About Us

What lets a gecko ever so comfortably hold on to a wall or a ceiling?

Setex® was born from this scientific curiosity. To biomimic what helps geckos defy gravity, those microscopic fibrilar setae on their toes. We developed our unique, patented gecko-inspired Setex materials to deliver products and solutions that stick, grip and fasten with unmatched flexibility and under the most challenging circumstances.

Why? Because the human need to stick, grip, or adhere is as diverse as it is timeless. When you’re riding your bike, you want to stay in control of your pedaling with the comfort of your eyewear firmly on the bridge of your nose. When you’re swimming, you want to control your crawl with ease, your cap firmly affixed to your forehead. When you’re working out, you want to run like the wind enjoying your AirPods firmly in your ear sockets.

Our technology works with dry intermolecular forces, not wet chemicals. Our adhesives leave no residue and can go on and off in different strengths. Our gripping surfaces won’t let go even under wet or oily circumstances. Our fastening solutions allow us to affix, remove and reaffix.

Setex brings a renewed sense of calm, with gripping and adhesive products that allow virtually anything to stay in place so we can continue to comfortably move around life and always stay in control.

Mission

Our mission is to be the leading innovator developing and delivering adhesive, gripping, fastening and stabilizing products and solutions.

Vision

Our vision is to keep things in their place to help people stay in control.

Setex Technologies, Inc., our parent company and a Carnegie Mellon University spin-off, helps manufacturers of wearable consumer goods, semiconductors, smart glass, automotive upholstery and more improve the quality or handling of their products.
That’s still a big part of our strategy, but seeing the benefits of our technology in action inspired us to branch out by making nose pads and grips and selling them directly to everyone under our own Setex brand.

Setex Technologies is the first commercial manufacturer of dry adhesive technology providing micro-fibrillar polymer based dry adhesives and surfaces for a wide range of product applications.

Our expertise has been developed over the years. Encouraged by the results of nearly a decade of academic research in understanding and synthesizing biologically inspired adhesives, Dr. Metin Sitti, a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, founded and spun out nanoGriptech from the University in 2009. Since then, Setex Technology’s team of subject matter experts has secured multiple research awards from numerous organizations, including the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, and the PA NanoMaterials Commercialization Center.

Certified for Skin Safety

Our Setex grip product materials recently passed ISO 10993-10 Certification – Biological Evaluation of Medical Devices, Part 10:Tests for Irritation & Skin Sensitization. Having this credential means these high friction microfiber materials have third-party approval as products that can safely contact skin, even when wet and oily.

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Product Characteristics

Our Setex material allows products like Nose Pads for Eyewear to secure your glasses better than ever, and Anti-Slip Grip Pads to give you a firm hold on everyday objects like your smartphone, tools or sporting and gaming gear. Setex GeckoGrip’s anti-slipping properties are so strong that when the material comes into contact with your skin, even if it’s wet and oily, you still feel comfortable and in control..

Technical Info

Setex is a high friction microfiber surface inspired by the microscopic hairs or setae on a gecko’s feet. The material is ideal for Nose Pads for Eyewear, Anti-Slip Grips and other products that come into contact with your skin to enhance your comfort. Setex GeckoGrip’s advantages over other materials are that it retains 70% of its original friction in wet conditions, and 30% in oily conditions. Competing materials can lose 90% of their friction in the same conditions. It’s also dry and residue-free, which means you get superior gripping or friction without the messiness of other materials.