and cable market, where low fire hazard, low smoke and low corrosive materials are required. Dow is committed to providing high-performance, low fire hazard products at the lowest total system cost, along with the support and innovation customers need to compete in their market sector. Markets served include:

• Appliance wire
• Automotive wire
• Control cables
• Communication cables
• Industrial and transportation cables
• Plenum cables

The advantages of Dow Wire & Cable’s industry-leading specialty and FR products include:

• Broad processing window with magnesium hydroxide platform
• Non-halogen or low-halogen, FR, thermoplastic products
• Non-halogen or low-halogen, FR, crosslinkable products
• High processability and performance with our advanced low smoke and FR compounds
• Indoor/outdoor cable armoring
• Broad range of new and evolving polymer, FR and crosslinking systems

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Elastomers

As a leading global supplier of wire and cable solutions, Dow Wire & Cable is committed to expanding markets and transforming technologies to help its customers innovate, differentiate and create value. Dow Wire & Cable recently added three new performance-enhancing elastomers to its portfolio — ENGAGE™ Polyolefin Elastomers, NORDEL™ Ethylene Polypropylene Rubber (EPR), AND TYRIN™ Chlorinated Polyethylene (CPE).

Versatile ENGAGE Polyolefin Elastomers bridge the gap between rubber and plastic. Produced using Dow’s INSITE™ Technology, ENGAGE can be used to modify wire and cable compounds, or as the primary polymer matrix. ENGAGE polymers offer superior combinations of flexibility and processability, low density and colorability.

NORDEL EPR products set higher standards in ethylene propylene diene monomer performance. Also produced using INSITE Technology, NORDEL improves yield, reduces scrap and provides exceptional polymer cleanliness for use in LV and MV compounds, including FR compounds

TYRIN CPE materials can be used in wire and cable jacketing compounds to increase impact strength and resistance to ignition, chemicals, heat, low temperatures and weathering. The Dow Chemical Company is the pioneer of CPE materials.

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