Textile Economics Bureau

The Textile Economics Bureau, Inc., a technical society of New York, collects monthly data on production, consumption, sales, foreign trade, and production facilities for rayon and other man-made fibers. 

Rayon Organon, Textile Economics Bureau, 10 East 40th St., New York, N. Y. (4, 5). 

Textile Organon, Textile Economics Bureau, 10 East 40th St., New York, monthly with annual review issue, 1930-. Production, consumption, foreign trade, and prices of natural and synthetic fibers and textiles. Formerly Rayon Organon (1930-1951). 

Source From Textile Economics Bureau, Textile Organon, (June, 2003). 

Cellulose acetate, the second oldest synthetic fiber, is an important factor in the textile and tobacco industries 731,000 metric tons were produced worldwide in 1991 (Fig. 11) (74). Acetate belongs to the group of less expensive fibers triacetate is slightly more expensive. An annual listing of worldwide fiber producers, locations, and fiber types is pubHshed by the Fiber Economics Bureau, Inc. (74). 

American textile manufacturers were clearly aware of the impact of war on both the supply of unprocessed fibres and the type of textiles required. Wickliffe Rose of the American Viscose Corporation made a speech to the 1944 American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) convention in which he identified three aspects of this process substitution of man-made for natural fibres, modification of industrial practice as a result of shortages of natural fibres and intense research into new fibres to satisfy military requirements, which had the effect of restricting supplies available for the civilian market. What was available was of poorer qualify. A 1944 survey undertaken by the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics showed how essential fabrics were downgraded during the war . ... 

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