Reshoring Textiles, a holding company founded in 2025 to buy U.S. textile businesses, has completed its first acquisition: Sans Technical Fibers, a North Carolina producer of specialty nylon and polyester yarns. The company did not disclose deal terms.

The move gives Reshoring Textiles a foothold in domestic filament production for technical and specialty applications, including sewing thread and industrial textiles. For apparel and industrial manufacturers weighing nearshoring options, the deal adds a U.S.-based supplier of inputs that brands have typically sourced overseas.

Robert Antoshak, chief marketing officer of Reshoring Textiles, confirmed to Sourcing Journal that Sans is the firm's first acquisition. Reshoring Textiles targets U.S. textile and adjacent businesses, including idle and distressed manufacturing plants — a strategy that signals more capacity deals may follow as domestic plant closures create acquisition targets.

What does Sans bring to the portfolio?

Sans manufactures high-strength, low-shrinkage yarns used in sewing threads, narrow fabrics, braided cords and other technical textiles. Its end markets span:

• apparel and footwear
• medical
• military
• automotive
• manufactured rubber products

The company is ISO 9001 certified, produces everything in North Carolina from U.S.-made raw materials, and says it serves customers on five continents. Those certifications and its fully domestic input chain matter for buyers with Berry Amendment or origin-sensitive requirements.

"Reshoring is dedicated to helping American textile manufacturing grow," CEO Josh Nieuwsma said in a statement. "Customers need reliable long-term domestic sources of the raw materials their products require. Sans gives us an established operation with deep experience in specialty nylon and polyester."

How does Sans fit with Spinnere?

Sans will operate alongside Spinnere, another Reshoring Textiles company that makes cotton, cotton-rich blends and filament yarns for mills and brands from facilities in Alabama and South Carolina.

"Alongside Spinnere, it will help us supply more of those needs from U.S. facilities, and support manufacturers and startups looking to grow and build their businesses here," Nieuwsma said.

The combination gives Reshoring coverage across both spun and filament yarn supply from three Southeastern states. For sourcing teams, that means a single U.S.-based holding company can now quote cotton blends, filament and technical nylon and polyester — shortening lead times versus import routes for these inputs.

"Sans has built its reputation on consistent, high-performance fibers," said John Garner, CEO of Sans Technical Fibers. "Our mission statement: to make it easy to do business in America. We don't like the word no."

Why the deal lands now

The acquisition arrives against a difficult backdrop for U.S. textiles. In his "State of the U.S. Textile Industry" address at the National Council of Textile Organizations' 22nd annual meeting in Washington earlier this year, former NCTO Chairman Chuck Hallt said the industry faced significant challenges in 2025 from economic upheaval and shifting trade policy.

"And in just two and a half years, more than 40 U.S. textile plants have closed. Let that sink in. 40 facilities–many in rural communities where a textile mill is the economic backbone–shut their doors. Families were impacted. Communities were shaken," Hallt said.

Hallt also cited tariff increases "on nearly every country" as a source of uncertainty in global markets, along with logistics breakdowns across supply chains. The sector remains one of the largest single-country exporters of textile-related products, anchored in technical and high-value goods, but the promised tariff-driven resurgence of domestic production has not fully materialized.

For Reshoring Textiles, that gap between policy promise and commercial reality is the opportunity: distressed and idle capacity can be bought, certified and repositioned for buyers who now want domestic supply. Whether Sans and Spinnere can scale fast enough to absorb that demand — and at what price premium versus imported yarns — will define the holding company's next moves.