The future is upon us! With the Internet, cell phones and supersonic jets, our world is fast turning into a global village. With better education and increased health care comes longevity and population growth.

Yet, our tired old planet is not growing at all. In fact, it is getting smaller, if you consider pollution, waste, deforestation and global warming. Today, more and more people are competing for less and less natural resources. This means we will have to build stronger, maintain better, repair and recycle more, protect and conserve all the time.

An unenviable task, indeed!

Are you ready to face these enormous challenges?

We, at Unique Polymer Systems, are!

Our response to these global challenges is the use of inter-penetrating-networks commonly known as IPN's or smart materials, if you like.

IPN's are the next frontier in high performance materials technology.

IPN's are super high performance, hybrid polymers. Complex in structure, but simple in principle. They build on the desirable properties of commercial polymers, while leaving out their undesirable features.

For example, epoxies are good in adhesion and chemical resistance, but poor in UV resistance. Acrylics resist well against UV but they can not bond to wet surfaces well and they have shrinkage, flammability, odour, and brittleness problems. Urethanes, on the other hand, are flexible and tough, but they suffer the drawback of hydrolysis which allows water ingress over time causing blisters.

IPN's, therefore, build a polymeric backbone which gets its adhesion and chemical resistance from epoxies, UV resistance from acrylics, flexibility and toughness from urethanes, and other properties from other polymers, while leaving out their poor properties.

Just what kinds of polymers are used as starting materials, what kind of IPN's are built from them, and how this whole process works are closely guarded trade secrets.

Many different classes of materials are manufactured using IPN adhesives, sealants, caulks, primers, and coatings. All are 100% solid, containing zero solvent.

These products are used to construct, repair, maintain and operate: machinery - equipment - buildings - structures.

If you need a solution, in a cost efficient and productive way to your industrial problem, we probably have it already. If not, we can quickly design one. From eroded pumps, corroded tanks, cavitated propellers, oversize housings, sloppy keyways and scored shafts to leaking roofs, cracked concrete structures, broken joints and industrial floors.

Every investment worth saving can be protected against corrosion, leaking, wear and tear, chemical attack, impact, abrasion, temperature cycling and other elements. IPN's are easy to mix and apply with spatula, brush, roller or spray.

Here are just a few of the advantages of using IPN's:

• All IPN's are created when and where needed by the end user
• Applications of IPN's are not affected by humidity or dew conditions, because they do not rely on solvent evaporation to harden
• All IPN's have adjustable application and performance properties
• IPN's bond extremely well to steel, aluminium and other metals, as well as concrete, masonry, plywood, rubber, plastics, glass, ceramics, and many other substrates
• IPN's are 100% solids systems. They contain no solvents. That means no risk of fires or explosions caused by flammables
• There are no health risks to end users or environment through evaporation of harmful solvents after application
• There are no application problems associated with solvents like blisters, pinholes, cracking, peeling, or delaminating
• IPN's have excellent shelf life. In their sealed containers, they are good next month, next year. That means you can stock IPN's now for emergency use much later
• IPN's are intercompatible, self priming, and self repairing. That means you can buy one IPN to do the job of 4 even 5 competitive products. Less to buy, ship, stock, and apply. Less investment in time or money. More control.

IPN's' performance properties are wonderfully adjustable. With IPN's, one can create hard, soft, flexible, brittle, slow, fast, paste and liquid systems for various stages of the same application - out of the same components. Try doing that with any of the products produced by our competitors!!!

IPN's are pre-packaged, factory proportioned, and easy to use. IPN adhesion is extremely strong: IPN's retain their high mechanical properties even at elevated temperatures. IPN's have no shrinkage, therefore no built in stresses from day 1.

IPN's offer adjustable hardness, flexibility, and speed of cure, so that you can plan ahead for your time and manpower needs!

Your production, selling, or servicing need not be interrupted. IPN's can work around your schedules.

You are in complete control.

You can continue to produce and make money, while your operation is being refurbished and reconstructed.

A worldwide network of professional companies and sales Specialists is available, who are trained and certified to provide technical support for the application of IPN's by your employees, local contractors, or by yourself in shop, in field, when and where needed.

Please email sales@uniquepolymersystems.com today to get the whole story on IPN's.

If you want to keep your production lines humming at minimum operation cost and least downtime, or put that idled machine back to use, or recycle what you got until the next budget is approved. Talk to us. We may be able to help.

For further information please email us at: sales@uniquepolymersystems.com