Get the Cable You Want - Northwire's Performance Guarantee

No-Risk Prototype

Why take chances? Prove your design at no risk.

Budget restraints?
Approaching deadline?
Technical problems?
Need expertise?
Burned in the past by unreliable vendors?

No minimum length requirements.
Quick response and fast delivery are our hallmarks.

Give us your attribute-driven specifications and Northwire will design and build a prototype run at no risk to you. How? Please call us and we will develop a no-risk cable design program for you. Our design engineers and account specialists are trained and eager to assist you with your cable design program. We want to provide you with a design that works for you.

What's best is Northwire's Performance Cable Guarantee. If your cable does not meet or exceed your specifications, you will get your money back.

Why Custom Cable?

Read about how specifying a custom cable can actually save you time and money.

Cable Specifier's Worksheet

There are millions of combinations and variations in cable designs. In order to aid you in your design process, fill out a Specifier's Worksheet.

Northwire's Custom Cable Specialities

• High Flex-life Cable for Continuous Motion
• Custom Retractile Cables
• Fluoropolymers
• MedFlex - Medical-Grade Custom Cables For The Bio-Medical Industry
• Lead-free, Halogen-Free Cables Complying with RoHS
• Underwater Cables
• DataCELL Data And Communications-Grade Cables
• Lead-Free and Non-Heavy Metal Cables - RoHS

Custom-Cable Capabilities
Product Families

• Most AWM Styles
• Most UL & CSA types
• Service-rated power cordage
• Exposed-run rated
• Industrial control cable
• ITC/PLTC/open-wire
• Shielded & non-shielded twisted pair
• Continuous-flex cable
• Non-paired industrial control cable
• CL & CM families
• FieldBus cable
• CAN-Bus cable
• Low capacitance cables - DataCELL
• Specialty coaxial/multiaxial cables - DataCELL
• Custom Retractiles
• Medical cable - MedFLEX
• Communications cables - DataCELL
• Specialty automotive
• Cable that meets SAE-J-1939/11
• Underwater cables

Cabling Options

• #6 AWG to 32 AWG multi-conductors
• Up to 1 1/4" finished OD
• Conductor count 1 to 100

Copper Stranding Options - Northwire offers:

• Solid
• Stranded
• Special Copper
• Plated & coated copper

View metric/AWG equivalent table

More info about copper stranding materials & plating.

Composite Cables

• Different gauges, subassemblies within one cable (Read more about cabling)

Insulation Materials

• PVC, TPE, Polyethylene, XPLE, Polypropylene, Semi-Rigid PVC, Conductive PVC, Foamed Polyethylene, FEP, Hytrel, Halar, PFA, PVDF & Custom Blends including EnduroFLEX
  • Read more about NW Fluoropolymers
• Cellular dielectrics
  • Read more about DataCELL
• Halogen-Free & Low Smoke Zero-Halogen Cable

Jacket Materials

• PVC, TPE, XLTPE, Polyurethane, Fluoropolymer & Custom Blends, including EnduroFLEX & MedFLEX
  • Read more about NW Fluoropolymers
  • Read more about MedFLEX

Custom & Standard Power Cord

• SJT, SJTOO, SJTOOW, SJTW, SJEOOW, ST, STOO, STOOW, STW, SEOOW, SVT, SVTOO, SPT-1, SPT-3, SPT-3, NISPT & EnduroFLEX

Custom Designed Products with Your Own Proprietary Part Numbers & CAD Drawings

• Custom offset print-wheel
• Custom ink-jet printing
  • Read more about Cable Marking

Special Attributes

• Custom Tapes, serves and fillers
• EMI & Physical Shielding
• Low Capacitance Designs
• Abusive Environment Applications
• Fillerless Designs
• Breather Tubes
• Custom Colors & Matching
• Strength Members
• Special Put-Ups
• Custom profile extrusions
• Custom stranding alloys
• Long continuous lengths
• Flame Retardant attributes. Read about flame testing.

Agency Approvals

• UL
• CSA
• MSHA
• ISO 9001:2000

Other Competencies

• Responsive & well-staffed account specialists
• Expert R&D staff
• Manufacturing know-how
• Network anaylsis
• Life-cycle testing
• Same-day shipment on standard power cords
• CSA certified lab
• Flex testing