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for "Textile industry"
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15249
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No list of pioneer manufacturers in North Carolina would be complete without including the name of Edwin M. Holt, founder of a great textile industry. With the water power of the Great Alamance Creek, Holt began his modest textile mill with help from Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin. From this small beginning sprang a textile empire which extended until it embraced hundreds of thousands of spindles and thousands of looms, giving employment to thousands in the Piedmont.
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24159
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Glen Raven, Inc. is a 129-year-old textile maker that continues to thrive in Alamance County. The author presents some of the fabrics the company makes and why it has been so successful throughout the years.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 29 Issue 11, November 2009,
p34-41, il
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25587
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Located in Iredell County, Mooresville was built nearly a century ago around a textile mill. But during the past two years 800 people have lost their textile jobs because of plant closings or permanent layoffs. Textiles have been one of the big three industries in North Carolina. But in 1982, the state had more plant closings than any other state. Inexpensive foreign labor has made it hard for American companies to compete with imports.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 2 Issue 12, June 22-July 5 1984,
p1, 4-5, il, por
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24365
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Cone Mills Minneola plant in Gibsonville shut down in 1988, causing about 500 people to lose their jobs. While textile mills have closed all over North Carolina, a new industry is on the rise: computers and electronics.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 4, April 1989,
p32-39, il
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1256
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Faced with European Community protectionism, Chairman Allen Mebane of Unifi Inc., a polyester-yarn finishing company based in Greensboro, decided the way to beat the Europeans was to join them. He established a plant in Ireland and has plans for more.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 13 Issue 11, Nov 1993,
p23-26, il, por
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30880
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As a leader in the textile industry, North Carolina is facing the problems that the entire American textile industry is currently experiencing. Despite rapid progress due to research, financial and management leadership, and sound merchandising and sales, the textile industry is being stunted by American legislation. Governmental policies are allowing foreign competitors the advantage rather than giving the American textile industry a chance to compete in the global market.
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24366
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The experience of Mickie Davis, a Burnsville citizen who works in the Outboard Marine Corporation factory exemplifies wider trends of changing industry in North Carolina, in which the textile industry is giving way to the transportation and communications industry.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 4, April 1989,
p40-52, il
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29
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N.S. Jagannathan is an accountant for Tolaram Fibers whose actions led to a $36 million profit for the company.
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3062
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Fieldcrest Cannon, Inc., headquartered in Kannapolis, lost over $20 million in 1995, through low retail sales and rising cotton prices. The company looks to restructuring, operating cost cuts, and factory upgrades to remedy this.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 16 Issue 8, Aug 1996,
p30-31,33-34,36-38, il
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29363
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Despite the 1990s being a decade of economic shakedowns, some of North Carolina's core industries--textiles, furniture, and other heavy manufacturing--are adjusting to the new economic reality. Taking advantage of global partnerships and technological advances are keeping these industries running successfully.
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29156
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In the height of textile production in the 1940s, company towns--towns within towns--housed thousands of workers and their families. For many of the children that grew up in Cone Mill Villages, White Oak, or Proximity Print Works, the experiences within these mill villages offer sweet memories.
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4418
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At the start of the 20th-century, three industries were gaining prominence -- tobacco, textiles, and furniture. Each made its influence felt in a different geographic location. Tobacco was the Coastal Plain's big moneymaker. Two hundred textile plants spurred growth in the Piedmont, encouraging farmers to grow more cotton. Furniture factories developed in the foothills, near their source of raw materials.
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14595
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A. M. Guillet started out to be an actor, but his career in the latter part of his life has been devoted to the invention of more than 25 devices used in erecting and maintaining textile mill machinery.
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10929
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J.P. Stevens is the nation's oldest textile manufacturer. Over one-fourth of its 50,000 workforce are employed in twenty textile plants in fifteen North Carolina communities. Trucking operations are directed from Greensboro, and the corporate general accounting offices are located in Charlotte.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 33 Issue 11, Nov 1969,
p138-139, 243, il
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219
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Chuck Hayes is CEO and Chairman of Guilford Mills in Greensboro.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 12 Issue 5, May 1992,
p28-44, il, por
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