Lyocell (CLY) is defined as "a regeneratedcellulosic fibre obtained by spinning of dissolved wood pulp in an organicsolvent: NMMO (N-methyl-morphaline-N-oxide)"[1]. Lyocell fibresare derived from 100% natural wood pulp using a solvent spinningprocess. Lyocell was first made commercially available in 1988 by Acordis (thenCourtaulds plc) under the brand name "Tencel"[2].According to &sec=article&uinfo=<%=server.URLEncode(1730)%>" target="_blank">www.fibresource.com, the fibre was firstcommercially available is US in 1992. Lyocell is currently being produced byLenzing [3]. The registered brand names of lyocell include NewCell(Akzo Nobel), Lenzing Lyocell (Lenzing), Alceru (TITK), Cocel (Hanil) andTencel (Courtaulds/ Acordis). NewCell is a filament while others are staplefibres [4, 5]. Production route for Lyocell Fibre is given in figure1[2, 3, 6].



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The authoris the Assistant Professor for Department of Textile Chemistry, National Textile University, Sheikhpura Road, Faislabad, Pakistan.