Brawer Bros., Inc. (a New Jersey based company in operation since 1902) formally announced its activities underway to expand their North Carolina based conventional warping operations. This expansion, in Whiteville, NC, is underway and will include up to 8 or 9 additional conventional warpers, including warehousing and distribution facilities. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of [...]
Read article here.... AKC Note: The plant is named PolyTech Fibers and will run from recycled feed and is targeted to have a capacity of 80 million lbs within 3 years. The company President is Mr. JY Choi and the announcement refers to the team having "experienced engineers and businessmen with years of production and [...]
Read article here... AKC Note: Renfro a leading hosiery manufacturer based in Mt Airy, NC produces a wide range of product under licenses with partners as varied as Carhart and Ralph Lauren, Wrangler and Dr Scholls. They announced a $17.5 million expansion at their plant in Cleveland, TN in 2013 and this partnership with New Balance [...]
Read article here... AKC Note: The carbon fiber industry in the U.S. is on a significant growth spurt. In addition to this Mitsubishi increase of 2,000 tons per year, SGL announced a 2 stage tripling of capacity at its Moses Lake, WA j/v plant with BMW bringing capacity up from 3,000 tons to 9,000 tons in [...]
Read article here... AKC Note: DuPont Sontara spunlace nonwoven wipes are used in a range of industrial end uses and some residential applications. The technology is based on a heavy hydroentanglement of a range of fibers (polyester, polypropylene, acrylic, rayon, etc.) prior to a spunlace nonwoven fabric production process that creates the wipes fabric. Jacob Holm [...]
Giti Tire announces a green field tire plant in South Carolina with a $560 million investment expected to create 1700 jobs over 10 years. Giti is based in Singapore with its main plants in China. They had total sales of $2.7 billion in 2012 of which $430 million were in the U.S. Read article here... [...]
Richelieu Legwear of Canada expanding in North Carolina with a $16 million investment expected to create over 200 jobs. The Richelieu Group purchased International Legwear Group in Burke County in 2011 and saved them from bankruptcy. The turnaround in the company's fortunes has been remarkable and this new investment is a major statement of future intent. [...]
Read article here... AKC Note: CS Americas as the parent company has 3 Polyester DTY locations; North Carolina as referred to in the above article, Los Angeles and a POY and DTY plant in El Salvador. Business in Polyester DTY has been very strong recently and we understand that additional DTY capacity is likely to [...]
Read article here... AKC Note: PCCA is the largest originator of U.S. cotton for the worldwide textile industry. In addition to its raw cotton activities it also had a textile and apparel division (American Cotton Growers in Texas and Denimatrix in Guatemala) and this is the subject of the sale. In a separate release the [...]
Read article here... AKC Note: This $8.3 million investment follows a previous Highland announcement at the end of 2013 of a $4 million investment at its Cheraw plant in SC. The Statesville plant will be a new facility and a new business venture around specialty engineered fibers such as carbon fibers, aramids and fiberglass. At [...]