Maggie Throup, prospective MP for Erewash, visited Ilkeston’s award-winning textile manufacturer Baltex to learn more about the business.
Meeting with Managing Director Charles Wood and fellow Board Members, Maggie learnt first hand about the history of Baltex and how it’s transformed into today’s successful technical textile business.
Maggie said: “It was fascinating to visit Baltex and to find out how this historic textile manufacturer has moved with the times and now supplies high technology textiles to health care companies as well as the Armed Forces.
“It’s great to see a local Ilkeston business developing new markets both here and overseas, and as a result winning numerous prestigious awards.”