PAPER MULBERRY FIBER BEING SUITABLE FOR FIBER PRODUCTS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

摘要

PURPOSE: Paper mulberry fiber is characterized by having excellent absorptiveness and drying property, having a dyeing ability being similar to a dyeing ability of cotton, having excellent antibacterial property and radiating far infrared ray. The paper mulberry fiber is useful for spun yarn, blended yarn, non-woven fabric, fiber reinforced plastic and so on. CONSTITUTION: Paper mulberry fiber is obtained by the steps of: treating bark of the paper mulberry with alkali to remove black skin; bleaching the bark of the paper mulberry with a bleaching agent to manufacture white skin; adding an alkali agent and/or pectolytic enzyme to remove fiber binding material in bast fiber of the paper mulberry; washing and drying the bast fiber; and then breaking the dried bast fiber.