WCA November 2011

Compounds & colourants

its catalogue suggests otherwise. The company offers colour-coding schemata for telephone cables containing up to 26 pairs; for cables containing more than 26 pairs; for the wrapping of multiple bundles of 25 pairs with coloured binder thread; for separating multiple- binder bundles of cables containing more than 600 pairs. The wire and cable specialties evolve in tandem. Partners in excellence, the companies reviewed here make their complementary contribution to the ongoing development of the industry.

Two decades ago, compounds for telecom wire and cable were simple jacket and insulation pro- ducts protecting telephone wires. Today, a catalogue of these wares encompasses everything from PVC jacket compounds for twisted pairs and polyolefin separators, to durable jackets over foamed PE COAX cores, to ultra-thin wall buffer compounds for multimode fibre. Compounds are complicated. A provider of colourants might seem to have had an easier time of it over the same period – but a glance at

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