Friday, November 30, 2007

Difference between original bamboo fiber and bamboo(viscose or pulp) fiber



As we all know, Bamboo fiber is made from bamboo; but in fact, lots of people don’t know that bamboo fiber is divided into two kinds of bamboo fiber according to different process flow and method: bamboo pulp fiber (bamboo viscose fiber) and natural original bamboo fiber. Natural original bamboo fiber is a kind of new type natural fibers, using physical and mechanical method of making pure natural original bamboo fiber. Original bamboo fiber is essentially different from bamboo pulp fiber. Original bamboo fiber is pure natural fiber, original bamboo fiber is directly picked up from bamboo, it belongs to green, environmental protection type fiber, and health care effect is quite prominent. In order to differentiate from bamboo fiber (bamboo pulp viscose fiber), so we call it as Original Bamboo Fiber or Pure Natural Bamboo Fiber. But bamboo pulp (viscose) fiber is regenerated cellulose fiber of chemical fiber.

The process flow for original bamboo fiber and bamboo pulp fiber as following:
Original bamboo fiber:
Bamboo → bamboo strip → steaming of bamboo strip → crushing and decomposing → biological enzyme degumming → fiber carding → original bamboo fiberoriginal bamboo yarn

Bamboo pulp fiber:
Bamboo -> bamboo pulp -> bamboo pulp fiber -> bamboo yarn

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