Monday, February 14, 1972
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FOREIGN SECRETARY INSPECTS MODERN TEXTILE FACTORY
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The Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, this (Monday)
morning visited one of Hong Kong's biggest and most modern textile
manufacturing complexes in the bustling industrial town of Tsuen Wan.
Sir Alec was accompanied on his visit to the Taltex Ltd.,
in Sha Tsui Road, by the Director of Commerce and Industry, the Hon. E.I. Lee.
On arrival at Taltex Ltd., the Foreign Secretary was greeted
by Mr. C.C.Lee, the Chairman of the Company, Mr. B.I. Barlow, Director
and other directors of the company.
The Taltex factory forms part of Textile Alliance, Ltd., which
is a complete multi-fibre and multi-product conglomerate. Every branch
of the textile business is handled, from spinning, texturising, weaving
and knitting to dyeing and finishing, garment making, trading and the
supply of textile machinery.
The visitors were shown the processes of texturising and knitting
which are the modern equivalent of spinning and weaving.
The raw material
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The yarn
polyester filament - is processed in modern
texturising machines by a double heating and twisting process.
that emerges has all the properties of cotton and provides, in addition,
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a durable, hard-wearing and absorbent fabric which maintains creases even
after being washed in a washing machine.
The yarn is taken from the texturising machines to winding machines,
having been first dyed or bleached, after which the cones of yarn are taken
to the knitting machines for knitting inte tubular lengths of cloth.
The completed lengths of cloth are then sent for dyeing and finishing
on entirely new dyeing and finishing machinery and the resulting cloth is
afterwards made into garments in local garment factories.
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