TAKING OUT THE CREASE

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1932, Page 7

TAKING OUT THE CREASE

NEW PROCESS FOR COTTON ANNOUNCEMENT AT MANCHESTER. AS IMPORTANT AS MERCERISING. (British Official Wireless.) Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Aug. 9. A discovery of considerable importance to the cotton industry was announced at Manchester to-day, when it was stated that a new process had been discovered to take the crease out of cotton goods. The process is the result of two years’ research and the expenditure of £75,000 on elaborate investigations by Tobtal, Broadhurst, Lee and Company, a well-known Manchester firm. It is understood the process consists of working synthetic resins into th® fibre of the cotton. Success has also been achieved in getting resin into the substance of the dye. The process ,is cheap and applicable to silks, artificial silks and “shoddy.” ' The discovery was described as ex equal importance to the cotton industry as was the mercerised process. : Manchester is excited over the invention. It is estimated it will bring employment to at least 20,000 people in the first year. Patent® have ‘been taken out in 20 of the meet important cotton-producing countries in the world. The research covered fourteen years, experiment after experiment having failed. The process is applied in the last stages of cotton-manufacture and forms an infinitesimal portion of the whole cost.