Mohawk Industries is investing $10 million in the Spartanburg County commercial carpeting facility, which is located in Columbia, South Carolina, over the next ten years, so the company can upgrade the facility’s looms. The upgrade is also in regards to improving the technology, which will support future business growth. The facility’s upgrade will create twenty new jobs, and the facility already has almost 160 employees.
Mohawk Industries, which is based in Calhoun, Georgia, operates two manufacturing facilities in South Carolina, the Landrum plant in Spartanburg County and the facility in Bennettsville in Marlboro County. The Landrum facility is 340,000 square foot, and it produces high-end, woven contract commercial carpeting for domestic and international customers. In addition, the Landrum plant creates aviation carpet for most domestic and some international airlines and airplane manufacturers.
In 1952, the Landrum facility was built by the Sanford-Bigelow carpet company. Throughout the years, Sanford-Bigelow merged and was acquired by different companies, and it 1993, Mohawk acquired Karastan-Bigelow from Fieldcrest Cannon. Presently, the Landrum team is part of Mohawk’s global workforce of more than 31,000, with around 1,150 employees in South Carolina at the manufacturing sites in Landrum and Bennettsville as well as a distribution center in Orangeburg.
Mohawk Industries said that they plan to begin hiring for new positions after the first phase of upgrades is completed, and the company will continue to accept applications for other positions at the site after the upgrades as well.
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