EL DELTA COMPANY FOR FLAX PRODUCTS
PROCESSING STAGES
PRE-INDUSTRIAL STAGES
At first , the seeds are collected, then we collect the flax in bundles to be stacked in the rotting pools then being left for a period of 7 to 15 days according to the temperature, then we extract them from the water and leave them in the sun to dry.
SCUTCHING PROCESS
in this process, the fiber is extracted by breaking the woody stalk of the plant into pieces called shives without harming the flax fiber, everything is done with scutchers machines that break the stalk and separate the shives mechanically.
In this step, the flax reaches the drums. Here, large rotating blades beat the remaining shives from the fiber, also removing shorter fibers (ReScutched tow). and the scutcher separates the long fibers for quality purpose, removing everything that doesn’t qualify to our Linen standards.
This process produces four products:
1-Scutched flax.
2- ReScutched flax two (Arrous).
3-Flax waste.
4-Flax shives.
HACKLING PROCESS
The next step removes the remaining shives and sorts out shorter fibers again.
This process is called hackling, a mechanized combing process until only the purest fiber remains, which result two new materials coming out of the machine: machine tows and flax line.
The first serves as raw material for coarser yarns, whereas the other forms the base material for the finest linen yarns.
DRAWING PROCESS
This process is done on two products;
The first one is hackled flax producing sliver of long fibers.
and the other is made of cleaned flax two producing sliver of hackled short fibers.
