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April 3, 2025

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Mineral Flame Retardants for Wire and Cable Application

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Introduction Wires and Cables are present in our everyday life. Energy and data are transmitted by cables. Preventive fire protection of cables is a topic ever increasing importance since more than forty years now. Flame retardants prevent polymers used for electrical insulation of conductors and mechanical protection of cable constructions......
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VinyLoop: Obtaining Virgin PVC from Cable Scraps

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VinyLoop – A Process VinyLoop is the only process that allows PVC scraps to be recycled, resulting in an R-PVC compound that has the same properties as the virgin one – originally used to manufacture products before their “end of life.” A process capable of ensuring such high levels of......
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Online Reporting System for Wire-Drawing Machines

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The paper discusses the developed online system that is capable of capturing idle time and production data automatically, using signals and data captured from Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) at wire-drawing machines. In addition, the paper focuses on the possibility of generating extremely useful information, using the auto-captured machine data, in......
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Wire speaks

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Mr. Amit Agarwal, Senior Manager, Wire Technology, Tata Steel Ltd, Global Wires India In this article of wire speaks, Pre-Stressed concrete wires, will share its experiences, about being used in manufacturing of concrete poles for electricity transmission. Hello readers! I am PC wire (pre-stressed concrete wire), produced at Global Wires,......
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Lessons from a Fire: We ignore safety at our peril

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On a regular afternoon on 21st June 2012, a fire broke out at Mantralaya, the government headquarters of Maharashtra, filling the top floors with fire and smoke. Soon, the fire spread and flames could be seen from the busy thoroughfare that leads in and out of the central business district......
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High Temperature Thermoplastics Polyurethanes for Cable Jacketing Applications

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The temperature rating of jacketing material is very important for cable applications. Temperature rating helps users determine operating range of cable products. There are several ways one can determine temperature rating of cable products. One of the widely used methods is to assign temperature rating according to UL 1581. Until......
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Need for Safe Wire and Cable Products

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Fire or shock incidents may occur due to electrical faults. In the case of wire or cable, the properties of the insulating materials are critical to controlling physical performance, electrical integrity and fire response. Ascertaining flammability characteristics and other performance characteristics are therefore vital in safety certification of wire and......
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Assomac Adopts HVOF Thermal Spray Process Technology

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High Velocity Oxygen Fuel (HVOF) coating is a thermal spray coating process where oxygen and fuel gas are ignited in particular atmosphere. This process is used to improve or restore a component’s surface properties or dimensions, thus extending equipment’s life by significantly increasing its resistance to wear, corrosion and erosion.......
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A New Connector Product Line

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Screened, separable connectors in EPDM have been widely used with enormous success for over 50 years. Many utilities and industrial companies have already introduced these products into their network, next to the silicone connectors, which have been on the market for 30 years. At the request of the market to......
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New Water Tree Retardant TR-XLPE Development for Improved Reliability of Medium Voltage Power Cables

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Electric utilities worldwide demand underground distribution cables with longer life to increase reliability, minimise service interruptions and lower overall lifetime costs for the distribution systems. In the 1970s, unjacketed high molecular weight thermoplastic polyethylene and cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) cables began failing prematurely with water treeing being associated with the cable......
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