Courtaulds
is to install a second production line for Tencel solvent spun cellulosic
staple fibre at its plant in Alabama, USA, at a cost of $134m and may build a
production facility in either the UK or Germany. The current line has capacity
of 18,000tpy and this will be increased to 43,000tpy when started up in August
1995. Tencel is the most commercially successful of the lyocell fibres
currently available and is most used in women's clothing, denim jeans and
chambray shirts. It is produced by dissolving woodpulp in solvent, which is
then recovered, and has high wet strength and excellent fibrillation
possibilities when subjected to high energy water jets. This fibrillation
capability means that spunlaced constructions may be formed by bonding with
other fibres, which then have high strength and good filtration properties.
Anon., Nonwovens Rep. Int., no. 273, Dec. 1993, p. 3
The mention of the possibility that an EU Tencel plant could be built in Germany might have been to encourage the UK government to provide a grant for Grimsby.
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