Polyurethane and Protective Coatings
PACIFIC Urethanes, with its cutting-edge technology, provides Australia and many export markets, specialist products, processes and applications for the mining and resource sector.
With its significant year-on-year growth and a reputation for being the formulation experts, it has had more than 20 years’ experience specialising in the development and production of polyurethane systems.
The company’s formulating expertise enables it to translate advances in raw materials development into improved products and increased asset life which puts them ahead of the competition.
Advanced technology
Pacific Urethanes has always maintained a strong commitment to meeting the needs of its customers, by providing them with the latest technological solutions tailored to their business or their customers’ business needs.
Their highly experienced technical team are at the forefront of product development and are the leaders in their fields.
This allows the development and application of the polyurethane systems at Pacific Urethanes to be globally competitive.
The company has developed a wide range of products, with capabilities beyond their competitors which is showcased in their unique blends of polyurea and polyurethane products.
These blends provide extremely high physical properties and wear-resistant properties which no other competitor has been able to simulate.
Application experience and global technology partners
Pacific Urethanes has an exclusive arrangement with Polycoat Products, one of the world leaders in polyurethane, polyurea, and polyaspartic coatings.
The company takes the time to listen and understand customers’ challenges, to develop solutions that work, and are tailored to their environment or application.
Pacific Urethanes’ specialist staff have a purpose-built, state-of-the-art laboratory and testing facility, to ensure product development of the highest quality, with the fastest turnaround, to commercialise customers’ products in the shortest possible timeframe.
And by having a long-standing distributorship with Graco and its market leading equipment and systems, Pacific Urethanes adds to its application expertise with specialists on hand to assist customers with applications and project implementations for a wide range of applications.
Customised development
Pacific Urethanes works side by side with its customers, which makes the company more of a partner than a supplier.
It adapts and creates solutions for customers along with maintenance advice and design ideas to suit the customers’ needs and conditions.
It’s that practical industrial experience and specially developed technologies that customers value the most.
Wear and corrosion coatings
Pacific Urethanes’ polyurethane coatings provide high levels of corrosion protection combined with high levels of wear resistance that provides protection and extend the asset life.
Ultimately this will result in substantial cost savings in the long term, reduction to service times, and minimal wear and tear regardless of the environment they are used in or operation they are designed for. These coatings can stand the heat.
LNG foams
Pacific Urethanes has a long history in the supply of high-density foams for pipe support, a range of low-density foams suitable for insulation of pipes, valves and flanges.
These systems come in various grades from spray applied to injection grades. They have extensive experience in the cryogenic Liquefied Natural Gas domain.
The company has used its extensive experience on the Shell Prelude project on the insulated pipe hook-up from the vessel to the land, as well as the Wheatstone Project.
Pacific Urethanes has also provided trench breaker foams (water diversion barriers) for some of the largest gas pipelines built in Australia, with demonstrated ability to delivery and end to end solution for pipeline installation customers.
These projects include Chevron’s Gorgon project as well as APLNG and QCLNG running from the Surat Basin to the Gladstone LNG facility.
Sustainable innovation
In line with environmental stewardship and ISO14001 initiatives, Pacific Urethanes utilises the latest technology in polyurethane foams with its low Global Warming Potential blowing agents.
These foams have certain characteristics and performance properties to be able to handle demanding and changing environments and meet future environmental requirements.
With the latest push to improve environmental regulations around the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), Pacific Urethanes is already ahead of the game.
The trend towards sustainable practices has also created opportunities for Pacific Urethanes, with its extensive experience in changing blowing agent formulation, to phase out HFCs for expansion to additional export markets.
It is driving sustainable change by phasing out HFCs to low GWP, hydrofluoro- olefin (HFO) as its blowing agents in the near future.
The phase- out of HFCs in the United States is set for 2020 with Australia ideally to follow this initiative shortly after.
High performance elastomers
Pacific Urethanes covers the entire polyurethane range from coatings and foams to high performance engineered elastomers.
Developed through extensive research and testing procedures, the company’s elastomer offerings have been designed to suit hand mixing and machine dispensing applications.
It can produce products with high mechanical properties, excellent abrasion resistance, high tensile strength, high resilience, excellent chemical resistance and low temperature resistance.
Typical examples of products made from these materials for use in high-wear areas include trommel screens, pulleys, scraper blades, wheels and rollers.
End-to-end solutions
Pacific Urethanes’ one-stop specialist service includes professional advice as to the optimal machine for any application, initial supply and setup, training, spare parts and technical support, complete with all the polyurethane formulations required for the desired outcome.
From initiation to execution, the company works with and supports customers to achieve the desired result, caring about each and every client and focusing on a tailor-made solution – whether that’s application, advice or training clients to ensure the product is used to the highest capabilities and standards.