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Textiles now unraveling
25 Jul '06
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A train derailment in January 2005, halted the machines of Avondale Mills' for weeks, delayed orders and corroded much of its equipment, making it impossible for the town's heart throb to survive.
The accident released a deadly plume of chlorine that rolled into the plants buildings, everything inside was chlorinated and Graniteville basically was sitting on an acid bottle.
Its closing is creating severe hardship to about 1,600 employees and their families.
Nearly a dozen plants sprawled in 2 million square feet and an estimated 1,500 acres Avondale owns in the heart of town, about 50 miles from Columbia is doomed having no prospect.
Generations of loyal mill workers who are 'too old to start over but too young to retire' are being put in an awkward position but must figure out how to reap a living in a community-a nation-where textile work is untying.
The mill had spent more than US $140 million on emergency cleaning and repairs but has failed, as everything from nut bolts to circuit boards at the mill was uncleanable and unsalvageable.
Company has filed a lawsuit against the railroad but nothing other than selling the plant is on the placard.
The accident released a deadly plume of chlorine that rolled into the plants buildings, everything inside was chlorinated and Graniteville basically was sitting on an acid bottle.
Its closing is creating severe hardship to about 1,600 employees and their families.
Nearly a dozen plants sprawled in 2 million square feet and an estimated 1,500 acres Avondale owns in the heart of town, about 50 miles from Columbia is doomed having no prospect.
Generations of loyal mill workers who are 'too old to start over but too young to retire' are being put in an awkward position but must figure out how to reap a living in a community-a nation-where textile work is untying.
The mill had spent more than US $140 million on emergency cleaning and repairs but has failed, as everything from nut bolts to circuit boards at the mill was uncleanable and unsalvageable.
Company has filed a lawsuit against the railroad but nothing other than selling the plant is on the placard.
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