Textile Product Mills
NAICS 314: Textile product mills — U.S. carpet manufacturing, technical textiles, nonwovens, and defense textile production.
Industry at a Glance
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Industry Overview
Textile Product Mills (NAICS 314) covers establishments that manufacture textile products from purchased fabrics and fibers, including carpets, rugs, curtains, draperies, linens, bags, canvas products, and tire cord. This classification is distinct from NAICS 313 (textile mills that produce the fabric itself) — NAICS 314 focuses on the downstream conversion of fabrics into finished goods.
Domestic production concentrates in Georgia and the Carolinas for carpet and rug manufacturing, with Dalton, Georgia serving as the undisputed capital of the U.S. carpet industry. Shaw Industries (a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary) and Mohawk Industries, both headquartered in the Dalton area, control the majority of U.S. carpet and flooring production. For technical textiles, firms like Milliken & Company in Spartanburg, South Carolina produce engineered fabrics for automotive, military, and industrial applications.
The sector operates under EPA stormwater and wastewater discharge regulations, OSHA textile dust standards, and Consumer Product Safety Commission flammability requirements under the Flammable Fabrics Act. International competition from China, India, and Turkey has pushed domestic mills toward technical textiles, military specification fabrics, and products where proximity to end customers provides a logistics advantage. The Berry Amendment requires the Department of Defense to source textiles domestically, providing a protected market segment for qualified producers.
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Industry Trends
Shaw Industries and Mohawk Industries are investing in PET recycling infrastructure to convert post-consumer plastic bottles into polyester carpet fiber, with Shaw's re[TURN] program processing billions of bottles annually.
Hard-surface flooring — luxury vinyl tile and engineered hardwood — is displacing carpet in residential construction, forcing carpet mills to diversify into rigid core flooring and commercial contract segments.
Berry Amendment compliance remains essential for defense textile suppliers, with the Department of Defense requiring domestic sourcing for uniforms, body armor substrates, and tactical textile products.
Nonwoven fabric production for filtration media, geotextiles, and medical disposables is the fastest-growing segment, driven by post-pandemic demand for meltblown and spunbond materials.
Automation of tufting, dyeing, and finishing lines using programmable logic controllers and machine vision inspection systems is reducing labor requirements while improving pattern complexity and color consistency.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is NAICS 314? ▾
NAICS 314 covers textile product mills that manufacture finished products from purchased fabrics and fibers — carpets, rugs, curtains, linens, bags, canvas goods, and tire cord. It is distinct from NAICS 313 (textile mills producing yarns and raw fabrics). The sector's largest segment is carpet and rug manufacturing, centered in Dalton, Georgia.
Why is Dalton, Georgia called the carpet capital of the world? ▾
Dalton and the surrounding Whitfield County area host over 150 carpet and flooring plants, including the headquarters and primary manufacturing operations of Shaw Industries and Mohawk Industries. This concentration traces back to the tufted bedspread industry of the early 1900s and evolved into a cluster that produces the majority of U.S. carpet output and a large share of global production.
How does the Berry Amendment affect textile product mills? ▾
The Berry Amendment (10 U.S.C. 2533a) requires the Department of Defense to procure textiles, clothing, and certain other items from domestic sources. This creates a protected market for mills producing uniform fabrics, ballistic textile substrates, camouflage materials, and other defense-specification products, insulating qualified manufacturers from foreign competition on military contracts.
What is driving growth in technical and nonwoven textiles? ▾
Automotive lightweighting requirements, tightening air and water filtration standards, and medical disposable demand are fueling growth. Nonwoven producers like Berry Global and Ahlstrom supply spunbond and meltblown materials for surgical masks, filtration media, and hygiene products. Automotive OEMs source needle-punched and composite textiles for interior components and acoustic insulation.
How is the carpet industry responding to hard-surface flooring competition? ▾
Shaw Industries and Mohawk Industries have both acquired and developed rigid core and luxury vinyl tile product lines to compete across all flooring categories. Within carpet, manufacturers are targeting commercial contract markets — offices, hospitality, healthcare — where carpet tile offers acoustic and maintenance advantages that hard-surface alternatives cannot match.
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