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In 1919,
Samuel Schneider began a small silk weaving business in
Haledon, N.J. as a sole proprietorship.
From that date until his death in 1944, the business grew
steadily, constantly keeping abreast of, and reinvesting in
the latest technology. As development of man-made fibers
rendered silk obsolete a 100% synthetic plant was opened in
Holyoke, Massachusetts. Two years later, in 1940, an
additional synthetic plant followed in Blakey, Pennsylvania.
In 1946, a 75 acre tract was purchased in Taylorsville, N.C.
and by 1947 all operations were consolidated under one roof
at that site.
Today the privately held company
is lead by Albert Schneider, 2nd generation of
the Schneider family with the 3rd and 4th
generations working in the business. The family tradition of
reinvesting and updating remains strong and insures
Schneider Mills, Inc. will continue to be a
state-of-the-arts weaver of synthetic filament greige goods. |
History
