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“EarthKnit” by Supertex - Erosion Control Wattle Tubes

Established in 1982, We are a Modern AMERICAN, Versatile, Service Oriented, Textile Factory. Producing Apparel, Intimate Apparel, Industrial, Automotive, Home Furnishing and Novelty Fabrics, as well as Mattress Ticking, Meat Packaging, Christmas Tree Packaging, Military Specialty, Coated Geosynthetic Geogrid and Erosion Control Products. We use Natural, Spun, and Synthetic Yarns with widths up to 230". Our versatile Wide Width Finishing abilities include that of Knits, Wovens and Non-Wovens.

In the Rolling Countryside of North Carolina's Triad, between Greensboro (GSO) and Raleigh/Durham (RDU) airports. We are Making a difference in our friendly community of Liberty and proudly producing only here in the USA.

Supertex proudly presents it’s “EarthKnit” product line of tough durable tubular containment fabrics for the manufacture of wattles. Supertex does not offer finished (filled) wattles. Supertex produces these fabric tubes for the manufacture of wattles.

Our motto of: We make 'em, You stuff 'em! Says it all . . .

Wattles are a mainstay in erosion control applications. Wattles are tubes filled with compacted fiber, straw or other materials installed along contours or at the base of slopes to help reduce soil erosion and retain sediment. They function by shortening slope length, reducing runoff water velocity, trapping dislodged soil particles and ameliorating the effects of slope steepness. Wattles are effective when used in combination with re-vegetation practices, surface roughening, mulching, erosion control blankets or hydraulic soil stabilizers.

"EarthKnit" wattles can be factory filled and shipped to the site or site filled provided suitable materials are present. The selection of tube diameter and aperture size is dependent on the end use and the fill material. "earthKnit" standard size diameters are 9", 12", 16" and 20 inches. Standard apertures are 1/2", 3/4", 1", and 1-1/4 inches.