Engineering Polyurethane Excellence

DEALER DESKS TURN TO HYPERLAST
FOR ‘LEADING EDGE’ DESIGN

Withstanding the odd bump or knock is an occupational hazard for most office desks, but when the desks in question are on the trading floor of a busy stock dealing house, they often have to endure a far greater level of abuse altogether!

Essex Specialised Joinery together with leading office furniture manufacturers, DAS Business Furniture, have turned to polymer specialist Hyperlast Ltd to help them achieve a superior edge on the ‘Dealer desks’ they supply to financial trading houses worldwide.

‘FlowCast’ ^® is the ultimate in robust desk edging, marrying the curves of ergonomic design with Hyperlast’s durable high-performance ‘Durelast’^® polymer material, to give a desk edge that can withstand a high degree of usage and still look as good as new.  In spite of its high-performance properties, ‘FlowCast’^® is quick and easy to process, allowing Essex Specialised Joinery to carry out moulding in-house at their production plant in Maldon. 

The versatility and superior appearance of ‘FlowCast’^® edging enables Essex Specialised Joinery and DAS to produce an expanded range of Dealer desks in a wide array of colours, shapes and textures.  These successfully meet the durability and design demands of the busy, high-tech financial environments in which they are used.  In addition, public-facing operations such as banks and retail stores are also seeing the benefits of using a material which is extremely robust yet allows maximum design flexibility. “

‘FlowCast’^® has brought a new flexibility to our design capability.  It has enabled us to move away from the traditional, straight-edge desk with its rigid black or grey edging, to a more curvy and aesthetically appealing finish available in any number of colours,” explains Iain Muirhead, DAS Business Furniture’s Head of Sales. 

Hyperlast Limited’s Business Manager, Andrew Hedge, comments: “Polyurethane is extremely versatile and ideal for this type of application. ‘FlowCast’^® gives an excellent finish which outperforms traditional edging systems in both the cost, appearance and durability stakes.”