Fire risks - a reality with high potential consequences...

The devastating impact of fires

In its 2022 Global Claims Review, Allianz insurance listed fire as the largest single identified cause of corporate insurance losses with damages running into billions. And the human toll is huge: 4,000 fatalities and 134,000 injuries per year.

With new forms of energy use come new risks. From tablets to smartphones, our reliance on electrically powered digital devices is only growing. The rise of new energy usages in building, such as electric vehicles or rooftop solar panels, increases the burden on domestic wiring systems and the risks related to fire.

At Nexans, our priority is to provide our customers and partners with everything they need to design and build safe and sustainable electrification, at every step of their project lifecycle. That’s why we constantly innovate to ensure our cables are at the edge in terms of safety, reliability, electrical performance, and standards compliance.

Our offer is based on three pillars

Nexans Fire Safety is our commitment to your safe and sustainable electrification. It is a full range of cable at the edge of innovation, that will help you to anticipate risks, secure your assets, and protect Life. ​

Anticipate the future adopting the new generation of safe cables ENVIROLEX® and ALSECURE® by Nexans

The ENVIROLEX® and ALSECURE® ranges are already available and can already contribute to changing the level of safety in your projects. This range is further structured according to performance level.

• Our Low Fire-Hazard cables ENVIROLEX®  engineered for enhanced performance under fire conditions. These flame retardant low-smoke, zero-halogen cables have a hard wearing, lead-free, flame retardant sheath that dramatically reduces health risks as well as environmental impact. ENVIROLEX® cables are also non-migratory and suitable for polystyrene applications.

  Designed to ensure safer cabling in public places like hospitals, airports, and tunnels, ENVIROLEX® is also designed to support green and sustainable building projects. The cables have a higher performance rating and produce minimal smoke and hazardous fumes than your traditional PVC sheathed cables. These special properties aid visibility and ensure better air quality in a fire evacuation while greatly reducing damage to electrical and mechanical equipment. The ENVIROLEX® range of cables are manufactured with a unique sheathing compound using a non-PVC HFS-90-TP plastic material, ensuring the cables are PVC-free, flexible in installation, and unlikely to cause corrosive damage to metallic equipment after being doused in a fire.

• Our Fire-Resistant cables ALSECURE® Plus are essential components of a building safety system. During the evacuation process, they ensure that critical functions (warning systems, smoke detector, smoke extractor, emergency exits, and fire lighting equipment) remain functional, even under a long exposer to flames.​ They significantly delay the propagation of a fire, thus gaining precious time for evacuation and fire-fighting, reduce to a minimum opaque smoke and acid gases, the prime cause of fire-related deaths, and damage to equipment and structures. ​​​​

We support all your projects

The building of the future is electric – meaning more cables, more connectors, more systems and subsystems – but also smarter, safer, with a low carbon footprint.

With Nexans Fire Safety, we bring you a full range of cable that will ensure a safer and more sustainable energy, at all stages of the electrification chain, and no matter the type of building.

From residential to commercial and industrial buildings, but also to all high safety buildings (hospitals, schools, hotel), infrastructures (tunneling, rail, airports terminals), new energy (Solar PV), and data centers, you can rely on Nexans to support you against fire risks.