Geotextiles comprise either woven or non-woven fabrics produced mainly from
polypropylene strand & fibre and are mainly used for essential landscape stabilisation,
erosion control, construction & infrastructure projects such as road & railways.
Woven geotextiles are produced on massive industrial looms whereas non-wovens are
commonly manufactured using a “needle-punch” method which uses needles to produce a
felt material, some of these materials are up to 6000mm wide! Each type has its benefits
depending upon the characteristics required by the individual project such as porosity,
drainage, strength & longevity which may even mean that a mixture of the two types are
used.
Such projects can demand bespoke type & width of materials to be made at very short
notice & this is where JPT comes in, like no other core & tube manufacturer can - because
we run 24 hours per day. We were recently asked to make specific high strength cores on
which geotextile would be produced to be used for urgent repair of the Trans-Siberian
railway – the damage had been caused to the track-bed by melting permafrost, due to
climate change! The demand for non-standard width cores (The Trans-Siberian railway is a
wider width gauge than standard) was placed late on a Friday afternoon & the cured & dried
cores were delivered to the geotextile manufacturer on the following Tuesday having spent
essential drying time in our state-of-the-art drying facility – the largest & technically
advanced in the UK! Apparently, the non-woven geotextile was produced & delivered to site
in Siberia the very same week! Reliability has been woven into our Company core values!
New restrictions with regard to safety & environmental aspects on landfill sites are also
creating demand for such fabrics & we, at Just Paper Tubes, are eager to support that
demand.
We are pleased to have an involvement, in our own indirect way, in such infrastructure
projects as Crossrail, HS2 & hundreds of road improvement schemes all with the ultimate
aim of improving the environment & reducing the effects of climate change.
So, if you have a need for geotextile cores then just give us a call!
