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n recent years, the popularity of the word synergy has been overused to the point of becoming a cliché, often times out of context. But in the case of Unitex Group USA, a growing
webbing, sling, and lashing manufacturer and supplier in Piedmont, South Carolina, there may be no more essential element to describe its recent steady progress.
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013 WIRE ROPE EXCHANGE
Unitex Group is a compilation of 20-plus companies in over 12 countries, many of which are 60 to 100 years old, encompassing the longtime production of woven fabrics as well as slings, lashings, and automotive seatbelts. Te company is privately owned by Franco Repetto, an entrepreneurial industrialist who’s based in Monaco. Repetto has been in this type of business, making and selling
narrow width fabrics, synthetic lifting slings, tie-downs, and other ancillary products for more than 40 years. With the exception of its U.S. and China operations, Unitex’s international group has been built through business acquisitions over the years. One of its first was Marling Leek, in the U.K. Some 50 years ago, Marling Leek was involved in pioneering the development
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