Wire and Cable Systems

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. 

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.

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.