I suggest that you go with an established technology that is proven to work and do not run to test out products from a company that can fold in 2 years after it exhausted its start-up money or because the material was long enough on the market to start falling apart. Replacing plastic with cloth rim tape is a good idea. The cloth is inexpensive and will last the lifetime of a wheel while the plastic can break and/or shift.
Who said it is not established technology? Maybe you do not use it dayly but others do! Pneumatic tyres as a tecnology is actually younger than compact tyres if you think back! Such tyres is used in big quantitys all over the world every day, like in wheel chairs, walkers and strollers.
The punctures is not the OP`s only problem, also pumping a tyre is and that should be done approx once a week under normal conditions. If this company spend all its lunch money and go out of buisness, what is the problem? Buy from a different company next time, there is plenty of them out there.
This tecnology are about to take the whole marked for wheelbarrow wheels here becouse peopel can not be bothered to pump and repair them. As a result a huge amount of perfectly good ones go in the dumpster every week. Shops has started selling replacement wheels w compact tyres. Maby most of us utility cyclists are just being conservative?
Conservative is not always the same as smart.
Edit for more: There is a discussion in the folding bike forums just now
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...for-a-Brompton , somebody is struggeling w plenty flats on a Brompton.
Here member "jur" says;
"You might also consider solid tubes/tyres - while not as good as air tubes, they have improved very much over the years and will give you peace of mind." In the folder forum we listen to jur, he knows his buisness and only speak when he has something useful to say.