The Powerflex brand was established back in 1996 to take advantage of the significant advances made in the development of polyurethane. Their parent company had wide experience of automotive suspension and chassis systems and combined these design skills with advanced polyurethane manufacturing techniques to develop the wide range of high performance automotive polyurethane bushes now known the world over as Powerflex. The company operates from a self-contained state of the art factory, manufacturing everything inhouse. Component manufacturing is carried out with the latest automatic processing equipment ensuring 100% right first time quality. The stainless steel components are machined on the latest computer controlled equipment to ensure perfect repeatability and quality. Testing of new components is carried out both on the vehicle and on test rigs. Technical The answer to the degradation of rubber bushes is Polyurethane. It has been with us as a specialised plastic for some forty years but advances in the 90's made it possible to engineer very special properties into this exciting material. First, polyurethane does not age like rubber and from new is 25-30% stiffer, thus providing much better suspension control. Secondly, harder bushes used to mean increased NHV (noise, vibration and harshness) but polyurethane has the same noise absorbing properties as rubber, hence the best of both worlds! Warranty
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Suspension bushes are some of the most highly
stressed components on a motor vehicle.
They undergo enormous strains in the most
arduous of conditions with no maintenance
or lubrication and are manufactured from a rubber
compound containing natural products which
deteriorates with age. It becomes softer and
more pliable over time, allowing more
movement of suspension components
and therefore less control over the
suspension geometry. This
causes accelerated tyre wear, braking instability
and poor handling. It is the main reason
a three
year old car feels so different to drive than a brand new one. 
