Abstract: The present invention relates to a cable comprising a conductor surrounded by one or more layers, wherein at least one layer comprises a polymer composition comprising a multimodal copolymer of ethylene with one or more comonomers, to a process for producing the cable and to a polymer composition suitable as a cable layer material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Insulation layer for cables, a composition and a process thereof, showing improved stress whitening resistance by maintaining good mechanical and electrical properties and being environmental friendly.

Abstract: A flame retardant polymer composition comprising (A) an ethylene copolymer comprising polar comonomer units, (B) a silicone-group containing compound, (C) an inorganic filler material, and (D) an ethylene homopolymer or a copolymer of ethylene with one or more other alpha-olefin comonomer units, wherein the polymer composition has a melting enthalpy of at least 78 J/g, an article, in particular a wire or cable, comprising said composition and the use of an ethylene homo- or copolymer in a flame retardant layer of a wire or cable for improving the mechanical properties of the wire or cable.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cable comprising a conductor surrounded by one or more layers, wherein at least one layer comprises a polymer composition comprising a multimodal copolymer of ethylene with one or more comonomers, to a process for producing the cable and to a polymer composition suitable as a cable layer material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a photovoltaic module comprising a solar cell element and an insulation material laminated to at least one side of the solar cell element wherein the insulation material comprises an olefin copolymer which comprises silane group-containing monomer units, to a process for the production of such a photovoltaic module, and to the use of an olefin copolymer which comprises silane group-containing monomer units for the production of an insulation layer of a photovoltaic module.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a flame retardant polymer composition comprising (A) at least one polar olefin copolymer comprising one or more comonomer units selected from (meth)-acrylate and/or (meth)-acrylic acid, (B) a silicone-group containing compound, and (C) an inorganic filler which is neither a hydroxide nor a substantially hydrated compound in an amount of 46 to 70 wt % of the total weight of the polymer composition, wherein the at least one olefin copolymer (A) comprises one or more comonomer units selected from (meth)-acrylate and/or (meth)-acrylic acid in an amount of 9.0 to 60 wt % of the polar olefin copolymer. to an article, in particular a wire or cable, comprising said flame retardant polymer composition, and to the use of said composition for the production of a layer of a wire or cable.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cable comprising one or more insulated conductors which are embedded in a bedding composition, which comprises a) a polymer resin (A) and b) an inorganic filler (B), wherein the polymer resin (A) comprises an olefin homo- and/or copolymer (A.1) which has a weight average molecular weight Mw of 10,000 g/mol or more and a molecular weight distribution MWD of 4.5 or lower and, in a second aspect, to a cable comprising one or more insulated conductors which are embedded in a bedding composition, which comprises a) a polymer resin (A) and b) an inorganic filler (B), wherein the heat release rate HRR of the composition at any time within is the period from 0 s to 200 s after ignition does not exceed a maximum of 80 kW measured with cone calorimetry according to ISO 5660-1. The bedding may also comprise a bedding layer provided between said one or more insulated conductors and an outer sheath layer, wherein the bedding layer comprises the above bedding composition.

Abstract: The application provides propylene polymer including at least 80 mol % units derived from propylene and less than 0.5 mol % units derived from a tertiary diene wherein said tertiary diene is not a 1,4-diene, said polymer including 1-50 tertiary double bonds per 10,000 carbon atoms of the main chain of said polymer. The polymer may be obtained using a Ziegler Natta catalyst. The application further provides a long chain branched propylene polymer obtainable from the afore-mentioned propylene polymer including tertiary double bonds.

Abstract: This application relates to an ethylene polymer having a weight average molecular weight of at least 120,000 including 1-50 tertiary double bonds per 10,000 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cable comprising one or more insulated conductors which are embedded in a bedding composition having improved flame retardancy. The bedding composition comprises a resin (A) and inorganic filler (B), which is a hydroxide or hydrated compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Insulation layer for cables, a composition and a process thereof, showing improved stress whitening resistance by maintaining good mechanical and electrical properties and being environmental friendly.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a silicon containing compound as drying agent of a polyolefln composition comprising a crosslinkable polyolefin with hydrolysable silane groups, wherein the silicon containing compound has a structure according to the formula (R1)x[Si(R2)y(R3)z]m wherein R1, which may be the same or different if more than one such group is present, is a monofunctional, or, if m=2, is a bifunctional, hydrocarbyl residue comprising from 1 to 100 carbon atoms; R2, which may be the same or different if more than one such group is present, is a hydrocarbyloxy residue comprising from 1 to 100 carbon atoms; R3, is —R4SiR1pR2q, wherein p is 0 to 3, q is 0 to 3, with the proviso that p+q is 3, and R4 is —(CH2)rYs(CH2)t? where r and t independently are 1 to 3, s is 0 or 1 and Y is a difunctional heteroatomic group selected from —O—, —S—, —SO—, —SO2—, —NH—, —NR1— or —PR1—, where R1 and R2 are as previously defined; and x is 0 to 3, y is 1 to 4, z is 0 or 1, with the proviso that x+y+z=4; and m

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a silicon containing compound as processing aid in the compounding of polyolefin compositions, wherein the silicon containing compound has a structure according to the formula (I): (R1)x[Si(R2)y(R3)z]m wherein R1, which may be the same or different if more than one such group is present, is a monofunctional, or, if m=2, is a bifunctional, hydrocarbyl residue comprising from 1 to 100 carbon atoms; R2, which may be the same or different if more than one such group is present, is a hydrocarbyloxy residue comprising from 1 to 100 carbon atoms; R3, is —R4SiR1pR2q, wherein p is 0 to 3, q is 0 to 3, with the proviso that p+q is 3, and R4 is —(CH2)rYs(CH2)t— where r and t independently are 1 to 3, s is 0 or 1 and Y is a difunctional heteroatomic group selected from —O—, —S—, —SO—, —SO2—, —NH—, —NR1— or —PR1—, where R1 and R2 are as previously defined; and x is 0 to 3, y is 1 to 4, z is 0 or 1, with the proviso that x+y+z=4; and m=1 or 2, and to the use of such a compound in

Abstract: A crosslinkable silane containing polyethylene composition, an insulated electric cable, and a process for the preparation of the composition are described. The crosslinkable silane containing polyethylene composition has a silane content of about 0.1 to 10% by weight, and at least one silanol condensation catalyst, and is characterised in that the composition has a branching parameter (g?) value of at least 0.65. The insulation of the electrical cable comprise the composition as a polymer. The process is characterised in that it is a high pressure polymerisation process at a peak temperature of at most 260° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an insulating composition for an electric power cable which comprises a polyolefin, an antioxidant, and a polar copolymer. Further, the present invention relates to an electric power cable comprising an insulating layer including a composition according to the present invention, and to the use of a polar copolymer for improving the storage stability, i.e. reducing the exudation of an antioxidant, in an insulating polymer composition. Thereby, said composition comprises polar monomer units in a comparatively small amount, e.g. in an amount of polar monomer units in the total polymer part of the composition from 1 to 100 micromol (1·10?6 to 100·106 mol) per gram of polymer in addition to an antioxidant.

Abstract: A low voltage power cable having an insulation layer with a density below 1100 kg/m3, which has a polyolefin having 0.002-4% mol of a compound that has polar groups and further having a compound that has hydrolysable silane groups and includes 0.0001-3% weight of a silanol condensation catalyst and a process of manufacturing such a cable.

Abstract: The present invention in a first embodiment relates to a conduit or automotive wire consisting of an inner conductor core surrounded by a flame retardant layer made of a polymer composition in a continuous process which composition comprises (A) an olefin homo- and/or copolymer, (B) a silicone-group containing compound, and (C) an inorganic filler, wherein the ratio of the MFR2 measured under a load of 2.16 kg and at a temperature of 190° C. of component (A) to the MFR2 measured under a load of 2.16 kg and at a temperature of 190° C. of the composition is higher than 3.5, and the wire has a length of at least 100 m. In a second embodiment, the present invention relates to a power or communications cable or wire comprising a flame retardant layer made of a polymer composition comprising (A) an olefin homo- and/or copolymer, (B) a silicone-group containing compound, and (C) an inorganic filler, wherein the ratio of the MFR2 measured under a load of 2.16 kg and at a temperature of 190° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a low voltage power cable comprising an insulation layer with a density below 1100 kg/m3 which comprises a polyolefin comprising 0.02 to 4 mol % of a compound having polar groups and further comprises a compound having hydrolysable silane groups and include 0.0001 to 3 wt.-% of a silanol condensation catalyst. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process for the production of said low voltage power cable and to the use of a polyolefin comprising 0.02 to 4 mol % of a compound having polar groups in the production of an insulation layer for a low voltage power cable.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a crosslinkable high pressure polyethylene composition containing ethylene silane copolymer resin having a content of silane of about 0.1 to 10 weight % and at least one silanol condensation catalyst. The invention further relates to a process for the preparation thereof, to a pipe made of said composition and to the use of the composition as an insulation for a cable.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a flame retardant polymer composition comprising (A) an olefin homo- and/or copolymer in an amount of from 30 to 70 wt.-% of the total polymer composition, (B) a silicone-group containing compound, (C) an inorganic filler in an amount of at least 10 wt % of the total polymer composition, wherein component (C) has a particle size distribution so that at least 10 wt % of the total polymer composition are particles with a size of below 0.7 micrometers. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of such a composition in a conduit, plug, wire or cable or for injection moulding, and to a wire or cable having a layer comprising such a composition.