An indoor rated communications cable includes a communications carrying medium surrounded by a jacket. A material used to form the jacket is a polymer including a microencapsulated ammonium octamolybdate (AOM) additive therein. In some embodiments, the polymer may include polyvinyl chloride (PVC), fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) or polyolefin (PO). One or more additional flame retardants may also be added to the polymer. The communications cable may be a twisted pair, fiber optic or coaxial cable. The present invention also provides a method of forming the communications cable.

Provided is an insulated wire with bonding layer having excellent adhesive strength between an insulating coating layer and a bonding layer that is provided on the outside of the insulating coating layer. An insulated wire 1 with bonding layer includes: a conductor 2; an insulating coating layer 3 that covers an outer circumference of the conductor 2; and a bonding layer 4 that is provided on an outer side of the insulating coating layer 3 and is bonded by heat, wherein the insulating coating layer 3 contains polyvinyl chloride, and the bonding layer 4 contains a modified polyolefin resin and a polyamide resin.

A cable includes cable one or more conductors and a covering surrounding the one or more conductors. The covering is formed from a composition including polyethylene and a polyolefin elastomer, where the composition is crosslinked. A method of forming the cable is also provided.

In an electrical cable of the type having an outer sheath enclosing a conductor assembly comprising a plurality of insulated conductors disposed within a binder, the binder having a crush resistance for protecting the insulated conductors, an improvement in which a strength enhancer is applied such that the binder can be removed without decreasing a crush resistance of the electrical cable.

Polyethylene compositions, having a density from about 0.900 g/cm.sup.3 to about 0.950 g/cm.sup.3, a MI (I.sub.2, 190° C., 2.16 kg) from about 0.1 g/10 min to about 10 g/10 min, an MIR (I.sub.21/I.sub.2) from about 25 to about 80, an Mz greater than or equal to about 150,000 g/mol, and either an M.sub.z/M.sub.n ratio greater than or equal to about 8.0, an M.sub.z/M.sub.w ratio greater than or equal to about 2.4, or an (I.sub.2*M.sub.z/M.sub.n) from about 3 to about 100, are provided. The polyethylene compositions are useful in wire and cable, tape, and filament applications. Methods for producing the same are also provided.

Polyethylene compositions, having a density from about 0.900 g/cm.sup.3 to about 0.950 g/cm.sup.3, a MI (I.sub.2, 190° C., 2.16 kg) from about 0.1 g/10 min to about 10 g/10 min, an MIR (I.sub.21/I.sub.2) from about 25 to about 80, an Mz greater than or equal to about 150,000 g/mol, and either an M.sub.z/M.sub.n ratio greater than or equal to about 8.0, an M.sub.z/M.sub.w ratio greater than or equal to about 2.4, or an (I.sub.2*M.sub.z/M.sub.n) from about 3 to about 100, are provided. The polyethylene compositions are useful in wire and cable, tape, and filament applications. Methods for producing the same are also provided.

An electrical cable having a plurality of conductors including a grounding conductor and at least one power-carrying conductor. The plurality of conductors disposed approximately in parallel within an outer jacket such that the electrical cable has a substantially elongated horizontal cross-section.

A subsea electrical connector or electrical cable having a conductor, an insulator coaxial with the conductor; and at least one of a volumetric compensating diaphragm located radially outwardly of the insulator, or a termination boot. The diaphragm or termination boot has a compound layer, the compound layer includes a graphene nano-platelet additive incorporated into a cross-linked polymer matrix to produce a polymer composite.

The invention relates to power cable polymer composition which comprises a thermoplastic polyethylene having a chlorine content which is less than X, wherein X is 10 ppm, a power cable, for example, a high voltage direct current (HV DC), a power cable polymer insulation, use of a polymer composition for producing a layer of a power cable, and a process for producing a power cable.

Disclosed are cable types, including a type THHN cable, the cable types having a reduced surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and insulating layer are surrounded by a material containing nylon or thermosetting resin. A silicone based pulling lubricant for said cable, or alternatively, erucamide or stearyl erucamide for small cable gauge wire, is incorporated, by alternate methods, with the resin material from which the outer sheath is extruded, and is effective to reduce the required pulling force between the formed cable and a conduit during installation.