Layoffs for December 2008 at America's 500 largest public companies*: Dec. 31: Mohawk Industries closes spun yarn operation; 160 fired.
MR. HENDERSON, meanwhile, put Burlington's spun-yarn operations in a red zone, tantamount to a pink slip.
The Collins & Aikman Corporation, the largest maker of automobile carpets, agreed to buy the Joan Fabrics Corporation's automotive fabric business and an affiliated yarn-dyeing operation for $158.9 million in cash and stock.
It treats in some detail the processes involved in the conversion of fibres to yarn, fabric construction, finishing operations applied to textiles, uses of textile materials, and the relationship between the producer and the consumer.
Because filaments, such as silk and the man-made fibres, have extreme length, they can be made into yarn without the spinning operation necessary for the shorter staple fibres.
The preparation of natural fibres for backing and pile yarns involved many labour-consuming operations.
Twisting, in yarn and rope production, process that binds fibres or yarns together in a continuous strand, accomplished in spinning or playing operations.
As a length was drawn out, the operation was halted, the new yarn wound on the spindle and secured by a notch, and the operation was repeated.
The energy-storing properties of the CNT yarn are characterized, and the design, operation, and characterization of three demonstration systems that store energy in stretched CNT yarns and release it to drive an electrical or mechanical load are presented.
Industrial plants were grouped according to type: some plants (spinning) receive cotton from the ginners and only produce threads and yarns (blowing, carding, twisting and spinning operations).
Most of Mr. Thor's books are yarns about the heroic exploits of Special Operations troops.
