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Partnering with Catawba Valley Reclamation
At Leigh Fibers, we are proud to partner with Catawba Valley Reclamation in the most recent publication of Manufacturing in Focus. Read the featured article below!
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Written by Pauline Müller
At a time when environmental stewardship is becoming increasingly urgent, it is refreshing to find companies doing tremendous work in mitigating our impact on the planet. Leigh Fibers is a re-engineered fiber company with a vast reach, offering custom fiber blends to suit the needs of global manufacturing suppliers in twenty-five countries. It is celebrating one hundred years in business this year and is still owned by the family that bought the company from the founder in 1922. This is North America's largest textile waste and by-product re-processor, and it specializes in landfill diversion.
The materials it collects consist of an amazing variety of fibers, from wool and rayon to polyester, cotton, and much more. These come from both post-consumer and post-industrial textile waste streams — apparel, manufacturing offcuts, and by-products that would otherwise be destined for a landfill or incinerator. Rather than treating this material as refuse, Leigh Fibers treats it as raw material, sorting, processing, and re-engineering it into consistent, high-quality fiber tailored to a customer's exact specification.
Their uses are just as diverse as their sources, including end products like acoustic padding, insulation, building materials such as concrete reinforcement and barriers, automotive liners, landscaping materials, furniture, water filters, and even equestrian arena surfaces. This breadth is only possible because of the engineering expertise behind each blend — the ability to match fiber characteristics to the demands of a specific application, industry, and budget.
What sets the company apart is not simply the volume it diverts, but the value it creates in doing so. Every pound of textile waste re-engineered into a usable fiber solution is a pound kept out of the ground and a virgin material that never had to be produced. For manufacturers under growing pressure to meet sustainability commitments without sacrificing performance or cost, that combination — proven engineering paired with genuine circularity — is exactly what makes Leigh Fibers a partner worth knowing.