Traditionally Gabions and mattresses are stone filled steel wire boxes that can be used as a form of modular block to protect slopes from erosion. It has been clearly demonstrated that gabions made from polymer grids can offer economic and technical benefits, particularly in river, lake and coastal applications where corrosion can be a problem with steel gabions.

The gabions are fabricated using ALFMESH; which is a diamond shape polymer mesh made from high density polyethylene with minimum 2% carbon black. The jointing of the ALFMESH panels is done on-site using specially made HDPE braid with breaking load in excess of 200kg. This braid has similar property as ALFMESH, such as, resistance to corrosion, tensile strength, and optimum evenly dispersed carbon black content. ALYAF polymer gabions offer economic and technical benefits, particularly in river, lake, coastal as well as flood control applications where corrosion can be a problem with steel gabions.