• Rayon (redirect from Viscose)
    Rayon, also called viscose and commercialised in some countries as sabra silk or cactus silk, is a semi-synthetic fiber, made from natural sources of...
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    fast rate. Modern clothing labeled as being made from bamboo is usually viscose rayon, a fiber made by dissolving the cellulose in the bamboo, and then...
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    solution called viscose, which is then extruded through a slit into a bath of dilute sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate to reconvert the viscose into cellulose...
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  • first commercial viscose rayon was produced by the UK company Courtaulds in 1905. The name "rayon" was adopted in 1924, with "viscose" being used for the...
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    and dry jet-wet spinning. Unlike rayon; which is made by the more common viscose processes, Lyocell production does not use carbon disulfide, which is toxic...
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    But because of the mass amount of viscose needed for the growing fast fashion industry, is manufactured cheaply. Viscose is mainly manufactured in Southeast...
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    American Viscose Corporation was an American division of the British firm Courtaulds, which manufactured rayon and other synthetic fibres. The company...
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  • Grasim has diversified into textile raw materials like viscose staple fiber (VSF) and viscose filament yarn, chemicals and insulators, along with cement...
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    basis of the manufacture of regenerated cellulose, the main ingredient of viscose, rayon, and cellophane. Both xanthates and the related thioxanthates (derived...
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    Modern velvet can be polyester, nylon, viscose, acetate, or blends of synthetics and natural fibers (for example, viscose mixed with silk produces a very soft...
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    The American Viscose Plant Historic District is an industrial park and historic district located in Roanoke, Virginia. The site is the location of the...
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  • resource-based industrial group, with businesses in paper, palm oil, viscose, construction and energy, property and asset management. Owned by Indonesian...
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    the group's first venture in Indonesia. In 1974, Thai Rayon, the Group's Viscose Rayon Staple Fibre business, was incorporated in Thailand. In 1975, The...
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    diffusion of the coagulating bath into the viscose filaments, (2) the mechanism of coagulation of viscose, (3) the relationship between fiber structure...
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    Dendera Kings. He was known by many stage names, including "Chopper, "Mr Viscose" (before imprisonment), "Cellular", "Simomo" and "Mukoma Sam". Chimbetu...
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    term artificial silk is just a synonym for rayon. When made out of bamboo viscose it is also sometimes called bamboo silk. The first successful artificial...
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    absorbency are also considered. Natural fibers such as cotton, silk, and viscose (a regenerated cellulosic fiber) are used in hygiene and healthcare products...
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    iodine-containing non-sticky surgical dressing consisting of a knitted viscose fabric with a polyethylene glycol base that contains and slowly releases...
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  • entered the market of cellulosics (viscose and acetate) in North America with the setting up of the American Viscose Corporation (AVC) in 1909. The investment...
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  • business division of Royal Golden Eagle (RGE). It is a manufacturer of viscose rayon. Sateri is managed by Royal Golden Eagle and was founded by entrepreneur...
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  • management along with R.Venkataswamy family set up the viscose staple yarn production unit South India Viscose with technology license from SNIA Viscosa of Milan...
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    this technique shortly before World War I. The production of rayon and viscose silk in France was a major step forward. Between 1900 and 1913, the quantity...
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    generated a soluble cellulose derivative known as viscose. This process, patented by the founders of the Viscose Development Company, is the most widely used...
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  • produce a fiber. The process is similar but not analogous to the viscose process. In the viscose process, cellulose is made soluble by conversion to its xanthate...
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    artificial fabrics such as viscose and others as "pashmina" with deceptive marketing statements such as "authentic viscose pashmina". The word "pashmina"...
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    Blount, Citronelle, and/or Vigor high schools. Courtaulds manufactured viscose rayon in a plant near Axis from about 1952. The plant emitted carbon disulfide...
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    used for effects in bedrooms and between rooms. Double-width organzas in viscose and acetate are used as sheer curtains.[citation needed] The term may derive...
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  • Rayon (APR) is one of the largest viscose-rayon producers in Asia, with annual capacity of 300,000 tons of viscose-rayon. The company is based in Pangkalan...
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    Industries.[when?] In this role, he concentrated on the industries of cotton, viscose, polyester and nylon yarns, refractory, paper, shipping, tyrecord, transparent...
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  • business activity involves manufacture of cotton textiles, yarn, denim, viscose filament rayon yarn, tire-cords, caustic soda, sulfuric acid, salt, pulp...
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