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Thermoplastic fibers or filaments are produced by screw extruders. They are manufactured using the three common methods of melt spinning, dry spinning, and wet spinning. There are many variations and combinations of these basic processes. Other types of fiber-forming processes include: (1) reaction spinning; (2) dispersion, emulsion, and suspension spinning; (3) fusion-melt spinning; (4) phase-separation spinning; and (5) gel spinning (397, 413).
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Rosato, D.V. (1998). Fiber and filament. In: Extruding Plastics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5793-7_16
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