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The new plant will employ around 600 workers, and is currently preparing to ramp up its operations ahead of full commercial production by the second quarter of next year. And as well as the selvedge looms, there will also be 40 "latest generation" Picanol rapier weaving machines.
It's something that we really want to instil, and we hope we create a ripple effect through the industry with what we do," says Feibus.įor example, the mill will have both open-end and ring spinning featuring air-conditioning systems from Turkish engineering group Temsan that use less energy and offer better quality. Other manufacturing details have also been designed into the process that "result in better denim, better cost efficiency, and a better customer experience. It is also teaming up with The Lubrizol Corporation whose stretch fibres offer sustainable benefits such as processing at lower temperatures and recyclability. On top of this, more than 50% of Vidalia's energy needs will be met by renewable resources, including the local hydro-dam and the business is committed to zero waste-water discharge. Based out of a 900,000 square foot former Fruit of the Loom distribution facility in the heart of the cotton-producing region of the Mississippi Delta, the new $50m denim mill will be the first to open in the US in almost a century.Īnother pioneering move will see the mill become the first in North America – and the first in the world – to use a new and environmentally-friendly yarn dyeing technology for denim that uses foam instead of water and will result in significant water and energy savings. The looms produce vintage selvage denim not available anywhere else in the world, and are currently being relocated to the new Vidalia Mills facility – along with the mechanics and engineers who keep the equipment in running order.īut it's not just selvedge denim that will give Vidalia Mills its edge. "We're very confident of our ability to be one of the two or three select selvedge weavers in the world."ĭelivering on this goal is possible after the business acquired all 46 of the 1940s vintage American Draper X3 shuttle looms from the now defunct Cone Denim White Oak facility in Greensboro, North Carolina. "Denim is the American fabric and we think it's time to make selvedge denim in the United States again," Vidalia Mills CEO Daniel Feibus told an invited group of brands, retailers, executives and stakeholders during a tour of the facility taking shape in Louisiana.