Episode Details

Allen and Joel are joined by Will Howell from Armour Edge in Edinburgh, Scotland. They discuss how Armour Edge’s semi-rigid polymer shields protect against leading edge erosion in harsh environments, the simplified installation process designed for rope access technicians, and the company’s expansion into North American manufacturing ahead of the 2026 blade season.

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Allen Hall: Will welcome back to the program. 

Will Howell: Thanks so much for having me guys. Nice to see you. 

Allen Hall: So Edinborough is the home of Armor Edge. 

Will Howell: Yes, indeed. 

Allen Hall: Yeah. And we went to visit your facility a couple of days ago.

Really impressive. There’s a lot going on there.

Will Howell: Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. So the, we’ve been in the facility for, um, a couple of years now, and it’s really just all part of our expansion as we continue to.

To, uh, grow as a business? 

Allen Hall: Uh, well the thing that struck me first was efficiency. If you’re gonna be in wind, do you need to be efficient? 

Will Howell: Yeah, 

Allen Hall: exactly. You have 

Will Howell: to 

be, 

Will Howell: look, we know that we are a, a relatively small team, but we’re, we are, we are very reactive and we are gonna be always responding to the, the requests.

The, the market drive for us internationally now is where we are really focusing. And even though we’ve got our small base from there, we’re exporting internationally around the world. And so. Yeah, I’m, I’m, I’m glad you guys came by and kind of saw what we’re up to. 

Joel Saxum: If we could ask one thing, this is what we would ask.

Turn up the heat. Turn down the wind. Turn off the rain. 

Will Howell: Yeah, I’m [00:01:00] sorry about that. Yeah. Yeah, it’s, uh, there’s not much we can do about that at the moment. 

Joel Saxum: Well, I’ll tell you what, if, if you’re talking leading Edge protection products, leading edge protection shield. Born from an area that’s rainy, that has heavy rain erosion, that understand