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In 1971, Allen Mebane, Bill Kretzer, and several other executives left their positions at Universal Textured Yarns to establish their own textile company. [1] In July, they organized Unifi [2] with headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. [1] Unifi's first plant was established in Yadkin County that
Textile machinery manufacturers of the United States (13 P) Pages in category "Textile companies of the United States" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
The company sells a variety of yarns, from 100% natural fibers including cotton, cashmere, alpaca and wool to blends and 100% acrylics in a variety of weights. Some of their most popular yarns are Homespun, Fun Fur, Vanna's Choice, and Wool-Ease. [15] The company came out with organic cotton yarn in 2007. [16]
Gassing is the process of passing yarn very rapidly through a series of Bunsen gas flames in a gassing frame, to burn off the projecting fibres and to make the thread round and smooth and bright. Only the better qualities of yarn are gassed, like the kinds used for voiles, poplins, venetians, gabardines, Egyptian cottons, etc.
Textile recycling is the process of recovering fiber, yarn, or fabric and reprocessing the material into new, useful products. [1] Textile waste is split into pre-consumer and post-consumer waste and is sorted into five different categories derived from a pyramid model.
A Burlington Sock (in the mid-1990s) On November 6, 1923 J. Spencer Love founded a textile corporation in Burlington, North Carolina. [1] [2] Love and his father brought $50,000 worth in machinery from a factory they had sold in Gastonia to Burlington, and also invested $200,000 that they had earned from the sale of the Gastonia plant, as well as selling an additional $200,000 worth of stock ...