Microfibrous materials technology can be used to develop both personal protection equipment and collective protection equipment. Some of the products for which it can be used as the enabling filter technology include:

• Escape hoods. Foldable, lightweight, pocket-sized disposable hoods offer portability and broad protection for first responders, government, and civilian use. They also offer longer gas life and less pressure drop than current state-of-the-art Department of Defense (DOD) technology.

• Polishing sorbent. Our media can be easily inserted into current configurations of DOD and commercial gas mask canisters, providing dramatically increased gas life without increasing pressure drop.

• Regenerative filter and sorbent canisters. These canisters continuously stop and mitigate nuclear, biological, and chemical threat. They can be incorporated into the HVAC system of any structure (such as a critical government building, military facility, embassy, or commercial airplane), to provide broader protection than has been previously available at a significantly reduced operating and logistical cost over the life of the structure.

MicroLobalFibers are fabricated with a special process that results in an irregular cross section and multiple lobed sides to increase overall surface area for a given fiber diameter rating. Depending on the application, the increase in surface area can range from 30% to 400%. This means that, compared with conventional circular cross-section fibers of equivalent diameter, MicroLobal Fibers can offer smaller pore size for better filtration, wet-lay ups with thinner cross-sections for manufacturing, and better electro-magnetic shielding.

• Available in a variety of alloys and formats. Fabricated from the finest commercial and research alloys, MicroLobal Fibers are available in a variety of formats, including continuous tow, yarn or chopped in lengths as small as 1 millimeter. Shorter lengths are available on a "best efforts" basis. We offer a variety of stock diameters ranging from 1.5 to 50 micrometers.

• Certified, Sampled and Archived to Assure Quality. MicroLobal Fibers are manufactured to the most exacting specifications and tolerances by an experienced team of chemists, engineers and metallurgists. Certification of chemical content, fiber transverse dimension measurement and fiber size distribution are available, as required. We sample and archive our products along with the processing variable data to assure product traceability to raw material constituents.