Erosion Control Blanket was born of the idea to make contractors more efficient. Created in the winter of 2000 by owner and President, Mark Myrowich, he thought about ways to lower the labor costs associated with rolled erosion control products (the most expensive contractor expense) through innovative product design and improved quality.Mark started in the erosion control industry as the owner and operator of an erosion control contracting company. It was during a blanket installation job that the idea for Erosioncontrolblanket.com came to him. While sitting on the tail gate of his half ton pickup during a coffee break, Mark looked at the coir fiber blanket he was installing and noticed an industrial hemp field near by, he thought that hemp would be a great inexpensive alternative to coir and thus the idea to create a manufacturing business.Needing another labor savings idea, Erosioncontrolblanket.com purchased a 16 foot wide manufacturing machine (unheard of at the time) to save contractors on overlap of product more... See more text