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_ people's lives would be like
~ without a textile industry.
“Americans are the world's
largest consumers of textiles,
which are an important part
~ of our lives from dawn until
‘dusk and from the cradle to
~ the grave.
Textiles are the first thing
. to touch a new born baby's
skin and from that point for-
ward, they are a part of his or
her daily life, as clothing and
home furnishings, in the belts
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from space ships to highway
~~ underlinings.
Medical science depends
on textiles for artificial arter-
ies and filters for kidney dial-
ysis machines and for ban--
dages, gauze and hospital
gowns.
Our armed forces have
more than 10,000 textile
products in their inventories,
from simple uniforms to suits
that protect soldiers in chem-
ical or biological warfare.
There are also tents, cots,
parachutes, helicopter dust
covers, rope netting, sand
bags, duffel bags and gas
masks.
To provide all of these
products, the textile and
clothing industry employs
one in every 11 U.S. manu-
facturing workers, providing
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in all 50 states.
The economic impact of
the textile complex, includ-
ing the fiber and apparel in-
dustries, reaches far beyond
its $54 billion contribution to
the nation's gross domestic
product.
Textile manufacturers buy
approximately $40 billion
worth of goods and services
annually, including $12 bil-
lion for man-made fibers,
$2.2 billion for chemicals, $2
billion for gas and electricity,
$3 billion for wholesale and.
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from janitors to computers.
The industry also con-
tributes more than $2.5 bil-
lion to the farm economy
through its purchases of cot-
ton and wool.
As a result of investments
of some $2 billion a year for
the past 10 years, the United
States has the most produc-
tive textile industry in the
world, according to interna-
tional consultants.
Textiles are among the na-
tion's high-tech manufactur-
ers, relying increasingly on a
skilled work force that uses
computers, lasers and robots
to increase productivity and
maintain quality control.
Thousands of textile indus-
try employees have improved
basic reading, writing and
communications skills,
earned their high school
diplomas or started on the
path to college under compa-
ny-sponsored programs. The
industry recognizes that to
compete in a high-tech global
economy, it must have a
work force committed to ex-
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Textile Week in North Carolina 1993
By the Governor of the State of North Carolina
A Proclamation
The more than 300,000 women and men who work in the
fiber, textile and apparel industries in North carolina join their
employers in a commitment to protecting the environment.
These North Carolina manufacturers continue to lead the
way in product innovation, quality and environmental con-
sciousness as they incorporate processes that produce little or
no pollution and find new ways to reduce and even eliminate
the use of harmful chemicals.
Their investment in environmental controls ensures that
textile by-products reduce or eliminate contamination of the
air, water or land. Their waste management programs ensure
that textile by-products are reduced, reused, and recycled. As
corporations, teams and individuals, the people of textiles en-
gage in projects that reflect their stewardships of the environ-
ment.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JAMES B. HUNT JR., Governor of
the State of North carolina, do hereby proclaim October 17
through October 24, 1993, as "Textile Week" in North
Carolina and urge our citizens to recognize the men and wom-
en of these industries for their contributions to our state and
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James B. Hunt Jr.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Great Seal of the State of North Carolina at the
Capitol in Raleigh this seventeenth day of September in the
year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-three, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hun-
dred and seventeenth.
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