Tufting Machine at Shaw Designated a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark
Dalton, Ga. -- Shaw Industries recently hosted The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to celebrate the designation of a mechanical engineering and flooring industry landmark on the flooring solutions provider’s corporate campus. The original Moench tufting apparatus, located in a gallery of significant industry artifacts at Shaw’s headquarters, was designated as a historic mechanical engineering landmark due to the mechanization and speed it brought to the early fabric tufting process; it is credited with spurring the growth of carpet manufacturing in Georgia. The device joins 265 others across the world that ASME recognizes as having social, economic and technological significance.
“The Moench tufting apparatus played a role in the growth of the textile industry in Georgia,” said Said Jahanmir, president of ASME. “The device is a significant piece of the industrial heritage of America’s South and worthy to receive landmark status.”