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Review Boplan Flexible Safety Barriers

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Explore the range of durable, flexible safety barriers from Boplan. These polymer-based barriers, called Noboplex, are designed to absorb and manage impact energy differently than traditional steel barriers. Observe how they flex upon impact from a forklift or truck, returning the energy to the vehicle rather than transferring it to the anchors, which prevents damage to the barriers themselves, the vehicle, and the concrete floor. Understand that this flexibility eliminates pulverization of concrete often caused by vibrations from impacts on rigid steel barriers. Learn that Boplan has been around for 30 years globally, with 12 years in the US, and their products are built to withstand repeated impacts without needing replacement or maintenance. You can find more information about their products and an impact calculator on their website.

Goal: Understand the benefits of flexible polymer safety barriers in industrial environments.

Tools and materials

  • Forklift Clark — Demonstrating impact absorption (shown in video)
  • Noboplex Flexible Safety Barriers Boplan — Protecting infrastructure and vehicles from impacts
  • Truck N/A — Demonstrating impact absorption (shown in video)

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out this next one. Look at that. Kevin, tell me about this, will you? >> Yeah, it's called uh Nobeltex. So, our company's called Boplan, but the polymer's called Nobeltex. It's our proprietary blend here that we have. And as you can see, it's flexible, but it's also super strong. So, you know, we're not going to bend this stuff, but if you're a 6,000 lb forklift, it does become flexible. The big thing that we're doing is managing energy differently. So, when something concrete gets impacted, like we're talking about, when something steel gets impacted, that energy has to go somewhere. And for steel, at least, it goes to the anchors. That's going to be the weakest part of the system. And so, it'll either hit like that, it'll just rip it out of the ground, or the tiny tiny impacts like this that happen 20 times a week that nobody sees, that's really what pulverizes the concrete, cuz that vibration travels to the anchors, and it pulverizes the concrete. So, by being flexible, we eliminate that vibration, but we also manage the energy from these impacts differently. So, you see a forklift come off at roughly the same speed it hits it. That's cuz we're taking that energy from the lift, and we give it back to the lift. So, only about 30% of the energy from these impacts is >> So, you're not destroying your forklift. >> Not destroying forklift, not destroying your concrete, and we're getting you something you don't have to replace or maintain. It's pretty crazy, right? >> [laughter] >> I love stuff like this. I love I love I love finding uh I don't know, just things that I've never seen before. >> right? And we've been around for 30 years, you know? I mean, we've only been in the US for about 12 years. So, it's a little newer in the US here, but yeah, we've been around forever, been doing this all over the world. >> So, you have all different kinds of systems. >> Yeah. >> Where where do guys find out more information? If they're interested in learning more about this, what what do they do? >> Well, you can reach out to me directly. I'm the regional sales manager here for Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, or you can check out our website. That has all of our materials on there. There's an impact calculator, which will let you dial in, let's say your forklifts are going 5 mph, you're carrying 12,000 lbs, you can put that into the impact calculator, and it'll spit out all the materials we have…

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