WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina | Textile service plant to close
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WYFF-TV reports that employees of John D. Hollingsworth on Wheels Inc. learned of the closing Friday. The company tests, repairs and makes textile equipment.
President and CEO William Henderson said the disappearance of textile customers due to the industry's continued U.S. decline made the difficult decision necessary. Workers will receive severance pay.
The Greenville-based company was founded in the late 1800s by Pinckney Hollingsworth as a one-man operation. He traveled to cotton mills in the Carolinas with a machine shop on a mule-drawn wagon to repair textile machinery. The company expanded through his son and grandson.
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