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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.

Founded in 1986, American Fiber & Finishing is one of the industry's leading manufacturers of light- to medium-weight woven industrial fabrics. The company is also one of the largest manufacturers of lightweight gauze in the United States. The company targets the aerospace, automotive, bookbinding, filtration, health care, beauty, consumer, industrial, medical, pharmaceutical, wall covering, textiles and apparel markets for its products. The company s propriety products include Rymplecloth, Super Cloth, Purewipe and Aerotex. In addition, the company provides a variety of finished products, including crinoline, bleached gauze, cheesecloth, cotton balls, synthetic fiber balls, pharmaceutical coils, header rolls, cosmetic puffs and pads, and gauze and cloth diapers. American Fiber & Finishing has manufacturing facilities in Albemarle, N.C., and Newberry, S.C.