STRAW INTO SILK
Germany is to manufacture artificial silk from straw. In accordance with the new Four-year Plan for' German industry, a number of new cellulose factories will start operations soon. The most striking feature of the processes to be employed is. the turning of straw, , cellulose into artificial silk. 'At present the cellulose needed for artificial silk is derived principally from pina wood, much of which has to be imported. But-Germany-has'plenty of straw, and very successful tests with this raw "material have lately, been carried out. Production on a'large scale will be started soon by a firm which has hitherto specialised in turn* ing straw into paper.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1936, Page 13
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108STRAW INTO SILK Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1936, Page 13
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