CPE Jacket
AmerCable Tiger Brand’s unique mold-cured thermoset Chlorinated Polyethylene jacket provides the physical performance and strength needed to resist wear, tear, abrasion and compression cuts caused by everyday mining use. This tough, durable jacket is a proven performer in mines throughout the world. AmerCable’s engineered cable construction includes a taped-core, integral fill and tandem extrusion of the jacket layers. Two-pass jackets, extruded in tandem, yield an inseparable bond between the layers.
CPE colored jackets experience no loss of physical properties compared to the standard black jacket. These brightly colored cables can improve mine safety by providing easy circuit identification and are sometimes used for visual inventory purposes.
CPE Tiger Stripes -Standard
AmerCable’s standard Tiger Stripes jackets provide an additional 21 color combinations for easier visual circuit identification. Stripes are vulcanized into the jacket and are available on contrasting jacket colors. Available on round CPE jacketed cables only.
CPE Tiger Stripes - Reflective
AmerCable’s Reflective Tiger Stripes can extend cable life by reducing run-overs in low visibility situations. In addition to reducing run-overs, many customers now deploy our Tiger Stripes Reflective cables beside pit roads to help guide their hauler drivers at night.
Available on round CPE jacketed cables only.
Mold-Cured vs CV Cured
TPU Jacket
AmerCable’s TPU is an extremely tough and abrasion-resistant jacketing material that improves power cable performance at surface mines. TPU’s physical properties in crush, cut-through, and abrasion resistance testing far exceed those of common thermoset rubber jackets. TPU is a proven performer in the harshest mining environments – including copper, phosphates and coal – and has been enhancing productivity in mines around the world since 1995. AmerCable’s TPU SHD-GC cables remain flexible in low temperatures and are not negatively affected by ultraviolet rays. The internal components of the cable are comprised of: standard flexible stranding, extruded strand shielding, Ethylene Propylene Rubber (EPR) insulation, copper/nylon braid shield, two grounds, and one ground check. The conductors are cabled together with rubber fillers and a separator tape overall. This taped core may have a reinforcing webbing over it. The jacket is extruded in a single pass to meet the standard diameter and wall thickness of the Insulated Cable Engineers Association (ICEA).
Compared to AmerCable’s standard CPE jacketing material, TPU provides:
- 5X more abrasion resistance
- 2X more tear resistance
- 2X more tensile strength
- Up to 8% less jacket weight
TPU colored jackets experience no loss of physical properties compared to the standard black jacket. These brightly colored cables can improve mine safety by providing easy circuit identification and are sometimes used for visual inventory purposes.