Posted December 16, 2014

 

MAYODAN, N.C. – Elastic yarn producer McMichael Mills, Inc. is expanding operations into a 123,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Burlington, N.C., according to reports.

 

The privately owned company operates smaller facilities in the city but needs the new space, which nearly doubles its occupancy there, to meet rising demand, McMichael officials said.

 

McMichael is the largest specialty covered yarn producer in North America and supplies into the hosiery market for socks, narrow fabrics, medical fabrics and into apparel. Covered elastic yarns are produced by wrapping nylon, cotton, polyester or other fibers around a spandex or latex rubber core. These yarns are used by the hosiery market in the production of socks, by the narrow fabric markets in the production of bra straps and waistbands, by the medical trade markets in the production of hosiery and bandages and in the bottom-weight woven markets.

 

“There has been a recent resurgence of sock manufacturing in the U.S. with a number of investments in increased sock knitting capacity, some of it driven by the Wal Mart Buy American initiative,” Alasdair Carmichael of PCI Fibres wrote in his news update to subscribers.

 

The company plans to transfer all of its 98 Burlington employees to the expanded plant, according to reports.

 

Based here, the company was founded in 1993. With two manufacturing facilities, one in Mayodan and the other in Burlington, McMichael Mills produces more than 500 different elastomeric yarns. The company has three primary product lines – double-covered, single-covered and air-covered yarns.

McMichael Mills expanding to larger facility in Burlington, N.C.