After the
textile interests of the original Courtaulds became a separate company,
production of viscose, acrylic and acetate fibres remained with the new
Courtaulds plc within which is the Courtaulds Fibres Group. This consists of
five businesses of which Courtelle (acrylic) and acetate are not widely used in
the industrial textiles field, the remaining three are viscose, Tencel and
Performance Products. The company is Western Europe's second largest producer
of viscose with more than half its production going into the nonwovens and
waddings market. A new US plant is to be built to produce Courtaulds solvent
spun viscose fibre, Tencel. The Performance Products business produces
speciality fibres mostly for industrial uses. The main product groups are the
modacrylic, Teklan; the polyacrylate, Inidex; a high modulus acrylic fibre,
Sekril and an anti-microbial fibre, Courtek M.
Anon, Tech. Text Mark., no. 2, July 1990, pp 7-22
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