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Textile recycling confronts hurdles of cost, scalability
August 1st, 2024
At the Sweden-based Siptex textile recycling facility, the sorting machines use near-infrared and visual spectroscopy to take mixed textile waste and sort the items by fiber type. These bales are ready for their next processing step, whether that’s chemical or mechanical recycling. Image: Siptex Textile waste is a massive problem throughout the world. The European […]
Tidal Vision announces facility opening and partnership with Leigh Fibers
July 2nd, 2021
Tidal Vision has announced a new partnership with Leigh Fibers and the opening of a new production facility in Wellford, S.C. These steps will help to ensure the textile industry has access to sustainable bio-based textile treatments that displace millions of pounds of chemical treatments used in the textile industry. The opening of Tidal Vision’s […]
Leigh Fibers acquires J.E. Herndon
February 1st, 2018
Leigh Delaware Holdings, a global company focused on sustainable product engineering through manufactured, traded, and reprocessed fibers and polymers, has acquired J.E. Herndon Co., a privately held company based in Kings Mountain, N.C. J.E. Herndon reprocesses textile fibers and by-products primarily connected to the cotton industry. The acquisition complements Leigh Fibers’ service and product offerings […]
Harlow Frederick Dodge
September 14th, 2016
Harlow Frederick Dodge has been named chief operating officer of Leigh Fibers Inc. and ICE Recycling, world leaders in reprocessed fibers and polymers headquartered in Wellford, S.C. He has spent 20 years with Georgia Pacific Corp., where he advanced from the shop floor to executive vice president of the Gypsum Division. Dodge’s extensive experience in […]
Dodge named COO of Leigh Fibers and ICE Recycling
August 8th, 2016
Harlow Frederick Dodge has been named Chief Operating Officer of Leigh Fibers and ICE Recycling. Dodge joins the Leigh family of companies after working with numerous Fortune 500 companies in the building products, paper, chemical, mining and textile industries as well as small private equity groups driving aggressive EBITDA growth through performance improvement. Dodge will […]
Leigh Fibers announces recycling partnership
June 27th, 2016
Leigh Fibers, Inc., Spartanburg, S.C., will become the recycling partner for Cintas, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based uniform company. The first-of-its-kind national program will facilitate the safe disposal of out-of-service uniforms that normally end up in landfills. Instead, the recycling process will offer new life to the used materials in the automotive and other end-user industries. The […]
Leigh Fibers adds trading specialist
February 24th, 2016
Leigh Fibers, a Wellford, S.C.-based fiber and polymer trading, manufacturing and fiber reprocessing company, has hired Yunhong “Amy” Li to expand its international trading services. Proficient in spoken and written English, Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, Li has over 20 years of experience in importing and exporting and ten years of experience in product and raw […]