Abrasion resistant coating for ropes
Maritime ropes supplier Lankhorst Ropes has developed an innovative, abrasion resistant coating for its Lankoforce ropes, simultaneously improving abrasion resistance and making the rope easier to handle.
The Challenger coating is an alternative to the protective jacket normally used to safeguard the rope during handling.
Lankoforce is a 12 strand braided rope, made of Dyneema yarns. Comparable in strength to that of conventional steel wire rope, yet weighing up to seven times less, Lankoforce is an alternative to heavy and lumbersome steelwire ropes in situations requiring manual handling of the rope. Until now the Lankoforce rope construction included a non-load, bearing protective jacket to reduce the effects of abrasion. However, while this is effective in protecting the rope, in the event the jacket becomes damaged the rope has to be taken out of service and repaired.
The Lankhorst developed Challenger rope coating is designed to replace the Lankoforce’s protective jacket along the body of the rope, while retaining a jacket for the high wear, splice eye. The low friction coating is applied to the rope during production and has been shown in trials to significantly reduce the effects of abrasion. Moreover, the absence of the jacket means the Lankoforce rope requires less maintenance, is simpler to inspect, and even easier to handle.
“The Lankoforce Challenger coated rope is an important development in our drive to introduce technical improvements that have a clear business benefits in rope performance and handling”, said Hans-Pieter Baaij, manager of the Maritime Division at Lankhorst Ropes.
