13.10  Preparation and spinning of textile fibres

active

Includes

• preparatory operations on textile fibres:
  • reeling and washing of silk
  • wool scouring, i.e. degreasing and carbonising of wool and dyeing of wool fleece
  • carding and combing of all kinds of animal, vegetable and man-made fibres
• spinning and manufacture of yarn or thread for weaving or sewing, for trade or for further processing
  • scutching of flax
  • texturising, twisting, folding, cabling and dipping of synthetic or artificial filament yarns
• spinning of recycled fibres from secondary raw materials

Also includes

• manufacture of paper yarn

Excludes

• preparatory operations carried out in combination with agriculture, see division 01
• retting of plants bearing vegetable textile fibres (jute, flax, coir, etc.), not associated with the growing of vegetable textile fibres, see 01.63
• cotton ginning, see 01.63
• manufacture of synthetic or artificial fibres and tows, manufacture of single yarns (including high-tenacity yarn and yarn for carpets) of synthetic or artificial fibres, see 20.60
• manufacture of glass fibres, see 23.14
• processing of textile waste into secondary raw materials, see 38.21

What changed from NACE Rev. 2

Unchanged: NACE Rev. 2 class 13.10 maps 1:1 to NACE Rev. 2.1 13.10 with the same heading.

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