The Turkish Cotton Industry: Structure and Operation.

An overview of the production and marketing systems of the Turkish cotton industry addresses cooperatives; grading and classification; agricultural policies; trends in production, consumption, and trade; cotton lint; textiles; and relationships in product

Speciality cross section viscose fibers

The properties and performance of two specially viscose fibre from Courtaulds Fibres, UK are presented. The products, Viloft Original and Viloft Excel, have a flat and 'Y' shaped cross-section, respectively. Fabrics made from the fibres in 100％ form and in blends with polyester and cotton have been compared with respect to thermal resist..

Flax: a technical fibre for reinforcing plastic materials (Italian) (II lino: una fibra tecnica per il rinforzo delle materie plastiche)

The article describes the use of flax as a fibre for reinforcing plastic materials to produce high mechanical resistance as well as biological degradation and low abrasiveness. The use of flax fibre instead of glass fibre to reinforce plastic materials has been studied. Good results have been obtained with non-saturated polyester and epox..

Prediction of yarn imperfections from fiber properties

Imperfections vary as the square of the count and as the square root of comber noil extracted. Expressions have been derived for yarn imperfections in terms of fiber properties and count spun both for carded as well as combed yarns. 50％ span length, intrinsic fineness, trash in cotton and neps in sliver are broadly the cotton quality par..

WAXS studies on silk fibres treated with acid (blue) and metal complex (brown) dyes

The changes in microstructural parameters in bivoltine and multivoltine silk fibres due to i) degumming ii) belaching, iii) blue acid dye and iv) brown metal complex dye processing have been studied using wide angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) method. The crystal size has been determined by Fourier analysis and also by matching the simulated ..

Animal fiber analysis using imaging techniques. I. Scale pattern data

Characteristic scale pattern data from batches of two fiber types commonly found in blends are gathered using imaging techniques applied to fiber surface images captured directly from a SEM. A database of fiber information is established, and linear discriminat statistical techniques are used to investigate the integrity of the data repre..

Cavitoma - a modern assessment

The term cavitoma is used to describe microbiologically damaged cotton. The qualitative test methods used to detect these damaged cottons are inadequate and at best offer only an indication that a cotton may be damaged. The term cavitoma is not well under

Effect of whiefly on cotton productivity

The silverleaf whitefly (SLW) Bemisia tabaci strain 'B' (=B. argentifolii Bellows and Perring) has been a severe pest of numerous filed and vegetable crops for many years. A better understanding of the complex interactions between the SLW and the host cou

Silverleaf whitefly lint stickiness, and cotton yields in low and high plant populations of untreated and insecticidetreated long and short staple cottons

Cotton plant densities of 10 or 40 thousand plants/acre had no effect on numbers of silverleaf whitefly, Bemisia argentifolii Bellows and Perring, adults, eggs, nymphs, extracted sugars from lint samples or thermodetector sticky cotton counts. Higher numb

Impact cutting of wool

Wool fibers are impact cut with a rotating blade made from piano wire at various positions along the fibers. The force transmitted to the base of the fibers decreases markedly when a critical velocity (from 140 to 270m/s) is exceeded, with corresponding improvement in the cut surface. The velocity of the wire required for impact cutting v..