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Yarn Maker UNIFI to close one of its Rockingham County facilities

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber
Published February 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM EST
A worker loads spools of thread at the Repreve Bottle Processing Center, part of the Unifi textile company in Yadkinville. The company plans to close one of its Rockingham County facilities this year. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

A worker loads spools of thread at the Repreve Bottle Processing Center, part of the Unifi textile company in Yadkinville. The company plans to close one of its Rockingham County facilities this year. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

UNIFI Manufacturing Inc. plans to close one of its facilities in Rockingham County.

In a letter to state commerce officials this week, UNIFI said it will permanently lay off 91 employees at its facility on Island Drive in Madison in April. Affected workers have been notified.

The synthetic and recycled yarn company plans to sell the building later this year as it consolidates its production in North and Central America.

There are a total of about 250 employees at that location, but the company is hoping some of the remaining workers will fill positions at other UNIFI facilities in the area, a spokesperson said.

UNIFI has a large regional presence. In addition to its workplaces in Rockingham County, it has headquarters in Greensboro and is also one of the largest employers in Yadkin County.

 
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Paul Garber
Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.
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