Won Award - Popular Science "Best of What's New"

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Originally Posted by Mister Moo

Hard work and good luck pay off, sort of. In a half-solvent housing market I might have even have a bright future with this product line.

http://www.popsci.com/bown/2008/product/jhrg-storm-rest

Still, it's nice to be recognized on a new product by one this big. Honeywell certainly helped but my two partners and I put a lot into this development. I will sleep with a copy of PopSci tonight. Woo hoo.

Congrats Mr. Moo

Originally Posted by Mister Moo

Hoo boy.... (Bless the good people at DuPont... there are many.)

Kevlar has its place, but not usually in a high flexion non-composite form, outdoors, exposed to moisture, high levels of UV-radiation and the other odd environmental hazards that diminish the working properties of the family of aromatic polyamides. Shall I be more specific? No, no... of course not.

Our patented laminate begins with S900 Honeywell Spectra ultra high molecular weight polyethylene and is bonded, with a special process, to ethylene vinyl acetate film. It ends up at more than double the tenacity of type xx Kevlar, in excess of 30 grams/denier. Or, in other words, more than twice the strength of Kevlar without the application shortcomings.

Otherwise... Hooray for Kevlar. It still saves a lot of lives.

Just shows to go ya, you can lead a cow to water, but you can't make it change its polyethylenes to polyamides.