Pneumatic Marine YOKOHAMA Rubber Fender

High-quality floating pneumatic rubber fender HPF-C

Pneumatic rubber fender is also known as dock fender, boat fender, floating fender, marine fender and yokohama fender. It is a popular soulution for boat protection forship-to-ship contact (STS) and ship-to-berthing (STB). Pneumatic fenders has the advantages of massive energy absorption with low unit surface pressure that acts upon the ship. So penumatic fenders has become an ideal ship protection medium used extensively for tankers, LPG vessels, ocean platforms, large docks, harbor and wharfs.

Advantages

1. Safety and Reliability

Fenders are constructed of several layers of strong tire-cord,

and are thus resistant to pressure and cutting.

2. No Deterioration or Variation in Performance

Fenders utilize the compressive elasticity of air, therefore

performance deterioration due to fatigue is absent.

3. Advantages at Inclined Berthing

Eenergy absorption does not decrease at inclined

compression up to 15 degrees.

4. Soft Reaction Force

The reaction force does not increase sharply even under

excess load conditions

5. Lower Mooring Forces under Rough Condition

The reaction force does not increase sharply even under

excess load conditions.

6. Strong against Shearing Force

Fenders are adequately reinforced using strong tire-cord to

cope against shearing and compression forces as well as

internal pressure.

7. Adaptable to the Tide

8. Simple and Low Cost Installation

It can be removed easily to a suitable jetty or quay when not

in use, or transferred to another mooring point whenever

required.

9. Low Maintenance Cost

Types

1. Net type: with chain, tires and flanges

2. Sling tye:

Flat sling or hook type fenders are effectively a type fender without chain and tire net and the ring shackles. A lifting eye is fitted to each end and the fender is slung by chain or wire rope. This type of fenders usually is mounted on small size ship or yacht.

Raw Material--Synthetic Tyre Cord Layer (Rubberrized Nylon Fabric)

Synthetic tyre cord layers, commonly used in tyres, have been proven to provide strong efficient reinforcement layers in fenders. Each single layer is coated with rubber compound on both sides as well as in between synthetic tyre cord threads, hence isolating all cords from each other.

Synthetic tyre cord has advantage over other reinforcement materials such as canvas fabric of reducing friction and wear between cord threads during compression, bending and stretching, and also greatly improves anti-fatigue characteristics, endurance life and anti pressure performance.