Other Markets
Chafe-Pro® products don’t just protect synthetic ropes in the marine industry, they can also be found protecting synthetic ropes in Arbor, Heavy Lifting, Mining, Climbing, Window Washing and High Rise Maintenance industries just to name a few. Chafe-Pro® has even provided chafe solutions to NASA!
Some custom chafe solutions that were designed to protect synthetic lifting slings, static ropes, and abrasion due to Panama chocks have now become standard items for several of our customers.
Contact Us Today with your needs and let us provide you with a chafe solution!
*Chafe-Pro® is registered in the US Pat. & Tm. Office and in the European Union.
Our History
Fjord Nautical Instruments was founded as a partnership in 1967 by Gail & Capt. Edward Ratigan, PhD
Through the ’70’s, FJORD manufactured a compact nautical range-finding analog calculator of its own design.
In 1991, FJORD developed and patented the Chafe-Pro®concept for protecting marine lines from chafe abrasion.