Ultra high strength, ultra high modulus, low density:
    UHMWPE fiber is one of the highest strength to weight ratios of any manmade fiber. This remarkable fiber is up to 15 times stronger than steel, weight-for-weight, and 40% stronger than competing aramid fibers. With the specific density less than one, it can float on water. Its modulus is very high, only second to PAN and PBO fiber. It is extremely resistant to abrasion, moisture, UV rays and chemicals. As a result, it has numerous ranges of applications, providing maximum strength and security for minimum weight.

High energy absorption and low elongation
    It has high energy absorption and low elongation. Thank to its high energy absorption, it has wonderful anti-ballistic, cut and impact resistant property.

Other properties

    With high toughness and suppleness, it also shows high resistance to bleach and other chemicals, water, sea water and ultraviolet light; it has excellent vibration damping, flex fatigue and internal fiber-friction characteristics, good resistance to abrasion, anti-mildewing. Not good enough resistance to heat is its disadvantage. When over zero temperature, the strength and modulus decrease as the temperature increases. While in the event of below zero degree, the strength and modulus increase as the temperature increases.

    It has no cold brittleness below minus 50 degree and it has excellent insulation from electricity, heat insulation and resistance to abrasion in the extremely low temperature. Therefore, the fiber is an ideal kind of material used in low temperature. It excels carbon fiber and aramid fiber on main performance indexes, UHMWPE fiber is the updated and alternative product in the global application fiber field of high strength and high modulus.

Applications

    Due to high strength, high modulus, light weight and excellent resistance to abrasion,durability, sea water resistant, chemical proof, anti-UV ray radiation and some other outstanding properties, UHMWPE fiber is widely used in the fields of national Military equipment, aviation, spaceflight, sea project and sports. For example, it can be used to produce ultra-lightweight high performance bulletproof panel, bulletproof helmet, lightweight ballistic-resistant vests, puncture resistance vests, as well as aviation and spaceflight composite, fishing lines, marine cordage, lifting slings, and cut-resistant gloves and apparel and also can be used to produce some other products such as sledges, oaring boards' reinforced materials in construction industry. The most wide application field is to produce ropes and cordages and ballistic-resistant products (bullet proof vests and armor products)

The benefits of UHMWPE fiber cordages

1 Light enough to float (0.97 Specific Gravity), light weight
2 Maximum strength, minimum diameter (break strength 0.881-1.385 N/tex)
3 Low elongation, high safety:

    The break elongation rate of the UHMWPE fiber cordages is 5%-9%. The inside clearance of the rope is not eliminated until the rope is loaded 50% of the break power and at this time the break elongation rate of the rope equals to that of the fiber, resulting in energy deposited decrease by 80% and the backlash velocity decrease by 35% compared to conventional ropes made from common fibers.

4 High resistances to tension-tension fatigue and bending-bending fatigue:
After we continue to load 95% of the break power (load and unload 7000 times altogether), the rest break power increases to 130% of the original break power. The above mentioned performance makes it competitive in the fields of oceanic mining, oil and natural gas exploiting, storing and loading and unloading. At the same time, it is also widely used to produce mooring, anchoring and towing cables in heavy ocean transportation. These fields have the common characteristics: awful operating conditions with strong ultraviolet radiation, long-time marinated in seawater, strong pull power and constantly fluctuation; long-time continuous work, limited human resources for operating the ropes. The operating conditions need that ropes are light(in both air and seawater), safe, resistant to abrasion, erosion, ultraviolet radiation, fatigue and so on, and the operation is simple and convenient. What the conditions need is exactly what the UHMWPE-fiber has.

Due to the high strength and high modulus of the ropes and cordages, fishing nets made from UHMWPE fiber increase the quality and decrease the diameter contrast to the general fibers, which decrease the resistance force by 40%, and increase the fishing efficiency by 80%.

Bullet proof product made from UHMWPE fiber

Bullet proof vests made from UHMWPE-fiber are softer, lighter, more comfortable and offer better protection from penetrated hits and spall fragments without sacrificing the same strong bullet proof ability;
    The armor products made from UHMWPE fiber and some other composites are lighter, softer, easier to install and uninstall and have better protection from bullet and have longer lifespan than conventional armor products.