United Kingdom based Marling Industries recently announced that it had signed an exclusive agreement with Elizabeth Webbing Mills of Rhode Island to manufacture and distribute Absorb-Edge webbings throughout Europe. Elizabeth claims that its Absorb-Edge webbings are four times more resistant to abrasive cuts and 48 times more resistant to impact as equivalently rated conventional webbings. Marling reportedly controls 30 percent of the European market for tie down restraining systems.