Our job is to help you use less of our material, not more. Fewer layers means a lighter and cheaper finished article — and in a tender, that is what wins.
Every layer you can leave out of a pack or a panel is weight the wearer doesn't carry, cost that doesn't appear in your bill of materials, and margin you keep or price you can undercut with. Getting there is a construction problem: the right grade, the right layer count for the threat, and — often — the right combination with other materials rather than more of one.
Less is not the same as least. Every construction carries a safety margin above its target threat — for variation in production, in material, in test conditions and in the field — and that margin is not what we are asking you to reduce. What we help you avoid is the layers beyond it: material added because nobody knew where the margin actually sat.
That is what we help with. When you tell us your application, target threat level and weight budget, we can tell you where we would start: which grade, roughly how many layers, whether a hybrid is worth investigating. Sometimes the answer is fewer layers than you expected. Sometimes it is less of our material and more of someone else's. We will say so — a starting point is only useful if it's honest.
We do not design your construction, validate your process, or certify your product. Those are yours, and they should be.
For a soft ballistic pack, the questions are threat level, pack weight budget and back-face deformation limit. From those we can suggest a grade and an indicative layer count for SQ701, and say whether the numbers suggest a hybrid construction is worth exploring.
For a pressed panel, the questions are threat level, target panel weight and panel dimensions, and whether the panel is standalone or backing a strike face. From those we can suggest an indicative layer count for HQ710 and the construction type we would begin with.
In either case, what we give you is a place to begin — not a specification, and not a minimum. Your own testing establishes what works in your build, and the safety margin you carry above the threat is your decision.
UHMWPE is proportionally lighter than aramid, but the two materials behave differently under impact, and the best-performing soft packs are frequently combinations rather than either alone. Whether that applies to your build depends on your threat level, your weight budget, your back-face deformation limit and the standard you are certifying against.
We can tell you, from the data we hold, whether a hybrid looks worth investigating for your requirement — including when the answer is to use less of our material rather than more. The construction itself, and its validation, are yours.
HQ710 is consolidated by you. Pressing temperature, pressure, dwell time and cooling profile determine consolidation quality, and consolidation quality determines how the finished panel performs and how it holds up in service.
These parameters are established and validated by the buyer for the buyer's own equipment and finished article — as the ULTAR™ Product Data Sheet states. Where our data allows, we can indicate a starting point for your press trials.
Tell us your application, target threat level and weight or dimension budget through the enquiry form. We come back with a starting-point indication and, under NDA, the ballistic data behind it. Where it helps, we will talk it through with your engineers directly.
Application, target threat level, weight or dimension budget. We will respond with where we would start.
