Study backs cotton to viscose route

KARLSTAD – Highly purified recycled cotton waste can directly replace wood pulp in viscose production, according to new research from scientists at Karlstad University in Sweden.

While several trials and advances on using cotton waste to make pulp for viscose have been on-going for well over a decade, the new research uses pulp derived from Circulose and says insights from the study into the behaviour of different pulps can help to optimise the implementation of cotton waste pulps for viscose production.