Eric Henry
@localaction
Believer in US mfg., LOCAL focused, transparency in both business and government. President of TS Designs. Firestarter, not a fire tender
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Yesterday in #stanleycounty we launched our 16th year for Cotton of the Carolinas #NCcotton #NCmade #reshoring “Dirt to Shirt” all in North Carolina making the #besttee
Elon University is partnering with Burlington for Phoenix Fourth Friday this week with music, food trucks, drinks and goodies. It's Family Weekend at Elon and this will be a good place to relax and enjoy Friday evening. mtaylor.blog/2019/09/25/elo…
The first production of garment dyed wool berets for the US military is in the books. Thanks to our staff from going from zero to success on a new acid dye process with a new client in just a few weeks. A special thanks to those working at our dyehouse wi…lnkd.in/esqvmFh
A shout out to Townsend Bertram in Carrboro for buying our Solid State tees. I took this image while in their store on and had an opportunity to talk to one of their staff about what makes our tees different than every other t-shirt that was on their dis…lnkd.in/eah3JVy
I headed over to Greensboro yesterday to pick up a pair of my locally made Wrangler jeans. Congrats to @RoianAtwood and team at Kontoor Brands, Inc. for their leadership to bring these jeans to market. We have been part of telling and participating in t…lnkd.in/eRMXMG6
Just coming back from the Outdoor Retailer Show, the two big conversations I heard a lot, the benefits of hemp in outdoor apparel and the worry about the looming Chinese tariffs. Fortunately, we are playing the long game. What is best for the planet and…lnkd.in/e_dqwm3
Thanks to our friends at Townsend Bertram for the great blog they just published about the journey of TS Designs. Hope to see some of you soon next week in Denver at the Outdoor Retailer Show, and for those coming to OR please chec…lnkd.in/eMkYPkp lnkd.in/etQarsx
Honored to served as president for North Carolina Business Council. Our ED Vicki Lee Parker submitted a great editorial over the weekend about the business case for Medicaid expansion in NC. @BrainScanMan Carol Peppe Hewitt @climegeist lnkd.in/ePHVmz9
Business like sustainability is a journey. We are slowly starting to update our tag line around the facility that we adopted last year. Our first tag line coming out of NAFTA was “Providing Apparel Solutions Through Innovation and Sustainability.” That…lnkd.in/eTCiUhr
Great article and funny, but serious video on the topic of microplastics and the love we have for it in our clothes. We killed our new brand, Carolina Blend and I am sure we lost some business and customers. Focusing on natural fibers for a better world. lnkd.in/ebcYNTV
Thanks @CYNOSURALLC for both organizing and moderating our upcoming panel discussion at the Outdoor Retailer Show in June in Denver titled “Developing a Sustainable Hemp Fiber Supply Chain in the United States.” Such an important topic as industrial hemp…lnkd.in/eBjwhTY
To most people this looks like a bunch of white t-shirts, but two cool things are coming together at TS Designs this week that have been in the works for many years. The top image are our first shirts made with Chinese hemp fabric heading to our dye-hous…lnkd.in/eWcNh-b
Medicaid Expansion, it is time for North Carolina to get our board. I had the opportunity to speak this past week at a local event sponsored by Down Home from the perspective of how not participating in the expansion impacts our community and a small bus…lnkd.in/e4zu7uz
A picture says a lot, I grabbed this image from a Toad and Co. newsletter this AM. There is so much in the news these days about marijuana and CBD which has been exciting to watch. We are part of the long term and challenging road of industrial hemp fibe…lnkd.in/ev883wa
We are working on developing a white paper on how TS Designs is developing a new sector of our business from what we have learned from over ten years of Cotton of the Carolinas. We have the ability to facilitate t-shirt production…lnkd.in/ejcstWp lnkd.in/ey93hx3
As I see more apparel brands try to twist their stories as to where their apparel is made I believe it is all around chasing cheap labor to maximize their bottom lines. Some brands use imported materials then process in the US, or…lnkd.in/etf2rH8 lnkd.in/eWBR8JX
It is the people! Around 3:30 AM on Wednesday while I was out of town traveling I got a call from the Burlington Fire Department that our dyehouse located at 413 Trucker Street was on fire. Fortunately, the fire had already been contained, and no one was…lnkd.in/efuVNJH
Thanks Guy Carpenter and Patrique Veille from Bear Fiber for getting us the first test hemp/cotton fabrics from China. We have developed a multi year plan to manufacture industrial hemp in the US from “seed to shirt.” This is our first step in bringing…lnkd.in/eUC7qnG
The EV market is like the Wild West and one reason I love to be a part of it. Yesterday, when looking for a charging spot in Durham my Chargepoint app told me there as a spot in a parking deck a few locks from my meeting. When I arrived there was a Niss…lnkd.in/eWV4hX8
Super Excited to be opening the doors next Saturday, March 30th. A five year journey to bring the first cooperatively owned brewery to North Carolina and to the best of my research the tenth in the country. Over 2100 residents of our state got skin in t…lnkd.in/eswmDkQ
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