FIBROLINE

Executive Summary

- Fibroline is an engineering company, which developed and patented a revolutionary dry process allowing to impregnate powder form materials into porous structures (fibres, foams…) thanks to high intensity alternating electric fields.

- Applications cover a vast market from cosmetics, medical, to insulating or structural panels. A large number of companies are currently testing the process/products in those various fields.

- Process is fully industrialized. Key benefits are an important cost reduction and the possibility of creating new products

- Fibroline helps the “sustainable growth” efforts of its clients by:
Suppressing water use and pollution
Reducing considerably energy consumption
Eliminating many personal health risks caused for instance by VOC.
Facilitating environmental regulations establishment (REACH…)

- Fibroline sells licences together with complete production lines manufactured by a Swiss equipment manufacturer. Fibroline’s business model is flexible and adapted to each customer.

- Since 2003, Fibroline is supported by OSEO (French State Agency which supports its R&D efforts), and receives important subsidies from French state as young innovating enterprise

- At end of 2007, the company spent a total of € 7 millions mainly on the development of the process and for patents expenses

- Fibroline proposes to its customer turnkey solutions in terms of process as well as product which are protected by a number of patents.
The basic patent (see - Policy) belongs to the mother company of Fibroline, Materials Technics Holding, Luxemburg.