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| April
16, 2001 |
Spinning
Yarns |
Fortune |
| Lexington, N.C.--On the
floor of Parkdale Mills' Lexington plant, robots (or AGVs,
for automated guided vehicles) outnumber people. Parkdale,
the world's largest independent spinner of cotton yarns,
has spent half a billion dollars on the latest spinning
technology... |
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| August
2000 |
Zellweger
Uster Honors Parkdale |
Textile
Web |
| Zellweger Uster, Inc. honored
Parkdale Mills with an awards luncheon held at the Sapona
Country Club in Lexington, NC, on August 2nd, presenting
Parkdale with the 30,001st Uster Quantum clearer. The
plaque, engraved with the 30,001 serial number, represented
the successful installation of 30,000 Uster Quantum clearers
in various Parkdale, Parkdale America, and Hillsville Manufacturing
plants. |
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| January
3, 2000 |
We're
in the Idea Business |
Charlotte
Observer |
| In a single-story, redbrick building here in the heart
of textiles, machines spin polyester as fine and strong
as spider's silk and chemically modified corn syrup
becomes yarn.
Parkdale Mills, the world's largest independent yarn
spinner, also is patenting a dyeing process that produces
an infinite array of precise color matches. And Parkdale
engineers are busy perfecting an entirely new fiber. |
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| October
1998 |
The
Spin Meister |
Business
NC |
| Duke Kimbrell likes stuff.
To be more specific, buying stuff. Sitting in the
conference room off Garrison Boulevard in Gastonia, under
the water tower boasting Parkdale Mills Inc.'s green-and-white
logo, next to the plant bearing his name, he ponders his
latest acquisition, a Citation VII twin-engine jet that's
soon to arrive. The room is decked in we-win-awards regalia
-- a glass plaque declaring his induction in the Cotton
Hall of Fame, the black-and-white shell for the American
Textile Institute's 1997 innovation award, a glass statuette
declaring Parkdale one of the North Carolina 100. |
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| November
1997 |
Cotton
Kings |
Charlotte
Observer |
| This has been a very public year for a very, very private
company. Parkdale Mills - a quiet giant operating from
a neat, unassuming, red brick headquarters - entered
the Mexican market Oct. 2 through a joint venture with
Burlington Industries. |
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| June
1997 |
Parkdale,
Unifi Create Partnership |
Charlotte
Observer |
| Two of the biggest companies in the yarn business,
Unifi Inc. and Parkdale Mills Inc., plan to combine
all of Unifi's cotton yarn business with some of Parkdale's.
The companies said Tuesday they will create a new company
which Parkdale will
operate. Gastonia-based Parkdale will own a majority
stake, but the percentage has not been worked out, according
to an industry analyst who talked with a Unifi official. |
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| February
1997 |
ATI
Innovation Award goes to Parkdale |
ATI |
| Read the
cover story and four additional stories highlighting
Parkdale's innovation.
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