Prestige Fabricators Inc PLT 2

Founded in 1916, Parkdale Mills is a privately owned company that provides a range of spun yarn products. The company offers weaving, cored and plied yarns in various quantities. Its weaving yarn fibers include nylon, cotton and polyester. Parkdale Mills has knitting and military yarns available for its customers. The company s industrial yarn products are used in transmission belts, sandpaper substrates and book bindings. It also provides home furnishing yarns for sheets, rugs, mattresses, blankets and upholsteries. Parkdale Mills features Organic cotton and Coolmax fiber yarns. The company employs more than 2,400 people at over 20 manufacturing plants worldwide. It offers online credit application forms and product catalogs. Headquartered in Gastonia, N.C., Parkdale Mills maintains a location in Thomasville, N.C.

Parkdale Mills is one of the world s largest independent producers of cotton and cotton-blend yarns. Since 1916, the company has used a consistent focus on the latest technologies and how these technologies can improve the company s product, which have made it a leader in the industry. Parkdale Mills has a plant in Hillsville, Va., and it manufactures ring-spun yarn, cotton, cotton/polyester-blend yarns and 100-percent polyester yarns. Parkdale Mills is the only company to use open-end, ring-spun, air jet and vortex spinning systems in the production environment. Parkdale Mills is headquartered in Gastonia, N.C., and maintains more than 25 plants throughout North Carolina, including Lexington, N.C.

Leggett & Platt Iredell Fiber is a subsidiary of Leggett & Platt, which was formed in 1883 as a business partnership between J.P. Leggett and C.B. Platt. Leggett was an inventor and had several patents to his credit. When he developed the idea for a spiral steel coil bedspring, Leggett went to his brother-in-law, Platt, for his manufacturing capability and expertise. The company designs and manufactures a variety of engineered components and products, including retail store fixtures and point-of-purchase displays, carpet underlay, adjustable beds, components for office furniture, non-automotive aluminum die castings, drawn steel wire, components for residential furniture and bedding, automotive seat support and lumbar systems, and bedding industry machinery for wire forming, sewing and quilting. The company reported sales of more than $5 billion in 2006 and is ranked on the Fortune 500. Leggett & Platt employs approximately 33,000 people at more than 300 facilities in more than 20 countries. Leggett & Platt Iredell Fiber maintains a location in Statesville, N.C.