AMCO NEWS
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Vol. XXVIII No. 4
Adams-Millis Corporation
July-August, 1972
A-M TEXTURING CONTINUES EXPANSION PROGRAM
A-M TEXTURING PLANT IN HIGH POINT
A-M Texturing, a division of TexElastic
orporation, i s moving ahead in the production
^ textured yarns. The new modern plant,
hovering 90,000 square feet, is located on a 42-
^'^re site on South Elm Street i n High Point; it
a capacity of producing 300, 000 pounds of
®xtured polyester yarn weekly.
Bill Johnston, a vice president of Tex-
^^astic Corporation, is in charge of the texturing
Planning for the new plant began in 1968
en Adams-Millis Corporation acquired owner-
ip of TexElastic Corporation. Construction
^ the building started in July of 197 1; machinery
moved in during January of 1972.
A modern package dyeing plant is under
Construction adjacent to the texturing plant and
®^ould, be ready for operation later this year,
e dye plant, planned for an initial capacity of
> 000 pounds of dyed yarn per week, will en-
^ble the company to offer customers superior
^ yed yarns without having to send the yarn
Another company to be dyed.
With Eugene Lewis and Carson Lewis,
9-yne Lackey, president of TexElastic Cor
poration, founded the company in 1950. These
three men started TexElastic as a small elastic
covering plant in Archdale. The company grew
and expanded its Archdale quarters as a private
ly owned company until 1968 when it merged
with Adams-Millis Corporation. Ten texturing
machines were installed in the Archdale plant
in 1968 and twelve more were added before the
texturing machines were moved to the new A-M
Texturing plant. There are thirty-two texturing
machines in operation now with adequate space
and air conditioning for additional machines.
On May 1, 1972, Adams-Millis entered into
an agreement with Macfield Texturing, Inc. to
manage the textured yarn division of TexElastic
Corporation and the name of the texturing di
vision was changed to A-M Texturing.
The new five-million dollar texturing plant
is equipped to texture any of the thermoplastic
fibers. Production is now largely on a 100 and
150 denier polyester. Small amounts of nylon
have also been processed on the machines. "At
the present time, we are completely orientated
to outer garment material fo r ladies' dresses
and men's suits, " Plant Manager Johnston said.
Texturing is the preparation o f polyester
yarns which can be double knit into fabrics
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