MAN-MADE FIBRES

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30592, 7 November 1964, Page 14

MAN-MADE FIBRES

Great Growth In Canada Canada, with virtually no natural-grown fibres, had a tremendous interest in the development of man-made fibres, said Dr. A. F. Wilson, who has just returned to New Zealand after seven years in Canada. Dr. Wilson gained his doctorate of philosophy in chemistry at the University of Canterbury, did post-doctoral studies at the University of Florida, and then worked in Edmonton, Alberta, for the Canadian Chemical Company, and for the last year was employed in Drummondville, Quebec. He has returned to New Zealand to take up a position in Auckland, and is at present visiting his parents in Christchurch. Canada had an annual production of 170 m lb of manmade fibres, he said, and that was practically all for local consumption. It had the advantage of having cellulose, wood pulp, and petroleum chemicals as natural resources. As a New Zealander he had been particularly interested to see the great surge in the use of man-made fibres for carpets. Newly - developed fibres were used with no wool content, and wool was not competing very favourably with them.