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Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Cellulose Fiber Regenerating Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 15, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- Hiroaki Tanibe and Itsuo Kurahashi, both of Gotenba, Japan, Masatoshi Kudou of Shizuoka-ken, Japan and Koji Ando of Koshigaya, Japan, have developed Modified regenerated cellulose fiber and fiber product thereof.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "modified regenerated cellulose fiber which enables dyeing in different colors by combining the modified regenerated cellulose fiber and other fibers by means of mixed spinning or union knitting/weaving. The modified regenerated cellulose fiber can be obtained by adding 0.5 3.0% by weight of a grounder of naphthol dye to the regenerated cellulose fiber in a matrix of the ...