Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
Search Results
63 results
for "Textile industry"
Record #:
11584
Author(s):
Abstract:
Lewis S. Morris has had a forty-year career in the textile industry. Today he is chairman and chief executive officer of Cone Mills Corporation in Greensboro. He is featured in We the People of North Carolina magazine's Businessman in the News.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
32339
Author(s):
Abstract:
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.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
11107
Author(s):
Abstract:
John E. Reeves, a native of Mount Airy, is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Reeves Brothers, Inc., which was founded in Mount Airy in the early 1920s by Micah R. and John M. Reeves. The company is one of the nation's larger textile manufacturing corporations. Reeves is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
11056
Author(s):
Abstract:
Clyde W. Gordon of Alamance County at age sixty-eight is rounding out a distinguished career in the textile industry. Gordon is currently Secretary-Treasurer of the Collins-Aikman Corporation's Monarch Division at Graham. He is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S North Carolina Businessman in the News.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
11065
Author(s):
Abstract:
Don S. Holt was reelected president of Cannon Mills and named Chairman of the Board, following the death of Charles A. Cannon in April 1971. He is only the third leader of the company in its eighty-four-year history and the first who does not bear the Cannon name. Cannon Mills is the world's largest manufacturer of household textiles. Holt is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S North Carolina Businessman in the News.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
10929
Author(s):
Abstract:
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.
Source:
Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 33 Issue 11, Nov 1969,
p138-139, 243, il
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
10942
Author(s):
Abstract:
The Morris Fur Company of Burlington imports and processes opossum fur from New Zealand, Tasmania, and Australia, not for the clothing industry but for the textile industry. The springiness and retention of shape that this particular fur possesses makes it invaluable for use on shuttles used in weaving mills. Morris Fur is one of three companies in the country that supplies the heavy demand of the textile industry for shuttle fur.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
31128
Author(s):
Abstract:
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.
Source:
We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 20 Issue 6, November 1962,
p146-147, 174-175, por
Subject(s):
Record #:
10369
Author(s):
Abstract:
For 146 years, J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc., has been one of the largest and most diversified manufacturers of textiles in the country. Thirteen of these plants are located in North Carolina. The article includes a brief description of each one.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
10370
Author(s):
Abstract:
Cone Mills Corporation, with seventeen plants in twelve cities and towns in North and South Carolina, is one of the largest manufacturers of textile fabrics. The company employs a workforce of over 14,000 and annually uses around 400,000 five-hundred-pound bales of cotton.
Source:
We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 17 Issue 6, Nov 1959,
p46, 49-50, 79, il, por
Subject(s):
Record #:
12904
Author(s):
Abstract:
Collins and Aikman, suppliers of upholstery materials as well as pioneers in unusual uses of pile fabrics, is a New York based company with subsidiaries in North Carolina. Run by Ellis Leach, Collins and Aikman sell the majority of their products to entities in the transportation field.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
30880
Author(s):
Abstract:
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.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
13480
Author(s):
Abstract:
The North Carolina knitting industry is overwhelmed with sock demands. Producing 46 percent of the nation's socks, North Carolina mills employ some 24,000 men and women.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
14595
Author(s):
Abstract:
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.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
15249
Author(s):
Abstract:
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.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text: