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Article: Making it in Dimona. (Dimona Textiles, Dimona Negev Desert) (Column)
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- Israel Business Today
- Article date:
- January 29, 1993
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Those who claim you can't run a profitable textile plant in a Negev development town probably haven't heard of the Dimona Textfles plant. In an areil wich has seen more than its share of investors and plants come and go, Dimona Textiles (formerly Dimona Fibers), has managed to escape that fate for 32 years. According to manager Moshe Koren, the best thing to happen to Dimona Textiles was the five years during which the plant was run by an official receiver, the late Henrik Margolis. Margolis did the unthinkable - he fired workers. In the height of its success in the 1970s, Dimona Fibers employed 2,100 workers in three large plants. Today Dimona Textiles consists of one ...