Company insight Protecting precious cargo
Once a product reaches the end of a production line, the next obstacle for manufacturers is ensuring its safe arrival to its eagerly awaiting customers. This can be a logistical challenge for most companies – but a particular one when those products are turbine blades, towers and nacelles. Reef Industries manufactures plastic laminates that provide exceptional protection during transit or long-term storage.
Moving turbine blades, towers and nacelles from the place of manufacture to another location requires extensive planning and adequate protection. F
or more than 65 years, Reef Industries has been manufacturing and fabricating reinforced film laminates and composites. Reef’s expertise in producing quality, custom configured final products ensure that customers’ needs are always met in a timely and professional manner. The company offers a wide range of products, material grades, additives and fabrication capabilities to meet or exceed requirements. Impulse, wedge or hot air welding is utilised to optimise the fabrication technique that is best suited to produce a uniquely configured and fabricated product. Moving turbine blades, towers and nacelles from where they are made to another location requires extensive planning, with planning often lasting more than a year. The most common methods of travel involve rail, road and sea. Travelling by road requires the removal of trees whereas travelling by train requires permits that can take a while to be approved. As wind farms become an increasingly popular mode of energy generation, logistics will have to be fine-tuned as well. Reef Industries manufactures plastic laminates that provide exceptional protection during transit or long-term storage.
Reef Industries manufactures high- performance polyethylene laminates and composites of unmatched quality and value, including the Griffolyn plastic shipping
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covers. They are crafted from high-strength materials that provide the rugged durability necessary to effectively protect investments during shipping and storage and are manufactured to handle the most demanding service or the harshest environments.
Ensuring safe arrival Griffolyn manufactures quality, internally reinforced polyethylene laminates designed for a wide range of applications. Griffolyn’s patented, high-strength reinforcement provides superior puncture, tear and abrasion resistance. Construction materials can be formulated to provide many important performance characteristics. From outstanding weathering characteristics to custom features such as fire retardancy, anti-static properties, corrosion inhibition or heat-shrinkability, Griffolyn products offer the performance you need. Griffolyn plastic shipping covers offer a few benefits including reinforced grid that resists tears and maintains cover integrity for continuous protection, cold- crack resistance and moisture resistance. Additionally, Griffolyn plastic shipping covers offer UV stabilisation to minimise the deteriorating effects of the sun serving as an outdoor storage cover if needed during production build up, before shipping or an instant warehouse at the point of destination.
Reef Industries also offers weatherproof tarps and covers, while custom logo printing is available to help promote company names and products. Additional features such as pipe loops, reinforced grommets, webbing straps and zippers can be included. Companies can use Griffolyn for corrosion protection, equipment storage or shipping covers, landfill covers, vapour and moisture barriers, dust and environmental partitions, contaminated soil covers, athletic field covers, greenhouses, boat tarps, crop protection or any of a thousand other possibilities. Griffolyn plastics can be customised to any size and shape, ensuring the exact requirements are met. Griffolyn is available in white, black, and clear. This product is a cost effective and durable solution to prolong the service life of any investment. Custom colours are available upon request.
In addition to Griffolyn, Reef Industries’ Permalon and Armorlon divisions fabricate and manufacture a wide range of high- performance industrial shipping, storage and containment bags. Reef’s industrial shipping bags, in addition to its storage and containment bags, can meet the demands of almost any environment or application. VCI corrosion resistant additives protect sensitive items. ●
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