Compounding World (AMI industry magazine) underlines fire performance and material flexibility as key wire & cable industry developments. Cable polymer compounds expect ongoing growth at 4% per year, especially in Extra High Voltage cables, submarine cables (for...
Tests show that low smoke zero halogen cables achieve fire performance with much lower smoke emission and corrosivity. Six power and data cables were tested, for fire performance to NFPA 262, FM 3972 or UL 1685 FT4. The flame retardant or low smoke cables passed fire...
Domo Chemicals has launched performance polyamides for high stability orange-colour connectors, plugs, housings and insulators. Specific orange RAL 2003 (Europe) or RAL 2008/2011 (North America) is required to warn of high voltage components in electric vehicles. The...
New cable system offers PIN fire safety, with low smoke, low toxic gas emission, and protects against water ingress in weathering or flooding. Flexicon Ultra connectors use non-halogenated flame retardants to achieve fire safety meeting railway standards (NFPA 130 and...
Innovation project combines surface modifications with PIN FRs to improve mechanical performance of composites. The ZIM FlamZation project will develop synergies between PIN surface treatments and fillers to achieve fire safety of composites (combination of polymers...
