The first
commercial Tencel production plant is near completion in Alabama, USA. The £47m
plant, due to come on stream in summer in 1992, has been designed and built by
Courtaulds Engineering Ltd in collaboration with Courtaulds Research in the UK.
The extrusion line is based on a modular design to aid despatch and on-site
construction. Interest is high in the nonwovens potential of the strong solvent
spun cellulosic fibre, Tencel, due to reports of its performance on spunlace
systems. When Tencel fibres are subjected to the high pressure jets of the
spunlace process they fibrillate, increasing fabric strength and improving
filtration properties.
Anon., Nonwovens Rep. Int. no. 246, Sept. 1991, p. 9
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