ULTAR™ HQ UD polyethylene laminates — pressed into panels in larger formats for vehicle protection. Weight saving against steel and aluminium.
Vehicle protection is a mass budget problem before it is a ballistics problem. Armour weight comes out of payload, range, mobility and suspension life, and on a retrofit programme it is often the constraint that decides whether the design is viable at all.
Pressed UHMWPE panels deliver ballistic protection at a fraction of the mass of equivalent steel, which is why they appear across appliqué armour, spall liners and composite protection packages.
ULTAR™ HQ laminates serve vehicle armour panels as they serve rigid personal protection inserts: as roll material pressed into a monolithic panel, either standalone where the threat permits a polyethylene-only design, or as backing behind a metallic or ceramic front.
How the panel is integrated into your protection package — appliqué, spall liner, structural or hybrid — is a platform engineering decision and yours to make. We supply the material and can indicate a starting point from the data we hold.
HQ laminates are supplied as roll material at 1.60 m minimum width and consolidated by you. Layers are stacked to a target areal density and hot-pressed into a rigid panel.
Areal density is per layer. Total panel areal density is layer count × the per-layer value of the grade, plus facing, strike face or mounting hardware in your construction.
HQ laminates are supplied at 1.60 m minimum roll width. Panel width is therefore bounded by the roll width unless you splice, and panel size beyond that is a function of your press bed.
Larger panels mean fewer joints, and joints are where a protection package is weakest — so roll width is worth designing around early. Where your target panel exceeds 1.60 m in one axis, tell us and we will confirm what is available.
Pressing parameters determine consolidation quality, and larger vehicle-panel formats make uniformity harder to achieve than on a personal-protection plate. Consolidation quality determines ballistic performance and delamination resistance in service, including under the vibration and thermal cycling a vehicle panel sees and a body armour plate does not.
Parameters and process are yours. We can indicate a starting point from the data available to us.
The ULTAR™ HQ line is the hard ballistic family — roll material for pressed panels. The current grade is HQ710, at 235 g/m² per layer; further HQ grades are in development. Ballistic performance data and layer counts by threat level are available under NDA.
Current grades are held in EU stock, supplied DAP to your site, Incoterms 2020, EU mainland. Minimum order one roll.
Lead time is confirmed on enquiry against your quantity and panel dimensions.
Tell us the threat definition, protected area, mass budget and panel dimensions. We will respond with material data under NDA and, where the data allows, an indication of a starting point.
