HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-05-22, Page 12PAW,E •""0QTARI SIGNALSTAR, nip SDAY, MAY 22, 1975
Textral Fibres Ltd officially,open
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bon of threads made here
t before dignitaries took tour
Textral Fibres Ltd., the fifth
company to build in Goderichrs
Industrial Park, was officially
opened last week. A foot wide
ribbon, actually fabric made
from the yarn the company
produces, was cut by Robin
Dunbar, the son of Textral's
founder Leslie Dunbar.
The $1 million plant,
equipped with the most modern
machinery in , the fabric
business, employs about 66
people according to company
president Jack Burgess. He
told a small gathering of
company personnel, elected
representatives from the town
and the county and special
guests of Textral that the
machinery installed in the
Goderich plant was "the best
money could buy."
The five huge machines, each
one valued at a quarter of a
million dollars, uses a heat
process to turn raw yarn into a
flexible, stretchy fibre that is
,texturized, The fibre is then
sold to the Dupont Texture and
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-Fibre division to be marketed
and woven into fabric for
shirts, blouses and other ar-
ticles of clothing or cloth
material.
The Goderich plant," now
nearing full production, turns
out about 300,000 pounds of yarn
in a month. Operating round
the Clock their three shifts keep
the machinery going 24 hours a
day, seven days a week.
.The expansion. of , their
Elmira based company to
Goderich was made after six or
seven months of research.
Robin Dunbar, president of
Bartex Holdings which owns';
Textral, said that of the
cprnmunities considered,
Goderich was "clearly the
best."
"The large supply of female
labor, registered at Canada
Manpower and ready to work,
was one of the major" factors in
the move here," said Dunbar.
Female labor' i's of special
value to the company for
several reasns. Among them,.
according to Mr, Dunbar, is the
small .size of their hands and
fingers and their dexterity ill
handling the thin yarn. He
added that the workisT1fghf'and
can be handled easily by a
small person.
Further expansion is not out
of the question for the Goderich
plant' but Mr. Dunbar did not -
expound ,,,on the matter. He
simply pointed out that the
company bought five acres of
land in' the .park and "hope to
use it."
Textral president Jack Burgess was on hand for the opening ceremony as was the-ctithpany's
senior employee, Vera. Rahn. The secretaryjoined Textral when the company first opened in
Elmira and has been with them ever since. staff photo)
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Textral manager Bob .Tease'leftexplains the operation of'one of the machines 'to (left to right)
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Robin Dunbar, son of the founder of Textral Fibres Leslie,Dunbar, cut through the foot wide
ribbon to open the company's $1 million plant in Industrial Park Wednesday. (staff photo)
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