Materials & Manufacture
Our VIV suppression strakes can be manufactured using a wide range of polyurethane and polyethylene elastomers, most of which have been specially developed in-house. They exhibit a wide variety of mechanical and physical properties matched to suit specific applications.
These materials have a proven track record in a marine environment and are only selected after extensive research, testing and trials to prove their optimum performance.
Marine grade polyurethane is the industry standard material for our VIV suppression strakes and offers excellent abrasion and mechanical protection and is cost effective. This material has a specific gravity of 1.15g/cm2 and therefore does not add any weight to the overall installation.
The materials used in the manufacture of ROV installable strake covers require high strength combined with low weight which are generally the key requirements especially when ROV installation is required.
Syntactic and GRP composites are used by us for the manufacture of ROV installable strake covers.
We are able to call upon our vast experience in design, engineering and production of composites to deliver a total engineered solution.
All metallic materials that we use including hinges and banding are supplied in materials suitable for a long offshore life.