WCA March 2008

Materials for making cables

The sheer number and variety of materials available today would astonish earlier generations of wire makers. The greater resistivity, conductivity, and insulation values that we take for granted might almost appear to them to have generated a different industry from the one they knew. But they would recognise a few old friends — ordinary high-quality materials — in the lineup. And the advances in materials technology, as impressive as they are, have not vacated an obligation from an earlier era. Whether few or many, plain or exotic, the materials of wire making require that a choice be made among them. Identifying the best material for a given wire or cable application was always a job for the professional. And it always will be.

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