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South Carolina now home to Chinese textile manufacturers

Related Keywords: Chinese companies, Chinese yarn companies, Keer, Lancaster County, low cost manufacturing, South Carolina, Textile jobs, Textile mills, textile producers

The prospect of a sweeping Pacific trade agreement led by the United States, and excluding China, is driving Chinese yarn companies to gain a foothold in the lucrative U.S. market. China, once the epitome of cheap mass manufacturing, textile producers from formerly low-cost nations are starting to set up shop in America. It is part of a blurring of boundaries between high- and low-cost manufacturing nations that few would have predicted a decade ago.

Chinese textile companies looking to manufacture in the US

Related Keywords: build yarn manufacturing lines, Carolinas, Chinese compnies, cotton and land, epicenter of US textile industry, Keer, laboe cost, lower cost of energy, manufacture in US, textile company, textile job

Chinese companies are looking to manufacture in the U.S., lured by lower costs of energy, cotton and land, and wary of rising labor costs in China. The Carolinas once the epicenter of the U.S. textile industry, but since the late 1990s, thousands of jobs were lost when emerging markets joined the game, touting cheaper materials and labor. Carolinas textile jobs went to China, Brazil and Vietnam, among other places.

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