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U.S. Textile Industry Unraveling |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / FEATURES |
| Author: Jeffrey Sparshott |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 2,322 Words, 14,790 Characters |
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Steve Dobbins in the past four years has closed ten plants, laid off fourteen hundred workers, and refocused his textile company on products that won't go toe-to-toe with competition from lower-cost factories in China, India, and a handful of other nations. But he's still not certain that Carolina Mills, a company that today employs twelve hundred in a thirty-mile radius around the small North Carolina town of Maiden, will survive a massive change in the clothing and textile markets that began January 1. "We're busting our cans trying to find ways [to compete]. We don't know whether or not we will succeed, but we are trying," said Dobbins, the company president.
Foreign competition has been creeping up on U.S. companies that spin yarn, weave fabric, and sew clothing. The industry has ad...
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...han four hundred jobs through layoffs or closings at five textile and apparel plants since 2001. At least one more factory is on shaky ground, and the town expects more failures.
"People say, 'You're a dead duck, why are you still trying to fly?' " said Carolina Mills' Dobbins. "But it's important for us to continue to buy time. We will not give up."
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