USE OF SYNTHETIC FIBRES
“NO SIGN THAT WOOL IS THREATENED” (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 12. “Although the wool textile industry is using large quantities of man-made fibres, there is no sign that wool is threatened by them, either directly or through the development of a mixture of yarns and fibres,” says the “Financial Times.” “Many progressive Yorkshire and West of England firms are using rayon and the newer synthetic fibres, but even the most enthusiastic retain staunch loyalty to the value and prospects of wool. “If there is any barrier to the development of man-made fibres in Yorkshire, it is not the conservatism of industry, but the scarcity of fibres themselves,” says the newspaper. “The consumption of rayon and other man-made fibres in the wool textile industry amounts to no more than 5 per cent, of the total consumption of raw materials.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27169, 13 October 1953, Page 9
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