Automotive Cables

In striving to continuously improve vehicle performance, automotive OEMs and manufacturers place increasingly higher demands on the materials used for vital components.

Central to virtually all vehicle functions those demands extend to automotive wiring, which is expected to deliver higher temperature resistance, greater flexibility and contribute to vehicle weight reduction, as well as production cost savings. 

Performance supporting automotive progress

To meet these progressively tougher criteria, Borealis offers a complete range of peroxide and irradiation crosslinkable polyethylene (XLPE) flame retardant compounds specifically developed to provide optimal automotive primary wiring solutions.  All grades have a successful track record in the market.

Borealis’ XLPE solution offer a range of benefits to the automotive OEM and manufacturer. These advantages include: 

• halogen free flame retardancy;
• temperature performance from -40°C to 125 °C;
• Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) J-1127 and SAE J-1128 compliance;
• non-tarnishing characteristics;
• excellent heat stability and easy extrusion;
• easy colourability.