High voltage power cable

Wire and Cable Systems

Materials for reliable wire and cable systems

Our electric cable and wire compounds enable reliability and performance in the telecommunication and power industries. If you're seeking the lowest possible life cycle cost and more sustainability solutions for your wire and cable systems, our materials are made to help. We connect the power and telecommunication value chain with a comprehensive and successful portfolio of innovative electric cable compounds. Each has been developed in partnership with the industry to drive innovation and ensure our telecom cable systems support tomorrow's efficiency and sustainability objectives.

With the energy industry transitioning to more renewable resources, power cable requirements are more critical than ever. We partner with the value chain to deliver the right solutions for today and tomorrow. Dow Wire and Cable’s long track record of innovating and supplying power cable compounds used in all components of the power network is a testament to our dedication to delivering quality products for your specific needs. From our high and extra high voltage compounds used in power transmission network cables to our medium voltage compounds used in power distribution network cables, we have the right system for you.

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High and Extra-High Voltage

High-quality compounds for underground and submarine transmission cable systems that offer performance and environmental benefits.

Medium voltage compounds 

Medium Voltage

Complete system solutions for distribution cables. They offer next-level reliability and longevity with low electrical losses for maximum power delivery.

Electrical cable 

Low Voltage

Durability, flexibility and production efficiency are all achievable with our materials for low-voltage wire and cable systems.

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ENDURANCE™ HFDD-4201 VC Compound for reliable and efficient high-voltage (HV) cable insulation.

ENDURANCE™️ HFDD-4201 SC

ENDURANCE™️ grade is powering a better future for North American cable systems.

ENDURANCE™️ HFDD-4201 EHV

Enabling faster cable manufacturing process and lower emissions, and suitable for different voltage ranges and stress levels.

With broadband and 5G growing globally, reliable telecommunication networks are critical for long-term infrastructure. For almost 70 years, Dow has been advancing solutions for communication networks to help you deliver faster, more reliable connectivity with overall lower total cost of ownership to customers. Dow is collaborating with the telecommunications value chain to deliver current materials and develop next generation resources.

 

Quality materials enable efficient cable production, ease and speed of installation and improved information transmission needed in today’s digital world. Our family of insulation and jacketing compounds – including foam insulations – can be used in copper cables, coaxial cables and fiber optic cables. 

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Fiber Optic

Materials to support manufacturing efficiency, cable protection, lower signal attenuation and ease of installation.

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Copper

Insulation and jacket materials to support highest signal efficiency and cable protection for lowest life cycle cost.

For cables installed in highly populated and enclosed environments, safety must be enhanced to reduce the harmful risks in the event of a fire. Dow’s fire-performance insulation and jacketing compounds offer cable producers a variety of solutions, from fire-resistant compounds for control cables to different types of flame-retardant compounds that delay cable burning and limit or eliminate the release of smoke and toxic gases. Our portfolio of flame-retardant products also includes a wide variety of fully formulated compounds and resins that allow users to formulate their own compounds.

Fire resistant cables

Flame Retardant Compounds

Fully formulated high-performance flame retardant compounds designed to enhance cable fire safety and performance.

Plastic Resins

Flame Retardant Resins

High-performance resins allowing cable producers and compounders to formulate their own flame retardant compounds.

Cable jackets represent the first line of defense for improved cable reliability. Dow’s general purpose jacketing compounds can be used in a wide variety of power and telecommunication applications, spanning from higher-density compounds that maximize the protection of buried cables to lower-density compounds used to protect cables installed in pipes, ducts or overhead applications. These compounds offer the Dow AXELERON™ Telecom Cable Compound brand value in reliable cable protection, efficient cable production and ease of installation.

  • AXELERON™ Telecom Cable Compounds offers enhanced cable jacket flexibility, jacket surface smoothness and low coefficient of friction. They also lower attenuation which helps enable more efficient signal transmission.
  • UNIGARD™ RE and HP flame-retardant compounds are used in jackets for industrial and building wires and tray cables to guard against the threat of electrical fires.  
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REVOLOOP™ Recycled Plastics Resins for cable jacketing

Dow has launched a range of REVOLOOP™ Recycled Plastics Resins that incorporate post-consumer recycled (PCR) material into cable jacketing to help address customers’ varying needs and circularity goals across the globe.

Adopting PCR into wire and cable products helps divert plastic waste from landfills and the natural environment by introducing it to the circular ecosystem, underscoring Dow's ambition to Transform the Waste by commercializing three million metric tons of circular and renewable solutions annually by 2030.

Contact us to learn more about REVOLOOP™ Recycled Plastic Resin for cable jacketing.

Cable Jackets

View our entire product catalog for multi-use jackets to find the best choices for your needs.

AXELERON™ 6321 BK Telecom Cable Compound wins R&D 100 Award

Our AXELERON™ FO 6321 BK Telecom Cable Compound was honored as a 2024 R&D 100 Awards winner. This innovatively designed jacket is laser printable, has a low coefficient of friction (COF) and extremely low shrinkage to enable extremely high fiber count in smaller diameter cables and increase cable installation efficiency offering excellent toughness, weather resistance, and high-speed extrusion processing.

R&D 100 2023 Winner

AXELERON™ 6321 & CONTINUUM™ 2488 wins Cabling Innovators Award

The AXELERON™ Telecom Cable Compounds and CONTINUUM™ Bimodal Polyethylene Resins are bimodal high-density polyethylene (HDPE) uniquely tailored – molecularly and compositionally – for their own individual application and optimized together as a system to deliver reliable connectivity with enhanced efficiency.​ For their high performance, these two products together won a 2023 Cabling Innovators Award.

Cabling Innovators Award Gold Honoree

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