Enka, North Carolina

[5] In 1929 the company began developing a community plan that included employee houses and became known as Enka Village.

He told the ENKA owners that his county could supply trees for fiber, water for processing, and reliable manpower.

Nineteen hundred people worked there during the Great Depression, and that number grew to 4,300 after World War II.

[5] It was said that stricter environmental regulations led to a decline in rayon,[citation needed] and American Enka sold the plant to BASF in 1985.

[7] Though as of 2015 about 200 people worked for Bonar Inc. making fabric for commercial carpet backing and more space was leased to ten other companies, most of the former plant is gone.

ft. industrial development with manufacturing facilities and warehouses was approved in January 2023, on the condition that the historic clock tower is preserved.