Paper Insulated Cables (PILC)
Paper insulated cables have been in use longer than any other type of cable insulation and, due to the reputation built up over the years, are still today a great favourite with engineers. When properly selected and correctly installed, this product can be relied upon to provide a satisfactory and trouble-free performance for many years. Aberdare Cables started making paper insulated cables in South Africa in 1948. Our association with one of Europe’s largest and oldest cable manufacturers placed at our disposal the technical expertise and research facilities which paved the way for an intensive expansion programme which still continues today.
Bells and Mains Cable
Fire Retardent (FR), Black/Red & Black/Blue (LHFR)
Plain copper conductors to SANS 1411-Part 1, Class 2. Two, three or four cores insulated with PVC, PVC bedded, steel wire armoured and sheathed with general purpose fire retardant PVC.
Single Core XLPE PVC
General Purpose Wire (1,9/3,3 kV)
High conductivity annealed stranded circular copper conductors to SANS 1411-1. Insulated with XLPE to SANS 1411-4, and sheathed with general purpose PVC to SANS 1411-2.
Aerial Bundle Conductor (ABC)
600/1000V Cable System
Self-supporting system consists of four cores of hard-drawn stranded and compacted aluminum conductors of equal cross-section and insulated with carbon-loaded XLPE to ensure UV protection. All cores strained equally. Supporting core system consists of three phase cores of hard-drawn stranded compacted aluminium conductors insulated with carbon- loaded XLPE laid up around an aluminium-alloy supporting core insulated with carbon loaded XLPE to ensure UV protection. Additional sub-conductors optional in both self-supporting and supporting-core systems.
Vultex Cable
Vultex is Aberdare’s registered brand name for MV power cable insulated with XLPE.