EoW July 2014

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New products for wire and cable portfolio

and Irogran® A 92 P 4637UV. These new UV-stabilised developments offer outstanding performance and physical properties in this growing market segment and give operators the safety they need from materials employed in extreme environmental conditions. A third group of new products has been developed in reaction to the trend for harder, higher flame retardant solutions for industrial applications where safety is a priority. The products, Irogran® A 89 P 5028DP and Irogran® A 89 P 5012DP, offer excellent hydrolysis and microbial resistance, and close the gap between the existing Shore A 85 and Shore A 95 products available in the Huntsman Irogran® portfolio. The new materials offer high flame retardancy without compromising physical or functional properties. Suitable for technical extrusion and injection moulding applications, Irogran® A 89 P 5028DP is a harder version of Irogran® A 85 P 4380 – a well-established brand in the cable industry. The new grade offers extrusion and dimension stability. Additionally it meets UL 94 V0 standards. Huntsman International LLC – USA Website : www.huntsman.com In particular, the wire for steel wire-made fibres is the result of an accurate selection of the best raw material coming from European steel mills. The wire drawing is made by new generation Tecnofil in-house developed machinery. Plants have a no-skid system, in order to assure the higher reliability of the product

Huntsman, and developer of polyurethane, has launched a number of new thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) for the wire and cable industry. The new products, all available under the Irogran® TPU brand, complement Huntsman’s existing wire and cable portfolio, and enhance the company’s offering in three fields: standard ether solutions; UV stabilised TPUs for offshore applications; and high flame retardant grades aligned to clear market demand for higher safety solutions. Each new TPU grade was developed following careful market evaluation and extensive discussions with Huntsman’s customers, and each offers performance and processing properties for the application it was designed for. Two new high performance ether grades – Irogran® A 80 P 5039 and Irogran® A 95 P 5044 – have been created. Irogran® A 80 P 5039 gives customers a solution for applications where softer grades are needed for high flexibility cables. Irogran® A 95 P 5044 is a harder solution that gives wire and cable manufacturers the chance to reduce wall thickness and achieve cost efficiencies, without losing any of the benefits typically associated with TPUs. a manufacturer Tecnofil specialises in low and medium carbon steel wire production and in the design and realisation of machinery for wire and wireband production. Tecnofil wire is widely used in different areas such as industry, bookbinding, agriculture and buildings. In this last sector, the company is one of the main suppliers of wire for steel fibres.

Both materials are particularly well suited for cable jacketing for sensor cables across the wire and cable market. In offshore applications, cable solutions need to offer high UV stability; a requirement Huntsman has responded to by producing Irogran® A 85 P 4394UV ▲ ▲ New polyurethanes will be used in the production of wind turbines heat variations and therefore improve concrete adherence to armour during aging Tecnofil has special lines for the production of wire for steel fibres from 0.6mm diameter to 1mm, in accordance with the following regulations: UNI 11037 for reinforced concrete conglomerate steel fibres and UNI 11039-1, for reinforced concrete with steel fibres.

Wire used across many industries

and guarantee a perfect diameter calibration and a surface finishing with no scratches. The wire is then packed in different types of packaging: spools or spiders with adjustable weights, from 200kg to 1,400kg, in order to efficiently respond to customer needs. During the whole production process, quality control verifies the correspondence of features and completes the related test certificates, in accordance with regulation EN 10204:2004 – 3.1. Tecnofil – Italy Website : www.tecnofil.net

The material is employed to strengthen reinforced concrete in infrastructure construction, such as bridges, arcades or streets. Effectively, thanks to its features, the fibre made with Tecnofil wire can guarantee the best concrete performance. The main advantages in choosing Tecnofil are:

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ductility increase

working increase

load

resistance

• traction resistance increase • impact and wear resistance increase • increase in ability to absorb

▲ ▲ A selection of the wire on offer from Tecnofil

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