Products: Applications
Cable Filling / Flooding Compounds
The Marcus homopolymer waxes have an excellent combination of characteristics to provide powerful gel forming aids for oils and polybutenes.The major properties are:
- Highly crystalline
- Excellent heat stability
- High melting
- Good gel forming nature at 5 – 10% level
- Inert
- Good electrical properties
Electrical and telecommunication cables
are manufactured with a filling/flooding compound packed inside them for
providing water and gas tightness. These compounds must have a good
stability to the high shear forces which occur during manufacture and which
could cause breakdown of the compound consistency. This consistency
must also be maintained over a wide temperature range and there should
be no migration.
The Marcus homopolymers as high performance
additives possess the properties necessary to formulate stable and heat
resistant gels and being highly crystalline, have little tendency to migrate.