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A leader in American textile and apparel manufacturing
Katılım Nisan 2025
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Mount Vernon Mills is one of the oldest and last surviving denim mills in the United States, producing tens of millions of yards of denim annually. We're proud to build on that legacy and carry the American textile industry into the next century. @anatar
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The U.S. textile industry is among the most consequential and least commemorated chapters in our nation's industrial history.
America's first successful water-powered textile mill opened in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1790, built on the machinery knowledge Samuel Slater brought from England.
In 1793, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin while living on a plantation near Savannah, and the industry's center of gravity began its long migration south.
The movement of knowledge, capital, and architecture from established industrial centers (particularly New England) into the Piedmont region during the late 19th and early 20th centuries transformed the area from a largely agricultural landscape into a dominant industrial powerhouse, particularly in textiles.
By the mid-19th century, Augusta was marketed as “the Lowell of the South," its mills and canals explicitly modeled on the water-powered factories of Massachusetts, while North and South Carolina built their own dense mill towns in parallel.
It was an era of extremes that saw both the introduction of electrification and the development of ‘mill villages," where factory workers—many of them women and children—worked nearly 12-hour days in the mills, fueling years of labor unrest.
Atlanta sat inside that emerging mill belt. The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills grew from a post–Civil War bag-making operation into one of the city's largest industrial employers. By 1900, ninety-eight textile mills were operating across Georgia alone.
For more than two centuries, this sector employed millions of working families, supplied textiles and uniforms in multiple major American conflicts, and demonstrated what sovereign domestic industrial capacity can mean to a country in crisis.
Since its peak around 1979, the U.S. textile and apparel sector has lost more than 80 percent of its manufacturing jobs, falling from well over two million positions to roughly 270,000 today.
At Anatar, we believe that history must be documented, understood, and honored.
ThreadingAmerica.com — coming soon.
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The White House just authorized Defense Production Act Title III funding for American textile manufacturing.
Expanding access to DPA Title III funding strengthens the foundation of America’s textile supply chain. It reduces foreign dependencies and strengthens our ability to equip and protect U.S. servicemembers in every theater of operation.
The Berry Amendment requires the Department of Defense to source 100% U.S.-made textiles and apparel. Today, that domestic base delivers over $1.8 billion each year in uniforms, armor, footwear, and individual equipment to America’s armed forces. It supports production of more than 8,000 textile items and 30,000 total line-items when including size variations.
At @anatar, we're taking this challenge head-on, building infrastructure that ensures our warfighters have reliable access to the gear they need, when and where they need it. Fight's on!
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Excellent conversation with @Matt_Horine about Reindustrialization
We discuss @ctindale concept of State vs Stateless Capitalism, why gloves are important for manufacturing and others pursuing “boring” industries like @anatar
Appreciate @JohnGardnerVoH for connecting us.
U.S. Manufacturing Today Podcast 🎙️@USMfgToday
🚨 Episode 48 Just Dropped! The U.S. consumes roughly one-third of the world’s nitrile gloves and produces almost none of them. In this latest episode, brought to you by @veryableops, @Matt_Horine sits down with @scotttmaier, CEO of Blue Star NBR, to examine what rebuilding domestic glove production would actually require. The discussion focuses on the scale and capital needed to compete globally, how decades of offshoring erased domestic depth, and what it means when both finished supply and key raw materials are concentrated overseas. It connects glove availability directly to semiconductor fabs, pharma production, rare earth refinement, magnet manufacturing, and battery assembly — sectors where glove supply interruptions have real operational consequences. What you’ll learn: ☑️ Why greenfield industries struggle to attract private capital without market certainty ☑️ How hospital procurement economics shape domestic viability ☑️ The difference between price efficiency and supply security ☑️ What a realistic domestic safety valve would look like ☑️ How workforce development fits into rebuilding industrial capacity 🎧 Listen now: 👉 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u-s… 👉 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4SijlR… 👉 YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=KjOskh…
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In the 1960s, 95% of the apparel Americans wore was made in the USA.
Today, that number is just 2%.
In one lifetime, we went from being the world’s textile & apparel powerhouse to being entirely dependent on foreign supply.
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Someone has to produce our uniforms and protective equipment.
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I will be the first woman to found and lead a defense prime.
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We are excited to have partnered with the Chang Robotics Fund to revitalize the American textile industry.
Matthew and the team bring a wealth of engineering expertise to Anatar and will be involved in the development and rollout of our Atlanta Gigafactory. @CR_Fund
Matthew Chang@MatthewChang
The Chang Robotics Fund announces our 10th portfolio company: Anatar Why? To reshore textiles using robotics and logistics intelligence as the unlock. This marks 7/10 investments where CR Fund was THE FIRST VC to invest. @CR_Fund @anatar @kaiarhodes @RobertMSterling
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The Chang Robotics Fund announces our 10th portfolio company: Anatar
Why? To reshore textiles using robotics and logistics intelligence as the unlock.
This marks 7/10 investments where CR Fund was THE FIRST VC to invest.
@CR_Fund @anatar @kaiarhodes @RobertMSterling
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As our merchandise program continues to grow, we’ve made it easy to create custom merch for your startup. Discover 8,000 customizable products from top brands like Carhartt and Patagonia at merch.anatar.com.
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The scale of the world’s largest garment manufacturer, Shenzhou International, is staggering: 100K+ employees producing 550M garments a year.
That’s why @Anatar is building the next generation of textile gigafactories to secure critical supply chains and America’s future.
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I'm proud to announce that @Anatar has been approved as a member of the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute.
This strategic milestone affirms our commitment strengthening U.S. economic security through advanced textile manufacturing.
anatar.com/newsroom/anata…
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We are proud to partner with @MatthewChang and @ChangRobotics to revolutionize two of the most important industries in human history: textiles and apparel.
Together, these industries represent a combined global market of roughly $3 trillion, touching everything from frontline healthcare and national defense to everyday life.
We are raising a seed round of funding to build American textile gigafactories providing Made-in-USA goods that compete globally on cost, speed, and quality.
Our vision includes:
• Owning source farms and relationships with farmers
• Controlling logistics
• Deploying fully robotic garment production lines
• Developing gigafactories in the United States
• Producing robotics in the USA
A lot of people think America doesn't need to make its own clothing. A lot of people think we haven't done it for decades, and we don't need to do it now. A lot of people are wrong.
I've watched towns dry up and families lose their livelihoods as jobs shipped overseas. I've seen the quiet desperation of mill workers who gave everything to an industry that abandoned them. Entire supply chains dismantled. Generational knowledge lost. An industrial base that once defined American prosperity erased in a single generation.
When Matthew called and said he wanted to invest, I knew we'd found the perfect partner in our mission—to rebuild America's textile capacity and prove that U.S. textile manufacturing can lead the world again.
Americans will once again proudly clad ourselves in garments made with skilled American labor, in highly efficient American factories, backed by investors who still believe in American greatness.
Matthew Chang@MatthewChang
I'm excited to announce that @Anatar and @ChangRobotics have partnered to bring America the next generation in textile manufacturing - reclaiming our supply base of defense and retail textiles from overseas. We have been blown away by the strategy and technology of founder @kaiarhodes, who boasts nearly 20 years in the textile and garment industry. She's surrounded by a stacked team of experienced advisors. Today, Anatar opens their SEED round of funding. Chang Robotics has invested directly off of our balance sheet. We have also committed engineering resources to ensure Anatar can deliver on every promise to industry. Our shared vision includes: -Owning source farms + relationships with farmers -Controlling logistics -Deployment of fully robotic garment production lines -Development of giga-factory -Production of robotics in USA 🇺🇸 The value this creates for the industry is: -MADE IN USA textiles for Dept of Defense -Lower cost of production, lower cost retail clothing -Faster order fulfillment -Reduction of on-hand inventory -Better pricing for farmers of cotton and hemp Now for the nerd stuff, Anatar's Robotic Production System can: -Reduce labor by 80% compared today's method of garment production -Speed of production allows for a 75% reduction in inventory, freeing up warehouses and balance sheet -Operators (workers) will enjoy higher job training, up-skilling, higher wages, and enhanced ergonomics -The ONLY viable path we have to reclaiming textile production in the USA from low cost overseas suppliers Anatar has chosen a unique model - producing as a service in their own factories and selling robotic production systems to major clothing manufacturers. Our financial analysis shows they have a direct line of sight to profitability in the next 12-18 months. What does this mean? Investment from the EXIM Bank, Investment from the DOD, Investment from the Department of Commerce, and institutional capital. This access to capital sets Anatar apart from capex light companies. Remember team, in the age of AI: "The Factory Is The Moat." Let's GO!!! 🤝👕🦅
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Put together a quick simulation of our automated assembly line designed to produce one garment every 22 seconds.
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That could never be us @Durindal_US - This is one of the mission-critical reasons we decided to work with @kaiarhodes and her team @anatar
Stay tuned. 🇺🇸
Kaia Rhodes@kaiarhodes
Why are America’s government officials wearing foreign-made uniforms? Taxpayer dollars are being spent to buy foreign-made uniforms, tactical gear, and textile equipment, bypassing the U.S. textile industry. A Trade Agreements Act loophole enables offshore sourcing. We must expand the Berry Amendment and Buy American rules to all federal textile and apparel spending.
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Anatar will become the largest textile and apparel manufacturer in the world, and we’re going to do it in America.
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Turning away more orders than we can take. Demand continues to outpace capacity.
Hiring an operations coordinator to help manage onboarding and production logistics. Atlanta preferred, remote OK. DM if interested
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