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Wire & Cable ASIA – November/December 2011
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Compounds
&
colourants
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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
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.