Profile Products LLC announced it has entered into an agreement with Colbond, Inc. to distribute its Enkamat line of Turf Reinforcement Mats (TRMs) in select regions of the country. The Northeast, Mid-South, Rocky Mountain, West Coast regions and other selected states of the United States will have access to Enkamat exclusively through Profile Products. Other parts of the United States and Canada will have access to Enkamat through both Profile Products and Colbond.
“Architects, engineers and contractors are going to have new solutions and alternatives they’ve never had before as a result of this new arrangement,” says Marc S. Theisen, Profile’s director of business development. “By combining some of the leading erosion control and vegetation establishment technologies into a new Enka-Turf system, we have created a more aesthetically pleasing, environmentally superior and cost-effective system of protecting high-discharge waterways and steep slopes.”
Testing has shown that the Enka-Turf system can double the performance of natural vegetation providing comparable protection to more costly hard armor techniques such as rock riprap, concrete lined systems, articulating concrete blocks and gabions. Enkamat was introduced in 1972 as the world’s first TRM and is today the most widely used product of its type on a global basis. It is the only TRM composed of continuous polyamide strands, thermally fused into a resilient, homogeneous open mat structure.
Profile Products is the world’s leading producer of innovative hydraulically applied matrices, rolled erosion control blankets and sediment control technologies that dramatically enhance the revegetation performance and resiliency of Enkamat. Used together, germination is more complete with roots growing through and intertwining with the matrix to provide an exceptionally strong soil anchor.
“We are pleased to help expand Profile Erosion Control Solutions,” says Richard Goodrum, manager of sales and marketing for Colbond’s Civil Engineering products in Enka, North Carolina. “This relationship is not only good for our respective companies, it will be good for the industry.”
Both Theisen and Goodrum noted that distributors carrying both Enkamat and Profile products will also realize operational efficiencies from the new arrangement, which will be effective June 30, 2006.
