Going green? The leather wallet in your pocket states otherwise. Put your money where your mouth is with a cool new carbon fiber wallet from Common Fibers!
What’s On Your Wallet?
Choosing to avoid products made from animals is about as easy as avoiding the purchase of consumer products made in China… that is, it’s almost impossible! Even so, a growing number of people are selectively reducing animal products from their lifestyles because in a nutshell, if you don’t believe in it, why pay for it? Even more to the point, why pay for a product – ANY product, green or not – from a wallet made from an animal’s skin?
Soon you won’t have to, thanks to Common Fibers and their soon-to-be-released line of carbon fiber wallets. The San Luis Obispo, CA-based start-up employs a patented process that adds flexibility to resin-impregnated sheets of carbon fiber. The so-called CF-Lex™ Technology allows Common Fibers to produce tough, flexible and durable hinged wallets without the inclusion of leather and other treated animal hides. Could it get any better? It can indeed: the company outsources materials procurement and certain manufacturing processes such as water jet cutting and stitching to specialty firms and skilled laborers in the United States.
If one considers how often an item like a wallet is used (and let’s face it: abused) hour after hour, year after year, then it’s obvious this important and ubiquitous personal accessory would make an excellent test-bed for Common Fibers’ patented CF-Lex™ Technology. And test it they did, refining manufacturing techniques based on real-world feedback to the point where three variations on a theme are now ready for prime time: the CF-Lex™ Slim Wallet, CF-Lex™ MAX Wallet, and CF-Lex™ iPhone 5 Case.
