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for "Textile industry"
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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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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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24385
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Textile/Clothing Technology Corp. is a company that hopes to save U.S. apparel makers from faltering productivity and sales. Using innovation and equipment modernization, the company hopes to bolster the nation’s manufacturers, which have been suffering as a result of outsourcing and rising imports.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 8 Issue 4, April 1988,
p40-43, il
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24606
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North Carolina’s textile industry faced difficult times in the 2000s after many industries were outsourced. However, Unifi, a textile mill in Yadkinville, found a way to beat the decline of the industry. After years of experimentation and little profit, the company developed Repreve, a fabric made from recycled yarn that is now found in Nike, Patagonia, and Haggar products, as well as Toyota and Ford cars.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 4, September 2014,
p176-178, 180, 182, 184, il, por
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24822
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National Wiper Alliance Inc. is recognized as the 2015 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year. Company president, Jeff Slosman, founded National Wiper in 1996 when looking for a way to reuse a dilapidated textile mill building in Swannanoa. National Wiper produces nonwoven wipes for restaurants, military contractors, and nursing homes, employs eighty-five, and projects 2015 revenues at $95 million.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 35 Issue 12, December 2015,
p54-57, il, por
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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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27302
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Valdese Weavers near Charlotte, North Carolina have been in the textile business for over a century. The employees still learn how to weave, a process that takes years to master.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 36 Issue 7, July 2016,
p74-81, il, por
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27876
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John Dart’s 1754 inventory demonstrates the strength and diversity of Charles Town, South Carolina’s textile trade in the mid-eighteenth century. It was based on society’s demand for imported foreign-made goods and their search for self-definition. Dart exploited diverse commercial opportunities to reach consumers throughout North Carolina and the eastern region.
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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
(NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 29 Issue 2, Winter 2003,
p39-82, il, por, map, bibl, f
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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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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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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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31104
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Thanks to a homegrown company, Taylor Togs, the county seat of Taylorsville is the site of the Levi Strauss Company’s largest domestic producer of jeans. This article describes the evolution of Taylor Togs’ jean production throughout the past thirty-one years, and discusses how today’s jeans are finished with final touches.
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31128
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Significant business developments have occurred in American Enka Corporation's progress in 1962. One of the nation's leading produces of man-made yarn and fibers, Enka recently broke ground on a new multi-million dollar nylon and polyester yarn plant and announced the expansion of the nylon plant near Asheville to increase capacity in heavy denier yarn.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 20 Issue 6, November 1962,
p146-147, 174-175, por
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31350
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North Carolina’s congressional delegation, which rarely votes unanimously on any issue, has split solidly with the Reagan White House on the matter of limiting textile imports. This article discusses the textile industry, foreign trade, and tax reform in North Carolina.
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32339
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In 1972, Colon Byrd, Jr., and Andrew Turik formed their own small business, Precision Cutting and Winding, Inc., to convert synthetic textile fibers products into usable fibers. Located in Kinston, their business has developed into a profitable company that is providing employment opportunities for many Lenoir County residents. This article discusses how Byrd and Turik developed the company and some of the financial challenges they faced.
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