Engineering Polyurethane Excellence

Hyperlast Limited’s new partnership with Shanghai Carthane will throw open the door on the Chinese polyurethane market and provide a wealth of new opportunities.

Hyperlast Limited, the rapidly expanding polyurethane systems company based in the UK, is to announce a new partnership with Shanghai Carthane Limited. This will launch the Hyperlast brand in the Peoples’ Republic and open up the Chinese market to a comprehensive range of Hyperlast products with all the fantastic growth potential that implies. Shanghai Carthane will become the distributor of Hyperlast engineering polymers to the Chinese market with the objective of establishing local manufacture in the future.

The relationship began in 1994, when Shanghai Carthane began working as a manufacturing licensee for Hyperlast Limited’s ‘Autothane’ microcellular elastomer. ‘Autothane’ is the resilient elastomer chosen by major vehicle manufacturers and used in suspension systems of mass produced cars as well as the high performance F1 racing cars.

With the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, both companies recognised the increasing requirement of high quality polyurethane elastomers in many other engineering areas. To mark this, Hyperlast will be exhibiting with Shanghai Carthane at the Shanghai PU China 2004 Exhibition in August, where a broad range of polyurethane systems that are already used in engineering applications throughout the world will be on display.

Hyperlast Limited designs and manufactures ‘Hyperlast’® branded polyurethanes for many applications in the industrialized world and in everyday life. They are created to meet the most stringent performance specifications demanded by a product, and they respond even in the most rigorous operating conditions. Whatever the need, Hyperlast Limited applies the polymer chemistry and engineering capability that translates a design performance ideal into a workable reality.

‘Hyperlast’®, ‘Diprane’®, ‘Rotakote’®, ‘Durelast’®, ‘Duramould’® and ‘Traffideck’® are among the Hyperlast brands that will now establish themselves in China as they have done successfully throughout the rest of the world. ‘

’Diprane' polyester MDI engineering elastomers have many applications from pipeline pigs to aggregate screens and numerous materials handling applications. ‘Hyperlast’ polyether MDI elastomers provide tough coatings for buoys, fenders and other types of marine protection. ‘Rotakote’, is a rotationally cast polymer, predominantly used for the economical manufacture of conveyor and printing rollers. ‘Duramould’ systems offer an easy, low-temperature curing, mould-making range of polymers that give long mould life and reproduce exquisite detail in garden, architectural and high quality design artefacts. ‘Traffideck’ is also globally established as an anti-slip surface for paths, roads, bridges, car parks and ferries. Easily laid and fast curing, it provides a hardwearing anti-corrosive membrane that bridges cracks. ‘Hyperlast Syntactic DW512’® polyurethane is already used in the world’s oceans as a deepwater thermal insulator and protection for gas and oil flowlines. Flagship products such as these will demonstrate why Hyperlast Limited, part of the market driven British Vita Group, has gone from strength to strength.

“The Hyperlast-Carthane Shanghai partnership is an exciting evolution in the excellent relationship that we have enjoyed since 1995 when Shanghai Carthane became our Autothane manufacturing Licensee,” says Sales Director Mark Perry, “Since that time, we have grown together and the Chinese market is now driving demand for other products in our range. This move will allow the Chinese market quick access to the extensive range of quality engineered Hyperlast polyurethanes together with all the support and experience that you’d expect of a world leader in the field.”

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August 2004