CREASELESS COTTON

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1932, Page 6

CREASELESS COTTON

’ DISCOVERY AT MANCHESTER., WILE MEAN BOON TO INDUSTRY. (British-Official Wireless.) . : ' MpBY,- August- '9. A! discovery. of considerable importance to the cotton industry was announced at Manchester when it was) 'stated- that 'a had .’been discovered to'take the crease out of .icbttdhi* goods.’ This process is the result'. bf ! two- years- of research and of ' the expenditure of £75,000 oh elaborate ; investigations by Messrs Toota-1, Bro-ad-fhufst''■Lee and Co., a Well-knowriii Man'chester "firm. HHs’understood the process ; consists' of working''synthetic resin®-' 1 into the'fibre 'of-the cotton,- and -that-success Hus’'also been" achieved in • gettiiig-'-tesih into the' substance of th© dye. The' process is cheap,'and is applicable*, to- silks, artificial silks, and i shoddy.'- ‘;U •'. . The discovery is described as being o# equal importanec tb the industry as was the meteerisfed process. ■ • ' LONDON, August: 10.

Manchester is excited Over the invention of cneasbtess cotton'. It-is estimated that-it will bring’ employriient to at least twenty thousand people in the first’ year. '• ' * . •^Patents-have been taken out ' in twenty* of-the mPSt important'.countries' in the world. *

• The research has covered' fourteen years,-1 : experitnervt, ’after experifrient having failed. / The process IS applied in'-the last- stages bf 'cotton; ntahufacture and. lt foirms an infinitesfiniail portion of the VKole cost'. .- ' ' ' ■ ’ ,