BMP Product Range

Engineered Polyurethane Elastomers

Liquid and spun cast urethanes are unique elastomeric materials that bridge the gap between highly extensible rubber elastomers and low elongation rigid plastics. Although relatively light in weight, products manufactured from cast urethane exhibit high mechanical toughness and chemical resistance when compared to other rubber and plastic materials.

The first process in the manufacture of spun cast Polyurethane is the metering, mixing and de-gassing of the base polymer systems. The precisely controlled Gforces generated within the spin casting process ensures inclusion free urethane with enhanced clarity and superior dimensional stability.

BMP manufactures a wide range of Polyurethane Elastomer products from Squeegee blades for the Screen Printing Industry, paper transport rollers for digital printing equipment to drive gears for a variety of mechanical applications;

Cleaning, Charge Metering & Solvent Metering Blades for Digital Printing Equipment

Cleaning Blades are used as a wiping device to remove residual toner from the Photoreceptor device in digital printing equipment so that the next image can be formed.

BMP employ specific polymer chemistry and part metrology to suit every drum/toner combination in order to achieve desired print life. Softer system formulations are also available enabling consistently high image quality and good toner yield. For new blade applications, BMP is able to offer rapid tooling development and sampling via its Asian manufacturing facility. Polyurethane may be accurately mounted to custom designed pressed metal or extruded aluminium supports using either cyanoacrylate, polyurethane adhesive or a range of pressure sensitive adhesive tapes.

Squeegee Blades

Squeegee blades control the flow of solvent and UV based printing inks through a tightly meshed screen onto a substrate. The substrate to be imaged may be extremely diverse from paper and cardboard through to vinyls and glass.

BMP's range of flowprint Squeegee blades exhibit minimal swelling whilst maintaing hardness, resilience and abrasion resistance throughout life. BMP's SureEdge cutting process and vision inspection control means that the functional edge of flowprint Squeegee blades can be maintained within a maximum radius of 0.003 mm.

Paper Transport Rollers

BMP's range of TransThane paper transport rollers are manufactured from a hybrid cross linked cast polyurethane system.

TransThane rollers exhibit exceptional chemical resistance and are extremely stable at elevated levels of temperature and humidity. Demanding environments that preclude the use of traditional EPDM products are ideal applications for TransThane rollers, where abrasion and continuous temperature resistance are key.

Silicone Sponge Rollers

Silicone sponge rollers are utilised in a wide variety of equipment as high temperature nip rolls or paper guidance and de-culer applications in several types of office automation machinery.