Wickers American Manufacturing

Wickers is proud to have as it major producer of moisture wicking knit fabrics Alamac USA.

They operate a 450.000 square foot plant which is located on 190 acres of land in North Carolina.

They take their environmental responsibilities very seriously. I asked Mark Cabral, CEO to outline some of the details of these responsibilities. His response:

“We operate and are governed under a variety of environmental permits:

-Waste Water Treatment……….Operator Permit

-Air Emissions Permit

-Storm Water Discharge Permit

-Land Management and Application Permit.

In particular, we manage all our water use and application on sight. Which includes pumping and pre-treating all incoming water requirements and treating all our own waste water by way of an Aerobic Waste water Treatment Facility, Alternatively, we could purchase our water and send our waste water to a local municipality, but we have found it to be more cost effective, reliable and efficient to manage this ourselves and less burdensome on the municipalities.”

Textile manufacturing is the largest user of water and as such there is much to do to be sure that what we do will not harm the waterways and lakes in America. In addition the EPA requires strict controls on air emissions and Alamac USA has its controls in place and the properly trained engineers to operate them as required.

Yes, it costs more to manufacture in the US, but it’s worth every penny to all of us to have clear, clean safe water and air and to keep it that way.