Articles about "Polyethylene"

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Rotathene® SUPA UV – The Sun Protection Standard for Polyethylene Water Tanks in Australia

June 15, 2018
Dorothea McKellar wrote in the second stanza of her well known Australian poem, “My Country”: I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me!  Australia is […]
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Testing the UV Protection of Polyethylene in Water Tanks Against the Harmful Effects of the Sun

June 15, 2018
Australia has one of the highest levels of UV radiation in the world with over 200 kilolangleys of UV radiation annually, double that of SE Asia, Europe and most of North America. With such high level of UV exposure, it is important that any product in Australia’s Sun be able to endure and stand the test […]
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Sun Resistance: Poly Tanks and UV Stabilisation

June 15, 2018
Polyethylene (poly) water tanks are made of a plastic material. Many have seen the effects on plastic objects that are exposed to the harmful UV-rays of our Sun. Over time, they become brittle, chalk and crack as the polymer elongation drops, that is, the structural integrity of plastic. The natural conclusion, and we know our […]