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 High Strength to
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 Corrosion/ Chemical Resistant |
 Electrical Insulation |
 Thermal Insulation |
 Electomagnetic Transparency |
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MINING
In both the mining and petroleum industires, pultrusions are replacing traditional materials in various areas - such as rock bolts for wall and roof supports in coal mines and tunnels, and as oil sucker rods for the petroleum industry.
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 RECREATION
Design flexibility makes pultrusion ideally suited to a variety of sport and recreational applications, such as sail battens, fishing rods, diving spears, hockey sticks, ski poles, flag poles, tent poles, bows, arrows and kite frames.
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WATER SUPPLY & SEWERAGE
Pultruded products are corrosion resistant and are impervious to a broad range of corrosive elements. This feature makes pultrusions a natural selection for chemical plants, water and sewage treatment plants, structures near salt water and other corrosive environments.
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DEFENCE
The principle demands of modern defence equipment are for lightweight, high strength, corrosion resistant structures which are non-magnetic and have low electromagnetic reflectivity. Pultrusions have an increasingly important role to play in the performance of military vehicles, aircraft, naval vessels and camouflage equipment.
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ELECTRICAL
Because of their excellent insulation properties, pultrusions fall naturally into a wide range of electrical applications, such as antennas, cable ladders, hot sticks, insulators, transformer spacer bars, power pole cross arms and separator rods, As the central strength member in optic fibre cable, fine pultruded rod is continuously coiled in lengths of over 25 kilometres and widely used in modern communications.
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MARINE
Advanced materials technology has played a vital part in the exceptional performance of today's marine industry. Pultrusions are already used for gratings, gaffe handles, marker poles, mooring whips, pier ladders, railing, walkways, stanchions and are increasingly being looked to for major structural components.
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 CONSTRUCTION
Pultruded profiles are ideally suited to a wide range of specialist structural and engineering applications because of their high strength to weight ratio, excellent electrical and thermal insulating properties as well as corrosion resistance - for example, ladders, scaffolding, structural beams, window frames, hand rails, coving, tool handles, sign posts, seating, locking pins, concrete reinforcing and grating for walkways.
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 HORTICULTURE
Grape harvestor rods, horticultural stakes, cloche systems, greenhouse structures and tunnel house supports are increasingly using pultrusions for the advantages of lightness, flexibility and longer life over more conventional materials.
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 AGRICULTURE
To improve stock management and productivity on farms, as well as for conservation purposes, in zoos and for security fencing, fibreglass fence posts are being used worldwide in electric fencing systems because they are light, strong, self insulating, flexible and cost effective.
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