Graniteville Specialty Fabrics, Graniteville, S.C. — a provider of specialty coatings and custom coated fabrics for tent, awning, marine, military and other applications — has purchased a high-speed 119-inch working-width technical coating line featuring advanced fabric measuring and control technology. The line will provide expanded width options for coated woven, knit and nonwoven fabrics as well as films.

The company acquired the line from Spartanburg-based textile machinery, installation and service provider Zimmer America Corp. and Mascoe Systems Corp., a Mauldin, S.C.-based manufacturer of textile coating machinery and other textile finishing equipment.

Graniteville also has upgraded existing coating equipment and undertaken other initiatives to further improve its customer services.

November/December 2012