The fibres used to produce fishing nets have changed so much in the last three years. This is due to new extrusion technologies and the improvements in HTPE raw materials with a new range of additives that can improve strength, elongation to break and abrasion.

Euronete has been following all the new developments made in last few years in the technique of extruding new fibers, which is continually improving, and with the strong involvement of the R&D of the Group (Royal Lankhorst Euronete Group ) as well as the cooperation of polymers producers and machines makers, has achieved a new range of fibres that are based on HTPE, but differ a lot of the standard polyethylene fibres used for netting production in the past. This type of netting is still used today in some fishing trawls with good results when is needed the use of heavy twines due wear (strong abrasion).

These new types of netting are already known all over the world with different nick names -in the USA is called 'Banana netting' due to the good results achieved on bottom as well as in Pelagic Fishing.

Premium and Premium 'Plus' netting have successfully replaced nylon on the bellies and back ends of Pelagic Trawls built around the world and trawl makers from Korea, Russia, USA and Europe are using it successfully for this application.

The use of Premium and Premium 'Plus' on the bellies and the back end of the trawls is due to the lightness versus strength of these types of netting and also the good abrasion properties of these materials. Euronete will continue to develop and invest heavily in improving the fibres used on net production and new projects are already in place to continue improving fibres. Euronete hopes to be able to develop a fibre that can be tailor made for any particular application.

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