Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inside a textile plant operated by Milliken and Company, one of the largest remaining textile operators in South Carolina.

When the small plane he was riding in flew over a closed textile factory several months ago, Bill Stangler saw two slime-covered waste lagoons on the edge of the Broad River north of Columbia. The ...

How do you build the next generation of natural performance materials without pretending cotton or synthetics will disappear?

CHERAW, S.C. — George and Catherine Martin can point to exactly where DHEC took soil samples from their yard, and found hazardous PCBs, two years ago. They put their home on sliding hill road up for ...

It's the second major textile layoff in the suburban Charlotte county this month. Total jobs lost from the moves now total ...

Milliken & Co., Spartanburg, S.C., recently announced it will begin an orderly closing of its Gaffney manufacturing plant in late June. The plant closing is attributed to foreign imports, which the ...

A textile plant that has long drawn the ire of environmentalists for its history of pollution violations along the Ogeechee River in eastern Georgia announced this week that it plans to shut down. The ...

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- TreeToTextile, owned by H&M Group, Inter IKEA Group, Stora Enso, and LSCS Invest, now invests €35 million in constructing a demonstration plant in Sweden. It ...

Guilford Performance Textiles announced a plan to close its Fuquay-Varina plant, transferring 115 jobs to Kenansville. The change is effective Dec. 31, a release from the company said. Guilford ...