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Ultra High Molecular Weight Shorts

Ultra High Molecular Weight Shorts

Vollebak

£445

Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene is one of the toughest materials ever engineered – many times stronger than steel but so light it floats on water. With molecular chains 10x longer than standard polyethylene, UHMWPE is used where failure isn’t an option – in ballistic armour, space tethers, deep-sea cables and the joints of the human body. That’s why it’s trusted in war zones, industrial machines, spacecraft and now our Ultra High Molecular Weight Shorts. Each pair of our shorts is woven with a protective grid built with two types of UHMWPE, a material technology originally designed to

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