EuroWire January 2019

Technology News

UL-recognised PVC compounds

WIRE and cable manufacturers that serve global markets can rely on a single supplier to provide a wide range of PVC compounds for meeting the increasing demand for UL-compliant products, courtesy of Teknor Apex Company. With worldwide PVC compounding capabilities, Teknor Apex offers hundreds of UL-listed products for applications as diverse as plenum cable, building wire, and sunlight-resistant jackets for data and power applications. Teknor Apex offers a full range of PVC products: • Apex® PVC compounds, covering a broad range of insulation and jacketing applications, with formulations to meet special electrical compliance, flame retardance, weatherability, oil resistance, sunlight resistance, and many other end-use requirements • Fireguard® low-flame, low-smoke compounds for plenum cable insulation and jacketing • Flexalloy® PVC elastomers for extreme temperatures and environments. With a brittle point of -60°C and a high-temperature rating of 105°C, these compounds are UL-recognised components for outdoor and wet location uses and UL-approved for flexible cord insulation and jacketing

In addition, Teknor Apex supplies Halguard® halogen-free compounds, which are flame-retardant, low-smoke products that meet IEC specifications for smoke generation and flame spread, and enable compliance with Europe’s CPR fire performance requirements. In China, Teknor Apex produces PVC wire and cable compounds in Suzhou. Other PVC compounding activities are carried out in Singapore, the USA and Europe. ▲ ▲ Teknor Apex offers hundreds of UL-listed products for applications as diverse as plenum cable, building wire, and sunlight-resistant jackets for data and power applications

Teknor Apex Company – USA Website : www.teknorapex.com

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Pressurised borax-free powders significantly improve lubrication When it comes to determining borax content in powder lubricants, it is no longer an alarming situation since the introduction of the Decalub green and dry rod preparation, including PDH wire lubrication system. The PDH system is an in-line rod dry coating and wire lubrication that is rapidly improving the current state of rod preparation and wire drawing, enabling process users to achieve cost savings in the production of drawn wire, including spring wire, PC strand wire, plating wire, cold-heading wire, CO 2 welding wire, etc. The PDH enhances wire drawing performance by eliminating dramatic issues related to friction heat, benefiting from the fully controlled, sensitive five-way interaction between the five most important lubrication parameters, including lubricant pressure adjustable up to 350 bars/5,000psi, viscosity, thermal stability and lubricant melting temperature. All these variables are continuously and automatically controlled, all communicating together, enabling controlled fusion of borax-free powders until lubricant melting point is attained. In general, for the most severe H/C applications, the melting point can be selected in the range of 195°C to 240°C (374°F to 464°F), meaning the burnt lubricant issues and rapid die wear are totally eliminated at the highest drawing speed. Applications include all plain carbon wires up to 0.98% carbon, coated or uncoated, and stainless steel alloy wires up to 26% chromium.

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Decalub – France Website : www.decalub.com

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