Tough Enough Rope

PlasmaRope - Stronger than Steel

Plasma™ was the first fibre rope used to replace steel wire ropes on 4 x 4 winches in Australia and overseas.
This small but nonetheless important revolution had its genesis in a small Western Australian company called Jeyco.
Jeyco specialises in the supply of high quality marine mooring and towing equipment and had already established the bone-fides of Plasma™ rope in the extremely harsh world of maritime towage.
Plasma™ ropes had been used to protect the large and expensive polyester towlines used by the various tug operators around Australia.
Plasma™ had proven to be an extremely hardy and robust rope, able to withstand the harsh rigours of the marine towage environment and overcome the massive abrasion damage which previously limited the towline to a lifetime of reduced efficiency.
By using Plasma™ Rope as a sacrificial tail on the end of the towrope the Plasma" would be passed up to the larger vessel under tow and it would be the Plasma™ that would pass through the fairlead in the ship's hull to be connected to the bollards on deck.
These fairleads are typically in very poor condition with corrosion and damage from wire ropes, they would normally destroy a towrope in a short period of time.
Since the introduction of these Plasma" tails towline life has increased 3-4 times previous benchmarks.
The Plasma™ itself has lasted up to 4-5 times longer than the previous rope in this application.
Having established that Plasma™ rope was a very tough rope Jeyco embarked on a mission to replace steel wire ropes in many applications where Plasma™ could either improve efficiency or safety. One of the first areas they looked at was winching applications as these tend to be highly abrasive to ropes and dangerous to humans.One other thing to be aware of is the method of determining rope strength.
Most ropes made from Dyneema adopt the European or ISO standards method which quotes the theoretical breaking strain of a rope in the un-spliced condition, whereas all Plasma ropes breaking strengths quoted are for completed ropes fully spliced.
A splice can reduce the strength of a rope by 10%.
We hope we have been able to give you all a better understanding of these high tech synthetic ropes and more importantly the reasons why you should choose one over the other.

Why Use Plasma? Highest strength-to-weight ratio of any fibre - Highest abrasion resistance of any fibre - Excellent dynamic toughness - Very low elongation (3% - 5%) - Excellent flex fatigue resistance - Low resistance to heat - Low creep - Easy splicing - Floats.