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 a broad range of materials and a systems approach to improving long-life cable performance and reducing total lifecycle 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, tree retardant crosslinkable polyethylene (TR-XLPE) for medium voltage (MV) insulation with proven long-term electrical performance in wet environments
  • Extra-clean, state-of-the-art XLPE for high voltage (HV) and extra-high voltage (EHV) insulation with proven long-term electrical performance in dry cable designs typical of HV and EHV
  • Excellent environmental stress crack resistance (ESCR), flexibility, toughness, abrasion resistance, flame retardance (halogen and halogen-free) 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 EHV 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 stringent quality standards for telecommunications 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

Telecommunications markets served include:

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

Specialty products, including flame retardant
Dow Wire & Cable provides high-quality compounds and products to the fast-growing specialty products market for wire and cable, such as our cross web separator compound for plenum Category 6 cable applications. We also serve the flame retardant (FR) wire and cable market, where low fire hazard, low smoke and low corrosive materials are required. Our commitment is to provide high-performance, low fire hazard products at the lowest total system cost, along with the support and innovation you need to compete in your market sector.

You'll find many advantages to working with Dow Wire & Cable and our industry-leading specialty and FR products:

  • Non-halogen or low-halogen, FR, thermoplastic or crosslinkable products
  • High processability and performance with our advanced low smoke and FR compounds
  • New and evolving polymer, FR and crosslinking systems

Markets served include:

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

Disclaimer

NOTICE: No freedom from infringement of any patent owned by Dow or others is to be inferred. Because use conditions and applicable laws may differ from one location to another and may change with time, the Customer is responsible for determining whether products and the information in this document are appropriate for the Customer's use and for ensuring that the Customer's workplace and disposal practices are in compliance with applicable laws and other governmental enactments. Dow assumes no obligation or liability for the information in this document. NO WARRANTIES ARE GIVEN; ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE EXPRESSLY EXCLUDED.

NOTICE: If products are described as "experimental" or "developmental:" (1) product specifications may not be fully determined; (2) analysis of hazards and caution in handling and use are required; and (3) there is greater potential for Dow to change specifications and/or discontinue production.

DOW MEDICAL APPLICATION POLICY: Dow will not knowingly sell or sample any product or service ("Product") into any commercial or developmental application that is intended for:

a. permanent (Long-term) contact with internal body fluids or internal body tissues. Long term is a use which exceeds 72 continuous hours (except 30 days for PELLETHANE™ polyurethane elastomers);

b. use in cardiac prosthetic devices regardless of the length of time involved (cardiac prosthetic devices include, but are not limited to, pacemaker leads and devices, artificial hearts, heart valves, intraaortic balloons and control systems and ventricular bypass-assisted devices);

c. use as a critical component in medical devices that support or sustain human life; or

d. use specifically by pregnant women or in applications designed specifically to promote or interfere with human reproduction.

Additionally, all Products intended for use in pharmaceutical applications, other than pharmaceutical packaging, must pass the then current Pharmaceutical Liability Guidelines.

  • For the products sold by the Plastics Portfolio, new business opportunities require a business assessment prior to sale or sampling Dow products.
  • Authorized distributors and resellers will adhere to this medical policy.
  • The Dow Chemical Company does not endorse or claim suitability of their products for specific medical applications. It is the responsibility of the medical device or pharmaceutical manufacturer to determine that the Dow product is safe, lawful and technically suitable for the intended use. DOW MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, CONCERNING THE SUITABILITY OF ANY DOW PRODUCT FOR USE IN MEDICAL APPLICATIONS.


®™ Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow") or an affiliated company of Dow