北卡罗来纳州MCADENVILLE——2019年5月16日- This week, the newly-installed National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) President and CEO Kim Glas spent time in the Carolinas engaging with the industry. Glas met with executives at Milliken and Company, Spartanburg, S.C.; was a featured speaker at the Southern Textile Association (STA) Southern Division Meeting in Clemson, S.C.; and spent a day at Pharr, A Family of Companies, in McAdenville, N.C., where she toured several yarn spinning plants and hosted a meet and greet with industry executives. Glas said she was in the Carolinas to hear about what is important to the industry.
Glas also held a media briefing at Pharr where she discussed her plans for the first 100 days of her tenure, noting that this is a transition time for NCTO. “Transitions are a time of challenge, but also a time of great opportunity,” Glas said. “So, I’m all ears and that’s why I’m here today to hear from the industry themselves about what they see, not only about the future of their business, but the future of NCTO.”
金报告说，她在最初的100天中具有五个优先事项：
- 了解该行业和行业的企业.
“A lot of the industry I know, but there are some folks in the industry I don’t know,” Glas said. “So I’m going to be reaching out, visiting plants, talking to members. And not only figuring out what are they making now, but where do they want to go as an industry. What are their sustainability initiatives? How best can NCTO represent their voice on Capitol Hill and in the administration?”
2.Meeting key allies and stakeholders, and people who should be key allies and stakeholders on Capitol Hill and in the administration.
“There is a huge change in terms of what’s happening in Congress these days and the composition and we need to get up and talk to members of congress about our industry and some of the issues that are on the front pages of the news — whether it’s trade policy or regulatory issues,” Glas mentioned.
3.加强NCTO通信.
“We are delighted that our vice president of communications Kristi Ellis has come on board, and we have Rebecca Tantillo who is handling a lot of our digital operations,” Glas said. “… [NCTO’s] obviously had a branding campaign ‘We Make Amazing,’ [but] how do we take that campaign to the next level? Are we reaching all our key stakeholders that we’re trying to communicate with about the innovation happening in the industry, and what the industry sees in terms of a proactive agenda moving forward?”
4.Building the industry association to make it stronger.
Glas said: “What are services that we can provide that would be of benefit to the industry? Now that there have been some [association] mergers, now it’s time to reflect and think about our strategy moving forward.”
5.Getting to know the staff.
格拉斯对纺织业并不陌生。在她的职业生涯中，她曾在奥巴马政府下的美国商务部担任纺织品，消费品和材料副秘书，在那里她负责改善美国纺织品和服装行业的国内和国际竞争力。格拉斯还与美国贸易代表，主要机构和国会紧密合作，以推进各种关键贸易政策问题，包括变更CAFTA-DR协议。
格拉斯对当今的纺织业有着非常有利的印象，并热衷于向华盛顿的立法者介绍该行业以及正在发生的伟大事情。
“When I was the deputy assistant for textiles, … [the United States was] the fourth largest exporter [of textiles] in the world,” Glas said. “And now that data shows we’re the second largest textile exporter in the world. And when I say that to Capitol Hill stakeholders and the administration, it just sort of blows them away that this industry is not only alive, but is doing really well.
格拉斯指出：“我一直对行业的投资水平印象深刻。”“仅在今天在Pharr的工厂中，您就会看到他们正在进行的投资水平。该行业已经投资了大约20亿美元，用于我们从2017年开始的最新数据，因此技术的数量，行业中发生的自动化以及我们生产的产品的多样性都很棒。
“I look forward to seeing how the industry continues to transform itself over the next five years,” Glas concluded.
Posted May 16, 2019
资料来源：纺织世188BET金博宝下载界，Rachael S. Davis，执行编辑
