CROWLEY - JohnPac, Inc. in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, has designed an alternative absorbent boom from the same manufacturing process used in making bags for other dry materials such as seed, grain, rice and sand. The design is very effective and lightweight.
The polypropylene attracts the oil without absorbing the water with it. When the JohnPac boom is deployed, it can hold up to ten times it’s weight in oil and the boom is significancy cheaper than the more scarce traditional absorbent boom.
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