Hyosung introduced its superlight aramid bulletproof helmet at ‘Eurosatory 2016’ in Paris in which it participated in a big way. This product is attracting worldwide defense industry attention.
The Eurosatory is the world largest ground weapon exhibition, and this year about 1,500 companies from 53 countries from all over the world joined it.
By introducing the aramid ALKEX, developed independently by Hyosung, aramid fabric safety of which was certified by a research institute of the US Department of Justice (NIJ: National Institute of Justice) and final products that made use of ALKEX on the basis of newly developed technology, Hyosung had a chance to extend the PR target to the bulletproof product makers.
During the exhibition, Hyosung did marketing activities for the major companies of the advanced market of bulletproof industry – Europe and the US – and had business meetings with about 50 companies.
In particular, as the ‘superlight aramid bulletproof helmet’ introduced for the first time at this exhibition reduced the weight by more than 10 per cent while keeping the bulletproof performance of the previous aramid helmets, interest of the industry is focused on the helmet.
Hyosung is leading in developing performance improvement solutions for the aramid-applied products, and the newly developed weight lightening technology can be diversely applied to bulletproof jackets as well as helmets.
As the bulletproof industry recently has much interest in and demand for weight lightening, this technology is anticipated to be highly usable and, at the same time, enter the high value-add product market.
Mr. Cho Hyun-sang, Head of Industrial Materials PG, said: “Under the circumstances the concern for safety is growing all over the world, we are able to ensure customers’ safety and activity by providing the highly related bulletproof technology. We will continue to respond pre-emptively to the market through investigating customer needs and provide safe and highly functional aramid yarn on the basis of trust obtained through quality certification.”
On the other hand, at this ‘Eurosatory 2016’, the Korea-France Industry and Military Joint Committee Meeting was held with attendees from the Korea Defense Acquisition Program Administration, Korea Defense Industry Association and the French International Cooperation Development Center of the Defense Procurement Agency, to introduce defense companies of each country and discuss co-operation plans between the two countries.
On the occasion, Director Lee Shi-yeon of the Aramid Business Division, Hyosung Industrial Material PG, explained the bulletproof performance of ALKEX by introducing Hyosung’s aramid ALKEX and the bulletproof technology to the French Department of Defense.