High Point, North, Carolina-based Culp Home Fashions recently conducted its first Spread the Warmth initiative by sewing mattress fabric remnants into blankets and donating more than 250 blankets to local charities that work with homeless populations.
In addition, employees were given the opportunity to purchase blankets from an Amazon wish list and have them shipped directly to one of the charities.
Culp’s mattress fabric manufacturing facility in Stokesdale, North Carolina, donated blankets to the High Point-based charity Cover the City. This facility also shipped blankets to the company’s window treatment production facility in Knoxville, Tennessee, which were donated to the Tennessee Valley Coalition for the Homeless.
“All of our U.S. mattress fabrics facilities are certified as Zero Waste to Landfill facilities,” said Iv Culp, Culp president and CEO. “Ninety-five percent or more of the waste materials created in the manufacturing process are recycled, including remnant fabric. But with this Spread the Warmth initiative, we are able to use the remnant material to make blankets that provide warmth to people in need in our local communities, serving a higher purpose than simply recycling it.”
