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News for Columbia
Latest news from around Columbia, South Carolina, the Nation and the World
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
A bill that lawmakers hope will help turn abandoned buildings across South Carolina into bustling commercial space has advanced to the Senate floor.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2012
A Mohawk Industries textile plant in Calhoun Falls is closing, with its 193 workers losing their jobs.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
A historic mine in Lancaster County is being revived by a new search for gold.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
An international manufacturer of safety clothing is relocating some operations from Egypt to bring 120 jobs to Barnwell County. South Carolina officials said Wednesday that A&K Textiles LLC is setting up a new cut-and-sew operation in in a former Hanesbrands building.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
A Columbia start-up company is competing for a $50,000 Pepsi-refresh grant. Fabrisource is a textile company that pairs buyers with socially responsible textile producers that do not use sweatshop labor. Customers pay more for the product, but it's guaranteed that workers
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Billionaire textile magnate Roger Milliken's Cadillac was worth a little over $15,000 to the highest bidder at a charity auction.
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Monday, October 25, 2010
South Carolina's textile industries have been dropping jobs for decades and now Clemson University is ditching a degree program focused exclusively on the industry.
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
An Italian company that makes specialty fabrics is opening a plant in South Carolina that will create about 80 jobs.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
high-technology textile maker says it will create 200 jobs in South Carolina over the next five years
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
A South Carolina textile company is expanding a plant and will add 40 jobs.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
A textile company plans to expand its operations and will create 50 new jobs in northern South Carolina.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Officials with Blair Mills in Belton say the textile plant will close by the end of the year, eliminating 250 jobs.
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