Luray Textiles Inc. (Plant)

Darco Southern, Inc is a global leader in the manufacture and development of industrial gasketing products and high temperature textiles. Founded in 1976, Darco takes pride in the quality of its custom designed products and its customer service.Materials manufactured at our Independence, Virginia facility include seals, tadpole gaskets, pipe insulation, fiberglass tape, furnace heat shields and boiler replacement parts. We specialize in wire inserted fiberglass tadpole, tacky cloth, fiberglass sleeving, silica cloth and tape, Inconel and stainless steel mesh, braided and knitted fiberglass rope, and Tetraglas and Tetraglas 3000 tapes and cloths.

Founded in 1939, Hickory Throwing Company serves the knitting and weaving industry. The company specializes in performance yarns for hosiery, including lambswool, merino wool, wool blends in natural and colors. It also offers Isolwool, Isolfil and neofil filament polypropylene colors. In addition, Hickory Throwing Company stocks Tilsa 1/18 dyed high-bulk acrylic colors. The company offers a variety of specialty yarns, including Alpaca, Cashmere and Mohair. Hickory Throwing Company offers ecofriendly yarns in bleach white and a range of colors and counts.

Meridian Specialty Yarn Group specializes in novelty yarn manufacturing and dyeing. The company operates production plants in North Carolina. One of its production plants specializes in package dyeing that dyes every fiber substrate along with technical products, such as high ultraviolet and other specialty polyesters. Its other plant specializes in working with designers to create a range of products for industrial weavers, knitters and the hand-knitting market. Meridian Specialty Yarn Group is a member of Meridian Industries, which is a family-owned diversified manufacturing group that was founded in 1943. Meridian Industries is comprised of five operating companies that include Aurora Specialty Textiles Group, Kent Elastomer Products, Kleen Test Products Corporation, Majilite Corporation and Meridian Specialty Yarn Group.