About Us

Make the right connections with Shawflex Custom Engineered Wire, Cable and Assemblies

At Shawflex, our vision is to provide advanced technological solutions for your unique custom business needs. We are the Market Leader and a Trusted Brand, providing solutions from common to custom. We offer complete electrical solutions from instrumentation, control and low voltage power cables to wire termination and custom connectors.

Since 1960, we have built and maintained a reputation of excellence which stems from our unparalleled customer service and catalogue of top-quality products, that meet the high-performance needs of our customers, in a wide range of industries and markets.

A one-stop solution

It is our focus to be the one stop-shop, for all your requirements from designing to manufacturing, of integrated cable and assembly solutions. With the recent acquisition of Kanata Electronic Services, we have been able to expand our services from wire and cable manufacturing to custom cable assemblies and terminations for a wide range of industries including Aerospace, Nuclear, Military, Medical and Industrial.

We are committed to leading the industry with innovative solutions that are proven, tested to the highest standards, and precisely manufactured to your specifications. Our sales and engineering teams work closely with our customers, utilizing our unique in-house design capabilities and expertise to help tackle projects of all scopes and sizes. We provide comprehensive services, advanced in-house materials, and product research as well as product development and pre-qualification testing.

Staying current with customer needs is how we secure our place in the market.

At Shawflex, we manufacture both run-to-order and engineered-to-order. Our run-to-order products are available from our extensive catalogue of standard constructions. For engineered-to-order cables, our highly skilled technical team will partner with you to interpret performance criteria, determine innovative solutions, and optimize cable capabilities while ensuring the cable meets all safety and specification requirements.  

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Markets and submarkets we serve

Transit and Railway
Mining
Nuclear Power
Marine & Shipboard
Communications
Renewable Energy
  • Freight Rail
  • Subway
  • Light Rail Transit
  • Streetcar
  • Station
  • Substation
  • Underground Mining
  • Tunneling Options
  • Refurbishments
  • New Builds
  • Decommissioning
  • Maintenance
  • Radioisotopes
  • SMRs and ARs
  • Shipyard
  • On-shore and off-shore platforms
  • Repair, refit and maintenance
  • IEC Applications
  • 5G Rollout
  • Tower repair and upgrade
  • Wireless and Wireline
  • Solar
  • Wind
  • Hydro
  • Storage
EV Infrastructure
Aerospace & Defense
Industrial & Commercial
Utilities
Custom Cable Solutions
US Market
  • EV Charging and Infrastructure
  • EV Special Assemblies
  • Civilian
  • Military
  • Outer Space
  • Petrochemical
  • Automation
  • Water & Wastewater
  • Pulp & Paper
  • Oil & Gas
  • Commercial
  • Residential
  • Power Transmission
  • Power Distribution
  • Power Generation
  • Substation
  • Custom Cables
  • Custom Cable Harnesses
  • Custom Cable Terminations
  • Custom Cable Assemblies
  • End-to-End Cable Solutions
  • UL Certified Applications

Shawflex product categories

CSA

  • Power & Control Tray cable (TC, TC-ER) 
  • Control & Instrumentation cable (CIC, ACIC) 
  • TECK 90 cable 
  • Thermocouple Extension cable 
  • RW90 and RWU90 wire 
  • Safe-T-Ground Grounding conductor 
  • Armcon cable 
  • VFD Cable 
  • Photovoltaic wire (RPV90, RPVU90) 

UL

  • Power & Control Tray cable (TC, TC-ER) 
  • Instrumentation Tray cable (PLTC/ITC, PLTC/ITC-ER) 
  • MC Metal Clad cable 
  • Thermocouple Extension cable 
  • VFD cable 
  • XHHW-2 and RHW-2 wire 

SPECIALTY

  • Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZH, LSHF)
  • Nuclear cable
    • EQ (Class 1E) Nuclear Grade
    • Non-EQ (Non-Class 1E) Conventional Grade
    • Umbilicals for Automation & Robotics
    • Fuel-handling
    • High Temperature / High Radiation Resistant
  • 5G Telecommunication Power cable
  • Mass Transit cable
    • AREMA Railway Signal
    • CP-100 Railway Signal
    • Traction Power
  • IMSA Traffic Signal & Loop Detector cable
  • ICEA Signal, Control, and Power cable
  • Utility Substation cable
    IEC Power and Control Marine & Shipboard cable
  • Cathodic Protection cable
    Vertical Mineshaft & Hi-Tensile Strength cable
  • Composite and Custom cable
  • Foundation Fieldbus / Profibus cable

Shawflex historical timeline

1960

Founding of Shaw Flexible Tube (SFT)

1965

SFT produces first cable (Canada)

1980

1981

SFT becomes Shawflex

1983

CSA Product Certification Received

1985

Nuclear program initiated with approval and participation with OPG on plant builds

1986

UL product certification received

1988-1990

Developed SLAR cable with AECL and Ontario Hydro for CANDU nuclear reactor

1990

1993

Shawflex expands into the USA

2002

In-house SLAR testing qualified

2000

2003-2006

Cabling capacity expansion

2009

Increased conductor size range to kcmil

2010

Shawflex celebrates its 50 year anniversary

2011

First fuel handling power track cable to OPG

2015

EQ cable launch and obtained Bruce Power approval

2016

Part of Darlington Refurbishment

2018

Extrusion capacity expansion

2020

2022

Acquisition of Kanata Electronic Services, expanding to terminated assembly services

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