Dow Wire & Cable is at Your Service

Dow Wire & Cable has led the industry for more than 60 years with products and technology for power, communications and specialty applications. Our goal is to provide the broadest range of materials and expertise you need to add longer life, better performance and consistency to your systems. And we continue to set industry standards worldwide for cleanliness, consistency, reliability, performance and quality.

Power

For power cable customers and end users, Dow Wire & Cable provides the broadest range of materials and a systems approach to improving long-life cable performance and reducing total life-cycle costs. Dow Wire & Cable will help you meet industry standards at a competitive cost while minimizing the risks of cable failure. Specifically, we provide:

  • Extra-clean, state-of-the-art, crosslinkable polyethylene XLPE for insulation with proven long-term electrical performance in wet environments
  • Excellent ESCR, flexibility, toughness and superior moisture- barrier properties for jacketing
  • Supersmooth, extra-clean semiconductive shields
  • Broad range of new polymers

Power cable markets served include:

  • Underground low voltage (LV), MV, HV 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

Communications

Dow Wire & Cable offers a substantial portfolio of materials that meet the highest quality standards for communications applications. We provide consistent products using our latest technologies to help you maximize value and attain lower system costs in the very competitive communications industry. Our materials offer several advantages:

  • 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 local area network (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 polymers and new technologies

Communications markets served include:

  • Copper cable for telephone and LAN applications
  • Fiber optic and ocean cable
  • Coaxial cable for television and wireless telephone