When the blueprints were finally checked off and the foundation of G.A. Braun’s new plant in its hometown of Syracuse, NY, was ready to be poured, the textile services industry was in a different place than it is today. Then, operators were coming off of three years of unprecedented expansion, new facilities were opening seemingly every month, and the rise of outsourcing to the industry made it feel like the expansion would never stop. The largest economic downturn in a decade changed the dynamics, though, and gave a moment of pause to this fiscally conservative company that had been debt ...