Know Your Company-Karastan Spinning, Worsted Plants
Yarn for Karastan and
Laurelcrest rugs and carpets is
manufactured at the Karastan
Spinning and Karastan Worsted
Plants at Greenville. Each plant
handles both wool and synthetic
fibers.
Carpet wools are purchased
from New Zealand, Argentina,
Scotland, Ireland, England,
Syria, Iraq, India and Pakistan.
All of these wools are shipped
into the port of Philadelphia,
Pa., where they are blended and
scoured at the Delaware Valley
Wool Scouring Company, which
is owned by Fieldcrest.
The synthetic fibers are
shipped to both plants directly
from the various manu
facturers. The basic synthetic
fibers used are nylons and
acrylics.
After the wool and the
synthetic fibers arrive in
Greenville, the first process is a
blending operation followed by
stock dyeing, although much of
the yarn is spun in its natural
state and is later dyed at the
Karastan and Laurelcrest
carpet and rug mills.
The next step is carding,
where the previously blended
fiber is separated into individual
strands and paralleled into a
webbing which, when finished, is
called either roving (wool) or
sliver (synthetics).
Roving is the first stage at
which the wool resembles a
yarn-like substance. At the
completion of the carding
process, the roving is wound
onto huge, horizontal bobbins
called card spools. These
LARRY MUMFORD
Yarn Server
bobbins are then taken to the
Spinning Department where the
roving is twisted into singles
yarn and wound onto small
bobbins, each holding
approximately two pounds of
yarn.
The finished bobbins are then
taken to the next operation,
twisting, where the single yarn
is combined into two, three or
four ply.
At this point, the product is
finished and ready to be
packaged in one of two ways.
The stock-dyed yarn is wound
onto cones and boxed for
shipment to the carpet and rug
plants.
The natural yarns are reeled
into skeins for dyeing at the
carpet and rug plants, then
bundled and placed into bales for
shipment.
I Buy... Sell... Swap
FOR SALE: Aluminum
awnings, 7’ 7” and 17’ 9”,
green and white. Call 623-6138
after 5 p.m.
WANTED TO BUY: One
doghouse. Call 623-2025 after
5:30 p.m.
FOR SALE: One full set of golf
clubs, 3 woods and 2-9 irons.
$35. Call 342-0208 after 5 p.m.
or Fieldcrest extension 53233.
Tony Aiken
FOR SALE: Black and Decker
115-volt AC jig saw. New,
never used. Will sell at a
bargain. May be seen at Mrs.
Essie Hubbard’s home. Route
3, Box 28, Stoneville, or call
573-9273 before 6 p.m.
FOR SALE: Whirlpool Series 440
dishwasher. Harvest gold
color with natural, thick dark
wood top. Like new, half paid
for. Would like someone to
take up payments or pay off
balance. Reason for selling:
moving into home that already
has one. Call 623-2850 after 6
p.m.
MACK BOWEN
Card Machine Operator
Larry Munford is a yarn
server at Karastan Worsted. He
supplies operators with empty
bobbins, cleans and oils
machines and trucks yarn to the
storage area.
Mack Bowen is a card
machine operator at Karastan
Worsted. He feeds the stock
from a bale into a card hopper.
What emerges is sliver, either
wool or synthetic. He repairs end
breaks and also doffs.
Letha White is a truck driver
at Karastan Spinning. His job is
to take raw stock from ware
house storage to the Blending
Department. He also is a yard
man.
Mary T. Barber is a spinner at
Karastan Worsted. She takes
sliver and spins it onto bobbins.
She also repairs end breaks,
doffs the machines and replaces
empty bobbins.
Joe Barrett is a garnett
operator at Karastan Spinning.
He feeds thread waste from
bales into a chopper. The
product which comes out is
FOR SALE: Hearing aid. Cost
$400, will sell for $250. Eight
white rabbits, $2.00 each.
Siegler oil heater. Call 623-
2033, or may be seen at 606
Taylor Street.
WANTED: Baby sitter to keep
children at my home while I
work second shift. Call 627-
4651.
FOR SALE: A.K.C. registered
boxer puppies. Available
March 1. Call 804-685-7180,
Cascade, Va.
Yelton Grandchildren
Tony Aiken, four years old, is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Pinkney
Aiken, Jr. Grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Pinkney Aiken, Sr. and
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Courts.
Tony’s mother, Elizabeth Aiken,
is employed in the Cutting and
Sewing Department at the Sheet
Finishing Mill.
i^ONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1974
Michelle and Amy Laughter,
ages four years old and one year
old, are the daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. Wallace Laughter of
LETHA WHITE
Truck Driver.
MARY T. BARBER
Spinner
JOE BARRETT
Garnett Operator
called garnette.
Dave Rogers is a dye weigher
at Karastan Spinning. His
responsibility is to weigh dye
DAVE ROGERS
Dye Weigher
and mix it in the dye kettles
for raw stock dyeing. He also
checks yarn samples for correct
shade.
Appointments Announced
In Accounts Receivable
Rutherfordton. The girls’ grand
father, William Yelton, is
employed in the Card Room at
the Alexander Sheeting Mill.
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DAVID C. PENN
Two appointments have been
made in the Accounts
Receivable Department. David
C. Penn has been named super
visor of the Claims Department
and Daniel G. Barnes has joined
the Company as supervisor of
cash application.
Mr. Penn has been with
Fieldcrest since 1969. He worked
on special assignments in the
Auditing Department until 1972
when he became a special
projects analyst in the Accounts
Receivable Department. He
remained in that classification
DANIEL G. BARNES
until his recent promotion to
supervisor of claims. He holds a
Bachelor of Science degree in
accounting from A & T State
University. He also served two
years in the U.S. Army as a
member of the Military Police.
Mr. Barnes, before joining
Fieldcrest, was employed by
Western Union Telegraph
Company in New York City as
office manager and credit col
lections manager. He is a
graduate of Ohio University with
a Bachlor of Business
Administration degree in
management science.