ICAP-SIRA is a family-owned company founded in 1945, dedicated to the production, development and commercialization of polymers and other chemical specialties for the textile and nonwovens, coatings and pressure sensitive adhesive markets.

Our mission is to enable creativity, to let our customers' ideas be transformed into real solutions. We strive so that our formulations ‒ which are innovative, sustainable and present in many everyday uses ‒ guarantee business continuity in a changing world

ICAP-SIRA is an international, innovative and flexible partner, that meets the needs of the global market and the customer requirements, providing a specialized and high qualified service, and a wide portfolio of synthetic products and formulations.

Four production plants, diversified and highly automated and an advanced and innovative Research and Development activity enable to formulate excellent products and to offer an integrated and efficient service to the customer, resulting in ICAP-SIRA’ s distinguishing and successful characteristicssuch as quality and quantity flexibility.

On the strength of its 75 years of market experience, ICAP-SIRA is constantly committed to the innovation and the sustainability of its products, investing in technology and safety. Our R&D laboratories are actively working in the development of new product lines using raw materials biodegradable and from renewable sources, with better environmental and safety profiles, taking into consideration the entire life circle from craddle to the disposal of the end article.

We serve the Textile and Nonwovens markets with development, production and sale of acrylic water-based emulsions ACRILEM®, and water-based polyurethane dispersions, IDROCAP ®. The IDROCAP ®series include CLEANCAP™, the newly born generation of Low VOC, and solvent free water based PUDs. We also have a full range of solvent based polyurethane and acrylic solutions, suitable for the production and finishing of synthetic leather, coated and laminated textiles and PVC: ICAFLEX ®, ACRIS ®, and a series of auxiliary chemicals including wetting agents, silicones, cross linkers, softeners, thickeners, finishing resins and compounds. We offer Application Systems for pigment printing IREOS® and breathable (ICAPORE®). In addition, we have a full range of pigment dispersions which can be used to color acrylic, polyurethanes, and also other types of resins such as saturated polyesters. Finally, we also supply neutral and pigmented Plastisol. In the textile and nonwovens markets our resins pigment pastes and auxiliaries are used in the following sectors:

Pigment Printing, Finishing, Coating, Flocking, Furniture, Garments, Footwear, Waddings and Nonwovens, Synthetic Leather, Technical Fabrics and Special Textile Applications.

Our formulations are compatible with the following Textile Marks/Standards applicable to finished textile products:

ZDHC
OEKO-TEX® Standard 100
CLEAR TO WEAR®
ECOLABEL®

ACRILEM®, IDROCAP®, CLEANCAP®, ICAFLEX ®, ACRIS® IREOS® , ICAPORE® , PLASTISOL® are Registered Trademarks of ICAP-SIRA Chemicals and Polymers S.p.A.