Reshoring Textiles, an industrial holding company for U.S. textile businesses, said it has acquired Sans Technical Fibers, a leading U.S. producer of specialized nylon and polyester yarns based in North Carolina.
Founded in 2025, Reshoring Textiles acquires U.S. textile and adjacent businesses, including idle and distressed manufacturing plants. Robert Antoshak, chief marketing officer of Reshoring Textiles, told Sourcing Journal that Sans marks Reshoring’s first acquisition.
While Antoshak didn’t disclose the terms of the acquisition, the move adds a crucial asset to the firm’s portfolio. It gives the holding company a way into domestic filament production for technical and specialty uses, including sewing thread and industrial textiles, giving Reshoring more to offer manufacturers in apparel and industrial markets.
“Reshoring is dedicated to helping American textile manufacturing grow,” Josh Nieuwsma, CEO of Reshoring Textiles, said in a statement.
“Customers need reliable long-term domestic sources of the raw materials their products require. Sans gives us an established operation with deep experience in specialty nylon and polyester,” he added.
Sans will operate with another company under Reshoring Textiles called Spinnere, which, according to its official website, makes cotton, cotton-rich blends, and filament yarns for mills and brands from its facilities in Alabama and South Carolina.
“Alongside Spinnere, it will help us supply more of those needs from U.S. facilities, and support manufacturers and startups looking to grow and build their businesses here,” Nieuwsma said.
Known for high strength and low shrinkage, Sans yarns are used in sewing threads, narrow fabrics, braided cords and other technical textiles. Its end markets include apparel and footwear, as well as medical, military, automotive and manufactured rubber products.
“Sans has built its reputation on consistent, high-performance fibers,” said John Garner, CEO of Sans Technical Fibers. “Our mission statement: to make it easy to do business in America. We don’t like the word no.”
Sans is ISO 9001 certified and manufactures all of its products in North Carolina from U.S.-made raw materials. The company said it serves customers on five continents.
The U.S. textile industry is not the same as it used to be in terms of its employment size or its output. While it’s still one of the largest single country exporters of textile-related products, thanks in part to a focus on highly technical and high value products, it still struggles with economic uncertainty, despite the resurgence that Trump’s tariffs promised for domestic production.
In his “State of the U.S. Textile Industry” address for the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO)’s 22nd annual meeting in Washington earlier this year, former NCTO Chairman Chuck Hallt said the industry faced significant challenges in 2025 owing to economic upheavals and changing trade policies.
Some of the challenges he cited were the tariff increases “on nearly every country” which caused a lot of uncertainty in global markets, as well as logistic breakdowns across supply chains.
“And in just two and a half years, more than 40 U.S. textile plants have closed. Let that sink in. 40 facilities–many in rural communities where a textile mill is the economic backbone–shut their doors. Families were impacted. Communities were shaken,” Hallt said, according to a transcript of his speech.