USCG Approved Marine Grade SOLAS Reflective Tape Manufacturer

Quick Details of SOLAS Reflective Tape

Product item: KW-XT9000

Size: 5cm*45.7m per roll (can be customized)

Durability: 3 years

Surface film: PC/ Acrylic

Reflective Tech: Glass Bead

Color: Silver

Feature: Waterproof, High Visibility, Strong Adhesive

Application: Sea rescue equipment, life jackets, life rafts, floating equipment

KWVINYL SOLAS Reflective Tape Product Description

SOLAS Reflective Tape is known as the “safety of life at sea reflective tape”, SOLAS marine grade reflective tape is a highly reflective marking system designed specifically for the marine environment. It’s perfect for helmets and round surfaces.

It is thin, highly adhesive, and provides a bright reflective surface (encapsulated glass particles) KWVINYL’s SOLAS Reflective Tape has been approved by the US Coast Guard and is specifically designed to enhance the visibility of life jackets, life preservers, life jackets, and inflatable life rafts in the marine environment.

The SOLAS Reflective Safety Tape For Marine Product is intended for reflectorizing SOLAS life support equipment such as life vests, jackets, and rafts. It reflects any incident light and amplifies it to provide enhanced nighttime reflected visible brightness in dark areas, especially poorly lit areas of the road.

If you spend a lot of time on the road hiking, jogging, biking, or driving, then this tape is for you! It attaches to boats, helmets, hard hats, bike wheels or handles, RV, truck or trailer bumpers, backpacks, as well as vests and nylon accessories.

There is no room for error on the water. Once someone is in the water and in trouble, time speeds up and every second counts more than ever. Sailors prepare retro reflective SOLAS approved tape in advance and attach it to emergency equipment, ditch bags, etc. The sailors also make sure that they are ready to use it.

They also cut a strip along the muddy sides and keel as early as needed. Their goal is to see people, equipment, and boats more clearly in dim or dark conditions, even in the event of an overturning. Note: Only the strongest adhesives can make this work confident.

SOLAS stands for “Safety of Life at Sea” and is used in the marine environment to assist in search and rescue operations. The tape can be used on amusement rides, sailboats, lifeboats, rafts, life jackets, lifebuoys, and other objects so that rescuers can find them in the water.

Reflective Tape is designed for enhancing visibility in low light and nighttime conditions. Certified for IMO & US Coast Guard life vests and similar applications

• Pressure-sensitive adhesive application.
• SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) Certified.
• SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) is intended for life support equipment such as life vests, jackets, and rafts.

KW Vinyl SOLAS Grade conforms to Marine Equipment Directive 96/98/EC and International Maritime Organization (IMO) Resolution A.658(16) Annex 2.

It is approved by the U.S. Coast Guard to meet 46 CFR part 164, Subpart 164.018 for Type I and II retroreflective material used to enhance visibility of life-saving equipment in the nighttime, or low-light conditions.

Feature Of SOLAS Marine Grade Retroreflective Tape

KWVINYL Retro Reflective Tape is used to reflect the light of SOLAS life-saving equipment such as life vests, jackets, and rafts.KWVINYL Solas Marine Reflective Tape is an encapsulated lens type film with a flexible and highly transparent plastic film.

Our tape has been specially designed for the marine and offshore industries. It ensures long-lasting durability, high gloss, and protection against delamination.

All products consist of an encapsulated lens optical design, which provides high reflectivity at various angles of incidence in dry or wet conditions. In daylight viewing conditions, all products are silver in color and reflect bright white.

The main difference between SOLAS and other reflective tapes is the brightness. SOLAS has a Candela rating of over 1000. as you can see on the number plate, the standard engineer grade sheet is around 75. this very high reflectivity allows the tape to see thousands of feet instead of hundreds.

In search and rescue operations, the extremely high reflectivity provided by SOLAS tape can mean the difference between life and death. The second difference is the strength of the bond – KWVINYL SOLAS has an aggressive adhesive of 5 mils, compared to 2.5 mils for other KWVINYL films. This extra adhesive comes in handy when the tape is applied to non-standard surfaces such as wood or pitting metal.

The reflective tape is coated with an aggressive pressure-sensitive adhesive. It is easily applied to flexible or rigid surfaces. It performs well in both wet and dry conditions and improves the visibility of life-saving equipment such as life jackets, jackets, rafts, and other fabrics. It is USCG-approved and meets SOLAS requirements.

It complies with the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) regulations. It complies with A.658(16) and with the US Coast Guard Code 46 CFR Part 164, Subpart 164.018 / 5/0. It has been approved by numerous national authorities around the world.

Protective equipment for inclement weather, trench bags, PFDs, and other safety gear for night observation. SOLAS reflective membranes are used in a wide range of applications in addition to the marine environment.

Motorbike riders and bicycle riders use it to increase their visibility of vehicles. Also, its ability to cut through blind snow makes it popular on snowmobiles and snow markers. If you really want to be seen, KWVINYL SOLAS Tape will do the trick.

• SOLAS 1″ and 2″ x 150″ rolls. Coast Guard Approved Marine Tape is the toughest and brightest tape on the market.
• It has a very strong adhesive that will stick to almost anything.
• Our flexible SOLAS tape is specifically designed to increase the visibility of life jackets, ring buoys, survival suits, buoys, markers, rain suits, backpacks, jackets, and a variety of other objects in marine and land environments.
• It is also very popular for motorcycles and bikes due to its extreme reflectivity.
• SOLAS tape is an 8 mil thick, flexible, UV stabilized, weather-resistant polymeric film with glass bead retroreflective elements. This material is designed to withstand the harsh marine environment and extreme cold.
• The tape is IMO Type I and II certified and meets USCG requirements for SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea).

For better service to our customers, we also accept special requirements for OEM/ ODM products. We have DOT and E-Mark certifications.

Recommendation On The Use And Fitting Of SOLAS Reflective Tape On Life-Saving Appliances

1. Lifeboat And Rescue Boats

SOLAS reflective tape should be fitted on top of the gunwale as well as on the outside of the boat as near the gunwale as possible. The materials should be sufficiently wide and long to give a minimum area of 150 cm 2 and should be spaced at suitable intervals (approximately 80 cm from center to center).

If a canopy is fitted, it should not be allowed to obscure the materials fitted on the outside of the boat, and the top of the canopy should be fitted with retro-reflective materials similar to those mentioned above and spaced at suitable intervals (approximately 80 cm center to entre). In the case of partially enclosed or totally enclosed lifeboats, such materials should be placed as follows:

• 1. For detection by horizontal light beams – at suitable intervals at half the height between the gunwale and the top of the fixed cover;
• 2. For detection by vertical light beams (e.g. from helicopters) – at suitable intervals around the outer portion of the horizontal (or comparable) part of the top of the fixed cover;
• 3. retro-reflective materials should also be fitted on the bottom of lifeboats and rescue boats which are not self-righting.

2. Liferafts

SOLAS reflective tape should be fitted around the canopy of the liferaft. The material should be sufficiently wide and long to give a minimum area of 150 cm 2 and should be spaced at suitable intervals (approximately 80 cm from center to center) at a suitable height above the waterline, doorways included, if suitable.

On inflatable liferafts, retro-reflective materials should also be fitted to the underside of the floor, cross-shaped in the center. The dimension of the cross should be half the diameter of the liferaft, and a similar cross should be applied to the top of the canopy.

On liferafts that are not equipped with canopies, materials that should be sufficiently wide and long (to give a minimum area of 150 cm 2 ) should be attached to the buoyancy chamber at suitable intervals (approximately 80 cm from center to center) in such a manner that they are visible both from the air and from a ship.

3. Lifebuoys

SOLAS reflective tape of sufficient width (approximately 5 cm) should be applied around or on both sides of the body of the lifebuoy at four evenly-spaced points.

4. Buoyant Apparatus

The buoyant apparatus should be fitted with retro-reflective materials in the same manner as liferafts without canopies, always depending on the size and shape of the object. Such materials should be visible both from the air and from a ship.

5. Lifejackets

Lifejackets should be fitted with patches of SOLAS reflective tape with a total area of at least 400 cm 2 distributed so as to be useful for search from air and surface craft from all directions. In the case of a reversible lifejacket, the arrangement should have complied with no matter which way the lifejacket is put on. Such material should be placed as high up on the lifejacket as possible.

6. Immersion Suits

Immersion suits should be fitted with patches of retro-reflective material with a total area of at least 400 cm² distributed so as to be useful for search from air and surface craft from all directions.

For an immersion suit that does not automatically turn the wearer face up, the back of the suit should be fitted with retro-reflective material with a total area of at least 100 cm².

General Remarks

1. Retroreflective materials should be such as will meet the minimum technical specification given in IMO A.658 (16) Annex 2

2. The illustrations reproduced in this article are intended to provide Administrations with examples from which guidance may be taken when fitting retro-reflective materials in accordance with these guidelines.

Reflective Tape Requirements

SOLAS Marine Reflective Tape Application and Technology — 13 requirements for IMO A658 (16): retroreflective performance and wet condition of retroreflective performance and artificial accelerated aging, seawater immersion, flexibility, tensile strength, adhesion, blocking resistance, salt spray test, antibacterial property, abrasion resistance, high and low-temperature test, anti-pollution and purification performance.

ECE 104 Reflective Tape Regulations: Since July 2011, Regulation ECE 104 has required that all newly registered over 7.5 tonnes of heavy trucks and more than 3.5 tonnes of trailers should have a reflective markup mark, clearly outline the rear and side of the vehicle, so as to improve its visibility.

DOT Reflective Tape Regulations: In fact, a report by NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), an agency under the United States Department of Transportation states that reflective tape can effectively reduce impacts into trailers by 29%.

KWVINYL is a reflective tape supplier and manufacturer in China. The main products are SOLAS Marine Reflective Tape, DOT Reflective Tape, ECE 104 Reflective Tape, Reflective Safety Tape, Reflective Heat Transfer Vinyl, Glow in the dark materials, and so on.

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