Solution: Pure meltblown polypropylene oil absorbing booms
Brady Corporation’s SPC Group also answered the call for supplies from Polygreen,
and immediately ramped up floating oil absorbing spill boom production.
Polygreen had already identified spill booms as an ideal solution to protect the
Mauritian shoreline. Alternatives such as inflatable booms would not last long
against sharp coral rock, and fence booms might cause additional drag damage to
the already imperiled local marine ecosystem.
SPC produced 2760 metres of spill booms within 2 days after Polygreen’s order, all
of them with 100% pure and traceable boom-material. The next day, they were on
their way to Mauritius, where they would enable Polygreen to absorb up to 62 100
litres of oil from the sea.
Made out of pure melt blown polypropylene, SPC spill booms absorb oil, not
seawater, and they stay afloat, even when fully saturated, or after being damaged
by sharp coral and rock formations. The product enabled Polygreen to protect parts
of the Mauritian shoreline and to contain the oil spill with a floating dam, effectively
stopping more oil from reaching the shore and damaging valuable ecosystems.
Once in place, the spill booms also prevented the oil spill from breaking into multiple
smaller spills, which would have further increased shore protection complexity.
