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Flax harvesting

Harvesting flax for fine quality
line and flax tow
yarns
Lambacher
Hitiag Leinen AG decided to shut the operation down in January 2005. We regret
this decision. Nevertheless we leave these pages as they contain a lot of highly
valuable information.
Harvesting
flax
The flax
harvest requires the use of specific processes, technologies and equipment.
Primarily these concerns pulling the plants and retting on ground, which leads
to the natural decomposition of the pectins that bind the fibres together.
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