Top local official: Rudy Ballance, plant manager
Number of employees: 250 in Whiteville, 375 total in North Carolina
Year founded: This location was established in 1960, and the company began in 1921.
Jim Booterbaugh, CEO: National Spinning is the leading U.S. spinner of acrylic, wool and polyester yarns for hand knitting, socks, apparel and industrial goods.
Acrylic yarns for hand knitting; wool yarns for socks and sweaters; and Nomex (flameresistant) yarns for military uses
Yarns are sold all over the United States, Mexico and Central America.
Booterbaugh: “When the former CEO and chairman Joe Leff decided to relocate manufacturing from New York in the late 1950s, he searched across North Carolina and decided that Whiteville, North Carolina, was ideal for manufacturing. He believed the farming mentality of the local workforce would translate well into textile manufacturing.”
Booterbaugh: “Hand knitting, socks and industrial goods.”
Booterbaugh: “Several small projects have taken place over the past five years to increase capacity and diversity of the plant. The most recent addition of machinery is being completed now and should allow for up to 10 percent increase in capacity.”
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