Cotton Processing
Cotton is the world's most important natural fibre. In the year 2007, the global yield was 25 million tons from 35 million hectares cultivated in more than 50 countries.
There are six stages
- Cultivating and Harvesting
- Preparatory Processes
- Spinning
- Weaving
- Finishing
- Marketing
The preparatory processes and spinning happen in a spinning mill, weaving happens in a weaving shed and finishing at the bleach works and dyeworks. Traditionally these processes occur in separate mills, though combination mills have been built which take raw cotton through to printed cloth.
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Famous quotes containing the word cotton:
“The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn’t need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder—in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)