Evening star., 1932-12-07
RAl0N YARNS TAKE
TEXTILE SPOTLIGHT
Increasing Exports, Firming
Prices and Styles Aid
/ Many industries.
ciai pispasch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
NEW YORK, December .7.-Rayon
yarns, because Of increasing exports,
firrning quotations and style trend, are
much in the textile limelight today.
Along with predictions heard here OF
record exports Of rayon yarns Tor 1888,
cables have Just been received from
Germany, Great Britain and Japan
telling Of mounting exports from those
This picture is Just the opposite Of
the rayon yarn market portrait painted
last Spring, when 1t was estimated that
1881. At that time warehouse stocks
had piled up. prices had been reduced
and rayon plants were being closed.
Most of the present demand for
rayon warns in this country Is coming
from converters working on cloth for
underwear, bedspread and drapery lines.
They have placed volume business IN
the last few weeks, In some instances at
firrning quotations. The dress trace
also Is showing greater interest. as many
Of the Spring styles call for extra ouli
types Of yarn.
Little Left for Sale.
Although some of the yarn manu-
facturers today began booking nus,ness -
for February delivery, others would not
promise special types of extra dull yarns
before March. Little yarn remains LOT
sale for December or January delivery
and such as is available is only IN Ger
tain sizes and in limited quantity.
Meanwhile. Great Britain reports
that rayon yarn exports for the nrse
10 months of the year amounted 10
s7s3 4sa pounds, against 3,794,1l0 IN
the same period Of 1881. German rayon
exnorts in August, the latest available
statistics, were up 73 per cent COM
pared with the same monh in 1881.
Shipments Of rayon yarn in Novem-
Der. leading producers here Saao uooay,
were in excess of production. Expo,ts
from this country in the flrst 10 montns
were 588, 1852 pounds, against 227 ,0So IN
the same 1881 period. Imports ieii
from 1,386,937 pounds in the nrst ~
months of 1891 to 156,044 pounds IN
the same period this year. Domestic
rayon yarn. shipments, because OF the
slump last Spring, may run for the year
about Is per cent below 1881.
The activity and strength OF rayon
warn are hailed by other branches OF
the textile industry, for in the past
the lack OF firm contracts for rayon
warn upset binding contracts for cotton
warn and gray cloth, as many con-
verters used the looseness OF the rayon
yarn contracts to break other contracts.
Other Industries Aided.
Furthermore, an upturn in rayon aids
other industries Rayon necessitates
the use. of quantities of caustic soda,
suIphuric acid, carbon bi-sulphide, corn
sugar, nitric acid, ether, ethyl alcohol,
ammonium sulphate, acetone, acetic
anhydride and acenc acid. Bsnefits
would thus extend to all chemical COM
panies, for in addition to these prod
ucts rayon requires dyestuffs.
Rayon yarns. play an important In
dustrial role in certain cities and sec
tions, such as Philadelphia, Cleveland
and Virginia. In Virginia, 1t Is esti-
mated, plants have capacity for all
rayon production Of 41,500.000 pounds,
or about IS per cent of the total rayon
output of the. country.
Imitation furs are now being made
of rayon in Paris. Rayon containing
matelasse fabrics for mems lounging
robes Is one Of the latest fabric de-
yelopnents in this country.
Is (Copyright, 1932)