COMPETITION FOR WOOL
SYNTHETIC FABRICS PROBABLE
NEW YORK, Dec. 3. Synthetic fabrics possessing all the warmth and durability of wool would be produced in five years, Mr A. EBuchanan, an executive of E. I. duPont de Nemours, told the Textile Research Institute to-day. He said that certain experimental suiting fabrics already produced surpassed wool in its “woolliness” and had proved many times stronger than the natural fibre in abrasion tests. Mr Buchanan said that he did no. wish to discredit the claims of wool manufacturers that the wearing qualities of wool could nOt be duplicated. He conceded that research was aiding the wool industry to “pick up where the sheep left off” and maintain its unique position against synthetic competition. Nevertheless, it seemed inevitable that progressive designers, of textile machinery would soon realise that the limitation of strength, cohesion, and friction imposed on their designs by older fibres could be removed with new synthetics. The. would permit the'use of faster and simpler machines.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 46, 5 December 1949, Page 3
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