Performance Materials

For many years the Saffil business concentrated on the manufacture and sale of Saffil high alumina fibre in bulk and mat forms. However, since 1997 the business has reinvented itself as a provider of material solutions to customers' high temperature, high performance problems.

Saffil now has an extensive and innovative product portfolio with proven performance in:

• the automotive catalytic converter support mat and insulation market. Ecoflex® is:
  • Enabling technology for canning evermore fragile thin and ultra thin wall ceramic monoliths
    
  • Enabling technology for Close Coupled and Light Off Converters to exceed global regulatory demands
    
  • Enabling Technology for Diesel Converters operating at lower temperatures in the ever growing diesel market
    
  • Enabling Technology for Diesel Particulate Filters to remove the very fine particulate in diesel exhaust gases
    
  • Enabling Technology for reduced Package size in Converter and End Cone insulation
    
• the selective re-enforcement of metal alloys, for use in high performance applications. Ecoform® is used:
  
  • where wear resistance or structural integrity requires improvement.
    
• the ceramic, iron and steel, and petrochemical industries, supplying furnace/kiln lining and seal solutions, and involvement in the fabrication of hard ceramic boards and shapes for lining, structures and consumables
  
• in the aerospace industry where high performance, lightweight insulation and seal materials are needed.
  
• in speciality markets where unique approaches are needed to solve catalyst support problems, high temperature aggressive filtration problems or problems that exist in high temperature high performance situations which require a special solution.