The first thing you notice when you arrive in Lawrence, Massachusetts, are the mills — picturesque five- and six-story red brick buildings that stretch into the distance along the Merrimack River. A ...

What was it like for the operatives (people who operated the machines) in Lowell’s textile mills? Every worker had a different experience. While earning cash wages for long hours, some workers found ...

ORANGEBURG, S.C. — A family owned plant in Orangeburg County that makes machines for textile mills is closing after nearly 50 years. Mayer Industries Inc. CEO George Fischer says the company is ...

PITTSFIELD -- They loom over the landscape as symbols of the Berkshire's once potent textile and paper industries. Some of these enormous structures are still used by industry, but many are vacant.

The old Massapoag mill on the outskirts of the little North Carolina court house town of Lincolnton (pop. 5,423) looks like many another small Southern textile mill from its brick exterior. But aside ...

Dublin, Oct. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Textile Waste Recycling Machine Market Size, Market Share, Application Analysis, Regional Outlook, Growth Trends, Key Players, Competitive Strategies and ...

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Trevor Goodwin of Andrews, South Carolina, is using an overhead hook on a motorized track to pick up bulging cloth packages and maneuver them into position. He cuts and tears open the packages, which ...

WEBVTT >>> ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A QUIZ. FIRST QUESTION, WHERE WAS THE FIRST TEXTILE MILL IN NEW HAMPSHIRE BUILT? SECOND QUESTION, WHERE WAS THE SECOND ONE BUILT? I CAN ANSWER BOTH QUESTIONS.

VERNON -- A 76-year-old textile mill revived by a new owner eight years ago has failed to survive the weak economy and overseas competition and is set to close this summer. Amerbelle Textiles in ...

FALL RIVER – Reader Ronald Bernardo wrote in to “Fall River Wonders” to say he remembers seeing bales of cotton being offloaded from trains and he’s always wondered how cotton got made into threads ...