Butte Knitting Mills (Butte Knit Plant) was a division of Jonathan Logan Inc. which at the time the world's largest women's apparel manufacturer. Jonathan Logan Inc operated Butte Knit Plant.
Back in 1959, when double knit and the garments made from it were already popular in European women’s wear, very few people in the United States believed in it. Very few people in the United States believed its popularity would soar or take off in charting numbers.
(Ref: Herald-Journal, page D3, Feb. 10, 1967)
Butte Knit Plant was the first double-knit garment operation in the United States which had opened in January 1960. Not only for the world, but Butte Knit Plant was the first double-knit garment operation for world's largest women's apparel manufacturer in the United States. It was a great place to work and well respected among mill workers in the textile industry.
Initial production space for Butte Knit Plant had grown from about 40,000 square feet to about 1.5 million square feet with more than 2,000 employees. Jonathan Logan Inc operated Butte Knit Plant. Butte Knit Plant eventually became its own separate business. (Ref: Herald-Journal, 1972)
Today Butte Knit Plant has been more or less forgotten away with time. Only a handful of people knew about this textile mill.
Butte Knit Plant is located at Business I-85, Spartanburg, South Carolina, US.
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