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ITES YANCEY COUNTY INDUSTRY .‘ -' y :y. v :\'-- . H # >'• *•% :•• 3»§K&s& '•. , • *RHMT?9iaMBh. -.- «f .*IK , '''!»■; . : ft, - : ,■ , •• " ,®»sfeft,. '■ ■ I;; ...... -;*i s J> '' v » 'jig* y *&>>% ' ; s '•’ y s % ' ' ' * '■•■"" * '' • * Glen Raven Mill ||/ . .& -• ■■s .;• #=• -x ■*& *tip£' \IM **m m 4 - £*ll''* |j BhSp * w MBRS llppl*, Mliv# Cft.; ,* *t % : . .-: : xftsßfr.i~~ &g»Sgs&£ ‘< . > '•' sP / '/iv-'AnV / '»" ,v 'VKJw/ ' JSMr/W* - \. /-?SS •; / - * . S| i ''R 1 v ......>. JM?T®r *ws< <* Xv . •--?tfftffif|sßlfo^fr; l : SYj' x •••• • ■ :• 'xC,,. • ■ «'* ' '. *••• ■■ -' ’ V '.' • xv $ *y* i#T^'-'^iTi--' 1 }• •viiißinriiiiaili'%fMiliiMttteißi i^lffia t^^^*^ Burnsville Mill Os Mokasco Industries .V^i3BBHB ‘^ : ■ • 4 Banco Sawmill -THE YANCEY, RECORI Glen Raven Second Largest Employer In County The Glen Raven Mill, with about 210 employees, is the sec ond largest employer in Yancey County. This highly automated mill produces plain and fancy weave/ fabrics mostly taffetas —of the two synthetics, nylon and dacron. Output is at the rate of about 23 million yards ?. vear— which testifies to the efficiency of the operation. Large amounts of the cloth by Glen Raven go in to nurses’ and waitresses’ uni forms, into various types of’ sport clothing, such as ski jack '"*? Burnsville Hosiery Mill In New Building The Burnsville Hosiery Mill, of which C. 0. Ellis is the pro prietor, is getting settled in its modem, 28,000 square foot building just west of town. Pre viously this enterprise was locat ed within the town limits in an old building on North Main Street. This mill, now employing about forty, produces the heav ier grades of men’s socks—work socks, athletic socks, and the Mohasco, Largest Industry In County The Burnsville Mill of Mohas co Industries, with about 265 employees, is the largest indus try in Yancey County. This plant, of which Ted Ballou is manager, manufactures carpet yarn. This is shipped to other. Mohasco plants, located chiefly in South Carolina and New York, where it is woven into carpets. The finished carpets are marketed under the brand names ’’Mohawk”, “Alexander Smith”, and “Firth”. Mohasco Industries is a very large company, with 25 plants having combined employment of about 11,000, and annual sal es in 1966 of $186,000,000. The Company not only makes the three brands of carpets, but in Banco Mill Nearing Completion Os the several sawmill opera* tions in Yancey County, the new Banco Mill, now under con struction and nearing comple tion, is of special interest as it is rising heroically from the ashes of a plant burned to the ground at Newdale. The new mill, on Prices Creek a short distance from 19E, is expected to be in operation next week. It will be among the lar gest in the area, and « with its highly automated machinery, one of the most efficient ets, and also into the sails of small pleasure boats. Donald Burhoe is the Vice President and General Mana ger; Bill Silver the Superintend en tof the mill. The Burnsville Mill is one of ten mills in the family owned Glen Raven business, with head quarters in Glen Raven, North Carolina. Eight of the mills are in North Carolina; one in Ca nada, and one in Holland. In this chain of textile mills a wide variety of products is pro duced, including hosiery, out door fabrics, such as awning material, knit goods and yarn. like. At present about half the output is going to the armed forces. Not only is their new building ultra-modem, but the knitting machinery and other equipment is of the latest efficient, auto mated type. Ellis is a firm be liever that the way to prosper in the highly competitive hos iery industry is to employ tha most efficient modem mach inery. recent years has expanded, through acquisitions, into the furniture bus.ness. In this it is leading in a trend toward the formation of “home furnishing” industries, which supply not only furniture and carpets, but in some cases textiles as well. The carpet yarn produced here in Burnsville is made cf a variety of materials. Some is wool, the traditional rug ma terial, but much, now is made from the newer synthetics. The Bums\ille Mill, as is evi dent from the employment fig ures, is one of the smaller of the Mohasco plants. It is hoped that it may at some time be ex panded, altho the limited size of the plant site is an obstacle to such a desired step. Prior to the Newdale fire, the Banco operation, headed by Bill Banks, employed directly, and indirectly through contract crews, about 40 men. As with other sawmill operations in this area, the product, consisting mostly of hard woods, goes lar gely into furniture and flooring, with some framing and sheath ing produced. The Newdale mill, whose op eration was revived on a «m»11 scale after the 1965 fire, • has now been closed.
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