South Carolina has largely shed its textile label, remaking itself into a state known for automotive and aerospace manufacturing. But the Palmetto State still has upwards of 200 locations that the ...

When the small plane he was riding in flew over a closed textile factory several months ago, Bill Stangler saw two slime-covered waste lagoons on the edge of the Broad River north of Columbia. The ...

CHERAW, S.C. — George and Catherine Martin can point to exactly where DHEC took soil samples from their yard, and found hazardous PCBs, two years ago. They put their home on sliding hill road up for ...

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai's visit to the region includes stops at textile plants in Mount Holly and Blacksburg, South Carolina, in addition to a roundtable with students at Johnson C.

A textile plant that has long drawn the ire of environmentalists for its history of pollution violations along the Ogeechee River in eastern Georgia announced this week that it plans to shut down. The ...

National Spinning Company is shutting down an eastern North Carolina plant, citing in its notice to the state “ongoing challenges” in the textile industry. National Spinning Company is shutting down ...

For 44 years, my family’s textile manufacturing business in Gastonia, North Carolina has provided jobs to hundreds, supporting both our community and the U.S. economy. We’ve weathered decades of ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Spartanburg-based Milliken & Co. plans to close a textile plant in Barnwell County later this year, putting about 120 people out of work. Milliken spokesman Richard Dillard told ...

During the last decade, a new type of structure has been found at several archaeological sites in Denmark. These structures can be interpreted as having been used for retting the stems of textile ...

Researchers designed a textile 'Plant Armor' that forces insects to navigate a maze-like path if they try to reach a plant. The design was more effective at blocking insects from reaching cabbage ...