Filled geotextile dewatering tube on a project site

South African manufacture · Africa-wide supply

Dewatering bags & tubes.
Made in South Africa.

Stock for urgent requirements. Custom tubes for bigger campaigns. Compare woven, monofilament and composite filters for sediment, fines and difficult slurries across Africa.

105 / 105 kN/m

HF105 nominal fabric tensile

15 m × 30 m

Maximum tube circumference × length

3 fabric constructions

Woven · Monofilament · Composite

Choose by feed and format. View the grade data and confirm the finished-system specification for your project.

A South African project reference

Custom tubes.
A complete dewatering area.

On the Durban project, Geosynthetics Africa combined custom monofilament tube manufacture with protection, lining and site installation.

10
Custom tubes
2,300 m²
HDPE lining
2,500 m²
Protection geotextile

Documented supply and installation scope, rather than a guaranteed result for another feed.

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Installed monofilament dewatering tube on the Durban project

Choose your format. Move your project forward.

Dewatering bags

Dewatering bags

Standard 1 m × 1 m × 1 m format and custom bags. Confirm the filter, inlet, quantity and current stock.

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Project-scale tubes

Project-scale tubes

Custom dimensions up to 15 m circumference × 30 m length. Plan solids loading, drainage and the campaign layout.

Plan your tube campaign →
Estimate dry solids, cake volume and your unit requirement →

Start with the feed

The right fabric starts
with your slurry.

Explore by material, application or dimensions. Compare the candidate construction, then confirm performance with representative testing.

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Find your starting point

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Fabric technologies

Three constructions.
One dewatering specialism.

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01 / FLOWTEX

HF woven

Slit-film polypropylene fabrics with nominal tensile classes of 45, 60 and 105 kN/m in both directions. Compare structural strength and hydraulic properties.

45 / 45 to 105 / 105 kN/m

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02 / FLOWTEX

Monofilament

Structured PP and PE woven filters with 180, 350 and 600 µm O90 options. Match opening size and drainage to the actual feed.

180–600 µm O90

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03 / FLOWTEX

Composite

A continuous-filament nonwoven filtration liner within a woven structural shell. Balanced and finer-filtering options, selected through trials.

85–100 µm liner O90

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Fabricated FlowTex geotextile dewatering bag

Manufactured to your specification

Bring the slurry.
We’ll work through the specification.

  • Feed characterisation and trial requirements
  • Fabric, liner, seams and reinforced ports
  • Dimensions, support and filtrate collection
  • Operating limits and handling arrangements
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Start your project

Tell us what you
need to dewater.

Check stock, request a fabrication quotation or discuss a trial. Include material, volume or flow, solids concentration, dimensions, quantity, destination and required date.

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