Martex Fiber Southern Corp. — a Charlotte-based manufacturer of recycled industrial textile products — has completed its Spartanburg Fiber Division plant expansion, which involved installation of a fiber reclamation line that will produce additional value-added fibers for use in automotive, upholstery and yarn applications. The expansion is part of Martex Fiber’s No Fiber Left Behind program in which it strives to send zero textile waste to landfills by recycling all textile waste it purchases.
“The expansion increased Spartanburg’s plant capacity by over 20 percent, further expanding our ability to create valuable outlets for the over 160 million pounds per year of pre- and post-consumer cotton and cotton-polyester textile waste that Martex Fiber keeps out of landfills,” said Jamie Jarrett, general manager, Martex Fiber Southern Corp.’s Fiber Division.
The company also is expanding its Brownsville, Texas, manufacturing facility as part of the No Fiber Left Behind program. That expansion is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2014 and will increase capacity by 11 million pounds per year.
April 22, 2014
