Polyether vs. Polyester
Polyurethane is a versatile material available from eraser soft to bowling ball hard and suits a variety of applications from dipper door blocks to deadplate to lubricated bearings. Critical to the properties of the urethane is whether it is polyether or polyester...
Time For a Truck Liner?
Truck liners for dump trucks, like outrigger pads, are one of those plastic products it can be difficult to fully appreciate until you have one. It’s basic psychology – short-term solutions are easier to accept than long-term value. When our sales people...
Plastic & The PNE
Last month Redwood Plastics partnered with Lanefab Design/Build in Vancouver, Canada – recent winners of the Arthur Erikson Memorial Award for Emerging Design – to work on an entry for a playhouse, to be exhibited at the Pacific National Exhibition. The...
FRP Withstanding Corrosion
The saying goes “a picture is worth a 1000 words” – but what about “$1000” in savings…Or likely much more? How much would an injury or fatality due to corroded or rotten materials cost you? How much do you spend on maintenance each...
Armored Plastics
Plastics offer many advantages over metals and wood in a variety of applications. Many plastics are both chemical and corrosion resistant and absorb little moisture leading to a longer lifespan, lower maintenance downtime and reduced costs. By the nature of their...
The Glazings
We encounter plastics everyday of our life; however, engineering plastics tend not to be seen by the public often. An exception would be our plastic glazing materials: polycarbonate and acrylic. These clear materials are an impressive combination of engineering-grade...
Anti-Slip Outrigger Pads
Our Redco™ UHMW outrigger pads are one of Redwood Plastics’ best selling products. Over the last ten years of manufacturing these outrigger pads have proven their worth replacing wooden and metal pads, avoiding many disadvantages of those pads: ours do not rust,...
S.O.S (Save Our Seals)
We see hydraulics everywhere – just a simple glance at a construction site will reveal a variety of equipment such as bulldozers and excavators – all with gleaming hydraulic pistons working all day long. Have you ever considered the effect dirt and large...
Are you protected?
Safety is one of the most important concerns on any job site. That’s why it’s mandatory that anyone on a site wears a hard hat. These plastic protectors are the ubiquitous symbol of safety, and are trusted all over the world as an effective way to protect...