The first thing you notice when you arrive in Lawrence, Massachusetts, are the mills — picturesque five- and six-story red brick buildings that stretch into the distance along the Merrimack River. A ...

PITTSFIELD -- They loom over the landscape as symbols of the Berkshire's once potent textile and paper industries. Some of these enormous structures are still used by industry, but many are vacant.

During the height of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of textile and machine mills and factories dotted the landscape in Central Massachusetts, powered by ...

ORANGEBURG, S.C. — A family owned plant in Orangeburg County that makes machines for textile mills is closing after nearly 50 years. Mayer Industries Inc. CEO George Fischer says the company is ...

What was it like for the operatives (people who operated the machines) in Lowell’s textile mills? Every worker had a different experience. While earning cash wages for long hours, some workers found ...

The old Massapoag mill on the outskirts of the little North Carolina court house town of Lincolnton (pop. 5,423) looks like many another small Southern textile mill from its brick exterior. But aside ...

Trevor Goodwin of Andrews, South Carolina, is using an overhead hook on a motorized track to pick up bulging cloth packages and maneuver them into position. He cuts and tears open the packages, which ...

Dublin, Oct. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Textile Waste Recycling Machine Market Size, Market Share, Application Analysis, Regional Outlook, Growth Trends, Key Players, Competitive Strategies and ...

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VERNON -- A 76-year-old textile mill revived by a new owner eight years ago has failed to survive the weak economy and overseas competition and is set to close this summer. Amerbelle Textiles in ...

For more than a century, Burke County workers toiling at furniture factories, textile and hosiery mills helped power Western North Carolina’s economy. With those industries now in decline, their ...