CHEMICAL FIBERS INTERNATIONAL

Volume 49 , NO . 1 , 1999

Texturing Trends
B. Wulfhorst........................................................................................................................................................... 82

Worldwide 16 million tons polyester fibers........................................................................................................ 84
Western Europe: 1.6 mill. tons PP fibers........................................................................................................... 85
Dornbirn '99: fiber specialties ............................................................................................................................ 85
Worldwide expansion of elastane fibers........................................................................................................... 88

Acordis: new fiber business structure............................................................................................................... 90
Better elastane yarn business (Bayer) ............................................................................................................. 92
Lenzing fiber production 300,000 tons.............................................................................................................. 94
Fiber management............................................................................................................................................. 94

Company profile: Aquafil Engineering ............................................................................................................. 98
Barmag: business results and trends............................................................................................................... 100
Texturing machinery trends R. Harrison........................................................................................................ 101
Lurgi Zimmer: lower order income................................................................................................................... 102
Company information........................................................................................................................................ 104

New patents on fibers and fiber technology.................................................................................................... 112

New project list of fiber raw material plants ................................................................................................... 113
Shell Chemicals/KoSa: marketing JV for Corterra ....................................................................................... 114

High-strength PVA fibers applied in cement and other building materials Ji Guobiao etal. ...................116
Development of a trilobal cross-section polynosic fiber S. Inatomi........................................................... 117
Index '99; new fibers for nonwovens ................................................................................................................ 121
Techtextil '99: new fibers for technical end-use............................................................................................... 122

Melt spinning of elastane yarns R. Fourne..................................................................................................... 124
New developments in melt-spun elastane fibers R. Hagen, C. Hess........................................................ 126
New elastane spinning machine (Zinser) ........................................................................................................ 132
Thermostable hollow membranes for separation processes
D. Vorbach, Th. Schulze, E. Taeger ................................................................................................................133
Foss acquired Erns-Chemie PET bonding fibers .......................................................................................... 140
Elimination of spin finish during the recycling of thermoplastic fibers .......................................................... 142

Latest trendsinair interlacing of PET false-twist yarns F. Bosch ................................................................147
ITMA 99: exhibitors in the texturing field .......................................................................................................... 149
ITMA 99 preview: new texturing machinery and accessories................................................................ 150-161
Twist stopper for the texturing process H.-D. Scherpf, K. Noike................................................................ 153
Requirements in texturing (new ceramic friction discs) St. Raffy, F. Menage........................................... 154
On-line quality control in the BCF process W. Nabulon, R. von Arx ........................................................... 156
Interlace technology for false-twist texturing W. Priemsch, P.-B. Jansen................................................... 158
Theoretical analysis of the cooling plate in the false-twist texturing process
C. Callhoff, B. Wulfhorst...................................................................................................................................... 159
Air-jets for fine Taslan yarns F. Bosch............................................................................................................. 162

1,000 frames per second - revealing the secrets of meitblown nonwovens P. Lennox-Kerr...................... 166

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Quo vadis European fiber industry? H.-J. Koslowski............................................................................ 4

Asota: new PP specialties .........................................................................................................................5
Zyron technical fiber (Toyobo) .................................................................................................................. 5
Western Europe: fiber liter programs for nonwovens .............................................................................6

Teijin to reorganize corporate head quarters .........................................................................................10
Tencel production to be concentrated in Grirnsby................................................................................. 12
Lyocell pilot plant....................................................................................................................................... 12
Fiber Management................................................................................................................................... 13

Now Inventa-Fischer AG ..........................................................................................................................15 »
Barmag sales DM 1.1 billion ...................................................................................................................16
Lurgi Zimmer: turnover DM 1.2 billion ...................................................................................................16 .

New patents on fibers and fiber technology......................................................................................... 23

Four-reactor PET process for 600 t/d per line K. Hanimann .......................................................... 24
New, highly active PET catalyst commercially available on production scale
U. Seidel, T. Eckert. .................................................................................................................................27

Polyester staple fibers - is the industry prepared to meet the forthcoming
shortage of cotton? H.P. Mufis............................................................................................................ 29
Polyester fibers: commercial successes and the future T. Taketa ...................................................31
Trevira: new polyester yarns for home textiles ......................................................................................32
Properties and morphology of polyester blends and of fibers made therefrom
W. Oppermann, P. Hirt............................................................................................................................33

Pulp irradiation extends viscose opportunities (Interview with H. Moebius) .....................................36
Continues dissolution process in direct cellulose in NMMO
A. Diener, G. Raouzeos ........................................................................................................................ 40
High-speed spinning of cellulose in direct solvent process
K.S.Huang, Y.K. Twu,J.H. Tsai, K.C.Lee,S.M.JO................................................................................43
New Cocel lyocell fiber process W.S. Lee, S.M. Jo...........................................................................46.
Physical crimp measurement of single fibers .......................................................................................48
Particle analysis by laser diffraction - application and restrictions in the lyocell process
B. Kosan, C. Michels ...............................................................................................................................50
Novel polyanion-polycation-microfibride blend nonwovens based on cellulose derivatives
B. Riedel, E. Taeger.................................................................................................................................55 :
Ultra-fine filtration of elastane fibers D. GneuB................................................................................... 57
Low foaming spin finishes R. Niestegge............................................................................................. 57
Economical and flexible melt spinning technologies for textile yarn production
/C Schafer................................................................................................................................................ 59
New developments in black pigments for fibers M. Potter.................................................................62
Thermal analysis as optimum method to determine textile materials and their properties
A. Glawe................................................................................................................................................... 65
New monofilament systems.................................................................................................................... 67
Automation and flexibility, prerequisites for cost-effective drawing of filament yams
in a 2-stage process K. Fischer.......................................................................................................... 68 .
New aircovering machine (ICBT) ..........................................................................................................72

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CHEMICAL FIBERS INTERNATINAL
VOL. 49, NO. 4 , 1999


LEADFR The polyester chain F. Charaf................................................................................................ 276

FIBERS Chemical fiber world production of 28 million tons................................................................278

5 million tons polyolefin fibers .................................................................................................279

PA and PET filament yarn trade.............................................................................................. 282

New fiber developments ..........................................................................................................283

Higher German fiber imports ...................................................................................................284

FIRFR INDUSTRY British takeover bid for Acordis............................................................................................... 286

100 years: from Glanzstoff to Acordis.......................................................................................286
Fiber
management .............................................................................................................................288

FIBER MACHlNERY Chemtex: polymer and chemical fiber plants........................................................................ 292

World markettrends fortexturing machines.............................................................................294

ITMA 99 in fugures...........:.........................................................................................................296

500th Saurer CableCorder ....................................................................................................... 297

Lyocell fibers at the ITMA ...........................................................................................................298

FIBER RESEARCH New patents on fibers and fiber technoloy ..............................................................................306

FIBERE RAW MATERIALS Radici to build PA 66 intermediates plant ...................................................................307

Dupont and BASF call of Chinese nylon project.......................................................................307

Index acquires AlliedSingal's adipic acid....................................................................................307

FIBERS 38th International Man-Made Fibers Congress:

Abstracts: New fibers designed for special textile properties ...................................................308

Polymar gear metering pump systems........................................................................................ 312

Study of the super-molecular structure of lyocell fibers Zhang Jianchun ................................. 314

Tencel lyocell fiber got new impetus ............................................................................................315

Cationic dyeable Wolkiss 2000 polyester yarn ..........................................................................318

Unifi Technology Group to merge with CIMTEC........................................................................ 320

Lenzing Viscose FR for protective clothing ................................................................................323

Twaron Microfiber .........................................................................................................................323

New high-performance textile fiber belCoTex............................................................................. 323


FIRFR PRODUCTION Report on ITMA: Filament yarn and staple fiber production

B.Wulfhorst , ch.callhoff,B.schmenk.................................................................................................324

Promix - the alternative gear spin pump f. Gathmann, G. Stausberg........................................ 328

Rieter-Scragg: reduced program to spare parts and conversions ..............................................329

Spinneret test method for quality assurance in the fiber industry K. Schultheis........................ 332

European PP spunbond capacity will increase .............................................................................334

Hypox: important innovation in polymer cleaning........................................................................... 336

ICBT: new machines for technical yarns......................................................................................... 341

SML: innovative spinning plant for BCF yarn G. Klambauer ....................................................... 344

Behavior of PP BCF carpet yarns M. Tascan, A. Demir ...............................................................345

BCF innovations by Rieter.................................................................................................................348

World calendar..................................................................................................................................... 274

Polyester World Congress ..................................................................................................................354

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