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Insight26 Sept 2016Recent developments in the US textile and apparel market include a number of business expansions, production moves and plant sales.
Insight25 Aug 2016The startup company has moved into a new facility, and invested heavily in new equipment as it broadens into assorted technical textiles markets.
Gehring Textiles, headquartered in Garden City, New York, is a broad-based developer and manufacturer of highly technical custom fabrics for a broad range of uses. It is heavily into knitting, but also produces woven fabrics.
Insight21 Aug 2015Location increasingly matters when it comes to where apparel products are made. One company experiencing this is Kentwool, a venerable South Carolina-based company that has become known in recent years for its high-end, high-tech golf socks. Dan Murphy, who spent 11 years with golf ball manufacturer Bridgestone, recently joined Kentwool as president of its new Performance Apparel Division. Mr Murphy is charged with taking the division beyond its golf socks into other areas.
Arthur Pottash loves going into work every day and putting in a full day. At 79, an age when most people are long retired, Mr Pottash still helps guide the fortunes of Artex Knitting Mills, a small, but fast-growing manufacturer of knit headwear located in Westfield, New Jersey. Artex is the largest producer of knit hats in the US and has become a big success story over the past few years.
Georgia has historically been one of the leading textile-manufacturing employment centres in the US. It made lots of news in October and November with major expansions announced and a change in ownership in one of the state’s venerable textile companies.
Profile4 Dec 2013A leading US-based sliver knitter recently became considerably larger through the acquisition of a long-time competitor. Monterey Mills, based in Janesville, Wisconsin, acquired Tarboro, North Carolina-based Glenoit Fabrics in October. Monterey already had an estimated 60% share of the sliver knitting market.
