At its 14th Annual Meeting in Capital Hilton, Washington DC, on 23rd March, National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) has elected William ‘Bill’ V. McCrary Jr. as the new NCTO Chairman replacing Robert ‘Rob’ H. Chapman, III. NCTO is a trade association that represents domestic textile manufacturers of the USA.
William McCrary previously served NCTO as a Vice Chairman in 2016. For the tenure of 2017, Marty Moran has been elected as Vice Chairman.
It’s worth mentioning here that McCrary is the Chairman and CEO of William Barnet and Son LLC, a synthetic fibre/yarn/polymer firm headquartered in South Carolina, USA with plants and offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
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Also at the meeting, Chapman, III delivered the trade association’s 2017 State of the US Textile Industry overview. Chapman’s statement outlined US textile supply chain economic, employment and trade data, as well as the 2017 policy priorities of domestic textile manufacturers.
Thanking the NCTO for the opportunity to serve textile industry as Chairman of NCTO for 2016, Chapman congratulated new Chairman McCrary and said, “Although the US textile industry has stabilized its position in the global economy, it cannot afford to rest on its laurels. There will always be intense and sometimes unfair competition from abroad, changing consumer demands and inevitable economic downturns.”
