Main Street Builds Factory To House Increased Upholstery Lines
September 20, 2000
Tyngsboro, MA (USA) - Main Street Textiles will open new manufacturing facilities in late September or early October, according to president Penny Richards. Main Street is a weaver of flat textured and jacquard fabrics for home upholstery, as well as the contract, RV and automotive industries.
Richards said she thinks that the factory will be one of the largest single textile plants in the United States when it is completed.
''The building is large enough to enable us to increase our volume by 100 percent,'' Richards said. ''It's going to be a weaving and finishing plant for flat-textured fabrics. The facility is 600,000 square feet. We're building this to consolidate and for future expansion.''
The new facilities will become home to two separate Main Street factories in Fall River, Mass. One plant executes weaving operations and the other performs weaving and finishing.
Main Street's corporate headquarters will remain where they are in Fall River, Mass.
''Our business is expanding,'' said Richards, ''and we were looking at the possibility of moving into a third facility. We decided instead to be cost-competitive, to produce a facility that would allow us to produce everything under one roof.''
Main Street's growing upholstery operations made it necessary for the company to build new facilities. ''We have expanded our direction in upholstery,'' Richards said. ''We were known for manufacturing products that would be classified as contemporary for motion furniture and we've expanded our product direction to include stationary furniture.''
While the largest part of the company's volume comes from home upholstery, other factions of the company are growing, including RV, contract and automotive.
The company established a contract division about five years ago. Richards said that contract fabrics account for about $20 million of Main Street's turnover.
During the next eight years, ongoing expansion by Main Street will create more than 600 jobs, according to Richards.
In December of 1999, The Boston Business Journal ranked Main Street the sixty-seventh largest privately owned company in Massachusetts. Main Street is part of a holding company called Tyng Textiles, which reports annual sales of about $150 million.
Richards said she thinks that the factory will be one of the largest single textile plants in the United States when it is completed.
''The building is large enough to enable us to increase our volume by 100 percent,'' Richards said. ''It's going to be a weaving and finishing plant for flat-textured fabrics. The facility is 600,000 square feet. We're building this to consolidate and for future expansion.''
The new facilities will become home to two separate Main Street factories in Fall River, Mass. One plant executes weaving operations and the other performs weaving and finishing.
Main Street's corporate headquarters will remain where they are in Fall River, Mass.
''Our business is expanding,'' said Richards, ''and we were looking at the possibility of moving into a third facility. We decided instead to be cost-competitive, to produce a facility that would allow us to produce everything under one roof.''
Main Street's growing upholstery operations made it necessary for the company to build new facilities. ''We have expanded our direction in upholstery,'' Richards said. ''We were known for manufacturing products that would be classified as contemporary for motion furniture and we've expanded our product direction to include stationary furniture.''
While the largest part of the company's volume comes from home upholstery, other factions of the company are growing, including RV, contract and automotive.
The company established a contract division about five years ago. Richards said that contract fabrics account for about $20 million of Main Street's turnover.
During the next eight years, ongoing expansion by Main Street will create more than 600 jobs, according to Richards.
In December of 1999, The Boston Business Journal ranked Main Street the sixty-seventh largest privately owned company in Massachusetts. Main Street is part of a holding company called Tyng Textiles, which reports annual sales of about $150 million.
