ARTIFICIAL FIBRES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 5

ARTIFICIAL FIBRES.

OVERCOMING WOOL SCARCITY. The increase in imports of foreign textile raw materials lias continued for some months, says a German report. The German apprehension regarding adequate supplies of wool, therefore, has been overcome. Altered financial arrangements agreed to by the Governments of South America, South Africa, Canada, and Germany, less complex in the manner of transacting business with the Reich, will prevent a repetition of the raw material deficiency in its previous severe form. . . A serviceable blending of virgin wool and the artificial cellular product has proved of advantage to all concerned. Natural wool has evidently reached a stage in the market where it 1 is difficult for the less well-to-do to follow in prices unless a cheapening substance is employed in part without impairing the finished article. ‘ Evidently this has now been achieved and, so far as Europe is concerned, apparently with success. Encouraging reports are received from the artificial fibre industry, and there is a steadily increasing demand for “Vistra” and other mixed fibre fabrics. Viscose, cuprama, and acetate products having proved their worth led the J. G. Farbenindustries, Frankfurt, to erect cellular works at Wolfen, near Leipzig Only beeclnvood pulp (instead of the former pine wood) is employed for the raw material. Satisfactory reports also have been received from the United States. Growers of wool and cotton will therefore need to give the distant future price question every consideration.