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Two Triad textile firms that have survived their industry's off-shoring shakeout are turning their hard-won expertise in a traditional craft into high-tech advances in the arena of battlefield injuries and traumatic wound care.

National Spinning Co. of Glen Raven and Carolina Narrow Fabric of Winston-Salem are working with Entegrion, a Research Triangle Park-based firm, on a new kind of bandage that can significantly reduce the amount of time it takes for even major wounds to clot, lessening the chances of death due to blood loss.

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