A big word for a simple process. The plants are laid on a conveyer belt and run through the machine that separates the two fibre types. The short fibre falls to the floor where it is collected for other uses and the long textile fibre moves to the next step –washing.
Process flow sheet of the technology used
1 – Straw bale 2 - Bale cutting 3 – Metal detector 4 – Stone eliminator 5 – Straw metering system 6 – Conveyor 7 – Decorticating machine