There are provided a towel cloth having a favorable uprightness of a pile, having a soft and bulky texture, and having a water absorbency in combination, and a manufacturing method thereof. The towel cloth is configured such that a warp pile yarn is engaged in a warp ground yarn and a weft ground yarn. The warp pile yarn is a siro spun yarn 19, and is a nontwisted or low twisted spun yarn applied with secondary twisting in the opposite direction to the primary twisting direction of a plurality of rovings 12a and 12b, namely, the untwisting direction. The twisting habit of primary twisting and migration of primary twisting cause entanglement between fibers. In addition, each fiber is a nontwisted yarn or a low twisted yarn, and hence each constituent fiber is present in a free state. This results in a pile yarn with a favorable uprightness and a soft and bulky texture.

The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing lyocell filament yarn with improved mechanical properties and an apparatus thereof. The process involves washing of filament yarn with sequential decrease in NMMO concentrations and filament yarn drying under relaxed conditions. Additionally, the present invention also provides a compact washing and drying apparatus that uses controlled air gap spinning thereby resulting in production of LFY under relaxed conditions and also having a higher mechanical properties & productivity.

A dichloromethane-free wet spinning process for producing cellulose triacetate fiber with a silk factor greater than 8.0. A dichloromethane-free cellulose triacetate dope comprising dimethylacetamide is wet spun into a coagulation bath which is controlled to a temperature ranging from 20 C. to 40 C. and comprising dimethylacetamide and water. A jet draw stretching ratio ranging from 0.3 to 1.4 is applied to the wet spun CTA fibers which may also be subjected to one or more post jet draw stretching steps. During drying, the CTA fibers are partially or completely shrunk. This process enables CTA fiber(s) having a silk factor greater than 8.0 to be produced without using dichloromethane and without the energy costs associated with other processes that requiring lower or higher coagulation bath temperatures.