SILK FROM FLAX
FACTORY AT WINCHESTER. PROMISING EXPERIMENTS. Experimental machinery for the treating of flax pulp for the manufacture of artificial silk and rayon, is being set up at Winchester, states the Christchurch Press. The new machinery is being erected in Messrs. Maddren Brothers’ former flax mill, which has been closed for the last three years, and arrangements have been made for the employment of about 10 men. Investigations have been proceeding for some time along the lines of mechanical and chemical research, and now the investigations are to be advanced a step further with the production of pulp in larger quantities. The new machine is to produce the pulp from New Zealand flax,, and from pulp, celluose is made. This, in combination with other pulps after being machined, produces the silk and rayon. Mr. R. Maddren, who is in charge of the new venture at Winchester, stated yesterday that if the investigations are successful it will open up great possibilities for the development of additional secondary industries. With the ready supply of pulp the establishment of factories for the production of the finished article would be a much easier task.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1934, Page 7
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191SILK FROM FLAX Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1934, Page 7
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