Nylacast

Engineering material and application specialists, Nylacast, made history at the prestigious 2018 British Engineering Excellence Awards, with its low friction marine technology the Chock Liner receiving the accolade for Materials Application of the year. The ten strong judging panel bought in from across the engineering spectrum to scrutinise each finalist, summarised the Chock Liner as being: ‘A classic example of the right material finding the perfect application to create a successful product.’

The Chock Liner has been introduced by Nylacast with its patented low friction technology supporting safe and reliable moorings of vessels of all types and purpose. The transition from steel wire rope to fibre rope is widespread across industry.  Fibre rope has a good strength to weight ratio and ease of handling, resulting in much lower risk of injury.

In 2016 alone a predicted 96,300 new engineers, scientists and technologists are needed to replace the retirements in industry. Leicester based engineering plastics specialists Nylacast have a unique formula proven to aid the industry skills gap.