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Future Fiber: Natural or Man-made?

Posted October 12, 2009 8:12 AM

According to the recently concluded Man-Made Fibers Congress in Dornbirn, Austria, synthetic and manmade fibers will play an increasingly important role in textile applications of the future, taking further market share from natural fibers.

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phoenix911 Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 3039 Good Answers: 28	#1 Re: Future Fiber: Natural or Man-made? 10/12/2009 5:20 PM
	According to the recently concluded Man-Made Fibers Congress in Dornbirn, Austria, synthetic and manmade fibers will play an increasingly important role in textile applications duh.....did you expect them to say anything else. Like....ah.....The end of next week Tuesday the production of synthetic and man made fibers will cease. __________________ They say that there is only one universal language that everybody can understand and that is mathematics. I like to think there are two, with the other being humor.

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