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Article: Crown Textile modernizing for more flexibility.
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- Daily News Record
- Article date:
- September 17, 1984
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NEW YORK -- Although the textile industry has, in the past 10 years alone, adapted to a wide variety of sophisticated equipment and technology in such major areas as spinning, weaving and dyeing, Crown Textile Co., Philadelphia, expects that in the next 10 years there will be no major technologies introduced for the benefit of interlinings producers.
Crown, possibly more closely identified with the apparel industry than with the textile industry, is in the midst of a $10-$12 million modernization program that includes the purchase of 100 rapier weaving machines, new winders and updating its spinning systems.
To beat the flexibility problem, the firm is ...