Old meets new at Somerset textiles factory

Posted on 6 Jun 2014 by The Manufacturer

A Somerset factory using centuries-old technology to create its tulle product has embraced renewable energy as it looks to the future.

Manufacturer Swisstulle will see a biomass boiler making products using 200-year-old methods at its Chard factory after NatWest provided funding for building works and other associated costs for its installation. The plant which employs 66 people is the world’s largest producer of bobbinet, netting made on machines which use bobbins, a method developed in the…

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