Alginate and Micropake medical fibres

Speciality Fibres and Materials is committed to the development and manufacture of fibres and their application to customised solutions.

Advanced alginate-based wound care soloutions

Our products include absorbent and gelling calcium alginate fibres and Micropake® — an X-ray detectable yarn that meets European Standards for radiopacity.

Learn more about our alginate medical fibres

Learn more about our micropake medical fibres

Turning your ideas and concepts into marketable products

We specialise in transforming concepts into marketable products. Our people are innovators working at the edge of emerging fibre and fabric research technologies to deliver ground breaking solutions.

Learn more about wet spinning

Learn more about melt spinning

Case Studies - read about our development successes

We work in partnership with our customers to develop leading edge fibre technologies. When faced with development challenges we solve them in practical and innovative ways.

Read our case study on sorbsan

Read our case study on micropake

Our products have made a significant impact on our customers' businesses in a variety of industries worldwide. Our unique and patented gel forming fibres played a major role in revolutionising woundcare.

For further information on our products and services please visit our downloads section or feel free to contact us on +44 (0)24 7670 8200 — find out how we can help you today.