Forty-seven years on the bench in Tacoma, Washington
Engineered cordage · est. 1979

Engineered rope, matched
to your application.

Forty-seven years building cordage for offshore platforms, Naval fleets, arborists and rescue teams. Every spool leaves Tacoma with the lot it was tested against — because that's how rope ought to be sold.

47Years on the bench
312Distributors worldwide
100%Lot pull-test rate
Forge HM-12 12-strand HMPE · offshore Break strength 198,000 lb
The bench · 03 inputs

Tell the bench what you need.
It will name the rope.

Three short questions cross-referenced against six hundred and forty active SKUs. The matched construction comes back with its full pull-test certificate, ready to spec on a job ticket.

i. Application Mooring Towing · Lifting · Rigging · Safety
ii. Environment Offshore Saltwater · Industrial · Subzero
iii. Working load 25 – 80k lb 5–25k · 80–250k · 250k+
A match —

Forge HM-12,
two-inch coil.

A 12-strand high-modulus polyethylene line. Floats. Splices like rope, lifts like wire. Twenty-three years in the catalogue, never reformulated.

Open the spec sheet
Diameter2.0in
Min. break load198klb
Stretch @ 30%3.2%
Weight0.74lb/ft
Built for the work · 08 of 14

The fleets and teams
who run our cordage.

Three lines · one spec sheet each

Constructions we've kept
unchanged for years.

No SKU sprawl. Three constructions, each pull-tested in our Tacoma facility before it ships. The numbers below are minimum break loads — not catalogue claims.

12-strand
Our floating hawser —

Forge HM-12

High-modulus polyethylene for offshore mooring and heavy industrial pulls. Splices like rope, lifts like wire.

Diameter range¾ – 4 in
MBL (2 in)198,000 lb
Stretch @ 30%3.2 %
Weight0.74 lb/ft
HMPEOffshoreFloats
Open the spec sheet
Static kernmantle
Our life-safety line —

Forge SK-11

NFPA-rated life safety and rescue rope. Low-stretch core for vertical work and rope rescue.

Diameter range7 – 12.7 mm
MBL (11 mm)9,250 lbf
Stretch @ 10%1.6 %
Weight0.057 lb/ft
NFPA 1983StaticRescue
Open the spec sheet
The work behind the spec

Pull-tested.
Lot-traced.
No marketing math.

Every batch leaves Tacoma with a pull-test certificate. Every claim on a spec sheet is backed by the lot it shipped from. We publish the numbers we'd be willing to accept on a job.

  • i.

    Lot-level traceability

    Every coil ships with the pull-test number it was destructively sampled against. Twenty-three years of records, indexed and searchable.

  • ii.

    In-house engineering desk

    Talk to a working rigger. Splices, terminations, design factors reviewed by a senior before the order ships.

  • iii.

    ISO 9001 + MIL-DTL audited

    Quality system audited annually. Defense lines compliant with MIL-DTL-43511 and traceable end-to-end.

L-24-018 · iv.
204,800 lb · failure
Pull-test L-24-018 Forge HM-12 · 2.0 in · April 2026
1.4MLargest minimum break load we've shipped, in pounds.
47Years building cordage on the same Tacoma floor.
312Stocking distributors across fourteen countries.
100%Lot pull-test pass rate, last twenty-four months.
Where to buy

Find a distributor
in your basin.

Three hundred and twelve stocking distributors across fourteen countries. Drop in a ZIP or a port — we'll route you to the nearest one carrying the construction you need.

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