The document provides an overview of Cortland Synthetic Fiber Lifting Slings, a division of Actuant that specializes in designing and manufacturing high performance braided ropes and assemblies using synthetic fibers like HMPE. Cortland offers two main types of synthetic fiber lifting slings - Selantic round slings and Puget Sound Rope slings made from Plasma rope. These slings provide advantages over traditional wire rope slings by being lighter weight, more flexible, and resistant to corrosion.

1. Cortland Synthetic Fiber Lifting Slings 2011

4. Seismic Tow Cables Heavy Lift Deepwater Umbilicals ROV Tugboat Ropes Heavy Lift Sling Utility Lines Diving Bell Specialty Rope & Cable Subsea work-over/control Safety lines & tethers Cortland Applications

17. Heavy lift Selantic slings

18. What we can do at Cortland / Selantic Make specialty round slings up to 2000 Te MBL from high modulus synthetic fibers

21. Heavy lift Plasma Rope slings

22. What we can do at Courtland / PSR Make vertical lift Plasma rope slings from up to 2233 Te in an eye-to-eye configuration or 3685 Te MBL in an endless grommet u

26. Rope Design and Construction Patented 12 x 12 rope construction

28. Cortland / PSR 12 x 12 construction

30. A rope lifting sling Plasma 12x12 rope sling with specialty chafe gear on eyes and body 120mm diameter

32. Plasma 12 x 12 sling configurations Eye-to-eye sling Endless grommet sling

34. Plasma rope sling standards - bending If bending is a consideration for the sling, the angle of the lift on the sling and the size of the pin or object being lifted can seriously effect the MBL of the Lifting Sling. Angles and D: d ratio, (described as the ratio of the diameter around which the sling is bent divided by the sling body diameter of a single leg sling, or the component rope diameter in a multi-part sling), must be factored in the determination of a DF(Design Factor) to create a WLL (Work Load Limit) D = the diameter of the bend and d = the nominal diameter of the sling.

35. Plasma rope sling standards - bending The D: d ratio has a significant effect on the rated capacity of the sling when the sling is wrapped or bent around the object being lifted. Whenever a rope is bent around a diameter, the strength of the rope is decreased Synthetic rope and round slings offer a significant advantage over steel wire ropes in this bending factor due to many factors including better flex fatigue performance: e.g. wire rope slings typically need a D:d bend ratio of 18:1 or greater. Synthetic fiber rope slings, depending on the fiber used, necessitate a typical D: d ratio as low as 2:1 – 8:1.

36. Support Technical Material Plasma 12 x 12 rope sling Usage Manual

37. Offshore installation ropes Plasma Slings