Baseball's opening day is right around the corner and one company will be paying close attention. Nokona is the last remaining glove maker that still produces the gloves in the U.S. for MLB players.
NOCONA — Rob Storey looks into the camera and starts to tell the story. "I'm fourth generation here," he says. "My great grandfather –” Then Storey hears the rumble growing louder: A semi-truck is ...
FAYETTE, Alabama, (Reuters) - Rising from a muddy field on the outskirts of the small town of Fayette, Alabama is a bricks-and-mortar symbol of the global COVID pandemic: A new glove factory. When ...
About 100 miles northwest of Dallas-Fort Worth, after passing untold pastures of crops and cattle, sits the town of Nocona, Texas, population 3,000. It’s home of the Nokona baseball glove factory — ...
Trendco USA will invest $43 million to launch a nitrile medical glove manufacturing operation in the new Regional East Alabama Logistics (REAL) Park in Macon County, Alabama. The company plans to ...
A 85-foot-tall, dark-gray building stands in southern Virginia, surrounded by grassy fields and rolling blue mountains. This brand-new chemical plant was set up during the pandemic to produce a ...
Most gloves are now made using machines, but Omega still makes them with the human touch. A seamstress at work in the Omega glove factory in the Rione Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy. Today, the ...