Sometimes our customers are trying to source rope from HEIGHTECH that would be suitable for use in an environment that may contain hydrofluoric acid.

There are real problems with giving 'definitive' recommendations on this. It may not appear to be a particularly hard question to answer, but it is.

If the question was one of ultimate strength of a new rope, or the measured effect when exposed to a specific concentration of a chemical in lab conditions, then there is technical information from rope manufacturers that allows a limited answer to be given.

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