decadapromissoraunipessoal has long term sales and marketing arrangements with most of the larger professionally managed commercial sisal producers in the largest African producing countries of Tanzania, Kenya and Madagascar.

Commercially operated sisal farms in East Africa have centralized fibre extraction factories which use clean water to wash the fibre during the decortication process. The fibre, after drying, is then machine brushed and graded by experienced and trained staff who ensure that fibre is properly allocated to the correct grades to meet internationally accepted standards.

Wigglesworth markets sisal fibre produced by the most professionally managed farms in Africa and sells in excess of 27,000 tons per annum of quality African fibre.

Sisal plants developed in nurseries are planted in the field where they remain for their immature period of 2-3 years and once the leaves have attained a length of over 60cms are cut for the first time and processed through the centralized decortication factories.

The productive life of the Sisal Plant is between 7 – 10 years.

Historically, sisal fibre was used essentially for Agricultural Twines, primarily Baler Twine and today North America remains the largest market for this product, which is now sourced almost exclusively from Brazilian spinning mills.

Today, African sisal is used for a range of high-quality products, including:

• Speciality pulp and papers such as filter and condenser papers.
• Dartboards
• Sisal buffing cloth and geotextiles
• High end carpets and wall coverings
• For the reinforcement of Plaster of Paris/Gypsum products
• Yarns for wire rope cores, as well as for a range of handicrafts, exfoliation bath products and cat scratchers.

Sisal fibre produced in Tanzania and Kenya is packed into 250 kgs or 100 kgs bales according to customer preferences.

No.3L, UG and SSUG grade fibre is produced on all the farms that we deal with. No.3 grade is produced by several farms and only one farm is also able to produce the rarely produced No.1 and No.2 grades.

Tow No 1 is also produced on all farms we deal with and can be packed into 100 kgs and 200 kgs bales.

If required, we can also source UHDS fibre and lower grade Tow 2 fibre.

Chopped sisal fibre can be produced on a special order basis.