Special Projects

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Case Studies

Discover some of the unique challenges we’ve helped solve – for commercial partners, conservation, charities and more – as the UK leader in designing and manufacturing flexible thermoplastic products and solutions.

British Antarctic Survey Team Know Their Onions

At the beginning of the year a British Antarctic Survey team broke through West Antarctica's Rutford Ice Stream after nearly three days of round-the-clock drilling in temperatures as cold as minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit. Reaching a depth of 2,152m (7,060 ft), the team of BEAMISH (Bed Access,...

Wananchi – Water Pure Enough to Drink

Water is such an essential element for life but it is easy to take it for granted. When you are a member of the British Army deployed in a hostile environment, however, access to clean, purified water can be the difference between life and death. The transportation of clean water over large...

Revolutionary Goose Guards Help Broads Conservation

We've produced some PVC silt curtains that are proving crucial in the regeneration of a wildlife haven for a conservation project in the Norfolk Broads. The Broads Authority is using 170m of floating silt curtains a part of a programme of novel geotextiles and engineering techniques...

Spheres!

Making the Zorbs for Sphere Mania is an intricate and demanding project. They each take over 120 hours to make! There are 500 webbings (the white straps), 1000 rivets, 2000 washers, 67 metres of different fabric! There are twelve panels welded together to form each sphere and two endcaps...

Floating Silt Curtains for Dredging the Norfolk Broads

We were approached by the Broads Authority to manufacture some floating silt curtains to assist them with their dredging work. By working with the Broads Authority we have been able to successfully fulfil their requirements and produce a bespoke curtain for them. “Structure-flex were able...

Support Tubes

We were approached by a client, who had previously seen one of our large diameter air filled tubes being utilised for a pipe laying project in Canada. The client, a leading systems provider of spirally wound pipe, asked us to assist and design a similar inflatable product, to be used as a...

Bespoke Moon Pool Proof Test Bag

With our reputation as specialist manufacturers of water filled crane test bags, we were approached to design and manufacture a bespoke 48 ton capacity bag, to be used for proof testing a winch on board a vessel being built in Asia. The winch was part of the sysem used to lower a multi-million...

Antarctic Survey

Structure-flex goes to the ends of the earth! Not only the personnel, but the equipment used by the British Antarctic Survey [BAS] need to have special qualities to cope with the severity of the weather conditions. This is true not only of the scientific instruments, but of the more...