Guilford Performance Textiles
Textile ManufacturingNorth Carolina, United States201-500 Employees
Guilford Performance Textiles designs, manufactures, and markets fabrics for automotive and other specialty markets worldwide. Its automotive offerings include interior fabrics such as bodycloth and headliners used to finish vehicle cabins. The company is based in Wilmington, North Carolina, and operates as a mid-sized textile manufacturer with a global network of manufacturing facilities and sales offices. Its specialty fabrics cover loop closure materials, lining fabrics for lamination, and products for residential, recreational, and commercial window coverings, as well as technical fabrics for stretch and performance applications. The portfolio also includes burial fabrics for casket liners and other niche materials such as cap and gown fabrics, medical textiles, gaming and billiard fabrics, electrostatic dissipative fabrics, print fabrics, and filtration media. The company maintains manufacturing facilities in Kenansville, North Carolina; Pine Grove, Pennsylvania; Alfreton, United Kingdom; and Troisvilles, France, and operates sales offices in multiple international locations; as of 2012, Guilford Performance Textiles was a subsidiary of Lear Corp.