The netting industry is a silent but very vibrant industry. It is a silent industry because it does not land headlines very often in the business pages of major publications and news networks. But the netting industry is a billion dollar industry all over the world. It provides products for many diverse sectors such as the military, commercial fishing, zoology research institutions, rescue units and many others.

For example, Blue Tongue disease has been dreaded by farmers with livestock in the United Kingdom for a long time. It has only been recently that pharmaceutical giant Schering Plough  developed a very simple, yet ingenious solution to this problem - nets. According to Schering Plough researcher Paul Williams, all the farmer needs to do is corral off his livestock opening with nets dipped in insecticide to ward away Blue Tongue disease.

Another example is in the charitable world - the Salvation Army. For over a century, this church-based organization has been working in such areas as disaster relief and substance addiction rehabilitation. Every Christmas, it launches and promotes the Christmas Stocking Project. This project distributes stockings throughout the United States to be filled up by holiday gift donors for giving to underprivileged children at Christmas time. How many of these stockings are dispersed? Well, they number in the hundreds of thousands. And what are they made of? Fine red nets.