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sheathing, insulating, covering,
marking & printing
Dow Wire & Cable provides superior materials and innovative solutions that
ensure wire and cable performance, quality and consistency from manufacturing
to end use.
Dow supplies solutions that meet the unique
processing and performance requirements of
current and next-generation wire and cable
products, along with technical support that
extends from formulation through installation.
Polymer materials are used as insulation, semi-
conductive shields, flame retardant and jacketing
solutions.
Typical applications include:
high, medium and low voltage power cable
fibre optic cable
flame retardant cables for electric and communications cables
plenum cable
connectors and accessories for power distribution systems
consumer electronics
wire harnesses for the transportation industry
The company offers materials that feature high standards of processability
and performance, combined with a superior balance of properties, including
excellent stress crack resistance, high thermal stability, toughness, and outstanding
electrical properties.
DowWire & Cable – USA
Fax: +1 713 978 3275 Email: Website:
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Ensuring performance
UK changes for AlphaGary
Following the acquisition of the market leading Megolon™ low smoke halogen free
compound business in October last year, AlphaGary is making additional significant
investments in new compounding capacity at its modern facility in Melton Mowbray, UK.
This new plant, which will start up in the third quarter of 2007, will increase AlphaGary’s
capacity for the manufacture of halogen free cable compounds that are increasingly
being used throughout the world by the wire and cable industry. Additionally, AlphaGary
has created a new logistics and distribution centre close to Melton Mowbray, to further
improve the supply of products to customers.
AlphaGary’s managing director, Bob Gingue, said: “This investment in state-of-the-
art manufacturing and the Megolon™ brand of halogen free compounds will enable
AlphaGary to provide our customers with enhanced performance solutions for the most
stringent wire and cable applications.”The compounding plant currently situated in the
older facility based in Manchester, will be relocated to the facility in Melton Mowbray.
The research and development facilities at Manchester will also be relocated to Melton.
The Manchester facility is expected to be closed by the first quarter of 2008. The
Megolon™ range has now been enhanced by the inclusion of the former Sentra™ range
of AlphaGary’s low smoke halogen free cable compounds. Each of the former Sentra™
compounds is available under the Megolon™ brand, retaining the same product code.
(For example, Sentra™ HF 8110 is now available as Megolon™ HF 8110).
In addition to Megolon™, AlphaGary also offers highly fire retardant, low smoke PVC
compounds in the Smokeguard™ range, widely used in the manufacture of plenum-rated
and European CPD Class B1 S2 cables meeting low smoke and flame spread requirements.
More recently, the Smokeguard™ range has been extended to include fluoropolymer
compounds to meet the demands for limited combustion cables and the more severe
CPD Class B1 S1 low smoke performance level.
AlphaGary’s Wire and Cable product portfolio is completed by the Garaflex™ range of
thermoplastic elastomers (TPE), Garathane™ range of polyurethanes, and a wide range
of fire retardant PVC compounds.
AlphaGary Corporation – USA
Fax: +1 978 537 8385 Email: Website:
New Instep™ Polymer Enhancer
from Dow Wire & Cable
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