Market Information

Local Manufacturer
Sail Crest Industry Sdn Bhd, Selangor.

The Potential Market in Malaysia
There are places identified to install the NR road humps, among which are school entrance, hospitals and parking entrance in hotels or shopping complexes. As for potential market in Kuala Lumpur vicinity, there are about 290 primary and secondary schools, 76 hotels and 8 government hospitals: two road humps can be installed at each place; one at the entrance and another one at the exit.

Based on Market Development and Promotion Unit’s observation, within Mid Valley Mega Mall area, one of the largest shopping center in Kuala Lumpur, they are already 46 strips of road humps which was installed at parking lots. The management should install more road humps because the current ones are insufficient. The other prospective user is PLUS Highway. The 800km highway has 79 interchanges, where NR road humps can be installed upon reaching the toll gates at each interchange. There can also be promoted to other highway concessionaires such as Lebuhraya Damansara-Puchong, Second Link, KESAS Highway, New Pantai Expressway, Lebuhraya Pantai Timur and others.

The next target market includes the municipal authorities, parking-lot operators and organizations involved with road safety, seeking means to enforce car speed limits at critical traffics zones, usually in urban areas. The local traffic authorities must be responsible for the design and placement of road humps. Rubber road humps was designed to give a smooth ride to drivers who obey speed limits. Currently, road hump are used at residential areas, shopping complex parking lots and small roads. Those products have good potential market in Malaysia. Rubber road hump must be promoted to all states in Malaysia through municipalities / government agencies / authorities concerned either big town or small town. The current entire old road hump must be replaced with the NR road humps.

Prospects
Road humps have been extensively used throughout identified areas as a measure to reduce the high level of personal injury accident at identifies hotspots. The road humps should be installed at the core zone which that area has increased pedestrian and non-motorised transport activity and more turning movements. The safety counter measures in this region are used to either visually or physically enforce lower speed and to remind drivers of the danger arising, e.g. schools, junctions, etc. They also must be located where there is a need for pedestrians to cross and ensure low speeds. The aim is to increase pedestrian conspicuity to drivers.


Testing

Test required for rubber compound.

1. Tensile properties
   Unaged
   Aged: 3 days @ 100°C
   
2. Hardness (IRHD)
   Unaged
   Aged: 3 days @ 100°C
   
3. Trouser Tear strength
   
4. Ozone resistance
   Ozone concentration 50 pphm, 20% strain, temperature 40°C and time 96 hours
   
5. Abrasion AIR %
   
6. Rebound resilience %
   
7. Total Colour different “rE ”

The above test are available at Physical Testing Laboratory of Malaysian Rubber Board.