What is Noviun™ Fibre?

Performance fibres for riding surfaces

A world-class riding surface for any environment. The first and only plastic free, non-toxic, natural fibre blend. Noviun™ is the only engineered fibre that has been specifically designed for horse and rider and is not a recycled industrial product. This process has taken over a decade to perfect.

- Ben Maher MBE, 3 time Olympic Gold champion

I’ve been fortunate enough to ride and train on a Noviun Surfaces arena and canter track in Wellington, Florida and I’m thoroughly impressed with the performance and consistency they provide. The surface quality has exceeded expectations, offering reliability and top-tier performance for my horses. Noviun Surfaces were a great company to work with – professional, attentive, and committed to delivering the best. If you’re looking for the best in equestrian surfaces, look no further!

About Noviun Fibre

A world-class riding surface for any environment

Your horse deserves the best and our products deliver just that. With a focus on performance, safety and environmental stewardship, our natural footing solutions set a new standard.

Noviun™ performance fibre is specially designed to transform sand arenas and tracks into world-class riding surfaces. As the first product of its kind, Noviun™ outperforms conventional synthetic textiles by increasing absorption, decreasing concussion and providing optimal grip. What’s more, Noviun™ ensures no microplastic contamination in your footing, arena air or the surrounding watershed.

Compatible with various sand types and environments, Noviun™ is a crucial component to any sand arena. Experience the excellence of Noviun™ Fibre and create a sustainable and high-performance riding surface today.

Noviun™ Ingredients

Natural Fibre

Noviun™ is made with fast-growing natural fibres that act like roots in soil – creating structure and stability that increases your horses’ confidence underfoot. 

Natural Elastomer

Noviun™ includes natural biopolymers that reduce concussion and provide natural rebound to help maximize your horse’s energy efficiency. 

For A Greener Ride

Choose Our Plastic Free Fibre

Driven by our unique Noviun Fibre Technology, our plastic-free blend provides sand surfaces with the desired grip and absorption, resembling the confidence of riding on turf grass—the natural and preferred surface for horses. The result? Faster speeds, fewer injuries and quicker recovery.

Noviun™ stands out with its unique performance advantage compared to competitors’ fibre:  standard waste polypropylene, synthetic tires shredded textile fibres, geotextiles, crumb rubber and recycled foams.

Traditional fibre solutions often come at a significant cost: the addition of thousands of pounds of plastic (averaging 2.4 tonnes) and toxic chemicals to your arena and riding environment. These plastics degrade into micro and nanoplastic pollution, never decomposing. Microplastic pollution has become widespread in our soil, air and water.

By choosing Noviun™, the only high-performance, natural alternative to synthetic fibres, you eliminate thousands of pounds of microplastic pollution from your ground, air and watershed.

Make a sustainable choice and experience the difference with Noviun™ today.

Configure your requirements

How Much Noviun™ Fibre Will You Need?

Noviun™ is suitable for all sand types and environments. To achieve your desired structure, cushion and grip, Noviun™ can be applied at a range of concentrations to meet the needs of every discipline. 

A little goes a long way. Compared with conventional synthetic fibres, you will need a fraction of the weight in Noviun™ fibre to achieve your optimal arena surface. 

Sand type, sand depth, environment and discipline will also influence your Noviun™ requirements. 

Plastic waste comparison

Arena surface synthetic polymer load

Do you know how much plastic is used in the arena surface?

Here is a simple calculator that can help you calculate the quantity of synthetic polymer in used in the 2 most commonly used types of surface.

Fiber + sand arena
Synthetic fiber load
Length (m) 60m
Width (m) 20m
kg / m² 3.5

UK competitor standard: 3.5 kg/m²


Total fiber weight
4,200 kg
9,259 lbs
Arena footprint
1,200 m²
4.2 tonnes
Equivalent water bottles
330,709
single-use 500ml PET bottles
Wax-coated sand arena
Polymer wax load
Total surface (tonnes) 200t
Wax % of total 11%

Polymer wax weight
22,000 kg
48,501 lbs
Wax as tonnage
22 tonnes
of 200t total
Equivalent water bottles
1,732,283
single-use 500ml PET bottles
Weight-for-weight bottle comparison
Synthetic fiber arena
330,709 bottles4,200 kg
Wax-coated sand arena (polymer fraction only)
1,732,283 bottles22,000 kg
The wax surface contains 5.2× more synthetic polymer than the fiber arena — the equivalent of over 1.4 million additional plastic water bottles.
Bottle weight basis: 12.7g per 500ml single-use PET bottle (standard industry figure). Wax figure reflects polymer additive only, not inert sand. Fiber figure reflects UK competitor standard of 3.5 kg/m² as default.

EU 2031 Synthetic Ban

Future-proof your arena against the upcoming ban on synthetics

The European Union will prohibit the use of synthetic infill materials in sports surfaces beginning January 1, 2031, as part of broader restrictions on intentional microplastic releases. Noviun™ provides complete compliance with this regulation, positioning your facility ahead of the regulatory curve and avoiding costly future retrofits.

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